skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pre:

- options pricing in move of almost 10%

- going in the stock is down about SalesForce's entire market cap

Numbers:

- 3Q Ad revenue $13.54B

- 3Q Daily Active Users 1.49B

- 3Q EPS $1.76, Est. $1.47

- 3Q Rev. $13.73B, Est. $13.80B

- 3Q Monthly Active Users 2.27B

- North America DAU was relativly flat

- European DAU down

- operating margin is lowering, not too out of line but lowest we've seen, watch this...

- Capex was up 90% compared to last Q2 to $3.4B

Notes:

- 2 Billion+ people used atleast one service once a day

- 2.6 Billion people used facebook atleast once a month

- big after hours trading in terms of volume, not much in terms of price moves, straddle sellers won this one

Questions:

- Will we hear from Sheryl Sandberg? Has anyone had a larger fall from grace due to recent large tech company backlash?

- After hours trading suggests that Wall Street is happy with facebook at its current valuation, meaning they'll have to find some large growth to join the big boys Google, Apple, Microsoft and Apple

- FB Said they would have hit their numbers except for currency issues. watch to see if they start seriously hedging expenses and earnings, swap or open market?

- Have now lost the founders of Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus. Was bound to happen at some point but still is a lot of knowledge lost. This effect will probably play out over the next 2-8 quarters and not immediately.

- What is FB doing with US mid terms coming up? Last election they really failed, and that's being polite. What will Mark let us know about their plans for the US elections?
I think PKD does this in many of his works.
I would most definitely discourage this advice, in my opinion it's dangerous. Instead, I would focus on slowly and "casually" refactoring bad parts (without putting significant extra hours at all), while making sure that the code is actually badly written, and it's not just "not written your way" or "code I can't understand because I didn't study it enough". I have seen many engineers being victims of these two points. Sometimes the code just appears badly written because you don't have enough context to see that it's not.
Lisp is certainly more elegant than C or C++. The axiomatic nature makes for beautiful programs, and small teams of bright people have had notable successes using Lisp.

But in practical use, being axiomatic can be an enormous weakness. After all those much-derided committee meetings for C++, there is a standard, and having a standard allows people to collaborate without every team having to invent their own conventions and teach those conventions to everyone they work with.

Old style C macros can be seen as an ugly way of providing lisp-like power. One of the problems with macros is people abuse them to do crazy non-standard things, and in doing so make code really opaque to others. So in C, having to invent a custom language to do something is a bug. In Lisp, it's a feature. That distinction has a lot to do with why the world is running so much C and C++ code even though a Lisp is more elegant.
Your comment demonstrates absolute cluelessness with regards to the goals of the FH launch / second stage trajectory.
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According to Anandtech the new MBA has a 5W TDP Y series chip. The non-touchbar MBP has a 15W TDP U series chip. So I'd assume that the MBP is going to be a lot faster in practice, even though it's one generation older.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13531/apple-2018-macbook-air-...
What is it about Helium that breaks the device? Is the device intended to contain a vacuum?
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> Really anytime there's a problem in the kernel, you need to try the workload with a mainline kernel and report the problem to the upstream kernel list if you can reproduce it. If you can't reproduce the problem with mainline, then you have to take up the bug with your distro. That's the way it is with everything, not just Btrfs.

Sure, if I have a bug with program X that's patched by distro Y, that's the normal support path.

I think there's a couple issues with applying that same logic to a filesystem that's supposedly stable enough to be used as a root FS though.

First, a filesystem should generally be stable enough that patches applied by a distro don't completely ruin it. How many bugs have there been in ext4 or xfs that were specific to one distro and their kernel patches? They're certainly possible, but I would think that pre-release testing would catch the vast majority of them. Red Hat dropping support of btrfs was a big vote of no confidence here, because it's not just lack of support for RHEL users, it implies lack of testing efforts even for Centos & Fedora users.

Second, if I'm having issues with my root filesystem, it's a bit of a crapshoot as to whether the system is stable enough to compile a mainline kernel and try to reproduce the bug while running that.

And finally, I simply don't want bugs in my root filesystem. I don't even want to get to the point of pondering if I should send the bug report to my distro or to the mainline kernel. I want my root filesystem to be a thing that Just Works, without having to think about it.
The only thing we really need is the top end DAWs to be ported to Linux. They would make plenty of $ on the licenses... No one seems to know why DAW companies aren't willing to port. I can't think of any other Mac-only software that can't reasonably be replaced - can you?
It's something we thought a lot about as we had to pick the categories most important to our customers. What we heard is that dining and travel were more important since they are so commonly offered by other cards that people didnt want to feel like they were "missing out" by using Brex. Most of the feedback was that people like using Brex and all of the features and tech - and rewards was a way for the customer to make sure they were gaining something using Brex - and we do offer points on ad spend. Also, one cool feature where we help with ads is we actually clean the vendor, so rather than seeing GoogleAds or Facebook Ads followed by a bunch of numbers - with Brex you get one clean merchant name and that helps the user aggregate all spend by vendor - a lot of users love this feature
Anthropomorphizes the iPhone when you think about how humans react to gaseous general anesthesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoflurane
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Do people not know what they're getting when they go to visit Venice? I don't need to go there to know that I wouldn't want to go there. The Venice people actually might want to visit hasn't existed for hundreds of years. You can't go to that one. You can only go to the ersatz tourism version of it that happens to be co-located geographically.

If demand were high enough, someone could build a replica out in the deserts of southern Nevada or northern China.

I'm not very keen on tourism in general, if you couldn't detect my tone. When it's not part of a parting-cash-from-visitors industry, tourism can actually be quite inexpensive and enjoyable, but all the incentives are for locals to establish such an industry once the numbers rise high enough. The only way around it is to not visit the same places (away from home) too often, and to not go anywhere with too many visitors. Once businesses start to differentiate between those serving locals and those serving visitors, the slope starts slipping.
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I don't think it's true that there's no consensus around how to programatically handle monetary values. Maybe there's no consensus around how to do it in JavaScript.

In the Java world, there's JSR-354: https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=354

Cobol has handled money well for decades.

.NET has Decimal, which should handle money correctly as long as you're working with values less than 79.2 octillion.

In my part of the world, at least, big banks tend to be mostly Java and Cobol on the back end. You'll definitely see Node, Go, and others being used for various tasks throughout the company, but when it comes to keeping track of money and moving it around, it's primarily Java and Cobol doing the heavy lifting.

That's what I've heard from other developers, anyway. I haven't worked at a bank myself.
> Will we hear from Sheryl Sandberg? Has anyone had a larger fall from grace due to recent large tech company backlash?

What happened to Sheryl?
There's an unofficial streaming site that treats shows like TV channels, and provides channels for movie genres. Even when I paid for Netflix, it was just so much more convenient to go to the other site because I could click on a show (or the random button) and I'd have something running until I closed the tab. It's really the best format I've seen if you aren't intent on binge-watching a show from beginning to end.
I didn't know that, so I'm glad you mentioned it. I have had at least 20 failed cables and 0 failed ports (of maybe five or six devices) in my experience with Lightning.

Actually, I'm not glad you mentioned it since that makes it even more perplexing. I was glad because if a port ever failed I would not have easily diagnosed it because I thought they were pretty good. But it must be my fault the cables are failing....
They probably contacted him through Reddit.
It's not that clear cut.

The 'em' sizing is inherited by child elements, which can be either a feature or a bug, depending on interactions.

If you're aware of this and design for it it can be a useful feature, and enhances reusability. If you're unaware of this, or your design is complex, it's much more likely to be a bug. "Bug or not?" is entirely dependent on that context.
The Waldorf school, especially the one in Silicon Valley, has one of the lowest levels of immunization rates of children in the state, if not the country.

The simple fact that the parents and school reject what is well-understood science speaks volumes, in my opinion.
That's because the Pixel uses an AMOLED display. The iPhone XR uses LED which is cheaper but thicker. My point stands: Lightning's space savings are essential to the iPhone XR.

Also, the iPhones do support universal charging (Qi).
I use a tennis ball against the wall, very effective.
Consider github.

German and French law is already there.

https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze

https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil
CRISPR holds way more promise than silly fantasies of human genetic enhancement. The most exciting and practical uses for it apply to challenging everyday problems: food, energy, invasive species, biodiversity.

Besides, the ethical problems with experimenting on human beings are extremely intractable.
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Thanks. About what I'd expected, though it's handy to put some names on it.

I've ... accidentally ... tuned in to Hannity on occasion. I thought I'd tuned in to the local lunatic asylum.
> even atmosphere composition tweaks visible on exoplanet spectrographs

I'm fairly certain we can't detect that yet even if they had.
In any HN thread where Betteridge’s law is invoked, tome’s law follows with probability 0.85. Anonymous law.
Is it your conclusion that they concluded all that from horizontal scrolling ... ?
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Chrome 69 on linux scrolls horizontally at a much saner speed and has working arrow keys but is a fail in every other way mentioned. Firefox 65 on linux is a horrific user experience as described.

An article unlike a computer isn't a new exciting tech marvel it should be simple and work on any device that can render text and multimedia.
If you’re thinking about having your child attend a Waldorf school, you should know they are a haven for anti-vaxxers. I found out about this when I looked into one for my daughter. More info: https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/waldorf-association-sc...
You're right. Though, that's still 2x cheaper in terms of $/GB.
Well CRISPR works in flies as some of the fly stocks have been switched from using RNAi to CRISPR for their gene edits.

Fly immune systems obviously are quite different. But the technique still holds a lot of promise. Like any cutting edge technology there are potential problems in developing it into useful therapies, and there is a chance something better will come along and displace it.

It is very difficult to edit all the dna of living organism as each cell has a copy. Easier to do as an organism develops.
Last time I tried this I had extreme packet loss if I plugged the two converters into outlets on different breakers, do you know if this is still the case?
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I think they should ban the use of emotional sounding music in advertisements, that stuff really messes with your head cause instruments like violin or piano really grip you and paired with a paid advertisement it's hitting you with that information in a somewhat alerted state (music releases a cocktail of neurotransmitters [1])

1. http://www.audiocura.com/the-impact-of-music-on-neurochemist...
It was swinging a lot after hours. The results look pretty good. For a growing company 20 p/e is pretty good.
That's what I thought.

The keyboard on my old 2016 MBP stopped functioning after 3 months: repeated characters, missing characters.

Who cares about stability!? Those keyboards don't work as keyboards!
> The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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You can't use flash storage for reliable unpowered archival. It degrades (gates leak electrons) over time, unlike magnetic storage. This is also unpredictable, as reliability depends on both operating and power-off temperatures, as well as existing wear. See: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data...
I think it's a non-problem.

The new keyboards cease functioning with dust particles.
Same with us. We were looking to send our kids to a school like this and once I saw the vaccinations rates I turned around and never looked back. There are plenty of schools in the Bay Area that have as good, if not better, levels of education without the luddite-mentality of anti-vaccinations.
I mean would you ever actually travel if you owned a holodeck?
> It's just hard to uniquely identify cancer cells.

How about performing whole-genome sequencing on a tumor, and then targeting the differences with the patient's natural genome?
To have reproducible prototypes, I use Make to wrap the whole workflow in docker. Then I push the code to gist and forget about it. Although GitHub gist doesn't allow binary file, images embedded in .ipynb (JSON), on the other hand works in gist. Here is an example.

https://gist.github.com/ontouchstart/854a3c280b81f530d3ae9cb...

The notebook generated by nbconvert (see the instruction in the Makefile) is too big to display in GitHub gist Web UI but works fine in nbviewer.

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/ontouchstart/854a3c280b81f...
i5 and i7 are the same chip with HT enabled on the latter but disabled on the former.

It’s still the same Amber Lake dies which are the same as KBLY.
> i2c devices that get pulled out of the kernel.

I thought eBPF programs run inside the kernel. Or are they _from_ userspace, run inside the kernel and so provide efficient into-kernel calls as well as direct access to certain _allowed_ hardware? I hope I’m not riding around semantics, sorry if I do.
You've got the wrong info, LTO-7 is 6TB and $67: https://www.amazon.com/Fuji-Ultrium-7-Data-Cartridge-1645657...

LTO-6 (what you linked) is not 6.25TB, it’s 2.5TB, despite what Amazon says.

Then add the operational costs, which is the hard part, because the operational costs for a tape are very different from the operational costs for a hard disk.
CRUSH is an example (and not the first) of a "distributed rebuild" approach: you have an array of N drives (with N large, e.g. 100), and if 1 drive fails, you read in parallel from all (N-1) remaining drives, while distributing the reconstructed data across the remaining available capacity of all (N-1) remaining drives.

In effect, you get the total bandwidth of (N-1) HDD's working in parallel. And the bandwidth of 100 HDD's doing sequential IO in parallel is really massive ( ~ 10 GB/s).

Examples of companies claiming to use this approach are Qumulo (rebuild in couple of hours), Infinidat (couple of 10's of minutes), ClusterStor GridRAID (now part of Seagate I think), or "Declustered RAID" in GPFS (IBM)
I'd say the handful of NBM/church-burny bands versus the tens of thousands of DM and BM bands who are just regular people makes them a statistical anomaly, and we only know their names because of their exceptional dedication to being trve black metal demons
CRISPR Cas9 is present in somewhat varying forms across many (all?) bacteria. I don’t have the quote to hand but I know CRISPR from bacteria that rarely or never come into contact with humans (think extremeophiles like deep sea thermal vent bacteria) doesn’t provoke an immune response, as it’s slightly different in form and novel to the human immune system. This is not a huge setback for CRISPR research.

Also you could argue that the title is misleading, as stating that CRISPR evokes an immune response is inaccurate; CRISPR from a bacterium that frequently comes into contact with most humans evokes it, and not all CRISPRs are the same.
It's hard to imagine that a physical lever-based mechanical scale is so accurate, never would have imagined. Thanks for the detailed comment.
I have read about some difficulties of running SLURM on POWER9 systems, so maybe IBM proposed/insisted to run their own POWER9-tested scheduler?
I you can afford it, a Surface Book. Otherwise, a Dell XPS.

I personally use Linux Xfce, but Windows is just great.
> using the distance each invader survives as the fitness score seems like maybe not the best choice for this scenario

> With so many invaders spawning at the same time, and the 'bullet' you shoot moving so slow, the last invader to be destroyed seems to me to be a result of random choice (which one did you get around to shooting last) rather than it being any 'healthier' than the other invaders.

I couldn't disagree more. The fitness score is correct, because the invader wins by covering distance.

What happens by chance early will happen by design late -- that is nearly the entire concept of evolutionary approaches. They always improve on their fitness function, and what matters is that you chose the right one. In this case, improving on the distance invaders travel is the point of being an invader, and the point of the game, so that distance is very obviously the correct fitness function.
"It's as fast as lightning" is a simile.
More detail here: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2018/Q3...

edit: Massive increase in headcount too: Headcount – Headcount was 33,606 as of September 30, 2018, an increase of 45% year-over-year.
The only thing custom in it is the naming, the GT2 is a single slice iGPU there is nothing to enable in it over the 615 which is already a full slice my bet is that if there is any difference is that the 617 has a boost clock of 1100 instead of 1050mhz or something silly like this.
Not working for me

"victorribeiro.com’s server IP address could not be found"
TL;DR: it breaks the oscillator that keeps time on the device. This breaks the clock and eventually has a cascading effect on the system.

The article is pretty straightforward and engaging; it's worth a read!
oh, well I may just have to give that another look then. Thank you both for correcting my misunderstanding of that mechanic.
Nothing specific. The scheme manual linked is a good one. As are the docs for Common Lisp. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node16.html

Honestly, most all older manuals and documents that were not related to systems programming seem to cover numeric programming decently enough. I get the impression that languages used to worry more about that sort of thing, but then the truly heavy lifting of numeric programming moved into the specialized domains of Matlab and friends, and then programmers slowly unlearned most of what was learned regarding numbers.
Anybody can provide a reason why SiT1532 wouldn't be hermetically sealed? They are talking about high accuracy, intuitively it would seem that if helium affects it this badly, then it would be susceptible to some atmospheric pressure changes (unless the seal worked against air but not helium).
Oh, like food samples at Costco. Got it.
At least the toolbars were easy enough to remove...
> it’s animal populations that are decreasing rapidly, not species.

Should this really console me? If there are only trace amounts of each species left, isn't that practically the same as extinction?
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Helium molecules are small enough to cause issues with iOS devices' internal clock.
Did you read the article? It's all explained there.
Adding to the languages that do this, Factor does as well. "1 3 /" produces the rational value "1/3". https://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-rationals.html
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MAU and DAU numbers are here:

https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2018/Q3...

It's down 1 million DAU in Europe (279 to 278) from last quarter give or take some decimal precision. Basically flat in both regions.
Hardware switches are more expensive and less durable.
https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2018/Q3...

Flat from last quarter
OH, nice! I guess I didn't pay good enough attention to the pics! This is actually pretty close to what I want!
More information:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90258225/ai-is-making-halloween-...
Poland in the 80's
This is very naive (to the point of detached from reality). Kids who do not develop motoric skills become grownups without said skills. There's a gap there almost unbridgeable. It sounds like you take stiching to be "easy", something that can be taught in a few days like let's say basics of JS. But teaching the body to do things is a serious task. Have you ever watched a grown up learning to swim, bike, or ice-skate?
> Ruby, Perl5, Python also fail this.

Ruby and Python have arbitrary precision decimal and rational support in the standard library. While there are arguments tobe had over whether using binary floats by default for simple decimal literals is a good choice, that's a different issue than not having any other kind of numbers available by default.
Capitalism has crept into every aspect of my life. I cannot leave my house without people trying to put ideas into my head. I am not free, because of property rights, and there are many laws to prevent me from behaving in c certain ways. I cannot sustain myself from gathering food, because the capitalists have harvested the fish and cut down the trees.

Your freedom is a prison. Don't talk to me about totalitarianism.
IBM has had a solution for a long time: http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decarith.html

Python uses it: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/decimal.html

Just because JS is stupid doesn't mean other languages are.