skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Groundbreaking New technology harnesses twisted light beams
SecondLife 2 coming soon to a basement near you.
(Very very unlikely to have been A=410. A=415 is very likely.)
Powerful portraits of trans youth in the USA
Wow. That is a pretty stellar report. If they continue gaining cash reserves at 800+M$ / quarter they deserve to win.
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Hi Abe,

> if you can tell me that you strongly support equal LGBT rights and freedoms

I do. Of course I do. The freedom to choose is one of my most important tenets. I am opposed to taking that freedom away from law-abiding individuals.

I may not agree with or condone everyone's choices or lifestyles -- just as they may not agree with mine -- but that is the point of having freedom (and/or moral agency, whatever you want to call it).

You are allowed to campaign for what you believe in: you can tell people to stay away from our company because I'm a part of it, but there are people who will disagree with you, too. It's just how it goes. There's always somebody who will disagree, somebody who will not support your own agenda. I spent two years of my life -- 24/7, in a place I had never been before nor been since -- trying to teach people what I believe and to convince them to change their lives. It's hard. Ask any missionary, ask any activist. People sometimes just aren't ready to agree, or aren't in a place to understand such that they CAN feasibly agree.

Sorry that you have (had?) to feel a bit divided by what you and I believe. Hopefully the next time you meet a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints you can confidently smile knowing that you have a friend in them.
Thus ends REST.
> theyv'e sat on the factory and done nothing since announcing it

What? They only just announced it a few months ago. Jesus...

"why haven't you colonized the moon yet, it's been a decade you've been working on this and you have nothing to show"
Wow, people are quick to suggest this could somehow comprise postgres independence..

I think 1% percent donations like this is fantastic. In this it also seems to make business sense for Citus to ensure postgres is well funded :)

Still a good example to follow.
I found a new variation recently. Luckily all my code was checked in.

Meant to type:

rm -rf node_modules && npm install

Question: what's immediately next to the & key on a keyboard?

Answer: *

Actually typed

rm -rf node_modules ** npm install

Oops.
Nice tool! Your main use case for destroying files is “xargs rm”, which would be used when receiving a piped argument list.

Could you have this command run as user “nobody” by default, and have a flag to run as a real user? Or as others have mentioned, use capabilities on the spawned processes to prevent anything other than standard input/output?
Apparently there is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18170086

EDIT: I think the comment is wrong actually, trinet only offers this service for companies and employees in the US.
My understanding is that the conditions inside of Tesla's manufacturing are brutal. I have friends who work on the production side and they effectively tell me corporate culture is driven by fear. I am definitely cheering Tesla on for global warming reasons but I worry that Musk is running a Faustian bargain that may bite him in the backside long term.

These numbers though are encouraging.
I think Dijkstra made a point that when somebody sees something new, they try to project something they know onto it - so with computers, the first thing people tried to do was make machines that thought like people- a project that's still bearing very little fruit. In the meantime, the things you could do really well with computers, like discrete maths, have been fabulously useful.

I suspect robots are a bit like that. They make very poor substitutes for people. But, they can do a lot of stuff ('dishwashers', for example), that are basically orthogonal to what people do, but reduce workload immensely.
Tesla reports surprise profit in Q3
Thanks for doing the right thing.
The next paragraph gives a little more context:

The SQLite website (https://www.sqlite.org/) uses SQLite
itself, of course, and as of this writing (2015) it handles
about 400K to 500K HTTP requests per day, about 15-20% of
which are dynamic pages touching the database. Dynamic
content uses about 200 SQL statements per webpage. This
setup runs on a single VM that shares a physical server
with 23 others and yet still keeps the load average below
0.1 most of the time.
Death to bug reproduction. A case study
his grisp against big french institutions is very real and documented. Look at how he started his company Free, telling people that if they stayed at the big telecom companies they were "pigeon".
People make all sorts of bad predictions in both directions, so the fact that some people were wrong on this doesn't say much about other claims. But if one is looking for a statistically safe bet, "people don't want proposed idea X" is a pretty good one. Most ideas don't work out.
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Good points. There are def a lot of cases where vr could work.

I think it will come down to how willing people are to not see the outside world, plus how tied people are to using (at least in my little bubble) mac laptops and google docs / web apps designed for laptops. I could imagine a mobile platform like quest or go having a web browser and a keyboard, but you'd have to have one of those logitech keyboards to even be able to see it to take notes.

Again to your point though, there are lots of meetings where you are just talking and where perhaps a simple mobile-vr-based web browser could suffice. For example, I'd potentially sometimes rather watch a movie with someone remote using a Go than using a hololens. There are also lots of examples of cases where everyone is remote and you want to control the environment that they come into (like a training session or school :) where it would probably make more sense too.

Re: Meeting types, the most valuable use cases for xr meetings right now are likely not 1:1 facetime style meetings, because it's difficult to replicate that personal connection in xr right now (video is better in some ways). One argument is that a more valuable use case would be brainstorming meetings (https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS696US...) where people are often pretty active.
So if a human was given a choice of a robot that made dinner and washed dishes and a robot that lets them check the temperature and play despacito to their hearts content they would choose the latter? I'm not buying it.

There are so many gains to be made with real robotics.
Already did!
it seems like you post negative comments on anything Tesla related. Any motivations?
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I wonder how it would like with Fortran code though.
I take issue with your market share comment. You are referring to an installed base of 1%.

Market share is a sales based number, which according to the document the Model 3 is the number 1 selling car in America by revenue over the last quarter.
having been through university in France, I can tell you that the PhD teachers give no shit about their students or how they teach their courses.
Bike shedding code style is more likely to be the narrow problem that has no influence on the bigger picture.

I don't care how shitty your code looks, I see little risk as long as it has well contained boundaries with system at large.

You have ownership of your module, and if you leave, and someone needs to work on it, and cringes at how it looks, since the input/output edges are clear, it can be thrown out at re-written to said dev's personal taste.

Focus on delivering business value and creating the best END-USER experience.

If you are focused on pretty code, you will likely be the only one patting yourself on the back when all is said and done.
Just shows how fake all of the "expert analysis" is. It's so painfully obvious that all of the expectations of losses of 15 cents/share were just paid for by either the govt./big oil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_budget
Your body adapts - it's a workout. After a month or so it's easy.
My understanding is that the conditions inside of Tesla's manufacturing are brutal. I have friends who work on the production side and they effectively tell me corporate culture is driven by fear. I am definitely cheering Tesla on for global warming reasons but I worry that Musk is running a Faustian bargain that may bite him in the backside long term.

These numbers though are really exciting.
The article tells us a quote from Romeo & Juliet was etched on Shoemaker's lunar burial capsule. Here's the quote and more from NASA.[1]

And, when he shall die,

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the world will be in love with night,

And pay no worship to the garish sun.

[1] https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/news82.html

RIP all you pioneer astronomers!
You mean as a speculative application outlining my personal situation/desires? Because I don't want to make a commitment for a "job" with weeks of recruiting and stuff...
No question fraud exists on all these platforms, however, if anyone is wrongly flagged by an algorithm, reaching out to the company must be followed by a prompt and timely response, so any misfortune can be remediated. I would assume fraudsters wouldn't typically reach out to have their accounts reinstated.

In the digital age, startups and businesses rely on cloud providers for their livelihood. These providers must be reliable and trustworthy, otherwise they shouldn't get a penny.

Also, I'm not intimately familiar with OP's situation, my comments are just common sense generalizations; I think!
Same here: I fear wasps more than spiders. Some spiders look sort of cute, and even the ugly ones don't seem aggressive, but all types of wasps look aggressive to me, all the time.

It doesn't help that I've been stung by wasps more than once, but never by spiders.
Private, elite prep schools and colleges in the US are the best. The average college or high school is dismal compared to the rest of the world. We consistently score below the average of OECD countries.
For comparison purposes, tuition fees in a French university were around 0$
This article missed an artful nod to Robert A. Heinlen's "The Door into Summer." This terrific novel not only heavily features the rise and use of home-robots, but has a bunch of cat stuff in it to-boot.

I give this a hearty recommend for imaginative cat companion-having, home-robot enthusiasts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Door_into_Summer
https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/supermicro-announc...

Right.

So then the SMCI short can be ruled out. What else could fuel this madness?
Give me a smartphone: "This is great, I don't need a watch!"

Give me a smart watch: "This is great, I don't need to pull my phone out!"

Predicting what people will/won't like seems like black magic to me, with after-the-fact efforts to diagnose why "obviously" people did/did not love something somehow only works in hindsight.

I'm not saying the idea of finding something useful and making money providing it is broken, only that pushing the boundaries is inherently unpredictable, because we aren't terribly logical (or at least have a lot of variables at play)
Amusingly the animal tamer's last name is Hoover.
In some emergency departments, the physicians participate in profit sharing. I know of a few EDs where they add up all the revenue, subtract all the costs, and divide the rest into each doctor's paycheck based on how much that doctor billed each month.
Education in this country echos everything, it's a shadow of the extreme wealth inequality.
in what way? Oculus is still an extremely niche product that even hardcore gamers are reluctant to buy, waiting for better veersions.
I have friends that work there too and I've heard from some that they love it and some that they didn't.

It's been enough of a spread that I suspect it's just normal "my manager is bad" type of variety.
Really? I'm a pretty big Tesla fan and shareholder.

I think almost everything I post is pretty darn neutral. I mean this entire post is just facts and my guesses as to what the numbers mean:)
I wonder if topical application of lavender oil could help in the case of MTF hormone replacement therapy.

The articles say that it doesn't increase serum estrogen levels but I wonder if it might help the skin to achieve more "female" properties.
Say "farewell" to Swagger, etc. and just generate your server & client libraries. I've found it to be far superior to JSON/REST, especially for microservices. Browser support was always the sticking point to wide adoption, so this is great news.
ObWestWing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R9kH_HOUXM
I'm not yet buying tight talent supply. Does your company offer 90-100% remote work (from Germany/EU/similar timezone)? If it doesn't the market isn't really tight. Software can easily be done from anywhere you want with few meetings necesarry (well, maybe for teambuilding ;-))
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...then why not just use AWS's Lightsail instead of DO so you can use AWS RDS without worrying about latency? (Or the equivalent for Azure or GCP.)

Really asking, bc for next personal projects I was getting ready to abandon DO and use AWS Lightsail + RDS.
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I can't look at that square handle and not think "that was by design", also.. it seems obvious that it was designed to break at that point if it fell..

https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/styles/inline_...
True, in the states, 'kills gophers' would be one of the bullet point features. People would probably buy specialized robots whose sole purpose is killing gophers if it was effective, as scary of a prospect as that is.
US colleges used to be affordable before the federal government started pouring money into them with guaranteed loans. It's not a free market, but one distorted by government intervention.
A mixed state can be produced as a subset of a entangled system. It can also be produced as a mixture of pure independent states. They need not correspond to the same physical situation: you can prepare the same mixture state in different ways. But these ensembles can not be distinguished later (unless you “remember” the lost information about the precise state for each element!).

For example, you can get unpolarized light as a mixture of left- and right-polarized light, or as a mixture of horizontal- and vertical-polarized light, or getting one photon from entangled pairs (and discarding the other). I’m sure that you can find a way to describe that as an entanglement with something else, but there is no need to do so.

In particular, when Alice measures a photon in an entangled pair the entanglement is broken. Bob’s photon is no longer entangled with Alice’s photon. Hopefully you will agree that Alice’s photon is now in a pure state. Again, you may want to make things much more difficult but it’s not required to prevent FTL signaling.
I've seen one at both rancho san antonio & the dish.
In the short term, I agree. People buy products that solve problems. The human body is not the ideal robotic template for almost any kind of work. The Roomba is excellent proof of that.

But in the long term, I think primate tendency toward dominance means that there's a significant market for people who want to boss around things that can be perceived as other people. I doubt many people want robot buddies, but I'd bet there's quite a market for what are in effect robot slaves.

On the one hand, that seems pretty squicky to me. But on the other, if it keeps them from trying to reduce the freedom of other humans, then godspeed.
I think there's still some innovation remaining for the robot vacuum.

Like a robot vacuum that can handle stairs. The Roomba does a pretty decent job on a single-level, but has to be manually carried up/down stairs and someone still has to vacuum the stairs themselves.

And one that can automatically detect when it's ingested a wire would be nice, I've lost 2 USB cables to our Roomba so far.

And this guy would like his robot vacuum to detect when it's run over soft, pliable waste before it spreads it throughout the house:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/15/po...
That’s the general problem with smarthome stuff. Turning lights on and off is not actually high on my list of tasks I don’t want to do. Those that are like laundry are partly aided by specialized robots. Others like the lawn, shoveling, cleaning, etc. are addressed by either paying people or doing them myself.
Ah fair enough, thanks for the share!
I picked up a Model 3 performance about a month ago, I'd recommend anyone interested in Tesla go visit a store and test drive one.

They're so far beyond anything anyone else is making.
Massive beat. Free cash flow chart demonstrates the magnitude:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqTLT1SU8AA92uB.jpg

My prediction is they ramp up R&D spend and hoist a slew of consumer products. Or even get into aviation. Such as this drone spinoff from a former battery engineer.

If you are a recent engineering grad, next couple of years will be a great time to join ;)

https://impossible.aero/
Well, at least until now there actually was something to fear considering the threat of default on Teslas upcoming loan fulfillment. Hopefully with long term profitability in the horizon the working conditions will ease.
House worth 700k next to Frankfurt (the house I live in): 450 Euro a year.

If you really count in the high rents on east and westcoast, I doubt there is high net difference of money to live from. If you are working as a freelancer, your tech income will also be rather in the 160-240k$ range (and quite stable nevertheless)
front page already... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18295942
Yes — you’re not the first person to come at me with a pitchfork for the domain and name and won’t be the last. I do appreciate the feedback, but we’re committed to the name. :)

We haven’t historically had a problem with “stdlib”, we’re already the top Google result. “Standard Library” (full name) is new for us as we expand to a less technical cohort of customers. We’re working with some pretty great people and companies (Stripe, Slack) on our mission to build a, well, Standard Library — so if you can get over the name choice you should check out our online development environment! -> https://code.stdlib.com/
They have to be happy with those numbers, interesting question of whether they continue to sell the S,X,3's and generate a pile of cash before they start burning it on model Y development.

In general it should also muzzle a lot of the nay sayers, it isn't easy to lie about money in the bank.

Solar City is a disappointment. I keep watching the solar roof tile business to see if that goes anywhere. I'm getting close to putting in Powerwalls and getting off the grid completely, the PG&E shenanigans are just that annoying for grid tied solar systems.
While I agree that there is a connection, those are extremely different issues. Not having food or water is entirely different from having a low-level education and being discriminated.

I don't think that the current system of funding public schools in the US is good. The opposite is the case. Yes, I do believe that education is a critical instrument to fight inequality and racism and that every human should have free access to high-quality education (which is not that difficult to achieve with modern technologies).

By the way, your argument is missing a decisive point: The help for Africa is done by the elite, not by the broad population. Therefore, even if the inequality in the US would rise, it would take a while before there would be 'no help for Africa' anymore (until it would be politically problematic).
Opunit (sanity checks for vms, containers, and servers)
Well not quite everything. I see a new post editor but what about the underlying WordPress? I know Magento 2 isn't the bastion of modern web development but that was a definite "changes everything" moment.
I don't really need to prove it since you're claiming that 500 million "potential" installs somehow equates to "half a billion infected iOS users". They got the 500 million number from the number of users of WeChat in China. Unless every single WeChat user in China and every user of those apps downloaded that update (which was pulled in less than 48 hours), that 500 million is a maximum number. Additionally, because iOS apps are sandboxed, uninstalling or updating the app removed the malware completely from those devices.

Now let's compare that with Android and Google Play. According to Nokia's Security Intelligence lab, 74 percent of malware attacks are on Android devices. In 2017 alone, the largest confirmed Android malware attack was for 40 million users. That's verified installs. (http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/no...) If 40 million users were hit off of one app and there are 8.5 million infected installers on the Google Play store (https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/PDFs/technical-pap...), it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that you're quickly getting past the 1 billion active malware installs that would double the single incident you cited (which, again, assumed that the worst case happened).

Additionally, you're completely ignoring the fact that the vector for the attack was the developers of those apps themselves who downloaded Xcode from a random site on the internet. They issued an update and the malware was removed. On Android, on the other hand, the only action taken was the removal of those apps from the Google Play store which means that the apps remained installed on all the devices they had infected.

The rarity of attacks on the iOS front alone makes your statements both misleading and disingenuous. Android is also installed on far more phones than iOS is so we're only even dealing with the malware that's been confirmed and discovered. There's likely an order of magnitude more malware installs out there that are silently doing their thing.
As an engineer who used to work for other firms I would work at a significant pay reduction to do fulfilling work. Companies who have shady business practises are a significant turn off and I doubt I’m the only one.

Now as a manager who has to hire I find it pretty straightforward finding passionate people to work with me simply because the work is compelling.

It’s a matter of getting your story out as the ethical data mining company, or something :) you’ll find like minded clients and employees do exist and that being ethical can be a competitive advantage too.
It allows you to define an interface wherein you can then simply generate clients and service libraries from that are typesafe.
Eh.. LINQ statements are fine when you're trying to do fairly straightforward types of aggregations, but for more customized stuff, I find it more of a pain to figure out all the syntax than to just use a simple for loop. Newer isn't always better.
Got a formal Coding Rules document? This really helps, especially if its well-written in a friendly tone.

If you don't - well, be prepared for a bit of a bumpy ride until your group can formulate one. However, it has to be said that getting a formal Coding Rules guideline is easily one of the best things you can do for team cohesion - it takes effort, but at the end of the process it should be quite clear that you don't own the code...
You need one for Lua - the Lua sources themselves.

Also, LuaJIT.
Lightening killed a middle aged man in Ondo
For a paper in mathematics, perhaps it would be best to quote the entire proof of interest, if it doesn't appear anywhere else in a peer-reviewed publication. That would avoid the link rot problem. Also make sure archive.org has a copy, if possible.
I always start a session with BEGIN, write UPDATEs/DELETEs as SELECTs first and (if possible) use a staging database until I'm fine with the result.
What's the difference between that, and companies directly having their employees "donate" FOSS work on a project, where their FOSS contributions consist solely of building features that the company wants the project to have?