skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first time I tried high quality olive oil was at at an Italian restaurant. The oil was delivered with a piece of freshly baked bread and a small container of salt flakes.

When I tasted it I thought it was unreal. It was that good.

I don't remember the restaurant or even where it was, but do remember the tasting experience!
Amazing anecdote from a 2016 New Yorker article on the show:

> During one visit to Google’s headquarters, in Mountain View, about six writers sat in a conference room with Astro Teller, the head of GoogleX, who wore a midi ring and kept his long hair in a ponytail. “Most of our research meetings are fun, but this one was uncomfortable,” Kemper told me....

> “He claimed he hadn’t seen the show, and then he referred many times to specific things that had happened on the show,” Kemper said. “His message was, ‘We don’t do stupid things here. We do things that actually are going to change the world, whether you choose to make fun of that or not.’ ” (Teller could not be reached for comment.)

> Teller ended the meeting by standing up in a huff, but his attempt at a dramatic exit was marred by the fact that he was wearing Rollerblades. He wobbled to the door in silence. “Then there was this awkward moment of him fumbling with his I.D. badge, trying to get the door to open,” Kemper said. “It felt like it lasted an hour. We were all trying not to laugh. Even while it was happening, I knew we were all thinking the same thing: Can we use this?” In the end, the joke was deemed “too hacky to use on the show.”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-v...
Ok, that was premature :) So it seems we're really not quite there yet -- fair enough. Was just surprised given there's a vibrant Nuxt.js community. Let's see next year!
I appreciate the thanks :) I'm currently into React, but in a very light way -- I'm going to continue experimenting with how statecharts can (semi-)universally define the behavior of complex components in a way that can be integrated into any framework, or no framework at all.

I've also managed to avoid frameworks for some UIs and just use XState + RxJS. For example: https://codepen.io/davidkpiano/pen/zWrRye
fun little presentation about it: https://suli.pppl.gov/2018/thursdays/The%20Emerging%20Field%...
This reminds me of an idea I had when I was a freshman in college, in 2004 - 2005. I proposed a research project based on generalizing Markov chat bots to amplitude waves through neuron-like nodes. Basically, instead of discretely recognizing A -> B -> C but not A -> C -> B, the idea is the Markov node (or neuron) structure learned would respond with a sine-wave shaped pulse that initially rises and then goes negative, so that a chain of nodes "A -> B -> C" would still respond to a slightly out-of-order or different sequence, just not as strongly.

Initially my undergraduate CS advisor was excited by my idea, but only, it turned out, in the context of using it in genetic sequencing (because buzzwords). I gave him my honest opinion that adding my contrivance could only perform worse that existing genetic sequencing algorithms; my intent was to propose and investigate a way the brain might reasonably be recognizing language. He was entirely uninterested in this, and I got too busy with college / work and never developed the idea beyond a toy demo. Maybe I should look at it again...
The title is totally misleading.

- The 'implants' are not organs.

- The cells being implanted are from the recipient, so they naturally won't be rejected.

If the headline were true at all, we'd be reading about this in one of the big journals.

Edit: changed transplant to implant
"but it is not regarded as unethical in general."

Yes it is.

Maybe you live in an interesting developing nation?

Robbing banks, stores, anyone - is considered basically immoral in all of civilization, thankfully.

Yes - not all bank robbers are psychopaths - probably not the majority.

But prisons are fully of people bending reality to justify their crimes.
From the blog: "Know what you're getting yourself into, [OSCP] took me 292 days full-time"
Coal can apparently form after "only" many thousands of years, but most of today's mined coal seems to come from the Carboniferous (290-360 Million years ago) and the Cretaceous period (69-144 Million years ago).[0]

[0]https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Coal_formation
New Yorker, not NYTimes article.
Go look at https://www.canwork.io/
Less typing and more talking. I imagine you would have been more productive on a call. I couldn't imaging doing pair programming without being able to talk with the person I'm pairing with.

Also to be clear, when I say "phone call" I mean audio + video. So Zoom, Hangouts, Skype, etc.
/r/homelab has examples of people using wifi point to point links.
It’s sad that’s all you got out of it. There’s a quite a bit of subtext in the show, particularly if you’re in SV. I often wonder if people outside the valley pick up on the themes or if it’s jusy slapstick to them.
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Indeed, thanks. My real beef is with the silly precision but I got distracted explaining (probably unnecessarily) exactly why it can only ever be a very approximate estimate.
For the generator, if permanently installed, I'd see if you could automatically exercise the generator every month. (DC/site generators are often exercised every 14 days.)

If it's a portable generator, either put 100LL in it or (even better) run it entirely dry (to shut down) when done using it.

To your stable fuel question, for a permanently installed unit in a residence, I think it's incredibly hard to beat natural gas as a fuel supply for it.
Helium doesn't kill people, lack of oxygen kills people. Helium also doesn't stay in the same place for long - it is too lightweight to even stay in the atmosphere. Any helium released in a room will immediately float upwards and rapidly be gone forever.

For someone to die using helium, they would literally have to first find pure helium (which isn't sold at party stores any more - helium is mixed with oxygen) and pump it into a plastic bag over their head with the bag sealed (because it will come off when you pass out, you will breath in oxygen, then wake up).
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Well first off, 120 is very smart. I don't see how saying that suggests he wasn't highly intelligent. My only point is that there's a reasonable case to be made that his contributions had more to do with how he acted, his personality, his drive, etc., than just with being born smarter than everyone. I really dislike the notion of "genius"; because I think it gives people an excuse to never develop themselves or to be happy with whatever intellectual plateau they've reached. Whenever I hear someone say "well so and so was a genius" I always feel like there's an unstated but implicit message of "so why bother?"
Office Space and Silicon Valley, sure, but Idiocracy has aged _horribly_.

That movie is full of memes that haven't been relevant since the mid-00s (and specifically, the humor in the movie has a distinct Bush-era vibe which straight-up feels foreign in 2018... it feels like a period piece even though it's set in the future), and I lost whatever enjoyment of it that I had left when actual Neo-Nazis began using the movie to promote their pseudoscience about race and intelligence.
I disagree, again for a couple of different reasons.

Number 1: you say "eval is optimizeable", but optimizing eval in general is incredibly difficult. It's true that you can add optimizations for specific situations. But every time you do so, you expand the surface area of the boundary between "efficient" and "inefficient", and it becomes harder to maintain a mental model of how any given chunk of code will be executed. (For example, in Python, strings are immutable; when concatenating strings in a loop, the intermediate copies can be optimized away but only sometimes, which means that pattern is generally avoided as a matter of good coding style. Tail-return optimization in Scheme is a useful trick that suffers from similar drawbacks, which is probably why you don't see it implemented in a lot of other languages.)

I'm skeptical that adding this type of complexity results in a better overall developer experience. Remember, code is written not just for the compiler, but also to be read and understood.

And number 2: in practice, most languages don't have multiple competing implementations at the level of complexity you're talking about. When your compiler gets to the point of doing sophisticated JIT optimizations, maintaining it requires a lot of specialized knowledge and experience. It's impractical to fork a project like V8 or Hotspot to add a specific new optimization. So individual runtime environments usually aren't subject to competitive pressure, except from entirely different languages.
You can use an other implementation of preprocessor for C/C++, with more features, e.g. DMS[0], which works with AST, or even PHP or Perl, but you will need to parse code twice, so compilation will be about 2x slower.

[0]: http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/DMS/DMSToolkit.html
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> A compression algorithm that works well enough to make a P2P Internet practical seems like a ground-breaking technology that is close-to-believable.

That’s not the amount of transfered data that makes a P2P Internet practical or not, but rather its reliability, something a compression algorithm can’t do anything about.
I've been trading it since last suummer and doing just fine, thank you. But years and years and years of trading under my so-called belt. I'm not alone, though. There is a way to trade a bear market...safely... The folks that got hurt were holders and those who went nuts in Dec. and thought "green" meant "buy."
Original text [1], changed by amendments [2]. Relevant definition:

Amendment 150, Proposal for a directive, Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4b (new):

> 'online content sharing service provider' means a provider of an information society service one of the main purposes of which is to store and give access to the public to a significant amount of copyright protected works or other protected subject-matter uploaded by its users, which the service optimises and promotes for profit making purposes. Microenterprises and small-sized enterprises within the meaning of Title I of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC and services acting in a non-commercial purpose capacity such as online encyclopaedia, and providers of online services where the content is uploaded with the authorisation of all right holders concerned, such as educational or scientific repositories, shall not be considered online content sharing service providers within the meaning of this Directive. Providers of cloud services for individual use which do not provide direct access to the public, open source software developing platforms, and online market places whose main activity is online retail of physical goods, should not be considered online content sharing service providers within the meaning of this Directive;

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A... [2] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&langua...
> REST for the control plane works because there are few enough "resources" that you can have a URI for each and CRUD works.

Isn't the issue also that entities on the control plane often have relatively simple state machines? You can reduce REST complexity by designing APIs that manipulate the state machine rather than thinking in terms of a pure CRUD model.

For instance, the need to hold client-side state disappears in transaction models where you request a desired state and then have the option to wait for the actual state to correspond or just go away and check later to see how it's doing. The poll request (if there is one) translates from looking for transaction completion to waiting for the desired state.

Edit: for clarity
Ha ha, sounds like a good problem to have :)

Can't help sadly, generally computers will leave me well awake for at least a couple hours since the moment I'm done.
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This case was dismissed on procedural grounds. The opinion's analysis applying Dostar is just the Judge saying how they would have applied the standard to this set of facts but it doesn't actually set any precedent.
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Wow, thanks for reminding me. I totally forgot this game existed. It was fun!
Seems like the same thing...

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

>The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of entertainment developed in the early 19th century. Each show consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music performances that mocked people specifically of African descent. The shows were performed by white people in make-up or blackface for the purpose of playing the role of black people.
The comment was talking about the hypothetical future ("If the CO2 emissions could be adequately captured, ...") not the present.
Love the show partly for how deeply researched its identity and culturally driven jokes are. Here are a few:

Erlich passing Dinesh off as Latino to get a deal on a graffiti logo design:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSzmVFF58Mo

Dinesh recounting to a puzzled Gilfolye about how he was a "cool" kid back in Pakistan, and why:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKz0M6SmQ8c

The latter one, in particular, implies that the writers had a deeper than average understanding of the different youth cultures of the US and South Asian cultures at a particular time in history.
If you like Silicon Valley check out The IT Crowd, also equally hilarious take on the world of IT.
Silicon Valley

The Internship

The Circle

It's possible to get a somewhat accurate view from watching these, but you have to know which parts to completely ignore. I kind of wish there were "this is accurate" edits of those shows and movies.
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It means arresting a suspect on a minor misdemeanor which satisfies warrant requirements to make the suspect available for interrogation for "another", bigger crime.
Exactly.

I was hoping for something like /r/place.

It's just a demonstration of the impressive but ultimately rather useless "drawing -> shape classification" machine learning application.

It would be massively better if I could just choose from the shape classes and place them myself. That would allow at least for some amount of creativity. Of course then they don't get to show off their gimmick AI...
I was talking about educational programming: you still have to teach variables, expressions, assignment, a bunch of library functions, etc. etc.
The job of teaching is not being made easier if you also have to add a lot of non trivial syntax on top of that.
Wow, thank you everyone for your comments! Literally every comment has provided value and caused me to think a bit more on this. I appreciate all of your responses and hopefully this can help others in a similar situation.
Kubefwd: CLI utility for port forwarding pods within a Kubernetes namespace
Silicon Valley is more than just Web 2.0 companies. If you went to an average ASIC company I doubt it would this crazy.
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Perhaps but cash is disgusting. Have you read how 90 percent of cash is covered with cocaine? Not to mention all the creepy crawlies on it... ewww...
Combining multiple changes in one request is actually part of the oData standard (which is REST): http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata/v4.0/errata02/os/comp...

You can send multiple retrieves and changes in one multipart request.
It doens't have a ton of pressure to, given that it's a tool. You write "cargo +nightly" instead of "cargo" and it's fine.

We'd of course like to have it on stable, like everything, there's just more pressing stuff to stabilize.
My LinkedIn feed is full of barely competent - if I’m being generous - former cow-orkers becoming CISOs. Anyone who knows what they’re doing will certainly make a killing in this field. Good luck!
I agree with your philosophical stance, however carbon taxes are unfortunately a pipe dream in the US, at least. Look at Washington, a liberal bastion, which was not even close to passing their carbon tax ballot initiative. In this political climate and this atmosphere of denial and propaganda, unfortunately morality is one of the only actually effective weapons left to those who actually care about the environment and the planet. It's all fine and good to prefer a carbon tax, but if that's all you push for, NOTHING has gotten done in this country on that score.

The other ways to make a difference, besides pushing hard against the very negative and misery-causing emissions, are to innovate tech, to make clean energy experiences better for consumers, and to push tangentially related policies like EV credits, solar credits, and other policies which help non-toxic energy sources.
I wonder what Bill Gates thinks of the character Jack Barker.
Because science isn't about belief, its about reasoning. One person having a good response to something doesn't say anything about that something, that person, or that good response.

Only after things have been repeatedly tested, and alternative explanations thoroughly ruled out, can a claim be considered accurate. Everything was once alternately laughable or mysterious, until it was thoroughly proven to be true. There is a reason why we aren't letting your blood because you have a cold anymore.
Won't fly ash leak contaminants to the groundwater supply?
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Hm, good point. I was thinking of the case of manual checking, but good point nonetheless.

Of course, the checksum would have to be invariant to pitch shift, rotation, horizontal flipping, framing, clipping, and length changes — all of which I know have been used to evade copyright filters on YouTube. (Also must resist mild noise audio or visual noise, mild convolution filters, and probably hue shifting, but I don’t know if those have been used by pirates yet)
>The first time I tried high
quality olive oil
>I thought it was unreal

For those people who may be having trouble understanding the comparison, this reaction would be the same reaction as if we were tasting supermarket hummus and legitimately homemade hummus.

One is McDonalds dry; the other is Michelin star silk.
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It would be great to compare the growth China kicked off in the 80s with the growth the USA kicked off after WWII. See if its the same trend, feel weird comparing growth of a country with another that had a 40 year head start.
agree with you but we have so much education to do of normal, every day people. It's too techy for too many.. so they don't see what you and I are seeing.
Whatever happened to the HiQ labs case? Did HiQ labs ultimately win and can continue scraping Linkedin?
Acknowledged. I would say even Scribblenauts might've been actually a better game without this gimmick. It wouldn't have attracted the same amount of attention though.
Here is an attempted translation from legalese.

Company B scraped listings off of Company A's site, and published their own site based off of that data. Then A sued on three grounds:

1. Company B's notices falsely claimed copyright to the listings.

2. Company B ignored company A's copyright notice.

3. Violation of the Lanham Act, which prevents people claiming something is from somewhere other than where it is when they sell it. (This is the interesting one.)

The court ruled as follows.

General copyright notices at the bottom of a web page claim copyright over the site as a whole and not to all of the data that may appear in the site. Therefore 1 fails because company B's notice is not claiming copyright. And 2 fails because A's notice was not specific enough to claim copyright.

As for 3, the fact that there is no physical product means that the precedent the Supreme Court set in the Darstar case applies - the Lanham act only applies to physical products.

I'm sure that I didn't get it quite right, but that version may be more readable than the original article.
Ahhh thank you a ton, this is awesome.
Idiocracy is, sadly, a bit too prophetic.
If you squint a little bit, Tom Anderson is basically proto-Hank Hill.
Well they do talk about using the implanted tissue to regenerate organs, which is pretty cool. But it still doesn't seem to render the headline accurate.
"innovative" then goes on to use the most common tools and add a lot of fancy words. Is this MIT stuff?
> Tesla reported a $312 million profit for the three months that ended Sept. 30, thanks to a surge in production and sales of its Model 3 sedan. The company has long promised that the model would help make electric vehicles and Tesla itself a mass-market phenomenon.

> Tesla ended September with $3 billion in cash compared with $2.2 billion at the end of the previous quarter. The company generated $881 million in free cash flow — cash produced through operations less capital expenditures. “The cash-flow number is impressive,” said David Whiston, an auto analyst at Morningstar. “That’s a lot of cash for a company their size.”

Disclaimer: I own a Tesla and a chunk of TSLA stock.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/business/tesla-third-quar...
One person randomly having a favorable outcome doesn't tell you if a result is great, let alone even exists.
> Idiocracy has aged _horribly_.

Are you sure? Who is the POTUS now?
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> There's no representation of the "transaction" resource that you can GET

Except in the most trivial cases, it's probably essential that there be such a representation and that you 201 the transaction with a URL for the resulting resource. The nature of aggregate transactions is that you probably don't want to do a 200 and done, especially if you are supporting arbitrary combinations of CRUD actions as you suggest.

> You can only POST representations of transactions that internally contain ad-hoc encodings of CRUD operations on multiple other resources.

“Ad hoc”? No more than any other resource representation. Not that I think most applications that need a transaction resource of some kind need an arbitrary combination of lower level actions; most need well defined classes of domain transactions that are each more constrained.
Or use oData which is a REST query language.
Lack of support in Safari feels like it must be deliberate - I can't believe they just forgot to do this. I wonder if heif/heic is currently to be considered a 'private variable', and that the 'public getImage()' type method that we use returns as a jpg, regardless of how it's stored internally.

It's somewhat difficult to actually get the raw HEIC file, so from a users point of view this is more of an implementation detail.

I wonder if this is partially in response to how webp started out, e.g. this thread about Facebook's implementation: https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/forum/?fromgroup... - you can see there a user saying:

"As of yesterday, I've been able to download funny pictures from facebook from friends in correct formats, but now they are downloading as an additional extension of .webp??? How do I fix this? It states that I'm downloading a .jpg, but it keeps coming up with "Save file as .webp" I"ve tried scrolling down and click on all files to save it as, but then the picture will not show up. Help???? "

So, it seems Apple are keeping this internal to the OS to avoid this sort of problem.
Apple was one of the first adopters of (standard) MPEG-4 and MP4 and IMO that paid off. Clearly they're not afraid of being an early adopter of HEVC either. Once they went all-in on HEVC then HEIF becomes a no-brainer, although maybe they see it only as an authoring format not as a delivery format.
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