skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tentatively agree with the idea that conferences reduce the amount of work that someone gets done for a few days (you can see this by how much work free software maintainers like myself generally get done during conferences), but I absolutely disagree that it is a net negative for your employer.

In my view, as someone who contributes to free software as my job (though the rest of this is somewhat related to proprietary developers too), conferences are a great opportunity to have IRL discussions over current development topics as well as meet people from other free software communities (who might work for proprietary software companies). And arguably that is getting work done (and I have written patches side-by-side with someone while at conferences quite a few times).

Having connections in your field, as well as being well-known by your field (perhaps by submitting talks to conferences) is very useful for both you and your employer. In most cases, a lack of conference attendance by a company is seen as a "bad smell" in some communities (it indicates that they don't have an interest in the community around something they use -- maybe because they think that interacting with their community through conferences is a waste of time). It also potentially gives you access to more recruits, because people looking for work often attend conferences to expand their connections.

Not to mention that most medium-and-larger companies can spare a few thousand dollars a few times a year to send their employees to a conference to act as both a marketing tool and as a form of training at conferences. I'd bet that medium-sized companies spend more on stationary and tea+coffee supplies yearly.
You buy stock to sell it later and make money. Most people do that. You buy and apartament to live in. Most people do that. Ffs
Because there's no such thing as a perfect vacuum? Because when there's an explosion there's also an expanding medium that sounds can travel through?
Maybe not to our own people.

Did the UK/US not invade Iraq/Afghanistan, are we not still there? How many governments have we overthrown? How many people have we unjustly imprisoned/killed?

It's not a 1 to 1 type comparison but in my mind it's hard to imagine the US wasn't the most cruel or barbarous civilization in the past 80 years or so.

Noam Chomsky: “Remember the worst terrorist campaign in the world by far is the one that’s being orchestrated in Washington. That’s the global assassination campaign. There’s never been a terrorist campaign of that scale.”
Amazon's Echo lets you use "Computer" as the hot word.
Although if you believe in an omnipotent god, would you believe that she/he would not give those a chance who did not here of her/him? Why the need to actively push it onto those who are currently unaware?
Stocks Climb as Energy, Tech Strength Lift Indexes: Markets Wrap
We have spent a non-insignificant amount on the Fifth Fleet (25 navy vessels) to ensure the stable supply of middle eastern oil onto energy markets. That seems to be of substantial incentive to mitigate our need for oil to drive our economy.

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

> Well, even a blind pig finds an acorn once in awhile. While working on a recent piece on how to cut $1 trillion from the $7-trillion-plus U.S. defense budget over the coming decade, I stumbled upon a provocative analysis by Roger Stern, an economic geographer at Princeton University. He says the U.S. has “mis-allocated” — others might say “wasted” — $8 trillion since 1976 protecting the oil flow from the Persian Gulf that fuels much of the global economy. Especially since in 2010, when the U.S. was the destination of less than 10 percent of the oil flowing out of the Gulf.

> The U.S. has insisted, since the days of the Carter Administration, that the oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf is a vital national-security interest of the U.S. Beyond that, Presidents and the Pentagon have said, the narrow Strait of Hormuz is a vulnerable bottleneck for shipping headed out of the Gulf. Any troublemaker — especially Iran — could bring the U.S. and world economies to their collective knees by shutting it down by sinking a couple of tankers as they pass through. Consequently, the U.S. has poured tons of money into the region since then, including three wars. It has bulked up its military forces in the neighborhood — including the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, headquarters in Bahrain, smack dab in the middle of the gulf — to keep the oil flowing.

http://nation.time.com/2011/04/24/a-question-for-the-obama-a... (Have we wasted $8 trillion defending the Persian Gulf from a non-existent threat?)
I agree. But that agreement is different from condoning a mob reaction to their faux pas.
I do not understand what "the democratic party, their propaganda outlets, and their commisars" have to do with whether or not the president has thought long and hard about his moral positions. I explained why I think that he does not, but even if that reason were not provided, it does not follow that someone with the position that the president does not think long and hard about his moral positions would need to have an irrational hatred of him. To briefly reduce your position to a strawman:

>Person X believes that the president does not think long and hard about his moral positions -> Person X has an irrational hatred of the president

My issue is with that deduction. There is a logical jump somewhere in here that I am not able to follow. You reference multiple third parties and contrast them to the president as if to suggest that whatever differences that they may have means that it is clear that this hypothetical Person X has an irrational hatred of the president, or that a particular decision that the president has made proves this, but these are not obvious conclusions to me. As for why "he didn't want to bomb random Muslims but the democratic party, their propaganda outlets, and their commisars did", I actually do not have to explain that. The reason that I have given is in no way refuted by or related to this claim.

Instead, could you explain why the opinion that the president does not think long and hard about his moral positions is sufficient evidence that the holder of that opinion irrationally hates the president?
If by "CPU intrinsics" you mean SIMD, Rust has that.
Not that I am really qualified to comment on these things, since I don't program in Rust, Go or FORTRAN, but AFAIK the one thing that is often claimed to prevent languages reaching C/C++ performance levels is garbage collection, which Rust doesn't have (but Go does).

As we all know benchmarks need to be taken with a handful of salt since the publisher often has a vested interest in pushing one point of view or another for monetary or whatever reasons.

My personal view is that until we see a AAA game engine or mainstream operating system that is able to run a comparable suite of software to Windows/Linux written in Rust or Go, we won't really know if these languages (or implementations thereof) are going to be suitable for these things.
In some places, it's actually against the law to feed the homeless (without a proper license). Teaching Rails does not require a license, so it's probably OK (though if I were homeless, I'd rather take food).
Boost came about from a few members of the ISO C++ committee as a way to iterate on library features. It would be a shame if none of that work made it's way back into the standard.
Worst Day of an Awful Year Leaves No Corner of Market Unscathed
Landmark study shows brain cells revamp their DNA, perhaps sparking Alzheimer’s
It may not be fast, but wind power is a proven technology for that application.
It’s not super simple to safely and securely host a hidden service. Not at all.
Way of the Passive Fist dev discusses accessibility in gaming
I’m sure the Marx Brothers would have endorsed it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nPTqrFas9Bo
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/21/hacker-erases-65....
Anecdotal evidence from my personal experience. I am diabetic. After watching my body's response to aspartame, I dropped eating or drinking anything with it in it. It also caused a brain fuzziness where I had trouble recalling words and memories. This affect was also reported by a friend who was drinking lots of aspartame. Try to focus on non-sweetened or naturally sweetened. If you go for artificial, spread your consumption around to the various types to keep the negative effects minimized.[1]

[1] http://vqrn.com/Sugar-Free-Foods.html
These religious convictions lead to a comic-book ethics, where a few lone heroes are charged with saving the world
Similarly, I have a section on the bottom of my resume labeled "Skills" that's just a dumping ground of any buzzword I'm comfortable talking about.
I'm becoming more and more convinced as time goes on that our new technologies only look at one side of the equation: cost. They seem to be doing little or nothing to increase incomes. So I must ask myself, are these really technologies if they don't provide utility to all players?

Across almost all industries, people used to be able to provide for their families, or at the very least support themselves on a 40 hour work week. Now we have Uber and Lyft decreasing the cost of taxi rides to perhaps half their previous levels. That's nice for clients, but they're also lowering wages to perhaps half or even a quarter of their previous levels. That missing quarter is where executive and corporate profits come from.

Is there a term for a company that focuses on incomes first? Is there a way to program that into a corporate charter, to encourage gig companies like Upwork to maximize incomes? Could we use private means to optimize the economy for incomes?

For a lot of reasons, the federal government has been crippled in its ability to do the simplest things like raise the minimum wage or even give unions equal legal footing with corporations. That worked to pump debt into the economy for a decade or three but now we're seeing strife in the forms of increasing addiction, suicide rates, delayed marriage and childbirth, etc. It's one thing to be against unions and another to be against the general working population, which is what this wealth inequality is becoming. We're reaching an endgame here that is not sustainable - that may lead to widespread civil disobedience at the very least, and probably violence or even revolution eventually. What can be done?
My speculation is that Apple believes that people are lengthening their purchase interval on new phones not primarily because of cost but because they don't see the value. So, Apple is focusing on higher cost "1st year" phones which provide more differentiation on value to the old phones.

They also may stop just discounting the phones as they become "2nd year" phones, similar to the setup they have with the iPad and iPad Pros.

This both means more profit per phone to account for the decrease in sales due to lengthening time between phone purchases, and a bit more motivation to update to the next sexy 1st year phone rather than the cheaper models due to explicit feature differentiation.
You in fact shouldn't know this as the EIA reports that 3,239,699 barrels of petroleum products were consumed in august of this year alone for electrical generation in the US (source https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T... )
The New York subway system is riddled with inefficiencies, corruption, and terrible maintenance. You’ve gotta call it for what it is. Their bull shit has caught up to them. I feel nothing less than contempt for the people behind it.
Hey Swozey, sorry for slow reply. HN is rate limiting me because I have a new account.
I can confirm that Google Auth is coming in our next big release in January.
While mynoise is great, I've used it in the past the main difference is we are trying to make music do more than just provide ambient noise. Hopefully you can give us a shot!
How exactly do you propose to reverse this mechanism?
thanks for your comment, added second and third paragraph to the question. I choose video to demonstrate materially that this is real without disclosing too much implementation details too soon.

Again, trying to figure out the best approach.
The problem is that nobody new to the scene wants to write C anymore. It's not a secure language, it has no convention and is full of hacks. On top of that it has undefined behaviors and is supported differently by different systems.

Nowadays people want to write in Go, Rust, Swift, etc.
Not quite. It exports everywhere there is a comparative advantage. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
Early 2000s:

The main problem with that is there is no single JavaScript/HTML community.

Imagine trying to get IE, Netscape, Opera and every flavor of embedded HTML viewer together.
Ask HN: Should Apple Buy Duck Duck Go?
I wonder if any of the child immigrants currently locked up near the Mexican border would say the same thing now that they've tried to come to America.
Sorry rate limited through HN for new account. Hey yes, we are doing a promo this year. If you go to our website on Black Friday you'll see a big popup!
Sorry but there are enough incidents coming out of UAE and the arab world (KSA), where it seems easy to run afoul of the law (alcohol, drugs, sex/rape, religion) and end up in big trouble

You go after India but don’t reveal what country you hail from though.

The US is so big though that it’s impractical to make such a blanket statement.

There are mosques in every big city- no one seems to be opressed because of their religious views. You will never be judged for offending a deity or the government.
Chucklefish 2D games or what have you are a far cry (no pun intended) away from a high performance 3D engine like Unreal though. And from what I can find on EA SEED they are mostly using it for server side and pipeline stuff, rather than the primary rendering engines for their 3D games. I'd love to stand corrected if this isn't the case.

Don't get me wrong, I'm optimistic, and I'd like to see it happen. Although I was a C/C++ holdout at first, I'm starting to come around to the Rust way of thinking, even if I don't like a lot of the terminology and the "RIIR" crowd are completely annoying.
>You should know that oil is not used for elec. gen in developed countries.

Eh? When I worked for a United States generation company our coal-burning plants could and would be switched to bunker fuel if the price was right. To be fair it's not much (less than 5%) depending on how you slice it, but in their 2016 annual report [1] Dynegy reported 2.6 TWh (terawatt hours) sold into the wholesale market and .7 TWh into retail.

Be careful about blanket statements unless you're an expert in the area because other HN readers are experts.

[1] = https://www.dynegy.com/sites/default/files/Dynegy_2016_Annua...
> A gasoline powered car is not an electrical generation source

Just a minor thing, and doesn't change your point, but
have you considered that cars have alternators which use the turning of the engine to generate electricity?
> (yet)

I do wonder what happened to the Transatlantic tunnel
and off a bridge? sounds like a JS conference
> They are a waste of your employer’s time...

Yet it is employers who [often] pay for employees to go to these things? Hmmm, why do you think that is?
Look up information on the PUCT's "CREZ" project.
I agree. I'm mostly a C coder but I've been on the Rust train since pretty early and I remember being pretty confused when they started putting emphasis on the Rust branding with logos, the whole "rustacean" thing, conferences, forums etc... In hindsight I get it but originally there was a bit of a culture shock. I mean I don't wear C T-shirts and as far as I can tell there's not really a standard C logo either.

Maybe we should find a cool demonym like "c-lions" or "c-weeds" or whatever. Then we'll be able to ask the real questions like "is C webscale?".

Now I'm being a bit snarky but I genuinely understand why newer languages need branding nowadays, but in the case of C that ship has sailed long ago, you don't really need to introduce it, it's just C.
You can't ever get anonymous layer 1. To the point of other commenters - percentage figures are unreliable on tor.
Android - The Hacker News app Materialistic seems to give the functionality you're seeking.
For that t succeed, they'll have to convince the world to buy into Aramco's IPO – right when EV sales will have crossed the chasm in multiple countries: https://valuendow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Exhibit-1.j...

I hope they have good sales reps.
At this point, there are no long distance electric trains in the US. Odd, it seems like it would be mutually beneficial to have the electric grid run on rail right of way and be used to power trains.
And woodworking.

Have you seen the amount of tools and discussions/arguments just about the subject of making joints??

Pocket holes vs mortice and tenons vs dove tails vs dowling, etc. etc.
I C what you did there very well.
C is used more as an API than a language.
A lot of people also refuse to acknowledge that SE is meant to stand for "special edition", in which the name itself implies it was an aberration on the product lineup.

The SE only existed because the SE wasn't difficult to design and had a high profit margin. Now the SE is gone because integrating the newer technology like Face ID is harder. Come a smaller camera assembly and reduced part costs, we could have another SE show up.
And still won’t let me access my own Gsuite data, like my calendar or contacts. That’s some pretty shit priorities right there.

Google, the king of half-assed solutions.
I think you're overestimating the thought put into job listings. In the US human resources/recruiters like to find folks to refer that vaguely meet the requirements. Job hunting is still highly subjective.
Your statement in itself is a hypothesis to be proved. There are psychology experiments designed specifically to ascertain what parts of the mind are hard-wired and which are depended on nurture/culture.

I am not a Psychologist but I can give one example: Piaget hypothesized that the mind developed by first accumulating low-level sensory/motor data, and then progressively building higher levels of abstraction on that foundation. If that is true, then that process itself is not related to society or culture and should be observable so long as the biology underpinning cognitive development doesn't radically change.
The successful landlords I know told me their number 1 rule was “hold tenants to the contract”.

1 day late on rent with no heads up from the tenant? Start the eviction process.

If you give an inch, they’ll take a mile and pretty quickly you’re running a charity.
It's a fine line. The guidelines ask you to eschew snark.

We don't have any problem with satire and sarcasm as such, but on a large public forum like HN, with everything a mile wide and an inch deep, they are nearly always associated with really low-quality discussion.
Fracked wells have awful production curves. It will be done a few years after they run out of permian to drill. No gentle dropoffs like traditional reservoirs. Though, I'm just an interested bystander, so if any petroleum geologist know of changes that contradict I'm happy to be corrected.
Congrats to everyone on the progress, and a huge thanks from me to all the devs who are working on this! Are there any performance comparisons with dav1d (AV1) vs ffvp9 (VP9)? I’m curious how expensive decoding AV1 is compared to VP9 (in software) (and I’m hoping someone else has already done the benchmarking so I won’t have to).
False, at the time that Kurian left he was head of all product development reporting directly to Larry Ellison.
Facebook launches a dashboard for tracking the time you spend in its app
Battlestar Galactica (the remake)
I said "implemented" in C. I'd argue that the runtime == the implementation.
Agreed - fracking only makes sense as long as its easy to borrow money
I don’t see much wrong in terms of the financial process.

People default on the mortgage but keep living in the property. That’s not the way to go.

The problem is that most likely foreclosure is not profitable for investors, so in order to collect money, they have to make life miserable for people. But this is just messed up, because mental health is as important as physical health. So if someone stresses people out to get their money, why the taxpayer/family had to get stuck with economic externality?

Imagine instead of stressing people out, we cut their limbs if they don’t pay.
dodges taxes and subverts democracy

Nothing in the article about this, got a link?
Oh yeah, I don’t mean to imply chucklefish is AAA.

I don’t have a ton of info about SEED, pretty much

https://twitter.com/gwihlidal/status/1065036212220698624 says

> Halcyon itself is still largely C++, but a lot of data pipelines and servers are written with rust, and quite a few rendering experiments, as well. Enough pieces are being developed to build up enough critical mass for 3D, though!

and https://twitter.com/repi/status/1031877154261422080

> Nope, but our next revision of Halcyon is built using Rust

but Embark claims that all their stuff is Rust-first. There’s some other rumblings at other places, but they’re just that, rumblings. As I said, excited to see what happens; it hasn’t happened yet!

And yeah, RIIR is annoying for sure.
> the alliance is based around a lot more than just oil,

curious what else
Amazon manages this fine on their Echo products...
I agree with you regarding the specific bikes I've personally experienced. But if I'm doing a blind "riding effort" test and am not allowed to lift the frame by hand, I doubt I could differentiate between all the contributing factors to effort.
Where to start for learning Robotics?
Hi I am a full stack developer building web application for past 8 years. I want to move to systems programming and eventually work on Robotics. I know the field huge and the scope of the question is too broad. I want to start and eventually figure out what specific field i want to pursue in Robotics. I have an electronics background so circuits are not new for me. I love programming over mathematical modeling so i am not looking at AI/machine learning as of now. I am confused on where to start. As of now i focussed on learning systems programming.
It is indeed hard to see in the Nature video, but this one has the full flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9yYu-ZM1S0
How were they already fucked once? They either went bankrupt and this doesnt apply to them or they kept the house and this does.

Nobody is paying for a house twice or losing the house and paying the mortgage.
The description on that video is a doozy
The Domesday Project: The BBC’s 1980s “Google Earth” on LaserDisc
C++ is a wildly unstable language compared to C. Every new standard brings a slew of new coding paradigms and features, often changing the way to write C++ code pretty fundamentally. On top of that C++ is a hellish beast of a language of such tremendous complexity that you can probably host hundreds of conference where you'd teach even experienced C++ coders things they don't know. They won't run out of material any time soon.

Meanwhile a C conference would have a hard time coming up with interesting content year after year IMO. You'd end up having to talk about how C is used more than C itself, but then you're no longer really doing C-con, you're doing "embedded-con" or "high performance trading con" etc...

I agree with the parent when they compare C to a hammer, it's a super useful tool and I'm glad that we have it but it's not like I could talk about it for hours (or hear somebody else talk about it for that matter).
Spark is mostly written in Scala.
It's truly scary. US will get accustomed to the increased domestic capacity and lower prices, and then have the rug pulled out from underneath.
In the British English 'CV' and 'resume' are interchangeable.

I know in US English 'CV' means something more in the academic community, but it doesn't here.