skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unintuitive part is the choice of operator `<<` instead of `>>`. in your example `f << g` means do `g` first (i.e. 2 + 4 = 6) then do `f` on the result (i.e. 6 * 3 = 18). I would have expected `f >> g` for this behavior.
One thing that has changed is that the Evening News on the big three American broadcast networks used to be pretty much a straight reading of the news by an anchorman. Now you have news "analysis" programs, especially on the cable networks. These tend to be strongly opinionated right or left, and include a lot of guest speakers who are not journalists, and who are also politically opinionated.

Because of the viewership these shows attract, traditional media outlets are now also less straight news and more opinion.

I generally feel it's pretty clear when I'm listening to an opinion show versus a news show, but I'm not sure how many others do.
> this works for big objects, but not for small objects

Very true; I went into some more detail about my typical use case above. Using MP for lots of small objects that you've already extracted from raw data/IO/whatever is a game of diminishing returns. It's in situations like that where traditional shared-memory starts looking more and more attractive. When I get to that point, while multiprocessing and some other packages provide a few nice abstractions over shmem, I start looking for other platforms than Python.

> It's not quite that simple; sharing n pages can take very little time or a bit more time

Definitely; I was simplifying in order to compare the overhead of fork with the overhead of pickling/shipping/unpickling data. Sharing large pieces of data with even very slow fork()ing is, in my experience, so much faster than the [de]serialize approach that it is effectively constant in comparison, but I didn't mean to discount the complexities of what make certain forking situations faster/slower than others.
USA area: 9.834 million km²
Africa area: 30.37 million km²
Stratolaunch announces new launch vehicles and reusable space plane
Venezuela ties its currency to a state-run cryptocoin
The interesting part to me: this has been open since June 20.

Anyone know why it just captured the collective attention of HN readers?
The occupants of the trolley had intentionally run over many people in the past. Ender had reason to believe that they intended to do so again.

We only have the word of the dormant hive queen that they didn't intend to again.

(Spoiler Alert)
In the Shadow series, it's revealed that the hive queen lied to Ender about some things. The formic males struck a deal with Bean's children to keep Ender from finding out.

Even if he had known, his actions were still just.
While I certainly understand what you're saying: I disagree. Non-technical users can still learn how to use chat. It's very intuitive and it's a small jump from WhatsApp and SMS to chat.

That aside, there's something Linus once said that I love:

“If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.”
Agreed that would be the largest factor, besides DoF. Although, I've been surprised by iPhone 8 or greater noise levels. In the article's video, you wouldn't notice the noise at that resolution if taken with a modern iPhone. Also, the shadows are mainly in the background, so you could retouch it easily with additional manual blurring. For Huawei, I have no idea, but I assume it's not much worse.
So, does current AI research have access to a similar artificial environment playground simulating:

* body biochemistry

* genetics / artificial evolution

* perceptual systems

* motivations / drives

* the interplay of different brain lobes

* environmental processes like weather

Can't think of one.. Has AL+AI research disappeared? The success with OpenAI DOTA is all great, but is DOTA (with its clearly defined pragmatic goal states) really more interesting for AI research than an autonomous artificial agent?

Afaik this game saw one of the few applications of multi-layer perceptrons / neural networks in commercial games.
I think you're just rephrasing what I'm trying to say in several different ways.

We can probably agree that the amount of charge passing through is different from the change to the total charge.

And in my opinion something like a 'periodic system' can't just treat both the same. It's especially bad to derive identities by taking the time derivative (or anti-derivative) on one side and switching between current and charge on the other.
> On the other hand, this is a 10 year contract worth about 1% of Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's bottom line in one year. So there's a bit of mountain/molehill going on here.

a) Have you ever known an IT project, let alone a government IT project, to end up smaller than or equal to the projected size/cost? Or anything near it?

b) If you ever have the “pleasure” of dealing with government IT, you'll see how much easier it is to use a combination of things that has already been “certified” by another part of government. Winning a contract worth 1% of your company's bottom line is huge itself, but as a foot in the door, it's massive.
HP Unix workstations were awful. The HPUX was awful. I had to port and cross compile a product on them and it was one of those kinds of experiences I hope I never go through again. At the time, I was young and considered it "paying my dues" and now I see just how backwards and shitty my thinking was and how ridiculous the whole UNIX landscape was back then.

The only thing HPUX had going for it was that SNMP monitoring product that everyone used. Otherwise...junk.
Should we pay for inspiration?
I think it's a symptom of times changing. People don't want to code in vi/nano anymore. A general purpose language launching today is expected to have a good support in an IDE. At least autocompletion, support for building and debugging, refactoring if possible. Also people prefer to have a one well working IDE plugin than several half-baked ones that don't offer much more than syntax highlighting. That's why IDE plugins are becoming important part of language development, either through IDE specific plugins like IntelliJ ones or more generic solutions such as language servers.
I agree. There's nothing intrinsic to Open Source that means "for the greater good". And Open Source is beneficial even when done by greedy corporate bastards. There's even an argument that by crowdsourcing pull requests for free, an Open Source company is actively being greedy and capitalist.

However, the kind of mindset that enjoys being a greedy capitalist bastard finds it very very hard to accept the Open Source philosophy - it's all fear-based, "do unto others before they do unto you" and so "if they can rip my code off, they will", because that's what they'd do. I've experienced way too many hard conversations about open-sourcing code with this type of person.

So there tends to be a correlation between Open Source software and a co-operative mindset that would find this type of coercive marketing bullshit to be evil and reject it. This correlation becomes an expectation.
Every self-declared "professional" I've met spent most of their time unproductively fiddling with their equipment.

While a select few can push the envelope with technology alone, a bit of talent seems to easily compensate for almost any technological limitations. The "latest and greatest" is the easy route to mediocracy.

That's been true for all creative disciplines: from photography to writing to animation. There might even be a mechanism, where inferior (or at least different) tools may be a restriction that nurtures creativity, or at least guarantees results that are easily distinguished from the rest of the market.
Who are they a victim of? Let us blame him openly as a warning to other young people.
Isn't this just a matter of, "Recognize when you're using config for something dynamic and refactor because config is no longer the best tool for that job"? And you can continue using yaml (or whatever config format you're using) wherever config remains the right tool for the job.
From personal experience, years ago : learning to control your breathing is the key. Your fear of the symptoms can turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy. When you've deeply internalised the assurance that you can defeat the symptoms any time you like by regulated breathing, you might well find like I did that they just stop happening quite naturally. It takes time and practice. Sometimes now when I find myself in stressful situations, I notice my breathing has switched over to this pattern without any deliberate intervention from me. Must be the practice.

There are many techniques out there (such as the 7-11 pattern, etc). I'd recommend practicing with any wristwatch or clock that has a ticking second hand. Breathe through the nose and not the mouth. In for five, out slowly for ten, repeat until comfortable. If you're not immediately able to do that, try holding your breath until you can begin. It's a great trick and general mental clarity hack to have in reserve.
>Why don't we have a proof of custody (chain of ownership)

In the USA and most developed countries, we already do have a "proof of a chain of ownership". And, we've had it for hundreds of years. For example, the title deeds and transfer of title documents saved at the county courthouse.

The issue is whether the so-called "proof" is : authentic or forged, and/or conflicting with other prior claims. (E.g, is the title transfer document faked? Are the signatures from the real owners? Was the previous person who transferred the title the actual rightful owner?)

Ultimately, "proof" of ownership is a social consensus that sorts out the claims and converges on agreement of who owns what. (I made a previous comment about this.[1])

You might notice that "proof" is recursive: if we "prove" that the "proof" was valid, how do we know that proof is valid? Well, things like "title insurance" and/or a court case with a judge/jury to render a final judgement is the process to break that infinite cycle of "proof of proofs".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14553867
> How would anyone believe this is representative of the camera quality?

By being a typical consumer, without photography expertise. Also, they claim to use "AI" to post process the photos.
I downloaded Ubuntu about a week ago, the download started while showing a donation page. The change is older than 24 hours ago.
There’s quite a lot of extra organisational and support work that they will have to do to support another 11,000 people. That’s going to be roughly 450 more groups of 25 people to sort out, four times as many people to still interact with to some extent, and a whole lot more traffic.

When they say “we’ve decided to use our error as a forcing function to find a way to make Startup School work for all founders who applied”, that really is a fair way of describing it. Making this work is possible, but it will be quite a lot more work for them—work they had not reckoned on.
Even MySQL community download has a small link at the bottom "No thanks, just start my download.", but no registration is possible despite two very huge buttons that just scream to sign up or sign in to an Oracle account.
I suppose I also didn't provide an awful lot of explanation to my point, but I figured I could just explain when asked. I didn't expect the difference between current and a change in charge to be this controversial.
> I had studied English because I wanted to be a writer. I never had an expectation of becoming rich. I didn’t care about money.

Found his problem.
Who has authority to do that?
I'm not a lawyer, an accountant, or in any way a tax expert, but I'm pretty sure in the U.S. your family member would have to pay a gift tax for "fair market value" of the property. But they only have to pay this tax if they gifted more then 5.43 million in their lifetime. However, if the house is worth more then $14k they had to report it. If they did that it's not fraud, if they didn't it is, I think. Here's more info: https://www.elderlawanswers.com/giving-your-home-to-your-chi...
"What this hidden history teaches is that many Greeks and Romans survived without eating animal flesh or using animal products."

So, I get it, this post has a particular point of view to advance. But this is a terrible argument. The average Greco-Roman was impoverished and had a life expectancy of around 35-40. The average Greco-Roman happily ate meat when given a chance. Today, at least in many parts of the world, meat is pretty cheap, so the idea of meat being a decedent luxury doesn't follow the way it would have 2500 years ago. Further, in the Greco-Roman world, animals and animal products were used for lots of things - leather for sandals, honey from bees, oxen and mules to produce the grain that made up the basis of the vegetarian diet. So even the people who had a vegetarian diet (by constraint, not by choice) very much benefited from animals in ways that many activist groups today would object to.
This is an unfortunate side effect of being a popular comedian, people will literally laugh at any word you say. The podcast escapes me, and I've read numerous articles, where big comedians often consider just quitting because they can't tell if they are actually funny anymore. Everyone just ends up laughing at everything that comes out of their mouth. It sounds like a good problem to have, but you can see how it would weigh on someone.
No, there aren't. But physicians aren't psychiatrists and often the first treatment people get to treat panic attacks comes from their physician, and is something like a beta-blocker. By and large these are ineffective.

That said, the placebo effect can be strong.
My fellow employed engineers have been moving towards Docker for over a year; slow progress because there's so many problems that Docker introduces whose solutions are convoluted at best.

That's on top of the security auditing nightmare if you ever decide to use stuff from Docker Hub.
The bigots were here first? Are you not aware of native Americans or African slaves? I can’t even.
To be fair, it is possible to download the drivers without the experience bullshit.
> Any resources on how to implement that?

big_data = read_huge_binary_or_string()

def process_range(rng):
start, end = rng
do_something(big_data[start:end])

pool = multiprocesing.Pool(2)
pool.map(process_range, [
(0, 10000),
(10001, len(big_data),
])
Stephen Hawking-What Makes a Good Theory and Quest for a Theory of Everything
You'll find that's incredibly hard to make people use your side project even for free, let alone for money. Start small and consider it a win to have > 1 recurrent users who find your side project useful. Then you can think about monetizing it. But really, capturing user attention on today's Internet is a formidable challenge. Having a few recurrent users is an incredible achievement even if you don't make any money.
It’s been a long time coming but this is great. Thanks to everyone on the Core Team, and especially Evan, for their hard work.

Can’t wait for what comes next, especially, hopefully, some interesting things in Elm-Explorations.
With everything else constant (f-number, sensor size, magnification, etc), increasing the aperture diameter will increase the circle of confusion and therefore decrease the depth of field.
I share your sentiments. everyone is in takes out the juice from the whole thing.
React-Proto: A React Application Prototyping Tool
Those are rookie numbers, kid.
Hacker News Later: Digest No. 3
Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17802237
While I did not check out this games forum, there is a massive difference between allowing differentiated views, and toxic people.

Hackernews is pretty good at this, very seldom I see toxic people here, yet people argue all the time when they dont agree.

This actually makes me curios, what draws you to this heavily moderated forum here?
It's basically an attempt to sole-source a contract while pretending to be an open competition.

Having said that, AWS may realistically be the only provider that can meet their needs.
I thought Apple/Android block and ban apps whcih re-direct to other payment methods ?

What are the rules on this ?
Security things in Linux v4.18
Linear programming often comes up in a mathematical context where the word "programming" is odd and can be appropriately defined (as for example in topology/analysis "balls").

Dynamic programming generally comes up in an algorithm design context where "programming" already has a dominant meaning.

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This is a lot like a topological ball-like concept was being used in sports tactics where you have to tell soccer/basketball players to stay within a ball of the opposing forward man...
How to make a React Native app: Front end developer’s toolkit
The server is not properly configured.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS
ReasonML Standard Library
> Similarly, our conception of our own social group (the "us") has grown dramatically, to the point that we today may identify ourselves as parts of multiple, independent social groups. Unlike not long ago, these groups need not be local, they can span countries or continents.

> Because technological development leads to globalization of the species, our social groups start covering the whole planet.

I think you overestimate the effects of technology and globalization. I too used to believe this, but I have found it to be an illusion created by the intersection of modern media and the Internet. If you get out of your neighborhood, your city, your state, your country, and really engage with people, you'll find that most of them are more different from you than you can imagine. People have wildly different values, interests, and beliefs about even the most basic things. It is a wonder that we function as societies at all, and a testament to the resilience and inherent flexibility of the social structures we've constructed -- at least in the 50% of the planet where stable, large-scale societies exist.

> If this development continues, is it not inevitable that we will at some point get de facto global entity which governs us i.e. world government? It would be the natural next step.

No, mainly due to the inevitable competition for resources and status that would splinter any such centralized authority. Groups of humans will not agree to give an outsize share of their resources to perceived competition, even if it is a fair exchange. Look at the present urban/rural divide, racial and religious divides, and hatred between many nations. And this may be the best it has ever been! There has never been a time in history when strategic competitors could agree to put aside their differences for mutual advantage, except for brief moments when facing a greater threat. One could argue that climate change and resource depletion are indeed greater threats, but I would contend that such alliances suffer from fatigue and eventual defection if the "war" lasts too long. (Which it will! These issues are not going away.)

> We can not, as species, decentralize our decision making to independent self-interested groups i.e. nations much longer. Our consumption of resources is neither sustainable nor responsible. What wisdom is it to leave a barren earth for our children to inherit?

You're right, we can not -- but we will, unless technology allows a small group to put a boot on the face of humanity's abundant diversity of culture and thought. Either option is terrible; we dive back into the pit of global resource conflict, or we become enslaved. The only thing that can break us out of this awful set of choices is a benevolent "strong" AI, and I personally have doubts that this can be achieved in time to save us from the next, potentially final, global war.

If I were a global power, I would be secretly putting my resources into surviving this coming war. (There are no "winners" in the next global war, only survivors.) Unfortunately, if nations are doing this -- and they surely are -- it only adds to the probability of conflict.
I suspect that bamboo clothing is the way to go. Bamboo grows anywhere and requires very little input and no pesticides. I don't know what the carbon footprint of turning it into thread is, though. I suspect still smaller than polyester. Plus, bamboo clothes are super soft.
I think the basic premise of the hostile takeover strategy is totally fair, but contracting with Mossad guys a la Black Cube to stalk the personal lives should be disclosed to the board. CEOs should expect the board to not retain firms that investigate their personal lives *to that extent. If he was secretly a heroin addict maybe that's a different situation.

That said, they didn't need ex-spies to put together the stock chart timeline superimposed with Bush's instagram party pics. That's just savage and clever.
Related discussion of Microsoft's official blog post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17807637
Or get the smallest instance from scaleway, which is so far the smallest one with a dedicated hardware core (not thread) on reasonably modern chips at 2 EUR ~ 2.5$/month, unmetered 100Mbit, 1GB ram and some 25GB fast ssd. If you know any cheaper ones, let me know. They even have 3$/month bare-metal ones with slightly higher specs, but using a Marvell ARM chip and only supporting exotic NBD storage.

Heck, if you'd be fine with an EU server, contact me, I'd sponsor it, including a short subdomain.
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Security Token 2.0 Protocols: Debt Tokens
So it's the compiler that's native, not the output. Or?
In that case the aperture diameter will decrease. f-number does not directly affect depth of field, except through the aperture diameter.
The ongoing "Russia is up to something" narrative is an unpleasant death by a thousand cuts.

China is doing 'interesting' expansionary work encroaching on territory in the South China Sea. America has no doubt spawned a generation of enemies in the Middle East from the last 15 odd years of warmongering.

The Russians have no demonstrated ability to do anything dangerous politically, or any particular motive not shared by the ~20% of the world population living in China. To even influence the conversations in American politics they will have to wait in line behind a maelstrom of corporate interests that have the political scene quite neatly locked down.

It is heartbreaking to see the usually vibrant US political scene get so lost in the bushes on foreign policy and threat assessment.
Google 100% more. But the question was trust Huawei.
Putting disenfranchised poor people on a list to keep track of them that is controllable by whoever has the most electricity/money doesn't sound like a form of empowerment.
It doesn't, but this is the US we're talking about. Thinge get shady here.

Trump is the President and theoretically can call the shots at the Pentagon if he wants to. Bezos is the CEO of Amazon, which, despite having the most popular service, is a company that Trump doesn't like.

Oracle has spent probably billions at this point over the decades lobbying Washington. Safra is working very hard to pull strings to keep this contract in the good ol' boy network, considering the hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each and every major branch of government spends on Oracle stuff every year.