skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that war retired mind "gray-fucker" or something along those lines, so named for its tendency to us EM to directly watch the thoughts of biological creatures?
Also make sure that it’s really easy to figure out where to put new information and then it should be easy to put the information there. From my experience even the slightest friction or confusion will make people stop using the system.
Maybe you have the luxury of rewriting that others don't have. Do you rewrite to assembly? That's going to be really fast you know!

With a proper test framework, people can and are building large scale applications. There are plenty of ways to optimize performance without a complete rewrite. Python is really Python+C to a large extent.
Do you have any links to point to? I don't recall any of that kind of marketing.

Here is a contemporaneous example where the focus is very much on education

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17190918
Why we Created Crawlera? The World’s Smartest Web Scraping Proxy Network
Why does capitalism get the credit for industrial and scientific breakthroughs? That's begging the question, no? There is absolutely zero proof that these things are inclusive of one another, and plenty of evidence to the contrary. Especially when the current capitalistic system is not reasonably sharing the benefits of these breakthroughs?
Many years ago, you once mentioned that anyone who wants to build a startup should read Hacker News. I'm still here because of you. You've made an impact!
I am not sure you need to do it at the application layer. All you need is a local caching resolver that your apps query over local host using standard methods. Then the local service can do all the fancy you want.

Today, I have this setup for work. I don't like them spying on me while at work. So I have setup a local resolver that forwards some request to the companies resolver, and others over a secure line to a set of public resolver. I did not need to change any software.
As I recall, if you muted the sound before shutting down it would stay muted and not play the startup sound. My Mac experience starts at the white iBook G3 running OSX 10.2 though, so it could be that this behaviour is a new thing.

I now have a 13" TouchBar MacBook Pro and it makes a sound when I plug the charger in no matter what I do to the volume settings. When I have it muted and open I can actually see it unmute the sound so that it can make the charger sound then mute it again when it's done.
Context for the use of "technically sweet":

DR. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER: "If the development by the enemy as well as by us of thermonuclear weapons could have been averted, I think we would be in a somewhat safer world today than we are...I do not think we want to argue technical questions here, and I do not think it is very meaningful for me to speculate as to how we would have responded had the technical picture at that time been more as it was later.
However, it is my judgment in these things that when you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. I do not think anybody opposed making it; there were some debates about what to do with it after it was made. I cannot very well imagine if we had known in late 1949 what we got to know by early 1951 that the tone of our report would have been the same."

Setting aside the association of this phrase with the development of terrifying weapons, I think it is apt for the Raspberry Pi. The has lowered the barrier for entry to so many projects that you can just go ahead and make things rather than worrying about whether the utility of the thing is worth its cost or risk. Certainly Pi projects seem to be proliferating in my house...
Yes - one of the later novels does mention that other advanced societies do regard the Culture as being a bit immature in their insistence that they won't sublime.

Incidentally, Subliming reminds me a bit of the transition from the Beyond to the Transcend in Vinge's Zones of Thought stories.
Yes, especially considering that a lot of the respondents are doing data analytics and therefore probably running multiple different types of analyses and cross checking numbers and results, so testing is sort of baked into their workflow.
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> “It shouldn’t be called an outbreak,” Seattle-area mother Bernadette Pajer, a co-founder of the state’s main anti-vaccine group, Informed Choice Washington, said of the measles cases, arguing that the illness has spread only within a small, self-contained group. “I would refer to it as an in-break, within a community.”

This person has a serious lack of understanding about how outbreaks and epidemics work. All it takes is one plane ride, one cough at a public place, and you can infect dozens of people. Even if you infect just two people, this can grow exponentially over a few days, especially given that you are highly contagious four days before symptoms and four days after.

> I would refer to it as an in-break, within a community.

In-break with an unvaccinated community.
Yeah, i'm interested myself. (Either my curl wrangling is wrong, or FB not playing nice now.) Would love to know how you're doing this.
Are there any SBCs that run on 240v!? The RPi is 5v. Unless you're deliberately ignoring the whole context of the conversation just to be pedantic.
There is also RS Components - the RS / Farnell rivalry (or duopoly) is the big one for low volume electronic components in the UK. RS do have trade counters in a couple of dozen industrial estates around the country but I think they are only open office hours.
The thing is that you can have that without making it such an active point. One of the things I really like about Snow Crash is that while overall it's an anarcho-capitalistic dystopia where criminal organizations are incorporated, no one's actively wingeing about it, its just a setting to the main plot.
> is not the exclusive purview of US companies,

It's not and no one said it was.

>some naive Americans that selectively punishing US firms and chipping away at US influence and might is a "good thing".

I'd like our government to do the same. Your opinion is needlessly nationalist without any real reason.
A big part of the problem (why a lot of apps are doing this) is Apple disallows software vendors from charging for major release upgrades on the Mac App Store. Ideally Apple would provide a pathway for upgrade pricing as a one-time purchase but of course they have a perverse incentive to sell subscriptions, and developers take the blame for it.
It's like a law against harrassment...it requires human judgment. Some harassment is obvious. Some depend on perspective. Enforcing harassment laws can still be justice even though it is arbitrary and vague.

Hell, if laws weren't arbitrary and vague depending on circumstance, we wouldn't need lawyers and courts!
Nevod is hundreds of times faster than RegExp, and have human-friendly syntax
there are also knotted proteins, although they are rarer:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knotted_protein
And the original Links (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5TPAxMfpbQ) from the same company. Really nice use of the PC speaker in the intro, as well as the game.
Is this true? It seems there are plenty of SBCs out there that share an identical form factor and are pin-compatible with the Pi's GPIO.
You are thinking of the "psychopathically righteous" GCU Grey Area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCU_Grey_Area
Kinda surprised (pleasantly?) that Anaconda is the most popular non-official distributor. Though I'm surprised Enthought has almost zero representation. I was considering a move, and though they would be worth the try.
Ok. We found a good move. But did we find the best move? Or, somewhat more weakly, can we find a better move?

Don't let the good be the enemy of the better.
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Surely you see the difference between someone who is speaking in an official capacity as a public official and someone speaking in a business capacity to influence legislation for competitive business advantages.

You cannot be so blind to the differences here, can you?

The point is to show hypocrisy. Both entities should have the ability to express their opinions on legislative matters, and it is ridiculous that apparently the mayor disagrees with this concept.

The mayor doesn't disagree with the concept of free speech, the mayor simply disagrees with what the speech is and how it, and the actions of legislative preemption at the behest of these companies can potentially impact his city. Which isn't hypocrisy, it is his express prerogative as a city leader! It is what the people of Portland elected him to do.

If you'd READ the letter in full, you'll see the Mayor isn't trying to curtail Lyft's speech, or saying they shouldn't be allowed to Lobby, but instead he's pointing to specific things and agenda items Lyft is Lobbynig for, and pointing to those specific items as things that could harm his city.

There's a lot of difference between pointing out something someone said that you disagree with, and positing that they shouldn't say it at all or be allowed to speak period. If that distinction is lost here, or for whatever reason being willfully left out of your responses, I think this is as good as any of a point to retire from the discussion because we'll be here forever.
There are several movies with self driving cars but usually the hero takes over control to get out of a bad situation.
top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19105272, which itself is already a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19104098

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I'm always struck by the giant CRTs in futuristic 80's movies. Blade runner is one example where there are scenes with CRT screens that even look very blurry/dated compared to the screen I'm watching on.

Also, this is a recent one, but in Star Wars rogue one, I felt it was odd how they had what looked like an IT nightmare. Seriously, they had to physically fly to the base and deal with a robotic arm connecting hard drives (was it tape drives?). Sure they have humanoid robots that are way beyond any tech today, but their cloud storage was basically current and even old school tech. Why don't they have some tiny crystal that stores unlimited data or DNA storage in a small cylinder or something that you would expect in the future? To be fair it is a "long time ago in a galaxy far away" but still, are we technologically ahead of those death star builders in some way?
I deactivated my Facebook as an experiment in response to this study. I was already a very low volume user (uninstalled the app and almost never posted).

The effect size mentioned in the publication on subjective wellbeing was quite small (.1 standard deviation approximately). So far the fear that I’m missing something important, or that I will lose touch with someone I care about is out weighing the benefits. However, I am seeing myself forge new connections as well as strengthen some old ones. I think that if I can stay strong and keep down this path I may start to see a net benefit.
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Its a bit strange that they consider data analysis and machine learning should be put together, yet, web development, dev ops and automated testing shouldn't. I guess my job falls mainly into web development, but I still have to get data out of the database every so often with custom queries, so should data analysis be included there my job as well?
I was very frustrated watching the first of the newest Star Trek movies when Checkov runs to grab control of the teleporter to catch the two falling crew members plummeting towards the planet surface: as though in the age when it’s possible to decompose matter and retransmit it to some other location they do not have computers fast enough and accurate enough to calculate a trajectory of objects falling at terminal velocity. Seems exactly like the sort of the thing a computer should handle not a human.

Also this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XlXXoq7N4UQ
Star Trek serialized it (seemingly) easily enough. They essentially got a new universe of problems to explore every episode with the context of the Federations technology and administration.
>Andrew Ng once tweeted about a 1-second heuristic [..] And was summarily derided for it. Read the replies to his tweet to see some of the suggested counter examples.

Fyi to add some extra context to that "1 sec heuristic"...

I've seen several Andrew Ng presentations over the last several years and in the live talks, he has more of a lead up to that "1 second" idea[0]. He was trying to help project managers at Baidu think about the possibilities of new AI products to build.

Unfortunately, the extreme brevity of that tweet removes all that surrounding context that so it makes him look like an AI crackpot instead of an AI realist. (E.g. The top tweet reply from Pedro Domingos seems to be based on the limitations of current AI but Andrew Ng was trying to convey the idea to PMs of what new AI to build.)

[0] deep link at 12m20s for context and 14m05s is the "1 sec heuristic": https://youtu.be/21EiKfQYZXc?t=740
I cant click on "data set" or the other tabs in the sandbox.

I have been building some charts in Google Sheets - Maybe you can make an add-on for sheets such that you can point this at sheets as the data-set?
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I can't begin to imagine what that must feel like, but I gotta say, your kind of company (i.e. non-VC-funded, don't care about the unicorn status, just serve the customers well) is the kind I'd like to do one day. The vision and values just align with me so much more than hypergrowth and whatever it takes to get there. Many hats off to you for making all the decisions you did to keep your customers first. It may not be worth much, but you have my respect forever.
Don't clinical trials often pay?

They could be attractive to the desperately impoverished single adults, who are mostly men.
Playing Atari Games with OCaml and Deep Reinforcement Learning
I often wish that the diversity moment wasn’t mainly about race and sexual orientation but also about things like physical disabilities. When I look around my company of around 1000 people there is not a single wheelchair, no deaf or blind person.
Custom queries are not analysis
As a software developer you should be more empathetic towards the author.

Doesn't he, like you, deserve a paycheck every month?
To be fair when I press on it in a certain place it black screens and resets perhaps because of preexisting water damage but to not even open it up and lie to me is malpractice.
Yeah, they might have bred the poison out of them, but what about the heavy metals? :)

(I just couldn't help make that joke)
When I refer to % flicker, I am talking about the modulation % as defined by IEEE 1789-2015 and some documentation from the Illuminating Engineering Society [0][1]. More correctly, invisible flashing is known as the stroboscopic effect or phantom array effect.

Two factors are often used to describe flicker for lighting:

- Modulation %, a.k.a. % Flicker [The height or modulation of the waveform, formula is 100% * (A - B) / (A + B)]

- Frequency [self-explanatory]

Flicker Index is also used (refer to [1] page 7 for more info) but rarely.

Duty cycle is not considered relevant, as you mentioned.

Some tools designed to measure lighting, such as my UPRtek CV600 [2], spit out % flicker, frequency, and flicker index, in addition to a bunch of spectrophotometry metrics. It's also pretty easy to calculate the modulation % with an oscilloscope and photodiode, it's just Vp-p / Vmax.

IEEE 1789 [0][1] roughly says that the higher the flicker frequency, the more acceptable it is to have a high modulation %. If you look at the graphic on [1] page 18, you can see this relationship. The white area is considered unsafe, the yellow area is "low-risk", and the green area is "safe." I don't 100% agree with this personally, as most incandescent lighting, with around 6-11% flicker at 100-120 Hz, would fall into the unsafe or low-risk category. But the Soraa product is definitely in the unsafe category.

For reference, I plotted my product (Bedtime Bulb) against an incandescent A19, Lighting Science's Goodnight A19, and Soraa's Healthy A19 on an IEEE 1789 graphic [3] with a Python tool I'm developing, Beautiful Flicker [4]. You can see that this incandescent, measured around 10%, is on the border between unsafe and low-risk by this standard.

Hope this helps!

[0] IEEE 1789: A new standard for evaluating flickering LEDs?: https://www.dial.de/en/blog/article/ieee-1789-a-new-standard...

[1] Flicker: Understanding the New Recommended Practice (PDF) https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/05/f22/miller%2...

[2] UPRtek CV600 https://www.uprtek.com/en/product/SPECTRAL-COLOR-METER/CV600...

[3] IEEE 1789 Graphic Comparing 4 Light Sources https://github.com/yeutterg/beautiful-flicker/blob/master/ou...

[4] Beautiful Flicker https://github.com/yeutterg/beautiful-flicker
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Awesome! Be sure to sign up for the beta if you haven't already :)
I have no issue with paying for subscriptions or paying for major releases. For example, JetBrains products are subscription-based but after a year of paying, you gain a perpetual license and can continue using the product without continuing to pay for updates. The problem with Git Tower now is that you always have to have a subscription going to use the product. For me, the value of the product does not outweigh the cost.

Edit: grammar
Just install a friendly Linux distro and relax
I will get two entangled moebius strips, right!?
>>Anti-trust isn’t equipped to deal with anything because it’s arbitrary and vague.

That's something of a gross mischaracterization of antitrust law. The Sherman Act and other laws provide various guidelines as to what constitutes anticompetitive conduct. Through the succeeding decades since the introduction of antitrust legislation courts have also consistently built up case law that provides further guidance.
The euros' incentives are clear, what's our government's incentive to destroy some of our most innovative, successful, and market defining companies?
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No major disagreement with this general point of view. But, do you think that much of psychology has a falsifiability problem?
This is what I wanted to say: I does not work, because "multi tenant" TLS; unless your server is configured to serve one single SSL certificate on SSLv3, IE6 is dead.
Pretty much all services make money from tracking you because it's legal and doesn't cost them anything.

Even those that charge. E.g. google maps will charge the vendor and still track the user. A WSJ subscription will still have tracking code and third party js, etc.

As long as it's free for the service and there are no penalties, then of course they will try to collect as much data on you as you allow them to collect. But it's your responsibility as an internet user to prevent them from collecting anything that you don't approve of, and to block third parties from injecting their code into your equipment unless you vet that code or otherwise trust it. When stuff like spying and data collection is outlawed, this creates economic room for honest players to participate in honest business practices. We're just not there yet.
Really love this post. My favorite line is:

> Every month of less than 20% growth should have been a red flag.

I think that's pretty insightful. 20% growth is great for a normal business, of course; for a VC-backed startup it can show some warning signs about future hard decisions you might have to face.

I think there's certainly lots of discussion that has been had — and should be had — about "should I or shouldn't I raise money?", but there still are plenty of companies and founders who will raise VC, and paying attention to those early warning signs are important if that's the choice you make. It's important to worry about it each month and each week rather than the two months surrounding the raise of your next round.
or guano

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act
Competition laws and anti-monopoly laws hit long before monopolies are formed.

Real monopolies are relatively rare. Most anti-monopoly regulations worry about 'monopoly power' or 'dominant power' where companies can start to ignore competition or price signals.

For the purpose of controlling mergers, the combined market share of 25% or more of a specific market is usually refereed to anti-trust regulators who can intervene or set conditions.
One way to restructure your code is to move all the default assignments to the top of the always block, and then let if conditions change the ones that don't apply for that cycle.

This code would work just fine (many people would argue it's not very readable -- but it saves you a lot of else branches):

// Default
timeout <= timeout + 1'b1;

// Special cases
if(~old_download && ioctl_download) begin
cnt <= 8'b0;
timeout <= 32'b0;
end
> I think of it as "cargo cult sci-fi"--adopting the trappings of spaceships and ray guns without understanding or caring about the science.

Except for the diamond+ hard subgenre, Sci-Fi isn't really about the science anyway. The science serves as a mechanism for introducing premises that allow us to explore aspects of the human condition.
TL;DR:

- Stock/Better than RTX 2080 performance at 1440p/4k.

- Needs driver updates for overclocking and for matching 1080p performance.

- Heat design bad on founder card.

- Expensive and mostly Sold out.

I'll wait for Navi.
US Missile Defense in Eastern Europe Appears to Violate the INF Treaty
It's quite the potboiler, and the underlying disaster mechanism lacks credibility, but I am still fascinated by Charles Pellegrino's novel Dust from 1998, which certainly qualifies for this list, although no exact year is given for the events taking place - but things are understood to be happening in a then near future. I guessed 2005 when I first read it in '99.

People carry multi-function pocket computers around, referred to as pads. A massive die-off of insects spells global disaster.

At the end, as breathtakingly wrong scenario, but who could have known: Manhattan more or less razed to the ground by a series of nuclear air-bursts, with the WTC Twin Towers nearly the only structures still standing.
Facebook ordered by Germany to gather and mix less data
Don't drink the kool-aid.
At this point I expect the Mac Pro to go the way of AirPower with Apple never mentioning it again and calling the iMac Pro "good enough".
I think the ambiguity is kind of the point. If things were written out ("doing X is monopolistic"), then it would be easy for companies to operate in an noncompetitive manner, so long as they don't violate specific laws. Plus, the definitions of things like monopolies vary so much across industries, that it would be impossible to come up with specifics that cover every instance of anti-trust violations. I don't think it's perfect, but I do think it's more effective than the alternatives.
Power Computing had, if I remember correctly, a one-hour long sale that doubled the amount of RAM you ordered (back when RAM was really expensive). I bought a great tower, pulled half the RAM and redistributed to my other desktop. Good times!
I thought it was, because the question had two answers: professionally or hobby
Don't let someone's opinion or conceptualization of "better" be the enemy of what's good.
enruquito says>"you can also do exactly that in probability theory by multiplying the probabilities."

Have you got a concrete example?

i.e., show us the probability version precisely with mathematics and maybe someone can tell you the corresponding fuzzy version, if any.
Knot jokes, page 276.