skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They may have only mentioned Bitnami images, it's been awhile.

However, I think your rationale begs a question: how much of "the automation and services that major cloud providers have" (scare quotes only for readability) is needed by runners of metal? For instance, autoscaling can be mooted by overprovisioning, which would still incur only a minor cost increase. Multi-region is similarly cheap. A lot of the remainder seem like productized functionality that is fairly implementable locally if desired.
Oh why why... was I not aware of cargo-clippy before...
The 10 most intriguing inventions of 2018
Fake Islands Bring a Dutch Lake Back to Life
Interestingly enough, since we have Qt mentioned in this thread...

Somewhere between 4.8 and 5.1 (I can't remember exactly when), QtWebKit introduced a compile-time macro-assembler setup. This was used to generate a "first pass" product of the JIT engine output, to reduce the JavaScript engine warmup time.[ß]

This was at a time when I had already wondered aloud, on several occasions, how long it would take for browser vendors to allow downloading precompiled JIT blobs for speeding up the most expensive parts of whatever they wanted their visitors to run. This never happened. The world hopped over the fledgling JS-AOT craze and came up with WebAssembly instead.

ß: the construction also introduced Ruby as a build requirement, because of course the macro-assembler generation was done with Ruby.
This comment should be higher up. If you are a freelancer thinking you could save on taxes by setting up a remote company in Estonia, be aware that your tax authority can (and will) demand that your company be taxed in your home country.
It does depend on the load. The grid voltage is transformed to a lower suitable voltage. The transformer has an inner resistance as a battery has.

The AC voltage is rectified and smoothed with a relatively big capacitor. There is a ripple in the DC voltage because the AC can only charge the capacitor in the part of the AC cycle when the varying voltage is higher than the voltage level on the capacitor. If you charge an equal size capacitor from a big battery there will be ripple due to the inner resistance of the battery, but much less ripple because the battery voltage is always higher than the capacitor voltage.
Other things equal the battery will give a smoother DC to the amplifier.

Anyway ripple is not the problem in question here. The problem is various noise from the grid finding its way through the transformer and further into the amplifier. There is very little noise from a battery compared to the grid.
Http API? When a GRPC one?
> we implicitly sign the social contract by accepting it's benefits. We benefit from not living amidst anarchic chaos, and we benefit from the services provided by the state (roads, schools, etc.)

However, if, say, I said, "I don't like the schools and I homeschool my kids, I think the military is 5x larger than it should be, I'm willing to pay for roads, I think drugs and prostitution should not be crimes and the police should be cut by 30%... and therefore my tax bill should be only x% of what it is", I don't actually have a choice in what "benefits" I "accept". (Suppose, for sake of argument, that I'd voted in every way I could for candidates who would change policies towards what I wanted, and it didn't work.) One response to that is "go live somewhere else", but (a) there may not be a somewhere else with a government that doesn't force people to pay for things I found objectionable, and (b) if I own my house and the land it's on, why should I have to move?

There are people who will demand that you pay for certain services, and back this demand up with the threat of force, which will ultimately be enforced if needed. There's a little bit you can do to try to influence how it turns out, but for the average citizen, it's next to nothing. Some people are perfectly happy with every aspect of this. Others are less happy, but see no point in complaining. A few do complain, and the results they get probably inform the previous group's perception.

> b[e]ing alive entails responsibilities outside yourself

I don't like the use of the word "responsibility" here. The term "responsibility" implies, to me at least, that you're doing something wrong if you don't live up to your responsibility. If you agreed voluntarily to a contract or an informal promise, failing to fulfill it does seem wrong. Disliking the terms of an alleged "social contract" that other people unilaterally impose upon you and choosing to disobey them is risky, but it is not wrong.

I guess there's one way in which it can be considered a contract. The true terms of the contract are, "Obey whatever rules we come up with (which change with every ballot measure and every legislature meeting) and we won't inflict our arbitrarily bad punishments upon you." But this would probably be considered under duress.

Edit: Seems Lysander Spooner said the same stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract#Voluntarism

And it says: "[in the 1600s] more importance was attached to consideration, meaning a mutual exchange of benefits necessary to the formation of a valid contract, and most contracts had implicit terms that arose from the nature of the contractual relationship rather than from the choices made by the parties. Accordingly, it has been argued that social contract theory is more consistent with the contract law of the time of Hobbes and Locke than with the contract law of our time, and that certain features in the social contract which seem anomalous to us, such as the belief that we are bound by a contract formulated by our distant ancestors, would not have seemed as strange to Hobbes' contemporaries as they do to us."
There are plenty of places in the US where the “well paying jobs” vs cost of living makes sense - for most people it makes more sense than the west coast.
How are taxes in the UK as coimpared to Estonia?
It’s not clear what “true quantum computer” means. There are many different types of quantum computers, and quantum annealing, what D-wave does, is one. It’s just the least interesting of the bunch...
Agreed, this mirrors my experience in healthcare. Hospitals pay the highest amount of money, for the lowest quality of software (regardless of whether developed internal, or purchased through healthcare software vendors).

The jobs are easy, and you can go months without doing any real work whatsoever. The company might not even care (since for hospitals, sales cycles are often measured in years, and minor upgrade cycles are often measured in months).

But this kills any desire to do anything. Almost no developer with any motivation or skills, wants to work somewhere where they do nothing useful and have no real work to do -- even if the pay is good, you can literally feel your brain rot out, and you start to be worried you'll never get hired at a "real job" ever again.

It's just a bad cycle of events all around.
tacit knowledge especially in an hands-on field like medicine where patients are involved cannot be conveyed by a manager with a power point presentation.

This compartmentalisation in the name of efficiency is actively harmful. Developers should get out more and get first hand experience of the environments they develop software for.
It also depends on the wine... The difference between a typical $10 bottle of pinot noir and a better $30 bottle is like night and day... But most varieties aren't as delicate and hard to make, so the differences get way more subtle.
Stripe does not seem to support Estonia.

https://stripe.com/global
Thanks for the comment. Failures are just really inflection points in your life, and that's really all that they are. The key thing is to keep perspective. Everyone fails, and at some point, and you have to pick yourself up and dust yourself off.

The major benefit out of that debacle, is that I used to live in fear about being fired. Now I don't. And there's a tremendous amount of freedom that brings.

As my wife says, I have this uncanny ability to always land on my feet.
I share your theory. Which points to a business opportunity creating diversity-friendly companies.

The trouble is, the world is still sexist and racist. So while you’d end up with a more capable workforce, your company would also be disadvantaged at every turn. Your sales people would be looked over by clients, your bizdev reps would be disrespected by partners, etc.

I think to exploit your insight profitably, you need to create an n-sided market of many companies all committed to diversity.

That opens you to other attacks, like how the Black Panthers were infiltrated by the CIA for trying to build a black separatist economy.

N-sided market problems are also really hard. Although I think this one can be solved with some clever software infrastructure. Once we start seeing some really capable “Ubers of Everything” these kinds of people plays become more feasible.
Wow! I just realized that Yahoo still exists!
"We apply decentralized architecture to train and test our AI models. Using blockchain technology helps us not only to get more training data but also to improve the trustworthiness of our algorithms."

wut?
TeX can use other fonts, but the default set of fonts used in TeX are "variable fonts". The term Knuth used was "metafonts", which is why the font-rasterizing program he wrote for TeX is called METAFONT. So you've probably read a number of books and many papers typeset in "variable fonts", as well as most of the math formulas on Wikipedia and in Jupyter.
Standard quantum chemical methods for this sort of problem would finish in a fraction of a second on a Raspberry Pi. Calculating the ground state energy of a tiny system like LiH was tractable way back in the 1960s. I'd need to see their actual numbers to determine when a conventional computer first reached their level of accuracy on LiH but I'm sure it is several decades back.

EDIT: according to the paper, the initial energy at each point was found using the Hartree-Fock method with a minimal STO-3G basis set. This is one of the simplest and oldest approaches to this sort of calculation on a conventional computer. For these starting calculations they used Psi4 [1] by way of OpenFermion [2]. For the H2 molecule, their additional DWave calculations improved the accuracy of the distance-energy curve over the baseline Hartree-Fock/STO-3G calculations. For LiH, there was no improvement (Figure 3). The total runtime of their approach was therefore that of the conventional approach plus an additional series of calculations that did not yield improvements in the case of LiH.

[1] http://www.psicode.org/

[2] https://github.com/quantumlib/OpenFermion
Tried it, unfortunately it has huge problems with large collections. Face recognition is sadly way worse too.
Yes, but I don't think it's wise or effective to put the onus all on a PM. As a dev, we often can have great insights into how much work/effort/maintainability one feature or another is, and having a rough knowledge of the business domain allows us to make much better recommendations regarding what we should do.

Additionally, in my experience the best engineers have been part product manager anyway, just as the best product managers have been part engineers.
On which device? I can install macOS in a VM. Transferring all photos to a iPhone just for tagging seems ridiculous.
If they really wanted to, they could mount an ext4 fs as a single blob on disk directly into WSL. That won't really help if you want to run a GUI editor in windows against that identical directory though.
The Wikipedia link says this was against Stockfish 8. Could people please stop spreading FUD here?

If there's no public tournament, this might as well not have happened. I do not understand why Google is always special. Other engines are open, Google can test against Stockfish but not vice versa.

All these web companies take, take, take from Open Source and rarely give back.

I'll write a paper now that I beat Carlsen, but I'll refuse to do so in public.
Even After 22T Digits, We’re Still No Closer to the End of Pi
Heh....I though about doing that but decided my time was better spent having a long lie in bed :)
The article was originally posted in October 2017, so your "1 year later" is already passed.
Qt slows down when it processes [large] images. Anything you want to display on screen has to be processed to a QtPixmap structure. When I last used it, with sufficiently large textures and/or splash screen images, this operation could take long enough to cause the rendering thread to skip frames. (In an embedded x86 environment we were talking about some hundreds of milliseconds.)

The other part where Qt can really slow down is when you have to instantiate a 3D driver module. That can block absolutely everything.
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There isn’t a universal quantum computer in the sense that there is a universal Turing machine for classical computation. All quantum computers are special purpose circuits, not general logic machines.
Regardless of the article's arguments regarding tech's p/e ratios, I believe that Disney stock is a screaming buy, esp since Disney is coming up with its Disney+ service next year. But that's just my opinion.
Appreciate it. It's more the policy that's irritating. For example, "missing suite" usually just means the driver has to look at the business name on the shipping label and identify it in the strip mall. $12 charged to the shipper for a few seconds of thought where the UPS software didn't identify "missing suite".
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What's the reason behind rewriting the URL to "https://www.washingtonpost.com"? Something to do with the paywall?
The ACC Network is wholly owned by ESPN. The professional networks are certainly an opportunity when the current contracts expire.
Even if it's a SaaS app for general writing, not a code editor? (I guess I should've clarified this right away)
This is true.

The problem, for Google, is they lose market share in the platform market:

https://i2.wp.com/www.cordcuttersnews.com/wp-content/uploads...

And my guess is that Amazon will win this, because like you say, it's better.

But also - Since Amazon controls all the buyer's journey, it can make more money per each ad. Which equals better content.

And in any case, FireTv is a loss leader for Amazon. Hard to compete against those.
Could not agree more. It's a bit like the game of telephone that many of us played as children. The more hops in the connection, the greater ability for knowledge loss and distortion.

I once had a PM tell us to do a feature a certain way, despite engineers saying we thought it was dumb. We shipped and had lots of user complaints, and lost millions of dollars ultimately in lost revenue due to cancellations that we think were at least in part to this. We eventually reversed course but much damage had been done.

Afterward there was a witch hunt (which I staunchly oppose, but I digress). It turned out that the PM had taken the word of another PM who in turn heard from another that had gone on location and misunderstood what the customer was saying. To save a few thousand bucks the company only sent one person and expected them to brief everybody else on their findings. In hindsight I'm sure that skinnier travel budget wasn't so worth it.
always quote your variables. POSIX won't change this soon, or likely ever.
Cities and states are not fungible. Otherwise they could never charge significantly different tax rates and still expect to retain any businesses, which is obviously not the case. The taxes in New York are higher than they are in South Dakota because at the same tax rate most companies would rather be in New York.

That cities run near breakeven is no surprise because if they were running a surplus then the citizens would immediately demand that it be used to fund programs or lower taxes. But that doesn't tell you anything about whether the programs are necessary or efficient. New York has been well known for massive government waste and corruption for decades and it hasn't made them uncompetitive because of their other advantages (a huge one being population density). Which means the number of tax dollars needed to cover the incremental business is much lower than the amount the average business is currently paying, since the remainder is going to waste and corruption.

Or, for that matter, to other programs that aren't correlated with or are inversely correlated with the number of local businesses. If a new business comes in, the amount the government has to spend on subsidies for low income people doesn't increase, so so the new business imposes no incremental cost. And if the new business hires local people, people who were unemployed or underemployed may get better jobs and reduce the cost of such programs by reducing the number of people who require them.

There is certainly a point where lowering taxes below it means that companies aren't paying their own cost, but the idea that less than half of what they're currently paying is actually going to the additional services they require the government to provide is not at all ridiculous. Especially in places with higher tax rates to begin with.
Ironic considering that the Teslas are made in America. I don't understand the point of their "protest" (beside low cognitive functions). It's time to start towing.
There is already https://github.com/yahoo/yql-plus
Comment was ghosted, comment seems like a valid viewpoint:

"It's easier than ever for people to moonlight as a spy and get away with it. You'll probably only get caught if your adversary has the means and motivation to counter. Most people in civilian/domestic situations are unable to defend themselves".

edit: HN has gone down the toilet progressively for the past 8 years. There's no reason the comment (or my resurrection of it) should be downvoted or ghosted.

The other account was "bbllbves" and it shows "1 point" but a moderator 'saw to it' that the comment disappeared silently. If it were a low-value or troll comment, then maybe that would be justified.
Sorry, the example image is using non-blocking statements. I'm out.

On a more serious note, I'm not sure what this offers me beyond the SystemVerilog plugin for sublime-text. This may be a great tool for exclusively open source developers, but in reality I think most people are using free versions of proprietary tools (Quartus, ISE) and you can't really do much integration with those.
Whenever my nephew was throwing a tantrum we would tell him to organize the cupboard with pots and pans, three years old, he could sit there for hours organizing.
At least, "Dont be evil" sounds a lot classier than that DPRK level propaganda.
Any idea why they haven't responded to people's requests for FUSE? It's the second-most requested feature and should enable applications like this.
when my cat does it on the other hand i wonder what kind of mischievous he's cooking up.

Heh same, I've observed when my cat strains his neck to tilt and lean, he's laser focused on something that's partially obscured, and then bolts across the room.

I've learned to let him go maul whatever ball of dust is tumbling across the floor in those moments.
You are the one who is moving the goalposts. From your original comment:

> The current trend of cutting services for political reasons is problematic at best, particularly when there's arguably a monopoly.

Your statement asserts this is a problem ("at best") when a business cuts off service for political reasons, especially if "there's arguably a monopoly". Presumably, from your wording, you are also unhappy when a non-monopoly business cuts off service (which, technically, PayPal is, unless it faces antitrust action that I'm not aware of).

> There's a hardly a line between religious and political convictions, and if you don't find discrimination along these lines troubling, then I think your bias is showing.

And yet, in the U.S., there is a line, because there is an actual federal law that protects religious belief, and there isn't one for political beliefs. I'm not interested in arguing with you the validity of the precedent set by the 1st Amendment's protection for religion, or the validity of religion or its immutability in general, but that's the reality of our current legal framework. So yes, I am biased in favor of reality and not fantasy. Try imagining the tangled framework needed to protect political belief in a way that wouldn't infringe on freedom of expression if you want to understand why political belief has not yet enjoyed such protection.
This was my experience in government work too. For every three engineers that accomplished nothing, there was one doing real work. Most good engineers would work there for 6 months or less and then flee in boredom or fear of not finding work at a "real job" again. The good engineers that stayed often found a niche they really liked, and were worshipped as rock stars by management and stakeholders, so they were pretty happy.
By that logic, the Japanese "myth" of longevity is also busted: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html
> you're unwilling to concede anything

I've already conceded that I am ignorant of many of the details of modern reverse-engineering techniques, so that is manifestly untrue.

> you're not even in the ballpark of correct

You keep saying that, and yet you don't back this up with any details or supporting arguments. In what way am I incorrect? Is my estimate too high? Too low? By how much? Am I wrong when I claim that a lower bound on the computational complexity of auditing is O(n)? If so, what is the correct result? Is it O(sqrt(n))? O(log(n))? O(1)?

BTW, I would actually love to be convinced that I'm wrong about this. That would be a huge two-fold win for me. It would mean that 1) I can stop worrying about security (as long as I use an iPhone) and 2) I would learn something new and almost certainly very interesting. But you (or someone) have to tell me how and why I am wrong, not just that I am wrong.

It would also help if you would stop stop advancing logical fallacies like this straw man:

> cosmic rays make all of information security in some ways unknowable

I don't understand why you're more comfortable discussing this on Slack, but OK, I've fired up my Slack client.
Corporation tax in the UK is currently at 19%. If you are a UK tax resident, you also have to pay dividend tax which starts at 7.5% (over your allowance).
All the more reason to implement a large scheme that returns everything to individuals, like the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act recently introduced in the U.S. House and Senate https://www.coons.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sens-co...

On how it's obvious response to:

> inequality, economic justice, the cost of living, and populist anti-establishment sentiment

On the first and third (and I guess second, depending what you mean by it), it's clearly progressive, see https://energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/commentary/how-bi... and on the fourth, when has there been populist backlash against sending all citizens checks, even when it is a gimmick (as in the case of various last minute rebates, IIRC)?
Using gzip and bioinformatics to analyse pop music [video]
I once was in a position where I could observe, and I can confirm that:

> the most powerful method of requirements gathering was observation.

But the vast majority of my time has been at companies where engineers are never cleared to travel to meet with customers and gather information. It's insanity IMHO. It was the one bright spot about doing contract wor.
Not only it's extremely surprising that there's no getting metadata without opening each file―and since DrvFs is only the WSL layer, apparently the system itself still to this day doesn't have such a feature.

But I'm now additionally baffled by how Total Commander managed to feel hella snappy ten years ago while navigating lots of dirs, whereas on MacOS all double-panel managers are meh, not least due to the rather slow navigation.
I vividly remember lots of things... what I wouldn't give for seeing IRC rise up again