skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Admittedly without yet reading but just looking at the pictures, I'd love to see examples of where it creates patterns of patterns. Sort of like the biomes in Minecraft: one pattern to draw out where the biomes are, one to fill them in with content. Could it be made to do patterns of patterns of patterns?

If this were used to create level design where the local view is several iterations deep of patterns of patterns but not yet all the way to the bottom, I guess a fractal, that would be a trip.

Awesome work!
I'm curious how these systems would function against a malicious entity. For example, if someone flooded the sensor with laser light.

That sort of behavior might be made illegal (if it isn't already), but I'd be curious to know if self-driving systems have ways of dealing with it, or if they just shut down
This is my conclusion as well. I grew up in a very religious household and so all of my sleep paralysis episodes revolved around some sort of demon entering my space and attempting to do something to me. Sleep paralysis is connected with lucid dreaming and so the dreams are incredibly lifelike. I could see someone dreaming about being abducted.

Once I moved out of the house, became a bit more secular, and did some research online about sleep paralysis, any rare episodes I had I knew weren't demons or anything of the sort.
Anyone work at a small shop and DOESN'T prefer AWS? They're the leader in the hosting space, from my perspective you'd have to have good reason NOT to use them at this point. They have more in terms of services and robustness than any other cloud platform, and its easier to hire developers who know it. If you're managing your own servers in this day and age then you either have a very specific use case that requires it, or you're behind.
> He was right, of course. What these athletes do was rather interesting, but the people themselves were only fast swimmers, who did the particular things one does to swim fast. It is all very mundane. When my friend said that they weren't exciting, my best answer could only be, simply put: That's the point.

This article (and its conclusions) reminded me a lot of the stuff David Foster Wallace wrote about the world of professional tennis. Wallace portrayed the life of a professional athlete as a kind of modern monasticism. From his Esquire article "The String Theory" (2008):

> Note the way "up close and personal" profiles of professional athletes strain so hard to find evidence of a rounded human life–outside interests and activities, values beyond the sport. We ignore what's obvious, that most of this straining is farce. It's farce because the realities of top-level athletics today require an early and total commitment to one area of excellence. An ascetic focus. A subsumption of almost all other features of human life to one chosen talent and pursuit [...]

> Sex and substance issues notwithstanding, professional athletes are our culture's holy men: They give themselves over to a pursuit, endure great privation and pain to actualize themselves at it, and enjoy a relationship to 'excellence' and 'perfection' that we admire and reward (the monk's begging bowl, the RBI guru's eight-figure contract) and like to watch, even though we have no inclination to walk that road ourselves. In other words, they do it for us, sacrifice themselves for our redemption.

Point being, the life of a professional athlete in the making is (mostly) not glamorous or exciting, but rather a very narrow existence comprised of pure persistence and dedication to a small set of very specific movements and activities, repeated over and over.
Sleep Matters
An additional consideration: small businesses have a very high failure rate. Something like 25% of small businesses fail every year.

Entrepreneurship is important for job creation and very much does help cities, but large corporate jobs are generally more stable and pay better.
So basically nowhere with a higher cost of living will work for Basecamp - fine, and they will be substantially overpaying anyone outside of Chicago.

That's fine, but basically it changes who you will hire.
As a user, I personally wouldn't mind a "fresh start" when it comes to userspace. Just look at Haiku -- yes, it's technically not a new design, but it sure ain't Unix.
Birth control is not 100% effective, nor without side effects.
Nobody has ever said that it is impossible to write buggy code in Rust. It merely makes security guarantees about certain classes of bugs, and the use of unsafe code blocks makes it easier to isolate cases where those classes of bugs can occur.
I think we are misunderstanding each other, but we both agree. My understanding of what you are saying now is that it is possible to have nationalism with international cooperation, but I read your initial comment as nationalism requiring international cooperation. What I am saying is that nationalism and international cooperation are two choices that a nation-state can make that are almost completely independent from each other.

Sorry for any lack of clarity on my part.
I’m not an ardent supporter of Windows, or, at this point any particular OS or infrastructure, but, and especially after the ludicrous nature of Windows 8, I have found Windows 10 to actually be a fairly stable and usable OS.

To hear the recent stories of updates causing issues is surprising, but with so many supported configurations for Windows, I find it a lot more excusable than MacOS or ChromeOS.

That doesn’t mean things like this shouldn’t be caught in QA, it just means it’s not always easy.
2. Counter anecdote: I went from $700/month (80,000 JPY/month) to $3,050/month in rent for essentially the same size/location/convenience by moving from Osaka to NYC.
My Windows directory is currently sitting at 49GB. I don't think this is a realistic idea for Windows-based PCs unless cheap SSDs start getting bigger with a quickness.
Spent trillions to steal billions? Numbers does not match.
"[T]he novelist’s reply, a masterpiece of withering irony," referenced in the article:

http://flaubert.univ-rouen.fr/jet/public/correspondance/tran...

In French, but google translate is surprisingly adequate.
Premature optimizations is the root of all evil. That said, creating new objects do slow your code down, so do it only when you have a good reason to.
I think you may have been down voted for the negative tone, but yes, 10m is really not great and I'd imagine the bigger investors are putting pressure on to improve. I'd be curious to know the net income or some sort of forcast.
> Hopefully this equalizes out over time as more tech companies can properly adopt remote workers and thus even out the employment field away from centralizing in a few specific cities but we are a long way from that.

I used to think that way, but in, like, the late 90's/early 00's. "Surely as internet access and software tools continually improve, remote work will become better and more common, democratizing blah blah blah."

Instead, while the internet getting better definitely happened, the pay differential and clustering effect in major tech hubs only increased.

As for why that would happen, I have a few different thoughts, but I think the gist of it is that the internet getting better spawned huge internet giants like Google and Facebook, and organizationally it's still an advantage to have people colocated so they went with that.
AWS Amplify simplifies development for iOS and Android developers
Is there one right way to build a startup?
Don't gloss over the distinction between security and robustness. The consequences of panics and memory corruption are very much NOT the same. The former means a reboot, which is annoying; the latter means corrupted or exfiltrated data or a hostile takeover of the system.
Thinking of doing the same, but I wish I could delete my account (just account, not posts). I guess if I want to leave a service I'd also like to be really "gone" from it!
I imagine a counter strike scenario where the area of engagement is constantly moving throughout this infinite city, so the fight is waged over a constantly changing landscape. Hecka fun or hecka confusing?!
Feels bad man. All tutorials will be outdated.
...what the cities did to try to get Amazon to them should be

Oh, there's some karmic payback for the cities doing what they did. You see, all that inside information that the 236 other cities gave away to Bezos? He gets to keep that:

http://inthesetimes.com/article/21571/the-hq2-scam-how-amazo...

"Amazon now has a treasure trove of non-public information about America’s future, in addition to knowing how much cash cities are willing to part with to land an Amazon facility. And it got all that, along with a giant PR benefit from the bidding war, for free.

If you knew a city was going to build a road in a particular place, you could make a lot of money buying up the real estate there. Imagine that on a national scale and you can see how Amazon will grow far wealthier from the data it collected than even the raw dollars extracted from HQ2’s big winners. In fact, this was the real reason Amazon orchestrated the whole charade."
Yes, it's one thing if the government regulates a market, yet another if a company regulates it ...
The BQX shouldn't exist at all. None of the parallel bus lines are anywhere near crowded, and the parallel subway line could easily have the car lengths and train frequency doubled.

Even the city's own, goosed up business case looks poor. The conversation has shifted from "let's fund this with only property taxes" to "let's fund this with public money because this will never pay for itself."

https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20180830/REAL_ESTATE/1...
What are your thoughts on Geiger LIDAR, ie Princeton Lightwave (which was acquired by Ford/Argo)?
And programmers tend to move where there are tech companies.
Is it good to release this audit so soon? Wouldn't it have been better to release it in 1-3 months after they fixed the issues so that they don't alert attackers that there's an opportunity? Actually curious what the best practice is and why it is so.
Monopsony is the same kind of problem as monopoly, but on the buyer side. If you think we should have laws to limit monopoly power, then yes, we also should have laws to limit monopsony power. If not, then not.

We also have laws to make sure government purchases are made by means of suppliers bidding on government contracts. Giving out arbitrary tax breaks should probably go through a similar process for the same reasons.
Also the Noguchi Museum (can't escape that man's coffee tables!) and the Socrates Sculpture park.
Path of least resistance -- but it seems like you can write a non-unix-like userland on top of it if you want to.
Has Redox adopted or has plans to adopt a Code of Conduct similar to what the Linux kernel did recently?
Maybe just me, but unless I am mistaken you mean that if you are willing to call for the mass killing of other people's friends and families (for ANY reason, but in this case for the greater good) then you should be willing to start with your own friends and family. In the end, I don't think genocide is the solution for any problem large or small, but if you are going to suggest it as a solution you had better offer your own pound of flesh in the bargain.

Did I read too much into your statement?
PSAs are used by marketers to a/b test performance, so those likely were still from a paying customer.
>Some slightly more technical conditions have to hold in order to have vanilla GD work (since the function is non-differentiable at points)

which function is non-differentiable at points? if you refer to my example, it is only nondifferentiable at x=0 and x=inf which are both uninteresting points since they arent divisors of N, for all the rest f(x) I gave is differentiable and lipschitz continuous of order infinity

This in contrary to your pathological example of f(x)= { 1 (x!=0); 0 (x==0) ... of course GD can not work there, and I wouldn't fault the paper for it...

don't misunderstand me, the paper is interesting, but the title and certain phrasings are very misleading IMHO

Still I think the approach by others is more interesting: by looking at the absolute error between a fixed underlying NN as "ground truth" and observing the error of the training NN (of same architecture as ground truth NN) trained to match the underlying NN
Chess is the only game my partner seems to play on her phone. We also play it together in person.

I love the pacing, the strategy, the conversations, the intellectual nature of it.
Because it's an Atlassian Confluence.
> Janitors often make more than you think (both in terms of compensation and benefits)

Government janitors, sure, because the government consistently pays above market-rate for low-skilled positions and under market-rate for high-skilled positions.

But in the private sector, I'd have to see some data. I'm not saying they all make minimum wage, but I don't think it's good money.
Government should ban the subsidization of any specific companies.

Maybe they can give subsidies to businesses under a certain size, or maybe industries wherein there are several players ...

But individual corporate subsidies are irresponsible.

Should be illegal.
As with anything life is complex. But I don't think sex /=/ relationships, though it does play a factor.

Also like I mentioned it's possible people are avoiding sex at the chance of something better, instead of actually receiving it. I think it would be pretty hard to get metrics about things like this.

It's totally possible the top 10-20% are sleeping with each other a lot and the rest's sexual frequency has declined on the hopes that they are able to woo over someone in that upper tier.

Another factor I think is that people in general are staying in more simply because it's easier and more fun now than ever to do so. We all know it can be hard to meet new friends/mates, possibly because the internet/netflix/home life as gotten really comfortable and people aren't as interested in leaving it to go pursue uncomfortable and often fruitless mating/courting situations.

Idk though, I've read about this a bit but I'm really just thinking out loud.
> It's mostly empty warehouses, housing projects, and luxury condos. There's very little in terms of culture or even basic needs, like grocery stores.

You just described the current South Lake Union headquarters.
Is there a free version of the article available? The link requires paid subscription.
Post-Nadella Microsoft is trying to project an image of being customer focused. Well, what I'm seeing are a lot of customers who say that they don't want Windows 10's feature updates, or that they want them less frequently.

It just so happens that the version of Windows these customers are asking for already exists, as an actively-supported product. But you can't buy it. I can't describe this behavior as anything but anti-customer.
In the post-Y2K years, I heard a lot about how the next order of business was going to be to replace all those systems in health care, banking, etc, especially as a generation went into retirement. But, here it is 2018 and there are still articles Food for thought.
Millennials Unhappily Stuck in Their Parents’ Car-Based Transportation System
I didn't know Apple now was a "courts of law" in the US, this is huge!
Thank you, that's fascinating.
"pick"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system

Everything old is new again... this was from the mid-60s and was relatively popular for its time.
This channel on Pluto tv is very relaxing indeed, showing the norwegian trains through the countryside.
Peer-review practices: The fate of published articles, submitted again
If it could be changed freely at will I would be against it being a protected class.
Why fix a regressive tax with an even more regressive subsidy? Prop 13 has had such far reaching negative impacts.
"Its hard to make ego illegal."

It's very easy to make subsidizing individual companies illegal.
>You just call it lies

You are literally linking to youtube videos by an infamous crank.

>link a book that I will not buy

You don't need to buy it. The point is, biology text books contradict your advocate fraud. Which is more credible?

>The web page puts dogs in the category of omnivores like many experts do or did.

Dogs are the same species as wolves.

>I live in West-Europe and from primary school to university, the recommendation for food has always been less meat and less cheese and less fat and less candy and more vegetables including fruits and more fiber.

And health problems have gotten worse. Funny how that works huh? Myocardial infarctions literally did not exist prior to the 1900s when "vegetable oil" was introduced to our diets. We consume far less animal fat than Victorians did, yet have far worse health. Hmmm.

>The benefits of a plant based or vegan diet have become only more scientifically validated and more accepted in the population.

There is no evidence to support that belief.

>Also because of a growing acceptance that actions against climate warming and pollution and unsustainable and horrible animal farming are needed.

That has nothing to do with veganism, it is a red herring vegans use to push their agenda on the back of environmentalism which people are more receptive to.
There are a lot of workflow tools that make your life easier as a developer. Indeed you can cobble them together from other tools (Gerrit, for instance, for merge requests) but having a vertically integrated suite developed by a single vendor for a bunch of small workflow improvements is really nice.
I doubt Google would buy GitLab. It's an exceptionally bad fit.

GitLab's customers are primarily people who want to on-site host, and part of the SaaS marker (though I'd guess that's mostly gone to GitHub).

Google don't do Enterprise offerings well - they don't ship software.

GitLab is the pinacle of doing everything moderately well - they explicitly prioritise "Breadth over Depth" - https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/ - aka doing every 20%, and leaving the bugs and the missing features to the community.

Google are on the overhand fond of polishing something endlessly so they don't have support requests for it.

GitLab's source code is all opensource - Google's source code almost none of it is open source.

(BigTable, Bors, GFS, advertising stuff etc etc).
Why Developers Make Great Data Scientists
Bingo. Reminds me of this hilarious rap song about remote life as a dev https://youtu.be/ZAW1LBJE-w4
Excellent job! Thank you for your efforts in sharing the information.
It's hard to tell what argument you're making, but it sounds something like "All languages whose safety is less than 100% are equally safe". Obviously Rust is safer than C (both in theory and in practice, both for high- and low-level programming).

NOTE: Observers should resist the temptation to interpret this post as an endorsement for the "rewrite everything in Rust!" crowd.
They could be using coding techniques like a Barker code or something
Since you need either an enterprise agreement, or you need to pirate it, I'm not sure this is realistic for most people.
I'm not 100% sure what you were experiencing, but this is not how macOS works under normal circumstances. Maybe while the update is in progress, but you can't just downgrade to High Sierra from Mojave so easily, once the installation is complete.
You mean 1.5 years living expenses? How much do you think is good?

Also, if you find yourself having imposter syndrome do you think it's still worth it? Hate my job currently because I'm barely learning anything, there are no mentors, and the technology is old (EJBs). Not even sure if I want to stay a programmer.
AWS CloudFormation adds drift detection
>I wonder if engineers who designed my elevator or airplane had "ok it's very surprising that it's working, let's not touch this" moments.

I honestly sometimes do wonder. Judging by the elevators in my building some things even barely work at times. They go down often and require parts replacements that take weeks to arrive. They're barely 3 years old.
I had a very similar problem with an iOS app [1] I published which aggregated 3rd-party news content via RSS.

It took 3 months of back-and-forth with Apple Review to bypass those legality and content clauses in addition to a “limited functionality” clause. The key features introduced that finally put me past the review board were:

* Embedding a link to Safari on each news article cell

* Only allow content to display in SFSafariViewController (this was desired anyways)

* Allowing user to pick and choose categories of news to be shown

* A progress tracking feature which very simply measures and displays users’ time spent reading

The former two got me past the clauses identified in this article, re: 3rd party content. The latter two helped me to prove my app did something other than display 3rd party content (the limited functionality clause).

Was frustrating to find these workarounds, especially when the App Review board is not very responsive. Thankfully, some kind soul at Apple called me and helped me resolve everything within a day after my 5th consecutive reject.

[1] http://appstore.com/dossierallyouneedtoknow
52% of Labour voters didn’t vote for leave, I’m not saying everyone in the U.K. should support remain but the overwhelming majority of all Labour Party members and voters currently support remain, Labour is an opposition party as such they should support remain or rejoin.

The fact that Labour MPs had to rebel against their leader to support things like the 2nd referendum or a people’s vote on the deal does not bode well for what they are supposed to stand for.
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Just to throw my dead-simple blogging software into the mix: https://github.com/blhack/blogeyBlog

It's written in go. You write text files and put them in a directory. It applies a template and serves them. That's it. Personally I love it, you might too!
Show HN: Commands to get Git log statistics for a repository
Imagine if the topics were existence of ether, phrenology, or racism, which enjoyed the scientific consensus of their day. I wonder what would correlate with disbelief in those controversial topics.
Is $10M supposed to be impressive or something? They have 350 employees. The article is good but I don't understand why the title is written like that.
The problem is that either policing is not a role for a company, or there should be laws that protect both the developer and the user, like in a normal market.

Governments are partly to blame here, for not addressing platform economies. But some are working on it [1].

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/image/docum...
In NYC, the typical way this works out is that apartments on the lower floors get cold, because the buildings are uninsulated and hot air rises to the higher floors. They complain to the super, who cranks up the thermostat for the building until the lower floors are comfortable, and the upper floors are therefore stiflingly hot. Many people leave windows cracked open or even run their AC in the winter to overcome this.
Well, we use different sources for different things, but as a rule literally all fabrication and industrial activity uses energy. Eg, some big ones,

* Producing aluminium (Apple products)
* Producing & storing food (Haber process is energy -> fertiliser @ ~1-2% of worlds energy, refrigeration will also be a big deal)
* Transport (of food and goods)
* Heating (probably a bigger deal in places like Europe)

Energy is secretly quite fungible - eg, we can burn fossil fuels directly for grid electricity and use grid electricity as a substitute for fossil fuels if the price differential between the two gets large.

If general energy costs go up, food prices go up. That is the most obvious link between energy prices and poverty, but there are other less clear ones.