skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During a childhood visit to a car factory I noticed how the panels for the small, mass-market, fairly horrid hatchback went together perfectly whilst the panels for the luxury low-volume saloon needed lots of men with actual hammers to bash into shape.

The tooling used to make the hatchback had cost a fortune and was the finest German stuff. The tooling used for the luxury saloon was a lot older and therefore worn. There were no backup dies in the worn tooling so over time the panel fit only got worse with once fine details no longer sharp.

The executives driving their luxury saloons would probably have been horrified if they had known that it was the cheap cars that went together properly in an exact manner with their cars being the ones needing to be bashed to 'look right'. They would also have been horrified to see the same facility used for making panels with everything being 'just being a bit of tin' to the staff rather than their pride and joy.

Having had the reality of luxury exposed as it being hand made, bashed into shape at such a formative age I have always wanted the robot built products, e.g. the mass market car rather than the bashed into shape expensive version.

The deluxe cars of today are still very much 'bashed into shape' in ways that they always have been. The BMW car brand 'Rolls Royce' very much hand-craft cars as they always have, they are not doing it wrong by not re-designing their products to make it so a rival can churn out millions of identical clones.

The original aerospace 'Rolls Royce' was in the same position, making a modest amount of engines and not in 'total war' mode. Their less than precise drawings were fine for what they were doing, they had people to bash stuff into shape, 'luxury auto style', with that making economic sense. The war changed everything though.
While there are some amusing anecdotes in the article, the characterization of Szilard as a failure is baffling.
I Spoke to Akon About His New Cryptocurrency, Akoin
Can you give me a quick rundown on them?
Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown
I'll second that the reputations are entwined at this point. My fear is that the "killer" new features will be implemented as RL source-available addons, to differentiate RL from AWS/Cloud providers.

I totally get why, as long as I can compile the addons and run on a server myself I'll be pretty happy.
Then you GET to code in Tcl !
Mue Corp
Nylas Raises $16M in Series B Funding
what would they contribute back? elasticache is just vanilla redis. aws is selling you compute time and ram.
The issue is not that I want to make prison suck any less. I believe it sucks and that's done by design. What I care about is instilling the skills, attitude and experience that will allow seamless re-introduction back into society. Teaching inmates how to handle money, understand finances and giving them something to buy a car, rent an apartment, a uniform for work and tuition for education isn't going to make their prison stint any less awful, but it will reduce recidivism, increase participation in the legal economy and make these inmates _people_ in the real sense of the term.

The issue is that if you fuck up and go to jail, your life is effectively over.
I don't disagree with this article's premise, but I do disagree with it's overall diagnosis. AI's near perpetual boom/bust cycle stems from a lack of clear expectations on what AI is. AI runs the gamut from "a poorly understood pile of linear algebra" to "this will automate all work and free us from the shackles of labor". This, of course, will fuel hype cycles.

Self driving cars has a clear benefit, when all the hype shit is scraped off. Motor vehicles killed ~33,000 people in the US in 2010, and nearly 38,000 people in 2016. Accessibility without a car in large parts of the United States is extremely difficult. These are real problems that can be solved. Will they arrive with Uber, or Waymo, or whatever startup-of-the-month that promises revolution? Almost certainly not. But like any research, each failure hopefully pushes us forward.
totally, and I recently learned biology has a name for it: hormesis. I use to borrow Taleb's coined antifragile term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis

We all know that we need stress/efforts to stay in shape (the weak bones of astronauts being a nice example). And it's indeed baked in us.

And by rhythm I didn't mean stress free. I meant having clear periods of a certain kind of stress (or the opposite). Basically, stress your system with all the subsystems ready for it, then allow them to rest in an appropriate context.

As a young adult (remains of teen spirit I guess) I prefered to attack everything at once in parallel. But when things get too complex I realized the value of going depth rather than breadth first. It's related, you do one thing fully, then stop entirely, instead of constantly feeding small amount of stress and never large enough amount of rest.
Gray makes me think of an old friend of mine, who wasn't human, but a cat, and though she was almost completely gray from nose to tail (except for a few distinctive white spots on her chest, belly, and rear paws), she was anything but dull. She was a beauty, as any who saw her would attest. Her fur shimmered in the sunlight, often revealing tabby patterns you couldn't normally see. And her large, alert yellow eyes would form a striking contrast with the gray of her face and body. She thought herself a queen, and expected to be treated as such, rewarding only her most loyal subjects with purring and limited petting time. In so doing she made gray a regal color indeed.

I still miss her every day.
Learning to write with the wrong hand
I don't know if they warn you when you get a ticket, but I think it's impossible to go to a conference at Black Hat's scale and not understand what's happening. Black Hat is a trade show (much more so than it used to be) --- the research component is set off from the "expo", but the expo is huge. If you're staying in the conference hotel, I think there's even direct targeted swag delivered to rooms and stuff? (I might be confusing that with RSA).

It's not great to just dump contact info --- that happened to RSA Security a couple years back and it was a story then --- but it's mostly an optics problem, I think.
> It’s easy to forget how quickly we can overextend technology, which is so good at solving some of our problems, into a good way of solving all of our problems. But eventually the self-driving wheel turns and we realize we don’t have as much command to reduce the whole complex world to a set of yes or no answers, let alone predictions, and our grossest capitalistic dreams are thwarted yet again, but not without a cost.

If the argument is that when viewed through the lens of today's technology these are seemingly insurmountable problems, then it is a weak argument for the case that the self driving car will not arrive.

It's easy to forget that what these cars can do today is leaps and bounds ahead of what self-driving technology could do a decade back. When these problems will be solved, it will be through other breakthroughs that we are not aware of today, so this is a premature obituary for self-driving AI.
This article is riddled with errors. Voice of the Dolphins contained 4 short-stories. Article says 8. Seriously?
Yep, most attendees seem to be unaware, but a big part of their sponsor/exhibitor pitch involves selling access to this data. Most booths have a gimmick, such as a giveaway or party invite, which requires scanning your ID badge. That scan transfers all of your personal info, including employer and job title, straight into their CRM. At BlackHat, despite the large price tag, attendees are the product, and vendors are the customers.
As do I. Being mindful that I have this food to eat, and others are out there who do not know what they will eat next, that someone invested their time and energy to make the food available to me, when it is prepared by others that they spent their time preparing it, and that the food itself will become a part of me for anywhere from 24hrs to 7 years depending on where the nutrients end up being used by my body.

That is a lot to be thankful for, and I take a moment to bring that into my consciousness so that I won't take food on my table for granted.
Elixir is fantastic, especially in these use cases because it allows for stateful in-memory representations of an entity with less development burdens than elsewhere.

I find it useful to have a GenServer for complex entities like state machines modeling business processes. I'm fine with the simple entities using the database schema as the state definition. However with the complex entities I still find I run into the classic ORM problem where the database structure doesn't perfectly fit the domain's pure business logic representation.
we have the same bookshelf apparently! have you read any other non-fiction greatest hits tomes, like Power Broker?
Banks are literally the cornerstone of the economy. I'm not aware of any restaurants of convenience stores that are even close to being as critical or 'too big to fail.'
I've seen saying for years and years that we're going to see a resurgence of proprietary software. Free software was one of those ideas that spread so successfully that people temporarily forgot that life could be otherwise, which means they stopped caring about the idea, which in turn led to a complacency that, at first, shifted software licensing to a BSD-style permissive model, and now, is starting to allow 1990s cancer like this commonscause.com license restriction to come back.

There's nothing new in the software ecosystem driving this.

Well, this commonsclause.com crap is such a move toward proprietary software. We're here.

> The Commons Clause is a first step at starting an important discussion
Why should the success or failure of VC-funded startups be a concern for open source?

If Redis Labs folds, that's sad for them and I'm sure I'll end up writing some references for people.

But it's only a concern for open source if Redis stops being maintained as a result. Which I seriously doubt would happen; Salvatore built Redis before Redis Labs existed, and I'm sure would land a job at one of those "established enterprises" if they fold.

Maybe we should be more focused on how the VC-funded startup model is actually reinforcing the power of established players, instead of messing around with licenses?
> "Regulation" is why they don't just collect that garbage for a dollar and then dump it in the river - or in your yard.

Someone who collects your garbage for a dollar and takes it to the dump is not violating a regulation prohibiting them from dumping it in the river or your yard.

The problem is the regulations that prohibit them from doing nothing actually wrong while not fulfilling some arbitrary formality or greasing the right palms.
Thanks! I knew something didn't look right, but apparently hadn't had enough sleep or caffeine to figure it out.
> Haskell is not an achievement to unlock or a trophy to be won because learning is a never-ending process and not a finish line.

Haskell aside, I think this is a fantastic point regardless of whatever it is you're learning. There's always so much more to learn and having this mindset makes it a lot easier to do so.
>Webassembly is the first tech I can think of that all browsers have unanimously agreed on and co-created.

I like wasm, but this unabashed overstatement completely ignores smaller browsers. Best of luck getting elinks to commit to wasm support.
If you've ever pitched a booth at a trade show like Black Hat --- I've never done Black Hat, but I've done RSA --- you know that you can just get the attendee list. It costs money but it's a product that is for sale. The point of the scan is not to collect as much personal information as possible, but rather to get a list of people who are interested in what you're selling; the scan is (very very flimsy first-pass) lead qualification.
The thing is just because a few take the time to do that doesn't mean most developers do and it seems like most don't want to take the time to do so. But, more developers may be interested in using an emulation layer if it's supported and easy for them to use. If developers see their titles being purchased and played more on Linux systems because of this, this gives them more incentive to put more effort into developing native Linux clients and providing proper support.

The way I see it, devs aren't obligated to support any system they don't want to. I really appreciate the ones that take the time to support Linux natively, or even by using an emulation layer because I realize they don't have to. If this makes more developers realize Linux is a viable ecosystem for them to make games for. Even if it's just through an emulation layer to begin with at least they're making some efforts which is more than can be said less than a decade ago.
Watch the launch of ESA’s Aeolus mission to map Earth’s winds with lasers
Christie’s will auction AI-generated art for the first time
AMD Open-Sources “Rocprofiler” ROCm Profiler for GPU Hardware Perf Counters
Would it be possible to embed the JS within the SVG itself?
Thanks. Will check this out.
Or to put it in somewhat more general and less loaded terms, saying grace.

I grew up in a UU household, and although we said a grace at dinner, it was not a prayer, since we did not believe in any gods. There was no referent for "you" in "thank you for this food"; rather, it's a general expression of gratitude and acknowledgment of the work that brought the food to our table, and the lives sacrificed in doing so. (Perhaps "we give thanks for this food" would have made more sense.)

Saying grace is similar in many ways to giving a toast, which might be worth further exploration.
How to Use Parameters with sp_execute_exterenal_script
Ask HN: Why doesn't GitHub allow issues to be deleted?
Is it an ethical decision or a technical one? Surprised they make no mention of it in their docs on managing disruptive comments.

https://help.github.com/articles/managing-disruptive-comments/
I'm in Vancouver and it's pretty terrible. It's the 3rd summer in a row and this one is by far the worst.

+1 Please unflag this post.
The baseline is pretty high to call anything a resurgence.

I guess by revenue dollar most software is already proprietary, it's just billed as a service or whatnot.

Considering all the code inside of companies, it's probably the case that most lines of code are also proprietary.
This is presuming it is actually AI and not a bunch of very smart though not intelligent algorithms. (essentially an expert system for car driving)

This is similar to how chess human players were soundly beaten using very unintelligent algorithms and learning algorithms are only more getting close with a lot of CPU/TPU effort...

Car control, routing, computer vision and 3D vision enough for driving cars well are not in essence AI-complete problems.

(compare to say making music, writing sensible text or learning complex games with hidden stage and deferred reward or exploring unknown situations)
A post where we look at the @params and @parameter1 parameters in sp_execute_external_script
This is Javascript, not real Python. If you're so afraid that this is dangerous, why do you post malicious code? And if you're so clever to post that code, why don't you try similar code to see if it really has access to your files?

import os
os.listdir('/')

The answer, by the way, is no.
D-Wave Computer Can Accurately Simulate Quantum Systems, Research Finds
Banks aren't too big to fail just because they are banks. If they weren't allowed to get so big or merge together, they they wouldn't be too big to fail.
DNA shows girl had one Neanderthal, one Denisovan parent
I think you can play with this first

https://pi-top.com/products/pi-top

my 2 reasons of not using arm based linux laptop:

1. no sublime text aarch64 build (this is my major text editor)

2. trackpad driver is too bad on linux.
Black Hat is entirely corporate white hat security professionals. It has never really attracted or appealed to black hats.
Writing Expectations with Chai: Getting Started
It looks suspiciously like an F-5, doesn't it?
I wonder how well it would do with Emacs and all of the key chording.

(QWERTY does well enough if you move a Control key back where it belongs by doing away with the useless Caps Lock key. Looking at Workman, you'd need to do away with a redundant Backspace (???) key to get the same effect, but all of the other meta keys and punctuation look sane.)
"No peaks of eternal light have been positively identified on the moon, but many peaks have been detected that, via simulations based on imaging and laser and radar topography, appear to be illuminated for greater than 80% of a lunar year." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light
Even if you do not live in a major city it is often miserable to, for instance, use the interstate. Previous major infrastructure attempts to eliminate congestion have happened in, for instance, Los Angeles... try going for a drive there at 5:00 in the afternoon and see how much you enjoy it.
In spite of the MIT license and my project having thousands of GitHub stars, it took several years before any big reputable company started actually using it.

The problem is that if tou want to make an impact in your industry, you need big companies to be using your project; to achieve this, you need to distribut your project under a license that they like.
What about the people that are currently being driven around Arizona by Waymo's cars with no person sitting in the driver's seat? Do those rides not count?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-31/inside-th...
Reminds me a bit of the quote:

"A classic is something everybody wants to have read, but no one wants to read." --Mark Twain
I commute around 25 minutes by bike or public transit. Biking nets me daily exercise, and on the bus I can read the news or a book.

Would I rather avoid the commute and have a job within walking distance if possible? Hell yeah! I'd much rather spend my commuting time at home doing something interesting.
Came back here just to say to myself that I was right and it was worth to wait :)

https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-every-company-th...
I've had errors in my .emacs, and had no issues. I don't see your experience as a reason to not to do it this way.

In case you are interested, I followed the instructions here:
https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#idm140737316012272

I imagine it is a very common practice for NixOS users to run emacs as a systemd service.
I think there could be a couple of reasons:

1. If it's meat, then some animal gave its life and respecting that is part of treating animals with dignity.

2. From a Christian perspective, all good things are given by God. I suspect that many religions have some sort of parallel belief and even an Atheist could respect the science (e.g. animal husbandry) that allowed them to have access to the food.

3. I have heard that there is evidence that expressing gratitude promotes happiness.

4. Taking the idea of "respect" more abstractly, taking the enjoyment of food seriously is a big part of culture and what it means to be human.
I'm not super familiar with Flatpak and Snap, but I don't think so. They each require a runtime and use special fixed directories.

AppImage requires no runtime (or more accurately, it is part of the package) and is almost as portable as a statically linked binary, largely because it is (practically) a statically linked binary.

> I vaguely recall static binaries still depending on kernel versions, or something like that

This has to do with glibc. If you don't use glibc you don't really have to worry about it.
Detecting licenses in code with go and ML
In the US, most commutes by car involve long stretches of crawling, bumper-to-bumper highway traffic where nobody wants to let you change lanes. Frankly, even if you love taking your car for a spin, I feel like you'd have to be pretty eccentric to enjoy that experience.
Well - I can only say that what MongoDB has is not complete. There are still many holes, and we prefer to avoid them.
And of course this doesn't solve the other issue, where developers cannot use AGPL in large enterprises.
That is exactly what I was looking for! Thankyou.
So cloud providers who take a piece of open source software, install it, upgrade it, and generally maintain its operation in order to provide a service to their customers, billing the service, are now the bad guys?

Sounds like somebody needs to re-evaluate their business model to me, and it's not the cloud providers.

This attempt to have the cake and eat it too is dumb.
> Climate change obviously plays a role...

FWIW, here in BC the 3 summers that we had fires coincided with the record beating heat.
o/

I can confirm that it is possible to go to big conferences and be unaware that my contact information is being flung about! For proof of existence, I provide myself.

(And I'm someone who gives out custom email addresses for all signups anyway, so I'm not totally naïve.)
It's a pretty big complete coincidence that all of these additional punishments happen to be a major source of revenue for prisons, states, and private businesses.

The most likely reason we're offering to knock off prison time is because we really stinking need firefighters. It's not a punishment, we're exchanging prison time for a service that we want very much. If there wasn't a forest fire, we wouldn't be offering it.

If punishment was actually the purpose of these programs, we would be a lot more creative and a lot more specific in how we reduced prison sentences: "Okay, here's a bottle of sterilized urine. Drink it, and we'll knock a day off." But in practice, you don't see stuff like that. Forced labor is nearly always phrased by its proponents as something that's good for the prisoner's character, and as an effective way to repay a social debt. Look over the comments on this very article and you'll find more than a few people saying that getting to work outside is a privilege for prisoners and they should be happy just with that as a reward.

The rephrasing of work as a direct punishment (especially when it's tied to money) manages to somehow makes the entire situation feel even worse to me. At least when it was transactional you could talk about it as being something that's good for both parties. I don't think that argument holds up, it's at least a reasonable starting point.

But it seems obvious to me that the state shouldn't have a financial incentive to punish people. If punishment is our goal, the way we're going about it is super corrupt.
Another California city to hand basic laws of economics on a tree and will get into more trouble. Public banks would be another jobs program for unemployable while hard working people footing the bill.
You could use Wine and all those tools to do it for a while already.
Are we having database problems here?
You only start getting billed long after your instance would have been throttled in the Standard model (or if you terminate with a surplus balance)

If your CPUCreditBalance didn't normally get near zero before it's mostly just insurance against grey failures. It also makes the credit model radically easier to reason about.
> We have the science to tackle shitty online behaviour.

Can you point me to some extant services that leverage this science?
> It wasn't an ad.

Of course it was. It shilled a TV show.
There is a similar Python interpreter here: http://www.codeskulptor.org/

It is used by a class taught on Coursera (Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python)

From what I can see:

- PyPy.js benefit: runs faster

- codeskulptor benefit: can use GUI components
I'm not familiar with specific rules for quoting speech. I think different publishing houses and editors have their own conventions on this (which includes things like altering the spelling of the words to infer a specific accent).