skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read the book The Dictators Handbook (watch the CGP Grey video Rules for Rulers[1] for a good summary) and I can imagine a number of really clear and compelling Job Stories for this technology:

* As a ruler facing large-scale protests, I want to clear the crowds of people from the streets without deploying soldiers who might choose to actually side with the protestors.

* As a ruler who is afraid of a coup, I want to reduce the personnel-management costs of maintaining my military so that I can reduce the number of officers needed to maintain the same level of force lethality. This will let me purge my officer corps of possibly-disloyal members and lavish rewards on those who remain.

* As a ruler from an ethnic/religious minority, I want to restrict membership in the military to that minority without reducing its lethality so that I can prevent members of the majority from having trained members who could seize power or resist marginalization.

Technological advances like quinine and the Madsen and Maxim Gun allowed fewer than 1,000 Europeans[2] under Belgian King Leopold to spread the benefits[3] of civilization to The Congo, an area more than 3 times the size of Texas. I am excited to see the world that these new advances will usher in.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Publique#Under_the_Congo...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State#Mutilation (although yes, also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State#War_with_Arab...)
Who can know?
They're definitely still available, there are even companies offering card generation API as a service (google Marqeta). I agree with you on simplicity, but one clear advantage to the temporary card approach is that it's automatically revoked without you having to take further action, whereas paypal still offers merchants the ability to automatically bill you on a recurring basis.
I have a gray background (so I can't see refelections in the black) and the current line is a dark green.
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Try to avoid being ethnically cleansed by whoever owns the AIs and wants the Ukranian wheat fields or Baku oil fields.
I don’t like it, but do you remember using QT or GTK apps in Windows or the X shim on macs? Was that really better?
From 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11173920
The case wasn't brought by Microsoft, it was brought by Federal Prosecutors, who had the information given to them by the U.S Customs service.

https://1gew6o3qn6vx9kp3s42ge0y1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
It should be mentioned, there are also foods banned in the US that are legal in Europe... especially when only few and ambiguous studies are available - risk assignment might lead to different choices.
But quantum computing performance hasn't increased exponentially in the last X months.
Specifically, the ISO one (YYYY/MM/DD)
Canada: Rabbi backs out of hosting conference on threats to freedom
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Awesome! You're welcome :)
I believe the law of diminishing returns kicks in realllly fast in terms of 'ultra high quality audio'.

I have an external usb dac (Yamaha AG06), a pair of good studio grade monitors (Yamaha HS8's) and that's it for me. Exquisite listening quality without having to sell a kidney.
Ad hominem attacks to Jacque Fresco in 3, 2, 1...
ISIS was/is not tribally-organized like the Arab regimes, and consisted mainly of volunteers, and many (most?) were foreigner.
The title should be: Things i didn't need to know as of 2018.
> If you think something can be improved, and the cost of that improvement is justified by it's benefits, then you have a valid business idea. Stop wasting your time bashing Electron on your blog and start working on your idea, it could be the most important thing you have ever done and could make you rich and famous.

To be fair, preventing a small group of people from dumping disproportionally large externalities on everyone else, to extract a little extra profit for themselves, isn't a working business model. If it was, we would have solved global warming and ocean pollution by now.

Slow software in general, and Electron in particular, is a collective action problem. Solid, fast software gets outcompeted by half-assed bad engineering, because the latter can get to the market first.

(Also known as the curse of "worse is better".)
"In this case, the outage affected only cellular calls to 911, and not landline calls."

Which means its basically the system which determines which 911 center to route a cell phone based 911 call. That this is still centralized, rather than distributed to the geographical towers is crazy.
I wish I could share this sentiment because Flutter really does look great, but I don't think it will succeed as long as it's based on Dart and not JavaScript.
I must confess: I partook in disrupting many a "Computers" class at the Berwickshire High School in the late 90s. Turns out sub7 + every browser in the class playing hamsterdance is a somewhat challenging teaching environment. Sorry.
I'm always suspicious when people say something can be done. Why isn't it the default then? Because there is some drawback to that choice. But what is it?
And the data proving this is where?
We did this as well. The school gave us 4gb flash drives to store our homework on (2009) and we used 7-800MB for a portable version of Halo. The desktops in the school were optimized for CAD software for our engineering classes (STEM school) so Halo ran pretty good.

At one point we had a quarter of the student body playing at once. :)
You know, "they went from poor to rich really quickly" also means "they were poor for longer". Were they paying their kids for chores before?
Jetbrains’ Rider is interesting.

Can you code on linux using Jetbrains to create .NET 3.5 apps for a Windows target? 3.5 is just an example because the matching VisualStudio works more or less in wine, while I haven't tested 4.0 and more recent.
solarized is really popular and the dark theme is a sorta dark blue-green
Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common
Not to mention a huge pool of talent for JavaScript devs
“Design Is a Job” by Mike Monteiro.

“Educated: A Memoir” by Tara Westover.

The audiobook version of “The Martian” by Andy Weir is also great.

I also listen to a number of audiobooks about self-compassion and positive parenting.
I started reading this years ago after hearing positive reviews. After a couple of chapters, I tossed it out. The values espoused are incredibly selfish and extremely shallow. More importantly, his premise of being able to recall childhood conversations with precision is not credible.
I'm mostly clueless about Windows, so bear with me, but that makes no sense to me.

If SMB has some "give me stat info for all stuff in a directory" API call then that's obviously faster over the network since it eliminates N roundtrips, but I'd still expect a Linux SMB host to beat a Windows SMB host at that since FS operations are faster, the Linux host would also understand that protocol.

Unless what you mean is that Windows has some kernel-level "stat N" interface, so it beats Linux by avoiding the syscall overhead, or having a FS that's more optimized for that use-case. But then that would also be faster when using a SMB mount on localhost, and whether it's over a high-latency network wouldn't matter (actually that would amortize some of the benefits).
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Oh really interesting, it seems even more inappropriate that the Flint official lie again after the EPA testing.
The title is absurdly reductive. Anyone interested in graphs should be encouraged to learn about shortest paths, max flow, spanning trees, etc. and to identify some of the major np-hard graph problems. "Addition - the one Arithmetic Algorithm you need to know".
Because programming should be descriptive to what you want the computer to do, and the way that humans explain things to each other is usually linear.

For instance: brush your teeth, then put on your clothes, then get in the car, then start it.

The "JavaScript" way to do this is that starting your car is somehow nested inside of the brush your teeth event. Everything is a callback of everything else, so trying to explain to your computer what you want it to do ends up as a giant spaghetti mess.

Obviously there is a JavaScript way of thinking that allows you to think of brushing your teeth as a dependency to starting your car, but I don't think that this is how most humans think by default, so it's a terrible way to teach students.

It makes them think that computers are these complicated things that take some immense skill to operate, but they're not anymore. You just need to tell the machine what to do, and good languages like python make that really easy.

At this point in my life, I'm mostly writing C++, JavaScript, and golang, but I'm extremely thankful that I started with python. When I need to bang out a prototype, or test something in code, it is always my go to.
When I saw the title I thought: well things happen in Brazil. But I was mistaken. This is happening in British Columbia, Canada. Wow. We humans are in a bad state
I would love a QT-esque rust library that utilizes components and maybe even scss or css for styling
I wasn’t clear enough. I have no problem with the “ghost-coding” business.

I have a problem with the culture in which we will hear about some open-source coder and then idolise them to the point that they aren’t held to an equal standard, for example in the hiring process.

It certainly flies in the face of the ideals of a meritocracy [spare me the “meritocracy is a myth!” trope] when we hire for a technical role on the basis of being a personality in the industry. I knew this happened to some degree as I think I’ve taken advantage of it myself, but I didn’t know it’s so prevalent that people can start “ghost-coding” businesses off the back of it.

To be absolutely clear: I am not implying this applies specifically to Dan Abramov.
Yep. Word to the wise: don't tie a reward to completing homework or earning good grades either. Demands for reward will increase over time and no homework will be done without "sufficient" reward, which always drifts upwards.
Everything I’ve read says that the d-wave isn’t a real quantum computer.
Its a project with several million lines of code.

If grep is hitting 100% utilization and isn't just file system bound, and you are dealing with ascii stuff, you can speed it up a lot of times by prepending 'LANG=C', so that it doesn't have to deal with unicode.
We use different solder mask colours to differentiate different product variants that share a board outline. It is way easier to tell a factory to install the red board when making a specific product variant than to have them read a part number off the board.
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>C sucks. SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS.

The more of my project I can write in C, the happier I am.
Anectodally[1] javac dos full builds because reading everything is faster than statting every file comparing their compiled version. Eclipse works around this keeping a change list in memory, which had its own drawback with external changes pushing the workspace out of sync

[1] I can't find a source on this but I remember having read it a long time ago, so I'll leave it at that unless I can find an actual autoritative source.
Unless machines can fight autonomously at brigade or division level, it probably won't make a difference. Iraqi generals defending Mosul in 2014, ran away from attacking ISIS terrorists despite outnumbering them 15 to 1 [1]. All it would take is a panicking Arab general to press a button and the machines would retreat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Mosul
The tagline is 4chan combined with a Bloomberg terminal
Everyone can become SUCCESSFUL entrepreneur, only in movies. The book may be misleading for vast majority people. Jobs are suitable for them, or at the best some trade or profession.Even a struggler is better off( on an average) doing a serious of jobs with gaps.Or may be I am wrong.
yeah i forgot -> for lambdas. when is <- used in case/cond/lambdas?
obviously no one can comment here without drawing undue attention to their cover. awkward.
I like the Martin Logan Motion series (with the folded/ribbon tweeter) better than the electrostatics. I have the LX16 bookshelfs and they are amazingly clear and diminutive and were like $250 each from Crutchfield.
What about 'T-shaped' people?
I don't know if it is too harsh. What seems unfair is that paypal gives no reason.
In my opinion adults are just kids without adult supervision. Bedtime. Diet. Reading vs television. Just kids with no one to keep them in line.

I think there is something to extrapolate from this article to work. I was recently given a retention bonus. Because I’ve been expressing a disappointment in the type of tasking I’m getting as compared to the job description I was hired for and the needs of the company. Rather than address that they’ve chosen to bump my “allowance”. Honestly it backfired.
Right now Tesla is really the only company selling even close to volume. No one else is even trying to hit the 500k to 1m volumes Tesla is aiming for. Over the next decade several others will join them.

Ellison is a butt, but he understands fierce competition very well. As other automakers start gunning for Tesla hos advice will be an asset.
That website has recently plagiarized an article I helped write, so good riddens.
> So, where's this new generation? What demonstrates their love? Show me pictures of a dozen, or it didn't happen.

That's the point of the comment. "Nuclear had it's chance" is what you latched onto, concluding with "The environmentalist not rationality kille nuclear". So I guess you agree, the title is BS.
> Not even the linux magic commands let me recover.

Are you sure you've set up the magic sysctls correctly? Ubuntu ships with magic oomkill disabled, by default.

On all machines I've tried, whenever I've needed it, magic oomkill has always worked, and I've been thankful of the fact that it's implemented down in the kernel.
Life is visibly better in Portugal
Yahoo Query Language will be retired on January 3
> Normally a "Download our PDF|Whitepaper|Whatever" is a 100% sure way to make me close a site immediately nowadays

I don't know what I was doing clicking on it to begin with, usually a surefire way to get a fresh copy of MacKeeper or something
Spacecraft operations typically uses some kind of optimization approach, which often contains some mix of human and automated pieces. It's fundamentally a scheduling problem (in the sense of AI/CS/OR planning and scheduling), but in a complex domain with geometric constraints on several levels (solar angle, pointing, telemetry), other constraints (like fuel and instrument restrictions), and observational goals.

One example of observation planning for an upcoming mission is CLASP (to be used in NISAR, ~2023 launch): https://ai.jpl.nasa.gov/public/projects/clasp/
This is happening in New York right now. Massive investment in bike infrastructure. But congestion hasn’t improved at all. Combined with increased ride sharing, NYC roads are now 15% slower. We need solutions for average people, not high brow idealism for people who have fancy bikes and showers at work.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/ride-ha...
Hi Dan, I'm surprised and amazed by your patience and cool-headedness here. In my opinion that's the foundational quality of every good developer, everything else comes out of that. Seeing your replies here tells me all I need to know.
Why not Rust?
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But this book sold over 58 million copies as per Wikipedia. He is a house had name, any many more must have read it through online or through pirated copies. Does that make him a successful entrepreneur?
Is the Ubuntu VM's / on a fixed or dynamic VHD? The former provides (modulo filesystem fragmentation) linear addressing of virtual LBAs to physical LBAs, and the latter can be heavily fragmented and result in sequential read/write operations becoming random access, which on a HDD kills performance.

My advice for anyone running VMs is if they're on HDDs or they're highly tuned for disk usage (databases for example), use fixed VHDs, otherwise use dynamic.
Yeah, she seems clearly brought in to help with the safety and legal issues with the workforce. Hopefully she can help actually fix the problems and not just manage and price the fallout.
One cubic micrometer is 1mm³ right?
Culture means different things to different people. If a candidate were to suggest they were only interested in the “pragmatic parts of FP”, implying that developing an understanding of category theory is somehow frivolous and not pragmatic (which I think you did earlier), I would acknowledge this as a poor culture fit.
For totally unsolicited sales calls, there's also "the worst hold music in the world", beware, headphone users:

https://soundcloud.com/user-237714155/sales-call-abyss

I downloaded this and converted it to an appropriate wav format/bitrate for use with asterisk and a g.711 incoming SIP trunk, it's extension 666 on my voip system. Easy to transfer.
As a US citizen, yes definitely. Anecdotal, but a former coworker of mine did something stupid that made him seem like a threat to national security. For a while after that, he would notice that every time he logged into Google on a computer, all sites he visited would have TLS downgraded to TLS 1.0.
"Win32 however can’t resize the most basic window without flickering - which is why every decent Windows app uses its own non-native GUI layer."

This is so extremely wrong it's not even funny any more. WS_CLIPCHILDREN and WS_CLIPSIBLINGS are the key here. Of course, many people don't understand them (eventhough it's not hard and the Petzold came out, what, 25 years ago?) but win32 is very well understood by now and it's trivial to make extremely fast (by today's standards) UI's with it, and relatively easily, too.
There are people successfully running Flutter on desktops, but it isn't currently the main thrust of the project.

https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-on-desktop-a-re...
There's a great paradox with weapons. Imagine a world where somehow we agreed to stop development of any and all things that could be even somewhat effectively used as weapons, all the way down to the butter knife. The problem you've created now is that if we have just a single person decide to go against this and start developing weapons he would be able to forcefully impose his will as he saw fit with very little that could be done about it. And this is even worse when you take the analog away from individuals and consider it in terms of nations. Imagine one nation goes this direction. Now suddenly this one nation, which is probably a bit below par on the ethics meter, would suddenly be able to forcefully impose its will on the entirety of the world.

This means that it is a paradoxical imperative for ethical nations to maintain and develop as powerful of weapons as they can, even when they have absolutely 0 intent on ever using those weapons. Because otherwise, they risk falling victim to the lowest common denominator that does intend to use them. In reality this all gets really messed up, because as the person you were responding to said weapons almost invariably end up being utilized, often amorally, regardless of the player considered. So you're left in a scenario where if you don't develop weapons then you risk conceding the world to the least ethical player there is, yet if you do develop weapons then you are all but accepting that they will probably be used in an unethical fashion at some point.

Two pretty awful decisions, but I think one is worse than the other.
That’s mostly just an indictment of the Javascript space, not a defense of lacking fundamental knowledge.

I don’t routinely write sorting algorithms either, but I know what they are, how they differ, and how to implement them. And it’s useful knowledge - it comes up often in lots of domains.

I see lots of comments about how this is a bold stance against “imposter syndrome”, but at some point, it isn’t a syndrome. There really is basic knowledge that defines professional competence in this field, and it can’t be replaced by github stars.
Keep in mind that it's not always the developers that dictate when things get released; as companies get bigger these decisions are made less by the creators and more by the management/PM cabals.

Software Date Driven Development is a scourge, but shareholders (or potential purchasers) scream for their instant ROI, and this is what we get.
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Most of people doing the winning on options trading are the big institutions writing the options to the punters :(
Thankee-sai
That was a thoughtful read. I would encourage anyone to actually read it; the author seems to know what he's talking about and to have carefully considered what he's saying.
Excellent, thanks for the substantiation!
>The farther away that city is, the more frequently the light will go off in that channel

I think I'm missing something, I don't understand how the amoeba is solving the problem. Aren't they just actively steering the amoeba with light and food?
They probably sold it to management as exploring future simulation-and-optimization methodologies.

I mean, right now, the D-Wave computers seem too weak to be worth the expense compared to classical computers. So, it seems unreasonable for them to expect near-term practicality from this sort of investigation.

But in principle, if D-Wave systems greatly improve to the point that they're competitive with classical optimizers, then it'd be good for VW engineers to be able to leverage them to do stuff like, in this case, predict chemical properties.

This seems to be how the article sells it:

> “Our present work was a first field study of quantum chemistry problems on quantum annealing devices,” he says. “Our goal was to get a feeling for the bottlenecks of the problem. This in the end helps [us] to understand the underlying problems, and find new solutions or suitable subproblems.”
Irc has been on the market for a long long time, but slack won anyway.

Maybe the extra features saved users more time then they lost from running bloated JavaScript.
I don't know by which method to begin to recognize it. In myself I started to notice slightly more fragmented thought patterns; proneness to having more new thoughts interrupting the current line for thought.