skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched a long time ago when tensorflow decided to change a few of it's low level functions' parameter orders, for no f'ing reason. The only reply on the bug report was "why weren't you using named parameters". Became clear to me that the devs don't care about users.
This was a change meant to block ASIC mining and encourage GPU mining.

Whilst this is great for decentralization, I've read interesting arguments in favor of ASIC mining. People who buy ASICs are committed to a coin. This leads to a stable base of mining. Meanwhile, GPU miners tend to mine whatever is the most profitable at any given time. This leads to large fluctuations in mining rates.

The Ether switch to POS has some people worried, as it might free up a lot of GPU power, which might overwhelm other GPU based POW systems.

Then again, any argument regarding mining algorithms is filled by people who have biases to the tune of 100 000$ of hardware investments.
Waiting For new tools..will see how accurate they work compared to google analytics.
adding raw versions of binary assets (designs, video, ...) can quickly lift a repo beyond a TB. Now, you could say "don't do that", but there's valid use cases where you'd want to track all binary assets as part of the development cycle.
I'm impressed to not see lo-fi hip-hop getting mentioned.

From my purely empirical perspective, it seems like the biggest reason for the growth of this kind of music is the necessity to fill the void in noise-canceling headphones: the essential equipment for those who work in open-spaces.
If they hadn't been chasing thinness so aggressively they could have avoided some of the negative side effects of battery degradation by just increasing capacity.
Why doesn't it at least do double-mapping if it can't do W^X flipping?
Xiomi phones are horrid in terms of privacy. Their MIUI sucks, constantly pestering me to use their app store. Privacy policy of their other stock apps like file manager, galary etc includes sending filename and other data to chineese servers. Not to mention some of their misterious 'analytics' apps always running in background.
Customer review: I bought one of those a few years ago and found the simili-trackpoint completely unusable. Very very stiff and nowhere near a laptop one, let alone a Thinkpad one. Unicomp are nice Model M substitutes, but don't buy one for the trackpoint, unless you're nostalic also for how trackpoints operated in the 1990s.
The entire installed base is not willing to pay these prices, as Apple have discovered.
Surely that would not really fool those in charge of the USA, or?

I mean, a random Hacker News poster seems to have figured it out easily enough!
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Isn't your own post telling people what they should and should not do (specifically on how to give advice)?
Not exactly. (At least small) companies can go out of business because of bugs. And one great way to "achieve" said bugs are implicit dependencies hidden from developers that didn't introduce them.

> The worst case is that the engineering team spent more time working on “well encapsulated projects” than on the most important project for their business

I'm not really sure how I should read this. Don't you use your repos to solve business problems? Why should that change because of the repo layout?
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This is a joke, not decentralisation.
20 months, actually.
How Africa (and indeed America) would have developed without colonialism is a very hard question to answer. But the damage done and loss of life caused by colonialism was enourmous - Belgian Congo murdered several millions of its inhabitants, more than the Holocaust to which it was a precursor.

The legacy of exploitative systems runs deep. Many countries simply replicated the same structures with a different colour of face at the top. Dismantling that and turning it into something more egalitarian and law-abiding is a lot of work.
Google's Widevine L3 DRM has been broken
thus, the code has changed and with it the law. i don't see any problem here.
What do you expect of this "innovation?" Phones are a mature market now. How much innovation is there in word processors?

I'd like to think that Apple's regressions are finally costing it. Idiotic moves like the elimination of the headphone jack from devices that Apple wants us to consume Apple Music with SHOULD result in a market smackdown. As should astronomical prices for increasingly crippled products. Apple's physical design is now abysmal, with the removal of physical buttons from phones, the embarrassing emoji bar (and elimination of a dozen keys from an already pathetic keyboard) on the so-called MacBook "Pro"... not to mention that Apple computers are now glued-together schlock with soldered-in RAM and drives. Now, when your drive fails (and it WILL fail), you get to throw the whole $4000 computer away because Apple made it disposable junk.

Macs should be sold in blister packs hanging from pegs at Walgreens.

The real "innovation" here would be for Apple to admit its blunders, fire Jony Ive, and bring usefulness back with a vengeance. Their fear of it is just as irrational as Trump supporters.
English professors make maybe 70% of the salary of an engineering professor. With benefits that's probably closer to 85%. And the cost of faculty is less than half the cost of education. You also have administration, buildings, sports, etc. So that ends up being maybe a 7-8% difference. Plus lab equipment, but the expensive lab equipment is probably mostly paid by research, and the other stuff probably isn't very expensive on a per student basis.
That's not quite right, although yes WeChat rules in China. Having the new shiny does matter - source, my wife is Chinese and I have a Chinese sister-in-law and niece both which got the X last year.

They are absolutely typical Chinese consumers in this regard. As soon as iPhone because hard to distinguish from other phones they switched away. As soon as iPhones became clearly distinguishable again they switched back. This is not just an observation, they say this is why they did it.

I think there are actually three factors hitting Apple in China this year. One is that a disproportionate number of purchasers got the X when it came out because it was so distinctive bringing forward purchases from this year, then there are a lot of Android phones now that look like the X models and the new X models don't look enough different from the original X to look new, finally the economy in China is pretty soft right now and people there are worried about the future.
Both, but 'constant' here needs some qualification.

Generally, it is 'constant' w.r.t. the witness you are proving you know, and something like logarithmic w.r.t. the statement about that witness you are proving.
> Scratch Desktop on Linux is currently not supported. We are working with partners and the open-source community to determine if there is a way we can support Linux in the future. Stay tuned!

Apparently from version 3.0 Scratch is proprietary and doesn't run offline on free operating systems[0]. That's just sad. There are some good ideas in Scratch, but I think Snap![1] is the better one to use: It's free, and you can create your own (recursive) blocks[2].

[0]: https://scratch.mit.edu/download

[1]: https://snap.berkeley.edu/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXN81Hsj_A4
It is just the feeling I get when I see how it is used. That it is being misused.

If you have a corporate setting with a single Jira/Stash/Bamboo installation keeping all the company's stuff in a single central place. Then this design where git copies (clones) the full repository on the local machine just seems like a misfit and source of lots of pain (ie. just being slow and at times unstable, local repository not pushed back to origin, multiple history lines etc.).

It seems to me that things would have been better served with a more primitive client/server orientated tool like Subversion.
The flip side to over-engineering is ever-ballooning budgets, fewer missions and more chance of random events curtailing the few missions that are flown.

If the requirements state 90 days, design for 90 days - even if 180 days is achievable 'for free'. Otherwise there is no feedback loop to inform future requirements and 90 becomes an implicit 2000.b

If JWST was designed for two years and a hard shutdown it would have flown years ago and we'd be on JWST Gen 3 by now, doing actual science.
> From my first exposure to SQL I was optimising databases better than the incumbent dba within a couple of months, and that wasn't even my job.

That doesn't mean much, as in the not so distant past (and in some small shops even today) the resident database expert is far from experienced or even technically apt. In fact, it was and still is a job that was assigned internally to someone who happened to have anything to do with the project, who was thus forced to accumulate yet another responsibility.
I think there is but what would you make different?
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As long as events don't have name/email/ip/... there should be no problem as far as i understand it. The regulation targets only personal identifiable information.
New Horizons was the most read story on bbc yesterday morning. China’s landing is today.

It’s no Sputnik or Gagarin or Apollo, but experts at Nasa as "a first for humanity and an impressive accomplishment".
So why is that? Why do we ned to couple together the software development efforts with release? Based on my experience there is no difference between the monorepo vs multirepo approach from the deployment point of view.
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What calendar do you use? Lightning doesn't work with the latest version of Thunderbird.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of software and sub-systems re-written, rather than maintained. systemd largely comes to mind; everyone seemed to be perfectly okay with init until systemd came along and vastly simplified the boot process. Now it's standard across virtually every mainstream distro. It's a similar story with Wayland vs. Xorg. How many network managers do we have now, too?

As new technologies arise, it's almost always easier to write something new, from scratch, than to muck about in legacy code (that you probably didn't even write in the first place). md is great and works exceptionally well, but it's only a matter of time before a newer, better, more well-supported software RAID is born and md goes the way of init and Xorg
Parental abuse and neglect is a hell of a thing to shake off.
The trisolarian plot in Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem also seems to have borrowed from this myth.
I think what is often lost in this debate is that the are levels of decentralisation. Federated networks, committee structures, even the current miner / node structure all have different levels of power concentrated in different amounts. However, in all cases the power is _less_ centralised than in most current applications and for some people that is enough.

The other thing to note is that decentralisation isn't just about ideology. If we forget finance and focus on data, a blockchain solution may in the future provide the ability for open federated data that is provably correct and can operated on transactionally.

Think flight availability: right now the majority of flight ticketing is controlled by Amadeus. A highly centralised, controlled and opaque service. Assuming _many_ technical problems were solved, a blockchain flight ticketing service could allow anyone to run a local node with real time availability that was guaranteed to be correct.

Even if this was run be a federation of providers, it would be a better solution than the current one.
While I don’t agree the study is garbage their are limitations and imperfections to every study. Another great example was cancer rates in Norway from 1929-1948. In 1939, Norway lost almost all meat to the Nazi’s and you can see cancer rates drop immediately and significantly. In 1945 after the war ends cancer rates quickly rise again.

Check out the documentary forks instead of knives to see more examples like this.
Mark Cuban created a huge discussion about a single resume
Is this the end of owning music?
> Why would you put in a symlink? You could just provide a path to the actual component and import it into your project.

Where do I need to put the path again? Ah what the heck, I'll just add a symlink inside a folder that's already somewhere in the build definitions.
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This article says that the USB-IF "is going a step further" with this cryptographic authentication, which isn't quite right.

The 'I trust this device' system allows confirming that you trust the device. This crypto confirms that the USB-IF trust the device (and presumably all they are asserting is that the device conforms to standard).

It's an interesting idea, and not a bad one. That's assuming the certificate system is sound which I remain sceptical of until I know more, given the normal issues with managing a single unrevocable private certificate.
I agree wholeheartedly. The easiest code based to get productive with are those you can search.

I’ll add to the grep test: you should be able to grep text you see on a web page or desktop/mobile ui.

Imagine a new starter gets a bug assigned on their first day, they can search the code base for the strings shown in screenshots and find the code in under 2 minutes and fix the bug that day. This is what you want. This helps maintainability and developer happiness.
The superfluous posts are now dead. Rules working as intended.
Apologies in advance for the (hopefully not) stupid questions from a layperson...

How constant is the L2 point for the relay satellite's orbit? If I understand correctly, this is the "balance" point between the earth and sun's gravity. Does the moon's gravity affect this? If so the L2 point will shift as the moon moves towards and away from this point?

As the moon orbits the earth, presumably the relay satellite would stay put and not follow the moon in its orbit. This would mean that communication from the lander and rover to the satellite is only possible when the moon is in a particular position (between the earth and the sun), correct?
How does time work in a POS system?

In POW, the block time is a result of the difficulty, which relies on very low accuracy time-stamps for blocks. Yet, with POS it seems to me I can 'mine' a block at any given moment.
Thus, what determines the 'block time' in POS?

If the 'block time' gets to be too fast, then the size of the blockchain is going to be quite large.
We're all better off if less phones were produced and consumed. The investors may complain, but our planet will certainly be happier.
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Regarding underpromising - there might be a little management of expectations but to paraphrase a friend in "the biz": facing away from the Earth means that the stuff you need to be reliable jumps up in complexity and with that complexity comes a foreshortening of life. She then babbled incoherently in a way I enjoyed but didn't understand.

Love the idea of a dark side telescope!
> “I would be astonished,” he said, “if someone chose a Renault over a Volkswagen just because you play French music in a showroom.”

Ummmm... I'm not sure I would? Perhaps that example is a little obvious, but I'd bet the music goes a really long way in a lot of decision making setups.

Back in the CD era I'd try and choose a record I knew my friend(s) would like as a moving present when they bought a new place. Assuming they actually listened (most did), the record would become synonymous with the new house - "ahhh, I love this song. Reminds me of moving in to number 7!"

Music is a wonderful thing.
i see OSCP, is a rubber stamp for me.

i do believe networking is a important aspect of it.

thank you for your comment!
An epidemiological approach: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/24/violent-crime-c...

Of course, you have to get past the political demand that there should be marginalised people, and the institutions determined to make some regardless of whether or not they "deserve" it.
No argument from me, there are things like IPs that are very hard to find every copy of and eliminate. Putting the users in their own table is just a simple best-practice that has a lot of benefits, so it’s a great first step.
While this is mostly true there is has been some research to use non-GP models for Bayesian Optimization or the general Sequential Model Based Optimization (SMBO) problem. Some examples:

* SMAC (using Random forests) - [1]

* Using Deep Neural Networks - [2]

* Tree Structured Parzen Estimators - [3]

[1] https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hutter/papers/10-TR-SMAC.pdf

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.05700.pdf

[3] https://papers.nips.cc/paper/4443-algorithms-for-hyper-param...
Maybe the market response will lead to Apple pricing its products and services more reasonably instead of just making them outright expensive as compared to the competition.
Mainly the language and the lack of immediate feedback, along with the fact that it's more verbose than the point-and-click interface of Fusion. I will try out the Python version, though, it sounds interesting.
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The 'unknown' reason is very well known and public for a long time:

https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#arent-you-interested-...
Incorrect.

1. The number of nodes is not fixed.

2. The process for node selection is random, based on the amount staked. This happens continuously.

3. The D in DPoS is entirely optional. Anyone holding Tezos can directly participate by running a node. The only cost is the cost of a VPS.

The only real restriction* is a 10000 XTZ minimum for running a node. At current / ICO prices that's around $5k. While that's not cheap it's a lot more attractive than the CAPEX/OPEX of mining hardware.

Also, that $5k will grow by 5.5%++ per year, i.e., no depreciation of hardware and only a trivial amount of overhead.

Those not wanting to run a node (or with less than 10k XTZ) can delegate to a baker. There are a wealth of them available already.

*This restriction may be lowered in the future -- by way of on-chain voting (as opposed to a hard fork).
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First taken on the other side of the moon, yes. As the caption says, "The first close-up picture of the dark side of the moon, taken by Chang’e 4 after its historic soft landing."
Ask HN: Pre-JS, were any other languages considered for dynamic web pages?
I know of Java applets, but other than that, I'm just interested in a little historical perspective - what if Perl (as one concrete example) had been used for dynamic web pages instead of developing a new language for non-static web pages?
>Several weeks ago I heard that some study concluded that moderate amounts of alcohol and coffee are good for you[0]...Argh.

The sigh is because the result is trivial, or because it should be a priori false?

Billions drink alcohol and coffee, so whether any "amounts of" them are good or not is important to study.
Replace "Chinese" with "Russian" in the following comment from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18813112
It's the L2 point in the earth-moon system, it is different from the earth-sun L2 point. And yes, the satellite follow the moon in its orbit, the point in the L2 point.
or worse, battery replacement were unavailable in Japan. Even though it's on the Japanese site, at the start of November I tried to schudule an appointment for replacement. It would tell me no appointments available within the next week. same for various stores around Tokyo. I set an alarm to check every night just after midnight. Same thing every night. It's easy to believe either it was impossible to make the appointment or the number of actual appointments available was very small basically letting them claim to giving cheap replacements but in reality offer very few
The L2 point that the satellite is orbiting is a Lagrange point [1], a place where the gravity (edit: and centrifugal forces) of the Earth and the moon balance. L2 follows the moon as the moon orbits, because the moon is what makes it exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point
Honestly they should be sub $5 with Chinese manufacturing. And I'm not talking qty 100000 rather $5 at retail.

It's monopolies that force the price so high.
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Considering that all of Blow’s games have used his own engine, and he’s actively building a new engine using his own programming language, it seems rather unlikely that he would suddenly scrap all that work and use this engine instead.
I actually like Thunderbird since when I discovered MRC Compose extension[0] which provides a UI similar to Outlook in the To, CC and BCC fields. Having to input one by one the email addresses is troublesome in my use case (lots of addresses to manipulate when replying). It's a pity it isn't a default behaviour.

[0] https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/mrc-c...
Is anyone using Yandex.metrica? It seems to offer a lot of features and is even completely free. But nobody seems to be talking about it. Where is the catch?
I've learned in time to never make a working ux in my prototypes. just raw data showing the innards working, and that's it. functional or pretty ux just gets shipped in prod no matter what.
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IIRC that was actually also the concept that Ted Selker started with before settling on the familiar nub design for the pointing stick.
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I'll give you a choice. You can either give yourself a million dollars or give everybody in this world five dollars. We'll also say that the $5 will not cause inflation, so it is $5 'real' dollars. Your answer to this question exemplifies why competition is what drives society forward. Given a choice between something that benefits you or something that would, in gross effect, benefit the world on the order of 38,000x as much - we pick the one that benefits us. Utilitarian thought sounds great until you're the one that actually has to make that decision. At that point cognitive dissonance, probably in the form of a marginal utility argument, will kick in faster than you can blink.

What I'm getting at here is that I think your instincts would be the way to go. China's goals here are not to advance society, but to advance China. And about the time they start achieving things that parallel, let alone overcome, US achievements in space - expect to see the US budget for space development/exploration/colonization end up getting bumped up by a magnitude or two simply because if we don't then we risk falling behind them.