skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't like people using your open-source and not contributing back? DON'T USE A NON-COPYLEFT LICENSE.
The article spends a fair amount of time answering just that question.
That's true now, but maintaining isn't the same as building new stuff. Amazon would have to invest more to build new functionality that Elasticsearch has devs and community helping them build. This assumes the ecosystem of devs has no importance?
I did some quick changes to your code (inlining, stack allocating) and got a further ~2x speedup which makes SBCL performance equivalent to Julia.
Another megalomaniac who thinks he can lecture everyone here. You'll probably be featured on n-gate next week.
The lawyers and accountants get paid out of the leftover assets.

If there's practically zero assets left, the process won't even start.
Some you need to add a space, as in "4 k" as "4k" sounds different. Talking old kit here, but still used. Heck, even Stephen Hawkins used an old voice kit audio interface, whilst the front end got many upgrades, he stuck with the old texas voice chip affair as people ended up associating it with him. He had a choice of upgrading, BT even reproduced a synthesis of his original voice that could be used, but he stuck with what worked well for him for years. Some people, don't have those choices though. But then legacy tech is and always will be a PITA support wise, in any field of development.
> If their comments are consistently good then they should stand on their own merit. Else you just get idol worship and groupthink.

> Names are not as useful as you think.

Ummm... no.

I don't have the time and desire to completely verify everything that everyone says in every forum that I look at.

I doubt that anyone has time for that.

So I will use shortcuts, as does every other human on the planet. One of these shortcuts is reputation.

If someone has a good reputation with me, then that increases the credulity of everything they say. That doesn't mean that if one of the commentators I hold in high opinion says that "Goblins are behind the election hacking" I will just believe it.

However, if one of these highly-esteemed commentators has an opinion about Docker vs. CoreOS Rkt, I will likely take them at their word, if it isn't a critical issue. This doesn't obviate me from doing my on research on technology decisions, but can help guide my efforts.

I don't worship anyone or anything. Everyone's going to be wrong about something, but some are right more often than others, and should be given some benefit of the doubt.
Skia Cross-Platform Graphics Library (iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, and Linux)
just the centralized ones...
B.S.!
Flying an aircraft requires a lot more skills from a human than typing code on a PC in your pajamas and talking about space. if you are a pilot who is flying for 10-20-30 years. You can tell. Now, this is not 1 pilot - 1 event we are talking. Many cases. Im not claiming its proving existence of ET or anything like that.

Just that perhaps there is something there.
So? Are sea levels actually any higher because of it, or what?
I have it on `jj`. No hand movement at all, less pinky-bending.
That is neither fun nor a fact. Current UN projections put us on track for 9 billion in 2050, and we’ll top out at 11 or 12 billion in the early 22nd century: https://www.un.org/development/desa/publications/world-popul...
> We'd expect to see a rise in the price of BTC at USDT-based exchanges as Tether holders need to convert to Bitcoin to get out, along with a fall in BTC at fiat exchanges as they sell that Bitcoin. To some extent this is happening (Coinbase Pro's BTC price is almost $100 less than Tether-only exchanges like Binance or Bitfinex), but it's less severe than I would expect from a true run on the bank.

The small spread is very interesting. I would also expect it to be much higher.

Tether seems to be pegged at $1.00 on Bitfinex but trading (increasingly) below that on Kraken [1].

Do you know of a better free resource for monitoring the situation by chance? No stake, just curious.

[1] https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/usdt/markets/USD
Intrinsic Neural Style Transfer: Style transfer without a style image
No More Happy Hour: Japan Bank Boss Takes Aim at Drinks Culture
I see. That makes sense if you upgrade/buy through your carrier. That isn't something I've ever done so my carrier has never been a limitation on the phones I can get. I guess Apple made the carriers realise that everyone will get the phone they want with or without them in the purchasing cycle.
Result: mediocre candidates desperate for a job try so hard to get everything done, but the great engineer has plenty of options and does not want to spend 10h on a test. In the end all great people that you would like to hire quit in the process.
>It's a lame argument that just because an evil company like Google or Facebook or Microsoft made an open source product that you are using, you need to shut up and stop criticising them!

I don't think that's what op wrote.

It doesn't make sense that folks use open source code from these companies but then there's shock and outrage that these companies are also using open source code written by others.

>because an evil company like Google or Facebook or Microsoft made an open source product

It's hard to take you seriously when you blanketly dismiss companies as being "evil" (whatever that means). By what metric are these companies "evil"? Wow.
Either the service is acceptable or the service is unacceptable (harmful). What percentage of HN'ers you think oppose/like it seems largely irrelevant.
The Lisp code is terrible performance-wise and written by someone who obviously doesn't know Common Lisp very well.

Look at Steve Losh's comment here for something a lot better.
My own (further) improvements put SBCL performance in the same order as Julia.
> It’s possible that Satoshi himself will try to liquidate his stake at some point, crashing BTC itself and make off with a cool billion. Who knows. That might have been the plan all along.

Not quite possible with the auditing capabilities Bitcoin provides. The moment any amount from those accounts is moved, Bitcoin would probably tank.
I wouldn't call him "an inventor". He only knows enough about the technical side of things to make business decisions. Here's what's made him uniquely successful:

- He was fortunate enough to be a founder of one of the dot-com boom's most successful companies, starting him out as an Insanely Rich Individual.

- He has a smart mind for business, when he uses it.

- He has a knack for envisioning products that aren't just incremental steps forward from what's out there, but multiple steps forward, and then unifying people smarter than him into implementing that vision (the "Steve Jobs effect").

He didn't invent rockets that can land themselves. He had the idea, figured out the business plan, and funded it with his piles of money. That's not nothing, but it doesn't make him Our Lord and Savior. And even if it did, that doesn't give someone a free pass on being a jerk to others (he hasn't been that big of a jerk, as billionaires go, but the principle remains).
>> The delicious irony in it all is that the money in your bank is backed by about $0.10 for every dollar they owe savers.

I'll be generous and assume you know thtat banks don't store your money in a big vault a la Scrooge McDuck

There's a big difference between banks redistributing your money as loans and mortgages vs. a cryptocurrency tied to a supposed dollar-backed instrument 100% controlled by the same party. The entire premise of fiscal policy depends on their being a difference.

If you want to secure 100% of your money you're welcome to put it in a safety deposit box.
I definitely lean toward sympathizing with Angwin, but it's worth noting that this characterization is under dispute. The other two co-founders deny that they wanted to dilute the mission. And Angwin also says that while this bothered her, it was still something under discussion rather than decided upon:

> Angwin told CJR she didn’t know “where we were going to land on this advocacy or neutrality question, maybe we could have reached a compromise. But the fact is she was pushing really hard for stuff that I was feeling uncomfortable with.”

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the-markup.php
So...the CFTC isn't a State of New York agency, so what does this have to do with the reading into a New York AG action that Tether must have been solvent otherwise the AG wouldn't have sat on information since then?

(Also, the CFTC and US DoJ investigations were still active at least as recently as November of 2018, which doesn't sound like they found that things were A-OK, more like they were—and presumably still are—trying to nail down the details and responsibility/liability issues surrounding identified irregularities.)
Lurquer’s Law
Hmm, as far as I can tell, if you cast an appropriately sized unsigned integer to a pointer type and then dereference the pointer, the result is only UB if the integer isn’t the address of an initialized memory location compatible with the target pointer type.
> The usual order is "find a problem, build a solution", not "find a technology, build a solution, work out who has a problem it can solve".

Well, there is a whole industry of universities of finding a technology and then licensing it out or spinning a company off to do something with it. It may be that it's very hard to do if you don't have all the things a university does going for it, but it does work in some cases.

Another way to look at it is to consider that if a technology excels at offering capabilities in a certain domain, and a certain industry is known to require capabilities in a certain domain, if there is a good fit for it, it will probably eventually be deployed there. But if you can be first, there's likely money to be made. In that respect, I imagine a "CEO of a medical blockchain startup which is trying to find actual meaningful use cases" is really just someone (or a small group of people) doing intensive research to try to locate the match if it exists and be the first to provide it. A gamble, but one okay odds given the potential payoff.
It appears to mean they can't issue new Tethers nor can they raid the Tether reserves, but it doesn't stop trading in Tethers themselves.
You may remember the implosion of mtgox, and people buying mtgox ‘dollars’ at a discount. There’s always a greater fool, apparently.
Did you mean VPS (like Linode), or VPN specifically?
lol, when he wrote

>> model = SuperCrossValidator(SuperDuper.fit, your_data, ResNet50, SGDOptimizer)

under "Neural net training is a leaky abstraction" my first thought was, this IS fastai's API
Now we should all forgot about ethics and privacy because almost everyone find it acceptable, mostly because they doesn't care ?
You fail to understand how bank reserves work.

> your bank is backed by about $0.10 for every dollar they owe savers.

And the bank has the other $0.90 in long-term assets.

While no bank can survive every depositor wanting every dollar out of their chequing account on the same day, there is something auditable backing each dollar of deposit.
Now, to be fair, only a small number of users find being shocked with 240V to be a negative experience...
I'm curious who these Merlin and Oz fellows are, does anyone know more about them?
I mean, that's the sort of question I'd expect to see come up in a "introduce yourselves to the group" icebreaker.
Many of the folks who wrote the systems or languages you use every day work at these big companies. Didn't James Gosling work for Amazon at some point?

>Also totally fine to point out the parasitic players.

Who are the parasites?

These bad-faith posts that are really just unconstructive rants are turning this site into Reddit.
Amazon beats optimistic profit expectations for Q1
How did it pronounce 4K for you- “four kay” or “fork” or something else? This seems a valid concern to me, something to think about.
Too many words for nothing. There is a simple solution:

Deregulate and cut corporate taxes. If they have access to more private user data and keep more of their money from atrocious behaviour they'll be less atrocious.

Oops, I meant the opposite of that.
There seems to be some mixed experience here. I saw other people in a different thread saying that it wasn't that surprising given the fact that they get 60 or 70% of their orders next-day.

Probaby has to do with location, proximity to warehouses, and logistics of certain areas.
people that manage elastisearch configurations are not the same people managing hardware, purchasing, hardware admins. obviously you can save some $ reducing your people while moving to the cloud. I agree that for any complex application (and elastic is one when volume is there) there are still pros of the cloud you cant leverage i.e for search on demand infra is pretty much useless if you cant make it happens in microseconds.
About half of what I order on Amazon doesn't even ship for a day or three... this change is mostly meaningless in that context.
I wonder what he said.

"Something something free speech", probably?
I thought of purifying limestone and turning it into tiles. Fill the outback with them and increase the albedo to cool the air and hopefully everything else.
Where is the 'reward' of at-will employment? It seems it's mainly on the employer side.
What "consensus"? I've read the Wikipedia article on the incident and found no information of any consensus of this sort. The objects in question were visually tracked by multiple aircraft, and were detected by multiple radar systems.
That's one way to look at it, and maybe the most effective, in the current industry environment.

You could even add more metrics, like tying amount of referral fee employee closely to some quantified performance of the hire over a meaningful time period.

Ideally, I'd prefer a very simple goal alignment, in which the employee doesn't get a referral fee, and instead is motivated by professionalism, wanting the organization to make good hires, of people they'd like to work with, and wanting those hires to further the success of the project/organization. (I realize this is not the situation in many organizations, but it's what I'd prefer, and throwing referral fees into it seems to head in the other direction.)
There's an amazeballs BBC documentary on this "Secret war; the battle of the beams"

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x123i1g

also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams

The entire BBC series is pretty good.
AT&T says 5G will be priced like home Internet–pay more for faster speeds
I found flutter very fascinating. I recently start a small side-project with a friend and it's truly fun. Dart is pretty smooth most of the time (except the TypeSystem which is a bit weird, IMHO). This idea of `Flutter all the things` anyway is pretty ambitious even for Google, but for some specific use case might be a good solution especially for kickstarting prototypes on different platforms in order to validate the market as fast as possible. This are my 2 cents.
Any existing peg can be maintained, until it can't.
You're right[1]. I should've checked a better source.

> Especially with global warming and everything.

Yes, you're also right about that. I just didn't want to throw global warming into the mix.

[1] https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/
Ask HN: How often do you see scam ads on your FB feed?
I get them practically every single day. Just now I received a second ad pointing to the same exact fraudulent offering:

https://www.newzem.com/index.php?route=product%2Fproduct&product_id=1445

By a different vendor with a different randomly generated name.

What I'm curious about is whether these scam ads show up in the feeds of American users. I'm residing in Poland currently. I seriously suspect that I'm getting this garbage because the likelihood of a civic lawsuit is negligible in this part of the world.
I have a Thinkpad L420 with 32gb of ram and an ssd. It is about 4 years old but it flies and it’s the best Linux experience I have had to date. It’s kept me happy and allowed me to use Linux as my primary OS for the first time in years.
Well in her defense the Myers Briggs is tarot cards for people with LinkedIn profiles. There’s not a bit of scientific validity behind it. It’s an entertainment experience not a psychometrically valid diagnostic instrument.
meh. Fizzbuzz is short, and you should be able to read simple code and predict its output. If you botch, catch the error, and fix it, it's a good sign. If you can't find the mistake in five lines of your own code (say, because of overconfidence...) then it's a bad sign.

(I would argue that 'now, find a bug' is a good follow up question in most any coding interview, regardless of how perfect the first draft was...)
I am another longtime @pobox person. However, I recently got told that its held up as a source of spammy mail, is characterised by many other SMTP speakers as a problem.

pobox is now owned by fastmail. They are an Australian company and for other reasons (crypto nation state issues) are not always suitable, but technology wise are very smart.

I'm sticking with my @pobox identity, its possible fastmail offer better domain-centric mail forwarding options for you noting the AU crypto law issue.

(in case its not clear, pobox and fastmail are in the same "space" but appear to operate independently)
Why use the cost of an engineer hour?

The correct metric is the opportunity cost of that hour - the lost productivity for that hour.

As an approximation take total revenue and divide by total engineering hours.

If you are hiring engineering because engineering is a bottleneck (not just hiring due to churn), then the metric is realistic. It would still be an underestimation in his calculation because he isn't including the hours taken to get new hire up to speed (oppositely assuming hire is due to churn).
I clicked on the story because of the major version number bump, then belatedly realised they had moved to time based version numbering. The major version number gets incremented every year.

So the version number is essentially meaningless now - the year of release (eg, QEMU v2019.0.0) would give you more information. I can't say I'm a fan.
I had the same feeling right around:

> They present experiment participants with “pseudo-profound bullshit” - vacuous statements constructed out of buzzwords - to ascertain when they can differentiate bullshit from meaningful statements and create a Bullshit Receptivity (BSR) scale.

Wouldn’t that be meta.
Windows 10 Version 1903 Drops Password Expiration Policies
The fun was sarcasm, but you're right. I should have checked better sources.
“And only one of these is an open platform that’s available for the industry to build on.“

Wow, this hits me. The need for Tesla to open its doors for its hardware platform is a constant reminder of who you let in can kill you.
He also features a lot in the 70's BBC Series, 'The Secret War'.

A compilation of it seems to be on YouTube (for the time being). The Battle of the Beams is the first segment :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJCF-Ufapu8
Do you have a link for this? I haven't heard about this before.
I think this makes sense. Maybe you like it and want to buy another for friends & relatives?

You might not be happy with the purchase and on the lookout for a better model.
Because Facebook hires skilled people, not great people.
Microsoft Touches $1T Value, Signaling Big Tech’s Stock Market Comeback
It's not even the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter
Who exactly would eat their lunch? They're doing a ton of things the traditional auto industry Sat on for years not thinking about. I don't really see anyone doing all the things tesla does while still using parts ubiquitous enough for individuals to do their own repairs.
Or, even more alternatively, these aren't problems that could, or should be solved with/by technology, as much as Facebook's techbros do not want to believe it.

And besides, this isn't about moderation. It's that it is far from obvious if "social networks" (FB), or "personalized search results" (Google), or whatever it is that Twitter peddles provide any benefit to humanity.

That these are "incredibly difficult, challenging, interesting, and impactful problem to work on and requires a lot of new technology" -- well, good for them. So was developing V-2 rockets. At least that got us into space.
Well make that two.

When I got almost fired in one job, my consultancy firm asked me to return to the same client, same team, same job but in another program, I clocked the least (not giving a fuck), but I was the most productive (giving a fuck, does it make sense?:D ) and basically the program director was basing all decision on my feedbacks. It drove the previous team mad, and current one a bit speechless :D
The FDIC is more a feel-good measure:

>"Currently, the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF), which is a fund set aside to cover the insurance obligations of the FDIC, has a required reserve ratio of only 1.35%. And that is only after a decision was made in October of 2015 to raise it, from its original level of 1.15%. Even more daunting, the DIF has until 2020 to reach this new 1.35% required reserve level. This means that, using the newly designated 1.35%, the DIF is only required by law to have $3375 on hand for every $250,000 it is currently insuring. Feeling secure? And, sadly, the reality is even less reassuring.

On a macro scale, the FDIC currently “insures” $10.8 trillion of deposits, yet the DIF only has $52 billion of actual cash with which to insure that massive amount of money. Quite a massive shortfall, and well below the measly 1.35% that it is required by law to maintain."
http://www.escapeartist.com/assetprotection/what-does-fdic-i...

In the end the fed can print the dollars too, at the expense of inflation... but who knows what schemes they have come up with.
Cannot recommend this book too highly. Also worth reading is anything about PMS Blackett and the birth of Operations Research, Barnes Wallis (the JP Morpugo biog is good), and Solly Zuckerman ("from apes to warlords") on the bombing accuracy issues, statistics and the 'transport plan'

its not on kindle, but Robert Buderi's book on Radar is also worth reading. from the roots up to chips and microwave physics, amazing stuff
You'd think they'd update that.
You don't even have to eat that well... After not smoking and reducing alcohol, reducing sugar (in particular fructose) is probably the best thing you can do for yourself. Then followed by less refined food overall.

Sugar is as addictive as anything, and its heavily subsidized and advertised for... A single 12oz can of Coca-Cola has as much, or more, refined sugar than the average adult should have in a day on average.
This doesn't require an argument. It requires common sense.
Don’t ask Ross Ulbricht. You’ll have to ask the DEA agents who embezzled money while making unsubstantiated accusations of murder for hire. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/stealing-bitcoin...
Microsoft is pretty amazing. Staying on top of the tech industry for so long. Looks like they didn't just survive, rather thrive post PC era thanks to Azure and Office 365.
I love how the guy's in the right foreground of the image uses his monitor to hold his sticky notes.
This was rumored pretty heavily when Bitfinex said "Divulging [bank account] info could damage not just yourself and Bitfinex but the entire digital token ecosystem … you are cautioned that there may be serious negative effects with this information becoming public." LOL https://news.bitcoin.com/bitfinex-introduces-top-secret-bank...
In a way they are, the Egyptian's had the Book of the Dead, there idea to optimise for the afterlife, I think this is what gave rise to magic spells.

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

The British Museum had an amazing exhibition about this several years ago.