skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The most I've ever seen it "break" anything was formatting issues when people didn't declare the ad div size.

Haha, I remember some years back a popular C++ programming site would break if you didn't have an adblocker because someone had put wide header banner ads in both of the side banner areas, shrinking the text to a single word column in the middle. I guess they only tested their website with adblockers on...
The missing piece – why businesses fail at machine learning
The applet library.

Back in college, I created a small desktop app that played a WAV file when any key was pressed, but could be closed silently with the mouse. (Its purpose, along with a recording of me screaming, was to train my cats not to sleep on my laptop.) It would have been written in Java 1.4 or maybe 1.3. The applet library was a pretty standard way to open and play an audio file, because it was simple.

Fast forward a few years, I came across the app again and decided to see if it still worked. It didn't work with the existing JRE on my box. So I rebuilt it with a more recent JDK (1.6, I think). It built, but it still didn't work.

See, Java 1.5 AKA "Java 2" had a new memory model, deprecated a lot of things (like applets), and started modernizing heavily. They attempted to maintain backward compatibility, giving us things like the awful erasure-based generics, but it really wasn't fully BC. They really should have just done what Python did with Python 3 and make Java 2.0 non-BC.

This isn't an isolated incident, either. A major project I worked on updated from Java 1.6 to 1.7 and it broke several things. They were fixed pretty quickly, but it still wasn't truly backwards compatible. It's just like the Java claim that you can write once and run anywhere, which is only half-jokingly referred to by devs as "write once, debug everywhere".
I'm impressed at the HOALife being a side project. I've worked at companies doing something similar (different country) and it's a full time job maintaining and adding features to apps like that. If you are doing all the coding, marketing, web design, payment processing and support (and in my experience people want stuff fixed quick because they have inspections to do or they get kinda angry) in your spare time I really don't know how you do it, unless you are teaming up, employing people or just ridiculously efficient.
I don't know why this is attracting so much hate here. It's a novel and useful idea.
Sure, you're relying on Docs, but that's an established, mainline Google service which makes them money through their enterprise work stack (so I doubt it'll get Google Reader'd). If you were using Google's cloud, nobody in the comments would know or care. Sometimes HN is just negative for the sake of being negative.

I think this is a great solution for anyone who wants to throw some articles online without having to muck about with frameworks or the minutiae of managing a blog. Good work, OP!
Related but not very. There are plenty of poor white people in the USA, trailer park trash and red neck being the slurs often used.

And outside of the US, it can be totally separated. In China, for example, many of the poor people are ethnic han.
With git, people are confusing intuitive with simple; once you build up a good mental model for it, you can be very effective. Prior that is painful.
An Exploration of Curiosity in Humans and Robots
If Google is as censored as Baidu, what does China gain from access to Google?
There's a ton of shitty legal advice in this subthread (NOT this first comment, which at the core "read your agreement" is pretty good advice). Ignore the people downthread who are making specific assertions about what is and isn't enforceable in what state. Rather, follow the advice that sensible people always give in this situation:

!!!!!
If there is serious money at stake, or a reasonable prospect of serious money at stake for you, use some of that money to pay a lawyer admitted in your jurisdiction and familiar with the law on IP agreements and nocompetes to look at the agreement and advise you. It really won't cost all that much for a consultation and a bit of contract reading just to see where you stand. Then make a decision.
!!!!!

(Source: IAAL (law professor actually), though I don't currently practice and am almost certainly not admitted in your jurisdiction.)
I don't buy it. This whole story makes GRU and, by extension, Putin himself look ridiculous in the eyes of their own populace. Russian-speaking Internet communities are savoring this failure in every conceivable way right now, ridiculing Putin and the Russian propaganda. And that's a major failure for Putin's regime, which is built on nationalism, on a promise of greatness, on claiming that Russia is a major world power, etc.
Probably the same reason people were annoyed when they found out the delicious new indie beer they liked called Blue Moon was actually owned by Coors.
the time and other resources doctors spend on healthy people is the time and resources that are not spent on sick people. There is a useful number -- NNT that may help you understand how harmful the watch might be. https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_levitin_how_to_stay_calm_wh...

False positives are not harmless http://theconversation.com/routine-mammograms-do-not-save-li...
Understanding virtualization facilities in the ARMv8 processor architecture
If a self-sustaining nuclear fission reaction had not been previously demonstrated, could you build a proof-of-concept in 2018 on a startup budget? I would say yes. It is conceivable that you could build a modern equivalent of Chicago Pile-1 on a startup budget, assuming that you didn't implement any more safety features than the original CP-1. And if nuclear fission had never been demonstrated before this hypothetical startup probably wouldn't have much in the way of safety regulations to consider.

The more difficult question: how would a startup come to experiment with ways to build a self-sustaining fission reaction if the basic concept hadn't been demonstrated before? Something would have to be very different about history. As an improbable hand-wave, let's say that academic scientists had only ever experimented with fast-neutron fission, and didn't realize that natural uranium could sustain a chain reaction if the neutrons were moderated. We're probably deep into alt-history "World War II never happened, also the world has been surprisingly peaceful" fiction with that hand-wave.

Finally, if you really mean current nuclear power technology, e.g. one of the actual Generation III reactor designs currently operating, plus supporting infrastructure -- no, a startup could not invent all of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_III_reactor#Generat...

You could easily blow through 100 million dollars just trying to prototype the enrichment process for the uranium that your reactor needs as fuel. Never mind actually sourcing enough natural uranium in a world where uranium has previously been a niche material like rubidium, building a uranium enrichment plant, fabricating fuel elements, forging a huge pressure vessel, developing the whole field of nuclear engineering...
Sure, but would you invest your retirement savings in one that doesn't?
A refrigerator is not 99.999% available (power outages). Maybe 99.9% if you live somewhere without trees and snow.
Note that the detection of gravitational waves necessitated the modelisation of these waves first.
So astronomy is needed as an input and also progress as an output of the telescope..
Things that real time ray tracing enables like good dynamic ambient occlusion for contact shadows and more accurate shadowing and lighting are actually more important for VR than for non VR. They make VR a better and more immersive experience rather than just being eye candy. For me the most exciting applications of real time ray tracing are for VR.
Yes, there's even a book about it: "Hooked" by Nir Eyal.
Government also gave us concentration camps, Communist blacklists, famines, and a bunch of other “good” stuff. Government gave us Venezuela starvation.

My point is that governments have a “long and shitty track record” too.

Not saying that government is bad, but it’s clear that governments, when given the power, can be far more dangerous than any company. They can do a lot of good as well, but they have a pretty bad track record.
State Officials Weigh Joint Probes of Big Tech Companies
So if Google wanted to be in big in Saudi-Arabia, and would have to comply with a law that mandates it must enable the Saudi law enforcement to look through their data for instances of "homosexuality and related activity" so that the perpetrators can be prosecuted and tortured and/or put to death, that's OK too, right? Because Google would be complying with the laws of the country, after all.

Make no mistake, with all the stuff going on in China (political imprisonment, "Social Credits"), it is almost certain that if Google was to share data with the Chinese government it will lead to human rights abuses, ruined lives, imprisonment and maybe even death penalties, not because somebody is a hardened criminal, but merely because they (unknowingly) googled the wrong things.
> I don't know if Zuck had the foresight at the time, but Instagram has obviously been an amazing hedge against apps like Snapchat.

I wish all of us have the "foresight" to give away a "free" data-security VPN app to "protect" browsing and keep the user "safe". You can then surreptitiously use the traffic to for competitor intelligence and buy them off [0].

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-onavo-gives-social-me...
Fed hikes interest rates, raises its economic outlook and drops 'accommodative'
> and they do great

Yep, their value never changes, which means that if you invested your savings in them, you'd get no returns.

Tell me, where do you invest your retirement savings?
In decades past, being homosexual was considered a risk factor for intelligence agents. An adversary who knew they were gay could threaten exposure, thereby gaining a lever to potentially turn the agent. So they tried very hard to keep gays out of the intelligence services.

I don't know if the US still does this. I'd be a bit surprised. I wouldn't be surprised if Russia still did, though.
This gets the timeline a bit wrong. WhatsApp’s user base was largely built up during a period of lax security, including unencrypted message databases on Android SD cards, and easily spoofable addresses. The introduction of end-to-end encryption in conjunction with Open Whisper Systems was not until well after the FB acquisition and plans for it were undoubtedly part of the acquisition terms.

Contemporaneous to this was the rewrite of the privacy policy to allow sharing of metadata between FB and WhatsApp user accounts, which was a bit of a sell out.
I tried to come up with ideas like this for years and failed. Then I just did things that were interesting to me and it led to a business. So, my advice is to not even try to come up with an idea. Simply explore what is interesting, but be open to turning it into a business
He may not be a huckster, just self-deluded -- poorly educated in statistics, math, and the ways of science. It's possible he sincerely believed his so-called "discoveries!"

Regardless, I agree he does not deserve to be called a "scientist." Calling him one is an insult to actual scientists.
So for those that don't do cpu intensive tasks on their laptop, there is no performance difference?

Works for me.
It's a mobile VR experience (Oculus Go), but with added 6Dof tracking.

It's a great step forward, but it will absolutely be a walled garden.
I honestly believe the friction of paying any non-zero amount at all for a messenger app is more than what 80%+ of users would be willing to bear psychologically. They would almost certainly just migrate to a different app. That's also where WhatsApp's group emphasis becomes a huge drawback - groups would tend to migrate together, making it easier and quicker for the whole network to unravel.
Stunning analysis
You should google power law, I think you misunderstood everything and have a chance to learn an amazing statistical concept today :)
Gotta hand it to the NTSB - they are thorough. This is just the abstract.
The problem that the language is trying to solve is essentially building safe caches. Once a value is in the cache it cannot be changed from inside the program (the solution we opted for is to make it deeply immutable) and externally (if it depends on some external data, we need to invalidate the cache when it changes).

The big challenge is how do you maintain those guarantees while having a language that product engineers would want to write in.

You can decide to not allow mutability in your language but developers need to think about code in a very very different way than what they do now. It’s also going to be challenging to convert/translate existing codebases and patterns to it.

So we decided to allow both mutability and immutability. But it poses very interesting challenges. For example in the standard library, what is the type of x.map(y -> z). Which pieces are mutable or immutable. If you are not precise enough in your type system, then you are going to type it as “i don’t know (readonly)” or “mutable” but then you can’t pass the result of this to a memoized function, so you lost the point of the language.

The other interesting aspect is that the backend relies on the fact that the invariant are true in order to output optimized code and garbage collector.

So we cannot “cheat” like many gradual typed languages like Hack, TypeScript, C# where they can just say, actually this type is wrong but i’m just going to ignore it and it’ll throw an exception at runtime if the programmer got it wrong. It would segfault in Skip case.
Small modulator for big data
What software is that on the right in the screenshots with the graphs? Anyone know?
I don't really see how this frees up much space in the basement compared to a Vive. Room scale VR will still require a large empty space to operate in, as I imagine the technology to make the user phase through solid matter is still at few years out.

If your plan with this is sitting or standing VR, well, the HTC Vive already supports that configuration as well.
Pretty annoying that it’s illegal for me to invest in any of these newish tech companies.
Google Launches ‘Tech Exchange’ to Boost Diversity in Industry – EdSurge News
I'm not blaming the existence of union for these issues. The lack of accountability is my complaint. If you tell any employee that no matter what they do, their job is protected, you'll find them laughing at you when you assign them a task.
If you look at Ford, they had to kill majority of their sedans because of the development costs and profitability.
I live in this environment and I see daily tasks that take minutes take hours to get done. Bigger projects which takes weeks or months get dragged all the time. People still get paid and there are no consequences if objectives are not met.
Considering these points, the management is forced to drop projects, kill certain cars or keep using old stuff (not fuel efficient).
I do sincerely accept that the union is not the only bottle neck and sometimes we see wastage from upper management, but the magnitude of impact the union attitude has on work environment and productivity is considerably high.

Tesla is altogether a different story. They just don't have the expertise to make things happen. The processes that the big 3 car companies have in place, developed over time, are not exact science. Putting a car together is a complex task. I definitely am a big fan of Tesla and love the way they do things, they have grossly underestimated the complexity of building a car.
Can anyone point me to a good resource on updating the BIOS/firmware under Linux?.

I know absolutely nothing about it, and it looks like the user has to manually do it. And the obvious question: How do Windows users do it? When they are even less knowledgeable than me (generally speaking).
More ads, more "influencers" doing it professionally, more people sharing text-based images and motivational quotes and memes, older crowd base of users, timeline now filtered by algorithm and not sequentially.
Looks like the UAP-AC-EDU is PoE+

I agree though, all my APs run on DHCP.
If my friend take my picture in a private space and decides to share that with Google, my friend is the one doing business with them, not me. The problem is, this still does impact me, because my friend just gave information about me to Google. This hints at the problems around privacy in a world where everyone is recording things and also on the social expectations that it is fine for my friend to just upload my picture online. In the past, that was less acceptable (and in some of my social circles it was considered very anti-social to upload pictures of another's kids). Cultural norms have changed, and I risk isolating myself if I make demands of my friends to not give my information to Google. It would be akin to my avoiding Starbucks but my friends choosing to still meet there. At some point, if the corporations have the trust and engagement of my friends, I might have to choose if my stance of not doing business is more important than my friends.

But despite how bad all of this is, it is still an easier thing to accomplish than deciding to avoid your government. In the end, if I'm willing to isolate myself enough, Google won't have my information. But even if I go totally off the grid, the government will still make demands of my and if I refuse them they will seek me out, using agents who are armed and who have far more leniency to use violence to make me comply.

I'm not trying to say that one can easily avoid large corporations. In some cases it would require significant changes. But for as hard as it is, it is still easier than trying to avoid the government who wants to do something with/to you that you don't want done.
That's an issue for sure, the logic here is pretty damn terrible though.

For a <1 min test yeah it's slower. (Essentially a race from "cold" temp to the respective temp limits - the one has more runway). Run both at full throttle for 5 mins and I suspect you'll find they'll both perform equally (since they're both repeatedly bumping up against their respective thermal throttling).

...still shouldn't be happening at all though.
Qualcomm Says Apple Gave Stolen Trade Secrets to Intel – EE Times
I completely agree with your assessment of the problem.

I'm using https://blendle.com, which offers a wide variety of publications with payment per article (usually something around 0.70 EUR, with the odd 1.99 EUR for articles from DER SPIEGEL). They also have a daily mix of manually curated content and content based on the articles I purchased in the past, which works really well. I'm afraid it's only available in the Netherlands and Germany so far.

I didn't know the Brave browser had a payment model built in, will give this a try as well.
They actually do clearly state in this PDF that a degree of fault lies in the crew being compromised by fatigue. Operating for 19 hours straight definitely places an individual in an area where one can be fighting to pay strict attention, even when it really counts.

There's also plenty of communication with Air Traffic Control in the tower, and not a whole lot of gaps to introduce significant mystery, so it's pretty unlikely that there would be anything earth shattering on the cockpit voice recorder.
Things like this is one of the reasons why I gave up trying to put linux on laptops.
A New Way to Count Qubits
> connection requires only 8 of the 16 physical connections to be made successfully. A working 1000BASE-T (gigabit) connection requires all 16 of 16!

Small error here, should be 4 of 8 and 8 of 8, respectively ;)
I thought it was considered and GOOD idea to put the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz APs on different SSID is because some clients won’t connect to the faster one automatically. Or maybe it was because all traffic slow down to the lowest level.

Is that no longer an issue? Or maybe these aren’t problems as long as the 2.4 and 5 access points are physically separate.
I' m not in the US, so no crazy salaries on both sides. The average doctor probably makes more but the best programmer makes way more than the best doctor. However with long hours, night shifts, pressure etc you have to enjoy what you do or burn out early.
You don't eat carbs at all? I think it's not healthy either. How long have you been on that diet? How do you feel?
This should make for an interesting test of the level of anti-Apple group think out there as this is the same fundamental issue that caused the 2018 MBP fiasco. MBP power limit was set too high, this laptop has it set too low.
Actually, it's exactly the same - and mentioned in the article.

I ran the tests for 20min, as well. But then the screen shot of s-tui won't cover the whole length of the test, so I chose to show those screen shots while only mentioning that longer benchmarks perform exactly the same.
If you're in a position where you have a small number of AP's (less than 5) the ubiquiti product may appear to be overkill.
Not necessarily; for the same reason many companies haven't jumped on Swift (specifically, not wanting to run all your hundreds of thousands of lines of code through a potentially buggy translator all the time), people didn't immediately jump onto ARC either. If I recall, that migration was far from painless. I remember some serious regressions introduced when I bit that bullet. Since all your code changed at once, tracking it down was hardly entertaining. IMO could have been anywhere from 2012 to 2013...

This code also appears not to be using automatically synthesized properties. On the left screen, they're directly accessing Ivars and their Ivars have trailing underscores rather than leading (the default when synthesized). I suppose they could be doing this anyways, though it wouldn't exactly be standard industry practice.

On the right Xcode screen, though, the code does use property syntax, so potentially ARC, although one doesn't imply the other.
News: You can’t tell whether an online restaurant review is fake–but this AI can
OMG I CAN CLOSE AND OPEN MY LAPTOP SCREEN! <3333
Is this sarcasm?

Why spend $$$$ on a laptop with a beefy CPU if you aren't going to use it?
>One day I checked just for testing and more people are on https://hike.in than on Telegram from my contact book. That was surprising. Didn't try any further and uninstalled it.

This reminds me of Viber, a local success in the Eastern Europe.
AI chip said to outperform GPUs
Haha. Step down a notch, pal
The ! syntax is really cosmetic, we could have gone the let/const route. The bigger aspect is deep immutability. Most languages implement memoize by doing pointer equality and have a notion of shallow immutability. But if someone mutates some value deep down in the object, then they’re fine with it.

The other approach is to do deep copies but it’s very expensive in practice.
It’s only sort of passively mentioned in the article but I am AMAZED at the number of people who don’t hardwire everything they can.

Obviously phones are out, but why not hardwire every laptop when it’s at the desk? If someone’s using a actual desktop computer like an iMac then what’s the point of Wi-Fi? Clear up the signal space and get a 100% reliable and ultra fast connection.
There are links in the article showing how to update the BIOS from Linux. It involves downloading the firmware (a couple of megabytes in a .cab file) and flashing that onto a USB stick from which you can boot.

Windows users do it differently. The carbon has an auto-update service installed which will offer to update the BIOS when it finds a new version available.
> For example: describe how you would stop doing business with Equifax.

I can't speak to every area of their business, but as a credit consumer: You freeze your Equifax credit report and only work with lenders who will accept pulling a report from a different agency.