skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't use this for my terminal or source code, personally, but I think this font would look fantastic for old-school JRPG text.
This is unrelated to your main point but I've always been confused why people cited an "over the board" ELO. Is your 1600 rating FIDE, USCF or something else? Aren't they not calibrated against each other?
Done now.

This kind of thing is best sent to us at hn@ycombinator.com. Random-access mentions in the threads get random access by us, meaning we don't see most of them.
Apache Pulsar – distributed pub-sub messaging system
Timely! Just saw some of this in a nearby BC forest a few days ago.
You made my day lol
I fork without intending to PR.

Reasons:

1. I intend to build something that requires the repository in question, but I think I might have to extend the code in the repository itself.

2. I intend to build something that requires the repository in question but I feel more comfortable having a version of the code under my control as it will be quite central. (the snapshot)

on edit: formatting fix
> actually that is what saved them from the dumpster like quality

Did it? Lot's of gamers see consoles as something that holds developers back from using better hardware, since they need to target 5 year old systems. Quality both artistic and technical isn't something consoles can claim to be leading in. And clearly, "consolization" in its various forms isn't something gamers appreciate, when it spills out into PC gaming.
Well, he's just some guy, you know.
Surely the point of developing their own scientific capabilities is to break free of technical and scientific direction set by the West? The reason China has focused so much on 'field applications' is precisely because they lacked the capability to do much original research and so specialized in applying foreign technology cheaply and at scale.

China is rapidly approaching parity with the west in terms of infrastructure and industrial development. The only way to keep pushing forward is to develop new technologies of their own, rather than relying on foreigners to develop the tech first and then copy it. That worked fine up to a point, but staying with that approach indefinitely dooms them to perpetually playing catch-up.
Not an ML researcher, but none of non-ML math here is beyond someone who has taken introductory classes to topology and linear algebra. Rather than being too advanced for you this may just be somewhat orthogonal to the aspects of the problem space you're used to thinking about.
For some reason it responds with 403 now; there is a recent snapshot at: https://web.archive.org/web/20190111021612/https://codecurmu...
It's also not the first dashboard with this situation.

phpMyAdmin or what it's called, back in the days of LAMP stacks that was deployed almost everywhere without much security around. Not sure if it also had sql injection bugs etc, but just the low amount of security considerations most people gave this direct access to the database was probably enough to hack into most servers of that time.
Do you really believe that “the American ideological worldview” treats rape and violence with “deference”? I can sort of see the argument for domination and exploitation—though I think you’re on shaky ground there as well—but, really, deference to rape and violence? How in the world does a person come to such a conclusion?
Their ruleset differs from other implementations I've seen.

In the original Milton Bradley rules, a player must confirm a sinkage upon the fatal hit on any ship.

Also, in the print version in newspapers (e.g. in the bimonthly Puzzle Brainia insert), ships are not allowed to touch (which makes sense, since that can't happen on the open ocean).
From 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9751767

From 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2760732

And twice from 2008:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=143735

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=141898
well put. I recently had this thought that dev is no difference from production line worker. There are only small fraction of dev sitting on top of pyramid designing blueprint and managing production line.
My recollection is that .NET was largely a research project within Microsoft around 1997. It was when ScottGu used .NET to build ASP.NET (circumventing many limitations of Classic ASP that he also helped build) that .NET took off as a viable commercial platform ushering in further development and extended language support including F#.
> it’s relevant and counterintuitive that the lethal dose amount for table salt is as low as it is, while remaining an essential nutrient

Relevant to what? And why are you describing it as if it’s strange? It takes 15 grams of iron to kill you and iron is essential. “Dose makes the poison” is neutral statement yet you’ve used it to somehow attach negative connotation when talking about salt.

My stance towards you is that you use lots of word to produce little meaning and some clear manipulations.

The article is about sugary drink corporations being manipulative to mislead the public on negative effects of sugar - why are you talking about salt?
That the article was published recently may be true but the article’s contents doesn’t really contain new info. Please see this comment up-thread [0] which surfaced older incarnations of the same content.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18880312
That's awkward, because the gperf dependency is only needed every 2 years or so, when a new keyword is added. The genererated C code needs to be added to git, and only needs a regen if changed. I do that all the time via gperf or via some perl-generated perfect hash tables, eg for static keywords, Config tables, unicode tables, ...
The memory win is always dramatic, like 20x better typically.
I also use some standard gperf-fixup scripts for easier inclusion into my code.
I think it's the very best dungeon crawler when it comes to comfort of use and startability for new players.

And I would suggest it not just for gamers but for programmers as well. There is a lot one can learn about user interfaces, shells, coding, architecture, data management (items, races etc are all data) with the additional motivation to learn it while playing.
All of the news from the last couple of months would prove the opposite, Baghdad Bob.
How does one vote for maker of the year?
... and then everyone needs those robots.

The horror of society deciding who gets "genetically engineered" (ugh) to like shitty jobs is actively making my skin crawl.
The librem 5 camera will not be great, almost certainly. Maybe not even good. From my experience on Android, open source drivers for this stuff are terrible. No support or outright hostility from camera module vendors. They'll really have to try - but then again they have some financial power.
I have strong doubts about the camers.
Nope, what kind of device is it? I have an old keypad but that only works for the bank.

Late reply I know.
Show HN: Avocato – simple and fast Python object serialization
Check it out at a smaller point size than the example. Hinting makes it less ornamented at smaller sizes (< 11pt).
> In most places with an efficient transit network, fare revenue is not the biggest source of funding

It was eye opening to me to hear about train companies that heavily invest in land development and partnered with the cities to build places to go. In Japan they own department stores and actively participate in business development to grow whole areas, wherever they see opportunities.
I feel the same. I've been doing this for nearly 10 years now, and although software and programming still interests me, all the jobs I've had in this industry do not. It just feels like I spend all my day working hard to make someone else even more money. I can't imagine myself continuing doing this for the next 30+ years...

My plan is to save as much as my income as possible and retire early, possibly getting a part time job in a coffee shop to supplement my savings and maintain some interaction with people. Take a look into /r/FIRE if that sounds appealing to you.
Agreed! I'm curious about how well it will run on the phone!
Thanks for the useful info. I'm final-year student and right now I do my scientific research for master's thesis.I've already found iteresting topic ideas for my research but still so much work needs to be done. I've already found writing service at https://writemyessayonline.com/ for grammar and plagiarism check. Hope with their help I'll the highest score in the class.
It was disallowed in-flight in the USA before 2000 (by Air Canada at least). I was on an Air Canada flight where I was invited to the cockpit fir a visit but only while in Canadian airspace.
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I evaluated most of the available perfect hash generators a while ago, and gperf is not often the best. I've created much better ones.

But I haven't added this NetBSD code yet and also not yet the new perl5 mph code, will do soon.

https://github.com/rurban/Perfect-Hash
Assuming what that article says is correct, that it isn't natural - what's the solution to this? Surely, everyone can't be a startup founder.

Just curious how the world should work for that article to not exist.
I recommend this series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV676QuiEj8&list=PLHzN3MktVP...

It is two guys, the player is starting from almost no knowledge and there is a "leader" who is a veteran leading him through the game (or watching him die). It's very entertaining and also acts as a tutorial.
Ask HN: Do you wish AWS Cloudwatch was smarter?
I am building a simple integration with AWS cloudwatch that basically scrapes metrics from cloudwatch and does the following:

1. learns what is normal from past behaviour and alerts on abnormalities. Thus no need to set and maintain alert conditions on hundreds of metrics (at least not on the low level non-SLA metrics).

2. auto clusters the above into incidents. Example - if 100 EBS volumes have a unusual write activity alerts, and all are attached to EC2 instances which are within an ELB target group, they will be clubbed together.

Is this something you find useful? What other intelligent features you wish cloudwatch had ?
(then I won't be able to see it; I work at 14pt)
Their hypercube covering formalism can be seen as decision tree induction with a specific partitioning rule, and terminating branching only at uniformly labeled leaves. But try are using the tree nodes as kind of an embedding to apply a softmax on. I like the connection between relus and the geometrical representation, makes it easier to think about in spatial terms.

Reading this I got several dejavus to my grad school classes on classical ML stuff. I like the direction but it feels like it could be better if it admitted that it's a variant of decision tree embedding, and built on some of the massive amount of research work in that area. At least in terms of understanding.

I suspect doing a random forest version of this would actually help. Perhaps we will see this as a legit pre-training step.
Personal favorites: Roboto Mono, Hack / DejaVu Sans Mono, Fira Code / Fira Mono, Source Code Pro.

I like Inconsolata, but in my opinion, its 'l' looks an awful lot like a '1'.
Devel::Tokenizer::C generates horrible code, even worse than gperf. Much better is my Perfect::Hash module, this postgresql module or the new perl5 mph script.

Haven't checked re2c but it looks like a naive lexer implementation generating a static DFA bytewise, not optimized for speed nor memory.

Better generators should really operate on the wordlevel or wider (SSE), not bytes. These are ~8x faster, in some case up to 200x.
http://blogs.perl.org/users/rurban/2014/08/perfect-hashes-an...
That doesn't seem like something to regret. In my mind, building a business is about giving you the freedom to do whatever you want. If keeping it small helps you do that, that's what you should do.

Take a minute to skim through the history of a bunch of "successful" companies on that rocket trajectory. Does it sound like it made the founders happier? Or do they seem like they were actually doing better at some sweet spot earlier on in the story?

That's what it always seems like to me. So when I built my business, I set out with the goal of finding that sweet spot of good profits, minimum workload, no staffing or investor headaches, and most importantly, maximum Jason freedom.

Reading your comment, it sounds like you did the same. Don't worry for a second about what might have happened. What did happen sounds pretty cool.
So (you wonder if) everyone getting the same education is leading to inequalities? Sorry, I really don't follow.
Yes. It's a driver job like any other (bus license for bus, taxi license for taxi, truck license for trucks...). Most companies probably have cars unused at times. E.g. if you are a student and want to make some extra money it's usually easy to get a weekend job using someone elses car when that driver is off anyway. That way you can make some money without a big investment in a car.
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Helicopter parenting is much better than jumbo jet parenting.
Wow, that's insane!
So weird that there are such huge differences in experience between comments.

Why do you think you weren’t part of those other groups of people who did have to work unpaid overtime every week? Were you in an area with lots of people for whom finding another job wasn’t a major concern?
How can 'children shouldn't have equal chances' be supported rationally?!
The paper assumes that innovation is incentivized by the "top" income received through it by the innovator. Under this assumption, since taxation reduces "top" income, it thus disincentivizes innovation.

The introduction further clarifies the author's definition of the type of innovation that gets disincentivized. "Basic research", i.e. innovations in our understanding of our world, are readily funded by the redistributed tax revenue. "Applied innovation", that which applies the outputs of basic research, includes the creation of Amazon.com or the latest improvements to Google search. This applied innovation is what gets disincentivized.

I personally agree with you that this is a shaky, unsubstantiated foundation for an argument about optimal tax policy.
(Iosevka Term, Iosevka Term Slab)
http://typeof.net/Iosevka/

https://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-co...

(M+ 1m)
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From a business standpoint, 80% of your users will only need 20% of the functionality of your app so for most value added, a simpler interface meets all the requirements. From a user perspective it's become expected that interfaces not be cluttered or 'busy' with clear calls to action - Users have become impatient and fickle, opting to choose apps that are clean and stylish over functional and detailed.
had the Republican party remained what they were 50 years ago

Meaning, powerless and irrelevant at the Federal level and in 60% of the statehouses?
List of hilarious and useless things at CES
Is this what I know as 'image hash'?
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I didn't mean to be pedantic. Any name that refers to the software is fine.
So completely torn on this.

In the corporate world I completely agree. I feel like a vegetable. I am numb and stare out a window. I enjoy taking long walks and picking fruit on my corporate neighbor's property.

In addition to working for a Fortune 50 company I am also an officer in the army. In the army this idea about bosses is and large organizations is mostly (not completely though) upside down. In the military this can really work for you if you are engaged and your primary leader isn't a criminal.

This is perhaps the biggest difference between these worlds, and I cannot put it into words in a way that could possibly relate until you have shared a similar experience yourself. Seeing and living this difference shapes your world perspective more than any other objective quality (there are catastrophic subjective qualities that will shape anybody's world).
If you work on/for a startup and that startup succeeds, it will more often than not have to grow. If you're unlike Paul Graham who sold his startup and then invested in countless others and made lots of money but did not keep working on the thing he'd built - meaning, if you're what he likes to call maker as opposed to primarily a money-maker - you will want to keep working on the thing you built. And this desire to keep working on that thing is what will prompt you to adapt your views on group size and how people thrive and lions and sugary food. And when you'll see what a hundred people can make out of what was started by ten, it will be very rewarding.
Once I had a great job, I managed myself most of the time and was trusted to just 'get on with it'.

Then the company got busier and started hiring more people who were less able to manage themselves. As a consequence, I acquired a manager who wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to be doing. This led to situations where he would need to do things that justified his existence, like phoning me every hour to ask 'how it was going', 'where was I, and so on...

Needless to say, I started enjoying my job much less...

Then, when it became obvious my new manager wasn't coping so well, they gave him an assistant. You can probably guess how that panned out?
NetApp Builds Up a Multi-Cloud Kubernetes-As-a-Service Platform
How is that different form what US has been doing for last few decades?
Seems like being ahead in science is like license needed to rule the world. In current time, everyone(no matter at what level in authority hierarchy) wants to rule over others. This kind of selfish mentality is sure to bring end to what we have achieved so far.
No no no, my point is exactly the opposite!

> The reason China has focused so much on 'field applications' is precisely because they lacked the capability to do much original research and so specialized in applying foreign technology cheaply and at scale.

I want to say that being good in 'field applications' is a really strong side of Chinese, but they wont acknowledge that. China's official 'know-how promotion' policy is to keep pumping tenth of billions into institutionalised research, and keep people grinding cookie cutter PhDs.

For example, one of the biggest breakthroughs in making lithium batteries economically has been done in China without much publicity: the "open air process" that some no-name factory invented to make cells without shielding them with copious amounts of inert gas, and that allowed to make battery cells without sealed, fully robotised manufacturing lines.

In our own company, the two best paid employees after the boss are two middle aged guys of exceptional ability when it comes to designing plastic injections molds. They don't even have higher education of any kind besides 2 year introductory level schooling in engineering college. But when it comes to making molds, they are gods. They can make you anything from plastic bathtubs to aerospace grade composite parts in a day or two.
I don't think so, your interactions were impressively civil. I think maybe it was that a lot of your comments on this page were being grayed out, something he evidently had a problem with recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18861861
GKE provides it's own dashboard integrated into the GCP console so there is no need for the standard Kubernetes dashboard.
Will the full phone really be assembled in San Francisco? Sounds - expensive.
How Holidify Bounced Back to Hit 5M Users
"Free-PC.Com, one of the most audacious experiments in advertising, said yesterday that it would no longer give away computers and Internet access."

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/30/business/no-more-giveaway...
This has been my experience too. Firefox is my primary browser but I never could get the debugger to work inside promises for some reason. The firefox layouting engine is amazing. I develop some crazy inefficient DOM layouts when prototyping and Firefox will happily chug through it while Chrome will choke. But when I have to debug I go back into Chrome..
and "says de facto spyware vendor" at the end.
I sometimes hear that it's safer to drive a car with a more powerful engine, other things being equal, because the extra power gives you the ability to accelerate out of a dangerous situation. I've always found that argument a little dubious, because very few people have the training to accelerate safely in such a situation. On the ground, it's usually safer to stop a.s.a.p.

When you're flying a fixed-wing aircraft, however, it's not an option to stop where you are. So I guess it can be handy to be able to fly away at a high speed and steep angle!
They make it up in volume.
Good post. But I’ve definitely learned more as an engineer from architecting greenfield systems from scratch vs working at a big corp where I had no say and often no need to know about large parts of the architecture I was dealing with, since I was just tinkering on small cogs in a huge system. (Very impactful tinkering, mind you.)
Testcontainer library to programmatically provision integration tests in Go
Could you please not post unsubstantive comments, and especially not shallow dismissals, to Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How data is helping India’s oldest music company Saregama revive its fortunes
Being one of the scientists who thought they were doing good by initially starting the research must be indescribably painful. I despise when good will is turned on its head. It turns good people into bitter and regretful pessimists. Rather than fight, they quit, like you mentioned - thinking its better not to play twisted games. Only later in life do they realize they should have fought like mad, because no evil should be given quarter, lest it eat you up for years to come. Let's just say I have experience in this type of regret :-/

A lesson for all: the bigger man does not quit, does not keep quiet, does not pacify in the face of evil. Contrary to the truthisms about being the bigger man - fighting for what is right is almost always the right move.

It is often said one should be mature and not "play the game." But the truth is, evil affects us all and isn't confined to isolated games. If you don't stop it locally, it will spread like a poison globally.

Learn from my mistake. Play the game, fight, dont quit.
I hope they can start to make good games again. Game companies seems too politically correct to cater to gamers though.
Hah! This reminded me a bit of when I was working on integration tests for my multiplayer roguelike last year. My problems didn't need cloud computing to solve though, just using an explicitly seeded random number generator that was injected into my modules from the tests.
In Russia we call it "marshrootka", like "routed taxi", missing link between taxi and bus. It is a large and demanded industry, cash-only and poorly regulated. Check out the variety of minivan models and conditions with single Google Images search: https://www.google.com/search?q=%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%88%D1%...
Overflowing is actually not that hard in NetHack. Score gets rather meaningless in NetHack as killing monsters always yields the same number of score points.

So if you grind long enough, every high score is possible and overflowing the score counter with pudding farming was quite easy on 3.4.3 on 32 bit systems (the score counter is a long).

What players have done is a MAX_INT game or ascension. That needs some preparation and the MAX_INT game is easier to do than the ascension, as the ascension gives you additional score points, so you have to anticipate this.

There are even 64 bit MAX_INT ascensions, although those are done of course with exploiting some bugs.

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Notable_ascensions
Exactly - within 30 minutes 20 people have upvoted but no one has commented.
A Social Network is just a table with 2 columns
One thing to note is that while YC is 3 months, most founders spend at least another month or two fundraising after that, which can be as grueling as YC is, so it probably does make sense to think of it as closer to a 6 month commitment in the Bay Area than 3.
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