skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a pretty substantial difference between "living on the other side of the ocean" and "living in a submarine", which is probably what life on Mars would be like given foreseeable technology. It's not just fear of the unknown. It's the sheer practical matter that life on Mars (if possible) will be extremely difficult, and the only obvious benefit is that you can say "hey look, I'm on Mars!"

Hell, you can simulate life on Mars by signing up for a career in deep sea diving. Actually, deep sea diving is probably a million times easier since you can pretty easily get parts from the surface.

I should have posted the full Bruce Sterling quote:

I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the
same time I see people setting the Gobi Desert.
The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times
as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times
cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever
writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well,
it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's
no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly,
it's inhospitable and there's no way to
make it pay. Mars is just the same, really.
We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach.

On the other hand, there might really be some
way to make living in the Gobi Desert pay.
And if that were the case, and you really
had communities making a nice cheerful
go of daily life on arid, freezing, barren rock
and sand, then a cultural transfer to Mars
might make a certain sense.

If there were a society with enough technical
power to terraform Mars, they would
certainly do it. On the other hand.
by the time they got around to messing with Mars,
they would have been using all that power
to transform _themselves_. So by the time
they got there and started rebuilding the
Martian atmosphere wholesale, they wouldn't
look or act a whole lot like Hollywood extras.
Not really, their further development certainly benefitted from military money, but the basics came from civilian need for navigation, in general and in mist.
this is such bullshit... like do yall even private property? like how is this even being considered? smh
recently had a security basic seminar. "basic" in the sense that we learned how to do all kinds of code injections and how to prevent them. Very useful
What's your definition of a 'computer'?
auto ptr = mmap(NULL, sizeof(std::atomic<uint64_t>), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);

g_counter = new(ptr) std::atomic<uint64_t>();

waw, a 4k integer (or even more, depending on the platform).
I'm sure the NYT's articles are never biased :-)
If you don't leave a comment with your down vote, you're being a fuckhead.

The implemented incentive to downvote is to fade comments, not address them; this gives power to any few with strict and similar morality, which this post will prove

downvote if you agree
*rite of passage (sorry)
We created a new phone number search application
I had diversity training once that didn't suck. The HR presenter opened by showing three slides with pictures and asking the question "is this a diverse group of people?" for each slide

Slide 1: a group of ~20 white males in suits together in times square

Slide 2: three Kenyan olympic medalists standing together in uniform

Slide 3: a stock photo with a dozen men and women of various races and dress talking in an office conference room

The HR person then said "The answer to all of these questions is 'Yes.' here at company we value the diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of each and every one of our employees. We encourage all of you to offer your suggestions and feedback, and bring your unique perspective to bear in your work here."

I was blown away. Never once has HR made me feel more valued and empowered.
two words: asteroid mining. the “resource extraction” industries are salivating at the prospects.
It's the umpteenth "standard" to be pushed by Chrome in early draft form only to ship it a few days or a few weeks after publication.
>Since there's a cult-of-personality around the guy, I think it's important to remind everyone that these behaviors are actually signs of poor leadership.

Yeah, such poor leadership that he founded 3 huge multi-100 million companies (Apple, NeXT, Pixar) and turned the third one to the largest company of earth from its near-bankruptcy at the time he returned to it.

Perhaps what's "poor leadership" or not should be correlated with actual results?
However, Tammet has been a savant from childhood, so he's a case of a better-known phenomenon. He didn't suddenly acquire previously unknown unusual abilities in adulthood. (Learning conversational Icelandic in a week is amazing, but he already anticipated that he could do it!)
I’m neither German nor a forklift operator, but this video answered every question I’ve ever had about why warehouse safety is such a big deal.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-oB6DN5dYWo

(Warning: bloody. Campy, funny, but bloody)
It has radios. Bluetooth Low Energy support, plus a near-field transponder. Seeing those functions in a security key is troublesome. It offers a lot of attack surface.
+44% profit margin. They have so much room to shrink in terms of margins and still make money!

If you do not own this stock you must be insane! *

Dislaimer: I'm long over $1MM since it was 2014 when it was at ~$59 and sold 30% at around $150 when stock crashed.

* I am not broker nor I advise you to buy or sell. Just stating my personal opinion.
Even if only 5% of your friends were on it?
Ah, yes, that's a nice example.
You're looking at that wrong. That's $25 for just the quarter. They'll cross over $100 per user this year for the US & Canada. For Q4 it was $26.76 for that combined region, for example.
NeXT was far, far more mature as an OS than BeOS. For years, people had been shipping mission-critical custom software on NeXT.

You had Improv, which when Lotus killed it, was cloned into Quantrix which is still sold today to financial modelers.

You had the McCaw Cellular custom app (don't know what it was called) that allowed them to grow - they later became Cingular, then ATT Wireless. William Morris Agency, Booz Allen Hamilton (big consulting firm), etc. all had custom apps that they used under NeXT.

In contrast, BeOS had a few small desktop apps and some other cool demos.
Show HN: ICON SEARCH – Offline Search for Font Awesome Icons
pinch to zoom out in safari, it opens a grid of all open tabs. start typing to search between them
First US alternative energy IPO since 2016
C# 8 Ranges and Recursive Patterns
A modern web browser has more source code lines than an operating system.
I guess we'll just make do until the Xamarin SDK is ready. Thanks.
Facebook forecast slowing growth, rising expenses sends stock down 22 percent
That may be (though I think that was more the older models), but I think there's currently basically nothing else on the market that hits the sweet spot it was aiming for. If you want similar or better performance with that much bandwidth and concurrency you are looking at GPUs priced an order of magnitude higher. And if I had been working with them I would certainly have written custom stuff just for the Phi anyway--there's not much point in working with a machine like that if you just want to run the same old stuff, and taking advantage of the resources properly would be difficult without architecting around its design anyway. So while I'd be happy to hypothetically look into some other hardware that was priced and performed similarly to KNL, but had better tooling, I don't think such a thing actually exists.
I wonder if the "Bitmask with Rejection" method would be more efficient if you sometimes made the mask one bit larger than strictly necessary.

As it is, if you want a number in the range 0..8, you take 4 bits of randomness, giving you a number in 0..15. This is great, but 7/16 (43.75%) of the time you have to try again. This not only means more loop iterations, it also means you discard 4 bits of randomness, which may have been costly to generate.

If instead you took 5 bits of randomness, you'd be able to accept anything in 0..26 and would only have to reject 27..31, which means only rejecting 5/32 (15.625%) of the time.

0..8 is a particularly bad case, though. If you need numbers in the range 0..14, then it's not worth trying to use 5 bits.
thanks, mine is rkasturi
Why even go above 20 or so tabs in the first place?
Me too. I'm not sure if I could trust FB not to track though. I'd always feel like they would collect anyways, "anonymize", and build a profile for users who opt into the paid service. For "internal" use of course. In fewer words, I simply don't trust FB, and I'm not sure if there's a good system to audit their data collection behaviours.
Stuff like the Volkswagon settlement being used to remedy the complaint have been going on for many years and is a nuanced thing[0]. not sure it belongs in the same category. That's also a pretty biased opinion column so I'll hold off on judgement of the practices until I do more research. Do you have a more neutral source than an opinion column with a few paragraphs of information?

pdf page 351-352:

[0] https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
I agree, but I think you still need to be deliberate about not fixing bugs. Sure, don't fix it, but create a ticket for it and use it to track how common it actually is.

You also should probably be fixing bugs that "If we're caught out by those third parties before the bugs are fixed, there's a good chance it could sink the whole company"
What I don't like about this whole thing is that facebook is a bit hypocrite (or very much so).
They censor images and videos of nudity and violence, but leave these news outlets up, which could potentially threaten mankind as whole, if this nonsense catches on with more and more people.

Having back diseases like polio and far worse ones, is a bigger issue then someones dick-pic.

But this shows again that Mr Zuck and his merry company don't give a flip about humanity or anything else. They just like to keep the Facebook image to be a happy, smiley place, where people are nice to each other, etc...

Why does the game 'We happy few' pop into mind?
That's a leading question. It could (in theory) be possible to come up with a plan that tracks and advertises to free users while letting people pay to maintain some privacies.
Tech Companies Like Facebook and Twitter Are Drawing Lines. It’ll Be Messy
I don't understand what you're talking about. Jquery is still a highly effective library and nearly every project I use ends up using it in one way or another - even with vue.js.

Jquery is JUST jquery. There is no pulling in 300 other packages to support it. It's also very stable, reliable, efficient enjoyable.

this is how you might sort a table using a Jquery library:

$("#myTable").tablesorter()

And here's how to do it in Vue (first search result for vue table sort):

https://www.raymondcamden.com/2018/02/08/building-table-sort...

You'll note that it is a lot more code to sort with Vue than with a jquery library.

Don't get me wrong; I like Vue; But Jquery offers one line of code that enhances the existing HTML you have, where doing it with Vue.js requires delegating the entire table render to Vue, which may not be easy or even doable depending on the project.

I think things like Vue.js or stimulus.js let Jquery do more with what it's good at and less of what it's not. I'm very happy to have Jquery in my toolbox and I doubt I'll ever stop using it at this point. You're welcome to hate on it, call it dated or what have you - i still love it and it's still the best tool for quite a lot of jobs.
Take the money and run
I basically agree with article (that is well written and has links to well known source materials).

The best bit was that people are not concerned with discrimination caused by machine learning models, instead talking about robot rights, dangers of singularity, etc.
Last decade or so? Chrome still supports Flash, you just need to enable it on a per-site basis. And it's been less than two years since they enabled it by default.
Updated Tesla vehicle deliveries visualization (based on 2018-Q2 report)
I don't think it's a bad edit. It would be better to have both, but "Page Lifecycle API" doesn't actually tell you what that API is for --- it doesn't even tell you it's a web browser API.

I think a better title would be: "Page Lifecycle API - A solution to the 'Too Many Tabs' memory problem".
What happens on Mars stays on Mars
>I have a funny feeling that the nontechnical people on my current project would be nodding their heads along to the article, but the truth is that our applications have bugs that 100% of our customers are running into; they simply aren't immediately noticeable to a layperson. That doesn't mean they're not important.

If they're not noticeable, and the customers keep buying, despite 100% of them having them, how are they "important"?

>The business relies on complying with the rules of third-party organizations and the software is blatantly violating those rules right now.

That's a business decision. It could even be illegal (but still not big of a deal depending on circumstances) but not a bug.
I also find myself upvoting gray comments nearly instinctively now. I believe enough in the Hacker News experience that I feel like I can't let the irrational downvotes stand; I will irrationally upvote to at least cancel out one of them.
I teach an occasional "electronics without math (except ohms law)" class at the local makerspace - I've been using falstad ever since they showed up (many thanks!)
This creates a two tiered society in the future. Kind of Dystopian feeling.
How do people convince their team or management to use a newer language which may not have plenty of alternative programmers and experiences in the team in their projects? I can't even use anything other than PHP if I sense anyone else may touch the project later, otherwise I'm currently using TypeScript throughout the stack.
But if people consented to giving their data to an ancestry service, they did not consent to giving their data to a large pharma company. That's morally wrong, no matter what benefit you think can be gleaned from it or how difficult it would be to get otherwise.
Single-planet redundancy isn't a problem until it's a _really big_ (say, inescapable) problem.

I'd put good odds on us wiping ourselves out or being wiped out before we manage to put a sustainable stake in some other chunk of ground.

Also $400B/yr is great if you can make use of it. Do we have the intellectual and facility resources to make use of that sort of windfall today? Probably not. Could more money go to cancer research for immediate positive effect? Probably, although working out the logistics for how best to direct that funding requires resources of its own (which is of course the sort of work the Gates Foundation does).
Heads up - I co-wrote this article with Kristine and this is based around the whole thesis of our company existing - I'm a software developer by trade with 15 years of experience. Having said that, dismissing the content based on the author I think comes across as an ad-hominem attack - after working with her for 4 years I count Kristine as an expert on this matter.

The overall point here isn't to use this as an excuse to not fix bugs, more that you should consider applying the same logic as devops/sre teams use for "uptime and availability" (5 nines, etc) to software stability to help you move faster as a company.
> he founded 3 huge multi-100 million companies (Apple, NeXT, Pixar)

Steve Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas.
It's amazing to me how volatile tech stocks are even today.

I remember buying Amazon and Netflix 5 years ago when each of them fell 33% on an earnings miss and it has worked out really well buying on "miss".
Using genetic data to find new drugs strikes me as a very good use of this data.

Selling it to anyone who pays the price seems like a bad idea. Which is inevitably what will happen here the next time the company needs to "maximize shareholder value" by "utilizing its assets to their full revenue potential."

Next thing you know, I end up paying higher insurance rates because some distant relative I don't know is predisposed to some disease I've never heard of that is linked to a habit I don't have.

Again, because the insurance company is required to "maximize shareholder value."
As far as I know the science on those kinds of trainings suggests they are ineffective or actually produce the opposite of intended effect. I haven’t dived deeply into the science but here’s a good start. https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/media/_m...
They already censor for business reasons. I think their biggest concern is having to spend money on hiring moderators and freedom of speech is useful excuse for their PR.
FYI try this:

set the 100 ohm resistor to 1 ohm

set the 15uF cap to 15pF

close the switch, open it again - check out the spark (or rather the stupidly high voltage)
Jesus, I thought you must have made a typo, but it actually did drop 25%. That's nuts for a company of that size.
I think the runtime side absolutely, but package mngmnt, unit testing general dev. productivity things major kudos to Elixir team
Remember, government spending increases the GDP. You'd have to get closer to $2 trillion to hit 11% if, for some reason, one wanted to use that as a target rather than per-capita spending.
I knew this must be Wyden. I'm a fan, he seems like one of the only members of Congress with a strong understanding of technology.
I'd rather not lend my money to evil people.
That's what happened with the new Bloomberg HQ in London. It's a nice museum underground.
Right, but that's not really my question. I'm asking, do you really think Google is backdooring security tokens? Google's security team is basically at the vanguard of getting those things deployed.
It still makes zero sense, it's pure emotion. Unless the speculation is for something far worse: a rapid plunge to negative growth (that doesn't appear likely right now).

Microsoft is growing at about 1/3 the rate of Facebook, and with the FB shares down 22% after hours (~$500b market cap), Microsoft has a real PE ratio at least 1/3 higher. The same crazy contrast exists for Google, Amazon, Netflix.

This is an emotional mis-pricing by the market, just as the drop to $150x in March was. I haven't bought after hours, but if the emotionalism continues tomorrow, it's an easy buy on further weakness.
Income at an all-time high, revenue doubled in the last two years, but shareholders are unhappy? Could somebody please explain this to me?
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/inside-volta/

Ctrl-F "volta SIMT model"
Law of averages... The distribution might be such that the kind of user willing and able to pay $100 a year for a social network is worth a lot more than $100 a year to advertisers.

No matter how you slice it, the ad supported model might just be a better flywheel than subrsciption based one.
I interpreted the rules to mean that it's bad to discuss down voting in threads because it makes boring reading and distracts from the original topic. This topic however is about down voting, so I felt it was okay.
Wow nice. The rate of progress is amazing.
This was from March but it is a good question. It prompted me to do some spot checks on Facebook virality and Twitter virality as well.

One of the things that stands out in false stories is that because they are false they stay "on message" in their falseness. This contrasts with stories that are more truthful which tend to include questions and unknowns that might later contradict or modify the story.

So for an example, a false story about a series of events leading up to an outcome, there are no events mentioned that suggest randomness or any discussion of alternate ways the outcome could have come about. Where as truthful stories have either tests that were done for counter factual narratives or suggestions for other areas that were not covered as completely.

Basically a common theme in truthful stories was they still included "inconvenient" facts which might or might not be significant and the false stories contain no such facts or even hints.

If I still had an ontologist I could talk to I'd try to figure out if we score stories using an ontological structure score (where perfect scoring is most likely false :-).
BLE security keys also exist:

https://www.amazon.com/Feitian-MultiPass-FIDO-Security-Key/d...

SecureId is a TOTP device last time I checked, which is phishable and significantly less secure than U2F devices. The sooner TOTP is phased out the better.

If BLE and NFC are unacceptable, well, I guess you are stuck trying to use TPMs in some way to do U2F. Some phones already support something like that and I assume newer desktops and laptops will be capable of doing that some day.
what? That's just a freemium model.
Vanguard supports U2F.
Is there any information indicating the areas where they are increasing headcount the most like Alphabet does? Does Apple release that information too?
> The other knock on ada was it was slow.

I'm curious, is the compilation time that takes too much, or is it the execution time? I'm really interested in learning the language, but I don't want to end-up with programs that generate slower native code, compared to that of C. What's your experience with it?
Seattle Link light rail sets new weekday ridership records
Yeah, sorry. You aren't the first to ask and I suspect not the last. We're gonna do it.
Lol, now tell me about your losing trades
Nah, the backlash we're seeing against mainstream media these days are, I believe, in a large part driven by those reporters that failed to do their due diligence when it came to Iraq. Reporters should expect to be told lies often, when those lies are blindly printed and distributed it does a lot of damage to society's trust. I think with Iraq it went beyond negligence, but likely not at all levels, preferring to hire hawkish reporters is an effective way to keep the train rolling.

That said, singling out NYT as the OP did is sort of hilarious, all the media outlets ran the same terrible stories and often avoided booking guests that would speak against the war.
> The point is to not have to rely on external frameworks.

Why is that a worthwhile goal?
Windows 10 now uses machine learning to stop updates installing when in use
Yeah, talking about partisan politics, while not fun, it is necessary occasionally, is impossible on HN.

Talking about certain people and their decisions in tech is not possible also.

I don't think downvotes are useful inputs, personally. It's far too easy to farm votes and use the accounts for essentially manipulation, it doesn't actually contribute to the dialogue, even when they're down voting something like an overly obvious question or dumb comment, a down vote doesn't really change anything.

I think accounts under 5000 karma shouldn't have dowvoting capability at all. Additionally, once a down vote has been cast on a comment, that post's score should be hidden to discourage multiple downvotes.

Unless someone is spamming or posting something actually harmful or illegal, ie not just an opinion, there's no benefit in discouraging that person from contributing in the site.

These are my thoughts. I've seen HN go from a bastion of intelligent hackers and scholars mature enough to discuss nearly anything to a collection of mostly childish people bickering about nothing. Over the years and different accounts and seeing the wrong people rewarded and the wrong people blasted out for minor errors. It's crazy.

Downvotes are just one angle, but I agree that it needs attention.

Edit: this post now serves to prove the point I'm making.
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Thanks. Great job!
Genomic Prediction: A Hypothetical (Embryo Selection)
Like others, it was just about 100% (I earned more in a year than I had) and that was only about 10% down, subjecting me to several years of PMI.

The ideal percentage of your total net worth sunk into a down payment should be zero, because ideally, you should have ∞ money. For the rest of us, 100% isn't insane if you're throwing thousands at rent every month (and you've already established that you're buying a house regardless).