skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any CRDT-based industrial co-editing apps? Please, do not mention the toy implementations and applications unrelated to co-editing.
I think things like this are going to become more and more popular, ways to follow people who make your favorite software and access their backlog and previous projects. Things that they've made before or are still working on. Love the idea Armin.

Full Disclosure: I stream on Armin's site shipstreams, I am biased.
To quote your article:

The problem, as I discovered at promotion time, was that none of this was quantifiable. I couldn’t prove that anything I did had a positive impact on Google.

If they hornswoggled me into helping them, it’s evidence of their strong leadership qualities. I was just the mindless peon whose work was so irrelevant that it could be pre-empted at a moment’s notice.

Don't take this as an ad-homimen attack because it's not. You fell into the same trap some other people do at stack ranked organizations.

These systems create evolutionary pressure and the people who thrive are those who adapt to the ranking system as much as the job. Right, wrong or indifferent the ranking system is part of the job and in the same situation the people I see getting promoted would have dedicated significant time proving anything they did produced value or they wouldn't have done it.

That's why (IMHO) it was so difficult to get anyone interested in changing our stack ranked system to anything else; because those who thrived under it were in charge of deciding whether and how to change and already knew how to succeed in the old one.
>"I'm not interested in technology for technology's sake anymore, but instead am motivated to solve problems that I think can be solved via technology."

Words to live by. :)
>Clojure has this advantage of Java Interop. So even if you didn't find native Clojure libraries, you can always find Java libraries.

You can do exactly the same in Common Lisp, by using ABCL.

I am a happy "customer". (ABCL is free)
You're the first person I've told about it during the last 6 months.
Looks promising. How does Muze integrate with React?
I thought the datacenters on Corvin were newer; I've spent a lot of time at the Walsh Ave ones next to Nvidia and Corvin stuff looked new.
You're not making a common sense argument. Your argument is literally that you're upset that you cannot buy into investments which give you absolutely no insight, information, or any kind of knowledge that would let you actually be able to make an informed decision. That is not common sense one bit, and is just as silly as complaining that you can't sell yourself into slavery. Nobody is going to take an argument like yours seriously.
In a general sense, both. I am working in finance at a hedge fund now, but for a more or less pure tech group. My previous job was for a large e-commerce player, but before that I spent about a decade doing various forms of algo trading and HFT.
Just spitballing, could use a tool like the debugger to inject a value into a system library function to set it to 59.99 years or whatever value necessary to do tests.
tomorrow morning you'll have an epiphany about the name
Thanks for sharing!

A number of the charts in the examples are cut off (height-wise). https://www.charts.com/muze/examples/view/heatmap for example (in Chrome 69). Seems fine in Firefox.

https://imgur.com/a/Dq4fiz0
The assignment agreement took away all excitement I had coming to work for Google. It is so shitty. The two things I submitted to that process were rejected. I've kept on building stuff in my spare time (can't stop, won't stop), if they want to come after a side project that I made in my time, on my resources, with my ideas, and my code, that's their PR nightmare.

I cannot wait until I'm in a position to work on my own stuff full time.
This is a System76 laptop which only puts Linux on their laptops, so it's specifically designed for it. The two mDP connectors are only connected to the Nvidia chip, so maybe the Intel IGP isn't powerful enough to drive 3 4k monitors at a time (4k internal, 2x 4k external).
Eric Lundgren should have had people install Linux on the computers or some other Open OS. The issue was Microsoft made $25 a disc for selling to refurbisher shops.

100% agree its stupid but once Eric was caught he was in the hands of federal prosecutors and MS Lawyers that needed to "defend" the value of their property. This is why we encourage people to stray away from closed OS.
How does this compare to Plottable, another composable visualization library?

http://plottablejs.org/
> The efficacy of QE is debated, but if that does not work, they could try more radical, untested approaches, such as giving money directly to individuals

I'm not an economist but I feel like when a country is in a situation where they have to give money to citizens to stave off a market collapse, said country's economy is fucked.
oh shit it's icemosphere 9. vonnegut be dammned!
I regularly turn the realtime protection off, it cuts off instantly. I suspect you've got something else going on if yours doesn't work correctly.
Are you the inventor of CT?
I'm 31 and pretty much all my friends near my age have watched Seinfeld as some point.

The ones who would get that "Vandalay" reference? Probably <5% of them.
Long runtime apps, calendar-esque scheduling, etc al@ seem like things that could reasonably* hit that

* specifically they could reasonably end up with time steps >= 2^31ms. Even if the design isn’t ideal it should still work
So this is pretty incredible. We know that animals can detect magnetic fields, but we don't know how they sense it!

I hope one day humans can have the same sense.
Oh yes, I forgot about its pass-by-value. Removing pass-by-value is a double edged sword though. I generally dislike it, but you have to admit that having everything pass-by-value is much simpler to a non-programmer. If you chop that out then the "fast R subset" suddenly can act very differently. In order to really write efficient code you'd want to start making use of mutation on this fast part. This means throwing a macro on some array-based R code won't really be automatic: it would need a bit of a re-write for full speed but the re-written version would be incompatible with pass-by-value semantics. This is quite an interesting and tough problem to solve. I think it might be better to keep things pass-by-value and try to optimize pure functions.
It seems to depend a lot on your team and your manager. It's the first place I've worked where the vibe is: "you're clever: find something useful to do" from my very first day.
The Linux repository for VSCodium (VSCode without branding/telemetry/licensing)
And for those few with a Defined benefit pension as a bonus is not pensionable.
Type inferencing has a long tradition inside the Lisp community - for a language which is not statically typed, but which might be able to use type hints and static type information about the base language. Many Lisp compilers use type inference for optimization purposes.
There is a huge monetary and PR incentive for the fossil fuel industry to publish research that proves "there is no issue" in regards to climate change. The energy industry is where the money is and your conclusions seems to be the exact opposite of this reality. While the field of climate science overall has gotten somewhat larger and more funding due to the strong evidence that climate change is going to cause problems for human life, any individual scientist who could prove climate change is not happening or won't affect human life in the foreseeable future has every incentive to do so and would get plenty of grant money.

This article has more written about
monetary incentives of climate scientists: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/if-climate-scientist...
So how would one attempt to do good (start a business/charity/what have you) in such an environment? I can feel my part of the United States inching slowly to this kind of social norm, is there anything regular people can do to counteract this?
Washington State Supreme Court declares death penalty unlawful [pdf]
Performance. If you have (+ x y) and you can infer that x and y are fixints, then you can use a couple inline opcodes, rather than calling GENERIC-+.

EDIT: lispm is right, too, of course. You can look at it either way. If your program required top performance and you were going to tag every type until it ran super fast, then inference buys you the convenience of not needing to do as much. If you weren't going to bother with that, then inference buys you extra performance without all the effort.
Show HN: New phonecall app that texts everything you speak
These algos with unresolved issues would mislead researchers and engineers. Detecting and revealing these issues are significant.
I'd argue that what you call "trust-by-default" is an aspect of social intelligence that also enables a lot of very productive relationships. It has its downsides, of course, but I think you'd find that by removing that part of our psychology you'd end up with a miserable excuse for a society.
Measurement-device-independent quantum communication without encryption
They must have been storing the vote database in C:\Users\Documents
"Why do you have to make us look bad?"
You give actors too much credit
>furthermore, the evolutionary pressure for an improved rubisco is so immense that if it were possible we'd probably see it in nature.

I disagree with this logic, as one could apply it to any theoretical biologic feature. The fact that random-walking evolutionary processes haven't stumbled upon a more optimal solution has nothing to do with whether such a solution exists or is easy to find.
Blinken dem lights.
The lack of a permanent storage solution, the lasting radiation even if there were a permanent storage solution, the risk that something might happen in the future with the nuclear waste regardless of storage solution. It all revolves around nuclear waste and the risk of accidents/meltdowns and the consequences.

It's basically all about fear and it tends to override everything else. We have Chernobyl, Fukushima and the media to thank for that. It doesn't help that there are parties in the government that have been trying to sunset nuclear for decades (ironically, the green party).
Why you need 2-Factor Authentication?
thanks for sharing, but holy slowwww
Also, if he was in Mountain View, it's likely that he owned a home and that contributed a bit.

The tech sector stock growth has been amazing/unprecedented over that time period. His first few years of stock grants have tripled or more in value.

I'm betting it's something like $2.6mm. $1.5mm in saved income, $0.8 in stock appreciation on savings, and $0.3 in housing/misc.
Build Your Own Portrait Mode on iOS Using ML and Image Segmentation
The online control panel where you setup your private network in the first place. This is where you configure the IP range and other settings, and accept any devices that try to join.
I remember reading somewhere that Google Voice numbers cannot be ported - and are useful in having them set as your 2FA for email accounts etc. Is that still correct?
That does not sound like a sound implementation.
Doesn't it say late 2015 in the article?
By taking the steps you propose, Mattis would promptly eliminate his ability to do any good, and likely fail at preventing the harm he is trying to prevent.

And yes, if the person occupying the President's chair had actually given a specific direct order, as in "As President, I'm hereby ordering you specifically to implement a plan to attack and kill another head of state, specifically Bashir Al Assad; do it by next week or I'll relieve you of duty and court martial you for insubordination", Mattis would have little choice to either comply, resign, or wait for the MPs to arrest him.

However, it is extremely unlikely that the order was that specific, and so both creates the moral dilemma referenced above, and the opportunity to use discretion in how the request is implemented.

And even if such a "Big Fucking Deal" happened, in this environment, it's a fart in a hurricane, and if you actually expect this congress to act as you expected, perhaps we should talk about this bridge I have for sale...
I don't believe so, not if the risk to the general public is great enough.
In hot code, base will be cached in a register.
Seems it's also time for many to wake up to the reality that Amazon, et al, aren't in the business because they love you but to sell you stuff at minimal corporate cost and thereby maximize stockholder equity. If visiting the Amazon site to purchase specific items or just data mine for some project ideas then enter with the mindset that attempts will be made to manipulate you. If presented with superfluous recommendations interwoven into your searches and 'wanna buy?' prompts, a simple practical solution is NO.
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
Your Alphabet/Google market cap is about right, but Facebook's is 442.50B as of today.
Very nice site - well done!

There are some very good lisp libraries on github that aren't in the project list, such as many of the web libraries I use every day like https://github.com/fukamachi/caveman or https://github.com/fukamachi/dexador

I've also started a new library for creating a Solid Pod host https://github.com/gibsonf1/cl-solid

Is there a way to elegantly link to github projects as well?
What kind of long-form content do you have problems with? All kinds, or just long-form articles/journalism we're told we're supposed to enjoy?

I have huge problems with the latter, but that's just because I hate fluff, and most of those articles are 10% content and 90% offtopic musings about boring things (like life stories and emotions of people tangentially related to the main theme). Wanting a piece to "get to the point already" is healthy IMO, as it's a natural defense mechanism against wasting time.

There is an invalid assumption that I believe underlies a lot of those "kids these days have no attention span" observations - that all content is automatically deserving to be consumed. It's not. On the contrary, most content is pure waste of time. Given how limited our lives are, and how flooded the world is with content these days, being extremely selective and intolerant of bullshit is the right, healthy thing to do.
(first link) Well, it was a one-off bug that was quickly bug-fixed, but still it managed to be released in a stable kernel and resulted in terrible and rapid data corruption. It mentions restarting twice in quick succession (or even just remounting the volume) was enough to trigger the bug, which seems just as unacceptable to me as the recent Windows bug.

That's the kind of thing I'd expect from btrfs, not the quintessential Linux filesystem.
Just saw plottablejs. I can make an informed comparison without using it.

However https://www.charts.com/muze/docs/composing-layers
explains some part about muze's composability. And this is an example https://www.charts.com/muze/examples/view/composition-of-lay...

Apart from composable layers Muze has
- tabular layout (visual crosstab) created from data facets https://www.charts.com/muze/examples/view/crosstab-chart
- auto interactions https://www.charts.com/muze/examples/view/crossfiltering-wit...
- Legend on any chart https://www.charts.com/muze/examples/view/gradient-legend

etc...
yes they are hiring per the CEO's linkedin headline and presumably for that role.
I think the article misunderstood how the raise works. It's an increase in base pay plus existing multipliers. So if your base was 10 and you worked nights, for example, bringing you up to 15, your base will now be 15 and your multiplier brings your pay up to 22.5.
I mean is it even faking it at that point? Or just pointing out how silly the whole thing is?
I'm curious, can anyone estimate the developer hours it would take to clone WhatsApp's UX, features and functionality? Would it be doable since it's already developed and they solved the hard problems for syncing messages across timezones and it may be feasible to follow their tech stack as a blueprint/starting point?

Facebook and Instagram had no trouble stealing the concept of 'stories' from Snapchat and Facebook also copied their augmented face masks.

Did WhatsApp use a lot of open source stuff under the covers that we could leverage in building our own secure person to person/ group chat platform?
> The efficacy of QE is debated, but if that does not work, they could try more radical, untested approaches, such as giving money directly to individuals

For one thing, QE was a massive handout to debt holders (banks, asset managers, hedge funds) which took (essentially public funds c/o inflation) and indirectly gave it to the wealthy by purchasing assets at prices way higher than "market" at the time.

Perhaps it worked, but it also created a lot of resentment. In some ways, giving money directly to individuals would have been more fair, perhaps we wouldn't have the current radical shift right in the US, resulting from people fed up with the elite coastal beneficiaries of the past system.

Unfortunately, giving money directly to individuals would not have solved the past crisis because a lot was about the downward spiral of asset prices and how that forced more collateralization and reduced bank equity. However, a more balanced approach that solved the mortgage issues for the common person would have been better.

As for the country's economy being screwed. In some ways, we are now. Just that there are winners and losers. Holders of real assets won (massive home inflation continues.) And paycheck-to-paycheck individuals / renters / youngsters lost. Speak to a young person now [who doesnt work at a FAANG] and you'll find someone coming to terms they may never own a home or put down roots. Its a massive turn away from the classic American dream and social contract. Thats pretty screwed up.
I think it depends on your metric. I don't know what's wrong with HFS, but I do know that Apple drops these .DS_Store entries all over the place, things that look ideal to be stuffed in NTFS streams.

I'm sure there are many metrics on which HFS is superior to NTFS; and probably many metrics where NTFS is superior. NT (and MS in general) has never philosophically worked well with more than N of X, wherever N is significantly larger than a consumer would deal with - whether it's processes, files, TCP connections, whatever. Their consumer heritage usually finds a way to shine through.
It lost me until I came back and read this comment; I did not think to click "the email." The page reads as a standard newsletter subscription form so I just closed the tab.
That's a good question, but one of the most expensive ways to preserve building capacity is to actually build them
The toy games described, the variance in different countries, and especially the explanation of the psychology that might be at play here is startling.

I am excited to be able to add this to my toolbox of ways to understand public goods and their interplay with the surrounding culture.
Organic standards allow use of copper sulphate (subject to more controls that non-organic certified produce)

It is entirely false to characterize organic as "including heavy metals" when they simply allow a fairly common and light "heavy metal" compound which is already permitted outside their standards (ALL organic standards are permitted for non organic use)

Its striking that you could begin by lamenting "sheer lack of nuance" and proceed to base an entire criticism on deceived and inaccurate nuance.
Policies closer to giving money directly to citizens are not, as the article suggests, more radical; targeted fiscal stimulus has long been understood to be more powerful than broad monetary stimulus, it's just usually in the hands of the government proper not central banks, which has become a problem as economic conservatism which opposes fiscal stimulus has taken an increasing hold in major governments, leaving central banks alone (or worse, as fiscal anti-stimulus is often applied alongside monetary stimulus) to handle problems which don't respond well to monetary policy alone.
It's an easy mistake to make. Incidentally, "infer", for some reason, is a word I find unusually pleasing.

EDIT: as a non-native speaker I distinctly remember first reading the word and happily using it ever since, when appropriate.
Based on 200 years history of Russia, you don't. You run away to places not yet contaminated.
The Economic Viability of Mars Colonization (1998)
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The S.E.C. Dusts Off a Never-Used Cyber Enforcement Tool
javascript showed that dynamically typed languages can be jitted well. It is just hard, and we spread our efforts over so many languages they don't all have the resources to do it.
Pretty safe to assume wikileaks will not show up in Google Dragonfly searches.
They don't want to preserve Abrams building capacity. The Army not only has enough for current needs, they already have enough for every possible contingency, including: "WW3, except for some reason it's not fought with nukes but with gigantic tank battles."

Assuming the Army rotates tanks out of front line service before they are useless, by the time the fleet is too worn out, the Abrams design will be hopelessly obsolete. Not because the design is bad or obsolete, but just because that's how many of them there are.

In contrast, the Army has massive deficiencies with many of their other, lighter vehicles, and has been trying to rectify them for decades now but all the projects have failed, for various reasons. Some of the failures have been the Army's fault, but others can be traced to the Congress deciding that the Army needs more tanks to stockpile instead of, say, armored ambulances.

Honestly, what the army really needs to do is somehow push for a heavy IFV/APC design based on the Abrams chassis, similar to how the Russians have made the T-15. Not because that would be a great match for their needs, but because since the production line is apparently completely impossible to kill, might as well try to have them make something that is even marginally useful, compared to the vehicles they are building right now that just get driven from the factory to permanent stockpile where they will probably sit until they are decommissioned decades in the future.
I actually limit my exposure to novels because I find it extremely hard to stop reading once I start. I'll stay up way too late, and sneak reading in throughout the day, basically doing whatever I have to to continue and finish the story. I enjoy this process, as it keeps me immersed, but it's not healthy.
Ask HN: How to validate a market opportunity in a cost effective way?
tldr; I’m looking for some kind of signal before I spend significant amount of time building something.

I want to build a competing software product for a particular type of small biz. I see in reviews that people are not happy with the leading software provider for that niche. But how should I validate that there is a market opportunity for it and people will actually be interested in it? I tried creating a survey and posting a link on Facebook but nobody took the survey. Survey monkey has a service to get responses(don’t know how they do that) but it’s very costly I.e. $100 for just 100 responses. What are the other cost effective & reliable ways? I’m pretty sure I’m not the first person facing this problem.
> Note that what I meant by that isn't that your services aren't expected to be up for a month. It's that redundancy is expected (2+ instances behind a load balancer) so servers are resilient to failure.

I guess thats why he mentioned gameservers specifically, as those often depend on being a single node
>Increasing workers wages doesn't change the rate a which automation technology becomes available.

Sure it does. If your current costs increase significantly, the math on funding research to automate the process changes. Not simply because you may fund research to fix your increase in cost, but also because there is now a more viable market for others to do the same.
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