skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great question. I believe that someone has already performed this measurement on a variety of could APIs (Google, Amazon. MS. etc.). I remember seeing it on GitHub while ago. I can't find it right now with a simple Google search. But I will spend more time later in the evening and comment here when I have it.

The comments are absolutely correct. Could services (can) do better simply because they have access to more compute resources and also data (what is sent to them can be/is used for training later). There are situations where on-device is preferred due to privacy reasons, latency, cost, or lack of internet connection.
Million fold increase in the power of waves near Jupiter's moon Ganymede
Have you thought about setting up a wind-powered crypto mining rig?
Now you're trading a prediction problem for an implementation problem as I explained in another comment. A few heavily populated counties is not a small attack surface. You need to hack hundreds of airgapped optical scanners in each state (and they all use different machines), not too much or too little, because then you'll trigger a recount using the real paper ballots. You still need basically perfect prediction to win and stay undetected, and you're up against big election departments with tons of employees and lots of integrity checks.
Google doesn't fix the problem -> They don't care about their users. They suck.

Google fixes the problem -> Yes, but how many users suffered the problem before? They suck.
The possibility of WebAssembly becoming tangled with complicated web browsers worries me.

Whatever DOM manipulation there may be in the future, I hope there'll be no tight coupling with DOM, GC or anything else.

If tight coupling can be avoided, WebAssembly could become lingua franca of binary formats also outside web.

For things like architecture agnostic plugins, extensions and high performance light weight "scripting" support.
Even then, it's worse by weight over most timescales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential: "In the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, methane has a lifetime of 12.4 years and with climate-carbon feedbacks a global warming potential of 86 over 20 years and 34 over 100 years in response to emissions."

(CO2, being the baseline, has a GWP of 1.)
The newsfeed is one of the most powerful AIs in the world. It is constantly learning, from engagement and ad spend, when to serve various types of content to various types of people. A glorious paperclip optimizer that 2 billion people feed data to daily.
> which showed intent - hence easier to grok the surrounding code

There was some concern that removing "new" would make it less obvious that an object was being constructed. In practice, though, it's been totally fine. The fact that the thing you're invoking is a class (and hence a capitalized name) seems to be sufficient signal that "you're making an object".

Also, several other languages already work this way: Python, Scala, Kotlin, etc.
Man, I would so love to be able to run MacOS in a VM on my non-mac machine.

I have a crazy powerful desktop, better than any mac hardware I could buy, so that I can run all the different things I want in a VM. I can kind of run a MacOS vm, but the performance is garbage. I just want to be able to run all the operating systems on a single machine, so I can not be limited. Is that too much to ask?
Both are important. The end product has to be nice/useful for deeper motivation. The tools in use can indicate the philosophy of the business and give hints about the general ambiance of the job. Who would choose to spend 40 hours per week with tools that makes them feel underproductive?
Everyone already has ten proprietary lightning cables? That's news to me.
Trading of Tesla stock has now been halted following this news & Elon's tweets.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/07/tesla-stock-jumps-on-musks-t...
Most people invoking a moral imperative to not make hackintoshes are coming from the angle that it’s stealing from Apple.

I look at it another way. Apple, as a company is failing to meet the needs of some of its users:

- You can’t get an upgradable pro machine

- you can’t get a good keyboard (for some definitions of good)

- macOS gets more iOS-ified with each release and some people don’t like that

Every Hackintosh continues to add momentum to that platform ecosystem, enriching it so that Apple can continue on more or less as they want.

I use Linux (and OpenBSD occasionally) these days, and I do so in part so that I can sometimes be the guy who sands off a rough corner or two. Even by using the platform and occasionally submitting bug reports, you’re enriching a platform that may be the last un-nerfed general purpose computing platform standing. If we lose general purpose computing to a world of app-store enabled iPad Pros and Windows Store-locked Surfaces, we will have lost something important I think.
I hate MacOS and the way it's getting worse every release, but I don't hate it nearly as much as Windows, and how much Windows is getting worse every release.
> They could cover a desert in panels and sell the cars and batteries across Europe/Asia, while providing the power as well. They would once again have the largest control of the world's energy.

Doesn't seem like you can reasonably charge a car in europe/asia from solar panels in the middle east. You'll be dealing with some pretty nasty transmission losses.
Looks like you didn't read the article.

The tool was changed to redirect users to a Facebook sign-in page to log in, which is the proper way to sign in. They just found another reason to deny them access after.

It's also not collecting or centralizing data, this is just for the user that uses the tool to learn more about the tool, nothing is sent to Gizmodo.
The obvious resolution to the "paradox" is that we are alone, at least in the Milky Way. It is reasonable to conclude that, if the development of intelligent, technologically capable life was likely, then we would have seen signs of it. We have not. So it is not likely. So it is not really a paradox. But the author of the article says we want to ignore Fermi because we think we are special. No. If we don't ignore the paradox, the conclusion is that we are special. Mind you, if we are special, I am not that impressed.
Is this something I can put next to my parents’ router and not kill their internet experience? They like Facebook.
It's not a joke. It's clear based on his follow-up comments on Twitter that he's been serious about this for a while.

If there is an investigation into stock manipulation the fact that there's funding secured would factor heavily against it.
I think it's good feedback but perhaps not well stated, which is why you're getting grief for it. It is generous and a good thing to give away $1 million no matter how you do it.

Ideally though, they would give $100k to 100 (or 1000) companies and actually take equity. Most startups want to give up equity for good amounts of money, they call it "funding" ;-)
Thanks for the question. You can use our first product: https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine. It is a voice-control (wake-word) engine. It allows you to detect multiple keywords (phrases) in the audio stream in real time with no delay and it fully runs on-device. No cloud connection required.
>Making his content harder to get will reduce his legitimacy.

The hegemony trying to shut up someone's political speech only decreases legitimacy across people that were never going to believe him in the first place.

For everyone else, the conspiracy theory that The Powers That Be don't want anyone to hear his message just became conspiracy fact thanks to YouTube, Apple et al.
Well, if it is resentment then it is self-resentment, me being a pilot.
"who just doesn't put a great deal of thought into what he says"

Don't underestimate Trump. He is a brilliant propagandist. He knows exactly what he is doing when it comes to his public perception. His while career has been about selling his image.
Using the same site you referenced, violent crime peaked around 1993, the year before three strikes.

http://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/

Also, the number of homicides specifically peaked in 1993 at 4,096 and dropped almost every year for the next 25 years. It looks like it bottomed out in 2014 and started climbing again.

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/cacrime.htm

It's true that rates in other states dropped also. You mentioned Illinois who did not enact a three strikes law (but its neighbors did, as did the federal government). Note that it didn't see improvement on the same scale as California - and now Chicago's murder rate is so bad that it makes the national news almost every week.

I really don't know that the halving of the murder rate should be credited to tougher sentencing, but it coincides pretty well - so well that when I see claims that they have zero effect I can't help but assume that the findings are agenda-driven.

But tough sentencing laws are falling out of favor and being reversed - or partially reversed. Maybe the homicide rate will stay low and 3-strikes laws will be completely discredited.
>Elon seems to be doubling down

Yep.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026894228541071360

>Shareholders could either to sell at 420 or hold shares & go private

And he might have even confirmed his statement selectively

https://twitter.com/GerberKawasaki/status/102687455159283712...

Trading for $TSLA currently halted (T1: halted pending the release of material news)-
free speech is for the government not a private organization
Flutter seems like the killer app that could revive Dart. In comparison:

Javascript

For mobile with React: no AOT compile. Relies on loading the entire JS VM which adds startup time and can require bundling a large library on Android. Cannot easily author customized components that render at native speeds.

C#

For mobile with Xamarin: No hot reload. Dart having its origin as a JS interpreted language had the foundations to be both dynamic and AOT. C# might not ever achieve this?

Kotlin, Java, Swift, Objective C:

Not cross platform.

C++:

Is cross platform. No hot reload. Very unfriendly to modern development and fast iteration.

I don't actively work in mobile. I just like following developments in language technologies, so correct me if I'm wrong.
I run a minimal alternative to Instapaper called EmailThis [1].

It lets you save complete articles and webpages to your email inbox. If it fails to extract useful text, EmailThis will save the page to a PDF and send it as an attachment.

There's no need to install additional apps on your phone or login to any 3rd party service.

[1] https://www.emailthis.me
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Here's a strange thing:

Many people believe that strong AI is inevitable, or at least possible within the next few decades to centuries. Many people also believe that there's a natural solution to the Fermi paradox (space travel is hard, signals are faint).

But if strong AI is possible, then the Fermi paradox suddenly becomes much more acute because it makes von Neumann probes seem way easier- once you have self-replication across interstellar distance, you will blanket the galaxy with your Cylon spawn pretty quickly. The question isn't just why haven't we heard signals from people like us, but why haven't their robotic spawn already shown up and disassembled a few moons into robot factories?
Uh, morals? What does ethics have to do with Google operating their search business in China?

I'm confused why I am supposed to be outraged. I don't have any particularly strong feelings about censorship in foreign countries - how does what the Chinese government do affect American speech? I guess censorship in general is _bad_, but it's purely an internal, domestic matter. The Chinese aren't scrubbing American textbooks of the historical record. Really, I think I've only noticed China's influence in cinema; I see more Asian lead roles in Hollywood films, but this seems more a corrective change than bad thing.

I'm not seeing how what happens to internet search in China affects Americans. Nor what ethical concerns there are.
> user:	mobmobmob
> created: 17 minutes ago
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

― Arthur C. Clarke
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I think the trouble is the majority of those things are not new industries creating consumer goods or services. The majority of them are public goods that are hard to monetise. So they get neglected. Assuming those things can create more jobs assumes we that get better at allocating resources to them (either philanthropically, through the government or a societal way not yet dreamed of).

So while there is lots to do, it seems hard to think of huge numbers of jobs being created.
Yeah I agree that that's a problem (you'd probably like the video I linked in my original comment and his book Republic Lost).

I heard an interview on the Stay Tuned podcast (Preet Bharara's podcast) where he interviewed one of the lawyers that argued the winning side of citizen's united. It was an interesting interview and an over simplified summary was that the influence of campaign contributions which come from concentrated groups is a serious problem that needs to be dealt with, but putting government restrictions on speech in order to do it sets a dangerous precedent (at what point are you rich enough where you're no longer allowed to participate in political speech?).

Anyway - thanks for clarifying.
Social engineering meaning hundreds of election officials committing felonies and never talking about it for the rest of their lives. Cambridge Analytica is not a relevant comparison.
How's the privacy record of Pocket?

At first sight, https://getpocket.com/privacy doesn't look GDPR-compliant. It doesn't mention rights of the data subject, there's no address of a data protection representative in the EU and so on … In addition, Read It Later Inc. is apparently not Privacy Shield-certified – the don't mention it and I cannot find their entry at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant_search.

To be fair, https://www.instapaper.com/privacy includes some GDPR-related information, however, they don't have a data privacy representative in the EU or a Privacy Shield certification either.
Who is "they"? Gizmodo is not getting access to the user/password neither do they have access to the user data. Quote from the article: the information was stored on individual users’ computers; we weren’t collecting it centrally
Is the data from PYMK subject to GDPR / available for export? As a user I should have a way to archive and keep track of PYMK, whether it be a third party open source tool, or via some other means?
WebAssembly does have bounds checking, you can't write outside the designated memory block.

On 64-bit systems with virtual address space to spare, you can offload bounds checking to MMU by memory mapping 2 GB+ protection zone both below and above the exposed memory region.

If you then limit all pointers/offsets to 32-bit, there should be no direct way to corrupt anything else. You can't reach anything interesting within 32-bit offsets. Of course one can corrupt WebAssembly instance memory all they want, but it won't matter.

Performance and security win.

Left CPU bugs outside consideration, hopefully those can be addressed in WASM codegen. Not like it's that different from current Javascript JIT cases.
Ask HN: ERP system suggestions
We are looking to transition to a new ERP system. We've been running the same software since the 70's, and it has been highly customized over time.

We'd like to invest in a platform that allows us to modify all aspects of the system, while also starting out with a base that doesn't necessitate starting from scratch (i.e. prebuilt accounting, payroll, etc functions). Preferably the system has an open API for extending the system as necessary, and integrating with third party software.

Any suggestions? We are in the metal wholesaling business.
An Australian City Says They've Wiped Out a Dangerous Mosquito-Borne Disease
Same here. I don't even dare that by paying for a premium subscription, I lost my 6-month trial period …
On the other hand, what percentage of developers within Apple use Homebrew? I think they still have major skin in the game, even if they aren't targeting outside developers.
Just a stupid list I made to track some of these single serving sites that have a question as their URL.
SEC says social media complies with Reg FD:

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2013-2013-51htm
Not sure if you are shooting the messenger or riffing but start here [1]

[1] https://www.facefirst.com/
In line with tptacek's comment, I don't think they need to add any major updates. I'd like to see them improve their site parsing engine, as it does some funky things on occasion, and I'd like to see them update the provided fonts, which mostly haven't changed from Marco Arment's last set and which I personally find a little quirky. (We don't need two extremely similar slab serifs, Elena and Tisa; why not replace one with something that's more distinct but still very readable, like Freight Text or even the semi-classic Charter?)
Is that why the user is green? I've always wondered?
An AI Researcher's Life: The Robotics Science and Systems Conference
The app and website have been working for me. Geoblocking is obviously not that easy …
> I could equally argue that your contribution to raising the CO2 concentration of our shared resource, the atmosphere, is not sanctioned by me.

Then I suppose you should do us all a favor and stop breathing because your breathing is not sanctioned by me. (Just kidding, it is :))

Seriously though, that's just the way it's always been. We're born into the world and we act w/out permission to survive. I don't have to prove to anyone that the next step I take is safe. But if it harms you in some way, then yes, I'm liable.
Even the APIs are not necessarily related anymore. AngularDart is an entirely independent project in every way. I'm a long-time AngularDart dev, and the JS interop thing isn't as important as you'd think. For one thing, it's actually not that hard to do, and for another, you don't need to very often at all, since Dart covers so much of what external JS packages do.
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Im going through a phase of depression right now, and I see things like this and it triggers a bit of discomfort with me regarding the future we are building.

I see these robotic grocery stores and fawning over the technology in them - with the comments about buying online, sending orders for delivery and dynamically adjusted pricing for food and it just feels really plastic, inhuman and depressing.

Food, and the experience of just purchasing the ingredients to make food is all so completely packaged and manufactured.

It really illustrates why people pay a premium for the false illusion of "farm to table" all-natural-ness theme-park-ride-like dinners... and how fake that is as well.

I get the convenience of this, but at that same time, I am turned off by this as it just feels like we are trying so hard to live in a Lego and Play-Mobile reality.
As an advertiser, this! Lookalikes and optimizing for conversions are the key to effective FB advertising at scale.
'The future of Programming' by Bret Victor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4). Seems a pun about OP title but it really is related with his/her question. Take a look and you will be amazed of how good (or revolutionary by our standards) some old technologies were.
> Just don't read them and say you're an ML expert afterwards.

"ML expert" is the new "web developer"
> Who would have predicted 30 years ago that a Saudi sovereign fund would invest in an electric car company ?

Pretty much everyone; the fact that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait has been for years investing large amounts of oil-derived funds in both a wide array of other fields, including alternative energy, was one of the things that created the difference in economic interests between them and Iraq that was among the sources of the disputes which saw their anti-Iran alliance breaking up and Iraq invading Kuwait and threatening Saudi Arabia in 1990.
Depends on the time span; a once mentor of mine always quipped that the ultimate act of laziness was to do things properly the first time and be done with it; much the same goes for the economics of cost savings - long term, quality tends to lead to longer maintenance intervals and simpler maintenance at that.

The ultimate cheapness is to buy quality items and be done with it. (Obviously, there will be cases where this doesn't hold true, but as a first-order approximation...)
Tesla’s Elon Musk tweets he wants to take the carmaker private
this is great for nim, really cool language that could use the support.
The Chinese aren't scrubbing American textbooks of the historical record.

The Chinese government certainly would like to, though, and if they get powerful enough they will.
I am under the impression that this is now the case
And we don't trust the Trump administration to make that assessment in a rational way.
The problem is all of this relies on a representation of the data structure you're manipulating. What exactly is the structure that a Lisp machine is manipulating?

The basis of Lisp is the Lambda Calculus, and a generalization of that gets you term rewriting. Both the basis and the generalization of Lisp admit to requiring a tree (or a graph, in the case of Cons-cells) to get on with the computations, because that's the "state" that you're working with.

The problem is that while these things in the minds of humans are pretty easy to work with, implementing them physically has you rely on things like the RAM model, which, while pretty far away from the Turing Machine, still has machine-like qualities.

That's my argument. We can't really build "Lisp Machines", we can build "Random Access Machines with Lisp Interfaces", because there's no physically implementable version of a tree or graph memory outside of linking randomly-accessible cells.
Let me ask you one question though - Can you think of any steps during the hiring process where the interest in a product from a candidate is highlighted?

Besides the usual 15 minute monologue from recruiters trying to do keywords matching, briefly talking about the company (you can google most of it). I can't remember anyone asking me about my vision regarding any products I worked on during the interview process. After that 1st phone call it's not about the product or the company anymore, it's all about testing you like a college kid getting ready for an exam. Now it's about you wanting to join their team. Not them trying to convince you to join.

What would be a solution? Hire people who care about the product, not only the company logo. It's cool if you know how to write a function in order to find the shortest path in a graph. It's awesome if you love using a pen on a whiteboard. How about asking you how you could improve our product? What problems do you think could be solved within a specific industry? So, looks like the hiring process has to be completely re-written.
Well then. Your 2 cents on how to become one after going through those videos?
I am genuinely asking. Looking for a career in it. At the beginning now.
Read a fair bit, basics videos and all that online. Nothing formal. Can do a bit of c, c++.
Or maybe we have examined the facts, and still believe this is a terrible idea.
Users too – and developers are following suit, except for some special use cases …

(Unfortunately, useful notifications for iPhone apps depend on an Apple Watch app.)
Can you explain where in the article you read about a crawler, or how Gizmodo would be getting any of the information gained via the app? The app in question isn't a crawler, and the information is stored on the client side, never touching Gizmodo servers.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani who was the Minister of Oil for Saudi Arabia for more than twenty years:

> The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil.