skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not condone all of their tactics, some of which look questionable. I only tried to analyze the thinking behind their plans and strategy from a detached point of view. Their overall strategy appears quite sound.
Better than intel desktop/laptop cpus which have not increased core counts in literally a decade.
So where does the heat go? Judging from the FAQ my assumption is it's transferring it into the surrounding water? How many of these before it starts becoming a local ecological problem?
Cpdddkm
On some keyboard layouts (including Danish, which I use), we also have the ¤ on shift-4.

Nobody I know has ever used ¤ in any context at all, it seems like such an odd addition. I've used it sometimes as a footnote marker, since it's highly unlikely to clash with formatting, unlike an asterisk.
That sounds amazing - truly a tool to make life easier to many. Love it
There are very few cases where threading is essential, where you cannot work just with communicating processes. I cannot think of anything but FPS games (perhaps you can).

Crystal already has fibers, eventloop and CSP-style channels. See https://crystal-lang.org/docs/guides/concurrency.html

All languages don't have to be good at everything. See IEEE 2018 top programming languages list puts Python at the top. How's its parallelism story these days?
Organic farm CSA.

I used to get a box of produce from an organic farm that I trusted completely and that I'd visited in person on several occasions. Without that level of transparency (which is available in many places if you look for it) you're going to have a harder time.
This looks somewhat different to me than other rankings I've seen lately. Python is a nice language but putting it in first place kind of raises a lot of questions about the methodology since it is nowhere near that spot in essentially all similar rankings I've seen, ever. Also, python for embedded development?! I'm sure people do that but it hardly sounds like a typical use case for python.
> For these high speed railroad, I see no reason they should be profitable as a whole.

They were paid for by investors and bank loans. The governments direct contribution is not that large. If HSR isn't going to pay off, those investors are losing their shirts.

> Let's not pretend that USA can still build the infrastructure as it needs, better than China.

The USA takes advantage of cheaper goods from other countries. It can totally survive without that, but we like more stuff.
Yes, that is some next level BS. Why should I learn to use an arcane thing like info just to read a manual page, when 99% of the software on the same computer uses man? It's not just laziness. GNU software is usually good, but it has a strong hint of forcing your way onto other people, that I really dislike.
Azealia Banks is a good rap artist and entertainer, but she is probably not a reliable source on this.

She is known for starting public beefs with high profile celebrities over social media. Billboard even has a published list of these feuds: https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8455742/a...

Slightly related, here is an Azealia Banks track that is popular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Jv9fNPjgk
Problem here is it's not a repeatable experiment. The sample size is 1 world economy.
Without doing fancies like this, people wouldn't be talented.
It seemed to work for the Clinton campaign in 1992. I mean, he blamed Bush, but Reagan got lumped in too.

And yeah, it was a booming almost-three-decades of growth between 1982 and 2008, with blips in 1991 and 2001.
There has been some tremendous improvements for ARM architecture. If you run some serious code on raspberry PIs, get ready to be amazed.
If everything was happening faster back then, and if we assume there were more interactions between everything and more kinds of interactions back then, then life and intelligence may have evolved faster too.
Disappointed Erlang didn't make the list in 2018 :(
This is why I'm fiscally conservative while also believing public servants should make market rates. Which also means pushing back against obsessing about total employment counts at x rate but rather focusing on the specific utility of individual agencies, policies, and projects.

Sadly public salaries and jobs in general are low hanging fruit targeted by short-sighted political campaigns while all other gov spending tends to be a black hole with zero measurable ROI and countless professional public grant/gov money consumers well aware of the lack of measurable ROI and crony/who-you-know-in-gov nature of spending. Or worse the phony claims of adopting 'private industry' to side step accountability via public-private arrangements which feature none of the benefits of markets (true competition, state anointed monopolies, market dominance disconnected from value provided to consumers, etc).

Most of which could be blanketly solved by hiring good people (the people who dispense and use the money) and not creating quid-pro-quo incentive systems by underpaying public servants.
What I read from his thread is that he wants to make the world better by censoring Twitter users.

While I don't doubt his good intentions, I can envision many ways of how it will go wrong.
If that is true (undermining public perceptions of thruth and validity)

Then I think there are two options available:
- Censorship
- Education

What would you choose, and think works in the long run?
What about /s for sarcasm? It seems any symbol not easily typed on the QWERTY keyboard will never be relevant.
The Summer Day

Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean-

the one who has flung herself out of the grass,

the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,

who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-

who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?

—Mary Oliver
You don’t know anything about me. I’ve spent years working on various products that were paid by users, not advertisers. Guess what? Selling software licenses is very hard. You can’t blame me for not trying though.

Video is traditionally ad supported — after all, nobody ever paid for broadcast TV. But preroll/midroll ads that interrupt content don’t work well in live online video. Interactivity offers potential new avenues to sell people stuff that they might actually want. I don’t know if it will work, but it’s worth exploring.
Oops sorry, I thought the complaint was about them being separate. I'm not sure I understand the spam complaint, if everyone is on voice chat why are they in general? But then again I mostly use Discord for community activities, not for group gaming.
Indeed, for that XML::Simple would be an operational nightmare to deploy and maintain (being fused into Perl’s tree), and your code would be unreadable and unmaintainable by anyone else, for such is the nature of Perl.

And then there is the UNIX way, with both jq and libxslt being reusable for other data without having to write a dedicated program. sed by the way is unnecessary if one has mastered AWK.

There are too many things you have not even begun to consider yet. You could start with taking those developer-convenience glasses off, and putting the system engineer glasses on.
HSR wasn't funded by the government however, at least not completely. Well, this is where it gets complicated:

China Railway is a SOE, so it is technically the government. It took out a lot of debt to do HSR, and technically that isn't considered public debt and is rather listed as corporate debt (if SOE debt was considered public debt, China's public debt would obviously be much higher than the USA). Anyways, see https://www.ft.com/content/ca28f58a-955d-11e8-b747-fb1e803ee... for a better read.

Highways in China are mostly financed in similar ways actually, which is why all of the newer ones have pretty high tolls.
> Did Unicode ever have any business assigning separate code points for italic versions of latin glyphs?

Here's the official answer to this question from the Unicode spec [1]:

"Mathematical notation requires a number of Latin and Greek alphabets that initially appear to be mere font variations of one another. For example, the letter H can appear as plain or upright (H), bold (𝐇), italic (𝐻), and script (ℋ). However, in any given document, these characters have distinct, and usually unrelated, mathematical semantics.
For example, a normal H represents a different variable from a bold H, etc. If these attributes are dropped in plain text, the distinctions are lost and the meaning of the text is altered."

[1] https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode11.0.0/UnicodeStanda...
What is your source for the ML claim? I know very decent and fast screen space filters that do kot use any learning and can work with 1spp (pure noise for the hunan eye).
DEFCON doesn't want to get out of their contract. They negotiated a sweetheart deal with Caesar's -- long term and at a great rate -- when Caesar's was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Good news, that wasn't the point of the link =]
So far I'm with you and I think I might agree with your conclusion.

What I wanted to know was some background on the 94% figure, do we now this is how they arrived at that number?
blood in the street!

Seriously, make your own estimations, and buy a percentage at each price step if you think crypto is interesting (ie if you want to have a positive position)

Assuming I have exactly your expectatooms, at 1000, I would spend half my budget , at 500 25%, at $100 25% leaving 0, because if it goes below 100 I will have some time in front of me to wait for a bump :-)

But seriously, I think your expectations are a bit lowl It already rebounding in a trap. I would say anything below 6 is unlikely to last long, given how quickly similar crashes recovered this summer.

So 4 is my starting point for "blood in the steet"
Here how it would work: the advertiser, let’s say Taco Bell, sponsors a banner ad that covers the bottom 10% of the live video.

Boom solved.
I know that Google also has water based installations where there are basins to let the water cool down before it is reinjected into the local system.
It isn't truly safe like Rust, as Ada can still have dangling pointers laying around, the free function is called "Unchecked_Deallocation", not sure if newer Ada has any mechanisms for better ownership semantics.
> These black leaves are the words I write.

That sentence and the whole paragraph it punctuated are so profoundly beautiful. I want to write more, but brevity in this case, says more than I ever could...
Spin it as you want Check out the new Fibonacci Spiral setting
Context, please?
Do you by any chance know how much RAM the CPUs in a render farm need?

That would help to put the 48GB in context...

Answering my own question:
http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/07/08/moana-island-pbrt-1.ht...

“...with memory use upward of 70 GB during rendering.”

The author is later able to reduce the amount of memory significantly by rewriting small parts of his renderer.
Turkish Cargo carries five endangered white rhinos to Shanghai  – Air Cargo
Crazy how little code it is.
Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind
Start simple and get something on your phone - that's how I did it. My personal opinion: stick to official iOS developer documentation and code samples first. That way you'll get a good feeling how e.g. Swift should be used.

My mistake was reading too much open sourced code on Github and adapt a lot of bad coding habits.

The Stanford courses are great too
https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-11-apps-wi...
It is the international currency symbol, added to please Russia that didn't like $ being part of ASCII
Anyone know what the Easter eggs in the Furby35 changelog entry are?

> BURP ATTACK, SAY NAME, TWINKLE SONG, and ROOSTER LOVES YOU
Sorry for your downvotes, I thought that was very on the nose. Well played.
I switched back from Chrome to Safari (for totally unrelated reasons) between the last time I had this problem and the current time. Maybe Chrome is better about throttling background tabs these days (and better than Safari). Also, this time, wikis and strategy pages seem to load fine (though noticeably slower), but it's a little too hard for me to order a pizza on Grubhub, especially if I'm context switching back and forth between the browser and the game. All I can actually say with confidence is that I have run into a performance bottleneck well before hitting the single-thread will-it-run-at-all barrier.
«don't expect to see anything remotely like it at a consumer price point.»

Strictly based on the perf metrics you listed, AMD already sells something close (matching TFLOPS within 15%), and at a consumer price point:

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid ($699):

• 486 mm²

• 12.5 billion transistors

• up to 13.7 TFLOPS (single precision, which is probably what Nvidia is quoting, although I'd like to see confirmation)

• no tensor ALU though
Not all SQL products keep their schema searchable, but good try.
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I'm sorry but this argument that "X silicon valley company is just a private company and has no responsibility to free speech" is just not going to fly in the coming years.

I just read another HN article about how amazon just got a $10B pentagon contract. You can't tell me in a time where the public space has moved onto their platforms that they have absolutely nothing to do with the government and so have nothing to do with free speech.
Who is disagreeing with that ? Does not mean you have to like the law or not work to repeal it. You could have used the same argument on blacks and claimed the law of the land allows slavery and hence they should willingly follow it.

Let me rephrase my original sentence
". I do not want money taken away from people without they explicitly agreeing to it "

Just because you have to pay taxes anyways does not mean there should not be a formal consent in the form of a check.
Perhaps they wouldn't need such an expensive contract if they didn't have to process so many tickets caused by bad signage?
Being why nvidia are selling GPU's with 48GB of ram...
Good list but I think GitHub's list matches more closely to what I see people using: https://octoverse.github.com/

In particular, GitHub's list has JavaScript as #1 and I've seen a lot of frontend and middle-tier work moving to JavaScript via React, Node, Angular, Vue, etc.

Also, how is Assembly in the top 10 on the IEEE list??? I get that every machine runs it but I don't see a lot of people programming in assembly these days...
GraphQL is awesome. You probably should not use it
It's not "disallowing discussion", it's "not giving someone a platform." The author isn't saying he wants the person not to be able to say what he's saying, but that Twitter shouldn't give him a microphone to spew his vitriol.

It certainly can be a positive thing to remove people's megaphones who are not acting in good faith, who are spreading violence and vitriol. There's almost no room for "understanding and exchange of ideas" on twitter, and definitely not what Alex Jones et. al. is seeking from the platform.

I also think that one of the biggest issues facing "understanding and exchange of ideas" in general is the idea that no one can be earnest or genuine in their outrage. Your original post used the term "virtue signaling," but even saying that the person is "throwing a tantrum" is purposefully trying to diminish the idea that the OP might be rationally upset about the events that have unfolded.
You can run inbound and outbound SMTP servers yourself, and send email with no forwarding. Nobody does this, but the protocols support it fine.
I am Asian. Ironically my parents aren’t like me at all about this. They’re pretty relaxed and they would have been fine with me going anywhere as long as I was “happy”.
Great cautionary tale of JS bloat in the age of mobile
Right tool for the job; don't be a fan boy.
Show HN: Blockchainathons: one location for all crypto hackathons
"They have no way of seeing their friends except in-game because they must get their parents to drive them everywhere. Even if they drove to their friends house, they have nothing to do with them except play games."

Wait, how common is this in States (I assume)? Here in Finland, kids from 6 or so up go around neighborhood on their own, and have yards&parks to play in. We take them there from the start. Moms/dads circles in parks are a thing, here, with the kids playing around them.
rtx 5000 is actually not too expensive as comparing to the launch of Volta series.
https://www.interviewcake.com/

Perfect if you want to crack something in a week
ML based denoising for various ray tracing applications is a hot topic at SIGGRAPH this year. Here's one NVIDIA paper on the topic from last year: http://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/publications/...

There are also some impressive new non ML based denoising results too however and it's unclear to me at the moment where NVIDIA is using ML based denoising and where they are using more traditional filters in the demos they've been showing. I think at least some of the real time ray traced ambient occulsion and soft shadow demos have been using more traditional non ML based filtering approaches.
> Really what Ruby needs is a flag that adds some capabilities to NilClass, so that these BEGIN blocks aren't needed.

Does it, though?

ps | ruby -le 'b = $<.reduce(0) {|s, l| s + l.split(0).to_i}; print "sum of PIDs: #{b}"'

or:

ps | ruby -lane 'b = (b || 0) + $F[0].to_i; END { print "sum of PIDs: #{b}" }'
There's plenty of western states on fire right now with robust logging industries.
Can't agree more about prioritizing personal networks over everything else.
There was thing called VR hype, it is no longer the case any more. The new hype is crypto.
20+ years ago I was working for a company that provided systems for secure printing of checks (including payroll checks) and direct deposit notifications. One of the things suggested as a possible enhancement was the ability to email people's direct deposit notifications to them, and I got the assignment to research it.

On a technical basis, it's trivial - you already have the data stream that's going to be sent to the printer, generating a PDF wasn't going to be an enormous roadblock (though it wouldn't have been completely trivial as the source data was PCL not PS - did you know that there was handling for that in Ghostscript, at least on the commercially-licensed side?). Encryption of PDFs also possible, either with separately-licensed open source tools or with some closed-source commercial alternatives. Even ignoring the possibility of email being intercepted in transit, encryption would have been a requirement due to the risk of someone walking up to an unattended desk and simply checking that attached PDF for someone's pay info.

The killer? The infrastructure required to assign and allow people to change their passwords including management, training, etc.. By the time you've built that, you're a chunk of the way to simply providing the payroll information within an online HR system instead.

Like the old trope about the first man on Mars being a technician for an unreliable rover, the bulk of the work and cost isn't always where you'd think it would be.
Interestingly, I game on a P1something, through AWS and parsecgaming.com — very cool tech, and actually worthwhile for me price wise as I don’t game often enough to invest a couple grand in a gaming PC.
How far a walk is too much for you?
I've been wondering about the safety of vaping.

Glad to see it's not as bad as smoking (a low bar) but will still kill you.
> do we say other types of engineering doesn't create the wealth?

Yes, at least according to my strawman. Perhaps a better differentiator is creator/maker rather than "engineer", since it can be (and has been) argued that farmers and assembly workers are creating wealth with their labor, too.

> then do we say other types of engineering doesn't create the wealth? Is integrating a customer creating wealth (possibly?)

I think this is, essentially, the question of if a service can be wealth creation. I think it's pretty clear that it possibly can, but it's not clear that it always does/must.

As such, it's much harder to tell with a service if wealth/value is being created or just transferred, without careful examination, unlike with making something tangible (or at least visible, like computer code).

> how about developing a feature that no-one uses (hmm). What about engineering that destroys value / wealth?

I think you're talking about risk, which I mention in a different comment downthread.

Fortunately, I don't think there are, in general, engineers/markers/creators who make zero or negative value exclusively (especially across their entire careers), and, more often than not, even if that happens within a single company, they didn't have the choice/control over the value. This last part is, perhaps, most relevant to the OP's original question.

> I think one thing we need to remember is that engineers* have pretty amazing job security. And that's the crux of my point.

I don't think that's true, though, and replaceability has been brought up elsewhere in the thread. As such, I fear I'm missing your point.
Is EM beyond his prime now?, he seems to be in the news for wrong reasons. Drug abuse could be the simplest reason for all this odd behavior("pedo", "420", and doubling down on those tweets), showing up at DEFCON while shit is hitting fan at Tesla.
Why would you hire just one person?
The best book about the ARPA/Parc research in the 60s and 70s is "The Dream Machine" by Mitchell Waldrop.
$ docker ps | rb drop 1 | rb -l split[1]
$ docker ps | perl -anE 'say $F[1] if $.>1'

perl solved this problem a long time ago, people
They could also easily make their own break off usb-c.... but they don’t.
Older horse books, pre-motor vehicle, have extensive material about "bad horses". That's rarely seen today. Most of the problems came from people who had no real ability or desire to deal with horses. Today, those are the people you see driving cars with dents in the front fenders.
> what alternative do you propose?

That they don't call themselves science. Maybe call themselves studies and that they put more effort into what they call experiments.

> we still use Newtonian physics in many cases because they're easier to use as a model, even if they don't capture everything.

This is frankly a terrible example. Because it does not tell the whole story does not mean it is incorrect. There is no unifying theory of sociology either.
To me, the free market is best represented through market competition. Can anyone comment on how competitive the chinese markets actually are because I have heard that it is still very government/single company dominate focused.
Draconian new proposals on data privacy from Australia
The official protocols do support this, true, but nearly all of the major email service providers (e.g., Gmail, etc) will assume your email is spam if you send it from your own random mail server.
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