skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can try https://microg.org/ which stubs out or replaces the Play Services with FLOSS alternatives.

But I agree that's impractical for the average user.
Not really. PCA extract components (or factors) using individual items (in this case, each stock). OP points out that those 4 stocks strongly load (large amount of their variation used to calculate the component) on the PCA first component. I would interpret those variances explained more like a way to make sense of the component (maybe stocks of tech companies load on it) rather than a “quality” of extractoin measure. Usually, correlation matrix eigenvalues can be used to get a sense of how well the PCA is performing and how many dimensions are present in the raw data.
This is also why quite a few pubs do Thai food.
The feeling is often that using such old software implies being "backwards" so possible vulnerable to exploits in the older code. Of course while the browser is still officially supported (as IE11 is due to be for some time) security releases are still being made so it should in theory be as safe as a current browser.

BUT:

1. Still using IE8 is absolutely a red flag, that stopped being supported in 2016.

2. Being so far behind with browsers may imply being behind generally, and while IE11 is still security patched maybe the organisation runs other old software that isn't (news flash: I can report that at least two organisations I know of routinely run software in their back-office environments that is not longer supported at all because the vendor closed, the product was never passed on to other maintainers or opened, and projects to replace the affected software are massively behind schedule - for obvious reasons I won't state who those organisations are and what the software is).
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I was going to recommend Reamde as well. I think it is best to look at it as an interesting spin on the typical cybercrime story, and not as a "Neil Stephenson" book specifically. In other words, read it for the story, not for the author.
Hm, good thought but no. New ISP, new modem and new router. None of the existing network gear was moved together with me. However, the wifi name was reused to be the same. But, the computer I'm on doesn't have any wifi so it wouldn't be able to know.
The governments have access to Google's data and Google will be more than happy to help send you to prison.
There are lots of green energy funds. If you ask at most European banks, they will put you touch with their "wealth" team where you can pick a managed portfolio or fund to invest in. It may also be a checkbox you can tick on your pension scheme.
Sometimes I pat myself on the back too quickly before realising more than half my line ‘contribution’ is from package-lock.json :)
You jest but this is a thing https://www.networkworld.com/article/2929810/data-center/hom...
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This kind of thing absolutely flys in bureaucracy. I guarantee your local bodega either doesn't have a sidewalk license (if they have stuff on the sidewalk of course) or only got it when the city cited them and forced their hand.

And as I said before, she thought she had permission. The government was literally funding and endorsing the project. It's just that not the right part of the government was involved, which is the classic example of excessive red tape.
Edit: I read the paper you linked. It’s pretty old (2002), and it indeed discusses closed-loop control. Perhaps the technology is just a bit too expensive to put in a monitor.

P.S. the paper also suggests PWM-driving an LED at 120 Hz. This is a horrible thing to do. The frequency needs to be much higher to avoid giving people headaches.
Just finished this one and really enjoyed it. I will say, it would have been infuriating to read if I didn't already know the story ended with her takedown.
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Wasn't aware of Alfred. Thanks for sharing!
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To expand upon this, in PCA, different components have "loadings" not on single variables but on many variables (a.k.a. columns), which are often highly correlated with each other.
"In what preferred reference frame does your "pollution" take place in?"

Pollution would be any undesirable side effect and there are plenty to be imagined in these scenarios.

Your comment strikes me a bit like a chemist denying environmental pollution as it's all "just chemicals."
Code churn is an interesting measurement. I have come to realize I spend 90% of my time on 10% of the problem and I don't always know what the 10% is when I start. This is not just true for writing software, but for installing a hardwood floor -- the center is easy and is where I naively estimate the time -- the time was really spent on the nooks and crannies.
Right, but you don't use Vert.x to "write an HTTP server" either. In both cases you use the server from the framework, though in the case of Spring Boot that is also pluggable.
Is this the "underground" book by Assange before he became WikiLeaks' face?
> I disagree that evolution can be "understood" by one person readily explaining it to someone else.

Darwin did just fine in the Origin of Species ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species ).

> Short explanations between laypeople is essentially propaganda, no matter which side of the issue they are on.

While this is correct, would you like to point out a long explanation that will overcome this? A book, perhaps?

One that doesn't rely on computer models, all of which, in every field, are absolute trash because they can be twisted to say whatever you want them to say as demonstrated in the very article we're discussing.

How is it that Darwin didn't need computer models to make his point, but climate science is empty without them?
Private companies are allowed to have up to 2,000 shareholders under they fall under the same SEC reporting requirements as public companies. Tesla could keep big investors and smallish investors with over $1 million in investable assets or yearly income above $200k if they accredited themselves.

Other issue is what kind of owner PIM is. In principle it's long term patient investor.

KSA has a new active prince/ruler that is self assured and proud. He is really sovereign and relationship to him must be well managed. We all know that Musk not a diplomat in his public or private communications.

Saudis have had little bit of cash flow problems because they have constant budget deficit is typically 10-15 percent of their GDP or ~$50B/year and it probably just grows in the future . On paper PIM has $2 trillion in assets, but most of it is Saudi Aramco. Aramco IPO would generate cash flow but it's delayed, probably because there is fair amount of air in the valuation. Saudi Arabia has previously inflated it's oil reserves as a political decision to match some OPEC agreements and real production capacity potential is top secret.

If KSA continues to have cash flow problems and Tesla is disappoints somehow, Tesla may end up at the hands of corporate raiders like Carl Icahn.
Unindent 1000 lines of code after removing a if() statement. You just changed 1000 lines of code in 2 seconds. Reformat entire file automatically with editor, you just changed 4000 lines of code.
It's an interesting analysis, but I strongly suspect that a lot of changes aren't really rewrites of new content. Instead, they're moves of content withing a file or between files that get counted as a deletion+insertion.
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I've been using LeanPub for my book work. It hooks into GitHub and gives me a DevOps-kinda work environment.

Git's cool and all, but I wasn't a huge fan at first. One version control system was like another. But the impact it's had? Now that version control is free and ubiquitous, using git for stuff is everywhere. That's turned out to be extremely cool.
It's not always 10:1, but it seems to be a good average. This happened to me numerous times — I sometimes start with a quick and dirty solution for my problem, then refine and refine until I'm happy with the result, the performance, the code looks beautiful and then I'm like “heck, it's only 100 lines and it took me a week”. In more pathologic cases, I've spent a week just thinking about it, and then I started writing code.

I'm programming for 20 years and I still can't provide good ETA-s for non-trivial problems.
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This really sounds like certain (google employed) app developers aren't aware that they have to abide by certain setting values?
And how did the conversation go after that?
I think you might be describing Windows 10. Resets default applications on each reboot.
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Would also love to read a detailed writeup about their custom engine.

Also found this quote[1] from an AmA on reddit:

> We've used C# since SpaceChem. I can't imagine using anything else, honestly. Infinifactory and TIS-100 use Unity, while everything else uses some kind of lightweight SDL-backed C# engine.

> SHENZHEN I/O and Opus Magnum are both using a very minimalist C# "engine" inspired by some of Casey Muratori's ideas on game engines and game programming. It uses DirectX or OpenGL for graphics, and SDL for everything else. It's basically just one giant Update() loop, and is the greatest game engine I've ever had the pleasure to work with. Despite this, I would not advise novice game programmers to do the same.

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/78wv2h/im_zach_barth_...
Off-topic: Atlas looks cool and I've been looking for something like this to create multiple output formats from one source document for ebooks and other longer documents, but I'd like something that's open-source. I see "2014" multiple places on the Atlas site, which makes me think it's been abandoned.
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Are there any notable technologies? Are any of them a security issue?

Or do you mean that a "foreign power" will gain knowledge of all the Tesla bugs, and therefore be able to unleash carnage on American roads, etc?
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Any existing tools to label a new dataset with person keypoints.
> You have 100 lb of potatoes, which are 99 percent water by weight

Would this be less of a paradox if we talked about water balloons? Potatoes, in real life, are 80% water [1].

[1] http://umich.edu/~elements/web_mod/potato/fact.htm
I don’t think people are seeing Google as “not evil”. Google most probably has a much larger reserve of everyone’s dirty laundry.

Most android users just don’t realize how invasive the entire OS is and there is little they can do about it. It sucks thah Apple is the only tech company that gives a shit about privacy seriously. We definitely need more pro-privacy choice.
If he actually follows through with a deal, can he still be held culpable for market manipulation?
For compiling, having many cores is fantastic. Granted, on a workstation, compilation normally just involves a few files (the ones that have changed since the previous build and their dependencies), but when you have to do a full rebuild, it is fantastic to be able to do `make -j16` and watch it chug through 16 files simultaneously. Interestingly, the benchmark in this review shows that the 16-core 2950X compiles Chromium faster than the 32-core 2990WX, presumably this means something other than the thread count becomes a bottleneck after 16 threads or so.
"Digital transformation initiatives don't need thousands of people. They need a small team with very little time and very little money." Ok, think this through.

Big businesses have money.

They can create small teams easily.

Creating a short term team with not much money is in the power of every company in the fortune 500, heck, it's in the power of the top 10,000 companies...

And yet we do not see these teams doing these transformations. Shure we see teams creating "friendly digital employee pals" and "Machine learning driven employee survey feedback tools" but what we do not see is small, underfunded teams rapidly changing the face of business.

Because... it's hard. In reality, although executives love the message "small team, no money, fast" the translation that they should be using is "a way of wasting a bit of money and time doing something that will definitely fail"
> That turned out to be significantly less dangerous than we anticipated.

Tell that to people who have been doxxed. Or people who have had their stalkers find them. Or people who have been arrested by oppressive governments...

The list goes on
And they do. Up to 3-4GW of the power (maybe 10% of typical power demand) in the UK is imported from its neighbours - some Ireland and the Netherlands, lots of France - at the moment.

The French have a LOT of Nuclear power, and idling a nuclear power station, though possible, is economic insanity, so it makes sense to sell it at a discount to the British.
FYI, the original TF article has been updated with:

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Yeah, someone told me the secret to good photography is just taking a lot of pictures. Stop wasting time trying to manufacture perfect, just be ready when it happens.

And I think it comes back to the principles of Slack. By shooting more than you need, you have room to cut. Hopefully, you'll have to wind up cutting good stuff because you have too much good stuff.
> I don't know enough about video games, but I would naively think that the memory latency would be a big deal there as well.

It really depends on what else you're doing. If you're just playing a game then Disk and GPU tend to be the biggest bottlenecks in video gaming. Even a reasonably fast modern CPU is sufficient for most games.
> You said general purpose, which X, Y, and SP most certainly are not. You can't do much math ops with X and Y; SP is even more restricted.

In that sense I wouldn't say that the accumulator in 6502 is a general purpose register in the first place, since it's just as useless for addressing as the X and Y registers are for arithmetic and logic operations. Each register in the 6502 has a distinct (but often overlapping) set of available operations, and that you can do arithmetic with one of them doesn't mean that it's a general purpose register.
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> We want the speed of C with the dynamism of Ruby. We want a language that’s homoiconic, with true macros like Lisp, but with obvious, familiar mathematical notation like Matlab. We want something as usable for general programming as Python, as easy for statistics as R, as natural for string processing as Perl, as powerful for linear algebra as Matlab, as good at gluing programs together as the shell.

… they forgot to compare Julia to JavaScript — the most popular programming language in the world.

Or is that because authors don't want Julia to be used by anyone?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[I'm joking, ofc. But I still find it weird how almost every modern language is mentioned, but JavaScript…]
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Just want thank HN as well... my previous submissions:

"I am depressed and I need someone to talk to"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4928031

and

"Thank you HN, sorry HN"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5348589

Thanks again. I am fine now.
A lot of problems similar to your complaints exist for CloudFormation as well. Instead of complaining about the language warts, you’ll be forced to use an even more cumbersome set of primitives to access arrays and hashes, and the messages will only get less sensible as you look for either YAML whitespace errors or inevitably write a converter to avoid using JSON. CloudFormation limits like number of parameters and outputs start to be a real pain to scale to support a production environment beyond simple demo stacks, and Terraform has more issues scaling with team members concurrently trying to modify system state due to its less strict modularization / locking model.

Infrastructure as code tooling is all very primitive compared to what we take for granted writing most other traditional software but it will take some time and maybe another generation to do it well.
And over the course of a conversation, guilty people say all sorts of things to persuade others that they are telling the truth.

That is how criminal investigators catch many guilty people, that and body language combined with context.

And saying things like: they even searched my house 4 times, I couldn't have carried the body, they even searched my incinerator, they couldn't find anything, shows an excessive and unnecessary intention to persuade, typical of guilty people.

It could just be her baseline, as an overly justificative person raised in a certain way.

Each sentence in isolation by itself is not indicative of guilt, but these are red flags that indicate a direction where to dig deeper, as there could be some deception going on here.

of course the full interview text would be needed, we cant conclude anything based on a couple of loose sentences here and there.
I do not follow the objection to this response (at the top of the section "Responses"):

"x is grue" is not solely a predicate of x, but of x and a time t — we can know that an object is green without knowing the time t, but we cannot know that it is grue. If this is the case, we should not expect "x is grue" to remain true when the time changes. However, one might ask why "x is green" is not considered a predicate of a particular time t - the more common definition of green does not require any mention of a time t, but the definition grue does.

Surely "x is green" is not considered a predicate of a particular time t simply because it isn't, by definition, and the fact that grue and bleen are defined as such is simply being used in a faulty analogy that is beside the point?

It continues this response also begs the question because blue can be defined in terms of grue and bleen, which explicitly refer to time - but blue, so defined, loses any dependence on time even if it is nominally a parameter, and so can be used in inductive arguments with respect to time in ways that would be invalid for grue and bleen.
VMs, lots of them.

Atm I'm running about 15 VMs on about 8 cores in a dedicated box somewhere and it's definitely noticable. I would love to shove some core services at home and have 32 cores to play with to give some more headroom
This article gives some really good points to be considered by organisation planning to ride on wave of 'Digital Transformation'
Thanks, I was unaware.
France got almost 75% of its electricity from fossil fuels in the mid-70s[1], so "never" is wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electricity_production_by...
Thanks this is awesome.
Worked for Twitter!

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I believe the people who ran Netflix always understood what their business was. I don't think they ever saw themselves as a "DVD rental service." I think they - rightly - saw their business as serving entertainment on demand. To support this, recall that back in 2011, Netflix tried to make this clear by spinning off the DVD rental part into Qwikster, and people revolted. They backed off (https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/an-explanation-and...). But I believe they did this because they knew their business is delivering entertainment, and that streaming was going to become the easier way to do that versus DVDs. Their folly was enforcing this vision too aggressively on their customers. If they spun off the DVD rental service now, I don't think many people would care.

I don't see this kind of clarity in some other companies that try to transform themselves. I think it's quite rare.
It definitely dragged on, but overall I thought it was enjoyable. He definitely kept building up to climaxes throughout the whole book - on an airplane, I kept sadly checking the percentage read because I was sure I was almost done with it, only to discover that I was only 30%, 50%, 70% along...

If you're a Stephenson fan, I would absolutely give this a read.
I keep earing that, but it is not totally clear for me. It seems the start and the stop of a nuclear plant takes a day if we want to be safe and efficient. A fast shutdown in a couple of seconds may cause difficulties to restart afterward. Maybe we could study procedures for safe quick start/stop even if the efficiency is not perfect.
I also ended up getting prescription glasses (really mild correction) to reduce eye strain when staring at computer screens. I only wear the glasses when looking at computer or phone (ideally, but not always).

I also found retina display helped reduce eye strain.
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with 32 cores, I can run 32 small simulations (e.g. CFD, FEA, etc) in parallel for optimization problems or run 1 medium sized simulation. And anything in between.

My ideal workstation likely actually uses ~128 cores but that isn't practical for home use yet. A board with 4 2990wx would be heaven.
This dataset could be interesting as it consists of stocks and cryptos https://vectorspace.ai/recommend/datasets
Won't even be that hard I think, or less hard than we imagine. Electric vehicles will bring widespread distributed storage 'organically'.

At least in the UK the National Grid is doing a huge amount of work to prepare for this[0].

There is also work to install large battery installations commercially in public EV charging areas and National Grid sub-stations[1] - first ten multi-dozen MWh installations should be ready Q2 2019.

So, for instance, installing MWh of battery capacity at (lets say) a current Fuel Station and that is constantly trickle charged at say 350KW from the grid, then discharge that to cars at super high rates - smoothing out delivery to EV's but having the added benefit of acting like a distributed storage system in periods of lower use (say at night) when things like wind generate surplus. This specific example isn't covered in the videos linked but the installations at sub-stations are.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLE2SrDNPZc

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSUlaDbckmo
> somewhat libertarian family

Boy, that's putting it mildly. :)
Fun fact, Antonov was responsible for the Soviet effort to copy the Storch, years before designing the An-2.
Fascinating and brilliant article!

We have a similar approach to health in our distributed messaging platform in that during situations where there are capacity problems, we ensure existing connections and requests continue to get serviced, yet new requests are rejected triggering a fail over to other regions. We effectively put the affected nodes into an “under siege mode” until the load subsides.

Interestingly, in our recent distributed deep dive interview (https://blog.ably.io/hidden-scaling-issues-of-distributed-sy...) with Paul Nordstrom, a former systems architect at AWS & Google, he also talked about how they designed systems around how they would recover when there were failures. For example, if a huge backlog of work built up, trying to catch up is probably not going to work, so you need to think about that too in the design.

On a separate note, one of our engineers Simon wrote an article recently on distributed system rate limiting (https://blog.ably.io/how-adopting-a-distributed-rate-limitin...), and the challenges he faced. He also found that hard static limits would often cause significant yo-yo’ing of load which did not help solve the problem.

Matt, technical co-founder, Ably Realtime (https://www.ably.io)
That only refers to copyright, not the patent, right? I know FOSS projects avoiding a different implementation of RCU for patent reasons.