skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, let me get this straight. You think short sellers are a massive cabal of evil geniuses and they just go around forging court documents and duping journalists? But just in the case of TSLA, not all the other companies it would be possible to short? And you think that's more likely than that the SEC asked the judge to hold Musk in contempt, which he obviously is by a plain reading of the settlement agreement?

This is waayayayayayaaaayyyyy off the deep end. Please check your priors, they are busted.
This would be a great service. I'd pay a few bucks a week to have a service that sent me a weekly shopping list, and the corresponding recipes. I hate wasting food, so if it could know that "well, he needs blackbeans for this recipe, but an entire can is too much, so we'll chuck in the other recipe a few days later to use up the beans..."
I think the popularity of Uber and Lyft is a direct result of the lack of adequate city transit solutions. If big city transit was robust and at least at the level of NYC or more people would likely opt for it and the big cities could plan their real estate around it better.
You're only morally justified in a proportionate and necessary response.

If your boss fires you, that's a pretty real threat to your livelihood. Is that attempted murder? Are you going to respond by assaulting him?

Any time you think the world is black and white, you're wrong.
Can it be set up on a Pi in a similar way? Or is it designed just to run on each machine?
> Musk paid the SEC $20m in his last settlement, what do they want, gratitude?

They want him to follow the other terms of the settlement, presumably. The fine's only a part of the punishment.
Thanks for sharing your findings & datasets, I’ll definitely be following your work. I saw your datasets repo on github, I was curious if any of the raw data or messier bulk data was available?

They seemed to be summarized, or the result of a larger project, vs the structural content.

I did see mentions of using public/gov datasets, but was curious if you had any larger work accumulated?

Definitely not complaining, more curious from a research perspective. Thanks again.
Would also explain his energy level. Manics can sometimes "use" their episodes to achieve hyperfocus, but as with synthetically induced mania (amphetamine) there are side effects.
Title is misleading. The author seems to mask what they're saying in a way that makes it really easy to conclude that their point is "Thread pools are bad, so I'll show you a better way." In fact, the proposed better way is ThreadPools(tm).

In fact, "The Unscalable, Deadlock-Prone, Thread Pool" is only referring to a badly used ThreadPool. Like, really badly: the strawman that forms the crux of the argument is that you are only using the same ThreadPool for all of your disparate forms of work.

> My favourite approach assigns one global thread pool (queue) to each function or processing step.

Yes, creating different thread pools for different kinds of work is a much better way to use them...
Thanks. We can build more-complex-than-CRUD apps with literally only dozens of lines of code in many cases. You don't need to set up any servers, know any front-end frameworks, configure/index/structure a database, etc. We don't expect anyone to believe that now, just to take a look at it when we release, and perhaps to sign up to test before that.

The reason someone would learn to develop on our platform is because they can build something orders of magnitude faster than they could otherwise.
Totally agree. I’d much rather have. Simple branding such as USB A5, USB C10, USB C20 to indicate the maximum speed and connector possible for each iteration.
I've been following Elon for a very long time, and one of the reason I like him is that he sticks to what he says. So if today Elon says that he respects the justice dept, its very like that he really means it, and he will stick to it.

I would not trust Matt Levine on this.
The problem is that people only "sanitize their input" about things of which they care to keep a consistent model in their heads.

Things that are not relevant to the task at hand (for many, the news) are accepted without critical thought. That's why advertising is so successful.
Re the risk of us disappearing: if the app someone wants really only takes a few hours or days to build then they might decide (and they can't feasibly build it in any other way) that it's worth the risk. Also, we'll make it easy for users to export their data into a machine-readable format so they can preserve their data independently of us.

At first it will be for web stuff, though we plan to add mobile app capabilities as soon as possible. Think of the space of apps that includes social networks, messengers, bug trackers, CRMs, task managers, etc. That's the kind of thing you'll be able to build at first fairly straightforwardly. Things like self-driving cars, high-frequency trading algorithms, will be beyond our scope for a very long while.
Oh, I missed the title. Maybe I am wrong then. But then what good are titles anyway? HN routinely changes them from their originals. Reminds me of patents. One cannot derive anything useful from the title alone.
Right now people talk to bots every day, in the form of customer support.

People's modern perceptions about bots are much more evolved than when the test was first theorized, so now it is the time to do an actual Turing test.

It will probably fail, but we are surely close to the point where an AI will actually pass it.

My guess is we are 10 years away from that moment. It will be like the movie "Her".
Viewing it as a disease is fine, but then crime should be viewed as a communicable disease, both in the sense that seeing someone commit (and get away with) a crime increases the likelihood that you'll do it, and also because the disease does not only harm the host but also those around them. Normally we quarantine people with communicable diseases when possible, which ends up looking a lot like prison…
I think it’s an unfair characterisation. Let’s go with early-2000s “Enterprise” stuff: CORBA and SOAP specifically.

There are these large corporations with a significant investment in their existing infrastructure and systems - and now they all need to make them interop. The mindset is “how do we make our CORBA ERP communicate with their Java CRM without needing to make any changes to either of them?”. Hence SOAP: It packages existing method-call semantics into a HTTP message that will cross a firewall: not even the IT dept needs to get involved to change firewall rules. And they hammered out a working spec within a couple years. That’s impressive considering the slow-moving nature of large, risk-averse enterprises. We now know that REST-is-Best, but it took the industry around 10 years to figure that out, and another 5 years for the tooling and ecosystem to catch up. SOAP was a quick-fix that was needed immediately.

So I’d recharacterise “Enterprise software” as “fits into your existing system and does what you need it to, right now” - and their MC Escher-inspired architecture is a consequence of it needing to support and fit-in to whatever systems were prevalent when their project was started.

It’s not Enterprise software that’s rigid and inflexible - but cutting-edge software that I have more problems with. I was working with Neo4j in 2016 and having issues with security because it didn’t have any built-in security support until last year. I had to change what I was doing to accommodate them, instead of vice-versa.
That's because in latin 'ph' was used in words from greek, but spanish uses 'f' AFAIK.

Fun fact: russian language had no 'f' sound prior to cyrillic alphabet which has a letter for it.
> Why not just call it USB 4.0 and divorce the branding from the technical specification?

That is exactly what the "SuperSpeed USB" branding is all about. The technical spec is USB 3.whatever and the brand name is " SuperSpeed USB". But neither the press nor vendors seem to be able to stay in the line and actually consistently use only the branding, so here we are
Well, it doesn't matter where that uber came from.

Reducing congestion isn't just about making it easier to drive, it makes is safer as well.
Another fast machine learning project of the same team:
https://bit.ly/2NxLaPv
Huawei Trolls U.S. on Spy Claims with a Jab at Snowden
If somebody tells you "your money or your life," it's pretty obvious that the safer option is to give them the money.
It also just can't do things that Thunderbolt can. TB to the end user is a free PCIe slot for Firewire, 10GbE, eGPU, etc. The fastest USB can't do that. I get that it has issues but it's still incredibly valuable.
I'm waiting for people to buy the actual military surplus Hummers for all those Whole Foods that are on top of mountains.
The problem with the US and high-speed rail isn't on-going subsidization per se, it's the comically enormous cost to initially build it out. Major infrastructure is wildly expensive to build in much of the US. To do national high-speed rail, you'd have to figure that out. The only solution I've ever seen that might work, would be a belligerent Federal Government that just brutalizes anyone that gets in the way, threatening uncooperative states via funding, aggressively using eminent domain to take land, bulldozing through environment reviews, etc. You'd have to use the full power of the Federal Government to rapidly get through obstacles and it would piss off everyone in the process.

There's only one major state where you can build cost-effective high-speed rail in the US - Texas. They're going to do what California couldn't and at ~1/4th the cost per km of rail. 20-30 years from now Texas will probably have high-speed rail between all of its major cities.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/spring/news/ar...
I think determining the wind speed and direction 36 hours in advance is the tricky bit.
Only if you believe in the Cuban government’s numbers. Do you really believe that a country whose population lives on rations and $30/month salaries is a rich one?

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas...
What a good point! Thanks for the food for thought.
No, it shouldn't be labeled any of those. Instead it should be labeled "SuperSpeed USB" and nothing else. And that hasn't changed over the different USB revisions.
Have you looked at PicoEVB ($300 mini-PCIe x1) or Numato Aller ($400 M.2 x4) with Xilinx Artix-7 FPGAs?
So I did experience this. I eventually just moved my wife's phone over to a static IP/external dns so she didn't have to deal with it. But at least the rest of the network (IoT in particular) had less tracking.

I've unexpectedly nice thing was the Roku screensaver went back to a simple bouncing logo instead of the ad-filled scrolling billboard thing.
I think you're making a mistake. The primary intention behind warrant canaries isn't to shield you from legal retaliation, but to make it very hard to /legally/ force you to lie directly or by omission.
>What’s ironic is that most teachers are familiar with students’ bathroom woes—they seldom have the opportunity to relieve themselves during the school day, either. In fact, in a 2015 survey that asked teachers about the quality of their work life, its 30,000 respondents listed this problem as one of their biggest sources of everyday stress.

So, a case of "if I can't have it, you can't either". More sad than ironic.
"SuperSpeed USB" is your "USB 4".
Amazon is the new Alibaba. It’s full of cheap Chinese junk and products from quality brands that actually have a company website are becoming rare.
Enough with the strawman argument. I never suggested that both couldn't be true. That doesn't counter anything I said.
Why people are choosing Masonite over the Django framework
One question I have is when we block ads and especially analytics/tracking, won't it decrease the battery life of mobile devices? Apps could be written in such a way that if a request gets blocked or dropped, it will keep on retrying which would impact battery life.
There's alternatives to Dockerfiles for container building and maintenance, such as Packer [1] and Ansible Container [2].

[1]: https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/docker.html

[2]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-container/

FWIW I made a presentation years ago about this topic (it's in the second half):

https://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/gigablah/talks/20150...
I know, I know, but a cause could be just sustained senseless but concrete suffering, as opposed to imagined sorrow.
You can still do cutting edge work with 3 small layers, for example most of the advances in robotic control (using neural networks) use networks with similar sizes.
The Dells at my work have a terrible Trackpoint with middle-button scroll, but it sucks badly. You have to hit the middle button, then scroll, or perhaps the other way around. Ultra-frustrating, and probably bad firmware or driver design. I'm sure the Trackpoint is a third-class citizen for Dell.
Because he's an innovator in multiple industries and generally seems like the type of person that would be admired on a site like HN and yet he constantly gets shit on for the smallest things.
environmental-first decision making I hope. Maybe with more visible effects of global warming we will consider our planet's health before price, convenience or (I fear) ethics.
I wouldn't be so sure about it. We cannot speak in meaningful way whether Musk's kind of publicity is good or it is bad without considering his target audience first. Do we know some group of people who might cheer Musk's behaviour?

I can think about just one possibility linked with age, but found it unlikely: if average age of owners of S, 3 and X models was between 43 and 53 years[1], it would be unlikely to drop significally. Didn't Musk promised for next models to be cheaper (and more affordable for younger generations) than previous?

Though idea of Musk running campain targeting younger and rebellous generations seems implausible for me regardless of price.

[1] https://www.teslarati.com/survey-model-x-owners-income-doubl...
Worse, USA
From the developer's point of view, the AI should be invisible. We'd be very happy if people loved using the platform but where totally underwhelmed, indifferent, and/or unaware of the AI.
I have a sampler with a 3.2" drive. The disks cost more, as they are more rare, than the drive.
Part of this exists. There are some recipe sites that have an instacart button to add the ingredients to your grocery order.
That’s a bad theory. They’re forever optimizing how people buy things, and people will always buy things.
Congresswoman questions Equifax CEO about data breach
A modern compiler would warn about the condition (ii >= 0) being always true.

One correct way would be

for (size_t i = len; i > 0; --i) {
// use i-1 as the array index
}

or,

size_t i = len
while (i-- > 0) {
// use i as the array index
}
I'm skeptical of this claim. Can you expand on your answer that there are materials that can be cycled infinitely in the plastic regime, or point to some sources that explain further?

I did a PhD in a materials science lab, and my understanding is that at least for metals, you still eventually run into fatigue & failure, even if you stay within the elastic regime (which nominally appears reversible). I'm not sure why plastic deformation would be any better, given that you'll have atom positions shifting and (if crystalline) dislocations propagating. I'm not a fatigue expert by any means, so I'd love to learn more.

On the Wikipedia page for fatigue limit[1], I see a link to a reference that says there are no metallic materials that can be infinitely cycled[2]. Is the bonding somehow different in this 3D printed material that causes fatigue to work differently?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_limit

[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1460-2695....
"Sucks" is one of the true casualties of today's PC climate. Used to be you could get all sorts of great opposing opinions with that search keyword, particularly in IT.

Sure, it's around here in there. But back in the day if you were going to write about why you didn't like something, you were going to write an article about why it "sucks".
The difference, again, is that police are not only public servants, but also have been entrusted with a position of extreme authority (and in-the-moment life-and-death decision-making) over everyone else, which is fairly unique to their profession. We have hired them to uphold and enforce the law. If they break the law themselves, especially if they do so while abusing their trusted position as police officers, they cannot be trusted with that job.

From there the question becomes: do we trust the hiring process for police to blacklist former cops who have abused their position? Based on the article, we should not, because it mentions several officers who still have jobs despite their misdeeds.

Given that, the public not only has the right to see this data, but should absolutely demand continuous public access to this data, as the existing system is clearly not trustworthy, and requires public oversight.

And yes, feel free to consider the same policy for lawyers, doctors, teachers, or whatever. Maybe we should require personnel records for some other professions to be public, maybe not. But it seems clear to me that for police officers, this data needs to be public.
I don't think that's great takeaway advice or an accurate summary. It may not intentionally be so, but it comes off as dangerous and reckless. The NIH article suggests that anyone who fasts for 10+ days is considered an at-risk group. OP asked about fasting for 14 days.
SPIE Advanced Lithography 2019: EUV errors under attack
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I have a Pi-hole running on a Raspberry Pi Zero. The Pi is connected to my home router using the USB Ethernet gadget features. The home router handles local DNS requests from those forwarded by Pi-hole, but the rest of my DNS just flows through the Pi.

It's pretty nice. Never had an issue with the router's DNS, but OpenWRT also doesn't have the ease of Pi-hole.
That's interesting; something I never really paid attention too when I was working with an mobile device AR app company. Is this research somehow tied into the relationship between UI and imaging AR head mounted displays or are you focussing on tablet/phone AR?

I too feel FOV is a key attribute, but for me it's all about it being an important "immersion cue". Objects that we don't first (subcontiously) notice in our peripheral vision, we simply don't believe.

This is actually why I think Magic Leap made a smart decision by making their device so 'enclosed' (as opposed to MSHL that is extremely open and unoccluded), which effectively artificially narrows the peripheral vision. So, by simply blocking off the area of a display window through/from which your device cannot generate image content, they improve immersion. Cheating, but who cares, so long as effect is better than without.
Any nightclub in a new residential build is going to be a terrible place full of shiny teenagers.

The sorts of venues mentioned in this article remind me of the old warehouse parties I used to go to here in Melbourne ~10 years ago, when I was well in to my 30s. They just wouldn’t have worked in a new place.
I'm reading this (late) in qutebrowser! Mine has so many tabs open but doesn't hang (until it does), which is a fresh change from luakit (and Chrome but not Firefox, alas mine has many many more tabs open so that I don't open it anymore.) And I'm using because it's written in Python (and so easily scriptable from my own Python program.)
Easily one of the most versatile and reliable pieces of software I’ve ever had the pleasure of using. To ten more years!
> I completely agree with you, but the counter argument is the only incidents that are getting through are the ones that are solo because the more complicated plots are getting intercepted and disrupted.

The problem with this argument is that it can't justify continued spending because that would make it unfalsifiable. We need to spend $450B/year on a bear-repelling rocks because we currently pay for the rocks and there are no bears. And if any bears do appear then we obviously didn't have enough bear-repelling rocks and we need to start spending $900B/year.

If there is a real question as to whether the ~0 bears is a result of the rocks, it's time to cut the bear-repelling rock budget in half and see how many bears there are next year. If it's still ~0 then it didn't need to be as high as it was and it may still be too high.
I think this is why MS is starting with the corp/industrial space. The comments I see here (for better or worse) do demonstrate the kind of up hill battle MS would experience when dealing with consumer critique and expectations.

I would postulate _exactly_ that the glasses would come with software preinstalled. Similar to how YouTube videos supplement so many instruction manuals today. Even then it's no directed primarily at the person that wants to repair a breaker box but instead the technician that would _install_ it. Though once the form factor is as ubiquitous as cell phones I'd imagine every support service will have an offering. I bet every Verizon tech would love to see exactly what Grandma is looking at when asked to reset her router. Which _then_ us to the opportunity for first responders to assist one another remotely. It's a value multiplier when we reduce time and increase quality in the same swing.

Look at the story about Azure Kinect helping to reduce hospital bed falls from 11,0000 a year to 0. We'll see similar reductions to: House fires do to rushed wiring jobs, defects in nearly any manufacturing process.

Remember that this is 'augmented' reality. What I hope isn't lost on folks is that the thing we're augmenting is ourselves. Granting a super human level of awareness and cognitive ability.

tl;dr - This is Tony Stark level tech.
I never said Cuba was rich. It's merely less poor than many free market countries.
Well drunk driving is a pretty serious matter no matter how the legal system categorizes it. I realize it was an example. Just not a great example.
Your system should already surface the information necessary for you to do your job. Or you aren't doing your job.

This is what I always felt was the more appropriate use of tech debt. You are literally borrowing against tech built by others for that likely did not have the same requirements as you.

Is it convenient? Yeah. But it breeds bad choices.
-- Edit --

Sorry, I see now the above comments are more a refutation than a statement of, "Look how good the transportation system is." I'll leave these though just to make my general point about how horrible the options are.

-- END EDIT --

Just pulled up google maps for Long Beach to Brentwood:

Public Transit Option: 3 hours

Car: 39 minutes (29.9 miles)

Just pulled up Downtown to Beverly Hills

Public Transit Option: 1h30

Car: 30 minutes
The limit is usually around ~27,000mAh