skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took this article as a starting point to discuss Sanskrit: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/2953/87 (also at https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2014/07/) — roughly speaking, w.r.t. deviance from English, Sanskrit is German++.
Forest study in China finds mix of trees can absorb twice as much carbon
How the humble lemon helped grow the Sicilian mafia
I'm not sure why this is getting insta-downvotes. While there's no evidence to support it, there could be circumstantial logic to it. One government would very much like to divert focus onto the other, if possible, especially in a climate where they'd prefer to have the issue of election interference trumped by a trade war.
Korean Crypto Giant Bithumb Is Launching a Decentralized Exchange
Oh that's so lame. I wanted to run something exotic like BeOS or Plan 9. PoorMan in BeOS was the first public webserver I ever ran! Followed shortly by IIS on Windows 2k... Which should also be an option.
I never thanked you for the mp3 recordings!! Thank you!
Show HN: Visualizing the Net Worth of Americans by Age
> I used to throw my blackberry at people.

Is there any modern smartphone that would take this kind of abuse?
> One thing that I have noticed about English is that it seems to be more concise. There are things that can be expressed much more elegantly and with fewer word in English, while saying the same thing in German may require a mid-sized sentence.

As a native German speaker, I disagree. German allows a really concise nominal style that is hard to express in English.
"Excel Everest": https://exceleverest.com/
Sorry to Crush Your Dreams, but We’re Not Colonizing Space Anytime Soon
I can't speak to the product, but I did interview and worked a trial week at knack about a year ago and they are a very bright group of people that are hell-bent on making and maintaining a great product.
My guess is that the notch was very much a marketing feature last year–it defined an entire category of smartphone design. Now that it's "normal" Apple has chosen to draw attention away from it.
Excel Everest
Don't you know the rule? Safety third, after having fun and looking cool.
Outside of a forklift migration, why would you run a Windows Server VM?
Would you please give some examples where you've found "that languages truly put constraints on one's ability to formulate thoughts"?
Cereal requires a bit more copy & paste template boilerplate (it's a customization point) but they're basically the same.

* libnop uses a macro called NOP_STRUCTURE to create its key-value pairs.

* Cereal has a macro called CEREAL_NVP.

* Boost.Fusion has BOOST_FUSION_ADAPT_ASSOC_STRUCT

* Boost.Hana has BOOST_HANA_ADAPT_STRUCT

* Boost.Serialization has BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP

...all these things work the same way to get reflection
Digital Ocean has supported FreeBSD for quite a while.
Less cynical viewpoint: Apple is trying to highlight that iPhone XR has a notch "just like iPhone X does"–similar to the marketing material last year which didn't make any effort to hide the cutout.
> Would switching lanes into another vehicle be an accident caused by a driver? Blind spot warnings. These safety features do reduce accidents caused by drivers.

That's the point.

The comparison to existing vehicles is valuable because the first requirement before someone is interested in a new car is that it be sufficiently better than their existing car. A difference of that magnitude is relevant.
Why would Marzipan have anything to do with switching to ARM? All of those apps are running on x86.
They’re also optimizing for UI/UX by emphasizing single more performance. That’s what affects how fast and responsive the interface is to user input.
If there was hidden hardware on a bunch of servers, where is the hardware now? Why doesn’t Bloomberg’s sources have the hardware or know which boards they were?

Bloomberg provides zero evidence this happaned, outside of their anonymous sources.
3D printed deep neural network uses light instead of electrons
Relevant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woonerf
Where are the data brokers?
I kind of developed a hunch that maybe the Zika outbreak might've been cooked up in some lab in Siberia or Mongolia, and got dumped into South America as a warning shot. But honestly, who knows?

Everything feels like the rumblings of full-spectrum warfare these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance
User interface drawing/responsiveness depends most on single core performance.
That's not really a problem with the theory. If anything, it's a supporting argument.
Pretty good advice - the sliders are incredibly fast. (I'm not a fast reader though).
> it’s entirely possible that there are other layers to the other story that explain the evidence that Bloomberg and their sources have seen.

I wonder if it could be a hypothetical - it's the sort of thing I could imagine coming up in a war games-like scenario (what would happen if China chose to use its access to compromise our supply lines?), and it was mis-relayed to Bloomberg or the documents they have seen (the sources or Bloomberg) do not clearly identify it as such.

Maybe a stretch, but I'm struggling to reconcile Bloomberg's story with the explicit denials.
Don’t care. Gotta start somewhere. Sometime.
> very often slandered and misunderstood.

You mean the guy who wrote this? Clearly, he's a diamond in the rough /s.

'Then a letter from Mr. Shkreli came to his home, addressed to his wife.

“Your husband has stolen $1.6 million from me,” it read.

“Your pathetic excuse of a husband,” the letter added, “needs to get a real job that does not depend on fraud to succeed.”

“I hope to see you and your four children homeless,” the letter said. “I will do whatever I can to assure this. Your husband’s arrogance is infuriating, and making an enemy out of me is a mistake.”'

-NYTimes, 18 July 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/business/dealbook/former-...
It also doesn't make sense to reject it out of hand—it's not like Bloomberg (or any paper) is an infallible source of fact.
SO often can take hours to weeks for a good answer, and that's assuming it doesn't just get closed as a dupe when the other one doesn't answer the question.

A good "guy" (or girl!) is a phone call away and can often solve the problem in minutes.
You mean Docker running under a native hypervisor (Docker already supports Hyperkit), or a Docker machine running something other than Linux?

Docker is so dependant on Linux that any attempt to write a native containerisation for another OS would mean starting from scratch. And the licensing of both Windows and MacOS would make it a non-starter.
The malware infected a driver on a single Apple server accidentally; Apple says it wasn’t a targeted attack.
every FPGA is far more closed and secretive about its internals than Intel ever has been about its CPUs.
You mean we had access to Basic in Excel for all this time? I'm really behind the curve!
I love this album. It's got my vote for the single best piece of art made in the 1990s. I don't know of anything else that has the range of content (going from swagger to fun party music to exploring the depths of the "black experience"), while also pushing ahead on the form/style front, from a couple of underdogs. It's also worn the test of time (and many, many repetitions) quite well, which doesn't have to be the case for revolutionary works of art.
They are what came to mind when you said perhaps the relational algebra was not sufficient as a theoretical model of databases.
This article is odd to link on several levels. First, it adds nothing to the source story from Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-h...

Second, that story itself is just about FB and Apple reminding Bloomberg of hacks that we're reported >1y ago. This is an interesting story but the news cycle is jumping the shark.
I wonder if this is compatible with unikernals like MirageOS? https://mirage.io
I find that a surprising amount of people actually don't use SO where I work for anything beyond simple things.

It's usually faster (and safer) to ask a 'local expert' first.

Does depend on the situation, I work in a large-ish team where people have specialized in different technologies. So if I encounter something I'm unfamiliar with, asking someone locally is better than spending time finding a solution on Stackoverflow that might not be what I want.
The DIY Girls – How 12 teens invented a solar-powered tent for the homeless
Instead of one machine running everything, you want me to run 3 different machines? It's technically possible to do better than that. One OS that run anything we want would be amazing.
Rafa uncut interview with Boy V
>Not sure when this became the norm in journalism for people to just take everyone at their word just because they are senior and they have an axe to grind but it's quite tiresome.

Anonymous sources have been around as long as journalism. It’s not like what those sources say is taken as a given, they are heavily corroborated against other sources of information, often documents/records/etc.
> Many people feel that the having a formal way to address people is useful. It allows you to express very quickly how close you want to have them to you. A stranger you don't like? Formal. A stranger who seems to be your own age and from similar circumstances? Try using non-formal and see how they react.

Or when a couple came apart (in conflict). He started to formulate the letters/emails in a overly formal addressing - she was really furious about that, because this sent a clear message to her.
> Better to build a good product now and if you really want to turn it into a startup, productionize it then.

Well, you gotta deploy with something. Why not k8s?

Obviously if you're developing locally, k8s would not help in the least.
I'm a native speaker of Norwegian, a language which also has three grammatical genders. I don't experience it as having to memorise genders. I only notice them when they are wrong.

They're not completely useless.

"Det regner." - It's raining.
"Den regner." - It's calculating.

The verb "regne" is ambiguous and the gender helps disambiguate ut.

Sometimes, the grammatical gender conveys information about the noun. Is it abstract or inanimate? Probably neuter. Is it alive? Can it move? Probably masculine or feminine.

Sometimes, when a follow-on sentence discusses previously introduced objects, gendered articles can clue you onto which objects are being discussed.
Actually, I don't think that was the article I was looking for. Anyway, Microsoft has completely overhauled the console subsystem in exactly the way everyone wants.
http://archive.is/E32rn
Facebook chatbots
Anyone have more info on the test conducted by brand their chatbot conversation test. Little I know is the two started talking in a encrypted language after 4 mins then FB pulled plug.
Please... I was a 12 year old boy in a poor city from Brazil and knew it was all garbage.

At that time I did not even have internet and most people knew it was bullshit.

The only thing that needed convincing was that the US would do it anyways, so better to have a smooth pathway.
The reason for that response is:

* this all seems within reason, knowing the hardware

* the denials are unusually strong

If any of it is true or not I don't know, but the IPMI stuff is crappy, if not backdoored.
Yes. I've said worse to people over much less myself. And I'm a nice guy too.
When I worked at a Fortune 50 I was in a group reassigning revenues to offshore entities. It was just a matter of assigning a team to an offshore manager (well, any one of the big 3 accounting firms then took our work and did whatever paperwork might have been required from there. All the major accounting firms were making millions from us so they were glad to help.) An executive explained to me that all the senior executives got a variety of classes of stock in offshore companies, which were essentially worthless on paper. Then offshore monies could be transferred to increase the value of any of the many classes of stock which were issued - allowing them to transfer any amount to any executive. And as long as the public stockholders were making profit, nobody complained, and money could be freely hidden and transferred offshore using a wide variety of techniques. At the time, this was considered standard practice by all the major accounting firms and all the C-suites at major software companies. We live in a society which is corrupt beyond the understanding of most people. I personally saw billions transferred offshore and hidden - think about that when Bill Gates says that he is giving it all away.
> Is it das Nutella or die Nutella?

> https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nutella&oldid=181...
Say you work for a company that uses SuperMicro boards on their servers. Is it possible to inspect them for the hack or you could have no way of telling if they're tampered? Because if there is then I guess in the following days we'll have confirmation from third parties.
Interestingly, "chief" is the same word as "chef" just imported from the Normans. French had a consonant shift, while English did not, and then imported the word again with the new pronunciation and spelling.
I suspect the lack of attention on these companies comes from politicians preferring to publicly flog companies with brand recognition. Voters pay a lot more attention that way.
It's been disabled by default for years, as far as I know. Not sure why they'd deprecated it now.

EDIT: A quick search shows it was always disabled by default, since 2007, when it launched.
Fb chatbots experiment
I think even Maroon 5 fans and band members would agree with you.
At the end of this it could turn out that Buzzfeed’s journalism is more reliable than Bloomberg’s, which would be a sad state of affairs.
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My thoughts exactly. They're making claims that virtually everyone in tech is denying and haven't/can't produce any evidence.

Not to mention, if this hardware had been trying to phone home, it's safe to assume it would have set off some kind of an alert at at least one of these places.
In that case the government led the charade, from claims of 'nuc-u-lar weapons' (as Bush pronounced it) to the claims of buying Yellowcake from Niger, the government led it and the media just went along.

In this case the media is doing it themselves from the start.
yeah sorry about that:link seems to have gone away...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4747914/Face...
Both companies are heavily reliant on a supply chain through China. Why is the assumption that a gag order is from the US and not them?
How is this a good idea? How do you know the insects you make won't get out and kill you and your whole army?
SIMD Intro:Comparing SIMD Assembly with C on a Trivially Concurrent Algorithm
https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/yw9xgy/a-banksy-painting-...
>>Why has the culture become such that this seems to be everyone's business?

Mostly because any movement, when it becomes a little bigger gets crowded by gold diggers. And from there on its just people's selfish motives at play.

Politics, and even office politics is all about this.

>>In India, where I live, we constantly fight against a culture that is in favor of moral policing.

Indian here, I entirely agree. Entitlement in the India society, especially related to social influence is just too much to bear at times.
What makes you think it would be the U.S. pulling the strings? In trade wars you want the enemy to sink their funds. What could be better to do that than to force every U.S. tech giant to audit their hardware?
I still deal with people that are limited to 65535 rows.
Quite a skill to know that kind of thing with no direct involvement. Mind telling us the truth about what happened at Apple?
I don’t use google apps
probably the processor-memory bus. GPUs have wider ones
Cloud only devices that push to a server are not covered.
For an introduction see:

Linguistic relativity

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
I think what MS has done with open sourcing .NET is more indicative of the new MS.
The plural of anecdote isn't data.
I'm an expert at Excel but I switched to Google Sheets years ago and haven't looked back. Version control is probably the biggest improvement; but also ability to insert SQL queries, `arrayformula`, the list goes on.
Can confirm. My boost mobile iPhone 6 had weird memory signatures. Most likely Chinese malicious chips.
It can be reset just not by some asshole connected via wifi to an open network.
You would sink your own reputation along with it. And there could be an argument made that you should be left the bill for the audits.
You ain't kidding. Talk about trying to rewrite a narrative with bogus claims.

The 2003 Iraq invasion had nothing to do with warnings from informants about state secrets.

The idea very idea that there was any concern about Iraq's capability to wage war is a joke. Iraq was pretty well softened up by no fly zones and sanctions, so as to be sufficiently anemic, and decapitating the incumbent dictator for life (literally) was mostly just sour grapes for him going off script, and besmirching the sanctity of Kuwait.

It was gloves off for Iraq, as soon as the 9/11 hijackings unfolded. Literally next month people were whispering about Iraq, even though Afghanistan was well understood as the official point of origin for the attacks.
Useful Idiots (said in the voice of Mandy Patinkin)
So basically you _knew_ nothing but just made a guess.
uh version control (have u tried the version history?); live updates, arrayformula, importrange, the list goes on and keeps getting longer
Far too often people mistake correct guesses with having actual knowledge. If I had a dollar for every time I've heard somebody be "100% certain" of something I'd probably have a lot of money by now, although I don't know for sure.
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It's just slightly[1] more complicated than that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)
Well it wasn't the intelligence community screwing up, as much as it was the Bush administration using whatever they could to convince people to support war. The CIA and State Department had concluded the Niger uranium documents were likely fake, but Bush went on to use them as justification. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/08/wbr.iraq.claims/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries#CIA_do...
Much of the initial attention does not come from politicians. It comes from whistle blowers and journalists.
Technical possibility is one thing; proving the story has actually happened is another thing. Until now, what we get is a categorical denial of the story from all related parties. And all the evidence Bloomberg can provide so far is just vague anonymous sources.

Talk is cheap, show me the code/server/chip if they ever exist. Otherwise, the story is just a blunt lie fabricated by Bloomberg serving as a propaganda to bash China amid the Sino-America trade war.
"the US intelligence community ... decided that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction"

I hope you realize this was all an invention of the US intelligence community — they knew all along it was bullshit. It's well documented at this point.
The funny thing is you're being glib, but Markowitz literally is quoted as saying diversification is the closest thing there is in finance to a free lunch.
I was at that Coachella show. It wasn't particularly great. Andre didn't even face the crowd for a significant portion of the show and performed facing away from the audience.

I grew up loving Outkast too, and I still do because I recognize just how important their impact on hip-hop was, but I can't say I was blown away by the live performance.
I know Bloomberg isn't going to, and shouldn't, give up its anonymous sources... but it feels like Bloomberg's going to have to provide a lot more specifics if these reporters (and Bloomberg itself) are going to maintain their credibility -- concrete facts Apple can directly confirm or deny, as opposed to leaving Apple to guess at what it could be.

E.g. if Apple contacted the FBI about this, then who at Apple did so (or at least what was their role), on what date, and what FBI office? Or how did Apple detect it in the first place, what happened next, etc. Even if sources can't provide technical details, they should certainly be able to provide names and dates.
Wow, so you really think the 2003 Iraq invasion was about chemical weapons? If not, what's your interjection _really_ about?
Ask HN: Help my data analyst team not suck
I was just promoted to lead a team of 10 data analysts at a behind-the-times insurance co.

I'm in over my head, so this is a peter principle event, but want to give it a shot before suggesting the VP fire me and hire someone competent.

The team works on a variety of reporting and analysis projects, and everyone uses their own preferred tools (SAS, SQL, Python, Excel, Access).

The team was formed by taking "data people" out of many departments and moving to a centralized "analytics" team. The departments are now our customers.

The company also purchased a Qlikview server, licenses, and dedicated two people on the team to maintaining the environment and developing dashboards.

I have free reign to organize the team as I see fit.
I'd like to move to working in a common toolset, using a project management tool, having standards/documentation, using source control, etc.

I've spent most of my career in a similar role to the other analysts on my team so don't have a ton of experience in using software development methods like this myself. I know enough to think we could benefit by them. I don't want to introduce unnecessary bureaucracy, but I am willing to add ramp up time to get people working better in the long run.

All of our data is stored in a poorly organized oracle warehouse maintained by a slow moving IT team.

The analysts independently do a lot of transformation and cleanup of data from the warehouse before being able to use it in their work.

I hope to build a pipeline where we treat the IT warehouse as our source, write an automated ETL process to clean, organize and enrich data before loading into our own database that would serve as the source for our qlikview dashboards, and other reports.

Wondering if you all could offer some advice for pulling this off.

What's the best way to introduce some standards and process in a project like this?

Possible? Or hopeless and I should commit seppuku?

Thanks!
It also doesn’t make sense for China to do this. These chips would eventually be discovered and easily traces to China.

The economic damage would be huge, and the value of the data they could gleam seems worthless by comparison.
A short sale that's unwound after the dividend makes a lot more sense. Both the buyer and the lender of the shares are owed a dividend, and depending on how the records reflect that, I could see both being able to claim the refund.

Under US law, a dividend paid to you by a borrower is taxable as ordinary income, not as a qualified dividend -- usually the borrower (short seller) will pay a premium on the interest to reflect the difference in effective tax rates.

I don't know the rules for Denmark, but it seems that having a withholding requirement on the dividend payer ads to complexity, because it requires a refund process. It might be better to have simply required reporting of the income, and maybe required withholding by brokerages.
Good writeup!

Don't mean to be nitpicky...but I noticed some minor issues in your article, which I will list them below...

* the instructions for CPU are in bare ISA binary code, and not assembly. Although there is generally a 1-1 mapping between assembly and binary code (assuming they are well-formed), but you cannot run assembly code directly on CPU. You have to assemble them into ISA binary code first...

* at this assembly level, their corresponding ISA binary instructions are only atomic with regards to the regular users...but for CPU, the binary code would be broken down into microcode and then they will be executed...
The thing about a gag order is it _gags_ you. You can't talk when you're under a gag order. You're not compelled to lie by a gag order.