skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats the problem, I dont really have answers to those questions about his priorities/motivations/reservations yet - just that there are some. Hope to find out soon.
While there have been people who have done things like this in all ages (and also over believing there is NO God, as opposed to just the wrong one), your statement is not as accurate as it could be in most cases if you take into account the context of those wars.

That said, Benedictine monks would not be at or near the top of my list for people who would get all triggered, angry, and go to war over you disagreeing that God exists.

Yes, people fiercely defend what they love and believe. But it's possible to do so graciously and firmly without being angry or freaking out that someone disagrees with you (I am not referring to you specifically, but you, myself, our readers, mankind, etc).
I'd be very careful about the term "the intelligence community", that is the "community" which told the world the WMD story in Iraq.
This comparision is empty because anything exchange into the same results with the same. in other words: nobody exachange dollar into dollar unless they are not sound-minded.

Fiat currency is at its best second degree KBC because other countries decide on accepting or rejecting US economical indicators by temporarily betting on their short term future and set currency exchange point for the next 24 hours or so. Nobody buys US dollar because american flag is pretty or english is second broadest language in the world or some other “pretty face” indicator, as currency exhange dollar versus everything for the last 25 years clearly shows USD strenghtening +500% and weakening even 50% all the time.

No, Feds do not decide on this beauty contest. May be suprise to you but only 20% of printed dollar remains in usa. 80% is being shipped out for all sorts of purposes such as balancing countries oil wallets (aka petrodolar) to aiding other countries ending on fact that many countries prefer intra-use of greenbacks to its own currency. So Feds at its best control pretty face of dollar on its local playground aka USA, but in reality they dont because again dollar strength comes from evonomical indicators, not from how much feds prints.
It's really awesome. The first time I saw a web interface like this was on the Mr Robot website (www.whoismrrobot.com). Ironically, it looks like they've updated the site since then with a GUI. But originally it included a DOS-like terminal. It was such a fun page. Really good UX in the sense that it's playful and instantly recognizable with a nostalgic feel to anyone who's ever tried to hack software. I ended up creating my own JS-based console-based interface for a side project, not released yet. It's kind of genius that you guys have an even simpler way for people to launch these.
BillG claims Paul did most of the emulator work and he worked on the interpreter core. With the floating point routines by Monte Davidoff who they hired. It was a team effort of course, but BillG was adamant to take credit for the interpreter specifically.

From the source code itself:

PAUL ALLEN WROTE THE NON-RUNTIME STUFF.
BILL GATES WROTE THE RUNTIME STUFF.
MONTE DAVIDOFF WROTE THE MATH PACKAGE.

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=774
Yes, oil in water is bad. But there's no scale - how does this 100, 300, or 700 barrels per day compare to natural seeps?

"In the Gulf of Mexico, there are more than 600 natural oil seeps that leak between one and five million barrels of oil per year, equivalent to roughly 80,000 to 200,000 tonnes."
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_seep with reference)

I think we really need to figure out where all this oil goes.

For another yardstick, deepwater horizon was estimated at 210 million barrels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill.

Even if it is 1000 barrels per day, Taylor has a while to go (575 years...)
Any reason for these calls for retraction?

It's not like there aren't false stories about what happens at Apple or Amazon regularly, not that they're usually about hacking but the public calls for retraction seem somewhat as unique as the story.
Someone really needs to figure a reasonable way of writing code on mobile/touchscreen. I would love a lisp drag and drop repl, I feel like its syntax could be well suited for this
I'm not sure I believe that. If civilization were to collapse, you'd want food, medicine, potentially gas. Potentially solar cells, and some other things.

I think you'd see more traditional bartering than money being introduced again in its earliest stages.
I find inescapable the conclusion that Bloomberg was a patsy in all this, somehow. Their story is panning out to be a more and more bald-faced lie by the day, and the accusations they made weren't exactly quiet or ignorable either. I actually find it easier to imagine a grand conspiracy to make Bloomberg print this story than I can imagine every journalist there suddenly forgetting every bit of integrity and common sense they ever had.
I converted from mouse&click guy to command-line&scripting guy thanks to my employer who made my workstation a vm I had to rdp to over slow network.
> internally designed boards

What? The allegations are against super micro boards produced in China.
> There's the identification during the event, and there's the identification many, many years later (even 2012 was still 30 years after the event).

So you think it's likely that she was attacked by someone in 1982, but she didn't know who that person was at the time, and then she randomly decided in 2012 that it was this one guy she knew from high school?

Or are you saying it’s likely that she knew who it was in 1982, and then in 2012 she misremembered and decided it was someone else?

>I agree. And if it were 1982 that would weight heavily.
On the other hand, delaying charges for multiple decades,

In the early 2000s my younger sister had a similar event happen to her. 2 guys grabbed her and tried to pull her clothes off at a party. My parents called the police, a detective came out and interviewed my sister. He interviewed the guys. The guys denied it. There was no way to prove that she wasn’t lying.

The result: Sorry nothing we can do. It’s your word against theirs. Don’t go to parties.

Christine Ford’s assault allegedly happened in 1982. What do you think the police response would have done in 1982 if girl accused 2 boys of sexual assault, with no evidence, and no witnesses? Keeping in mind one of the boys was the son of a judge. More importantly what do you think a 15 year old girl in 1982 would have thought the response would have been?

>then bringing them out within a narrow several-week window that happens to have the greatest possible maximum political effect...what are the probabilities of underlying motivation?

She told her therapist in 2012. What are the probabilities that she was prescient enough in 2012 to know that some day Kavanaugh would be nominated for SCOTUS so she better start laying the groundwork for an attack?

She called The Washington Post, contacted her congressman, and wrote a letter to her senator in July. Right after Kavanaugh was nominated.

>Unfortunately, either way there are some incredulous events.

Nothing about a 15 year old girl not going to the police about a crime she can’t prove is hard to believe. If anything is hard to believe it’s Kavanaugh’s responses to the questioning. Especially his explanation of “Renate Alumnius”. I don’t buy that one for a second.

Is her testimony enough to convict Kavanaugh of a crime? Certainly not--nor do I think it should be. Personally I’d say there’s a better than 50% chance it’s true though.
As to the "always on" issue, you can purchase a fairly cheap generator that runs on natural gas or propane for backup - assuming that the gas is running, you can run your furnace fan to heat the house. And yes my experience is that gas never goes out but electricity sometimes does.
Take that 25% invest it in the market, you will probably get a better return.
Code of Hammurabi
The other one was too high to answer the survey
Oh cool! where do i get one?
Also in the academic world where there is a quarter year system used (3 trimesters and summer break).
What kind of remote operation/visualization interfaces do you have for deployed systems? Does your company receive the alerts/visuals/notifications or do the farmers that buy from you receive these?

Do you want farmers to eventually be able to operate the fleets you sell them, or would you prefer to sell the entire operation to farmers and manage the fleets yourself?
That assumes there is no competition. I don't know the oil market well enough, but if there is competition then you can't necessarily just raise prices to the maximum the market will bear. I'd assume there is some competition because when oil dips low enough they stop drilling new sites in ND as it is just more expensive to extract here (fracking).
We used to call it bastion host but yes. Rent a few physical machines around the world, make production SSH firewalled off from everywhere except those ones. Now you only need to worry about all the security holes in your web app stack which are of course quite numerous... but at least you are not bothered by SSH bots.
mckinsey is pure bs.. 600GB worth of data per day.. yeah all of them actionable data for ad and targeting? bs.
GitHub back to operating normally
why not just ask how they feel about it and try to address concerns if they come up?
PHP is getting better soon!
> There are no downsides but so many upsides

I've not used TS, but from what I've read the types from TS are not js compatible, so once you go into TS you have code that just isnt js.

(As opposed to flow, where you can just have it not be used)

While transpiling is normal, I'm as hesitant to tie myself to TS as I am to, say, a non-standard decorators syntax. Anyone coming to me with "there are no downsides" in such a case doesnt sound very credible.

Assuming I'm wrong, how would you address this?
It's all about messaging.

quoting: Soon we will have chips with thousands of cores with high-bandwidth interconnect. Such chips will power the next generation of Intelligent Applications.

Since message passing between Actors is the standard method to communicate, languages like Erlang are highly relevant.
Couldn't they have compromised by having an external input on one of the models, like the 27" pre-retina iMac used to b come a monitor? I suppose that's could still be perceived as a problem of fracturing the target platform. But really that's unavoidable in any leading edge technology.
I know but I find it rational to check if there actually isn't a sufficiently good implementation of your idea already before you start "inventing a bicycle".
Yes! We're happy to fund some of that work if someone is interested in working on it email me amjad@repl.it
I'm interested to see what happens in Colorado if Amendment 74 passes: https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Amendment_74,_Compensation_...

It is an experiment in rolling back the administrative state, if done properly.
That would be politicians who ignored any of the "IC" analysis that contradicted their claims, and made up their own conclusions from dubious sources of "raw" intelligence like Ahmed Chalabi.
Because the UI is innately designed to be exclusive and not inclusive, and I would like for it to stay that way.

The implication here is there are certain well intentioned people who the community would rather not have on HN.

Clearly only tech-savvy people and those with a knack for sticking with things with a learning curve would stay on HN.

This makes the nature on discussion here wired towards people of that kind. These people (for better or for worse) on an average tend to take questions at face value and answer them than assume an ulterior motive behind an opinionated comment.

I like that about HN, and would not want it to become like other internet comment threads.
Neither:

"Squeal"

Which I found a while back, somewhere or other on the web.
Notably, the updated version moves their $100k/BTC projection from 2021 to 2025. Yikes to anyone who thinks these tea leaves have any meaning.
Thanks. Looks exactly what I'm looking. Just sad the set of tags is so humble.
Form F-1 – Liulishuo (LAIX)
I agree. Android seems to have more consistent UX for apps regardless of developer. Back button is such a key input that I always feel trapped in iOS, where as on Android everything feels intuitive and multitasking is a breeze.
They've been superseeded by the even older and better times of SGML ;)
Doesn't seem binary at all -- as the market price fluctuates, clearly there is room for disagreement (middle ground).
I'm a geologist. This press release is pure BS. We've known beyond reasonable doubt that the inner core is solid for more than a decade - for instance: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2005/04/14/scien...

We even know the elastic modulus of the solid inner core: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/6/eaar2538
> seniors... chest pain...

Quick, if you could change one UX that would maximize the numbers of lives saved, what would it be?

(For the purposes of this thought experiment you get to force all users to watch a 30 second educational video one time.)
Looks very curious. Thanks.
Yes these two links to two images presented without comment from a cryptocurrency VC and news.bitcoin.com scream "objective" to me.
So it looks like the difference between punishing bankers and less sophisticated criminals is pretty old:

1) Ex. Law #265: "If a herdsman, to whose care cattle or sheep have been entrusted, be guilty of fraud and make false returns of the natural increase, or sell them for money, then shall he be convicted and pay the owner ten times the loss."

2) Ex. Law #22: "If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death."
BTW, anyone here used ReastReason, BuckleScript is it? I've been meaning to look into it but don't have a sense of the payoff. I read that it can coexist which is a great feature. Wonder how it compares to a TypeScript workflow.
Background: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4206602-first-look-liulishu...

> The company has 83.8 million registered users, of which 1 million are paid users.

> The company's rapid growth (~6x in the first half of this year)

Per the F-1, the average Liulishuo user spends over 60 minutes per day learning English in the app.

How their product works: https://medium.com/syncedreview/liulishuos-ai-app-is-teachin...
Your first chart stated that BTC would be over $10,000 by the beginning of 2018, and be somewhere in the ballpark of $20,000+ by now. Your second chart drastically reduces that forecast. You do know you are just overfitting a curve to data here, right?
List of deep learning cloud service providers. Who's missing?
I feel the same way. I have an '01 Subaru Legacy. One day it will die, and it will be because of rust, not because of poor craftsmanship or engineering. And when I have to replace it, I don't know what I will do. I'm tempted to buy another one while they still exist and garaging it until needed. Because I don't want to own a car that is doing things I don't know about, or talking to someone else about me.
If you want to blow a whistle, yes. If not dismantle, at least photograph the object. If your employer retaliates, you can make good money in speaker fees retelling the story, or get a job at a company that wants to be known for good hardware security.
I made a list of deep learning cloud providers because I couldn't find a comprehensive one. I found 29 places where you can rent a GPU (or use one for free). Who am I missing?
HTML and XHTML are different things, and you can have proper documents in either. HTML is a subset of SGML.

XML is designed for machines to read and write. SGML, humans. It's like the difference between JSON and Markdown.

(Addendum: TIL HTML5 is not parseable as SGML. Because, reasons.)
I take it you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203?

I fully agree that ProtonVPN seems like a poor choice, considering all the controversy around them, especially when its backed up by that much evidence. Mullvad, Private Internet Access, TorGuard etc. would have been a better choice, but perhaps Mozilla didn't want to look like it was picking sides among 'established' VPNs..
Antifa perpetrating violence is widely reflected in the press. They are not ashamed of it and not hiding it. They are a violent organization, by principle. Yet, they feel completely comfortable on social media. These are the facts, which are so widely available that if you can not find them without me leading you by hand, you probably won't believe me anyway and find some excuse to dismiss my evidence too - because I can not imagine how otherwise a person who is villing to engage in good faith about the topic can doubt that antifa perpetrates - not just incites in others, but actually doing by itself - violence.

> Partisan hand-waving doesn’t fool anyone.

That's ok, because there's no purpose to fool anyone. Only to highlight the obvious bias of certain social media platforms, which get triggered by slightest transgression by right wingers and at the same time tolerate virulent haters like Farrakhan and violent organizations like Antifa. These are the facts, you can interpret them as you like.
Do you really need embedded code for things like Cloudflare's workers, though? It doesn't seem like it does, seems like each worker can just be its own process using normal process isolation mechanisms. Switching to embedded untrusted code for things like that would actually make a lot of stuff a lot harder - scheduling, resource monitoring, etc... would all need to be re-invented from scratch. Is it really useful to re-invent the kernel in userspace to use a bunch of embedded webasm contexts instead of just a bunch of processes?
some amount of inflation is a desired property to have in a currency, and this result is for the most part the intended result
Checking the licenses of 1200 JavaScript packages
This describes, as far as I can tell, the de facto enforcement practices of ONE GPL copyright holder. I don't see where it places any binding limits on even the enforcement the SFLC would take, and of course it has no power to enforce any limits whatsoever on other GPL copyright holders.

In the particular case of Kernel development, contributors are NOT required to assign their copyrights to any shared institution, are perfectly within their rights to take any enforcement action against violators that they wish, and sometimes do exercise that right: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-beats-internal-legal-thr...
As a geologist, your favorite movie is still "The Core" right?
But it likely isn't the IC saying it so much as a whistleblower saying.
Not that that should necessarily detract from what seems like a pretty reasonable article about usability, but it doesn't give me a good feeling.

I agree with this, except for the part about the article being pretty reasonable. The valid complaints Clark makes are largely ones that could be made about Android phones. And many of the complaints are, as commenters here have pointed out, not really about smartphones at all (e.g., "this elderly person didn't understand they could connect to Gmail without downloading the Gmail app").

And, yes, I get that sociopolitical opinions are orthogonal to technology opinions, and that you can enjoy/respect someone's writings on Subject A while finding their opinions on Subject B to be a little bonkers. But it's tough to separate those subjects as a reader if they won't separate them as a writer.
I'm slightly surprised the use of the laser is killing weeds instead of insects. There have been some prior efforts at killing mosquitos with lasers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
Holy crap I was not expecting to ever have to figure out a term for "like a TERF, except a man". I wonder if he is one of those straight-laced gay dudes who whines about how all the people out there being flamboyant for Pride celebrations give a bad name to all the gays.

"Trans-Exclusive Radical Faggot" springs to mind as a quick male alternate to "Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminist" but it does have the slight problem of containing a word that a lot of people currently put in the "slur" category.
According to that article, MBS "[...] was really shocked that there was such a big reaction to it. He feels betrayed by the West. He said he would look elsewhere and he will never forget how people turned against him before evidence was produced".

Indeed at this point the evidence against MBS is only circumstantial, so that would be a reasonable point to make in a court of law. But in the world of politics, there's no presumption of innocence because common folk don't much care for that, and politicians and activists need to build upon popular emotions while the issue is hot. Is MBS so naive as to genuinely expect the population of the West to ignore the very strong circumstantial evidence? Or for the politicians to ignore the popular opinion and wait for hard evidence (which may take months, years, or decades for all we know)? Or is he just leaking this message to create an impression of innocence?

Also, the two parts of the statement are somewhat in conflict. Is he shocked by reaction or is he shocked of being accused without evidence? If he is shocked by reaction, it suggests he thinks the killing isn't a big deal, which implicates him even more.

If MBS wasn't involved. I can imagine two scenarios.

1. There was a general guideline to reduce regime criticism by any means necessary. Some officials decided to follow that guideline by demonstrating to the critics that can be killed at any time (note that they didn't just secretly assassinate Khashoggi making it look like an accident; they did in a way as to set an example). Wouldn't be the first time nor the last. But if that was the case, why didn't Saudi authorities quickly identify those responsible, and try and execute them? They can explain to the world they punished them because of their horrible acts. Internally, to their loyal followers, they can explain that they were executed for being total idiots who acted in a way that caused SKA irreparable harm and undermined MBS reputation in the world.

2. The powerful enemies of MBS did that to undermine MBS, and MBS cannot do anything about it because his power is limited. That would be consistent with MBS being outside the palace, and the King giving him more authority over the ingelligence services. However, if that's the case, why wouldn't MBS just say precisely that? The only downside is that he would admit weakness, but it seems like he has nothing to lose at this point, if people in his inner cirlce are basically trying to destroy him.
That's a very kind, respectful answer. I'm only a sample of one, but I feel you'd have to work hard to actually sound snobbish. Great writing! :)
> People like to explain away Apple's success as merely the product of "fanboys" they've had for decades, as though the same 10 million guys who bought the first iphone are somehow responsible for the 50+ million phones apple sells each quarter.

Given the world's fashion industry is worth trillions, it will take a more persuasive argument than that to convince me it's not heavily influenced by people's perception of it as a status symbol.

> those customers keep buying Apple products because they have good experiences with them.

Or they've bought into the hype and that's all they experience on a regular basis anymore. My mom has driven a Mercedes for decades. My sister drove a cheaper one as her first car, and recently bought a much nicer one. Even if I wanted to spend that much money on a car, I don't like them, and have always had bad experiences with them. My mom's car was a lemon, in and out of the shop multiple times every year for the first 15 years, until it's been too unreliable to drive on a regular basis the last 5 years.

She's in a market for a new car, and both she and my sister are excited to get her a Mercedes. Their experiences should have driven then away from the brand years ago, but they haven't. Why do you suppose that is? I have my own theories.