skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you underestimate the middle management "everyone is doing it so it must be better" argument. People regularly talk about how inexpensive AWS is vs buying hardware and renting space.

This is probably true for people who only need tiny instances or have massively variable workloads. OTOH, the cloud vendors have been very good at selling people on the idea that its hard to rack machines and buy clean power & network connections. So, even at small companies I've seen AWS bills that could easily pay for another engineer (at middle America prices) despite the fact that a back of the envelope calculation wouldn't lead you to understand where all the compute power is actually going.
All my emails from them have been about money.
Ask HN: What do I see from science point of view when I recognize clever people
I'm a university Professor. I don't rely on physiognomy, but I cannot explain mayself what do teachers do when differ clever/interesting pupils just with a single session, by looking at face expressions.

This habit also happens in street. How would you explain? Is it a kind of pattern recognition for a kind of people?
I wonder why we're still programming primarily in text - we ought to see more visual editors that operate on top of a source file, where changes to file sync immediately to editor, and vice-versa.

Also, that's the sexiest README I've ever seen.
Or if it had hit mar-a-lago
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Ask HN: Why did Microsoft not use HTML as the format for its word documents?
Is there any critical functional difference between doc vs. HTML format for storing documents? Seems like in 2018, if a new Word processor were to be made, it might as well store documents in HTML format so that they can be viewed in browsers?

Of course, this might undermine the word processor itself as now anybody is free to reverse engineer your format.
The very talk of space division multiplexing rather than time division multiplexing just sent a shiver down my spine.

Caches are going to get super thrashed in those situations and just cleaning and reloading for the next application will destroy performance.
Do they actually have any interest in programming? Development can be incredibly stressful and frustrating and without any personal passion or interest for it, I doubt someone could really stick to it for the long-term.

There are many jobs in tech that would have an easier learning curve IMHO (customer support, success, QA, growth hacking, even UI/UX design).
Thanks for that feedback. This is really valuable for me. I will correct everything you described here. I am not an UX designer to, so maybe this is the reason of bad UX and UI.

- I will correct drawing the lines
- I will add a blinking cursor during renaming of the node
- I will correct the query node to have input and output

So definitely there is lot of work to do. Deadline for these 3 - Thursday.

I used to work for Visual Effects industry 7 years ago. I was a TD and python scripts programmer. That's why you have spacebar menu ( similar to this in Maya - "Hotbox" ).

Your feedback is so constructive, THANK YOU Man.
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This has happened to me several times now, and not sure if I’m just experiencing something totally different (don’t think so), but I’ve been able to solve this problem 100% of the time by smashing down on the key in question several times in quick succession. This even worked after the first time when I took it into the Apple store and they wanted $400 to replace it.
Satoshi isn't God and designed for one extremal case for his experiment. The whole spectrum from decentralization to centralization is valuable to someone.
Blood that fills shoes is a metaphor that carries some unintended meaning.
How much does the transaction cost eat into the coupon though?
DGX 1V has $7500 worth of CPU alone to feed the gpus. Throw in 8 TB of nvme ssd for training data and you're looking at something more like 1/5th the cost.

V100 has ~50% higher memory bandwidth than 2080Ti, so you probably wouldn't get 80% of the performance. Also, only two 2080Ti can be connected via nvlink.
9/11 was tragic, but consider the damage caused by the response in the last 15 years [1]. The number of Afghani civilian deaths alone is an order of magnitude more destruction than 9/11 and it seems unlikely that even a plurality of them cared about America or really understood why they were dying.

Assuming that nobody thought to mention this or take a deep breath and think while mobilising the army is only barely plausible to me. It seems much more likely that the absolute damage done was never an issue, and hence it isn't a powerful comparison. There are so many things worse than 9/11, including even _the immediate response to_ 9/11, that the raw damage just isn't important.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80...
A good rule of thumb is that you should not paddle where you cannot swim. So, if you were to suddenly lose your board, you should be able to safely get to shore. Depending on the conditions, you would want to be intermediate to advanced swimmer. Knowledge of the ocean goes a long way too.
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I would say Dvorak is a columnist not a journalist. It a columnist writes a bad column that is totally wrong it can accually be good because it gets people talking about it and to get ad buys.

If a journalist is wrong it can have very bad results. Write a story claiming someone is a murderer when the person is totally innocent for example could ruin lives.
Mass shootings are also psychologically dramatic but policies are still not changed in USA.
That doesn't help push the narrative that it's all Trump's fault. Do you expect them to blame the victim?
Via external sources, the blockchain cannot decide this independently and this breaks the decentralization factor. Typical solutions is to use external oracles with judges and penalty/rewards schemes.

I think it is worth to take a look to MakerDAO and how they handle external oracles to create the DAI stable coin.
Or, the mind is not the brain. No one has ever proven it is.
Consistency in the CAP sense has a precise meaning: all reads see all completed writes. That is, if the database has told some client that their write succeeded, then it is not allowed to still serve other clients the old data.

Inconsistency in the CAP sense may also cause inconsistency in the sense that you mean, for instance if two transactions are simultaneously accepted, but each transaction violates the precondition of the other. In a consistent database one of the transactions will see the result of the other transaction and fail, whereas a DB without consistency may accept both transactions and end up in a semantically incorrect state.
It is if you drop the resolution.
Alternatively, $10,000 will cover about a year’s worth of cheap living expenses in somewhere like Eastern Europe, the Balkans, etc.

A year is pretty decent runway if you have the skills already.
If the mind creates mutual information, then it has to be a limited halting oracle.
> A bank with an empty balance sheet can give a loan. It is simply Dr Loans, Cr Deposits. That's it.

A banks needs capital, an empty balance sheet doesn’t cut it.

> Nobody ever makes cash deposits into a bank.

Yes, they do. If you pay $5 for a capuccino or whatever what do you think they are going to do with your $5 bill at the end of the day?

> The cash is just burned when the bank receives it (if it is worn enough).

So they never receive cash because nobody ever deposits cash. And at the same time they do receive cash and they just burn it. You have convinced me, there is something seriously wrong with the banking system.
> The document instructs U.S. antitrust authorities to “thoroughly investigate whether any online platform has acted in violation of the antitrust laws.” It instructs other government agencies to recommend within a month after it’s signed actions that could potentially “protect competition among online platforms and address online platform bias.”

Back in 2014, Google outspent Goldman Sachs in campaign donations. https://www.rt.com/usa/197104-google-usa-political-campaign/

I wonder how much Google will spend in 2020.
I think this is super healthy and a really sensible approach - but it does seem unorthodox in today's internet.

People see it as a right to say whatever they want to whomever they want, but really should we be able to do that without consequence?

Anyway, I love this idea - it just sucks that I can tend to have what some would consider politically extreme ideas that some employers may or may not find off putting. I inevitably create "alt" accounts on sites like Reddit to voice these views.
They'll just make you say "potato" to start the bike, then keep playing it back as you drive.
Does anybody know
a) the performance (e.g. introduced latency) and processor requirements for the client/input (e.g. is real time canny edge detection good enough and how fast would that run)? and

b) what the latency impact on the NN side to build the images (e.g. how many ms are we talking about?)

Thank a lot!
Physics (randomness + determinism) cannot create mutual information. This has been proven. So, there must be some other causal entity that creates the mutual information we see around us, and this causal entity cannot be reduced to randomness + determinism.
So I took a version of that survey that told you how you were doing as you went along myself to see how it would go. And the main component to predicting correctly was really some form of occam's razor/causal reasoning, where the studies that seemed to make more intuitive sense, or you could imagine a causal mechanism, were the ones more likely to replicate. But this actually doesn't say anything about the quality of the actual study, it just shows that we should probably ask for more statistical rigor/power when the results are unexpected, because we expect the base rate of surprising findings to be lower in general.
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There are several cases where the file system has monotonically increasing integers that, when overflowing, are unrecoverable errors.

Those counters always are 64 bits, and won’t overflow in normal use (for example, the text says: ”if you created 1,000,000 transactions per second, it would take more than 5,000 centuries to exhaust the available transaction identifiers.”), but I can see people making ‘interesting’ disk images, for example ones where writing to a specific directory is impossible or, depending on how the implementation handles it, even panics the OS.
This is an example of what makes it so hard to communicate security advice to laypeople: nerds come out of the woodwork trying to reconstruct and critique the advice from first principles, and going off on all sorts of weird tangents.

So: no, nobody serious trusts Symantec. But not because they're "installing backdoors"; it's because their software is complicated, embedded deep into the guts of the operating system, is historically full of bugs, and doesn't actually solve the problem it purports to solve.
I love this! I wish I had programmers in the family.
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The point is randomness + determinism cannot create mutual information. Yet humans create loads of it. So, by definition, the human mind must be something other than randomness + determinism. One good candidate is a halting oracle.
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That's exactly the OP's point.
No, Leonid Levin's law of information non growth in algorithmic information theory.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17986929
Probably because playing with CSS3 is fun and most people have little aesthetic restraint or awareness of accessibility for visual motion sensitivity.
It’s not a secret - it literary is what peter thiel said Palantir Technologies is - a combination of AI and humans. This combination apparently is really powerful.
> ELF golf

actually turns out to be important in embedded work
Well put. The people complaining about how AI is bad are the same people who push "diversity hires" to try to pretend that the population of software developers is equal parts male/female, and white/black.
Those deaths where not caused by 9/11, they where caused by people’s responces to 9/11. By that token the moon landing or any major event caused deaths by changing people’s behaviors, but saying the moon landing killed people seems more obviously wrong.

By comparison some people had heath issues directly caused by 9/11 and you could reasonably add those deaths to the 9/11 death toll.
You mention your son getting negative social reactions from people -- I don't know how old is is currently, but he may grow out of that in time. I personally started getting much more positive reactions from people in my mid to late 20s, after lots and lots of social practice.

I agree with all your statements above, though. I think evolution has left us with some social behaviors that can be very frustrating.
Interesting technique for movement

Gravity on the surface of Ryugu is very weak, so a rover propelled by normal wheels or crawlers would float upwards as soon as it started to move. Therefore this hopping mechanism was adopted for moving across the surface of such small celestial bodies. The rover is expected to remain in the air for up to 15 minutes after a single hop before landing, and to move up to 15 m horizontally.

http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20180919e/
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> Microsoft and Google may have competing products, but they are in completely different businesses. Microsoft is in the business of software, Google is in the business of data.

In what way are Windows and Edge "software" but Android and Chrome are not?

> That's why there's a public Bing Search API[1], but there's no public Google Search API.

The company that is operating a data service is the one not in the data business?
Makes sense. Human reading a 1GB file is pretty much impossible.

Human reading a 1GB logfile looking for key words/phrases is a lot more doable.
I don't like this comparison of death toll numbers.

At the same time I think the death toll of 9/11 is unfortunately much higher as an alarmingly big number of first responders were diagnosed with cancer and many of them died already.
Reading the parent's comment history, I would characterize them as a physics crank.
> In the Anglo-American legal sphere you usually settle for compensation, it's the only means at your disposal, whereas in continental Europe (Code civil or BGB) there are legal ways to compel performance as written. Price of strawberries went up, but someone bought strawberry futures cheaply? An American will settle for money, but a Frenchman or German will show up at the warehouse with the bailiff and seize the goods.

Specific performance [0] does in fact exist in the U.S, so I'm not sure what you mean.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_performance
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Eh, aside from embedded development binary size isn't really a problem.

And at this point, having experience with ATS + Rust, the fact that the memory-management model is still wonky is kind of disappointing.
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> In response [to unfair competition with pirated international games], the Bonyad has devised a unique policy: It issues Iranian publishers holographic stickers they must use to seal each individual copy of their pirated games before they’re shipped out to electronics stores nationwide.

Fascinating, it's like a copyright system, but where all the proceeds get diverted to bureaucracies and middlemen by design... I'm actually surprised this isn't more common.
Those Chinese cars are cheaper in part because they don't have to comply with US safety regulations. As such, they can't be sold in the US without significant reworking.
“Humans lack empathy”. Compared to what?
People are unlikely to fix that any time soon so we'd better keep that workaround as long as possible. Just look how fast racist attacks come after a news or political event. Or the succession of attacks on the innocent because some thug mistook paediatrician for paedophile.

In older days if you escaped the actual pitchforks you could move 20 miles away and start over. Now every moment of teen foolishness, those naive political beliefs at university, and that joint you smoked but "did not inhale" are either photographed or documented in perpetuity against your real name.

That seems a massively foolish gift to everyone with a pitchfork, or looking to spend an amusing hour assembling a lynch mob, or even a short sighted potential employer. God help you if you want to run for office 30 years after your foolish teen excesses.
2018 isn't that far from ~200k years ago. People have always grabbed pitchforks and it is unreasonable to expect them not to. Only the comforts of civilized living gives us enough room to think about morality and act on it. If these comforts disappeared, it would take humanity less than a generation to go back to a time when people paid money to buy the best seat at a public torture/execution.
> 2. Have a supportive partner on whose earnings you can live [on]. This is much more achievable for many people, and under-emphasised (it's common for, eg, postgraduate education!)

My wife an I have taken turns shouldering our living expenses to good results. If it's manageable -- you both make enough individually to stay out of debt -- I think it's a really good fit. You both benefit if it works. If it fails, you're maybe out of some savings plus opportunity cost, but not in debt or having to deal with investors.
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There's no "screen flash" with a non-animated page scroll if done correctly. I'm not complaining about double buffering.
Please do tell us which of the details on that list are now outdated.
A radical idea for reducing inequality deserves more attention
It does on Linux.
HTML can't to multiple column layout, page numbers, footnotes, document reviews, comments and more. Those might not be critical for the majority of daily use but as a Word processor, especially market leader, there's enough demand for everything to be almost pixel perfect between computers and versions. HTML colors even look different between browsers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument was created as open standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format to a lesser extend by Microsoft.

> in 2018, if a new Word processor were to be made

Then the first priority would be to be compatible with existing Word processor formats.
Or not run outside. Or if I cycle, not press hard.
From the Wikipedia article that you quoted: It is typically available in the sale of land, but otherwise is not generally available if damages are an appropriate alternative. Specific performance is almost never available for contracts of personal service

It's a problem, I can tell you. If you've been brought up in a world where people usually perform and you encounter an American who underperforms and then wants to haggle you are going to be angry. Right now I'm involved in a dispute with my former landlord who rented out substandard housing, and it looks as if my remedies are very limited. Moving is a great hassle and isn't cheap.
I'm not sure what you mean. My position on N, memory and influence on P.A. has been consistent and clear, as far as I can see.

I'm not terribly interested in reading about P.A.: it's dead branch of psychology, and has been dead for a long time. There are plenty of books / articles describing the shortcomings of P.A. some of which I've read.
ACH is literally free, and is offered by Bank of America.
I'm not really sure I understand the author's point. I also disagree with his definition of general-purpose.

My car is a general purpose transportation device. Does that mean it is an all-purpose transportation device? Of course not.

It solves almost all of the problems I have related to transportation, though. But there are times I explicitly want to pick a different mode of transportation:

1. I need to cross an ocean: Choose a plane/boat

2. I need to go where there are no roads: Choose legs

3. I need to haul significant quantities: Train/Truck

4. I need to prioritize speed: plane

5. I need to prioritize attention: choose a subway/bus

Does this mean the car is the best form of transportation? Also no. But it's still very much a generalized means of transportation within our current context. It handles a user's daily and most consistent needs.

This is also true of our current processors.

The author's definition of "General-purpose" appears to be impossible, which makes his title both true and useless.
In a way, I suppose the only true freedom other than ceasing to exist is to have the ability to move. Having finite/scarce resources makes that almost impossible these days. Not much land to just exile yourself to. I hope we get to the point where a person can get into their hyperdrive vehicle and go find solitude in an uninhabited planet somewhere.
Word predates the web browser by a decade.
Maybe I didn't capture the wording perfectly. Maybe I reported what I heard and not what they said?

> any Edge-WebKit differences are bugs that we’re interested in fixing

context:

> We recommend that web developers avoid UA sniffing as much as possible; modern web platform features are nearly all detectable in easy ways. Over the past year, we’ve seen some UA-sniffing sites that have been updated to detect Microsoft Edge… only to provide it with a legacy IE11 code path. This is not the best approach, as Microsoft Edge matches ‘WebKit’ behaviors, not IE11 behaviors (any Edge-WebKit differences are bugs that we’re interested in fixing). In our experience Microsoft Edge runs best on the ‘WebKit’ code paths in these sites. Also, with the internet becoming available on a wider variety of devices, please assume unknown browsers are good – please don’t limit your site to working only on a small set of current known browsers. If you do this, your site will almost certainly break in the future.

Personally, I think operations infrastructure should take a a more hands-off approach and let people use whatever web browsers they want and focus on educating users on why and how rather than on what. However, it is not practical for a variety of reasons. I had a chance to chat with a Chrome team member. He assured me that if you are an IT department and want to deploy Chrome in your enterprise, the Chrome team is committed to stand behind you. You can start at https://enterprise.google.com/chrome/chrome-browser/ If you have custom home-grown applications that require a legacy browser, you can centrally manage lists. In practice, this means that users will just need to open Google Chrome. If they go to some address that requires a legacy browser, Chrome will automatically kick you to the legacy browser. When someone continues on the legacy browser, you can kick them back to Google Chrome and have them continue there. I think this is the better path forward especially considering that Windows 7 will end of life in 2020. While I love Mozilla Firefox, I think Chrome is your only choice when it comes to Enterprise desktop.

For web developers like me, Edge has such a small market share that it makes no sense to test for Edge. From what I understand above, I shouldn't have to test for Microsoft Edge. It shouldn't have any of the legacy stuff from MSIE. That being said, threats of mono culture aside, I think it is best for any corporation to move their web browser to Google Chrome. Your people will be more productive on Google Chrome because it is the browser they know and love.

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/06/17/building-a-mo...

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