skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who was with HP since before the Compaq merger, and having drifted to a spin off, I do miss the old company. The “HP Way” was given importance at least in many of the groups I worked in. The rules of the garage [1], open door policy, skip level meetings, etc., were known even to new employees.

The culture fostered by the managers of those times (later displaced and kicked out steadily after the Compaq merger and the disastrous EDS acquisition) was what kept people around while the CEOs were busy burning the company down. That culture is still intact in some small pockets.

Top management since the times of Carly, Mark (a one trick person who couldn’t do anything other than cut costs by selling and cutting everything), Leo and then Meg were mostly clueless on running such a large company that had the capability to create integrated solutions — HP had PCs, laptops, printers, printing solutions, PDAs, phones (briefly), tablets (briefly), software, services, security tools, networking devices, storage devices, servers with PA-RISC/Itanium running HP-UX to servers with x86 running Windows/Linux)...I’m sure I’m missing many more product areas of HP since Carly’s time and later.

I still dream that HP could do better as one company with many products in different areas. But management styles that worship Wall Street and look only at their bonuses can’t handle that.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_the_garage
So if the maintainers haven't done something, we should assume it's upstream's fault for not making it convenient enough for them, or not prompting them enough? For every distro that has packaged their code?

There are real downsides to the maintainer system - it creates a lot of extra, uninteresting work, and frequently no-one's that interested in doing it, especially for smaller packages. That's why there's so much interest in other models.

To give another example, if you install jupyter-notebook through apt on Ubuntu 18.04 today, you get a version with a security issue (CVE-2018-8768) that upstream released a fix for months ago. Package maintainers are not making anyone safer there.
Researchers Build Room-Temp Quantum Transistor Using a Single Atom
I'm not even sure it is dyslexia, just that it can sometimes manifest itself similarly.

It's like some kind of naive idealism as a child but at a very low level, then you are presented these two systems for the same language one which you pick up naturally through mimicry and the other learned consciously is supposed to represent it, with some semi-consistent rules and then a million seemingly arbitrary exceptions that you are supposed to ignore and learn.

I'm not saying you or I are particularly special in that ability (i'm sure many people notice these things), but the problem is if you notice these things in the wrong order, more specifically before you have the tools to be accepting of it: now that i'm older I can understanding the origin of these things (their evolution) and even being able to appreciate their subtleties as linguistic flourish rather than merely irritating inconsistency. The same goes for all the other crazy "systems" that have been invented, anywhere that a system has some kind of evolution and social interplay it's riddled with strange things that you would never design into it, if you are an extreme idealist this will drive you mad, but understanding it as an inevitable effect of the context of these systems makes it much more palatable - from a kind of "chaos theory" perspective.

As an aside, I have heard that German is phonetically very logical compared to English.
The first commit says "Vectorization of string.Equals". It now uses SpanHelpers.SequenceEqual. How is that vectorized when it's just an unrolled loop from what I see? Does vectorization not mean using SIMD instructions? It also means improving data dependencies?

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/48cb3fa29a63219a9669a...
Hi - we're evaluating WASM to move our native apps @( http://write.pub ) over to WASM/Browser.

Our first aim is to implement a few trivial apps without framworks completely in WASM, benchmark and move on to building the real deal.

We're currently building https://reactjs.org/docs/thinking-in-react.html in C/WASM (no Framework). Demo: http://www.write.pub/wasm-demo/hello.html
If you're able to type really fast while programming what you're doing should probably be automated.
I think I am as productive, maybe even more, than I was 20 years ago.

That's interesting. Only "maybe"?

I am so much more productive than I was 15 years ago. Is it possible you're looking back at your much younger self through rose-tinted bifocals? I am at least an order of magnitude more productive than I was 15 years ago. Nowadays, things get DONE and done right, and then I have time for a cup of tea and a chapter of Josuttis (this second edition templates book is a monster).
They've added the concept of immutable views into managed or unmanaged data, aka Spans. This allows huge reduction in allocations in the framework: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt814808.aspx
Awesome! thanks for the link!
The DroneHunter knocks killer drones out of the sky
If by "westerner" you mean U.S. American or Mexican, you might be right.

However, here down in South America, we can't handle spicy at all (our food is considered bland by people from spicy countries). I almost died eating Mexican food that was rated a 3 on the 1 to 10 scale.
" The goal is portable app bundles that the user can install from arbitrary sources on a whim without putting their OS at risk of malware or their data at risk of exfiltration."

This is not now nor will this ever be a thing. If you can run software on the host there will always be a way to compromise the host. It is not even 100% safe to run software in a vm because exploits have been found to break out.

Maintaining security on your phone requires the app store owner to invest time in proactively screening manually or automatically for malware or reactively removing it when found. It requires users to avoid stuff that looks like scammy bullshit or software from unofficial sources.

Both of these layers leak and when they do automated protections usually do as well because malware authors can easily test against existing protections, learn from one another, and distribute what works.
Very helpful, I'm going to pick up on these immediately. Thanks again.
I loved this! I don't think there is an English word that succinctly describes this. Thanks for sharing
Any clue on how this thing will compare to a 1080 TI?
However this turns out it's going to provide an interesting and multifaceted case study for economists in the future. As far as I'm aware pegging currencies tends not to work well unless there's consensus among countries (see bretton woods system). Further, pegging to an "oil-linked" currency sounds dubious at best. Even ignoring the CC aspect of this; I'm deeply curious to see what falls out.
It was strange how the article kept talking about the downsides, and the downsides were just anecdotes, and nothing else. Did I miss something in the article, or was I just supposed to know the downsides before I read this? Risks like "budtenders providing medical advice" have zero to do with near-constant cannabis use.
Coal is what is actually being built.
You're in luck! https://hackaday.com/2018/08/18/custom-split-flap-display-is...
Going to the airline's site and looking up the flight status has often resulted in a better update on delays, gate changes, and etc. for me than even the airport's status displays.
The complete list of to-date about:mozilla passages: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/book/

I've always loved this easter egg.
The article states:

>"The company, valued at $62 billion, has racked up billions of dollars in losses since it was founded in 2009 and needs to persuade investors that it can eventually create a sustainably profitable business. The self-driving efforts, which have been losing $100 million to $200 million a quarter, do little to help that case."

Can anyone say or speculate what percentage or Uber's losses are a result of the ATG efforts? Would they be profitable without it now?
Keep in mind that it's not just pure learning from zero, with these crazy emergent behaviors coming out. There is a fair amount of "coaching" involved. The OpenAI team explained this last year when they revealed the SF mid 1v1 version of their Dota bot.

People were astounded that the SF mid was creep blocking at an extremely high level, since wave positioning/management is a very complex behavior/process that doesn't pay off directly right away. The OpenAI team said that they basically taught the SF specifically how to creep block, and they've done this with other behaviors as well, like denying allied creeps, as well as a lot of the meta-level strategic play like warding/vision and item builds/usage.
Alternative firmware for ESP8266 based devices
"Quasi-Solid-State Single-Atom Transistors" (2018)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.201801...
I cannot help but think the Federal government is fully at fault for this one. So much time and effort spent to misinform, lie, and skew the truth on the consequences of cannabis (including extraordinarily disproportionate legal consequences) that the actual consequences in comparison seem much more benign and subtle. Its sad that South Park had to properly describe the true negative effects of cannabis before any reputable organization would touch it.

If there is a true concern for "public safety" then the only choice is to remove it as a schedule I, educate the populace on the true consequences, regulate as any other consumable substance, and provide assistance and help for those looking to quit.
There's a company in the US that will make you one/rent you one, you can even control it via API. They sound really cool too.. I think I need to expense one for my office!

https://www.oatfoundry.com/split-flap/
Doesn't this present huge challenges wrt whitewashing?
Here are some data points:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2018/08/20/new-le...
In terms of real time raytracing the RTX will blow the GTXs out of the water...

For anything else? Remains to be seen.
Why can't they be drunk all the time like normal people?

Or constantly drink coffee, or smoke tobacco, or chew tobacco.
>There is a tremendous exposure to legal risk both for the contracting company and the company that hires the contracting company if they employ workers who do not have the right to work in the US.

That's why you layer it so the people taking the risk are little more than hourly employees themselves.

Big corp hire cleaning corp to clean. Cleaning corp hires local cleaner to clean. Local cleaner hires legal worker with plenty of contacts who aren't legal, gives them the cash to get the job done with what ever 'contractors' they want. While local cleaner could technically be found guilty, they'll always through the local legal employee under the bus and rarely ever get prosecuted. At worst they'll be shut down and then they'll just open up under another name. Cleaning corp is effectively immune and can always find a new local cleaner if the previous one is shut down. Big corp might not ever know what is going on, they are just paying someone who handles things for cheaper than directly employing the cleaners (at least cheaper on certain budget reports that they needed to make look better).
New evidence is the way the study is suddenly being discredited, it is not an answer to why it is happening.
We once had a gold standard in the US. Then a fractional gold standard, followed by an attempt at a partial silver standard ending with the assassination of JFK. Now we are veritable slaves living with a monetarist's wet dream of inflation destroying the wealth of the citizens in favor of the plutocrats.
This is barely even a release announcement, it's literally just the product page. It doesn't explain any about what is new here.
They still have it at the Gare de Lyon in Paris
A Short Note on the Y Combinator
From a presentation standpoint, I am impressed by and appreciate the effort in making the project process transparent and accessible, even to those without an AI background (in contrast to recent AI literature which tends to obfuscate the secret sauce).
What is the lifespan of a sports stadium?
It is difficult but not impossible to overdose on caffeine and die. I'm not sure if this is the toxicity that the previous poster meant, but it could be. It appears that 30 cups of coffee is about the threshold where you get to serious danger, but that sounds insane... I've got terrible nausea after four or five cups of light roast (which has more caffeine).

Caffeine pills & powder are far more dangerous. It is very easy to overdose on them, and death is not out of the question. It still isn't common.

With marijuana, it is virtually impossible to have an overdose that kills you (It's very difficult to find sources on CBD/THC overdose):

> An overdose on marijuana is dissimilar to overdoses on other drugs because marijuana consumption, in and of itself, is not life-threatening. But using too much of the drug can have hazardous results, which may increase the risk of death.

> For instance, someone who consumed a lot of marijuana may be unaware of their environment, which can lead to accidents or falls. Furthermore, marijuana intoxication has been linked, in some studies, with psychosis,3 a condition in which the individual is disconnected with reality, typically resulting in hallucinations, delusions, or extreme paranoia. A person who is having a psychotic episode may put him or herself in dangerous situations due to confusion or detachment. [0]

Synthetic MJ (K2) is far more dangerous, though.

[0]: https://www.projectknow.com/research/marijuana-overdose/
It was the government forcing banks to lend to people who would normally not qualify for mortgage loans that caused the crisis in the first place. The people who the banks accurately predicted couldn't pay and were normally denied loans were instead actually given loans, subsequently couldn't pay, aaaand everything collapsed.

I think that the securitization and sell off of these mortgage backed securities were the banks trying to pass the hot potato off onto somebody else. They knew it would blow up, only the financially illiterate, and busybody do-gooders in government with a regulatory gun to the banks heads didn't see it coming with predictable results.
That is too bad. My wind plan in Maryland is less than 10 cents per kw hr.
You didn't really list any problems either
vscode at least is there on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code
The prices are obscene. The '70 tier has usually been my tier of choice, but they're sliding that up from the $400 range to the $600 range.

I actually just scored a 1080 in the realm of $400, presumably because crypto demand dived, and they had a lot of stock coming into the new generation announcement. I'm glad I got it, because it's going to be a while before I touch cards at these price points. Presumably when they filter down to a 2060 or something it'll be affordable?
2080 Ti FE	RTX 2080 Ti	GTX 1080 Ti
Price	$1,199	$999	$699
GPU Architecture	Turing	Turing	Pascal
Boost Clock	1635 MHz	1545 MHz	1582 MHz
Frame Buffer	11 GB GDDR6	11 GB GDDR6	11 GB GDDR5X
Memory Speed	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	11 Gbps
Memory Interface	352-bit	352-bit	352-bit
CUDA Cores	4352	4352	3584
TDP	260W	250W	250W
Giga Rays	10	10	?

2080 FE	RTX 2080	GTX 1080
Price	$799	$699	$549
GPU Architecture	Turing	Turing	Pascal
Boost Clock	1800 MHz	1710 MHz	1733 MHz
Frame Buffer	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5X
Memory Speed	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	10 Gbps
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
CUDA Cores	2944	2944	2560
TDP	225W	215W	180W
Giga Rays	8	8	?

2070 FE	RTX 2070	GTX 1070 Ti	GTX 1070
Price	$599	$499	$449	$399
GPU Architecture	Turing	Turing	Pascal	Pascal
Boost Clock	1710 MHz	1620 MHz	1607 MHz	1683 MHz
Frame Buffer	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5	8 GB GDDR5
Memory Speed	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	8 Gbps	8 Gbps
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
CUDA Cores	2304	2304	2432	1920
TDP	175W	185W	180W	150W
Giga Rays	6	6	?	?
Customer service for a solar panel company. When somebody wants to receive a quote or more information or schedule an appointment for an estimate to sketch out the details of putting a solar panel system on their house, they get patched through to me.

I love this job a lot more than my old sales jobs which involved needless travel, quotas, pressures, and lots of layoffs!
POTUS made that illegal for US citizens
The protocol explicitly has mechanisms for protected and non-protected.

If the owners don't want something public, it's trivial to lock it down--they might as well freak out when somebody uses the wrong door to enter the front of their shop.
> at the expense of outputting joyfully easy to follow code.

I disagree.

How is "These are the requirements, oh but some of these are not really required." easy to follow?

Swift does a great job of making it easy to make sense of code at the point of use, without having to keep referring back to the definitions of things.

A protocol is a set of requirements. When I see a type adopting a protocol, I know that it must fulfill those requirements. Done. I don't need to check if any of the requirements were optional and I don't need to check if the conforming type implements those optional requirements.

If you need optional requirements (an oxymoron), then just break it into ProtocolA and ProtocolB, using protocol inheritance if needed. That's what the Standard Library does (e.g. with `Collection` and `MutableCollection` etc.) and it works great.

Also, at runtime, I just need to see if `type is ProtocolA` or `type is ProtocolB`. How would you check for the implementation of optional methods within a single protocol, without basically reinventing Objective-C?

Finally, good riddance to header files! May they forever remain entombed along with the semicolons. There are other ways to see the overview of a type. Xcode's Symbol Navigator for one, or the Interface Assistant Editor, or you can put in about the same effort as writing a header file to write good documentation.
The new business model of the big tobacco and a ground breaking solution to poverty and unemployment, the handicapped junkie citizen willing to throw away liberty for pot or smokes. I smell a new Nobel in economics.
I'm reasonably certain that union construction workers make more than I do
As a European living in the states. Trains and buses are not a substitute for a car, not even in Europe.
> It's funny because 'stability and predictability' alone would yield them the kind of business climate and interest rates they would need to attract investment and they'd be much richer as a result.

Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia proves that your point is not right.
> To answer the second part of your response, the correct way to do this yourself would be to memcpy the double and then inspect the result directly. Any compiler worth its salt will end up generating the assembly code you want (namely, no call to memcpy, just a couple of arithmetic shifts and masks).

What does a compiler "worth its salt" do with the memcpy at "-O0"?
Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX GPUs, 2070 Starts at $499
I did make up the term. Times change and new words are needed to describe new practices. But it isn't the first time I've used it. I've done so 2 or 3 times on HN.

Paywalls are against the spirit of HN. They always get switched out with non-paywall sources if possible.

The 'web' button unfortunately does not help in this case. The only source is bloomberg.
Or I could just do what 99% of devs do, not give a crap and try StackOverflow/blogs to find an answer... That was my whole point, higher friction => much fewer contributions.
We moved the comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17802237, which has a bit more background.
I wonder how this affects people who meditate regularly for few hours every day. They mostly sit cross legged or in lotus pose, but they do sit for a significant amount of time.
Maybe airtable.com?

Not sure if you are ok with a hosted solution
Interestingly enough, it's debatable how useful this info is, sort of like how it's debatable knowing every single dependency for your project :)
If your displays are openable and have the right connector you could just use them. However, as someone else pointed out whiteboards work in a lot more situations.
This is exciting for the Ewasm team (Ethereum WebAssembly). We're hoping this new single-pass compilation in Liftoff won't be vulnerable to JIT bombs, which are wasm modules that take a lot longer to compile than they do to execute. JIT bombs would be DoS attack vectors on Ethereum clients using JIT wasm engines, and we found some v8 JIT bombs through fuzz testing some months ago.

I gave a talk about it back in June. Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n75Mo09HmyruV5S7q0cH... video: https://youtu.be/2eISBAbT3GM?t=1h22m3s
Js-sequence-diagrams
Info viewed directly in the Apple Wallet screen is delayed, for sure. That applies to all apps - the tickets/"cards" don't seem to refresh that often. But what you see inside the app should generally be up to date, although I guess not all apps are equal.

The US airline's apps tend to be very good, sending you real time notifications of gate changes and flight delays. On Delta, the app even took me directly to a rebooking function when it notified me of a flight delay during a layover in ATL. Very good UX.
I think when it comes to marijuana there is a real difference between using it every day and being truly addicted.

I think the difference comes down to if you use it as medicine and thus medicate each and every day or if you use it as a drug and just want to get high and party every day.

In any way - there is no use of punishing addicts, and even less use in preventing people from medicating - legalize!
Learn to Program Self-Driving Cars (and Help Duckies Commute) with Duckietown
Point taken. How would you argue against such an argument? Do others acting poorly, breaking the law, acting immoral obviate the target of attention from discussion? It seems no argument can take place then, because every argument is then shut down with "Someone else does X, therefore what Y does is inconsequential". I am open to a superior ways to argue when there is a question to disparity between comparables.

Appreciate any feedback you provide!
Using DNN for generating higher resolution images[1] in realtime at fraction of the performance cost is quite brilliant. Is there any info it if this is nvidia proprietary technology or general feature of DirectX Raytracing that will eventually be available also from AMD and Intel?

[1] Though showing CT/medical imaging as one of it's applications is a big no-no
Can someone point me towards the deep learning tech they reference for improving ray tracing performance?
Gladbeck: The deadly hostage drama where the media crossed a line
Stop worrying about how much energy Bitcoin uses
>ideally used cross-platform, not just on blessed end-devices.

Tough luck with that though since EME only specifies how to communicate with DRM, and the actual DRM consists of multiple 100% proprietary black boxes that only work on blessed end devices and browsers. And since different browsers have different black boxes, you need to play ball with Apple, Google, Microsoft, and every other unique DRM vendor.

EME is a disgrace that should have never come to pass. Premium media should rather be forced to peddle their own clients entirely separate from browsers if they insist on non-cross-platform black box bullshit.

I'm not against content protection in itself, but EME was 100% marketed on false pretenses because it's just as much of a proprietary plugin system than what came before, with just as terrible cross-platform story too. If instead we had content protection schemes implemented in eg. WebAssembly, then we could actually talk about a cross-platform system that also doesn't immediately close out smaller browser vendors from the market.
jrnl: https://github.com/maebert/jrnl
Prepare Node.js apps production ready for Kubernetes