skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beyond graphics, I think of all the "terascale" talk in the high-performance computing world when I was in school. Now your consumer GPU does multiple Tflops instead of hoping a supercomputer to maybe possibly reach 1 Tflop some day for a few lucky users.

The same thing has happened with RAM and storage. My first Linux PC had 20 MB of RAM and 80 MB of disk and was sufficient to do most of my CS projects at university in the early-mid 1990s. Now, a sub $200 smartphone has over 100x the space, while desktops are commonly 2000x.

The research side not only moved on 1000x to "petascale" but that's now boring and there is real talk of "exascale" with the same gleam in the eye. One million times the performance we dreamed of at the beginning of my career, though I think this is partly by expanding the scope of one machine to larger and larger distributed systems as well as scaling up the capacity of individual elements.
There’s so many confounding variables that will affect fatality rate such as age (in the link but not corrected for) income, education, etc.
Balance sheet metrics can still be important. Return on invested capital (ROIC) is a very popular "value" metric showing what a business can earn by investing in its business. The denominator is calculated from the balance sheet

Basically, if you are a good business with a strong moat, you will be able to invest in your business at a compounding rate. ROIC is a way to measure this
I have commuted via bicycle and Vespa scooter and I feel so much safer on the Vespa. I can keep up with traffic, I have proper mirrors and signals, and I am wearing better safety gear.
I’m a lot more pessimistic than you about the rate of change. I recently went through Eureka (California) and most of the cafes and restaurants there did not accept Apple Pay, contactless payment, or even chip and pin payment. Eventually we found a place that did accept Apple Pay so we could eat.

While Apple Pay itself is only about four years old, contactless payment has been fairly standard in the UK for about 10 years, and chip and pin is over 20 years old.
I think your complaint is fair regarding being lumped in despite a history of good citizenship, and I agree and add that the card networks were definitely a bit thoughtless during the adult crackdown in 2002. They have since offloaded most of this risk management process to specialty processors that do take good citizenship into account, rare as it is in Adult CNP. All high-risk means now is a couple thousand dollar startup fee and quicker turnaround through chargeback/fraud remediation programs.

Also, banks aren’t limited by anyone to a certain percentage of high risk merchant accounts currently, I am not sure if they had that limitation 10 years ago. There are certain banks, that I have interviewed extensively for my cases, that almost exclusively process cards for high-risk accounts.
Relevance, beyond, "What about this bad thing some of these people I don't like did"?

Specifically, what about these cases is remotely illustrative of "all" of anything?
There's a sort of common strategy that uses EV / FCF (or something like that) as a metric for cheapness and ROIC as a metric for "good" businesses (to avoid value traps). I believe it has done pretty well
No, mostly devs who have been burned by bad certs, and devs who's boss bought a certificate and now doesn't remind devs when they get a "reminder" to renew.
I agree with this.

My question always is why do you think this is important for the position you're hiring. Does knowing this question mean they're actually good for your position?

This is turning into the situation I've seen in places with serious entrance exams for universities. For example in Iran, a lot of not so talented but have great memorization and afforded to do mindless practice exams are making it into higher education while creative and talented and less fortunate people are staying out.

There are entire businesses built around practicing algorithm questions now, this is not a good sign.
You still need all that, you're just paying someone else to do it for you. As the app gets more complicated you will have to do more. It is impossible to remove complexity by adding abstraction. You've only hidden it.
Not the strongest no? I don’t think it left any room for doubt.
No sarcasm, just wondering how you get to "no merit" from "paying someone to kill someone else" for a murder-for-hire charge...
I heard a little nugget the other day that, at its height in the early Roman period, the city of Antioch had a population density of about 190 people/acre (~500,000 souls, with a diameter of ~4 miles); by comparison, modern day NYC has a population density of around 100 people/acre. Granted, a much higher overall population in the modern city. However, very rarely did buildings in that era reach five stories, and almost none exceeded that height.
"There are lot of people out there, who damage the people they deal with psycologically."

That totally blures the line. Yes, there are tons of people out there who attack me psycologically with their stupidy, attempted dominace, insults, etc.
But I don't think a law against stupidity would help.

Sounds a bit sarcarstic? Maybe, but listening to people sometimes (on TV for example) literally causes me pain.

But more specifically on topic, yes, I know also the situation when a mentally troubled person hurts the people around them who suffer see him suffering.
But it still is (or was) his life.
I play guitar (poorly) and bass guitar (well enough to convince bars to pay my band money).

Several times in my life I've completely burnt out of playing music. The most recent time was about a year after graduating from college. I was tired of going to bars, tired of playing the same songs over and over, and tired of playing music in general.

I quit the band I was in and sold all of my bass gear to buy a Fender Telecaster and an amp to go with it. I thought changing my instrument would be enough to bring the passion back. Unfortunately it wasn't and my Telecaster was largely unplayed.

I tried several synthesizers, a digital piano, busting out my old trumpet, and an acoustic guitar but they all ended up sold on Craigslist or sitting around collecting dust. I was also pretty depressed at this time in my life and I think that's why it felt like I would never enjoy playing music again.

I found other ways to occupy my time. I bought a fancy gaming computer and played a lot of Overwatch. I watched way too much TV and read some really good books. Eventually I lost interest in those things too. I hit a really low point with my depression but bounced back with the help of my wife. Things got better.

I happened to go into a Guitar Center while I was on vacation to look for something to try igniting my musical passions with. I happened to stop and play a bass guitar that had caught my eye.

This was the only love at first sight experience I've had in my life and it was amazing. I only played it for about ten minutes but I couldn't stop thinking about it for the rest of the day.

The next day I went back to Guitar Center and bought the bass along with an amp. That night I texted one of my old band mates and a few weeks later it was just like old times. I started playing the bass guitar everyday again which led to me playing the guitar everyday again which led to me recording myself playing again.

I won't be surprised if I burn out again in the future. I think it's a natural part of life for me. It's comforting to know that however bad it gets music will be there for me when I'm ready for it. That's why it's such a good hobby.
Ask HN: How to deal with PM and dev. responsibilities in one person? (startup)
Today I'm turning to the HN community for advice. After having spend countless hours reading HN, this is now my first submission :)

I have a Computer Science background (officially I'm still an enrolled student) and since 8 months I'm now the technical co-founder in a Berlin startup, which I founded with two friends whose expertise lies mostly in the Business, sales and operations part.

This leaves me responsible for all technical aspects and the development of the MVP stage product. I'm supported by one co-founder who has taken charge of Design and content (maintaining our Webflow landing page).

Since the beginning we have been struggling with the question who should be responsible for the product (Product Management/Product Owner). Almost naturally my co-founders expected me to manage this.

It's generally something that I would love to do, but I struggle to reconcile both responsibilities (PM and being the sole developer) in one person.

• both roles require very different levels of thinking: detail vs. big picture. In the past months it has been hard for me to do big picture thinking when there are so many other (immediate) demands on my time

• I also feel that naturally there should be a struggle/argument between PM and tech lead where the product roadmap is the result of a fruitful discussion and compromises

• being responsible for the execution of all nitty-gritty details I can't see myself objectively arguing about the trade-offs of different features

• I'm probably not the best at challenging my own solutions in the same way as an "external" person would do

But then again I'm also thinking about the fact that startups are never operating in an ideal situation and that I should maybe just show more motivation in rising up to this challenge.

If you have experienced a similar situation, I'm eager to hear your advice. Do you think it's possible (and advisable) to have both roles handled by the same person?
I'm curious as to how often you go out of your way to criticize the lack of logical and open discussion in feminist circles.

I'm in the journalism industry, and have seen time and time again one-sided mob psychology suffocate anyone even considering to constructively criticize the movement.

If you can't admit just how extremist and tribal the current atmosphere is, I don't think you're going to be able to appreciate the perspective of the person you're replying to.
Frat houses[1] are known for having a lot of parties. This partying will crescendo around the university's graduation date. DEFCON is being compared to one of these peak parties.

Black Hat is a bit more subdued. It costs a lot more to attend Black Hat. Black Hat parties are more like casual social gatherings. I believe that in Europe, country clubs are more likely to be called gentlemen's clubs. In either case, it's usually the richer people attending.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_fraternity_and_...
I use to think this way myself - I'd like to explain how my thinking has changed (sans pitchforks) to the best of my ability.

My understanding is that "feminism" doesn't imply more rights for females, but rather highlights where they believe inequalities lie. Same reason people have adopted the phrase "Intersectional Feminist" so as to draw attention to where equality (even among women) is lacking - to those of color or less economic privilege.

Just like saying "Black Lives Matter" doesn't imply that African Americans lives matter more than others, you are using specific words to focus the application of a general idea (lives matter, equality is good, etc.) to a where you may think it is lacking.
It's not built on meltdown. It's not about violating permissions, it's about treating the contents of a page table as valid even if the page is not present or (in the case of EPT, which is worse) also treating the physical address on the guest as a physical address on the host.

However, unlike meltdown it cannot access data that is not already in the L1 cache.
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Care to expand on why? It seems they are working correctly as they make over 500,000 vehicles a year whilst Proterra are claiming 375 since inception. [1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Auto#Sales
>BYD Auto sold a total of 506,189 passenger cars in China in 2013

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proterra,_Inc.
>the company has sold more than 375 buses
I agree with you def. looks like marketing for park.io
HQ Trivia downloads spiral downward as it hits Apple TV
It starts off simple.
Then someone wants to customize things.
Then someone else wants to customize things a bit differently, on and on.
That field you give everyone by default and made mandatory? Turns on 1 huge customer doesn't actually want it. That needs to be configurable, too.
Pretty soon everything almost is configurable and it's 1000x more complex...
I was curious about the highest walkups in NYC. Apparently, there are a few seventh-floor ones still around, and the rent for about a 15% discount relative to the third floor. Since 1929, elevators have been mandatory for buildings >6 floors.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903639404576516...
The first version of some astonishingly successful businesses were quite simple. Including and certainly not limited to: AirBnB, Groupon, Facebook, Zenefits, ZenPayroll (now Gusto), YouTube, Twitter etc were quite simple.

Ironically, their success over the last 10-15 years, has made starting a software businesses relatively simple. My bet is that in the next 10-15 years the value is increasingly going to come from harder to start businesses.
Why we built another crypto app despite several others in the market already?
I feel like people are taking the hybrid approach of having a dedicated microcontroller on the same die as their CPU, like the PRU on TI's ARM chips: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/PRU-ICSS

This by no means replaces an FPGA, but if you just want your pins to flip and code to run at a predictable interval, this gets you that. (As for reading pins, they have another peripheral on the die that will just timestamp when an event occurs. This is much more consistent than dealing with your OS's interrupt handler, but again, it's no FPGA.)
Just watch the classic film “Roman Holiday” and you will associate scooters with gorgeous people.
https://millcomputing.com ?
Common Language Runtime!
How can I consume the Twitter stream API using that?
Meadow (YC W15) Is Hiring Senior Engineers in SF
It must exist because we still haven't reconciled quantum mechanics with relativity. That matters if we ever want to understand what happens inside black holes, or the moment of the big bang itself. As of right now, our physics literally breaks, it stops working. If a black hole was a computer program, we'd get a critical systems fault the moment it began running.
AWS – L1 Terminal Fault Speculative Execution Issue
My favorite "Ah-ha!" illustration of privilege actually came from someone culturally and politically towards the Right:

Imagine you're gay, and you're hanging out with a new friend of your gender, who does not share your orientation. At what point is it appropriate for you to disclose your orientation to your friend? Too early, what if you're seen as coming onto them? Too late, what if you're seen as not trusting them? &c.

Not having to ask yourself that question is a form of "hetero privilege". It is a burden that, as a cis-het person, you will never face.
> People who feel they've got something to lose don't generally seek to burn down the whole system.

This is such an important sentence. People high in the chain need to understand, that exploiting and hoarding every dollar from those at the bottom will only lead to one thing. And as history shows, first victims of rising of the masses are the people highest in the chain of an old system.
I'm not a European, but every year I hear about folks being shot, run down, and arrested for a crass joke. Why would anyone take the risk of Europe?
True, but like every thing else there are economies of scale to having a few specialists managing the abstraction that everyone else can depend on.
Probably just changes the pedal mapping.
I don't see diesel being phased out for agriculture or construction equipment anytime soon, usually too remote from the grid and they can't afford charging downtime. However, I welcome replacing what we can with electric. It's a slightly specious argument that simply because we can't replace all use of diesel there isn't a point to replace some usage. City buses are a major use, and are located in a much worse spot for pollution, at least as it affects people's health. How is less fossil fuels being used a bad thing, there is no possible way we can replace all uses in one fell stroke.
Thanks for the link. The author is an editor of the Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics, which also contains very high quality writing and a book I recommend to anyone interested in mathematics and engineering.

I agree that this is a flawed article: the ads are irritating, the grammar is flawed, and calling boolean algebra an algorithm is inaccurate.

But looking past the flaws, I wouldn't describe it as vapid. I see it as more of a very high level survey of some truly important algorithms targeted at general population and students. This kind of writing can be an incredibly important source of inspiration for young people.
There is nothing particularly convoluted in either meltdown or this new attack. This optimization could have happened on any other architecture.

The legacy parts have either been disabled in 64-bit mode, or they are implemented in microcode. Other architectures are not simple either, ARM64 has incredibly complicated paging for example.
How Insulin Helped Create Ant Societies
"Pattern and practice of behavior," your Honor.
I don't know where you got the impression I was arguing that CloudFormation is better than Terraform from but I assure you that wasn't the arguement I was making. In fact I also made the same points you made in reply to another commenter in this discussion.

I know Terraform is the best tool we currently have (I even explicitly stated that I'm my previous post) but that doesnt mean there isnt still a massive room for improvement. Starting with the depreciation of HCL, in my personal opinion.
> The suit alleges that IAC and Match Group manipulated financial data in order to create 'a fake lowball valuation' (to quote the plaintiffs’ press release), then stripped Rad, Mateen, Badeen and others of their stock options

Wait, they didn't exercise their options into the sale? Did the founders hire a team of squirrels as their bankers? This is M&A 101 when switching to majority control.

EDIT: Ah, Tinder was launched as an internal project at Match. Taking options in a majority-owned entity is...odd. There is no proper way to value a majority-owned entity without discounting for the majority ownership. Issuing options for the parent would have been a better offer and better ask.
Sublime Text comes to mind.

It's probably not the simplest one, and the ecosystem around it is quite extensive, but at its core, the principle is very simple.
Waymo has the best tech for sure and even they are far off from full autonomy. Full autonomy in Phoenix, sure, they're the closest, but not full global autonomy.

The other issue being those cars prolly cost somewhere in the $500,000 range at the moment. Not exactly a consumer product.

Check comma.ai if you're looking for cheap, accessible, self-driving capabilities (still a long ways off, but you can get hands free today on 15+ cars for under 1k in plenty of common situations).
Do you mean geographical your geographical area?

I'm not sure either way if they will take off, but a huge use case near me seems to be people who are in an area far away from where they live that would be conducive to a scooter/moped/etc. For example, people coming into down from the 'burbs, tourists, etc.
Usually when people do make studies and take a hard look at people a common attribute comes out: both men and women are human. The idea that female-in-power is less likely to abuse assumes that there is some form of biological sex or gender role difference that is so dominant that human behavior diverge. The Amygdala is not bigger or smaller depending on sex, which mostly leaves culture and gender roles to explain why we don't often hear about abuse in female-in-power relationships.
That is a brutal response from Match and IAC. Their statement also mentions that two separate banks were part of the valuation. I'd be curious what their proof is. A couple fun phrases from the statement:

> his merry band of plaintiffs

> but sour grapes alone do not a lawsuit make
Never concede any territory on the linguistic battlefield.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/cisco-patches-router-os-agains...
That's on the super low end of the price spectrum.
A peer-to-peer organisation's design publicly available
Oh, and to make this more than a simple rant/whine, some constructive suggestions that could possibly solve the problem:

- Normal video with playback controls?

- Add a clearly distinguishable "this is where it starts" screen.

- Is there maybe a way to control playback of a gif via JS/HTML? Add a "restart" button.

- Add a timeline into the .gif that shows where I am (similar to usual video player).
Checklist for Writing Highly Reusable Components in React and Vue
I share your pain. Need an extension that would add playback controls to gifs, or at least "play from beginning"
Sadly, any senator/congressperson putting a bill like this would not hold their position after the very next election cycle. The lobbyists are too strong. However, I would vote for someone that ran on this platform.
The product design agency 'Nothing Interactive' from Switzerland adopted the peer-to-peer (P2Porg) organisational design (inspired by Sociocracy) more than a year ago. They now made it publicly available, so others can learn.
City buses are not the only large vehicles that typically are manufactured after purchase. Firetrucks, concrete trucks, and many limousines are the same. If you're going to build it by hand on demand anyway, why not add value by building exactly what the customer wants? So long as designs stay within an engineering envelope, which envelope can be pretty broad when we're talking about something as simple as an electric bus, it doesn't add much cost to accommodate the customer's particular needs. If those needs extend to having a particular number of body panels in stock for future repairs, that's fine. Nothing mechanical in the drivetrain would be custom (although I suppose the batteries might be, apparently they have a guarantee).
It appears your opinion on the matter is wrong.
Indeed, few days ago big portion of medicine system was down. I only needed to get basic meds, and was fixed next day, but imagine someone with heavy depression/suicidal or psychotic/schizofrenic not getting meds.

It's a double down, because people with these conditions get meds to prevent damaging episodes but you can also not go "cold turkey" with certain medicines, which can result in extreme (short term) side effects/episodes, within as close as 24 - 48 hours.
I for one, prefer not to be harassed by popups all day. What you propose is EU check for cookies, EU check for privacy statement, GPS check accelerometer check, keyboard check?

Ok, now we are getting a little ridiculous. If keyboard usage can be checked, that would be a warning for nearly every website. This reminds me of the app usage warnings on Android, which request access for every phone function. Or in California, the "Known to the state of California to cause cancer" notices that are in literally every restaurant.

When everything has a warning sign on it, nothing does. Opt-in just trains the user to ignore all of the prompts. A better solution in my opinion, would be to improve browser security and don't allow these APIs to be exploited beyond narrow use cases. In the interim, extensions could be used to reduce the effectiveness of all manner of data collecting.

There also is something to be said about user habits. For example, some websites are very intrusive with ads. My solution? I don't visit that site and find the information elsewhere. This is where extensions or browser features would be great. What if we created a privacy index on each site? Then the user could choose whether a visit to that site is necessary.