skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft has a similar reference application [1].

There are comments arguing these architectures create a ridiculous amount of overhead for what would be a simple application traditionally, and others countering that the point is to show the underlying tech in the context of a "simple" problem. I think there's a large amount of truth for both sides.

It feels like there's a great paradigm shift on the horizon, and hopefully a good set of abstractions to build with. We're programming in machine-specific assembly languages, waiting for a high-level language to come along so we don't worry about things like calling conventions anymore.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers
Where have you gotten the impression the 'progressives' and 'liberals' would have any qualms about calling out how dodgy these videos are?
It's ok to submit our college writing assignments to HNb now?

DELETE THIS
Uhhh “security legislation in Australia is scary, let’s move to ... chine?” (I recognize HK is special, but let’s be real: China can make HK do whatever it wants)
Who else would derail comments on an article about Amazon cancelling their NYC expansion with tangential and disingenuous discussions about factory farms?

Also, the way different accounts seem to seamlessly continue a deep and tangential discussion thread is also kind of suspicious. Almost like it’s one person who keeps switching alt accounts.
It’s weird that the project options dialog still offers to work around the Pentium FDIV bug. Are any of the current compile targets still afflicted? Like, can 2019 Delphi still compile me a win95 pentium binary?
PG&E is a pretty poor strawman for anti-grid arguments. CA pays 2x what neighboring states do for electricity, and despite having mild weather and high population density have unreasonably high levels of safety and reliability issues.

It’s probably second only to Puerto Rico on that front, at least in the US.

Having said that, I’m eagerly awaiting the day I can disconnect my house from the grid, and close my account with them.
If you read the article closely SunRun entire business model is built off of buying up thousands of tax credits intended for regular America and selling them to mega-corps so they pay zero taxes. And in return it's thousands of loans directly tied to properties by selling short-term gains to consumer who eventually get burned by long term financial trickery.

I mostly agree with you but giant gov programs in 2019 are just setting you up for failure. This isn't patriotic post-war 1950s American in boom times ready to get to work.

There is a sophisticated highly competent industry set up around poking and prodding these deals inside and outside of government.

Private/public deals are cancer. Well intention gov mega-deals like California's massive tax credits and new solar-policy, etc, etc, etc are just bad ideas that keep working against the public interest while politicians get praised as helping the poor/middle class when it gets first released. There's no accountability afterwards. They tell us it's just a lack of gov interferring, which will solve all the problems they made.

Let markets do what markets do and only come in to regulate when there is a clear and obvious dynamic where markets simply dont work (military, police, health care, etc). Simply the tax code. Simplify spending. Stop pretending these grand social and economic experiments. Stop public/private nonsense and choose one or the other.
The vimeo link above might need an epilepsy/seizure warning...
How’s that good for the public?
Ownership and private property makes them liable for what happens on that private property, yet they are somehow exepmted from that liability. So all perks and none of the responsibilities.
I recall this was the top-voted comment (rightfully imho) until shortly after someone suggested that the author was depressed instead of being reasonable... Now it's at the bottom, and lots of "wow, this is super-interesting" comments are above.

fwiw, this quoted bit also jumped out at me as perhaps the most important note

I never know what to make of the psychology of this/my community (tech, specifically), but the dynamics here on HN always provide me lots of "food for thought" to overfit :)
Security? Really? Too many moving parts, too many holes and places to exploit... fixing the same sec problem is 30 different places does t sound like great security.
Somebody exchanged money for the patents to give these trolls. Blame them.
Delphi (and Borland C++ Builder) was a lot of fun back in the day. Linux ecosystem wasn't as mature, and people who insisted on on using the Microsoft toolchain had to deal with some insane bullshit like MFC, ATL/WTL, or bare Win32 API. In the meanwhile, people using Borland stuff were cranking out superior (and faster) apps out of components downloaded online, and using drag&drop. What would take weeks and a lot of head scratching in MFC was like 10 minutes in Delphi, and you _knew_ you got it right. It was RAD if you pardon my pun.
Here's a simple infinite loop in sed:

echo loop | sed -e ':x' -e 'p ; bx'
As a sidenote. I also have trouble understanding the mindset of people who argue purely on economic basis.

It seems that telling out grandchildren "Sorry you inherited a ruined climate, but we didn't want to spend the money at the time to avoid it" is a rational decision. (And hey, maybe some people think it is; but I can't)
I got to know about ASMR recently thanks to the video that was taken down and the description felt very similar to what I've experienced since I was a kid. I used to even flaunt this as a super power when I was young. Wondering if someone knowledgeable could explain-this-phenomena / suggest-some-literature to me. Reddit probably is the right place to enquire about this but here goes nothing.

I can spontaneously generate this tingling feeling at will by moving my chest muscles ever so slightly. This act lifts my shoulders a tiny bit and results in a mild pulse descending from the back of my head that flows through the spine. Doing this continuously 3-4 times results in goosebumps in the right weather conditions.

I got a similar feeling(comparitively milder than what I could generate spontaneously) when I watched/listened-to one of the ASMR videos which made me wonder if there a way to quantitatively measure these ASMR responses claimed by people.
I still have a non-trivial internal company application written in BCB that requires the occasional bit of maintenance!
Even if it sexual, why must it be stigmatized?
I feel the same way. I was working on NN research in the 2000s and spent all my time trying to optimize the performance to deal with non trivial data sets. I got as far as working on GPU implementations around 2008 before I moved on to other subjects, but seeing these results now is incredibly validating. There was no shortage of profs and grad students that scoffed at me at the time. I still kick myself for not keeping up with it
depends on the number of teams/services/languages you got.
istio solves a lot of problems in that spaces when teams/services/languages grow larger.

so, i would think the percentage is larger than 1%.
I don't have peers where I can bounce off my thoughts and get answers to solutions like these. I've been very curious about serverless microservices architectures and this repo has given me a pretty clear way of doing it while showcasing polyglot microservices and persistence. I get that it looks like it has a lot of overhead for what it tries to do but I can grok scaling this up for an enterprise application.
It is C or not C, Grashopper.
It's tougher than that. They are outdoors and have to stand up to weathering and storms. In the case of dual axis trackers they have an additional degree of freedom.

Finally, an the toughest, in my opinion, is how little net energy budget they have to work with to be economical: they have to require less energy to build, install, and operate than the incremental solar energy they generate over their operation life. They give an approximately 40% production improvement (that's roughly the single/dual axis midpoint. towards the high side), so if you say a 10 yr life with zero maintenance and controlling a single 250w panel you're talking 9 mWh, or $1080 retail electricity value generated. A 40% improvement on that is only $440 worth of energy budget per tracker over a 10 year life.

That glosses over a ton of complexity like if area is amenable to ground vs rooftop, if it's higher latitude, high density panels, stationary panel/tracking mirror, and most importantly having multiple panels per tracker. Zero maintenance/replacement is not realistic, either, since it would cycling dozens of times a day and could be in hurricane/tornado areas.

But given a lower end garage door opener is $150 before installation costs, it gives an idea how tough that would in that price range. Consider that panels are generally engineered to withstand 100+ mph gusts, and this would be a relatively finely tuned machine attached to one or more 18 square foot kites that would be expected to withstand the same conditions.

https://news.energysage.com/solar-trackers-everything-need-k... was a pretty good article I found on it.
While it is conjecture, I think this speculation is accepted relatively widely at this juncture. So given the farcical nature of the HQ2 competition, I think it's all the better that NYC doesn't bend to Amazon and allow them to dictate the terms at which they enter an already competitive labor marketplace.
Seattle would like a word with you ;)
Bloody hell. I've developed with both of these. And Borland C++ Builder.
Microsoft to Abandon Standalone IE (2003)[Archive]
All the same, having Amazon come in with a $3B break doesn't do much to move the ball forward.
Obviously, performance is important; however, there is huge difference in the engineering cost of splitting your codebase into 2 languages and upgrading a language version in both the short term and long term. A 17x speed up in code doesn't guarantee a 17x speed up on future iterations of their product.

I am not saying they made the wrong choice; it seems like what they chose worked for their use case. It could have been the case that 2.6 didn't work for their needs, but I think it's still worth an investigation.
Debunking five artificial intelligence misconceptions
His other article about mental health:

"The elephant in the room: how do you balance support for mental health with a drive for performance?" - https://blog.charliehr.com/performance-management/navigating...
I had a paid remote internship for about 6 months for a Texas company while I lived in Missouri. I had to file a Texas state income tax form, or at least my reading of the law indicated that I had to, and Texas gladly took the money.
Insys video in which employees dance around life-size bottle of fentanyl spray
Pretty on point. Amazon is pretty decided to step aside those toxic politics, that is why I am surprised they choose NYC in the first place, because the climate there isn't that different from Seattle. Well, it turns out to be rather quick running into its conclusions. Fun ride.
A managed CloudSQL instance with 600MB RAM on GCP costs about 10.8$ a month (0.015$ per hour), 0.17 per GB per Month storage (say 5 GB, that costs about 1 $ extra)

So about 12$ a month for continuous 24/7/30day use.
Sealed Copy of Super Mario Bros. Sells for a Record-Breaking $100,150
wasn't that the point of this whole openai thing? they didn't like the idea of there being a club with just google in it that had access to resources and funding to collect and train on massive datasets so they were going to be the "bad actors" who would do their own scraping, train their own models and share them around?

isn't it supposed to be called OPENai?

they don't want to share the data because they don't want to throw away the edge they've gained by collecting it. :)

computer programs that generate human like text aren't dangerous, the internet is full of human like text that is mostly bullshit anyway.
Scored Meeting with Chief Product Officer, How to Handle?
I have caught the attention of a Chief Product Officer that operates in the same industry as my product. (Financial) Only difference is my product serves consumers, his products serve banks and lenders. I am very excited to meet with him but I have my reservations. I love sharing my idea and vision for my product with friends, family, and colleagues but am hesitant to share detailed plans for execution with someone who could build it faster than I possibly can. I still have a day job.

Or perhaps he could help me? I don't want to be close minded, but I don't want to put myself in a position where I see my product become one of theirs with a different name slapped on it. What is to stop them from moving into that consumer space?

Sincerely,

Paranoid Paul
It's really strange that Microsoft, Amazon and Apple and Google seem to be OK with the Australian laws. I would have expected them to pull out too.
By "liberal" I mean more liberal than average, which requires pushing back or at least not supporting at least one taboo. By doing so you put yourself at risk of dismantling your own ability to keep any taboos around, even the ones that actually are right.

I'm not talking about political groups; by any measure in urban areas the political group called liberals would be just "normal," or "average." Progressive doesn't mean "Democrat," a Democrat in a blue county that believes things should be the same tomorrow as they are today is by definition a conservative.
OK, if 13 year old girls do soft porn videos, totally on their own, I'd call that empowerment. I don't get the distinction from 13 year old guys doing videos about whatever they're into.

But if parents of 13 year old girls are encouraging them to do soft porn videos, that's exploitation. However, check out the pre-teen "modeling" thing in the US. That's basically soft porn, and it's popular.
It's also attracting a lot of attention in the MicroPython community; seems like this port will improve rapidly.
Do they have data centers in Australia?
Interesting points. Is OCaml's compiler faster than Rust's?
No, Delphi back in the day was like VS/C# now... or, rather, the other way around, given that MS snatched Delphi's lead dev* to make C#.

*Anders Hejlsberg -- who also worked to bring us TypeScript.
I think it can be helpful to move away from pat generalizations like “progressive” or “liberal” for the most part. I have no doubt that if we first met while I was talking about my views on gender equality and redistribution of wealth you’d label me that way. If we first met while I was talking about my views on defense you’d label me right wing. If I was talking about my views on respecting trans people I’d be left again, but if we chatted about my views on Israel I’d be back on the right. I’m a passionate environmentalist who is passionately pro-nuclear, an atheist who is fascinated by and full of respect for faith.

I don’t think I’m unusual either, I think most people are defined by more than one stance, and I don’t think relative morality is the province of left or right. You’re making a good point about the merits of accepting the moral dimensions of life, don’t let politics dilute that message. Progressive, Conservative... only a crazy person is just one of those things.
Many people (myself included) find the sexualization of 13-year olds immoral and worthy of being stigmatized.

Hopefully that’s not too surprising of a statement (regardless of your personal views).
Does anyone know if they offer this as a full pdf? I have no idea why they decided to split it. I'm sure it's not hard to merge back.
In 1997 I wrote an application for our state revenue office that helped their customers produce correct pay-roll annual adjustment forms. It was written in Delphi, had to run on Windows 3.1, 95 and NT, and distributed to around 19,000 customers and CPAs on 3.5" diskettes.

Delphi well fit the constraints of the time.
tl;dr important to know the engine behind the languages

This might not be the reason for the author, but for me I understood Ruby limitation with ruby global interpreter lock. For smaller applications I knew this wouldnt be an issue, but when my applications began slowing down I would check the processes and understand that my Rails application are operating only on one single thread. Then I access if I should keep try optimizing or if something like Elixir is a better solution. Same process with JS
The opinion of HN is categorically worthless, whenever it’s predictable, and whenever it is wrong. But you could say that about anything and anyone, no?

Except, HN is (sometimes) extremely reliable at being right, in strange ways. Lately, these moments are incredibly rare, and though I know HN peaked a few years ago (2014?), when they placed the barrier the prevents many comments from seeing the light of day, unless perhaps fortuitously (rarely) “vouched” for.

But here, we have predictable (and off-topic) cheerleading, and uh... who wants to fucking read that?
It is clear -- it did nothing of the sort.
Anyone who’s done large scale model training like this, an you shed light on following questions:

What is the process like? Do you prototype locally? How do you confidence that the only limitation to good results is more compute power and NOT the model architecture or applicability of deep learning to a particular task? At what point do you decide that shelling many tens of thousands is OK? How often do you do large scale training only to find non-impressive results and hence the money wasted?
The Economics of Superstars [pdf]
But microservices!
Yes:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/02/microsoft-launches-2-new-a...

https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/sydney/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sms_supported-coun...

And the issue for Apple is more that the government can require Apple to secretly install backdoors into the iPhone - that's my understanding although maybe wrong?
Why would you be afraid to self-manage a database for a side project? It isn't very hard to install and run, especially if you don't need to tune the system for massive load.
I’m curious what exactly you are talking about. It sounds like you were getting an 11 megabit connection for $99? What is the product?
Yup, I'm the author. As I recall, I didn't have much input on the cover. Whoever did the design must have liked the look of the figures. However, as you see, they're pretty hard to interpret with the attribute names removed.
The public lined up behind Adolf Hitler as well. So I don't think there is a disconnect there.
It's also a much more efficient processor architecture.
On paper it's same as x86 or ARM but RISC-V is modular and open that means that ever manufacturer can extend it and modify it for specific cases. That means more efficient niche devices like small computers, tablets, robots and all sorts of cool stuff and all of them running on same architecture!

The fact that we're stuck with this blob for processor architecture is just sounds so archaic when you learn about RISC-V.

Everyone should be excited for this!
Seems very cool!

But the functionality feels like it'd be prone to breakage as new text is added to the document (possible in Wikipedia articles for example). But it'd be super-helpful for search engines as they will have a relatively recent copy of the text, and can auto-generate the links on the backend before showing the search results to the user.
It's an interesting move considering that cryptocurrencies were invented by guys specifically to put control of finances back in the hands of individuals and away from companies like JP Morgan.
6 and 3 now. And yeah it is getting better though we still have a way to go.
You can threaten to sue anyone for anything basically but you can't threaten to call the cops on them unless they pay you. You can see the actual details spelled out in layman terms in (for example) the California jury instructions for CA PC 518 extortion. https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/calcrim/1800/1830/
Everyone uses automated toolchains, but getting physical layout from toolchain does not mean it works or performs.

What makes it possible to design small volumes of custom asics for reasonable price is old and well known process, increasing the error margins (and sacrificing performance) or using existing modules. Simulation mostly works and can be trusted, yield is predictable etc.
Zendar (YC S17) Is Looking for a FPGA Engineer in Berkeley
Easy solution: Just GPL it - every extension of RISC-V has to be open as well.
A doctor giving someone a sugar pill and telling them it’s an active ingredient is definitely illegal. Placebos are used in medical studies where the patients know that they might be receiving a placebo.
>utility black hole

What's your definition of utility?
I think it removes bugs caused by the try/catch pattern which can make it very difficult to follow the path of execution. In a sense exceptions have the same issues as "goto".

It's not that they are inherently bad so much as it requiring discipline to stop things from getting out of hand, and that's just something you want to avoid in larger projects. If you need to be disciplined you might as well just check the return error value.
thats why i hang hitlers paintings in my bedroom
We've learned to learn cost functions, instead of hardcoding. Discriminative models are always worriesome. Nuclear war, unexpected deterioration of democracy or unexpected and rapid change of climate.
Are they not already? I actually happen to like roulette, and it seems straight forward to me. There's a bunch of numbers that pay out 36:1 and there's 38 numbers. It's pretty obvious what's going on without the need to print 0.94736842105 on the mat.
I vouched for this because even though it's somewhat misguided, I want to know how this person came to this conclusion.

This is the event referenced: https://scroll.in/magazine/864603/desperate-for-whatsapp-ten...

He was unintentionally DDoSed. He made it right. What's the problem?
Nice!

It's like a scaled-down Beamer[1] for people who don't speak LaTeX :)

[1]https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Beamer
China's Chip Fab Capacity Rising Fast
This sort of thing always comes up when I talk to my friends about marriage. I tell them that I'll never get married because of the divorce statistics, and they tell me that only dumb foolish people get divorced. I tell them "how do I know I'm also not a dumb foolish person or whoever I marry isn't a dumb foolish person?" I haven't found an answer to that yet.

Genuinely not trying to start a flame war, just trying to make an interesting point.
one thing I think would freshen things up, and its something I am going to try and push, is data scientist 'study abroad' or 'exchange' program. data scientists i know in one org will mostly do time series, and I mostly do anomaly detection. Others NLP, etc, and we would all like to work on all of that stuff, so why not exchange us around from time to time?

I think it would make things much more interesting