skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another anecdote: an expensive training class onsite in 1987 at a new Adobe Systems building in Silicon Valley, with Apple/Mac developers well-represented and a few financially successful developers from other OS. The whole class was halted ten minutes in because one of the non-Mac attendees realized the whole curriculum of "developing drivers for Adobe Postscript" was going to be presented using a point-and-click coursework, and called a senior contact at Adobe in to make a scene.. because, you know, a "mouse" ?
Thanks for the update, I was about to post this myself. Glad to see it's back online!
Is it really? Not being snarky here, but I joined diaspora early on and a year or so after the untimely death of the co-founder the project felt like it was going no where. 6 years later it feels like I never hear anything about it, and ActivityPub is almost a must for any serious "open" social network now.
7 types of instruction sets used in computers
We use Looker and it's amazing. Comparing it with Tableau was laughable for people used to modern SaaS tools. Tableau was so far behind...
These types of corrections don't really add to the conversation. I used to have similar editor instincts, but most people who read HN make substitutions like that without being told.
>Is there an existing database of historical DNA sequences available for comparing against?

This is an interesting question. Have we attempted to document the DNA from anyone of historic consequence for whom we have DNA samples?

How many human remains of DNA samples are there in the Smithsonian, for example?

Can you sequence the DNA from mummies?
If you're interested in prions and some heavy science, I would highly recommend reading the research blogs of Eric and Sonia.

http://www.cureffi.org/ and http://www.prionalliance.org/blog/

> Wife-husband team Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel are on a very personal mission to find a cure to prion diseases. When Sonia was diagnosed as a genetic carrier of a rare disease called Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI), she and Eric quit their regular jobs and began studying molecular biology to learn as much as they could.

Theirs is an incredible story so far. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-prion-love-sto...
>... cromulent...

This really embiggened my morning.
Being aware of LED flicker and having been to places with both 50 Hz and 60 Hz AC, the places with 50 Hz are definitely worse. Extremely easy to perceive. Plus, it can be difficult to take photos under this light.

Also, most of the "Edison-style" LED bulbs on the market use really cheap drivers. This is especially true outside the U.S. where you can get an LED "filament" with integrated half-wave rectifier. Thankfully UL is not allowing this crap in the U.S., but Edison-style LEDs here still (mostly) use very cheap driver topology.

I'm on a mission to make lighting healthy. That's why I launched Bedtime Bulb: https://bedtimebulb.com/ We have the lowest flicker of any bulb I have ever seen, even less than those claiming to be "flicker-free."
> Was the perception really that they would test a bunch and then just pull all of the drivers immediately after?

If it's after an extended test period, it's not "immediately".

But yes, the perception was that they would test a bunch and eventually pull the drivers out of the typical car. And that they would need to do this before it could be considered a proper launch.
Harmful, unfounded myths about migration have become accepted,used for exclusion
I'm sorry to hear that. What other things have you tried? Any ideas on what's causing that much low-confidence and anxiety?
This seems like a particularly strange personal attack. Why make it?
"it will take significant stagnation on Tableua's part"

As a former customer of Tableau, it feels like this has already happened right? I worked at a company where many teams used it, and there were zero defenders of Tableua when it came time to decide whether to renew...it's a mess, especially on Mac.
Wait...

Google+ had 52 million users?

That should be the headline.
There's a new RPi audio driver. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1951...
Interesting, I'm not aware of this but conclusively shown, but please provide a link to back that up as I'm certainly curious.

That said, if you do centaur blitz or bullet chess using over the board pieces, not computer move input, I'm fairly certain that the skill of the human player will be a factor :-)
You do not need an absolutely precise dead-centre reference voltage for this application! It just has to be far enough from the either rail to avoid clipping.

If the batteries have gone that far south, they need replacing.
https://www.werstreamt.es/film/details/1521627/the-farthest/
My company shares a lot of customers with Looker, and from my point of view there’s a couple reasons why they’re so successful.

First, Looker has two layers. The dashboard layer gives you tables, charts and filters. The explore layer allows you to go in and build your own pivot tables off the same underlying models. No other BI tool has built an explore layer that’s as successful in practice as Looker’s.

Second, the underlying model of both layers is written in code and under version control. This probably makes sense to most HN readers but in the BI world this is very contrarian. If you ask most business users who make BI purchasing decisions, version control and pull requests are the last thing they’ll ask for. But it turns out it’s exactly what you need to maintain a complex BI deployment.
Forbes is cashing in their brand name, built over a long period of time, for quick wins. It's sad that they don't value their legacy.
That does appear to be the issue. Latest version of Chrome on Mac OS 10.14.1. "THREE.WebGLRenderer: Error creating WebGL context."

I enabled hardware acceleration in Chrome and it is working fine now. Thanks and good work on this!
I've never worked at Google, but some of the commentary I've seen from people who have worked there suggests that performance reviews and promotions (at the senior levels) are heavily gated on your roles in releasing new products to users, with maintenance of existing products factoring in very little, if at all.
What's more, the silly GND-GND circuit could be preserved, but using just one op-amp for it

The liberated op-amp could be used to provide a stiff voltage reference from a 100K:100K voltage divider!

Of course, all that is unnecessary.
I almost forgot prompt() was ever a thing!
All of your responses are blatantly telling the person you're responding to what they were thinking instead of considering that perhaps there are multiple ways to interpret things. You told padseeker that they were insinuating something when at best you could guess that they were insinuating something. If you're actually interested in discussing things instead of telling people what they believe or what their intent was, then I suggest not using this rhetorical device because it stifles understanding and conversation, not encourages it.
Thank you, this looks great - I didn't know about this.
The title of this article is misleading. I thought it was a discussion of the "Cold Start Problem" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_start_(computing)), which is a common technical challenge. Instead, it is a recollection of two stories for how to get a job in ML.
I have to tentatively agree... I would think that Python, NodeJS and Go would all be better options. Node would have the benefits of similar tooling for the UX/UI side as the backend, Python would also be scripted with more consistent constraints and Go was designed for this kind of workload.
It can be hard to hear what those other stakeholders are saying over all the noise the dump truck full of money makes when it starts backing up toward you.
>Wages are up 3.1% YoY

>Real average hourly earnings increased 0.7 percent, seasonally adjusted, from October 2017 to October 2018.

Eh... https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/realer.pdf
Everyone with a gmail address or youtube account was strong armed into having a google+ account, which counts as their "userbase" regardless of whether or not any of those people actually made use of any google+ specific features.
Not that Huawei aren't capable of going that way, but I'd have thought Tencent's WeChat/Tenpay and Alibaba's Alipay are already heading in more overtly 'Black Mirror' directions[1]? Or maybe to put that another way, I would think software is going to have an easier time making the future scarier than hardware...

1: https://radiichina.com/the-results-are-in-wechat-is-taking-o...

2: https://qz.com/1097766/i-fixed-my-poor-sesame-credit-score-b...
Another good one: total money spent by the US on fusion research, ever: 37.6 billion (2005 dollars).

It really puts into perspective how many things commonly held to be incredibly difficult, or expensive, are in fact simply not a priority. Almost any pie-in-the-sky technological project or public works project you can think of utterly pales next to the money that is casually spent on dubious causes like propping up broken financial systems and destabilizing foreign countries.

Maybe we should stop using "Manhattan Project" or "moonshot" to refer to huge, ambitious practically unfundable government works, when they're so cheap in the scheme of things. Maybe we should speak of "bailouts" instead.
Be satisfied that hundreds of years from now, our descendants will look back at how today’s society allocates and deploys its capital and shake their heads asking “WTF were they thinking?”
Plenty of older pubs had/have landlords living on the premises; a residential license is perfectly justifiable provided it's only for their personal use.
Free term life insurance? Yep, it’s a thing and here’s how you can get it
Clojure Scheme [pdf]
I am not a doctor or scientist.

From what I remember on the topic, we do not have a good grasp on prions disease. There is a good chance that some other diseases in history may have actually been misdiagnosed prions disease. It can present as a form of dementia and the incubation period can be so long that many people are middle-aged before symptoms occur.

Tissue of the brain and spine are better for Prions propagation. Prions cause other proteins to misfold themselves. The proteins they affect are related to brain matter.
I remember first hearing about this demo in the book "Fire in the Valley." It was amazing reading about what was unveiled in one demo.

Here is a link to a section on Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=-g5QDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT387&lpg=...
Pro tip: I can make a circuit board for this in my apartment in about an 2 hours, starting with refreshing myself on PCB routing software I haven't touched in a few years, finding the bottle of ferric chloride deep in a storage closet and procuring a tiny piece of copper-clad board from somewhere. If I'm ramped up on things, substantially faster.
> The interesting bit is where GoPro will get the cameras for the US market produced.

If silicon fab, die packaging, and rigid-flex sub-assembly of the critical camera piece were all done in China, then subsequently forwarded to another country which doesn't have a looming destination tariff threat for final assembly, would this risk still be interesting?
Well, Apple failed with Ping, so I sometimes think that social media is a lot harder than any of us think.
After another massive Google+ data breach, you should delete your profile
Should friends/family be allowed to share my contact details with Facebook etc?
When you sign up for Facebook or Twitter, you're usually asked to share your contacts with them as part of the sign up process. While this is optional, many people still do this and as a result my information is passed on to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. without my permission.

How is this in any way GDPR compliant and/or respectful of privacy?
Axios also puts this to great use with a "go deeper" button. It's very helpful for deciding how much of each story to consume.

Screenshot: https://i.postimg.cc/SKkKc85H/Screen-Shot-2018-12-10-at-11-5...

Site: https://www.axios.com/technology
I think this is more robustly solved by just collapsing headings and letting the user expand them if they want. See: Wikipedia on mobile. The issue with the author's approach is that you don't know what information you are gaining/losing by switching between modes, and the onus is on the author to decide what information is available at each tier. What's unnecessary trivia for one reader may not be for another.
I mean I feel like it's obviously true that a successful hijacking means using the plane as a bomb.

If you want to just kill a lot of people there are far cheaper and more effective ways. Check out the concerts being attacked.

So the door is all you need.
"Far right" is just an epithet these days for anyone the dominant leftian zeitgeist disagrees with.
For the same reason Prada or Gucci doesn't go after every illegal vendor selling fake merchandise on the street corner, even if you go after them and win what are you going to take? There's very little profit involved in these endeavors and most people are wise enough to be able to detect cheap junk and not buy it. Soulja Boy isn't getting rich off of this, but Nintendo might take notice if this blows up too much.
Ask the product and strategic analytics folks what statistical models they're already using, then identify gaps between that and what would be required to add (additional) value by making use of ML techniques.

Also consider that ML simply isn't a useful tool for your company. "Let's not spend (more) time trying various ML techniques" is a perfectly valid and useful outcome of an experiment using ML.
I met a dev who worked at Paypal that was pushing to steganographically add the IP address of the request client to the Paypal logo on every page load.

The reasoning being that you could then look at any phishing/scam site that included the logo and find the IP of the perpetrator (presuming a bunch of other things).
Just because someone is famous, doesn't mean they are especially good at a job. Michael Jordan is a much better basketball player then a baseball player.
TIL that "Thucydides Trap" is NOT a form of hip hop featuring people cursing in Ancient Greek.
Forbes seems to be 95% ads now.

Not just the content. I went on the page and a huge 3/4 page banner scrolled my view, then another popped into the side, then Forbes had a pop over asking for my email.

Yikes!
GitLab seems to suffer from a similar conundrum, and they also seem to have gained a reputation for being unstable. Which is sad. In my experience, GitLab is very stable, nowadays, but it will probably never fully recover from its first impressions for some people.
Returning to ho capitalism functioned during the years of 1930-1980, before the reduction in top marginal tax rates would go a long way towards leveling the playing field.
I don't have the time and attention to reproduce the details now, but I want to say that the parent is not a glib answer. There are significant differences, where double quotes do not reproduce the plus operator's behavior and fall significantly short in terms of facility in controlling search results.

More than one author has described this better than I can, in articles, blog posts, and comments. (If you can "find" them -- heh; but of an unexpected joke come up as I type this.)
Thanks for commenting. I'm emailing now. Please look for my message and respond back when you can. Thanks! :)
Ha! I have one of these that i built into a portable arcade machine. Some of the hardware has Xbox references on the pcbs, though i suspect the just didn't bother to remove from the source, though it could be surplus from earlier versions.

The games are hilarious and completely ripped off, some the Japanese only market versions, others weird mash-ups (like 8-bit Mario but with looney tunes characters).

Mine most certainly does not output 4k (what would a 4k gb-color emulator exactly look like? Gigantic, crisp pixels?)
Mercury Reader (formerly readability) https://mercury.postlight.com/reader/ and Slashdot both belong as prior art. Slashdot has had the ability to change length of comments for a long time.
> being open source does not magically make all bugs trivially fixable.

Nobody claimed this.

EDIT: What is being claimed is that buggy code being open source helps the debugging experience, which is a weaker claim than what you tried to argue against.
BJJ (especially sparring) and running (nearly) every morning.
“term” is require_exact_match(term) and +term was require(term), so the latter would, for example, allow spell checking, IIRC.
I don’t think you’d need to reboot to take advantage of that because they’re loaded as part of Windows booting and then a lot of the DOS kernel was patched into the Windows kernel for 16bit driver support.

I certainly don’t recall ever having any issues with 16 bit games (aside my weird soundcard not working with half the games I tried, but I can’t recall why that was off hand).
> If you use that instead of deriving a virtual ground, you will save 9mA of quiescent current.

The virtual ground has a further flaw: It's a DC ground only. This designer forgot to AC-bypass those 1K resistors, or at least one of them.
> Voyager 1 will not approach another star for nearly 40,000 years
That's a lonely ride...
It's not about what you can resist, it's about what you have the capacity to endure.

One tactic that helps me through the tough bits are to think of a time that's been harder/more painful/tougher and remind myself: "I've already been through worse before, and from this point forward it will only get better"

Another thing I do to try to support myself is to switch what I'm doing. Sometimes we get stuck in a rut like a car spinning our wheels in the mud - spending a lot of energy but not making and progress. Maybe it's time to step out of the car and put some branches down, or take a different tactic. If you ever feel like you're just spinning your wheels and not getting anywhere, switch up your approach! Even if progress is slow, your energy isn't wasted and you don't sit there an anguish waiting for _something_ (anything) to happen to save you from it.

Another thing you can do to get a thicker skin (toward what others say) is to hop on IRC, or Twitter, or Facebook, or Slack, or Discord, or wherever people go to be snippy and nasty to each other. It won't be long before some trolls or malicious actors come along and try to get under your skin. Don't let them. Every time it happens it's easier to do!
Pew: Social media for the first time tops newspapers as a news source
Or how about sites like the one where this article actually appeared (zdnet) making it very difficult (some are impossible) to use the back button? I clicked the article on HN, read it on zdn, and had to hit "back" about 10 times to get back to HN, which was the "previous page visited."
I'm surprised that no one ever talks about America's e-prescribing infrastructure getting hacked. Over 99% of all electronic prescriptions are handled by a single company (surescripts). It's a massive single point of failure that could cause chaos if they were no longer able to operate. Most states are now moving to make all prescriptions electronic. It seems that not enough people know that this is a problem, but it's also another reason why prescriptions are more expensive than they should be.
Cheap microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (hands tilt down rather than up when typing).

i should probably sort out some kind of standing / kneeling desk, been ignoring ergonomic desk setup after changing job a few months ago.
How to Get More Sales on Fiverr? 8 Ways to Sell More and Improve Gigs Conversion
The cult of Stanley Kubrick
Open Sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF
it's 320kbps ogg btw.

Spotify uses 3 quality ratings for streaming, all in the Ogg Vorbis format.

• ~96 kbps
• Normal quality on mobile.

• ~160 kbps
• Desktop and web player standard quality.
• High quality on mobile.

• ~320 kbps (only available to Premium subscribers)
• Desktop high quality.
• Extreme quality on mobile.
> Speaking for myself, I can not imagine what evidence would disprove the Simulation hypothesis.

I'm not talking about absolute proof.

I'm saying that for a claim that evidence makes it "more likely", you can't just come up with a plausible reason. You have to weigh plausible reasons for and against it.

For every "more likely", there has to be a corresponding "less likely".

I can come up with plausible reasons that "less complex world" implies simulation, and I can come up with plausible reasons that "more complex world" implies simulation.

But unless I'm using conspiracy theorist logic, I have to weigh those against each other, and say that one of those pieces of evidence would overall make me less likely to believe in a simulation.
> isn't it the well oiled marketing and advertising industry that is keeping us constantly unhappy and forcing us to compare our own (projected) shortcomings against others?

No, that's our wives.
Would you mind sharing some examples? I'm in the Business Intelligence space and always interested in what is available for integration & ETL.
"how do you explain how you have an original idea, or learn something you previously had no conceptualisation of"

This is like "where does your chess intuition come from" - and what I'm trying to express is that my chess intuition isn't actually a black box. There is a set of heuristics which I follow in order to come up with these "original ideas". Some of these I learned from watching other great players. Others I learned through trial and error, by playing tons of games, just like AlphaZero. The difference between me and AlphaZero is I can describe these heuristics conceptually in a way that anyone can understand, without resorting to "it's because this move tended to work in a large portion of the million games I played".
The version control and pull request design is exactly why I've selected Looker. LookML enables the power of the explore functionality as well.

Looker's visualizations, however, are very weak when compared to the competition. It's been their weakness for years now, and they've really failed to address it.

One aspect of Looker that I've also generally enjoyed is their on-boarding and support processes. They do a superb job at this and I feel like they should be a model for startups selling into B2B.
Agreed - But part of the solution is always allowing iterators in numpy to run to completion. Breaking in the middle causes a leak.
Given that I have been exposed to the BSE prion, and so can never donate blood in north america, this is not a theoretical issue. The transmission of prion diseases are the subject of policy debate.
So is this four months per new leak found or "half the distance to the goal line?"
I have one. The best part is the "case" it's huge compared to the hardware inside, do it's super light.

It's like an Arduino inside a shoebox.
Right, but rather than going in to the pub and looking at the watermark, why not just check if that pub pays for the proper service by looking up their address in the customer files?
Verizon has seen zero revenue growth since something like 2012 or 2013. 7% employee cut, against a 12%-14% inflation erosion of their business. Everything they've done over that time has been to just stand still while T-Mobile eats their market out from under them.

In a more practical consideration, they're very likely going to need less people going forward because they're going to keep losing market share to a more nimble competitor. They'd be the last to admit that of course.
My general tip is to look for things that are almost but not quite automatable, where a human needs to do a quick look-over.

One big example is fraud: it's next-to-impossible to define a 100% accurate set of rules to filter fraud, but it's often easy to train an algorithm to catch the worst offenders, or flag suspicious cases to significantly narrow the amount a human needs to review.
Did you forget about the part where he was run out of Apple by its board? And Apple was not the #1 by market cap while he was alive.