skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you say, people analyse the fundamentals of the US Dollar all the time. Currency markets are inherently speculative, but there are reasons that you must by US Dollars. For example, if you want to buy stocks on a US exchange, it eventually has to go into US dollars. If you want to buy real estate, or commodities for US companies, buy US government bonds, etc, etc, etc. Although the day to day price of the currency is speculative, there is are underlying fundamentals that will dictate a floor and ceiling to that price.

I don't know very much about Etherium, but I don't know of any fundamental reason why anyone must buy Etherium. At best it's an option among others. At worst it's simply a market based on speculation. This says nothing about the potential of Etherium or any other cyptocurrency. It's just saying that the current markets are completely speculative and it's not really an "investment" to buy it -- it's more of a bet.
Basic blog app in golang?
Is there a basic tutorial on building a blog application in golang?
Oh I see, so they switch fields but not improve in the field they were mediocre at. You haven't seen any programmers improve themselves without leaving the field behind?
The article mentions that the US Government has not attributed the hack to China. This step has been done by private security contractor firms who "notice a lot of similarities" with other hacks attributed to China.

This is extremely weak reasoning. Any state actor would have the ability to cover its tracks, and more importantly to frame other state actors.

The article ends with a bit of classic anti-communism fear mongering.
Children, remain calm. The Falkland islands have just been invaded.
300,000 gallons is nothing depending on location. I had a seasonal pond on my property that was probably 2,000,000 gallons and could refill in a few days during spring runoff.
> I believe...

Suit yourself. The only thing scarier than believing it's all a big conspiracy, is admitting that no one anywhere is in control.

"A loose affiliation of millionaires, billionaires, and baby..."
In other news:

The Pope is Catholic

Water is Wet

Bears Shit in the Woods
I've been using mypy for a while now and I love it!

I added mypy type annotations to a bunch of old projects and it found some bugs no one was aware of right away.

I love the support I get from mypy within the editor. It works flawlessly on my Linux machine with VSCode. It's quite good at inferring types as well. In most cases it's enough to annotate function parameters and return types. Mypy warns you in case it cannot infer the type for an item.

As of today I add mypy to every project that grows a certain size/importance.
I think the optional typing approach is great. I usually start prototyping/modelling with few type annotations and gradually add more of them as the code stabilizes and end up with a fully typed solid piece of software.

I'm also excited about the benefits mypy/typing brings to the table in the area of compiled Python:

Cython is already able to utilize Python type annotations to compile pure Python code:

https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/tutorial/pure.ht...

mypyc is another approach:

https://github.com/mypyc/mypyc

Nutika wants to utilize Python type annotations as well:

https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka

I guess there are more.

I think sooner or later we will have single file binaries compiled from pure Python that run with much improved performance.
I read eq 1 and then 2, almost felt like somehow, 2 was meant to be - maybe my mind was trying to draw on symmetry but didn't quite understand how.
Rise of the racist robots – how AI is learning all our worst impulses (2017)
Something very, very different to everyone else, it would seem.
There's also no way they'll be impartial about heath care, or the environment, seeing as they require health care, and live in an environment.
They are hiring for Kubernetes engineers https://linode.breezy.hr/p/7d3abe9bafd501-senior-software-en...
I would expect nothing less from any large company.
Some lobbying, I would even agree with.
I really like this view.

I see problems as a messy graph. There is a node on the far left that represents the problem and a node on the far right that represents the solution. There are nearly infinite ways to traverse this graph to complete the problem, but there is a minimum number of nodes that must be passed, along some optimal path, in order to actually solve the problem, as defined. No less is possible, unless you change the problem. I think being able to see something close to this minimum complexity, and that it is the problem, is what you’re referring to.

After identifying this, the problem/solution nodes can be reassigned intentionally.
I did apply for this position as well, 8 days ago. These things takes time.

But I must ask : do you answer people when they are rejected ? Or simply keep silent ?

Thank you for your time.
Distracting drivers from what, exactly?

Distracting them from not seeing cyclists?

I wonder what you think of emergency sirens/lights? Too distracting?
a thing that is pretty much always true

How many examples can you give from the Bush 43 administration? Or Bush 41? Or Reagan?

The practice of implementing major policy changes as a lame duck was pretty much nonexistent before 2000. It becomes an even bigger problem when rules are implemented that conflict with law, like the 2014 DACA expansion[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_...
Wobbly windows. Tiling. Emerald window decorations. Rotate cube. Endless possibilities.
That's async sendfile, it doesn't do TLS.
Check out https://www.sigmacomputing.com
As they have done just this.

Nice work though! Keen to test it out.
Hopefully a mobile version is on the roadmap.
Interesting quotes (to me) from the paper:

> Device variability (Section 4) and volatility (Section 4.2) were mentioned as current challenges for
most applications based on memristive memories. This is in contrast with biological systems, which
are not built in clean rooms, and it is hard to believe that evolution exploits ideal systems in reference
to its own architecture design.

> For example, in the current digital computer, computation is carried out using strings of symbols that bare no physical relationship to the quantities of interest, while, in analog computers, the latter are proportional to the physical quantities used in the computation.
I understand what you are saying, but there must be guidelines for how to handle deletion requests when identity can't be verified? Otherwise aren't we just making up policy?
Absolutely. I would love to buy a Purism phone if A. they make it usable as a daily driver and B. they actually follow through with making it secure. Say what you want about Google and Apple but iPhones and Pixels are relatively secure, but some may consider the code running on them to not be trustworthy.

Your phone is probably your most valuable device, with more private information than many others. It seems especially important to ensure that it is secure and trustworthy.
Just yesterday some people were commenting how there has been a marked rise in ANTI-Chinese government comments on HN recently

I think there might be a lot of confirmation bias going on
Human civilization is at least tens of thousands of years old(just considering what modern man believes) and always valued gold more than anything for both store and exchange of value. I don't see why modern civilization(which were ahead of us in all domains) would feel any different from their ancestors for gold.

Gold as metal has something more than what makes it scarce and valuable, something we have yet to discover. There's a good reason why all central banks of all economies(US,Chine,Russia) are holding on to gold as much as they can and buy/steal more of it as the opportunity arises.
I am thinking if H.264 AVC will be like Jpeg, where the worse is actually better. They are ubiquitous, and hardware decode in visually all Smartphone, and seems to be good enough for a lot of cases (non-4K usage).

But it is still nice to see AV1 coming along, especially coming from VLC (dav1d) and Xiph ( rav1e ) .
It's 2018, no one bothered China except Japan and their communist neighbors for almost an entire century now.

Time to move on and quit being a victim?
I've used Python type hints for awhile now and have some mixed reviews.

First, the good: the extra safety and autocomplete functionality is very helpful once you have everything up and running. I feel a lot better about the type-safety of my code when I have a static typing mechanism; even if it's optional, I still get to use it. Also, it's very helpful that you can further specify optional types, container types, or Callable types.

Now, the bad:

* While you can specify a type as "Optional", there isn't (unless it's been recently added) a way for any of the tooling that consumes these type hints to actually enforce that types that you don't specify as Optional are non-Optional. Python makes it pretty hard to get None, compared to the relative ease of Ruby's nils and Java's null references, but I won't be fooled again.

* It feels weird to have to explicitly import things from `typing`. Is there an actual dummy class called `typing.Any` that will magically pass a type comparison against any other Python object? I dunno, it feels weird to import typing metadata the same way as actual code.

* If you use any third-party libraries, it is a serious pain to import the actual class that you want to use as a type annotation. It's either impossible or nigh-impossible with boto3 in particular.
> It is often said that Linux is more stable then Windows, well BSD could be considered like Granite compared to Linux

Not your quote, but I would add: ... and think of OpenBSD to FreeBSD as diamond to granite, 'rock solid' is understatement :)

"We have fixed many simple and obvious careless programming errors in code and only months later discovered that the problems were in fact exploitable." https://www.openbsd.org/security.html
Which makes the idea that a US intelligence agency is setting up Supermicro really dumb on its face. The reality is that the company is poorly run and has a lot of resources and background in Taiwan.

If there’s a nefarious nation-state plot, it’s more likely a Chinese one intended to demonstrate their ability to disrupt commerce. Any of the big vendors (HP[E], Lenovo, Dell, etc) are toast without their offshore partners.
It's absolutely untenable for the practical purposes you're after. Unfortunately, that doesn't disqualify it from being true. The more we examine language, the more it seems to be the case that there's really no guaranteed 'centers of mass', that they can shift between corpora, that they are different between times, geographies, social registers, and even between individual people. Some semantic units may be more volatile than others, but they're still all defined relative to each other within the head of a given speaker, and non-rigorously at that. And on top of that, they've got pretty complicated, non-rigorous connections to whatever the driving hardware underneath looks like.

It'd be nice to have some formal process for deciding what's bullshit and what's not. But, it doesn't seem to actually. exist in any objective sense. The words that make the most sense to you are your own. And everyone else always kinda seems like they're full of bullshit.
Blockchain Scalability Problem, and How 'Sidechain' Comes to the Rescue
> Primary issue with this would be driver support.

Perhaps hardware vendors would just start dedicating more effort to Linux drivers development then. Nevertheless the way drivers work in Windows (separate programs instead of kernel modules) is still better itself.
“Level Two thinking is about creating an environment and empowering people such that they do produce great outcomes without you having to tell them. If they can get into a mental model of what’s good for the company, and if they can be motivated and feel empowered, then they start doing great things. You don’t have to direct them. ”

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.“ - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
They already have good relationships with liberals, so it makes sense that they’d try to also forge relationships with conservatives given they had control of congress.
I don’t see anything controversial aside from the implicit admission of having not had or made any significant relationships with conservatives while they had always had made efforts to establish relationships with liberals.
Great article. It's so difficult to find writing on the space that isn't cryptomaximalist, completely dismissive, or technical analysis mumbo jumbo.

Ethereum is intriguing to me. Since it's not designed to be a deflationary ponzi scheme, it's not clear to me what its value will be over time. It appears to have more ways to win than Bitcoin, but also more ways to lose. I think the answer is: don't buy it to speculate; treat it as a means to an end when the need actually arises. That's almost rational.
It's as if Trump lives in an alternate universe. Is he really this stupid or careless? I really want to understand the mind of a person who doesn't give a shit what his grandchildren or their children will have to deal with in their lifetime. I had lost all hope in "people" (I use that as a collective term) a long time ago but I never thought the sheer stupidity that is humanity would make it to the POTUS office. Surely you have to have at minimum some common sense to become a president? Maybe not. Why is he still in office, or how?
My problem with it is that the US government does plenty of horrible shit, including spying, warfare and torture.

The Snowden leaks showed without a doubt that US intelligence has no qualms collecting and admitting to spying on ALL communication between non-US citizens. Without telling anyone... hacking a marriot database is peanuts in comparison.

Somehow whatever the US does to protect its interests is moral but when another country does the same its evil or "concerning". Bullshit US paternalism.
I imagine you could set up a scrollable div on a page, with elements within and query the position of those elements or their width. Having a custom scroll bar would flow the contained elements in different ways depending on how wide it is.
All the coworking spaces I have worked from were about 50/50.
This seems like a non-issue.

Women excel in some areas and men excel in others. Regardless, coworkering is very cooed, in my experience.

I don't get it.

Edit: after rereading the article I conclude it is some kind of hypocritical sexist absurdity. I do get it, but I do not like it.
On Windows 10, I believe it's supposed to automatically TRIM free space on NTFS.
>I'm curious though, is there a standard identifier authority for artists, albums, and songs that one could use to normalize such content?

Here's what UG has to say about it. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/ug_news/are_ug_tabs_leg...

Sounds like a load of crap to me. They probably have a small payment stream just to play the "see, we're trying to comply!" card. Otherwise, I highly doubt they fork over any money unless a lawsuit is thrown their way, even then it seems like they just "block" the tabs as that page describes. There are so many artists on there who probably don't even know people have created tabs for their music. I made my tool for my own personal use and mainly because I wanted to try out Django and Postgres on the backend, so that was never a real consideration for me. I might throw the builder portion of it out there for public use when I wrap it up, but there won't be any saving/sharing of tabs. Just export the tab to a PDF or a raw JSON file which can then be re-imported and edited, I suppose.
It's not just about the product, it's about tons of other things. Especially for a design centric company like InVision, the money is used to hire brand marketers, salespeople, staff out support functions, and build a global distribution engine.

For these late rounds, it's not just about building out the product like Seed/A. These are "win the market" investments that give companies a war chest to go compete or carve out a market niche.
This was on my Windows gaming machine.
“Except Japan” is an exceptionally bizarre clause to use here. It’s like saying “except Nazis” when talking about what Jews have suffered.

If you just said “since the mid 20th century” that would make a lot more sense.
Are you being sarcastic? It completed one unmanned flight in 1988, that's all.
Apollo for local state management
Targeted immunotherapy spray gel to fight cancer right after surgery
How likely is it that MS will include and enable WSL by default on Windows Server just to provide a better default shell for terminal and ssh users?

If I were a server admin, I’d probably turn all of that off because it’s more attack surface area. And cripple myself in the process. For that reason alone, I think a new shell is probably more likely to be helpful.
The money connection to lobbying is really really indirect.

The government pays the company. The company pays the employees. The employees donate to a PAC. (for every big defense contractor there exists a friendly PAC) The PAC does lobbying.

Employees aren't required to participate. There is no punishment for an employee who instead donates to an opposing PAC or just spends their extra money on trips to baseball games.

It's not half as bad as a public sector union doing lobbying with involuntary dues.

If a defense contractor employee can't donate to that PAC, what about every other PAC? It is political expression. Would you ban political expression for all people who in some indirect way get paid by the government?
Some of the dialogs seem clumsy, like when you want to clear cookies (level 1 dialog) and then a modal "are you sure" pops over the first dialog (now 2 levels of dialogs).

Other places that could use some revamp are manage bookmarks dialog.
It was also a few minutes after a shift change too.
Git man-page generator
Got a personal Nextcloud instance going with DO and your documentation has been an amazing help.

Hats off to you and the rest of the team.
Caps can be used on data lines to filter out high frequency noise, as it forms an RC lowpass filter with the source impedence (see here for an example: https://jretest.com/understanding-data-signals/ ), although I do not know enough about motherboard design to know whether these caps are needed on any of the data lines.
It was pretty sophisticated. The fact that it was able to make an unmanned flight is an example of something that was superior to the Shuttle. It just didn’t get the resources needed to keep flying, which is a separate issue.
They get a pass for having lights because they are the most vulnerable people on the road.
Climate change will never materially affect Trump or his kin. Their wealth protects them from the harm.

Eg. If storms make Florida bad for golfing then he simply flies to Texas for his weekend golf trips.
I got a few warm introductions. In those cases I sometimes got further in the process, but never to an on-site.
Ah nice. Didn't know about this page. Impressed that ghost is on the list.
Or they could open source their Kernel ?
I doubt we'll see formal legal letters of marque until and unless we're in a state of open war. The US government already has a policy of using kinetic means to retaliate against serious cyber attacks and other governments take similar approaches. So unleashing a bunch of mercenaries without clear constraints would create a dangerous risk of unexpected escalation.

But federal law enforcement could simply decline to pursue private actors who attacked adversary states. Plausible deniability, to an extent.
That sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Oh damn, thats a lot of material

When I finish reading through, you’ve probably got a buy-in out of me; that much thinking has gotta produce something interesting, good or bad ;)
People do this all the time because people working in the sector know [0] that attribution, with anything "cyber", is near impossible, if the attackers know what they are doing it actually is impossible.

This is wrong. Schneier has no idea what he is talking about (as usual). The funny part is that he opens with skepticism about the North Korea/Sony hack, of which many were skeptical early on, but now is not disputed by anybody. So he was wrong about that too. So very wrong. Especially this line:

More likely, the culprits are random hackers who have loved to hate Sony for over a decade, or possibly a disgruntled insider.

I'll be honest, I was skeptical of that one too. But I knew what I didn't know, so instead of challenging experts or trying to get my uninformed opinion out in the public sphere, I kept that to myself. And when I heard someone who I know would know make the NK claim without hesitation, it made me re-evaluate some assumptions. When it turned out that they were correct, I knew it was not a lucky guess.

Attribution is not easy, but it's absolutely not impossible in all cases, or even difficult in many cases.

People who understand technology make a lot of assumptions about how attribution works, and then make assertions like this. Attribution isn't simply that the bad packets came from a Chinese IP address.

A good rant on the topic is here: http://www.robertmlee.org/russian-election-meddling-grizzley...
This site has a great animation of the crash, including the leaked radio communications:

https://www.vg.no/spesial/2018/helge-ingstad-ulykken/

Click "Helge Ingstad natt" to see the POV from the frigate.

"Styrbord" means starboard/right, that's basically all the Norwegian you need to know.
There are a ton of these in DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
If you want the Chrome look with Firefox, check this out: https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox
Agreed, but I'm very curious which codec (h265 or av1) will eventually "win" in the 4K+ and HDR space.
I believe the compression benefits of AV1 to H.264 are greater than Jpeg to newer versions of image compression. Also, when you're talking about video, the sizes of files are magnitudes greater than images. I believe as long as we achieve backwards compatibility and easy conversion of video files, AV1 will be the future.
In trustworthy exchanges, trading fees.

On Binance or the like, nothing, or market risk (i.e. other market actors profiting from your wash trading), depending on the level of cartelization you assume in the crypto whale demographic.
It was practical before they killed XUL extensions and went with a crippled Chrome clone that can't hide it's horizontal tab bar. It's time for Mozilla to embrace and extend that garbage.
Not to argue that the Buran was "far ahead" of the Space Shuttle, but reasons for not continuing to use the Buran include many others beyond it not being advanced enough. Whether or not it was useful or economical to continue using it are also legitimate (and probably more likely) reasons for it to have been discontinued regardless of its technological achievements. One could imagine the Soviet Union wanting to continue flights even if it weren't more advanced if it were otherwise reasonable to do so. (And that also ignores internal politics.)
I was reproducing an ARM marketing term incorrectly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE

Basically, the idea is that you have a number of small, low power cores together with a few larger, faster, but less efficient cores. Intel hasn't made anything doing that. Intel also tried to get x86 chips into phones but it didn't work out for them.
tl;dr CaaS doesn't orchestrate the underlying infrastructure whereas k8s primary purpose is to create a cloud agnostic way to orchestrate containers and the infrastructure that they run on.
> Why is he still in office, or how?

American presidents have 4 year terms, trump was elected in 2016 so hes in office till 2020. Maybe if he resigned it wouldn't be in anymore but I don't see why he would at this point.