skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (probably intentionally)

It was intentional, the even disbanded the development team. Even in the mid 90s it was obvious to everyone that web apps would be the future. If web apps were the future then win32 didn't matter and their grip on computing would be lost. IMO the mistake they made was not doubling down and turning IE into the next windows. Instead they tried to bring win32 to the web.
> it is absolutely detrimental to society at large

This may or may not be the case, but regardless, individual decisions are usually made based on an individual's self-interest rather than the warm fuzzy feelings about helping society.

> Cryptocurrencies are not a means of exchange.

It is not necessarily true that that will remain the case. Either way, that doesn't matter if society coalesces around one of them as the "WorldWide Ledger" because individuals are incentivized to avoid inflation.
I think they meant authoritarian, they come in all political stripes
> [Against clear orders] The printers decided to print four copies of each pad then send two each to the KGB and GRU. Neither the KGB nor the GRU reused the pads they received, except perhaps because of occasional operator error.

why? how much more expensive could it be to generate new random numbers? do they not have cheap/fast RNGs?
> crash after crash and explosion after explosion.

Are you maybe confusing launch failures with landing failures?

As far as I know SpaceX has had two major failures since they started flying Falcon 9. CRS-7 (second stage failure during flight) and AMOS6 (second stage failure during static fire on the pad). They had another minor failure where they lost an engine but still delivered the primary payload to the ISS.

I believe SpaceX has had more successful Falcon 9 launches after the AMOS6 failure than before it. So they've doubled their flight count without another failure.

Someone else brought up ZUMA which has been reported to be a failure of the payload provider (Northrup Grumman)'s specialized payload adapter which failed to release the payload correctly.

SpaceX has had a lot of videos of rockets crashing into barges and the ocean but those were experimental tests which weren't expected to succeed initially and which have no bearing on the success of the mission. They made those videos public even though there was no need to. Probably both for PR reasons and because it's cool to see the attempts and failures leading up to their landing success.

Holding those crashes against SpaceX is like holding crash test videos against an auto manufacturer because "their cars keep crashing".
Okay, first off, if you'd like to email me, my email is in my profile.

Second, I understand how it feels to struggle. I'm far from an elite 20x developer, but I've worked with many less experienced developers. I'd be glad to work on something with you and hopefully give you some pointers.

Third, I'm going to ask you a pointed question. You don't have to answer it here, but I'd like you to think about it. Do you feel like you're too dumb to program?

If yes, seriously my friend, that attitude is a fucking cancer that will ruin your life. I need to repeat that. Telling yourself that you're too dumb to do something is a cancer that will ruin your fucking life.

I can tell you beyond any doubt that you are 100% capable of programming.

I believe that because of the tenacity you've shown in this thread. You got some harsh responses, but kept pushing and pushing. And, I'd argue that you got shit done here because I'll answer most of those questions via email. If I had the means, I would hire you right now because you're a tenacious person who gets shit done.

Personally, I would rather work with one tenacious developer who gets shit done than five incredibly intelligent developers who never ship. And, I would bet you a pint that I'm not the only person reading this who agrees.

Also, remember that there are different career paths within programming. There is a little bit of room for geniuses to keep pushing the art forward. And there is a lot of room for bulldogs to stand on the shoulders of those giants and build shit that works.

Maybe at the top end, extreme intelligence is highly valued. But for the masses, it's more important to be able to communicate well in writing, ask for help, learn from others and learn to understand how others solve problems.

Finally, I'm glad that both conditions are true. Don't worry about IQ in particular. It might be a good measure for certain kinds of developers, but it's likely not applicable to the industry as a whole. Or maybe it is and I'm not smart enough to realize that?

But, I would worry if repetitive debates that go nowhere bother you. A big part of the socio-political part of the job is learning how to debate with people with strong personalities. I just about guarantee that after you have ten years under your belt, you will look back and realize that you've had the exact same debate (down to the word) hundreds of times in your career.

It can start to feel like you're on Reddit, but if you go into these conversations with a sense of openness and wonder, you might find that you either learn or teach something every debate. It strikes me (and I have nothing to back this up) that debate is how our culture transmits knowledge and war stories to the next generation.

Point being, in the industry, debates happen and some get very repetitive. Hell, I've been on otherwise amazing teams where we have debated the same issue for months...

The other point is that I'm sorry you're struggling. Email me if you feel comfortable - I'd be glad to work on a project with you, or try to get you past any blocks. But bud, trust me, the tenacity you showed here more than qualifies you to be a developer. You can do this.
The Facebook moderation could become a wolf in sheep's clothing. The less moderation the better. You let one group decide what is or isn't propaganda and start censoring routinely and you fast track your conversion to the new China.

Does that sound like a fringe comment? Do you want to have it deleted? If so, please do some research and think through the path that you are on of having opinions that make you uncomfortable removed.

It's important to put propaganda in a historical context. So I hope people will research the history of propaganda in America and realize it still exists and is even put out by our government. I hope people realize what a left-leaning ideological tilt much of the online world has and that some of what is defined 'fringe' is just a different worldview and also that people understand how dangerous censorship is and how careful we must be about letting third parties dictate acceptable worldviews.
Qt Creator 4.7.0 released
We have Jenkins connected to ECS as build agent pool. Every team has it's own Jenkins instance running, secured with AD login.
Pipelines are using Jenkinsfiles.
My only critique is that it's not fully ci as code because you need to manually create the pipeline, connect it to fit repo, etc.
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 LEAKED? New phone revealed in clearest picture we’ve seen
> This is interesting. But why does anyone bother to write news in Latin?

The University of Helsinki has had a respected Classics department for generations. They do all kinds of mainstream research in the field. The production of news in Latin is just as a fun hobby that happens to be helpful to keeping their scholars’ skills honed.
Telegram let's you upload your own sets
Or, by doing something that is not illegal in the EU: not forcing manufacturers to bundle Google Search if they want to include the Play Store.
Sure, but that's not super different that series of commits along a feature branch. I think they accomplish the same goal. But am not dismissing notebooks as a way of doing that. I'm more familiar with ipython than jupyter, but particularly for more algorithmically complex programming tasks I think notebooks are a good tool.

I disagree with you only that this might be a good way of prototyping for something like ansible playbooks/modules, chef recipes, puppet manifests, etc. So much of the state is external (and intrinsic to what is being built) that I don't think it's a match of the rhythm of development there. But just my two cents, the best process is what works for you.
Both, this is why the apple bite is shaped like a horseshoe.
There was a statistics class in college that kicked my ass. I never quite understood how to determine if two variables were independent or dependent. You get a vastly different answer if you get it wrong.

I run into people all the time that seem to have the same problem, to the point that it makes me wary of any software developer putting forth numbers that seem fantastical.

My gut reaction is that if Backblaze wants to keep reporting their disaster preparedness numbers that they need the assistance of an actuary to calculate them.
"authoritarians"
The data generation is indeed one key aspect of it. To train a reinforcement learning model such as this one, you do need an insane amount of data (they wrote somewhere that the model played the equivalent of 180 years of Dota per day).

Overall, games are a good playground to test ideas and verify assumptions. The next step to transfer this type of knowledge to real world problems would be to build a simulator, train on it using ungodly amounts of computing resources, and then fine-tune the final model on the real world thing. This has been done for robot control tasks in the past. But first, you have to develop and prove that the base learning algorithm works -- and games are nice for that.

This here is also a good showcase of collaboration learned by RL agents, and beating pro teams in an esport where prize pools range in the millions of dollars is an amazing way to convince people.
> “Like they were some sort of charity, or like I just gave them $4,500 because I like them,” he said. “I gave them $4,500 because I wanted them to give me a video game.”

So I am not sure what's the state of affairs today but certainly in the early days it was pretty well understood that Kickstarter is not a store and every dollar you put in there might just disappear and you are relying on the good faith of the campaign runner.
No, in Alpha it was playable, with crafting and mining.

You're thinking of Classic or Pre-Classic. And IIRC, Survival Test (with mining and crafting) was the first thing you had to pay for to play. https://web.archive.org/web/20090904213840/http://www.minecr...
It's a valid point. Even though we informed spaceflight observers know that these explosions were experimental (and would've happened anyway, more violently even, when boosters were expended), the average member of the public may not be familiar with the nuances of booster recovery.

It's plausible that it could become a PR issue.
I like NGC 3201 because we found a stellar mass black hole in it (https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1802/). There should be many more of them in all clusters, but they are hard to find. Theorists can use this to check their N-body simulations of globular clusters.

Some clusters (omega Cen, 47 Tuc) are really weird and different from all others. We think that they might be the remnant cores of dwarf galaxies.

What images do you mean?
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1012/
MacBook i9 beaware
Fascists and communists are both animated by the same principle: that Papa knows best and must be obeyed.
Stuck at a problem. No access to SVG, but have to manipulate. Solution here
IIRC Unicode was intended to encode and represent text for writing systems. I get that the purpose of emoji in Unicode is to provide a universal way to represent certain pictures, but it's clear that we also don't want to be limited by the set of pictures we can send.

It seems a lot more sensible to actually send the picture you want to send, or a link to that picture, because that doesn't need to be interpreted differently by each client... just rendered. Sending the actual image might take more space in, say, a text message, but its actual encoded size should be pretty trivial. For example, one of Twitter's 16x16 color emoji is a 400 byte SVG file. Base64-encoded that would be about 533 bytes. The standard could define the image formats accepted, with probably one ideal format for emoji (SVG) and another for memes (JPEG).

Here's another way to think of how you could implement this in a standard. Each message is multipart. The text body is the first message by default. That text can contain references to other parts. That reference could be the name of the part you want to reference in that message, and that name would only need to be unique to that message. But that name could also be, for example, a SHA hash. When you accept messages, you could store the message parts in a database with their SHA hash. When someone sends the same part again in a new message, you can just retrieve that part from your database, rather than storing the same part multiple times. This could allow you to send messages referencing the same gigantic meme file 50 times, but you only ever store it the one time, and after that you just store references to it. The standard would allow you to simply say "please reference part X in this part of the message text, and if you don't have that part yet, here it is, base64-encoded or linked via URL".

(What I just described is MIME, but you could reinvent it if you wanted people to adopt it, because people don't like adopting things that aren't new and cool)
Google will pay. All subsidiaries of Google are some form of limited-liability partnerships.
FYI this page is down:

https://www.starterstory.com/twisted-boards
Somebody mentioned "failure of full abstraction" on HN a few months ago (actually they said something a bit different), which I tracked down to a late 90s paper by Martin Abadi. It refers to a situation where the object code is exploitable because it doesn't fully reflect the semantics of the source code.

One use of jets, in the secure code setting, is to provide a core language that is so simple that it can obviously be compiled in a "fully abstract" way.

That is my understanding, anyway. The notion of fully abstract compilation seems to be quite hot, and it comes originally from Abadi's paper: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/SRC-RR-154.pdf
All you have to do is pick an existing parser that works well and map the output AST to Optic's AST. I'm exploring building an Antlr extension so any grammar in their library could output in Optic's AST but that's still not implemented. Every AST have a notion of type, range, and properties which can either be primitives, arrays of child nodes, or individual child nodes. We have Python and Ruby on our roadmap for the next couple of weeks.

1. We've been exploring migrating one Optic skill to a newer version. So far it seems promising for the cases you'd expect a code-mod to help with, but if you completely change the API and deprecate some stuff it can point out the changes but won't be able to help you -- no magic here.

2. I looked into language servers (lsp) but the implementation was a lot more involved and I found bugs in some of the IDEs that claim to have full lsp support. As the protocol matures and we add more functionality to Optic I expect to see lsp become our main avenue for IDE/Optic interactions.

3. We wanted to make it really natural to ask Optic a question. We thought '///' would be unique and easy to remember, but we're open to changing it. It's nice that '///' also evaluates as a comment too because before we used it sometimes characters in your search would cause the AST parse to fail. We're open to any ideas here -- a lot of users have said it's funky.
It was a small claims case, so there is likely no precedent. Your are right though, he should appeal. In my state, if a small claims case is appealed, it is always heard fresh ("de novo")
Then you should have have press release that says “We screwed up, we’re sorry, and we won’t delete your accounts any more”, instead of all this many-lawyered garbage about “account management policies”, words that no one is interested in.

This post has 7 comments and 11 points after an hour. Compare that to the post that led to this outcome. If your trying to reassure the market that you don’t delete a companies entire back end infrastructure then yes this meets some internal management butt covering goal, but does not tell the market definitively that google cloud no longer deletes your entire computer systems.
The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care
I'd guess however any service that requires account confirmation to work.

This sounds like a solved problem, though I don't really know.
A couple of points:

- Going "offline billing" is free and available to any sized customer.
- we already have/had 7x24 support which is how this was resolved in the first place. We're adding chat as well, specifically for billing issues.

That said, every other bit of your feedback is correct, and we know. Nothing will prove that we take this seriously other than time, and we hope to show you all that we are committed for the long haul.

Tl;Dr We screwed up. We're sorry.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Google Cloud.
I can't see why anyone would risk making an open platform again.

The Android growth phase has been incredibly lucrative for Google (and Microsoft, via patents). Have no doubt they'd try it again today.

And the justice system in the EU is different than in the US. It doesn't mean the next one will be the same.
We're talking about 1/5th of the population suffering needlessly. The comment I replied to merely reinforces the stereotype that there is something wrong with them - "If only you lived better you would get to sleep at a normal time". On its own, its great they have improved their life. But in context its disrespectful.
I really appreciate Blue Origin's methodical approach to building this system. I note that they are closer to being operational than Virgin Galactic who I consider their primary competitor.

The challenge I have with the 'suborbital tourist' economy is that while some folks will pay $200K per ride for less than 3 minutes of zero gravity, one has to compare that to the Zero Gravity Corp which gives you over 6 minutes of weightlessness (in 20 - 30 second increments) for $5K[1]

Sure there is the 'Concorde' effect where the very wealthy will all do it once so that they won't feel left out at cocktail parties but that does not seem sustainable.

My hope is that Blue Origin's plans to move into orbital flights is successful. Spending $200K to spend nearly 90 minutes (1 orbit) weightless has much more appeal.

[1] https://www.gozerog.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=reservations.we...
> with a specific problem to focus on

That's unfortunate... I think that most often picking the right problem is the most important problem itself, but that requires a lot of context.

I'm glad you enjoyed it though!
IE was terrible for anyone not using Windows. They encouraged ActiveX and didn't keep to web specs.
Imagine if they'd kept their monopoly and we'd all had to stay on Vista and Windows Mobile because it was the only way to browse the web. Flash would still be a thing. The iPhone could have failed because it couldn't load most websites. We might still have keypads on our phones.
It's technically possibly but unbelievably dangerous, given the necessity of relying for millisecond response times over unreliable wireless connections. That $800M would disappear in a puff of litigation if anything went wrong.

But of course we know Zoox is actually driving on SF roads according to public documents, and the fact you can watch them drive if you are in SF and know where to look. Demos are demos, but this one happened with Zoox software at 100% autonomy.
How the “Be.” battery-free toothbrush faked a demonstration video
When are you saying the slaughter started? 30 years pre-Stalin takes you back to before communist rule by my estimate, however there are a variety of points you can measure from.
I could have sworn that the the open-source thing was a big part of the incentive to develop for Android rather than Apple with its walled garden and arbitrary app store policies. Now development and commitment to the open source track may have begun much earlier. And it was a way for Google to differentiate itself from Apple by having a different business model. My recall of the first couple of years on the market was that everyone knew Android apps were not as fast or as fancy as iOS ones, but 'at least it's an open platform.'
"£100 billion in gold" sounds like an implausibly large amount. I estimate it is about 3 or 4 thousand metric tons. But could such a ship carry that much?
Yes. And sadly, most people are idiots.
Give the EU what it really really wants. In response to the three charges [1], if you apply the business formula of the other player (Apple) in the market, implications on choice and freedom really do unfurl. So here is the counter to the three chargers:

Charge 1: requiring manufacturers to pre-install Google search - Do what Apple does, accept payment from 3rd parties on being the search provider. MSFT pays billions for the privilege of being a search engine to Apple.

Charge 2: preventing smartphone manufacturers from running competing systems that had not been approved by Google - Amazon ships hundreds of millions of Android devices that use non of Google's services. Not only is this charge disingenuous, but technically inaccurate. Unlike iOS, Android allows side-loading apps, which has NOTHING to do with the play store. I wonder if they like the way Apple cock blocks choice in apps. by rejecting competing services and apps from the app store, purposefully withholding iOS safari from W3C approved standards to drive developers to the app-store, and disallowing sideloading. Is that freedom?

Charge 3: Google was found to have denied consumers choice by paying manufacturers and mobile phone operators to pre-install Google Search - Much like MSFT paying for Bing on iOS. Sham charge.

In conclusion, what the EU really wants is an Apple model . Google should stop licensing Android to manufacturers in the EU (like Apple), make it closed source (like apple), kill sideloading apps (like apple), with-hold browser compatibility on W3C standards (like Apple), and slap a minimum price tag of $1200 on Pixel phones

What a sham

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/18/google-face...
Its true. I fell out of a boat once and got some of it in my lungs. You do not want to play around with that stuff. Even a little bit in the wrong place is very dangerous...

Seems like there's something profound to say about pollution in that joke somewhere.
How does the business model relate to the source-code being published under a Free Software license?

I don't see how the license of the software relates to it it giving you a shitty experience or not.

The shitty experiences I had on Android were largely due to carrier and OEM spyware and bloatware preinstalled on devices -- deals Google struck.

I had always attributed the security problems to Google having inadequate terms with handset manufacturers, to keep handsets up to date. Specifically, that handsets could automatically fall back to stock Android if the OEM/carrier didn't want to continue to develop their proprietary fork for that line of handsets. Maybe this is wrong. Maybe it was planned obsolescence with unintended consequences.
>Second, Google believes that the browser market is still largely uncompetitive, which holds back innovation for users. This is because Internet Explorer is tied to Microsoft's dominant computer operating system, giving it an unfair advantage over other browsers. Compare this to the mobile market, where Microsoft cannot tie Internet Explorer to a dominant operating system, and its browser therefore has a much lower usage.