skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be able to submit to arXiv, one needs to be endorsed by someone in the domain, which could be a potential hurdle for someone not in academia. (and I'm not about to suggest viXra as a way to get around that)
Facetime Audio is encrypted, just use that.
> All of the "higher level abstractions" I've seen are no better at finding vectorizable patterns than the compiler does

I think a lot of that comes from C/C++ language corners.

Have you seen XLA (https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/xla/) or Glow (https://facebook.ai/developers/tools/glow)? These are very high level abstractions called from C++ that can do a great job vectorizing high level operations for the given device.
HOAs HATE this one robot!!
Flubbing the census, reducing numbers of legal immigrants allowed, general public shaming of non-european immigrants from "shit hole" countries (that US policy helped create, BTW.) Honestly, you have to be trying to not see the pattern.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/18/trump-legal-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/now-trump-admin...
Can you post a citation to "Kahneman's '79 research"? I really want to read that stuff since it sounds useful for me.
> the article seems to mainly point the finger at malware

Actually the article says:

> "But the calls made from the phones are intercepted as they travel through the cell towers, cables and switches that make up national and international cellphone networks. Calls made from any cellphone — iPhone, Android, an old-school Samsung flip phone — are vulnerable."
What are the differences with localForage (or similar solutions)? The fallback to cookies if no localStorage?

https://github.com/localForage/localForage
perl6, cperl, rperl are all gradually typed, and if so compile to native unboxed ints and floats. If untyped the cperl jit will observe run-time types and switch to the unboxed variant or the whole basic block then, if profitable. moar (perl6) ditto.

Same with the object system. A native class has the same layout as a C struct. No costly refcounting and indirections, just a word with the data or pointer. Single op assignments, reads and stores. Easy to ffi back and forth. Fast objects.

You can inline method calls on the tracing jit when it's called often enough with the right types. Static methods can be inlined at compile-time already, but that's not merged yet. A few bits are still missing in the inliner.

The static compiler benefits greatly from types also, but the type inference is not that bad also, just a bit unstable (B::CC). Many modules cannot be compiled statically with this optimizing compiler yet. The normal static compiler (B::C) is stable though and used in production for decades. cperl just adds many memory optimization for that use case.

If you properly type your sigs and vars, the static compiler will fly. If not, the jit has more work to do. The biggest problem is only the non-cooperation from p5p. They explicitly disabled types in sigs (~4 lines of code) in their part, so nobody can use it because it breaks code. python, ruby, java went with annotations as comment. But this is lame. perl5 had the chance to do it properly when they introduced sigs (using the perl6 syntax or the syntax from its cpan modules) but blew it on purpose.
Again, typical Hn-ness. Have a great afternoon!
Applying a tax at EV charge points wouldn't work well because most charging happens at home. It's difficult to distinguish electricity used to charge an EV from that used elsewhere in the home.

I suspect most states/countries will eventually adopt a combination of higher annual registration fees and mileage-based road user charges.
Assist novelists is a good idea, but to replace them completely by AI is not good. Anyway, it's not like AI can write a novel or something. At least not a coherent one.
The quest for diversity in the workplace should include the physical layout. To gather a diverse set of solutions to a business problem, collaboration is essential, but so is a limit to collaboration. Assign three people to generate a proposed solution. You'll get a more diverse solution set to cherry pick from the _less_ they collaborate. After that is the right time to collaborate. A physical layout that supports this includes both isolated workspaces and conference rooms.

Or, coming soon, save money on floor space by cramming folks together like sardines but wearing VR rigs to simulate isolation. Or use the same tech to simulate collaborative spaces among remote workers.
Yes, your constant downplaying and total denial of the most important technology and political events of the century is very "HN like". Have a great afternoon.
Sad to hear that.

What kind of work was that?
One would think that the President's team would travel with a known-good pico-cell device and let his phone only connect to that. Or force wi-fi calling and only let the phone connect to the wi-fi network they bring along everywhere.
America's education is a paradox.

The U.S. produces many of the world's great intellectuals, inventors and engineers. So how does it do it if the education system is that bad? The answer is that it isn't. This is what I've observed:

Its K-12 education system isn't that great in general, but it's good enough.

Its colleges however do a good job filtering the non-academically inclined and catching up those remaining to the rest of the world in 4 years. U.S. college graduates are no worse than say UK college grads in terms of ability, even in technical disciplines. Elite U.S. colleges arguably produce students of equal or higher quality and the elite universities in most countries.

Taken broadly, U.S. grad schools are on par with the rest of the world. Its elite grad schools however are heads over heels better -- which is why everyone wants to go to grad school at a good US university. The funding is way better too.

Certain European countries like France, and funneling societies like India and China, produce more highly trained technical types at the college level, but these advantages wash out at the graduate level.

Most of the world optimizes education at the K-12 levels. The U.S. optimizes education at the tertiary level.
Exactly. Cubes and open office are on the same end of the spectrum. Private office is on the other.
President Lincoln wasn't leading troops into battle, but he was (briefly) under fire in 1864, during Early's raid on Washington.
This is one of the main reasons that I ultimately decided for my Strukt.app to not be built on top of built-in shell commands. For an interactive tool, it's crucial for each operation to be able to report whether it's idempotent, does writeback, etc.

Strukt doesn't do 'rm' yet (and nobody has ever requested it), but it does have other operations that do writeback. Once you add one, automatic updates are disabled, and you have to explicitly run the pipeline each time you want it run.

We really need a new cross-platform low-level framework for lego-like operations, like shell commands but updated for the 21st century.
Very interesting project which I will be following. Linux user here who had to roll my own after CrashPlan. I went with Duplicati and Backblaze because the combo was cheap and had a web/linux client. Could I recommend allowing Backblaze for storage since its cheaper then S3? It looks like restic already supports B2.
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Musk has his faults for sure, and he really needs some people reviewing his twitter posts before they go live.

But I find it amusing that people are so quick to point out his faults and criticize the guy when he's accomplished more in his life to date than any single one of his critics, with at most a couple exceptions, like Bezos.

Basically if he's a wanker, what's that make you? I don't think it's fallacious reasoning here at all to say that. Basically your standards for a non-wanker must be so high as to include almost nobody. I'm not just talking about his financial success, I'm talking about changing the world for the better with his companies, for raising 5 children, etc. The guy has his faults, but so do we all. If he's a wanker, than really who isn't?
But you don't need to be a battery engineer to understand statistics. If these batteries are dying early, then either Apple didn't do enough testing, they did and ignored the results.
Maybe more fair to say his ashes were scattered on the moon?

> The mission ended on July 31, 1999 at 9:52:02 UT (5:52:02 EDT) when Lunar Prospector was steered into a deliberate collision in a permanently shadowed area of the Shoemaker crater near the lunar south pole. It was hoped that the impact would liberate water vapor from the suspected ice deposits in the crater and that the plume would be detectable from Earth; however, no such plume was observed.
Someone once dropped off a piggy bank full of coins in ours with a note that it was a donation to help with the upkeep.

Another time a foreign student took the time to knock on my door, and in broken English, ask permission to use the library even though he didn’t have any books to donate because he had just moved here. I think of the courage that took when I see him now dutifully dropping books off.

Ours is a real pleasure to operate.
Someone must have toggled the k8s beta switch for me. It wasn't there earlier.
Well, it's more like "Trump is an idiot, and this is another attack vector the Chinese are using to influence him.". Previous presidents read daily intelligence reports and probably paid attention to the warnings about what they can talk about with their friends over insecure lines, but this guy "knows best".

IIRC Obama invited his high school friends a lot to hang in the White House, that's one way to avoid insecure phone networks.
I sit in a cube farm and it's like open office. It's noisy and distracting. And I have to stare at a gray wall the whole day. that alone makes me thing about quitting. It's bad for my soul.
I prefer twirp's model of no http2 requirement and supports JSON. https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp

I do think twirp code could be refactored and made a lot better though.
There is a huge amount of unwarranted assumptions and misplaced trust in the President* to follow the advice of his team in this thread. He has made it very clear that he thinks he is the smartest person in the world and doesn't need to listen to experts.

I don't think anyone can follow him with a known-good device and let him connect to that. The article describes his short-temper and complete unwillingness to sacrifice even a few minutes to take care of security issues.

> Or force wi-fi calling and only let the phone connect to the wi-fi network they bring along everywhere.

You cannot force this President* to do anything that he thinks inconveniences him. You can't "force WiFi calling" without being fired or at least being afraid of it.

The solution here is not a technology fix for the phone of this President. The fix is a new Congress that cares about national security and a new President that cares about national security.

Also,

> One would think that the President's team would...

No, one really wouldn't. The President's team is not concerned with actually fixing this problem. They have made it clear that national security concerns come second to the whims and desires of the President*.
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro that I.T. has offered to replace.

Nooooope! By the looks of how things are trending, I'm keeping this thing until I move on or they fire me.
I think this is better implemented industrially. It's easier to make a robot that can deliver food (made in a factory), than it is to make a robot that can cook a variety of meals from raw ingredients. Both are super difficult problems but delivery robots are at a more advanced stage. Instead of sandwich making robots we are more likely to see sandwich delivery robots rolling around the neighborhood, waiting for someone to summon them.
I'm a current teacher (looking to get out), and I can completely agree with the cultural differences in how people treat us. I teach in the rural South, and, for one, there's not a culture of education here. People actively disdain schools, even high school, and don't understand the importance because they (and their parents) were able to get jobs without it; this gets passed on to their kids as well.

When they show up at parent-teacher conferences, they're usually mad that little Johnny is failing...even when little Johnny has literally turned in nothing all year, even classwork you gave them time in class to do. And hasn't retaken that test you've given him three times to do it at home. But it's my fault that I just don't get him a straight passing grade, despite all this. Or, their parents don't come/get mad when the kids cheat and get marked for it, etc. And, of course, often the parents of the best students do come, when they're the ones I need to talk to the least!

But, contrast them with my Hispanic students (particularly the Guatemalan ones, and the Mexican ones; the Puerto Rican ones are different). The Guatemalan students themselves are always so focused and wanting to pay attention, and the two Mexican girls usually are. They get frustrated at the Puerto Ricans, who goof off a lot.

Now, I don't see a lot of their parents, but that's more because they all work night shift (as do my students). However, if I offered (extra) credit for them to email/call, or show up to parent teacher conferences, every single one of them would be there. And usually they contact us, often through their kid since they don't speak much English, if their grades drop asking what the kid can change. It's very different in the attitude they have towards teachers compared to my American students (in general), and I think anyone who deals with a lot of them daily and gets to know them (one class is solely Hispanic students, so I don't have to worry about balancing language issues between them and American ones).
The opiod crisis challenges the notion that lax drug laws would be an improvement.

In USA, there are 2million people in prison/jail right now, and 2million people with an opiod use disorder.

https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/index.html
Nothing new here. And no discussion about what he misses in the older one, etc.
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"All that said, the open office approach itself is a cheap cheat / proxy for an open minded collaborative organization. It's popular because it worked at successful companies. The problem is, for those conpanies it was more a correlation than a cause."

Exactly. Collaboration is a mindset, not an office layout. Same happened with Agile. Let's just pick some random artifacts from Scrum and think we are Agile instead of actually being agile.
Elon Musk has reiterated recently that Tesla's goal is to reach Model 3 production of 10,000 per week in 2019.

But not all of those sales will be in the US. According to the Q3 update document:

"The mid-sized premium sedan market in Europe is more than twice as big as the same segment in the US. This is why we are excited to bring Model 3 to Europe early next year. "
A few of us over at https://letsrobot.tv would strongly disagree

People have lived with their human-controlled robots for months, some even took them shopping. While some stuff got broken, it can be a very engaging experience.
Ugly Black Slab over Shiny Aluminum Thing any day.
Http/2, spdy
I suggest anyone who reads this comment read the linked article carefully. The difference is in a java-to-java scenario, and the specific task is retrieving 50k structured records.

If your data to be transported is heterogeneous, or one of your endpoints is JavaScript, or if your requests are gates by something else, e.g. bandwidth, transport latency, endpoint raw compute, or human interaction, this dramatic difference may not necessarily apply.
I think it is important that there is no headquarter. Some people having desks at the same co-working space is fine. All the executives in the same building means everyone else is at a satellite office.
I guess the author didn't buy the version with the touch bar. That thing is not just useless, it's actively detrimental to the user experience.

I cannot count the number of times I accidentally pressed escape, or had to press twice for one of the buttons to register.
I got a new MBP for work, and every time I go home to my ~2015 model I am so happy to not be typing on this new shitty keyboard, and that is to say nothing of the oversized trackpad always accidentally causing me to move my cursor with my palm.
"But many MBAs are little more than cargo cultists, following along what others who are successful have done without any understanding or curiosity as to the 'why' the thing worked for them and whether it would apply to their own organization."

That's pretty much how MBA classes work with their case studies.
That's just a police state with extra steps. Why not make breathing illegal and give cops discretion to only arrest "bad" people?

Also, dealing is very different from using.
It always pays to look at the alternatives. Sometimes the latest isn't the greatest. Unfortunately, time is particularly cruel to computing hardware and software. Downgrading to an old laptop is, at best, a temporary fix. The author of this article should consider other OS's and hardware manufacturers.
>Of course China is not currently a military threat to the US ...

I would disagree. China routinely threatens U.S. naval vessels which transit disputed regions of the South China Sea, and maintains a large battery of missiles pointed at Taiwan, an American diplomatic ally. They have also developed hypersonic anti-carrier missiles, and are rapidly expanding their blue-water navy.
This is basically the “take home meal kit” that many different companies offer now. It’s too expensive. When you add in the labour, you might as well just go out for dinner.

Cooking the meal is the cheapest part, prepping is the most expensive.
Got tired of re-buying 2011 Macbook Pros because it was getting kinda ridiculous. Decided the only things I actually care about are Lightroom, the keyboard, decent drivers and power management, and a terminal app.

New machine is a Dell XPS 15 running Windows. Keyboard and build is almost identical to Macbook, no N-key rollover but I can live without. Otherwise, meh, why is everyone still so attached to these dumb overpriced machines?
To be clear, I do accept it - the common decency of referring to people the way they would like to be referred to is much more important than a minor linguistic inconvenience to me. I'd just have preferred one of those others had caught on.
These tweets bring up valid points, but it’s obvious that the conversation is optimized for Twitter and not getting anything done.
I’m not judging you. You came here because you had personal desires that, noble or not, were not fulfilled. And you will leave for that same reason. That seems like pretty common human behavior to me and so I make no judgements about your morals, but I will point out that a less selfish way of seeing the world might lead you to ask yourself how you can have a positive impact and make your new home a better place. Perhaps that sense of personal responsibility is an American affectation. As one of our leaders once said, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. That seems even more apropos for those who have made the conscious decision to adopt this place as their home.
I don't have any personal experiences with this, but a few users on reddit host pricing discussions. You might get recommendations or info from them. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/search?q=Am+I+getting+fuck...
You're passing judgement based on a life time of learnings. How much did this person know at the time? Arm chair quarter backs always seem to have the right answers.
I would more for a robot cleaning service than a human one. The rich stopped using servants in America more because of social reasons that cost ones, although that idea seems to be fading away as Silicon Valley tries to get people to pay to have everything done for them. Call it "single serving servants", for everything.
Haha yeah, infinite whiteboard would be awesome.

- Mischa @ spatial
> You're going on about ads or something with a small budget (???) but I have no idea what you're talking about.

The amount of money Russia spent on Facebook ads.

> Well, Heather Heyer was murdered in this fashion.

That was tragic. Evil, even. But you said "People are dying in the streets from the actions taken by violent right-wing people", and when pressed for evidence, you cite the only instance that has happened in two years. But you claimed more than that. You claimed "people" (plural) "are" (present tense). You have dramatically overstated a real, horrible, but still one-off instance into a general trend.

> Well Beto for one! Ted Cruz trying to drum up support to jail Beto O'Rourke last night was wild. Scary and sad :(

Ted Cruz is trying to drum up support for getting re-elected, nothing more. (You've seen this before. Note that Hillary remains completely un-locked-up.) It's sad, all right, that Cruz would use this tactic. But Beto isn't going to jail, win or lose, unless he actually does something, no matter what Cruz says in a campaign situation.
This is the line that always blows my mind when this comes up:

>Whittaker's car was twice broken into, by trusted acquaintances who watched him leave large amounts of cash in it. $500,000 and $200,000 were stolen in two separate instances.

The more I read lottery winning stories, the more it becomes clear that you need to move (pref to another country) and change your name on the social level.

As for the handouts and beggers, it seems like it'd be better to incinerate all of the mail and make several anonymous donations to hospitals and programs (e.g. Make a Wish) in smaller amounts ($50k - $100k.)

It also seems prudent to have a few financial managers who are basically quarantined and unaware of the total sum of your net worth.

While it would be tempting to give money to family and friends, I don't think you can go down this route with friends. I think helping family out by paying off their mortgage is fine, but I believe that most financial exchanges between friends spoils the relationship. This also applies for treating people to fancy dinners and stuff. I think you'd have to suck it up and split cheques like the pre-lotto days.

Anyway, thinking about this is a fun mental exercise, but I don't doubt that I'd wind up with a knife in my spine, found days later on my personal yacht (not the one I entertain on.)
2015 mbp for sale. I gotta say, 2018 is not error free, but it is fast, and it works, and it supports 2 4K monitors without an eGPU.

I can charge, run external hard drive, and 2 external monitors, and 3 usb devices and and speakers and an SD card on 1 cable. I do wish the cal digit dock was included, though.
If twirp had more existing backend implementations, I would certainly use it for more things.
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I disagree, each complaint is something that he didn’t have with the previous hardware or software
Doesn't sound like they were scattered, if we're being factual about it. "The only man whose ashes are in proximity to the lunar surface" in a canister, in a probe. A long way off being buried there though.
If you go back to using HN for political flamewar, we're going to have to ban you again. Please do it somewhere else; not here, at all.