skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I overembellished. I’m not suggesting outright hiding the insects, I’m suggesting reframing them as a supplement rather than the main substance.

It’s a veggie burger with bug proteins. Not just bugs.
We are using the on-premise solution with our own build agents to build iOS. Looking to move actually into Azure Devops to reduce the effort of maintenance on our own build agents. I've been using AppCenter for hobbyist projects and I feel its been a good replacement for BuddyBuild. Seems to be pretty reliable additionally we've thrown a lot of builds at Azure Devops to validate how well those hosted-agents can handle a large project which also worked out well. So all in all, we are excited about the hosted-Mac agents as well as the flexibility to BYO-agent (helps in the transition).

I have seen a lot of these same problems noted in this link as well, just didn't see to prevent from getting our work done as much. So YMMV depending on your product/devops use case.

Personally have been using their APIs with some custom CLI scripts to get around some of these issues.
Seems like a really bizarre brand to re-use like that. BuzzFeed stands for everything that’s bad and manipulative in journalism in my experience. Like building a restaurant chain reusing your sewage company brand. Why did they do it?
The slavery rhetoric is very commonly used to dehumanize immigrants. This makes it morally easier to justify treating then like an outgroup.

Many, many people cannot afford to lose their jobs because they live paycheck to paycheck. Funny how they're never called slaves or referred to as having owners.
Same conclusion.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/20/how-to-turn-airpods-into-hea...
I’d imagine their target audience is relatively broke.
Or they just mark the line with "one cashier reasonable wait time" and "two cashier reasonable wait time" marks, and then add a cashier whenever the line is past the mark.
Answer: Convince companies that they need to have one.
Yes you're right. Bizarre it came out that way as I went to visit the site before copy/pasting it here...
Thanks for correcting it
My wife's XPS has been rock solid.
> It seems the field has advanced so far that EVEN IF new discoveries emerge, they would be of no practical value

Particle physicists would disagree. A complete understanding of quantum mechanics, squared with general relativity, is very likely to have practical applications.

Cliche analogy: if you thought the world was flat and ships were falling off the end of the ocean, you might be investing your money in world-edge-detection; and you might say there's no point in studying the edge of the world itself because no practical value can come of it. You wouldn't have any idea that circumnavigation was (relatively) easy once you understood more about the nature of the world.
Yep, that's it.

https://youtube/watch?v=blyswNKEPEY
don't forget everyone pivoted to video after facebook told them it was the future.
Maybe it's about context. One wouldn't expect to see a (realistic) elephant in a living room. For humans, if something seems "out of place", we tend to focus on it more to make sure we are interpreting it correctly. NN's have no sense of "out of place" other than "knowing" X and Y are not normally seen together in the training set.

Humans give oddities "more CPU" (or run like heck to avoid being trampled and worry later about being right). We apply life experience and logic to explore it deeper. In the elephant case, the shadows look wrong also, which should trigger the "Maybe it's a cheap Photoshop job" module in our brain. But NN's don't understand the concept of cheap Photoshop jobs because they don't browse the web for cute kitten videos and fun but fake news like humans do. Maybe NN's can be trained for fake photo detection, but solving every identification hurdle of the human world by adding yet another dimension to the training step probably won't scale.
What if we just built a really long, straight particle accelerator in space, and we just shot all our highly accelerated particles outside of the solar system? Aside from really ruining someone aliens day in a billion years, what’s the disadvantage of doing this?
US Senators fear Chinese-made Metro rail cars could be used for surveillance
You’re not wrong, but it’s worth getting a sense of scale. Farming insects uses about 90% less land than beef, and similarly large savings in water and feed.

If people like meat, bugs are a pretty good way to solve for that.
Horrifically broken was an exaggeration, you are correct. Much of this was written after a stressful day compounded by dealing with our CI failing to do the thing it is supposed to do. I also agree with you that Microsoft has been making great strides in the direction of "getting a lot of things right lately" as you said.
Every year, millions try to navigate US courts without a lawyer
I have been following Buzzfeed for years (the Try Guys, Quinta B., Ashley, Buzzfeed Australia etc.) and I had no idea that Buzzfeed had a "serious news" arm until reading this HN thread.

Until 10 minutes ago, I had the impression that the news section was just clickbaity stuff like "10 things that blah blah blah... number 6 will leave you speechless", now I just learned that they were considered for a Pulitzer.
I think that's the 2018 version. As far as I can tell the 2019 is not posted yet. 8550 is a Kaby Lake process, not Whiskey Lake
Yeah this is obviously a fabrication. I've had the fortune of meeting Dr Knuth on multiple occasions (at CHM) and the behavior described is 100% out of character.
and BuzzFeed News hasn't exactly helped itself lately
I tried out InfluxDB a while ago in my spare time and was intrigued by the feature set, but ultimately couldn't get past the abstruse query language, especially coming from the simpler and more flexible PromQL (not being able to do ad-hoc math across time series was a big deal for my use case). I'm eagerly looking forward to giving it another shot with Flux and have super-high hopes.

What does the data model for time series look like in 2.0? Mostly the same as 1.x, or has that gotten more flexible as well?
Why should people have to enter into an exploitive financial agreement with a bank to pay a tax to stay in their homes that they putatively own during their aged years? How is that just?
Looks like a Dracaena fragrans, a tropical tree from Africa that is a very popular houseplant. Unfortunately your plant seems very ill. Roots and stem are dead and probably hollow. Only the upper part is alive for now, but unable to get water and nutrients so is dying.

This happens typically by a fungus attack when the plant roots are left in stagnant water that gets too cold at night. The fungus kills the plant from below.

At this state your best try would be to discard the old plant and use the green part as a cutting. Unroot the plant, use a sharp knife to remove slices of black and rotten tissue (Work from below towards the upper part). With luck you will find green and healthy tissue eventually.

Now clean this upper part and cut all leaves by half (to reduce evaporation in a rootless plant), if the stem is wrinkled put it in clean warm water for an hour. If available, put some cinnamon powder over the wounded area, let dry for a few hours and then repot in a new recipient with some moisture. You can use a half plastic water bottle with holes at the bottom, (thus you can take a look for new roots).

The plant will probably not do too much until spring, but this is normal. To be successful you will need a warm area (71-75Fº), some light, and good soil.

About the soil. The cheap stuff in your photo is probably the main reason for your problems to keep plants alive. You are using a poor quality mix of compost and polystyrene, too dry and low in nutrients. Don't recycle it!. Just pick some standard soil from a garden, an orchard or (even better) a forest. Normal earthworm soil will be great.

Is still possible to save it. Dracaenas root easily from cuttings (the inferior leaves will be sacrified in the process by the plant but new leaves will regrow soon after the new roots are ready). Good luck
I wonder how much of this is really the "good old days" effect. I recall reading about research fairly recently that suggests we forget the bad things first, and that is why there's nostalgia for the "good old days".

I mean it is true that kids go outside a lot less these days, especially American kids. We're immigrants, and we often go to a nearby lake in the summer. Easily 80% of families there are Latino and Russian. I wonder where native-born American parents take their kids, if anywhere.

But I also wonder whether it's such a big deal. From what I can _factually_ remember from my own childhood, my "time outside" was rather haphazard and I got into all sorts of trouble (including starting smoking at the tender young age of 8 - this lasted for a few weeks until my parents found out). I very much doubt this was significantly better for me than staying at home.
That's a linear accelerator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_particle_accelerator

Presumably, you want to actually see the results of your collision.
You're still required to manage memory allocation.

Even having to explicitly delegate memory management to a garbage collector is arguably manual memory management compared to other languages (It's a choice you have to make and adhere to, not a decision that's already been made for you).
You get it measured by your eye doctor, then Zenni has a box for it.

They also give you a ruler with your first order, but it's crap, just have your doctor do it.
Do you or dmoy know of any publicly viewable data that supports such high comp packages being “normal” for average senior developers? Not anecdotes from highly paid HN readers. There are no doubt top people at outlier companies making that much but if you look at places like salary.com and glassdoor.com those figures are not average or median.

Think of average senior engineer Bob with a 10 year career, now working at mediocre tech company Xyz in Sunnyvale. There’s no way on Earth he’s making $300k.

Hot shot ML expert Alice working at Facebook? Sure!

How many more Bobs are there than Alices? 10x? 20x?
The Killer WiFi issues to me seem to have been related to the Windows driver. Never had any issues on Arch, and an update last year (not suggested by the Dell update tool, check the website) fixed it for Windows.
An interesting nugget here is a post by Evan Williams about putting Odeo up for sale to focus on Twitter.

Here’s what Twitter looked like then: https://web.archive.org/web/20070225121301/http://twitter.co...
I'm interested to hear you have not had the same CI issues I have. One theory I have with no substantiating evidence is that Linux agents are least commonly used. The Linux agents on hosted builds run in a hypervisor but I've seemingly had the same issues running self hosted agents (as I mentioned AWS).

I can't find an actual issue and again as I mentioned in the post, replacing my AWS instance with a new AWS instance also eventually hit the same issue. Maybe it's some perfect storm of problems but that is just more speculation.
You got me, I use Linux :)
Show HN: ShiftCals – get any shift worker's schedule into fav calendar app
Conservative garbage collection like Boehm inevitably leads to memory leaks in long running applications. It's awesome for some use cases but isn't a complete solution by any means.
I agree to an extent.

Most people could do what your average pediatrician does at a normal checkup. The reason you want a licenced pediatrician is for the abnormal.

While an optometrist isn't generally needed, they are sometimes. For example, they are generally the first ones to catch diabetes.

I'm not an optometrist, just someone that has worn glasses their whole life.
I wouldn't classify someone who has had six bankruptcies as a "winner". One, maybe two I can understand. But six, that's just poor business management and a great example as to why we're heading into a Trump-powered recession.

https://www.thoughtco.com/donald-trump-business-bankruptcies...
You are correct, I'm just an Android dev but the company I work for is a long time user of Microsoft products like Visual Studio and obviously Windows. Over time, if anything, we have become more invested in their products and I don't see that changing in the foreseeable future as they generally work well for our use cases.
On the contrary, GP is resisting the continual infantilising of Western countries by their corporates, media and governments.

"to treat someone as if that person were a child, with the result that they start behaving like one"
[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/infantil...
Most of the places I know of selling Impossible Burgers used to sell a veggie burger. Looks like an incremental improvement to me.
Regarding caching, with NPM you actually have a couple good options (best together):

1.) Make sure you are using `npm ci` instead of `npm install`. The `ci` install command is often much faster and skips a lot of stuff that `install` does. It's also better at sticking purely to your package-lock.json versions. I suggested on UserVoice at one point that Azure Pipelines should switch to `npm ci` as the npm task default. `npm ci` is a relatively recent npm command and I don't everyone has caught on to it yet.

2.) You can use Azure Artifacts for NPM packages. It acts as an alternate NPM feed and caches packages to your Azure DevOps account. Artifacts only supports NPM and NuGet, so it isn't a general caching solution, but in this specific case it helps. I've noticed the builds I have using Artifacts are a bit faster than going straight to NPM. (I started using Artifacts for private NPM packages, so I'm not using it in every build yet.) The current biggest caveat to using Artifacts as your main NPM feed for a project is that it doesn't support NPM audits currently. (I also made sure to report that on UserVoice.)
What, exactly, are women supposed to explain to men? And why is it their job? (Honest question as I'm having difficulty seeing how this is supposed to work on an interpersonal level and no woman can speak for all women.)

Individuals can be consistent, populations are not. Men as a group do not all behave the same (aka "consistent" for their gender) or all have the same expectations, just as not all women behave/expect the same.

There has never been consistency at a population level when it comes to how men and women receive advances from the other.
OP/creator here. My wife is a CNA, and her shifts are delivered via a printed out piece of paper. She then has to manually put them into our shared family Google Calendar. I'm a software engineer, so it drives me crazy every time I see her spending time doing this :)

I decided to make a tool that enables her to quickly get shifts into an online calendar from her phone.

If your employer already has a digital calendar that integrates with Google/Yahoo/Apple/Outlook, awesome. If not hopefully this can save you some time. Just open the following (it's free, no login, no catch):

If you have any comments/suggestions/feedback I'd love to hear them. There are other tools out there (ex: NurseGrid), but I challenge you to find one that gets this job done faster. Other apps/websites require you to create a login or divulge personal information (like location where you work).

If you like it, best thing you can do for me is tell your co-workers. Thanks!
'Performance' isn't just raw averaged throughout, but often includes worse case latency. There's a lot of perf sensitive applications where a GC isn't a great fit.
I run stable at work and on my private workstation and laptop. Minimum downtime, it just works. I install my bleeding edge, i.e Haskell, Python, Emacsen, Firefox etc in my home directory. Best of both worlds. A stable base system and the newest application and environments on top.
It is hard to explain what is `beta8` and `curve.P` specifically, but they are arbitrary-precision integers so you can see what went wrong with an appropriate pseudocode:

x3 = alpha * alpha
beta8 = beta << 3
// beta8 %= curve.P
x3 -= beta8
while x3 < 0 {
x3 += curve.P
}

Essentially we want to compute `(alpha * alpha - beta * 8) % curve.P`, so to say. The modulo is expensive though, so for typical cases we can just repeatedly add `curve.P` to compute the modulo a few times. This is indeed a valid optimization when we are sure of the range of `alpha` and `beta`, but `beta` can be controlled outside. So a very large `beta` from an attacker will cause the while loop run forever---a denial-of-service attack.
This isn't just traffic. This is interrupting someone else's conversation to complain after reading an editorialized headline.

Having dozens of people post "I'm moving to Firefox!!" doesn't contribute anything. It detracts from discussion.
For exactly those reasons the thread has now been locked.

We screwed it up, like we always do.
ETL job in AWS glue with DynamoDB as source and S3 as sink is one option.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-glue-...
For x86 information, I really enjoyed Xeno Kovah's OpenSecurityTraining courses for Intro and Intermediate x86. Recording quality is a bit spotty, but their whole YouTube channel is filled with great content.
We really hate to hear you are having such a bad experience. The engineering manager has reached out on Twitter and included me. I would love to see what I can do to help
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Which is probably why it's hard to convince String Theory haters to re-evaluate their opinions, i.e. non-testable explanations.

One, the claim that string theory makes no testable predictions is just plain false. The predictions are just out of reach of current technology.

Two, we should probably be more suspicious of explanations that rely on folk (interpretations of) psychological effects. How strong is the Sunken Cost fallacy? Is it sufficient to overcome the motivation to shift subfields? At what rate should we expect theorists transisioning out of String Theory, under the assumption that Woit is right?

Three, String Theory has been very useful already. It's development has provided us with novel tools for mathematical tools for studying a plethora of applied quantum phenomena.

Disclaimer: I'm not a String Theorist.
That was the original goal of asp.net webforms and WinForms, to make it easy to write apps that would work on web and windows with the same code ... this back in 2001. They gave up, and we were stuck with ViewState (and the horrors within)
The majority of the product indeed does work pretty well. We make heavy use of their Boards and Test Plan features and outside of specific but minor UI/UX complaints, it is a competent tool.
I mean, this post is more about Rust than C and C++.
Honestly, while your criticisms are mostly fair, your approach is really unprofessional here. Yes, Microsoft is a massive company, but human beings are making this and I’ll guarantee you none of them are happy with where the product is. Please consider showing some compassion.

I’d also add that I use 2017 and 2019 daily, and build by build, I see massive improvements for performance.
Sentence is not code! According to your logic, when do you see {} in prose?

begin
some code
some more code
end

It's easier to read.
Purdue encourages GPs to overprescribe Oxycontin, including for period pain and headaches.
13% of those patients who took Oxycontin for headaches became addicted.
That's probably not the (only) way to do it. There are two interrelated but distinct types of breakthroughs that happen in research: the kind that occurs well within expectation, the next step in a well-understood plan; and the kind that is serendipitous, usually by way of uncommon or novel interpersonal or intellectual communication. For the latter, you need... diversity. Expertise, too, of course, and some amount of common ground. However, the most interesting and creativity-enabling interactions require people who aren't all aiming at the same thing before they initially interact.

On top of that, it can be difficult to separate the people who are actually intellectual elites and the people who are good self-marketers.

I kind of think we should just be committing a lot more funding to those interested, who meet some reasonable, objective level of expertise.
I remember when it happened, it was quite horrific: https://www.opb.org/news/article/eels-truck-highway-oregon-s...
Starting at Layer 7 is a fundamental mistake, because it perpetuates the execrable and obsolete OSI 7-layer model. Since IP protocols DO NOT map cleanly to the OSI model, trying to shoehorn IP into it causes more misunderstanding than anything else I've seen in networking. Seriously - IGNORE the 7-layer model if you want to understand real-world protocols and their design, especially anything IP-flavored.

(BTW, David Clark, one of the inventors of IP, told me over beers at a long ago Interop that the only reason there are 7 layers is because ISO arbitrarily set up 7 subcommittees to study the problem, and when they couldn't agree on where to draw the lines between the layers when they reconvened, they just made the diplomatic compromise of sticking with the subcommittee boundaries. That's why the OSI model so poorly reflects real world protocol implementations. AFAIK, other than the OSI protocols themselves (MAP/TOP, etc.), which unwisely used the model as an implementation guide, the only protocol to cleanly map to the OSI model is X.25. Does anyone actually use any OSI protocols anymore?)
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zenioptical
I don’t think you understood my point. I’m not saying train the robots to say things by rewarding them for doing so. I’m saying “force” them to do so as a hard coded rule. And also force them to read the chats of the other AI allies as an input. Continuously train the model to map the messages into an embedding space and use the embedding for decision making.

This would likely benefit by some cherry picked training data, but I think AI could get good at communicating their state to each other. Star craft has too much entropy to make a simple example. Imagine the game was just, you pick a random number and your ally has to guess what it is. I think Ai’s could learn to communicate this using a similar training design.
It is very expensive but still not that bad. I live in Silicon Valley too and I’ll say that $300k is a huge salary here. If I made that I could live extremely well in all but the most expensive Bay Area communities. Not private jet rich but far above a middle class lifestyle.

If someone’s struggling (EDIT: just comfortable) with $300k I don’t know what to tell ya.
Ex-Tesla employees describe the abrupt way they were laid off
Because those vehicles can move in the third dimension as easily as in the other two? Because this wouldn't require an intense amount of coordination between vehicles, and tons and tons of added security measures and protocols, given that cars can now literally fall from the sky and onto each other? Because the resources to build those magic cars are easily and sustainably acquirable? Because this does not need a much more involved inspection and maintenance infrastructure? Because energy considerations has been solved, and things "like cheap nuclear power" are safely and readily available? And the insane amounts of power required are so easy to distribute among those ubiquitous cars?

I just don't see how this is "efficient".
Agree with most of your points. For 1 and 2 it depends on what constitutes silly and the situation. I've seen some terrible code go through CR in the name of speed. For loops in for loops in if statements in for loops with breaks and continues abound. It worked, but be damned if I wanted to see it again.
keep suckin, they’ll tap your head any minute now