skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say it's the same. China has imperial ambitions which gives the IMF a run for its money (no pun intended). Japan attempted that but faces a much stronger western opposition. While the rest of the world is facing destabilization, China is silently taking over their part of the world.
Next thing you'd want is docker-compose support for multiple containers running together
One thing I noticed: ne means native endianness. It's probably because I'm used to C, but I'd have preferred he for host endianness and ne for network order endianness.
I think the right steps are already being taken. Breaking up Facebook would just decentralize the problem up and make it impossible to solve. At least with Facebook everything is in one place, and they have the money and resources to fix things.
Do you think searching Key West for rabid wolverines to be a very dangerous job, because, like, wolverines are pretty dangerous?
It's so interesting that ever since 1998 ATI (AMD) drivers have always been crap and the Nvidia ones good. That's more than 20 years now.
I'd check out The Expanse. The core is a world rooted in relatively real-world engineering, and the fantastical builds pretty slowly (and is generally terrifying).
> but individual practitioners think they're immune to sleep deprivation, exhaustion, and other simple well-understood aspects of the human condition. It's appalling and tragic

Those I know do understand the effects of their working conditions. The "appalling and tragic" aspect is that we accept them until they affect us.
The default powerdns server in debian stable also fails. This is a reasonable common setup for DNS servers. It is a bit weird to have a server running current/stable that does not pass the test.

Apparently the fix is to use the external repository from powerdns.
Yeah but they were just called security instead of TSA, so they weren't putting their lives on the line carrying out critical work.

That name makes all the difference. That and extra security theatre.
I'm wondering if the next Google can be successful under such a structure, or if it would get outcompeted by a company that treats growth and profit as the only virtue. Companies like Purity is awesome, though.
LOL, my dyslexia confused me pretty bad with `dbg!` I was expecting this to hook into GDB somehow, and got really excited. It's still very neat, I'll be using it a lot I'm sure. Reminds me of https://github.com/reem/rust-inspect a little bit.

I'm also quite happy with the uniform path work that's landed. Rust now has easily one of the best namespace management's I've used in a programming language.

Cheers!
What do you mean by "the research method of PhD"?

"Other advanced" what, exactly?
Still, the initiative to outwit the neo-Nazis is unlikely to prompt immediate re-evaluation of their values, Wagner said. "But our name will be stored in their minds. And when they consider leaving the scene at some point, they will remember us," he told the paper. The group's main goal was to reach young right-wing extremists "in a situation where they would hopefully be alone at home."

I think this really is a fair point. Knowing that there are people who will help you quit the scene might lower the barrier at some future point.
Sorry, but this site is illegible on mobile.
Some authors hear you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundane_science_fiction
Honestly curious: what steps do you see that are being taken?
OP here. In my case any "group screen time" does not count as "screen time" with regards to her viewing limits. My daughter really likes Dr. Who. If we sit down as a family and watch it together, that does not count against her screen time. Playing video games in a group does not count against screen time. Playing video games alone that includes physical activity/exercise such as the "Just Dance" games does not count against screen time. Watching any educational videos including Youtube videos teaching her how to do a craft does not count against her screen time (because an activity is involved).

In spite of all these exceptions what she wants to do most is hole herself off from her friends and family to consume her addiction fuel. If it were as easy as playing a video game with her, that would be wonderful.
Impressively, Shellphish solved this challenge in 3 hours. The CTF's interactive leaderboard is fun to play with: https://archive.aachen.ccc.de/35c3ctf.ccc.ac/
A compare-and-set request. E.g., I can read version 3 of a row, and write version 4 if the current version is still 3, so that if someone else writes version 4 I don't clobber whatever they just did.
I can only agree. As a somewhat that dabbles in machine learning (including deepnets), AMD is basically a no-go as there is no practical support for deepnets. While Nvidia has stuff like cuDNN, AMD can't get even the basic computational stack for DNNs working.
Yeah. It took surprisingly long before I realized how similar the format was (the Voltron point).

I liked it.
Here's a lens I use to think about my job that might make sense to someone with an engineering background:

- I'm in charge of architecting and building the team. the team is a system, of people and processes

- the team has various functional and nonfunctional requirements which i product manage

- I surface how the team works in general to our stakeholders, and our team strategy mainly deals with adjusting our "interface" and performance

- I also surface our team's current plan and how we're tracking, to the appropriate stakeholders, to give them context if we want to adjust how the "system" works

- I don't do any tasks other than those that relate to the above

- I don't try to heroically post-process or supplement the machine's performance through my personal efforts unless it's just really high leverage in that situation. (would have to be live or die almost, otherwise not worth it in the long run). I spend my efforts on adjusting the characteristics of the machine.
Biggest Lies in SaaS Marketing. Do you believe in any of these?
That's just the type of answer I look for.

You're not someone who would look at the screen and just say "I don't know" (or thank me for my time and storm out).
On a similar topic, there was some interesting discussion in comments yesterday about whether it was good or bad that Microsoft was setting aside money for building affordable housing near Seattle[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18927708
I used to be friends with a surgeon and based on what he told me you need to have a certain level of hubris or arrogance to do that job. He told me of situations during surgery where he had to make a quick decision that could have either severely harmed the patient or led to success. He also knew cases where he had made the wrong decision. It requires a certain kind of person to take that responsibility and live with it.
this is my point - don't you think it a salient fact to inform the reader that these employees will in fact be paid for the work they perform....at some point
The article explains that the activists aimed to target people when they're alone at home. Washing and folding clothing is something typically done in a home, so I think it'd be pretty effective. Collective social pressure is _very_ powerful.
Just not paying people for some indeterminate length of time is not acceptable. Not being paid is a very real hardship, especially when you consider TSA agent isn't exactly a high paying job. A lot of the government workers not being paid are average paycheck to paycheck Americans. I'll have the money in a few weeks isn't much comfort when you need to pay your bills and get food for your kids today.
And technically the market has responded by the plethora of low cost housing all over the city.

Tents.
I still remember the hell of working on extremely complicated n-tiered enterprise software during the loud, daily shoot-the-breezes from nearby co-workers. The "manager" had a quiet walled office and did not care, the noise was not their problem. After a company buyout, nearly every single one of them lost their jobs. This actually happened.
Air travel is safe, the lie is that we need the TSA and the security theatre.
i remember seeing a documentary where a prison doctor asked why are all these big strong guys coming in with damaged necks/tracheas?

it was because they get ganged up on by a group, his head put in a toilet while a guy sits on the seat on top of his head, while the other rape him.

it had nothing to do with the guy's size. didn't matter how big he was.
I understand some of your concerns, but at the same time, as you point out yourself, that's why there are choices available:

1. If you want a very specific skillset to do a very specific job, there are more opportunities and options today than ever before. Self-study, MOOC, bootcamps, certs, etc. Pros: fast, efficient, focused, practical, immediate. Cons: the specific/narrow focus may leave you with gaps you won't even be able to appreciate until too late.

2. If you want a more general education, Universities are there to provide. You'll get not just immediate hands-on-keyboard skills, but math and CS-theory background, and also also communication skills, discipline, diligence, social networking, perspective to be a team lead one day, etc.

Now, I do believe universities have a LOT of optimizations to make; a student's life tends to be sucky in many ways it doesn't need to. I've repeatedly found and heard of the difference in attitude between a college/bootcamp of "You're the paying customer, we'll provide knowledge", and university attitude of "you are irrelevant, be grateful, and jump through the hoops jump for the privilege" - whether from the ever-increasing admin/bureaucracy cohort (sometimes helpful, often power-blinded), the obscure rules and difficult processes, or some of the tenured professors. But again, the information is out there, the choices are available - and overall there's never ever been a better and easier time to acquire knowledge.
Exactly. China isn't scary, an oppressive authoritarian regime controlling the world economy is.
The pros are worried about career prospects should they publish something pearl-clutchers deem "unethical."

There certainly at least three grad students who have transformed skin cells w/ eGFP (very very low efficiency w/ Lipofectamine) and one with a cosmetic tumor (later removed after it grew too much)
Introduction to Hyperparameter Tuning: Sentence Classification
The whole premise of this piece is the same as the deluded "hopepunk" premise.

Cyberpunk is sticky because it got so many things right. Both in terms of political/economic/social predictions and in terms of an attractive aesthetic. And technologically it is now an alternate present where we went with VR instead of smartphones and private military commandos instead of strategic media campaigns.

Saying that SF is "broken" because of this, or pushing thoughts-and-prayers-punk trash, is taking the Bannon view that "politics is downstream from culture". That the worth of a genre of fiction is measured by its value as motivational propaganda.

I wonder what sub-genre of SF has something to say about the people who are pushing "consume this corporate media that makes you feel happy and hopeful instead of angry" as a response to social problems?

Of course the other reason for cyberpunk's staying power is that it is an established genre and media companies know how that established genres are safer investments (best investment: reboot/sequel to something people already like).

I wonder what sub-genre of SF had a lot to say about the result of corporate/economic influences on popular art?

Gee, what a mystery.
"edit: really? -1'ed? How is this wrong?"

No idea. I downvoted you because you complained about your downvotes. Don't interrupt the discussion to meta-discuss the scoring system.
gdb or lldb provide debugger functionality for native code, but you don’t set breakpoints programmatically.
I'm reading the comments and feeling incredibly fortunate. I'm 33 and I've slept on a $100 Ikea queen mattress since my college days (the very basic model) and haven't had any sleep or back-related issues.

I appreciate the plusher mattresses hotels have, but at no point have I thought to spend anything close to what these mattress places usually charge.
Is it more reasonable to think that this is the beat of a baseless drumhead conspiracy, or that influential people are genuinely changing their minds about very large issues, despite the profitability of keeping silent?
It’s not too dissimilar from how AVX instructions are so poorly implemented on AMD CPUs - they may support it but it may not be core to their strategy (no pun intended).
That's the key piece of information that's missing here. If you start complaining constantly about things not related to your job then yes you're going to be an earsore.
Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss (2009)
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Same experience with German gym memberships. My 2 year contract will automatically renew in August if I do not cancel it 30 days in advance.
> i think describing it as working without pay as a little disingenuous

Disingenuous is taking this too far. They're paid in arrears, so the fact they've missed a paycheck means they've already done work which ought to have resulted in pay. They are currently without pay for labor they've contributed within the appropriate time-frame.
Show HN: A flow-based-programming env in service to art
And no one owes you a white boarded BFS implementation which bears no resemblance to how they would approach a problem in the real world.
That's funny because unlike DDG, Google actually works with quotes.

I have yet to find a Google query where Google ignores the quotes (it even goes as far as telling me it can't find anything).

DDG, on the other hand, decided a few months ago that their users are dumb and only mistakenly tried to force part of their query. It's really annoying me because it's what makes me use !g more than anything else.
Maybe other press coverage has been confusing, but this Courthouse News Service article is very clear. CNS tends to be excellent in coverage about legal matters for non-lawyers.
Bakkt New Acquisition yet No Regulatory Approval
While in it's current incarnation it might indeed be a good case, I wonder why it must also exclude all future options right at the start. I don't think AGPL is inherently bad, but for projects of this kind it seems a bit future-limiting.
I believe Pokemon cards, other trading cards and sneakers are all valuable collectible markets as well
What imperial ambitions in the 1980's? Selling us cars that don't break isn't conquering manchuria.
It's not only shameful but counter productive. Some think that horrible conditions are a deterrent, but there are several problems:

1. Innocent people do get convicted

2. Prisoner suicide

3. Inability to integrate back into a less violent community

4. A prisoner code that requires you to participate in violence or be subjected to it

For a sobering account, check out Shaun Attwood on YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/derickatt

He served in Maricopa County Jail under super Max and medium security. The stories of violence from medium security are just as violent as any fictional movie you've seen.

Our prisons seem to be trying to fight fire (violence) with more fire.

It's a horribly unethical game we're playing with people's lives that seems to provide little comfort to our society or the victims.
The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. He took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm.

Upon arriving at the scene, however, the fire fighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a cheap price. If the owner refused to sell the property, his men would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them and leased it back to their original owners.
Why every release of Rust appears on HN? (meanwhile Python, Node, Ruby, Perl, PHP, etc... don't enjoy that same treatment)
I personally prefer round for the aesthetics. But that is probably just because I’ve been trained to think watches should be round.
I’ve got a Garmin vivoactive 3 which I really like in terms of look and feel.
> if they are accredited and recognized

This jumped out at me. What do you think is analogous to that accreditation in the software industry?
An Astonishing 773 Million Records Exposed in Monster Breach
... at some point where they may be homeless because of missing rent because of living paycheck to paycheck and the first $0-by-government-shutdown paychecks have already been sent out.
Wow, it's been a while since I caught one of these announcements, and I have to say those those additions looks pretty awesome. I myself am a print debugger, and the dbg macro looks like a major quality of life improvement in that regard.

The default removal of jemalloc should greatly cut down on binary size as well, if I understand correctly.

I've dabbled in Rust, but haven't had a major reason to use it for anything yet. I'm looking forward to when that time comes.
That is in fact what I meant. Apologies for the confusing wording.
Also Google Cloud. We'd be using it now if it were available.
In theory you could inline assembly "int 3" or the like, but I'm not really aware of anyone doing things like this directly.
Yes, JCGT is fairly small but it does have a pedigree. After the fifth and last of the Graphics Gems books series, the Journal of Graphics Tools was founded in 1996 as a venue to continue publishing gem-like articles. It was a print journal owned and published by A K Peters. Back in 2012, most of the editorial board resigned and immediately refounded as the open access, online Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques. No, it's not as prestigious as, say, Proc. SIGGRAPH. But it is reputable and you can still trace its lineage a good ways back.

(Disclaimer -- I'm co-author on a paper published at JCGT and have been a collaborator with a few members of its editorial board. It's still a highlight of my career have published with Tom Duff of "Duff's Device" fame and had the paper get a nice twitter mention from John Carmack: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/846525438797086720)
Ask HN: Startups, what SaaS products do you spend money on and how much?
How much do you spend on SaaS software? Just curious to know the total and the breakdown (Git Enterprise, Slack, VictorOps, Pager Duty, etc).

Example Response Format

* # of Employees: 45

* Total Spend on SaaS: $15,000

* Breakdown by Product: $1000 for Git Enterprise, Slack $500, etc... (disclose only if able to)
I did GCSE business studies in the 90s.
It was basically just Japanese case studies. I still remember learning about Kaizen, when was the last time anyone (outside of Japan) used that word?
Integrating Social Links into Wireless Networks: Modeling, Routing, and Analysis
The point is that they won't be repaid for the costs incurred from being without any income for months. These include late fees, high interest rates on loans, long-term damage to their credit, etc.
Strangest thing we’ve found in the CIA’s declassified archives (so far)
Often the others (at least some of them) do get posted too. It's just a matter of what gets traction.
Not all policing is equal. Beat cop in Chicago or Sheriff of Methville is on a whole different level than TSA. Park Rangers are probably much higher risk than your average TSA employee because the routinely work alone and often are put in a situation where they have to tell a bunch of drunk people to stop partying.

For what is pays and the educational requirements policing is a very safe job.
Can back this up, TablePlus is really well implemented and a pleasure to use!
Installing Make on Windows is easy. Works like a charm.

choco install make
He claims that sci-fi can't move past Cyberpunk, but I think there's a much more reasonable take on this -

Modern day society looks a lot like the sci-fi novels from the 80s. Novels that use modern day as a kick-off point will naturally have elements of that embedded within them. That sure as hell doesn't make them "punk" novels.

I think modern sci-fi has gone a LONG way past "punk" and is pretty firmly in the "post-apocolyptic" realm right now (which I find marginally entertaining and relatively scary depending on my mood any given day).

That said, I think another large reason is that we're still in early days for many of the technological themes presented in those punk novels.

Human-machine interfaces are still in infancy.

AI is breaking ground, but just barely.

Power generation is basically the same story (although modern fusion is looking more and more compelling).

We have SO much untapped potential there that it's absolutely obvious why people continue to write different takes of it.

Alternatively, the author just has a fetish for punk styled novels and hasn't quite realized it yet.
What could a (visual) Clojure/Lisp editor be like?
AVX instructions are actually done fine in my experience. 256-bit is emulated, but that's not really a big deal. Intel is faster for sure, but I never had issues running AVX code on AMD CPUs. The performance characteristics are different between Intel and AMD.

In fact, AMD has some tricks up its sleeve. AMD Zen has two AES pipelines (while Intel Skylake only has one), so vectorized AES code is faster on AMD.

There are some performance issues with vpgatherdd instructions, but Intel has those as uop emulated code too. So both Intel and AMD are equally to blame there.

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My "issues" with AMD CPUs are relatively tame. AMD's profiling tools are weaker than Intel's. (Ex: AMD has "Instruction Based Sampling" while Intel's "PEBS" (Precision Event Based Sampling) are a bit easier to use. True 256-bit execution would be nice, but its not a major hassle in most cases IMO: AMD's back-end is very thick, so you can still get a lot of ILP out of AVX2 instructions.
It's no wonder that folks in the valley are so fascinated with AIs running amok and turning the world into a paperclip factory, because apparently that has been Facebooks business model from the start.

A very relevant article from Ted Chiang:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-dang...

"Consider: Who pursues their goals with monomaniacal focus, oblivious to the possibility of negative consequences? Who adopts a scorched-earth approach to increasing market share? This hypothetical strawberry-picking AI does what every tech startup wishes it could do — grows at an exponential rate and destroys its competitors until it’s achieved an absolute monopoly. The idea of superintelligence is such a poorly defined notion that one could envision it taking almost any form with equal justification: a benevolent genie that solves all the world’s problems, or a mathematician that spends all its time proving theorems so abstract that humans can’t even understand them. But when Silicon Valley tries to imagine superintelligence, what it comes up with is no-holds-barred capitalism."
Minimalistic finite state machine (FSM) in Clojure
In the USA the Democrats held the House from 1954 to 1994, which is 40 years, but people felt the USA was still a democracy during this time. Even in competitive political systems, sometimes one party puts together a broad coalition that can hold power for decades.
Does anyone know how the C code is ported to the web in the examples?