skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a worthy effort. It really tires you after a while with languages that constantly break the language, the libraries, the ecosystem and the tooling in the ao called "minor versions". Ain't nobody got time to deal with that stuff. Then they are surprised that people still run "ancient" versions of compilers or libraries. Yes scala it's about you.
That is a really good question. An outside investment on this scale seems kind of like a vote of no-confidence for the internal efforts.
I know this is 5 days late and a dollar short, but I'd absolutely watch lessons following this process.
I considered moving to Mexico and did substantial research into that possibility before deciding against. I'm off the street. My firsthand testimony on the topic is absolutely not a solicitation for advice for me personally.

Saying poor Americans with portable income should just leave the country doesn't strike me as a real solution, for a long list of reasons.
>Isn't a lot of the job of software engineering to quickly and concisely communicate complicated concepts?

No, I write code daily but I might have to distill down technical concepts once a week or so (usually not even that much) and even then if I happen to be the only one who can distill it down.

If your devs are often explaining basic stuff like 'what is a relational database?', you need to hire someone specifically to do that. It's not a good use of time especially when they can go google/wikipedia those concepts and figure it out themselves.
Also mentioned in the GitHub Changelog website [1]

[1] https://blog.github.com/changelog/2018-08-24-profile-activit...
Yes, they both are.
> Of course FP doesn't really handle interactive programs well at all, because it is timeless/stateless

Interesting claim. How is it that people write, for instance, parsers in functional languages if they have no state? What is it that the State monad does?
mail 'em back to the mfg. get a check in the mail. "Butt's for Bucks"
Toyota will reportedly invest $500M in Uber for self-driving car research
The invisible code is a very important part of a self-driving car. If you wanted to enter this market you'd need a company with the ability to devote billions to multi-year R&D activities and hire great engineers & scientists with the right skills. Uber ATC has those things, and while they may be significantly behind Waymo it's hard to see a more likely candidate for second place. (Maybe Cruise/GM?)

Other aspects of a self-driving car business are more easily observed, including the significant regulatory and public perception risks. Here's one scenario: Waymo creates a technically excellent self-driving car, but it kills a handful of people in particularly gruesome way that causes the public to lose trust in a fully autonomous vehicle. As a result, "partially autonomous" vehicles are perceived as "just as good", and a company that has a massive ride-hailing business through which to monetize the technology has an advantage over another that has only a theoretical technology advantage.

Where would you put the odds of a regulatory or PR catastrophe causing an existential threat to Waymo?
Fortnite fury over how Google handled its security hole
Brent and WTI Spot Prices [Dataset]
Cyberpunk 2077 Gameplay Reveal – 48-minute walkthrough
Thanks for sharing, this last video about GBC is just mesmerising!
>Nuclear power is also not cheap, and the main cost is associated with risk (disposing of waste, etc), I am sorry but if their is one area where you cant be cheap its nuclear power.

I see nuclear power as being just as susceptible to off-shoring the dirty parts as any other industry. Russia could just dump all the waste in a mine in Siberia and even if they did a terrible job it would be a century before anyone noticed. Until the waste containment becomes a problem this would be a win-win because the buyer can say they're buying environmentally friendly nuclear energy and the Russians can make money hand over fist.
How to Create a Simple NPC in Unity
The ship wont be in deep water though but in the shoreline !

You are safe in either direction, either 15 km inland of 15+ km offshore.
I appreciate you and the other poster pointing out that long term benadryl use isn't good. I really wasn't aware of that.

I appreciate the marijuana suggestion too, but I find that I'm unable to sleep after partaking. I get intermittent erratic heartbeats that make it impossible
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Are you sure? This is what MS says about it:

Data Collection. The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services. You may opt-out of many of these scenarios, but not all, as described in the product documentation.

https://code.visualstudio.com/license
I dont think anyone is misunderstanding how two or more players can make it wrt developing new tech. I think the concern is about what that process looks like when the tech being developed can kill people if it goes wrong.
For the first time in 50 years, a NASA astronaut candidate has resigned
I have been doing mysql database type things for 15 years solid. Once during a job interview at digg.com, someone [ok ok doxx removed] asked: "what is a having statement in sql?". I jumped in explained how you can filter aggregated sets performed by a 'group by' and rambled on and on. He stopped me and said, "You can use a having statement without a group by, are you sure you know how they work." I have never seen this or done this in practice, so I just stood there stumped. He rolled his eyes and ended the interview. 4 hours of an amazing interview going well: ruined. At least this guy went on to ruin digg.com. "Let's just re-write everything over again better" kinda guy.
Yes, I've been prompted by Reddit to download the app many, many times (to the point that it's basically brainwashing), yet I've closed it every single time. It's annoying actually.

The web app is great, I don't know why they want me to fill up my phone's hard drive with another useless app.
Most cars being released come with a variety of sensors, a number that feels to be ever increasing. Data doesn't need to come from AI.
Monads and Python
Worth pointing out: good manufacturers like Micron/Crucial publish endurance figures for their drives. Endurance is the number of bytes you can write before the drive is officially worn out. Endurance numbers can vary by two orders of magnitude.

So if you have a write-intensive app like a Jenkins server building a C++ project, you might want to pony up for a server-class drive with better endurance.
That’s just the default. You can always put

(setf *print-case* :downcase)

in your .sbclrc (or whatever the equivalent is for your implementation) and never have to see all-caps again.

And yeah, the default upcasing is ugly and inelegant, but they were trying to support the caps-only machines & code still in use at the time. It’s one of the key things I’d change in a modern Lisp standard.

But you have to admit: when the default print-case is one of the worst things in a language, that language is doing pretty well.
Jobs and Ellison being friends doesn't preclude Jobs NOPEing away from a position of extreme vulnerability wrt Ellison. Quite the opposite, I'd imagine.
Imagine a junior developer asking your senior developer a question about how a relational database does something.

There you go, now it's a work-sample for your senior developer.
Without the Federal Arbitration Act, states could clearly ban forced arbitration agreements within the normal course of contract law and labor law. Federal statutory preemptions of this should not be construed more narrowly than the federal law says.

The Supreme Court has construed this preemption pretty broadly, but always in the context of contract enforcement or validity.

I can indeed imagine that the Supreme Court would write disapprovingly about the tactic of using a financial incentive to discourage forced arbitration clauses, but that's very different from whether they'd go beyond that to actually strike down the tax credit, since the arbitration clauses would remain fully valid and enforceable either way.

As a matter of realpolitik, it matters that the tax hike in my idea is explicitly severable from the offsetting tax cut: most of the judges and ideologically related advocates who like forced arbitration also dislike higher corporate taxes. The only thing they could credibly do against this law would result in higher corporate taxes. A separately severable tax hike conducted in accordance with state law is clearly constitutional.
I once got a rejection from a company six months after I interviewed on site. I'm not sure if that's better or worse than hearing nothing at all
It does very much depend on the "SSD" in question, e.g. SD Card and eMMC don't tolerate nearly as many writes as a SATA SSD or NVMe, and for sure the former dislike having power cut. I've had a few name brand SD Cards go permanently read only as a result: neat I can still read my data, but also not neat that I can't erase them before sending them back under warranty.
Solid content marketing - I just spent the last 30 minutes taking the coding test because of this post.
>No sane govt will allow a foreign power to literally be able to shutdown one of their cities on a whim.

Hasn't Gasprom done this [cut supply] in the past but continues to have customers in Europe? If it's cheap enough they will probably have customers.
There was a linux patchset a long time ago (called kevent) which was pretty much a kqueue clone. There was a lot of discussion but finally those who opposed won. IIRC, the idea of fitting all what kqueue does (a lot) in a single syscall with a single interface was one of the things they didn't like.
I wouldn't say that is the only difference. The Austrian stipend seems flat, while our tax break seems like it wouldn't affect people who don't earn enough to be taxed.

I'm also a bit curious about the difference in the psychological effect of being given money each month, rather than not having money taken away once a year.
There is also a git repo that many folks use to block various categories. [1]

[1] - https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets

It's mostly IP addresses and networks. It contains a more complete list of proxies, mentioned on the parent link on wikipedia.
Do you have other information about the self driving fatality? While its a tall order, the self driving cars should perform better than humans when it comes to reaction times in incidents like this.
The advice to consider to disable swap applies equally on (micro)SD and USB sticks. Just make sure you have enough RAM. Also, consider mounting directories such as /var/log as tmpfs (if you don't need the logs after reboot) or use a remote syslog.
My biggest problem with the new logo is that they're effectively un-branding the Library of Congress by trying to brand it as LIBRARY.

That's like trying to rebrand the White House as HOUSE.
There's a saying that you should always work to minimize the number of axes along which you're innovating at the same time. Every innovation carries the risk that you might be wrong and taking too many gambles guarantees that one will blow up in your face. This is complicated by the fact that sometimes you can't make progress by changing just one thing, there are some local maximums you can only get out of by changing multiple things at once.

The Mill has some sets of innovations that seem to come together, for instance the Spiller, Belt, and memory speculation model seem hard to seperate. But I'm pretty sure you could detach that from having a virtually addressed cache and their protection model. And then there's stuff like the super weird organization structure they have. I feel like they're setting themselves up for failure by trying to make changes in so many ways all at once.
> There is a reason why an investor that holds a security until it is worthless is called a "bag holder". It makes no sense to "invest" in any currency when you can own productive assets instead.

The price of gold is nonzero for a good amount of years (2k+), so a lot of people buy/hold it and in that sense your theory is incorrect.

Also productivity is not everything, sometimes "keeping what you have" is much more important.

Finally, there are situations where you cannot

- just emigrate to a country that respects your property rights (see migrant crisis)

- buy US or other stocks

> Do some research on ROI for gold against the stock market for the past 80 years. You will find that it has a pitiful return when compared to owning stocks

Of course, do your research on X and you will find a time when X > stocks > Y. Hell, do it on bitcoin, it outperforms stocks during the last 10 years :-P

> At the end of the day if you have no productive use for the asset, why hold it?

Cheap/anonymous remittance and storing value without trusting a 3rd party are valuable, even if it's not productive.

If you're really convinced about what you say, short gold and bitcoin. You'll get rich if you're correct and wiser if you're not.
By a couple of months, easily a narrow enough margin to be accounted for by insider foreknowledge.
Keys to Becoming an Effective Product Manager
....and now I just had a horrifying thought.

This is another symptom of Idiocracy becoming a documentary?
interesting tidbit from the comments there; this design firm, Pentagram, also did the recent redesign for EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/effs-new-logo-member-s...

Looks very similar, and while I strongly dislike the Library of Congress redesign, it almost works for EFF.
You are still leaving out storm surges etc. The ocean is a terrible place for infrastructure, its why we only do it if we really have no other option (offshore oil rigs etc).
Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Eminent Demise
This seems to be why Epic asked for Google to extend the period to 90 days, which didn't seem too unreasonable. Ignoring this request only to reply just before disclosing the vulnerability seems rather careless.
Great concept! Minor feedback/nit: bottom of landing page is (c) 2016 in Aug 2018.
With hummingbirds it's a steady dribble every few seconds.
Nestle says slavery reporting requirements could cost customers
from an abstraction point of view, there is no penalty for wrapping this in some better-for-humans layers above it.. dispatch - with a bit of discipline - is almost costless.

<opinion> for decades the *nix culture suffered from "suffer or you arent smart" syndrome, in my opinion. There is nothing wrong with easy, or nice to look at, its just that it is rare to find quality in both the implementation layer (like this) and the interface choices, and then to keep it simple-stupid going forward. I like the simplicity of this, btw</opinion>
> unsolved problem of disposing the nuclear waste

I'm not sure what you mean by unsolved disposal. Nuclear waste from power plants is stored in secure facilities. It takes up a manageable amount of space, is low maintanance and isn't dangerous. Furthermore, future reactors will be able to reuse it; the current reactors only use up a small fraction of the fuel. So actually, you wouldn't even want to throw it away.

Also, nuclear fuel is advantageous logistically. A typical plant needs 1 train-load of fuel a year. That's a relatively small freight, you can ship that from anywhere around the world. On the other hand, for carbon-fuel powerplants, you need a train load of fuel per day.

I'd love to see the planet off non-renewable-fuels, but a big hurdle is that, unless we figure out storage, the renewable energy sources have to be supplemented with something for when it's night and there's no wind. I don't see a better option for that something than nuclear. Of course, an alternative would be for society to switch to an energy usage scheme that doesn't presume that power is uninterruptable. However, that would require profound changes to our everyday lives, and I don't think we're quite mature enough as a species to go through with something like that at scale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_progra... lines up better with my experience: postpone writing the abstraction until you are actually implementing the third thing. With just two cases, there will generally be a bunch of incidental commonalities that are better left out of the abstraction, and it's frequently not obvious which ones they are.
Bloaty McBloatface: A size profiler for binaries
Place I work got hit HARD by this. Year and half before I started at this company they setup 4 SSD's in a RAID 5 config.

One day while working on things I noticed a message on our server indicating a PDR1001 Error (Predictive Failure). So we ordered a new one. The new SSD arrived. We popped in the new one and the RAID started to rebuild.... Lo and behold during that operation Drive 1 threw the same error and the whole thing came crashing down...

We ended up losing the whole array. I had NO idea we had SSD's in the system. I had no idea that no one was monitoring their life.... The moment I saw we had this issue I saw the writing on the wall. 4 SSD's in a raid 5 all installed at the same time... means all SSDs end up with the same approximate critical end of life.

All I could do was shake my head at the whole thing... Pretty sure those in the charge who setup the array still don't understand why this situation was 100% avoidable...
HN, TechMeme, Google News, Drudge (like it or not, he helps set the agenda for the national conversation), NYT/WP, Real Clear Politics, MacRumors, scan Reddit for interesting topics, though hasn't been sticky for me as late, BBC News.

HN is probably the best at finding new and interesting stuff- though the main feed has been low volume lately- the 'new' feed is actually fertile ground if you scan through quickly.
That's why I think basic income should be financed by progressive property tax.

It should quickly progress so that you have to sell your eleventh house to pay annual tax for tenth and to count your properties you should include the ones you own directly but also the ones owned by entities you own.

This tax would be even good if the money gathered was used for any purpose other than basic income. It incentivises ownership by dropping property prices and discourages rent seeking hoarding of finite and basic resource.
Absolutely. This is no consolation to non-native (and most native) students, however.
At 12:40 I was blown away by the people on the streets
I always felt the old logo looked too postal. Like it was a franked stamp.

The new one is also not great. But I guess the directive was to maximize "library" and minimize associations with "congress."
Offtopic: a grid of square icons, fancy animations and double touch is a lot easier than copying Waymo

You just described Palm, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile...all of which Apple was copying. The iPhone was evolutionary, but not revolutionary by any means.

Back on topic: It's more about letting the first mover spend the money on figuring out the business plan. The second mover can then jump in with a more efficient business model based on the lessons learned from the first mover.
The fundamental problem with three-dimensional logic is heat. Getting the heat out of the chips so they don't melt is already one of the largest performance bottlenecks in the entire industry; putting more layers on top where they block heat flow out of the interior layers makes the cooling problem intractable.

3D memory is a lot more tractable because it doesn't have to do nearly as much as a CPU. You don't typically worry about cooling your RAM.

There is a type of logic efficient enough that we can think seriously about monolithic 3D integration; superconducting Josephson junctions at liquid-helium temperatures are really, really efficient. There's some hopes that spintronics may one day give us sufficiently efficient switches at room temperature.

But we've wanted to integrate our chips in 3D for decades - transistor scaling aside, routing latency adds a lot of overhead and the length of the wires you need only gets worse the more transistors you need to connect with them. (It's an n^2.something scaling, IIRC). All else being equal, 3D integration of the exact same number of transistors as a 2D CPU would result in a major performance boost all on its own, by making the routing much more straightforward and direct.

The reason we haven't done it isn't because we haven't thought of it, or haven't tried to do it - it's because we can't.
(Also, manufacturing a 3D chip is really tricky)
It's critics have predicted the end of capitalism for over a hundred years and yet it's never been stronger. Capitalism is not without its flaws but man hasn't invented anything better.
>What's different now is that everything is running out of steam.

At least not yet until 2nm. The TSMC roadmap and its Grand Alliance as Morris Chang likes to call it, has it all till 3nm. That is roughly equivalent or slightly better than Intel's 7nm. We could do 450mm Wafer, when the time comes where it make economics sense. 3nm is likely 2021 / 2022, it is a little hard to tell 5 years down the road what road blocks we have.

I think we are more in agreement than disagreement. I just don't like the article headline and its handpicked statements and content tries to convince whoever is reading it we cant do 2nm. We can and we absolutely will. I would be very much surprised if our 1.3 billion smartphone per year sold and all the money in AI / deep learning as well as GPU can not absorbed the increase in cost. AWS is still expanding at a unbelievable pace, and China and India still has lots of rooms. The bitcoin mining chip has already helped to recoup some of the 16 / 7nm R&D cost ( So bitcoin is not all useless after all as some said ). We have Cars that need lots more transistor for Autonomous Vehicle, I doubt the few thousands dollar increase in BOM would be problem for these car buyers. As long as we can increase the total addressable market, 3nm or even 2nm cost should not be a problem.

>One under-explored area I think we're going to see a lot more of is backfill of older processes.

We already are. 28nm capacity demand has outstripped supply for a while. TSMC is working on further simplifying and lowering cost of 12nm, so it should be ready to replace 28nm by 2020 or later.

In terms of Semiconductor industry, I am much more worry about DRAM cost not coming down.
> Just wait for a day when there is a central banker that simultaneously has half a brain cell and tiniest set of balls.

You do realize that you just implicitly said that you're basically much smarter and more courageous than every central banker in the world. I assume there are more than 10000, so that's not exactly humble.

I'd bet against you but if you're short BTC or gold, we're already betting against each other anyway.
And this is the generation gap. I have <10 apps installed on my iPhone and I rarely install new apps. It's a pain in the ass and generally annoying, especially for something like this that should be a mobile-friendly website at best.

Give me a website though? I'll check it out. I also don't keep random tabs open either. Inbox zero applies to tabs too.
Once a self-driving car has a breakout success, everyone will quickly know what kind of sensor package it has, what kinds of compute hardware, and general features of the machine learning approach and tradeoffs like mapping vs on-the-fly interpretation. Knowing these things will make it much quicker to catch up compared to when everyone is still exploring for a solution.
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i'm new here and learning that HN is more serious than /. or reddit. probably because people here refrain from posting obvious / useless comments like mine. getting the hang of it...
You should be considering not just one study but how independent studies fit together into a grander picture.
C++ was never a superset of C. The same keywords mean different things, character literals are different types, void pointer assignment works differently, etc.