skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Because the process uses a large amount of electricity, designers paired it with a biomass gassifier, a low-cost source of energy. When the gassifier is filled with wood chips, coconut shells, or whatever biomass is locally available, a process calls pyrolysis vaporizes that material. That makes the system hot and humid, the ideal environment to run the air-to-water machine.
Because the process uses a large amount of electricity, designers paired it with a biomass gassifier, a low-cost source of energy. When the gassifier is filled with wood chips, coconut shells, or whatever biomass is locally available, a process calls pyrolysis vaporizes that material. That makes the system hot and humid, the ideal environment to run the air-to-water machine. "

https://www.fastcompany.com/90253718/a-device-that-can-pull-...
Because many of those people have the experience of participating in economic growth then being denied the benefits, and so when they see it elsewhere, they assume the same thing is happening to those workers as well.
> What comment of mine are you replying to exactly?

I argued against the argument which you presented in a summarized form, nothing more.
Slightly offtopic: My friend's Mum went to the Woodstock festival in the 60's. When I asked her about it, she said she only went because she thought it would be like a craft fair.
Yea it goes further than that in Arabic. In the example of r s e only vowels were modified for tense in Arabic you will add consonants to radically change the meaning. Same in hebrew as another commenter showed much better than I did
Good question.

I wonder if the point of this article is that other tools can be used to access TPUs other than the nominal Tensorflow-based workflow. I.e. the article is to show that another workflow exists to access the capabilities of the TPU, which are (to some degree at least) already known. Keno Fischer says [1] they'll have other benchmarks out soon.

[1] https://twitter.com/KenoFischer/status/1054932277824774145
Sorry, this one was a bit tricky to debug but it should be fixed now :)
In this thread, you seem to be equating the infrequent overstepping of legal boundaries with an act that is fundamentally illegal, without exception.
Its gonna take atleast the same amount of time it took to build up The deficit to be rid of it completely
Just a note, the world runs no risk of malnutrition even if we produce less food with cleaner forms of production. The world already produces more than enough for everyone. The problem is distribution, not production.
Found Stephen Paddock a weird choice of focus for the article. Perhaps we expected a motive to be discovered by law enforcement a year from now.
From what I see, the 'true analytics' available are exactly the same as what I'm getting already. The data's available from my current service to download raw if I want to export it to another analytics platform anyway. I already have (free!) public status pages, as do most competitors' offerings, so it's not another service.

I don't mean to shit on your product, it's good! I think you need to be clearer about why I should pay quite so much more for it. At the moment it doesn't seem worth it by a long shot. If you plan to build the platform out into something more featureful, then say that, and give early adopters a discount (so that they're not paying more for services which are currently equivalent). Uptime Robot has been around for 8 years, and they're still giving out early-adopter discounts!
If you remember back to the perpetual motion machine, that was supposed to produce more electricity than it consumed, you'll capture the mindset detractors like myself have.

But look, our PMM is producing this many volts! And it works great on paper too!

I haven't seen any data or reports to show this competition actually tested built units and measured both their water output and energy consumed, and did so in a variety of climates. In areas where the mercury has gotten below freezing, for instance, there is no water in the air, and yet, we're supposed to believe these snake oil machines are producing 2000gal/day for $0.02 each, even there.
Oh, but KSP does teach you this. It just requires a mod: "Engine Ignitor". Then you have to care about the fuel sloshing about, ullage, limited number of ignitions depending on engine type, things like that.

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/168424...
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The Federal government taxes the steel mill and the tertiary industries that are able to thrive because that steel mill is generating revenue.

You directly benefit from countless federal programs and indirectly benefit from even more.
The selling point of CSS tho is that layout change should not require change in html.
Close enough that it's not really a joke: https://medium.com/@austincoleschafer/a-short-story-about-ho...
I find it somewhat unsurprising that if you follow individuals over time, you would see that poor people gain more than rich people on a percentage basis.

The question is, what percentage of people are gaining? One success story can significantly affect the mean when you’re starting from a small number.
Isn't it standard for companies to never/rarely disclose why an employee is being fired (or even if it is being fired)?
And this article doesn't even cover Tony Fadell and the Nest nightmare...

Holy cow, how could so many smart people at Google be so stupid?
not parent, but I've started doing the same as you for around 5 months now. I've noticed is that I can generally get up easier in the morning and thinking in abstracts and analogies may come a little quicker.

I've also noticed that being tired hits me a LOT harder than it used to. Previously I guess I was kind of tired all the time so the marginal difference wasn't much but the last few months if I'm feeling the afternoon/early evening slump its much more difficult to push through and get anything accomplished, even if whats getting accomplished is just spending time with my family and trying not to nod off on the couch.

It's supposably a lot better for health, so I'm going to keep doing it, but its an adjustment and it does feel like I'm wasting at least some of my time.
"...and in other news, water is still wet."

There is nothing new about this type of behavior, at Google or any other company that has existed since, oh, the dawn of time. This happens in almost every sector that has large businesses. I guess the news is that "this happened again", but that's hardly news. Other than doing an expose on Google for not being a "perfect model company" I'm not entirely sure why this is front-page New York Times material.
In theory. But grinding teeth, chewing, or even brushing can cause flakes to break away. The biggest risk is actually during installation of the amalgam, particularly for dental professionals.

The real crux of the issue is that there are safer effective alternatives. So even if we call the risk "low," it is a needless risk. It only a matter of "when" not "if" these filings are against safety regulations.
Or... There should be less emphasis on whether or not someone has a degree, and more emphasis on what they can actually do.
Let me echo that sentiment, I also hate MongoDb. I had to setup / manage a MongoDb cluster in 2012-2013. It was a giant shitshow. Maybe things have gotten better, but I have little desire to test the waters with MongoDb again. I'd rather use https://www.rethinkdb.com/ if I really needed NoSQL / scalability.
Is there more context on why they're switching / how they gradually move over? I'm very interested.
> But I don't think it's safe to assume that someone who sets a dark UI also wants web pages displayed like that.

If it's done well, absolutely it's safe to assume.

I am extremely excited to research and start using this feature. I don't want to force anyone to use dark UIs that don't want them, but simultaneously I can't bring myself to make more light-themed apps and pages when I want exclusively dark themes for everything that runs on my machine.
On non-linearity of software systems. Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m assuming you mean it in a sense of being probabilistic and not easily predictable. Which is an interesting point because a lot of modern algorithms are like that. Let’s take neural networks. Being able to explain what the model is doing and how to make sure it’s correct is a whole area of research. For example, the results of a convolutional net can change drastically by altering a single pixel in an image[1].

We also faced with a problem of explaining a machine learning model that was much simpler than a neural net. It is a global problem and unfortunately I don’t have any solution of the top of my head.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08864
I think that the complaint is more that the people who receive employment from the steel mill do not receive a portion of the increased profits. Instead they go only/mostly to the owner of the steel mill.

As I understand it, looking at the numbers for the country as a whole is more meant as a way to observe overall trends. I don't think its meant to say that literally everyone across the country should benefit from any gains in any part of the country (or similarly gains in industries that they are not a part of),
Pegasus is listed in that exploit wiki link I posted above and they link to some technical documents about it.
I think the thing that is at odds with this attitude is that more and more prevalently "The people who receive employment from the steel mill." don't actually benefit from 500% growth. Instead they might have 6 additional months of job security with little to no raises. And that job security isn't a favor it's because that's the amount of time those workers are needed to get through whatever contract and not any further. In other words, the absolute maximum profit the steel mill can make.

And of course your argument is on the side of the people that risked everything to start a steel mill. So yeah, it's a complex system - but that doesn't mean we have to shit on everyone else.
Ask HN: What is your favorite quick break browser game?
I am looking for something fun that you can spend 5-15 minutes on during a mental break. Used to play blitz chess, and slither.io is kind of fun but am pretty bad at it.
That's really not the point. Replace Ohio with China or consider what percentage of after tax growth you're entitled to.
Most of the time, yes. Its advantage was accelerating off the line, a capability which I rarely used.

I see what you're getting at though, that the modifications made it less safe on the road. I don't disagree. It was unsafe. I shouldn't have been allowed to drive it.
The benefit of the decrease in cost of some consumer goods is strongly handicapped by the fact that child care, health care and education have all gone up in price.

I'm skeptical of how much economic mobility mitigates the fact that the top 1% controls so much wealth. If you randomly assigned every bank account to a different person you could also say that the poorest people had the most to gain by this, but things are just as unequal as before.
Not true (at least in the US): weary (at least the adjective) is pronounced with a "we" at the beginning, while wary is pronounced with a "wear" at the beginning.
Waking up early also serves families with children between birth and adolescence. For that matter, it serves subsistence farmers--there are roosters crowing--in pretty much any economic system.

Also, what calendar are the folks working from who write about "late capitalism"? I'm not saying they are wrong; I just wonder whether there is a date at which they will notice that capitalism is still around, and reconsider their forecast.
Now Open Source: Sematext Monitoring Agent
I'm not a Rust user, but I'm always keeping an eye on it as it drives for improved usability and intuitability. I really admire the open-mindedness and devotion toward improvement that the Rust community displays.

One question I have about this update in particular: The raw identifiers syntax addition seems like syntax support for a convention. For example, I could use `r#for` or `_for` to solve the same problem, however, the first requires special syntax and the second doesn't. What does the syntax facilitate that a leading underscore doesn't?
uMatrix's gui is incomprehensible to me. I stick with noscript and ublock origin. It may be a pain but I understand how to use it.
What Nest nightmare?
There's also an awful lot we don't know; we don't know who at Google leaked, what they leaked, and what their other motivations may have been. Even the word "credible" is pretty tricky here.

It may be another of these situations: https://quillette.com/2018/10/17/the-scandal-at-ubc-keeps-gr....

Having watched friends go through similar trials over bogus accusations that stem from a wide array of causes, I'm leery of the way many of these stories are reported.
Tl;dr: Wealthy and poor cohorts are not necessarily stable over time, generational boundaries in particular seem to be a relatively strong predictor of change. However people who are now poor are just as poor as the poor of the 70s, while those who are now extremely wealthy are even more extremely wealthy than the rich of the 70s.
That's perfectly fine to send to a consenting partner. But completely inappropriate for the workplace.

Edit: not sure why this is being downmodded (not complaining about it, just curious). Is it somehow not completely fine for consenting adults to have whatever kinks they want?

Rubin deserves to be punished for sexual harassment. Kink shaming is unnecessary.
> I'd like to add to this argument.
> If Ohio's steel industry grows by 500% who reaps the benefits? Me? The guy writing code in Portland, Oregon?

> No... its pretty clear that a specific subset of people receive the benefits

No, that's actually incorrect. You do benefit (usually), in the form of cheaper steel prices reducing the cost of many of the goods you buy.
Just because you're smart, doesn't mean that you don't harass people at work. Richard Feynman was a brilliant man, but was utterly horrible to the women he worked with.

Every company that's large enough has a few people participating in unintentional, or highly intentional harassment.

What you should judge companies on, is how they deal with it - especially when the perpetrator is not some middle-manager, but a rockstar.
> Isn't it standard for companies to never/rarely disclose why an employee is being fired (or even if it is being fired)?

IIRC, they do that because disclosing the reason could open the company up to legal liability if the reason isn't accurate or well documented enough to hold up in court in defamation case.
Try paying your rent and grocery bill with “participating in a rich culture of shared work”. It’s just as much of a joke as “pay you? It’ll give you exposure!” frequently expressed to creatives.

It’s clearly not mutually beneficial when one side is reaping outsized rewards (and not at all ashamed about it), and your example of small contributions to vim and python is disingenuous; we’re talking about entire software packages used without compensation by businesses (Redis, Elastic, Mongo to name a few).
Not to mention that he described his relationship with his wife as polyamorous during the interview. I can't imagine a scenario where this would be even remotely appropriate to discuss.
So many projects use the name "unicorn", that I think we should declare a moratorium on its usage. There are plenty of mythological creatures to go around.[0] If you feel the need for your project to be 'corny' may I suggest naming it after the bicorn[1], which has double the horns and is therefore twice as interesting.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_by...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicorn_and_Chichevache
Is NLL going to be tied to Rust 2018 now? As someone who has been programming with #![feature(nll)] for a long time that would be unfortunate...
You misunderstand I'm not saying it has all I was saying was the fact that it was from 2016 and he hasn't been banned doesn't me he won't be. Company's tolerance for things like this wax and wane over time and sometimes news flies under their radar.
This comment breaks the site guidelines, which ask:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

They also ask you not to snark. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here?
There used to be a time when extraordinary claims required extraordinary evidence - particularly when thermodynamics is involved. The dehumidifier business is a multi-billion industry. Why would they need an X-Prize when they're extraordinarily better than the state-of-the-art?

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170927005546/en/3-B...
Not that I disagree with you but we might need to have more discussions about what is a common/normal app.
How large is it in kb, in lines of code, in nbr of functions or classes?
How large and how many data structures is it normally using?

Without this it is hard to say if any language will help. WASM is probably faster and if cross language calls don't cost anything extra (Firefox seems have solved most of this) a combination of WASM and js shouldn't be slower than a pure js solution but if the applications isn't _that_ large and doesn't use too many data structures it might not be much faster either.
A properly designed experiment would be to tell everyone that you might give them the drug, and actually give it to half of them. The control would be the group of people that did not receive it. GP is right that there is no ethical issue.
5 Challenges for Developing Mobile Apps with AI and ML Capabilities
Thanks for taking the time to make those screenshots.

To me they reveal a couple of misconceptions:

1. That a WYSIWYG should provide a pixel perfect like-for-like view of the front end on the back end.

As you mention, the theme you chose doesn't have full Gutenberg styling, so front and back end differences are more pronounced. But even themes that have good integration will display differences, because the back-end cannot perfectly model the front if users are going to do more than manipulate data inside it (i.e. change styling).

I do agree that there are other ways to provide more intuitive editing (like in-place editing), but they are not without downsides too. In-browser editing is a compromise and balancing act.

2. That the structural blocks around visual elements on the back end designed to enable UI elements and controls interfere with styling by theme developers in some way.

That was definitely my experience at first (I've just spent three months updating several themes for use with Gutenberg), but it isn't now that Gutenberg has evolved and I better understand how editor styling works. In short:

- You enqueue your editor styles after calling add_theme_support( 'editor-styles' ); with add_editor_style( 'style-editor.css' );

- You can then copy the bulk of your styles from the front end to that stylesheet (with a few exceptions, such as the post title, which do need editor-specific wraps at present).

- Gutenberg/WP 5.0 prepends those styles with a block-specific selector when you view the Gutenberg editor so that you don't need to worry about the “soup of UI markup”, as you put it.

- You can automate much of the CSS re-use using Sass, like the Twenty Nineteen theme is doing.

Theme developers need not think about the extra wraps unless they are developing custom blocks, and even then it's largely abstracted away for them by the JS API.

I would much rather have editor styling handled automatically by Gutenberg, and I think it will get there, but for the moment this is a small stepping stone on that path.
I think a what a lot of the commenters here are missing is that not every employee has the choice of when they get to come in for work.
Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k
The whole thing he is explaining is just regression to the mean. Yes, if you take people who are currently rich and people who are currently poor, over time the poor will likely go up in income and the rich go down.

Using this as a counterpoint to accusations of the rich taking all the gains is like pointing out that a wealthy duke could only pass his whole dukedom to one of his children, and the others would have to make do with much less.

It is simultaneously true that the gains of the last few decades have largely gone to "those who are rich", and that the identities of "those who are rich" are not completely stable.
Generating custom photo-realistic faces using AI
Canary deployments on kubernetes using Traefik
What we really need is a good dialer/sms/mms set of applications and some easy to use USB LTE radios that can do voice and data at the same time.

Then we could all be making perfectly usable phones by plugging the parts together and slapping an OS on it, just like PCs in the 90s. :)
While there are a lot of really nice things in this release, the progress bar is what got me the most excited. Given the long compile time of some of my projects this is much appreciated.
http://surviv.io
That's a poor generalization.

Is steel cheaper as a result of the growth? If so, then you benefit.

Did you own stock in the company? Perhaps your 401k grew as a result of the growth?
Burning Man is like the pilgrimage to Mecca for a lot of SV cultists. Saying no to an invite would mark you as a heretic who's just not a good 'culture fit'.
Why didn't they name it Multicorn?
Do you mean this one?

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/webassemblys-post-mvp-futu...
Also drinking hot liquids can release small amounts of mercury vapor.
>I don't know why anyone should feel entitled to economic growth if they didn't participate in it in any way.

Maybe that's the real question then - what prevents people from participating in the economic growth?

The economy has seen strong growth for about a decade now, yet stock ownership in the broader population remains low. Unemployment is low, but incomes also remain low outside the top 10% of earners. Overall savings across the population is very low, with by some studies approx 36% having _no_ retirement savings.

So - I agree with your statement about economic growth not being uniform, but it does lead one to question what's preventing greater participation.
It's sad that people still think we benefit from taxes. If people patched their own roads, paid for their own schools, paid for the police, we'd still be far far far richer. Instead we're paying 10-20k PER BOMB. Every time we drop 5 bombs that could have been a freaking decent salary for a local teacher. Instead that money is killing, like 50-100 people.

The world has become what it is because of the way we treat other people. People learn from people in power that -that is the way to treat others.
In edition 2018, Rust now has reserved `async` and `await` as keywords. Since crates written targeting edition 2018 need to interoperate with edition 2015 (and vice-versa), some syntax is needed to be able to use identifiers that are also keywords.

For example, my 2015 crate might have a function `fn async(enabled: bool)` that I need to call from 2015. I could call it as `r#async(true)`.

This follows the existing syntax of `r"foo"` / `r###"foo"###` for raw strings as well as raw byte literals: `br##"HELO"##`;

Another use case will be for libraries like Diesel [0], a SQL query builder. People want to be able to search the documentation for SQL's `WHERE`, but `where` is keyword in Rust. They could choose to add a method called `r#where` to allow this kind of discoverability.

[0]: https://diesel.rs/
I don't know a plugin, but this seems like a good idea. Maybe I'll try to circle back around this weekend and build out something.
Supposedly these people with increased wealth will be spending more, perhaps also in your sector.
I agree, but if the steel industry grew 500% then I am willing to bet executives saw 499% of the benefit and all employees remained the same.