skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Mill Computing approach is to move all this functionality back out of the hardware into the software compilation / loading step.

Why will they succeed where Itanium failed? There's a long, long history where people expect compiler smarts to maximize performance of hardware, and compilers just aren't up to it. It's also very necessary to demonstrate this on larger, more complex code, rather than focusing on things like GEMM kernels.

There's a lot that needs to be justified, and the Mill people just haven't presented the justification.
1 oz gold spot is $1210 per ounce [1]

1 oz American Eagle coin direct from the mint? $1,490 [2]

That's a 23% "transaction fee". You'll get much much lower buying gold (or bitcoin) from somebody else.

[1] http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html

[2] https://catalog.usmint.gov/american-eagle-2018-one-ounce-gol...
Is there a recommended generalized tool (non-vendor specific) that can be reliably used to determine your SSD's health and outlook?

(Unfortunately I have a mix of SSDs in use, even in single personal computer, and all the vendor individual software gets overly complex and bloated...)
Can you solve it? Is beehive Hidato the new Sudoku?
A Catholic Civil War?
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In what's being hailed as "the Xzibit pattern", SV app devs seeking to lower UI latency towards the level of a late-90's IRC client have made a discovery that has the Valley buzzing. As one dev we talked to explained, "we started putting native in your native, bro, and it's awesome! I can type on my phone smooth, it's like the app's running on my 16-core workstation!" Other devs have been overheard in coffee shops explaining software written in C++ as "native all the way down".

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Transfer files from Linux directly to Dropbox/Box/Backblaze etc. without clients
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/f1d0c1d88417f85ec...

This is the revert of the mistakenly committed code. In this repository's readme there is a link to a thread where (presumably the author, I didn't check) says that the public should be able to use the proprietary URLs because a commit was made that contained them (the parent of the above), and thus they are open source. While this may be technically true, and legally sound, I still claim it is ethically ill founded. You don't need to share my ethical framework.

I do not want, for instance, see the extension gallery become encrypted as a result of third party applications breaking the EULA. This is a very distinct possibility, and it could prevent people such as myself who normally compile vscode themselves, and download and install the VSIX packages manually, from doing so.

That being said, a team member has stated that injecting the URL into your own product.json is fine (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1557#issuecomment...). So I could be overreacting here.

But to me the question is purely a moral one, and a question of what kind of president this sets. I don't believe the community should be trying to find legal "gotchas" in order to get around reasonable limitations set in place by a team, else teams will begin to stop using as permissive licenses as they do.
Amazing. Is there a mechanical "program" (similar to a player piano roll) that sequences all of the actions? I didn't see one.
> It's a bit of a crazy world to make the homeless clean up pollution other people make

(Presumably) Refundable deposits don't mandate the homeless do anything. Their desires simply align with the goals of the program.
He also acknowledged that Uber drivers could lose out from the plan, but said over the longer term drivers would benefit

These were the same drivers Uber was planning to replace with self driving cars! The well-being of its driving employees is literally Uber’s lowest priority
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I think you posted this comment to the wrong thread. (Not that it would be any more appropriate of a comment elsewhere.)
Amazing parallel
How Vulnerable Is the Tor Network to BGP Hijacking Attacks?
Yes, it's more or less what I meant. As long as you go to bed and eat at the right time, otherwise forget that clocks exist. And maybe more importantly, forget that your job exists.
If you linked me directly to such a page without any explanation of why I should use your app, or even how I'm supposed to use your app, I would close it immediately. I think most people would probably do the same, and I'm almost positive that your "over 50%" number is vastly overestimating. It also disagrees with your original statement that "all 17000 visitors would have tried it".

That's why splash pages (and writeups, like the original) are important. But as mentioned in my previous comment, those splash pages/writeups also have to be effective advertisements.
When Bezos went ballistic the day before Thanksgiving, did you still fix the bug in time?

But see, here in lies the problem. Its his own fault for stopping his engineers from working on the issue ahead of time. He had no reason to yell at anyone and it makes him look totally unprofessional. That is not someone I would want to work for, and I would never treat my employees that way.
> Recursive descent seems to be the go-to parsing technique for compilers both big and small now ... if you want to make it even simpler and yet more extendable, table-driven precedence climbing would be ideal

I think the fact that everyone just writes recursive descent parers tells us in practice that there isn't sufficient value in using more techniques like table-driven variants and they don't make anything practically simpler.
I want a machine that could do this will all types of Lego. I've got a 25 lb box of Lego pieces in the garage I'd love to get sorted into little plastic bags.
For Windows there is CrystalDiskInfo[1]

[1] https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/

Also relevant: https://ef.gy/statistics:ssd-write-endurance
So is Seattle.

YC is missing out on 2 of the 3 largest US tech hubs.

I'm not sure if that is deliberate or accidental, but it definitely left a bad taste in my mouth.
That ingredient list is missing the "secret ingredient" that your parent post is talking about, so nah.
There is good github repository for all kind cool sites check it out , https://github.com/sdmg15/Best-websites-a-programmer-should-..., i think you will like it
> Any of you have any idea on how to fix this?

Move out of an urban environment. Or consider investing in soundproofing?
I thought the placebo effect was just that: an effect. I didn't realize that it manifested itself into flesh (real people).
The parent of this [1] commit was referenced in a thread linked in this repo's readme. I said this in a different thread, but I'll repeat here: I don't believe the community should be trying to find legal "gotchas" such as this one in order to get around reasonable limitations set in place by a team, else teams will begin to stop using as permissive licenses as they do. This is a matter of ethics for me, as the legal nature of committing to an MIT licensed project is not up for debate. You of course don't need to share the same ethical framework as me.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/f1d0c1d88417f85ec...
Making C Less Dangerous [pdf]
Harder by orders of magnitude: https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/
Maybe also add Google's reluctance to truly punish popular/large websites for dubious SEO tactics. If a lot of them got banned just as easily as smaller sites do for similar things (link buying and networks, thin/duplicate content, etc) the results might be quite different.
without any explanation of why I should use your app,
or even how I'm supposed to use your app, I would
close it immediately.

Seeing you write this on HN, which has no splash screen either, contradicts this statement.
Awesome! Thanks my friend. Just wait until the new UI/UX come late September (strong arm emoji)
Parking Lot Vehicle Detection Using Deep Learning
As a class we are notoriously bad about burying the lede.

I’m not sure where that comes from, but I have to fight it constantly. My key piece of advice on wiki page design, for instance, is that the first question the person has is “am I even in the right place?”. The first or second sentence has to tell someone why they should care about (or not!) the rest of the page.

And I find myself violating that advice at least once a week. It’s hard but then most important things are.
How does one know how a particular model of SSD will behave? If I had the choice, I'd rather the drive enter a read-only state rather than becoming a brick. So when I'm shopping for a new drive, how do I use this a determining factor in choosing the new drive?

Is it a known thing that Vendor X will brick, Vendor Y will read-only, or Vendor X Model XXX will brick while Vendor X Model YYY will read-only? If so, where can one find this level of information on the inner workings of a drive? Most tech reports are solely focused on read/write speeds as that's what the majority of people are concerned.

Inquiring minds want to know...
For anyone who is unaware: you can add ZFS support to macOS by installing OpenZFS [0]. If you have homebrew you can just run: `brew cask install openzfs`.

While I believe it's possible to boot from ZFS, I'd suggest sticking with APFS.

One of the ways I use ZFS is with external HDDs, so I can easily move em between computers running Debian, FreeBSD, or macOS.

[0] https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/Downloads
You're fortunate that it was processed without issue. Banks and governments have vested interest in large money transfers and it could just have easily gone the other way; they could have suspected the money and witheld the transfer and the money until you provided paper documentation of its legitimacy.
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I think there's no "program" here. All the machinery does the same action for every piece, the singulation is with overflow/skipping buckets, and the sorting happens because the openings are constructed progressively bigger such that the longest axle falls of (tips over the edge due to imbalance) in the first bin, the second longest in the second bin, etc.

Still, super impressive and cool!
How is it spyware if users are opting in and installing/registering?
Some information about the early years is gone; people were often too busy to write down what they were doing. But there's enough still around that it's even gone recursive http://kameken.clique.jp/Lectures/Lectures2010/NLP2010/relat...
There are drive shafts at the bottom of the device that drive mechanical linkages.
Sure it's changing things in the real world. And in a positive way.

You are providing funds for companies to exist. Companies that pay some of the people, and provide services for other people. You also get a share of the profits.

Certainly, this can be abused, but at the fundamental level, it's a good thing to have businesses that provide value. I like being able to go buy a nice computer when I want one, or going and getting some fast (or slow) food. I also like googling things. All these things are (often) supported by stocks.
This has been my finding. My wife is one of these super doer employee types, and I see her constantly frustrated by the people above her, and the failing processes that they implement that make her job more and more difficult.
The issue is that, in a smoothly deflating currency, all but the most essential consumption will be postponed indefinitely, as will investment of that currency in anything that expects to return less than the rate of deflation. This is bad for an economy denominated entirely in that currency, as the deduction in economic activity can increase the rate of deflation, which reduces economic activity further, and so on.

Obviously bitcoin is not the primary currency for any economy, so the feedback effect isn't a concern, but the deflationary pressure is (per TFA) reducing actual economic activity denominated in bitcoin.
>Economists are the modern day equivalent of seers reading tea leaves.

So the experts are useless because the data is just too complex to make accurate models, but the data isn't too complex for you to use to make accurate predictions?

Or are you saying that the expert consensus is wrong because it's a product of ideological bias, but your conclusions are correct because for some unknown reason you are free from bias?
that only talks about garbage content in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. maybe cigarette butts have different physical characteristics that causes it to accumulate differently than plastics?

edit: reading the paper further, it looks like they're only surveyed plastics, not any other materials.
I agree, but it's probably no a thing the recruiter can do without going through the boss of the boss and hassle with accounting department. Until a big body of of candidates require it, nothing will happen, and if too many require it, the employer will probably just quit giving home work.

This concept of whiteboard interviews and assignments is quite alien to me. I've got three different software jobs since graduation and not one did any sorts of test they just trusted that I would not apply if I couldn't code. Never heard of any colleagues or former class mates that done any either.
The game area is rendering off screen[0] for me in Firefox Nightly (63.0a1 (2018-08-27)) on macOS. Looks fine in Chrome and Safari.

Fun project. Watch out for TTC lawyers if it gets popular (:

[0] https://i.imgur.com/IdNUZVW.png
as an aside two player puzzle fighter was so addictive!
> to systematically suppress surprising results

"Weeding out" doesn't mean systematically suppressing. It simply means exhibiting caution before putting the paper in a reputable journal. The Internet provides the entire system with an escape valve in scientists' capacities to publish papers on their own websites. If the finding is surprising enough, it shouldn't be problematic attracting some attention, particularly in the social sciences.
Url changed from https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-forgotten-history-of-..., which points to this, which is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16158918.
I personify my animals too. Everything's more robust and fulfilling that way. And I think they appreciate it and respond back.
Sinon.JS – Standalone test fakes, spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript
"Why can't you be here at 8:00am?"

"But I was the only person here at 7:00pm when the server fell over."
Doesn't it only mean that writes will fail?
Interesting to see how Julia developes. Its not at the point where i would be willing to switch to it from R (it's really hard to beat the amount of learning material for all kinds of packages available for R), but who knows where it's at if it keeps up like this.
Open source RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night
Clever way to distribute nuclear weapons capabilities?
Try re-refreshing the site, which country are you in? And are you on mobile or desktop?
Yes basically that is to ANYWHERE. I will be improving the departure and destination fields to include more options (radius, multi-city, multi-country, regions, etc)
It's going to come down to the firmware and controller. That can even be different when the vendor and model are the same.
Ask HN: What would be like in Silicon Valley as a married artist with no kids?
My husband and I are thinking about moving there pending a final job offer.

Is there a artist community there?

What’s it like if you’re an older (40s) couple without kids?
How else would you do a tech interview?
Holy shit. I actually like Uber now. Crazy.
This makes so much more sense

I never understood the hype with removing plastic straws, at least in America. From personal experience the amount of plastic straw waste is not very big. But they do cause significantly more damage to sea-life than other forms of trash.

Asia on the other hand... that's another story. Especially China. Having been there many times, can confirm people tend to care less about recycling & trash.

I have not been to the Phillipines. The government is not stable though. So it makes sense they are on this list too.
You sound like the guy at my office who gives me shit for leaving at 2:30PM. Maybe to him my exasperation sounds like self-righteousness. I never can tell why some people are so interested in my sleep schedule.
Doing that as hard. With older ssds you can find reviews and other information. With new ones, I consider it a crapshoot.
There exists a rather extensive free orchestral library for Korg Kronos.

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=88665

The post says it is spliced from Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra samples and Free HQ Orchestra Soundfonts[1], so they must be pretty good. There are individual instruments, choral arrangements and orchestra sections there.

1 - https://sso.mattiaswestlund.net/

2 - http://the-filmmusic-group.deviantart.com/journal/Free-HQ-Or...
VMWare to acquire CloudHealth
The "federated timeline" tab should be what I'm describing -- though to be honest the last time I talked to any of the mastodon folks about this was more than a year ago (the semantics might have changed).
Interesting standpoint. The current issue with very large pipelines, besides the obvious issue of keeping them IO satiated, is the distance in between branchings in code. In other words the degree to which extend you can "flatten" the computation timewise.

Now imagine, thanks to 3D cells, you now magically get double the number of registers. How much efforts do you think you need to spend to double the amount of loops running in parallel?
The first several times I opened HN, I closed it immediately because I wasn't sure how to use it.

It wasn't until many months later, after experience with other sites with similar interfaces, that I actually started using HN because I then understood how and why to use it. The HN interface is intuitive enough and similar enough to other website to understand that you're being shown comments and a reply box when you click on a link.

That's not the case with this [1]. If you linked me directly to a page that looked like this, without any explanation of what these boxes of text are telling me, where they are coming from, or what they are, I would not use it. The button next to them (a grey box with a plus symbol on it) doesn't explain to me at all what it does, and is not something you see enough in other apps to make a good enough guess as to what it does. After reading the blog post, my assumption is that clicking that button is supposed to send me an email, I think? But I would have absolutely no way of knowing that if you just linked me directly to the app.

1: https://hackernewslater.com/images/hacker_news_later_screen_...

edit: if you download the actual app, the first page it shows you actually is a splash screen that gives a brief explanation of what the app does and why. If that same splash screen content had just been shown and linked to at the top of the original writeup, I suspect he would've gotten a lot more installs.
Regulatory Tribalism
Yes, and ORM's are often a painful failure point when they don't work as expected unless you really master their guts. In my opinion it's best to code your ORM queries such that if the ORM is not doing something right, you leave your options open such as using direct SQL, stored procedures, or views. In other words, don't overly rely on ORM's both for the total application stack and individual queries. Have and test a Plan B.

I've built up a series of "SQL helper" functions to do a lot of the SQL syntactic and Prepared Statement grunt-work to avoid ORM's. They are NOT intended to entirely wrap or hide the RDBMS, but rather help with the app's interaction with the RDBMS. Helpers rather than wrappers. If the helpers don't work in a particular case, you can ignore them with minimal code rework. If you depend heavily on an ORM, such is often not the case.
I am using this: https://github.com/slashdotdash/node-ledger-web
First of all, I wouldn’t consider someone who sleeps from 2a.m. To 10a.m. A night owl, everything before noon is stil morning for me :) And why do those articles never mention daylight saving time or the fact that that there is a 3 hour difference between sunrise in winter and summer? I’m pretty sure DNA doesn’t care about fixed time schedules but that it rather synchronizes to natural sun and moon light. I’m convinced that a shifting sleep cicle (compared to a fixed time, but fixed to the sun or moon or some overlap) is the most natural and healthiest one, that’s also how our ancestors took shifts, D.S.P.S. just being a fancy new name, while in reality nature selects a few people being in tune with moon light, another few with sun light and some being in between, or maybe even that changes during the year, so that there are fair overlaps for everyone while watching out for those sabre tooth tigers when others sleep, those tigers don’t attack just at night ;)
I pick my battles. That area doesn't worry me much.
> If you write [here's a link](https://gmc.uy), it shows it as a link :)

> The nice part? it shows it as a link for everybody, not only those who have the extension installed.

Wait, wat? I'm looking at the code[0], and this is the most surprising part of this entire project to me. Slack goes out of its way to say "we don't support Markdown because we think the link support is an exploit." But they just have an alternate, undocumented way to send links anyway?

Is that a bug on Slack's side? I'm trying the syntax format that you're casting to in DMs to myself, and it doesn't seem to work? Are they doing clientside escaping or something?

Don't get me wrong, I think the "people might phish links" excuse is kind of lame when there are multiple ways for them to mitigate that problem, I'm just very curious about how and why this works.

[0]: https://github.com/g3rv4/BetterSlack/commit/24ad3b57da7a9c9c...
That is a hyper parameter to the model. It is not learned.
I especially like this when I'm riding a motorcycle behind them. Nothing like people casually tossing flaming projectiles at you while you're on your way to work.
Wow, great to meet both of you. I've been chasing bootstrapping as well. My approach has been to make programming in raw machine code more ergonomic with some simple text-based tools (that should in principle be easy to write in machine code)

My repo is at https://github.com/akkartik/mu/tree/master/subx#readme
Those are firmware level error corrections? Or like, driver?
With the price fluctuations, maybe that 20k arrives as 19k. Don’t leave it in bitcoin for too long either. Might turn into 15k.
Would it be straightforward to do e.g. Mathjax rendering of equations delimited by dollars-signs? e.g.: $\int_a^b x$ or $$\int_a^b x$$
I never read the first paragraph. Works every time.