skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i have an intuitive hunch that spacetime may work like this only not in so few dimensions.
I’d like to keep it private but I will say the job title contained “junior”.
Thanks, came in to say pretty much the same thing here.
Url changed from https://petapixel.com/2015/08/15/one-woman-photoshopped-by-1..., which points to this.
Indeed.

For example, the trees are alive in the wind.

I'm perfectly comfortable with the idea that the Earth hears and responds to sound vibrations. Definitionally, this seems a very appropriate way to describe life.
You can do piping in Swift, like so: http://noze.io/noze4nonnode/
>a helicopter with cargo lift capabilities can serve many more roles

Which helicopter do you know that can loiter for 5 days without refueling while carrying a 10t payload?
You can also, if they're written in C, verify the absence of everything you'd worry about using the automated and lightweight tooling available for C. Then, fuzz it to be sure. Then, port it back to equivalent rust maybe with C2Rust. Then, equivalence testing to make sure the two have same output. That's my current recommendation for medium-assurance apps in Rust that have to use unsafe code. Oh yeah, gotta turn overflow checks on in the safe Rust for best effect but might have performance hit.

I'm still thinking about the rest of concurrency problems and side channels that Rust's type system doesn't cover. Trying to find out what's as easy as above. For concurrency, I'm eyeballing Eiffel's SCOOP, DTHREADS, and eventually will study whatever Pony is doing.
Here’s the Link to the sample:

https://youtu.be/b3uycgx8FiA

Sounds pretty good!
Ah, you are right! Sorry, I am too lazy to thoroughly read long comments...
You'd usually write HLSL to target DXBC which is then compiled to GCN by the AMD driver. That's how it usually works in video games targeting DirectX 11 on PC.

So to answer your question, you wouldn't really use C/C++ to target GCN. I think this is more akin to how CUDA works by using a dialect on top of C.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/8015h5/vasilly_ivanc...

"According to my experience in chess, the most difficult in chess? To see moves with knight back." @5:34 --Ivanchuk
> I have never been an Apple fan but I'll say this, they generally treat their customers far better than the competition.

It took a considerable amount of time until Apple admitted design flaws in iDevices (iPhones and Macbooks recently). Antennagate, Bendgate, Batterygate, the list goes on. I'm typing this on a MBP where the coating went kaboom.
It takes a while, like anything, to get comfortable with shell scripts, but it's absolutely a tool that every programmer should have basic familiarity with. It's universal glue.

And in the domains where shell is a good choice, it's a far far better choice than Swift. Maybe that will change, but I doubt it.

I've implemented a couple of medium-small tools over the last two years and as an exercise did them in both shell and Swift. The shell versions are simpler, more maintainable, and more robust than the Swift versions. Swift's verbose "correctness" is not an asset in the domain(s) where scripting is useful. Gluing programs together is one. Frankly, text processing is another. An invocation of sed with a simple regex becomes a monstrosity when translated to Swift. The less code you write, the less you have to maintain.
Last time I checked, PostgreSQL doesn't support any kind of tfidf ranking scheme because it doesn't track corpus frequencies of terms in the index. This impacts how well relevance ranking works for some workloads.
You are right and most people don’t know or don’t acknowledge this. Check Bill Gross Ted talk on the number one reason startups succeed.

I shared my own personal experience in this article https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/12/08/this-is-how-i...
Heh I mostly remember redialing BBSes waiting for the line to open so I could check for replies, play games, find other BBSes to call. It was all modem-to-modem and most BBS sysops only had one or 2 lines, with different phone numbers, so it was hard to connect. Also, as a teen, it was too expensive to dial long distance so I mostly just dialed into local boards. AmNet was an animal rights board. Wabbit Hole was my buddy Josh. We'd meet up IRL for beer (well those old enough had beer) and to trade software on floppies.

My first modem was 300 baud and looked like the one in War Games, with the rubber cups [1]. Upgraded to 1200 bps, then saved and got a 2400 bps so I could run my own BBS, called Digital Mind with ASCII art I made of a brain made of 1s and 0s. Everyone had a handle. I was Quince. Dunno why now.

LOVED IT.

Had a program for my Apple IIgs that dialed random numbers and recorded any that answered with a modem. Then later I'd dial up and try to get in.

My buddy, The Wabbit, had money and I remember in 1989 or so he started hosting an email node. I was so jelly I turned green.

Then I graduated HS, decided to major in art, ended up travelling a few years and missed a few milestones. Made my first HTML site in 1996 and got paid $1500. Man I thought I was the shit. Then 4 years later I get a gig for a drum company and encounter PHP for the first time. Whoa. This ain't like Pascal, baby! Haha.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem
A very interesting article that I hope doesn't fade into obscurity because it's Sunday.

The scientist who is hoping that Oumuamua is a solar sail is a Harvard scientist under the employ of Zuck et al. to make a solar sail and send it to Alpha Centauri. He does a good job of countering some of the arguments against Oumuamua being anything other than a rock.

1) Ouamuamua, according to him, is either cigar shaped or pancake shaped, based on the way it is reflecting light. He allges it is even just millimeters thick, and that we've never seen a rock naturally form this way.

2) He argues that the lack of radio activity from the object is due to the object either being inactive, or only send data back to its host system in a ray, not an omnidirectional cloud. So, Earth wouldn't detect the radio signals.

3) He argues there is nothing to gain by calling it a rock and thinks that some civilization many thousands of years ago maybe have created billions of solar sails and sent them to any and every star on a whim. He argues that the sail was deployed as a buoy that would sit in place until our system came roaring past it. We weren't targeted directly, but the object was designed to flyby our habitable zone.

-- All in all I think he does an interesting job of explaining why the object is different from the thousands of rocks we have observed, but I have no way of confirming if his analysis is true. Based on the red spectral data, the tumbling nature of the light reflected at us, and the artist's impression of the 150m ish object, I thought the scientific consensus was that it was just a really weird rock formed in chaotic conditions that has drifted in the galaxy for eons.

I guess we will have to start building some sails to find out :)
I'm honestly surprised at how much investment tech giants are pouring into 1st party tv/movie production and also by the consensus that these ventures are virtually guaranteed to succeed. From what I've observed over the past decade, the future of our cultural landscape is going to be that of increasing fragmentation to the point that there will no longer be a single, dominant culture for mass media enterprises to appeal to.

The high production value of traditional HollyWood productions are only sustainable due to their mass cultural appeal. The problem is that mass culture is in fact, losing mass. These tech giants appear to have misread the signs of this pending sea change and interpret behaviors such as cord-cutting among younger generations to mean they are merely moving their consumption online and that their consumption habits remain otherwise unchanged. One only has to look at the popularity of services like YouTube and Twitch with Gen Z to see that this is in fact not the case. Younger millenials and Gen Z as a whole have completely changed their consumption habits to prefer niche content made by individual creators (or at most a small group) on the cheap. While YouTube stars like PewDiePie cannot be said to be "niche" due to the simple fact that his content captures more eyeballs per year than literally anything else by an enormous margin, the content itself isn't exactly something that appeals to a universal audience in the way that a traditional HollyWood Blockbuster or hit TV show might. Ironically, while Google was the tech giant best positioned to capture the future (at least in terms of how I see it developing), they've severly damaged the future potential of YouTube by playing games with the monwtization and promotion of popular channels while also making it impossible for new creators to make money before they've built their channel into a relative behemoth.

While Apple, Amazon, Disney, et al are throwing massive amounts of capital trying to capture a slice of the streaming service market, they appear to have missed signs of cultural change which will likely cause that market to stagnate over the coming decade. I can't say that trying to create a YouTube competitor is a better idea at this point in time either as that market just isn't large or stable enough at this point in time to say there is even space for a second major servicd for small content creators. I can say the future of entertainment is going to look a lot more like YouTube, where the attention of tens of millions of eyeballs are spread over tens of thousands of channels, rather than a handful of sources for traditional mass media productions.
I've been thinking about this a bit today.

Spolsky's old "Amazon vs Ben and Jerrys" is in my opinion a more mature categorisation of what strong/weak is getting at here: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-...

I think Paul Graham had an article too on how venture capitalists are not looking for "does this have growth potential" (there are already more traditional capitalists for that called "banks") but "could this have a 1% chance at being the next facebook, even if it has a 99% chance of failing?" In this particular sense, I guess the more radical something looks, the better.

I also remember a HN article a while ago about "how Trello could have been a success" where success means "going unicorn", to which commenters rightly pointed out that Trello IS a success at what it set out to do. Trello would come under "weak" / "ben and jerrys" in this categorisation I suppose, although it's one of the cloud services I use every day and a lot more than most others.
A reactor gets you experience handling nuclear components, and if chosen with a bomb in mind also plutonium or other useful isotopes.

There is a real reason Israel bombed Syria as soon as they got convincing evidence Assad was building a secret reactor.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895289
When being funny can hurt women at work
Record temperatures for magnetically confined plasma Over 2B Kelvin(2006) [pdf]
Perhaps it is the article On Sense and Reference by Gottlob Frege?

http://www.scu.edu.tw/philos/98class/Peng/05.pdf
CUDA supports most of C++14 and earlier:
https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c-programming-guide/index....

With few CUDA specific extensions.
Often, both are needed.

If nothing else, people having to chase money are left unable to solve problems.
Just eat lots of veggies and leave the skins on for most fruits and veggies. If you're really struggling for some reason, lentils are a really easy food to eat that's packed with awesome nutrients.
Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor
The other part that's insidious is even the most well-meaning and well-intentioned individuals oftentimes fail to understand the role of luck in their success. Some psychological studies posted here on HN support that people that are successful even for completely random reasons start to believe that they did something different from others. One of the points in the posted article here indirectly addresses this though that you should listen to those that failed too because when people fail it's usually much more clear why compared to the agency of the founders that succeeded. Furthermore, successful people tend to stick near other successful people - they are insulated oftentimes from most of the world that is normal out there. Nobody on tech blogs cares about the insights of a middle manager of a construction company in Louisiana, but there's so many businesses out there that do perfectly fine it seems odd to me how little cross-pollination seems to happen.

One of the criticisms of psychological studies historically has been that we've been studying mostly abnormal behaviors and that it'd be like trying to determine how a car is built based upon only asking repair shop auto mechanics. Similarly though, I think we need to invert this for business - we need to identify commonalities between businesses that fail more than we need to identify the factors that cause success (the entrepreneurship porn out there is potentially harmful this way despite the many articles on the dark side of it). I think the common factors in what causes failures are fairly static compared to the factors that cause success. This interview[1] is a great example of what was successful at one point in history can totally fail later (much greater planning necessary in the early 90s while now we're focused upon market fit / reactivity today as a trend). My gut feeling is that some kinds of companies are better off sticking to their guns and churning out good product independent of the market trends while others need to evolve.

1. https://torch.io/interview-series-tim-brady/
Not Thomas Watson, but A. S. Householder[1] in Nicholas Metropolis et al "A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century"[2]:

https://mobile.twitter.com/benklaasen/status/874543989004881...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alston_Scott_Householder
[2] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=578384
Name.com is good in that case.
As also suggested by lots of ancient religions and philosophers!
That’s beautiful.

I just set up a home office and I’m thinking I need to get one of these and figure out how to set it up as my office phone somehow.
That was exactly my first thought; once hijacked, what can you do with this and for how long before it shows?
1990. Not very many people had even heard of it. Some of us who'd gotten tired of wardialing and Telenet/Tymnet might have had friends in local universities who clued us in with our first hacked accounts, usually accessed by first dialing into university DECServers or X.25 networks. Overseas links from NSFNet could be as slow as 128kbit and you were encouraged to curtail your anonymous FTP use accordingly. Yes you could chat and play MUDs, but you could also hack so many different things. And admins were often relatively cool as long as you didn't use their machines as staging points to hack more things. If you got your hands on an outdial modem or x.25 gateway, you were sitting pretty sweet (until someone examined the bill and kicked you out). It really helped to be conversant in not just Unix, but also VMS, IBM VM/CMS, and maybe even Primenet. When Phrack came out, you immediately read it and removed it from your mail spool, not just because it was enormous, but because admins would see it and label you a troublemaker.

We knew what the future was, but it was largely a secret. We learned Unix from library books and honed skills on hacked accounts, without any ethical issue because we honestly felt we were preparing ourselves and others for a future where this kind of thing should be available to everyone.

We just didn't foresee it being wirelessly available at McDonalds, for free. That part still surprises me.
a long walk up the beach and scuba gear, and a sudden sprint into the bushes
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I guess because VC is, as the article says, all about providing smart money. Old founders have their network so VCs are focused on young founders.
This site is legitimately fantastic!

I used it to plan a trip around Europe and the information about how to travel between given stations, where to buy tickets, what to buy (even what side to sit on to get the best view!) made my trip significantly less stressful to plan.
Or you can follow usenet 30 years delayed on https://olduse.net/ (also available via nntp).
> Basically cargo hauling into destroyed warzones and the arctic.

There are quite a few civil engineering projects, bot mid- and large-scale, which require specialized transport to locations that are hard to reach. Do note that in practice this airship also provides lifting services, so it gets the cargo where it is needed and also drops it off where it is supposed to be.
Sure, then you'd get N contact requests which you'd have to ignore (which has the same effect as deleting a contact which you'd previously accepted).

But people can spam your email account as well. When this became a problem, spam filters were developed. There's no reason the same thing couldn't happen in Ricochet if spam became a problem.

Ricochet's problem isn't that too many spammers are using it. It's that almost nobody at all is using it.
Everyone reading here knows there is no 'AI' but are happy to peddle or sit back and watch as pattern matching used to identify nudity is wildly hyped up as 'AI'. This is the same kind of fraud as Theranos was guilty of.

There is nothing in the current programming paradigm to create an 'AI' as the 'world understands the term' but individuals and groups blinded by profit and greed are 'growth hacking' redefining and blurring the meaning of words to suit their commercial agendas.

The technical community at large would come out against this kind of widespread misinformation and abuse but they don't as everyone is looking for a gig, job, contract or more ominously some 'illusory power'. But that doesn't make it any less abusive of discourse.

How can we make an AI when we don't even understand human intelligence properly. What in current programming language allows you to create anything that can 'think' and make decisions. How is processing data and matching patterns 'thinking' or AI is any way or form? A culture of hubris is seeing programmers constantly engaged in hype and overestimating their tools while underestimating basic human intelligence required for even mundane tasks like driving.

But once you redefine and twist words they lose all meaning for communication and in the end you lose all credibility, but this seems to be a gold rush and as long as some have made money on the way who cares. If AI happens it will be from decades of hard research in the scientific community like how all breakthroughs happen, not in the trade.
That's really cool to hear about. IMO you can't have enough SoundFonts... :-) Back when I used Reason a lot, I would load these into the sampler and see which sounds I liked better between the different collectoins. Spending more time in Linux these days, we are lucky to be able to open FOSS like LMMS(.io) and there's an SF2 Player instrument you can use for auditioning the various banks and patches within the SoundFont.
Thanks for the reply. Surely this can be more generic, where the script itself asks for the required input for once, fetching questions from any form (instead of hard-coding them in the script) and using those inputs to submit it n times!
Here's kind of how they deal with it from their FAQ

>To allow high scalability a Tempo ledger is split into a very large shard space, allowing a huge degree of concurrency. To avoid a double spend across any of the shards, the shard a wallet lives on is determined by its public key. This makes sure that any spend from a wallet will always start on the same shard. When combined with the logical clocks and gossip, this Tempo to always find the total ordering of related events, allowing double spends to be quickly detected and ignored.
Hiking trails don't monetize your every click.

A better analogy is Henry Ford's hyper tidy and closely monitored neighborhoods built for his workers. Some didn't like it.
Linking https://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp would be more worthwhile
What about supplementation? Psyllium Husk comes to mind.
Snarky comment:

Wow, it’s 2019 and people invented javadoc.
The reliability question is difficult to answer as the current internet includes a lot of the information that was available in the early forms.

So with the current internet you get access to those RFCs, much usenet and mailing list content from early days, and videos of people from that era reliably recounting how the network operated. Plus all the benefits of things like Stackoverflow, Wikipedia, and others that give more context than you could get solely from the early internet.

However, the edges of the network weren't weaponized as they are today. So there was probably less likelihood of an early internet user coming away as an anti-vaxxer/flat-earther.
I agree. 4% is very high. I was a sales rep for some tech equipment. We were about 1%.
I saw many comments about stateful workloads. I am not sure it is a necessary issue for cloud environment.

Within a zone or a cluster, the latency is about 1ms, which is faster than most hard disks. The network bandwidth is on par with disk throughput. What we really need is a faster database and a faster object storage that can match the network performance (1ms and 10Gbps), then all workloads can be stateless.

If one uses a VM on GCP, the VM has no local storage besides the small local SSDs. Practically even the VM is stateless besides some cache.
I have sympathy for anyone who regrets his mistakes, as I certainly regret my own. However, it can't really have been a total surprise that a missile guidance system was used in a war?
I wouldn't know, I'm not in a place where Bird operates. But it was just an example - if it is like you say, it sounds like a different type of system should be put in place instead (probably some form of licensing).
Inherited wealth will decide how rich young people will become
You could use multiple network interfaces, one for storage, the other for the rest.

Not sure if this is in a datacenter or not. In a datacenter, you could use something like 3-PAR to have network attached storage.

But storage is hard. This is one of the advantages of using cloud providers, they have this part figured out for you. AWS's EBS volumes are network-attached storage.

Then there's another layer of abstraction when you are using containers. Ok, so you have this volume accessible from the network now, in whatever form. How do you attach it to running containers? That's what this article is about, mostly. Not with the underlying storage mechanisms.
They even have special libraries, like thrust, for writing generic GPU code. Is it safe to say that this development for gcc doesn’t provide something comparable for GCN?
A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons for software engineers
That is a very well-done campaign. Motivated me to donate what I could.

Now more than ever the world needs Tor.
Actually it is somewhat dangerous in that once politicians buy in, they start pursuing policies built around the assumption that this sort of thing is real. Billions will be wasted on military projects pursuing AI-enabled features that are nowhere close to being ready; police are blowing money on facial recognition systems based on misleading stats; and we already see local and national governments salivating over self-driving cars as a solution to public transportation woes. Tax money is and will continue to be given away to corporations who are selling the snake oil of self driving cars rather than that money being invested in real solutions for public transit, or even basic maintenance.
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> perhaps 'less-invasive' would be a more accurate description

I prefer "minimally invasive"... You can't just remove the device and stick it back on, but it's good enough that a truly non-invasive device would be a marginal improvement for me.