skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should the world worry about America’s corporate-debt mountain?
The company I work for as I type fits and ships Matrox cards into Dell servers for our customers, and routinely write software to give them a damn good thrashing. They are good cards.
I'm sorry for all of you that do not have a Wegmans.
It's an interesting method of creativity though, regardless.
Profiling results:

- initial time: 49s

- replacing default thread-safe RNG with rand.New sliced 6 seconds off. (the default RNG uses mutexes), = 43s

- use float64 instead of float32 and remove many type conversions. Another two seconds off. = 41s.

As others suggested, go still lacks many compile time optimizations and the implementation could be improved.
This just in! Fire is hot, water is wet! More at eleven.
... and also consider that taxes (self-employment tax etc.) and expenses (health insurance) are higher when you're a contractor. You'll be lucky to see half that figure hit your bank account.
> Many open source applications were designed to compete with a paid/proprietary counterpart.

No, you misunderstand completely. There is free software and there is open source. Open source does not compete with paid/proprietary based on price.

You can sell open source for thousands of dollars. Redhat does it every day. But part of being open source is providing source, letting the user decompile/recompile and modify the product you sold them and that they own. If I wanted to strip out analytics services from a browser I can do that in Chromium and Webkit. I can't do that with Chrome or Edge.
Oh man, good question. I'm always up for swapping these stories. A lot of these came from a paper on weird AI tricks, and resulting best-of list on a blog collecting these stories.[1][2] Suffice to say, the people who think the orthogonality thesis is a weird hypothetical aren't keeping up with the state of things.

- The aforementioned Tetris story: an undirected learner was set to maximize score at Tetris learned normal play techniques, but also learned to pause the game immediately before losing so that the score wouldn't "decline" at game over.

- In the same vein as interns quitting, proxy detection of all sorts. Identify "field with sheep" by finding green fields with grey skies, or letting heuristics like "humans pick up dogs and cats" override correct identifications. (It's a goat until you pick it up, then it's a dog!)

- An agent playing Q*bert found a known bug for infinite lives, then escalated to an unknown bug which disabled the game while overflowing the score counter.

- Agents in a physics sim tasked with jumping as high as possible instead learned to 'fly' by abusing collision detection bugs, hitting themselves in ways that created upward momentum.

- Another "maximize jump height" task demonstrated that "highest" is an extremely fuzzy term. Initially measured by highest point, they became incredible tall. Measured by lowest point, they stayed tall and grew topheavy to 'kick' their base upwards.

- Number-handling bugs of all kinds. In one case, small twitches led to floating-point errors that created energy. In another, a "minimize force" task got solved by maximizing force and triggering integer wraparound.

My personal favorite is an adversarial bug. An agent playing tic-tac-toe on an infinite grid with a time limit submitted extremely remote moves which caused timeouts/crashes in any agent that tried to model the full board.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03453.pdf

[2] https://aiweirdness.com/post/172894792687/when-algorithms-su...
You do know that we have 3D object detection today. In fact we've had it for a few years now.

The issue isn't whether it works or not. The issue is whether you need LiDAR in the mix as well. And your paper says unequivocally that the answer is "yes we do".
Show HN: How to create a simple chatroom with sentiment analysis in 5 mins
A pretty good guide covering NLP
I come from a web background and wrote a month of blog posts getting started with Flutter: https://bendyworks.com/blog/a-month-of-flutter
And those authorities often worked as scientists funded by and regulators captured by their respective industries, no?
I've got a connection on LinkedIn, he's a technical guy turned recruiter. He knows the platform he's specialising on pretty well,can talk to devs the same language as opposed to some random guy who doesn't even know half of the things mentioned on candidate CVs. It would be great to see this a more common practice.
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As a web developer, all these "do it yourself" website systems make me sick. The end results look amateur and messy most of the time, and it's an insult to the industry to give people with no visual or code-based skills the tools to create sub-par websites.

I'll bet talented musicians and real composers feel the same about MuseNet. The music probably makes them cringe to their core.

Then there is the general public...

They don't notice anything wrong with do-it-yourself websites, and this music sounds amazing.
Why not use a dual license model? AGPL for all, commercial license for paying customers. I think a number of companies use this approach.
Interesting technical work, great peers, good comp. If you are a user, it's good to work on something that you use. If you're in the front-end space in particular, its exciting to work on things that have significantly changed the ecosystem.

(Ex-Facebooker. When the Cambridge Analytica stuff went down I wasn't too thrilled, but above all I left because of lack of work-life balance.)
Thanks, I tried the latest version just now and it synchronised all folders without crashing (never happened before for me).
Directly, yes, but not via a smart host, which is how most SOHO mailservers (where used) are configured.

It's not quite a full-fledged, full-privilege system, but it continues to provide major benefits over Webmail or client-based (POPS, IMAPS) configurations.
Because everyone using the OSS license still benefits from your contribution? Why contribute to any of these projects now if Amazon is just going to integrate it into AWS for their own profit anyway?
You cannot use that page alone to make this determination. You need to click through the links, where they show how they derived those numbers. In general, they aren't breaking down sources of emissions, they're breaking down potential solutions with reasonable adoption rates.

E.g. look at this for electric vehicles.
https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/transport/electric-vehicl...

The 10 gigatons of reduced CO2 is assuming 16% adoption if EV's. Therefore its not claiming 10 gigatons of CO2 comes from ICE engines.

This is probably a better link for greenhouse gas sources, at least for the USA:
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

Edit: this view also ignores that lard is mostly thrown away currently. Using it would actually reduce waste. It won't realistically be a problem until the demand for lard outstrips demand for other animal products such as meat and their hides.
What I'm wondering most is if I can buy my domains for the next decade at the current price and avoid some of the potential issues this could cause.

Further, with this thought, I'm wondering if this could be an underhanded means to get extra money by encouraging people to buy domains for many years in advance.
machine learning is fine, it's meaningful technical term at least. AI doesn't mean anything
My comment was in reply to someone claiming that Dart was "yet-another Proprietary Google Technology". If Dart is proprietary then Qt is, too. Most likely by proprietary they didn't mean license but being controlled by a company, which both are. Dart is open source btw. as well. In fact, you could say that Dart is more open source because in Qt, proprietary ISV developers can't use the open source model if they want to not avoid having to give dynamic linking support and other LGPL obligations.

And trolltech is very alive and publicly traded in fact. It has just been renamed to Qt company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Qt_Company
What if I didn't check my email but only because I was trading memes on Slack all day?
Input from a Dane, albeit not an anecdotal old one: We did use more lard in the old days, as well as beef tallow and horse fat, for specialty recipes. Duck and goose fat were also highly prized, as they are to this day.

I have a couple of pre-1900 recipe collections, with the oldest recipes being from a 1616 cookbook. The old recipes do tend to use significantly more rendered fats than we do today, I think mostly because it's an inevitable byproduct of butchering and preparing meat, and you wouldn't want anything to go to waste. Butter took time and effort to produce, but rendered fat just had to be collected while you were cooking.

However we've always been heavy dairy consumers, so it makes sense that it would be our primary culinary fat. It's such an ingrained part of our cuisine that in the mid-20th century, our TV chefs made "plenty of butter!" their catchphrase.

We also had the great margarine replacement during/after WWII, and the eventual realization that trans fats were even worse than saturated fats. Even though margarine is now free from trans fats, I think most people are still skeptical of it, and prefer butter.
I don't think it will be possible. A gas station can refuel 20 cars per hour; there's no way you can do that with a charging station.

Probably they would die out, and hotels would do long distance charging, since you need to charge it when you sleep. People would just not be able to do medium or small distance charging at all except at their home.
That's the purpose of AGPLv3, the Affero variant that was written to close the "ASP loophole". This has been out a long time. Unfortunately the anti-copyleft zealots have discouraged creators from adopting it.

[EDIT:] I thought the "MongoDB debacle" was the wide-open default auth thing? I don't see how that connects...
What makes this different than those markov chain models people used to use to generate nonsensical papers that sound real?
Out of curiousity, how big is your binary ? Seems like everyone does not have the same definition of "small", hence the brackets ;)

But sure, qt seems to hit 1,2,3 , although 3.1 will fuel flamme wars that we dont realky care about as long as you can ship code. Good for you !
>Moving through the center gate will result in a foul.

You can enter it, just not go through it; on a strict reading. It's sport purgatory.
How's downgrading a solution? At best a workaround.
Facebook made $118 per user in North America in 2018.

So you're offering to pay far less than they make off you right now.
Put some in the frying pan until lightly coated - then add eggs for scrambled eggs. Throw in some shredded cheese, pepper, and seasoned salt. Top with either salsa or a mixture of 50% ketchup, 50% tapatio.
> Except that having a child is an optional activity that you choose to do

I get what you are saying, but this is not a universal truth. Life gets complicated.
I use quite a few as well and they all support it. Actually I don’t use vim much, mostly emacs and vscode but I know it works in IntelliJ, Eclipse and Visual Studio as well. What is annoying though is they all have totally different names and methods of configuration.
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Sounds like he is working an 8-hour day, just during non-traditional times of the day. If that works for him and his family, and management isn't pissed off, sounds like a win-win.

(Now if he claims he works 14-hour days, that's a bit dishonest.)
Koreans have pushed back over the years, and it's much more reasonable now. It was a "trend" at one point, and now that the phase is over, the work-life balance is more favorable. I'm not sure what the situation looks like in Japan, but based on my experience living in Asia, China seems to be lagging behind Korean work culture -- so they will catch the 996 trend for short-lived amount of time, and then it will also normalize again as workers protest and the ill-effects become known.
>> but otherwise they just tossed it.

Is there any way it can be processed for biodiesel?
Minimum wage for cleaners is standard here, but whether or not that tallies with your experience will probably depend on the cost of living where you are.
If you don’t regulate mass communication, the person who buys the biggest loudspeaker becomes the oppressor.
Rugby balls add a deal of randomness; are much harder to drop kick and grub-kick.
This is my first attempt gluing AWS's advance serverless platform with Google's advance Natural language API together. Traditionally creating a chatroom required a dedicated server that maintains and manages the websocket connection. API API Gateway's websocket API makes it easy so that you no longer need to do that. Any feedback would be greated appreciated!
Office workers in China organise a rare online labour movement
I think you could test this hypothesis by comparing Tesla’s inventory dollar amount per average units sold to other car manufacturers. You would need to adjust for the higher price of Tesla models. Maybe dividing total inventory dollars by average model price then dividing that by average units sold would get us there.
The technical reason to prefer Matrox cards was the sharp analog video output. You could do 1600x1200 without the pixels blurring. NVidia was a terrible blur, and ATI wasn't much better. Matrox cards were thus great for CAD and for people who wanted to use the default xterm font.
Amazon is anti-competitive. Microsoft used the same pattern of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish- and MS was judged by a US court to have engaged in illegal anti-competitive behavior. Arguing that this is about "founders" or that "offering it to your customers for free" is okay just ignores the context of the situation. MS offered lots of things for free or at reduced prices because it could afford to. Amazon is exploiting the work of many people and using its dominance to interfere with healthy competition.

This is not to say that Elasticsearch is great or had the right response, but it is to say that the effects of Amazon will be and are harmful to the open source movement. I do not see easy answers to how fix this, but I think recognizing this as a threat is important.
Is there a Godwin's Law kinda thing for climate change? I mean, you settle down to read a nice discussion about lard and then whammo... climate change.
> What I find most sad is that most of the people on HN will rail against how evil Google is (or any other company) yet happily use their Open Source code and not complain that they're benefiting from what they claim to despise.

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!

The fact that someone uses their open source product is an endorsement to the open source movement, not of the company.

The fact that a public for-profit corporate made a product open source doesn't mean that they have suddenly become altruistic - it just means that it made business sense for them to make it so.

The fact that it is open source means that the company doesn't own the product nor can it control you. And the fact that it is open source means that the product is being made by contributions from the general public too, and not just the company.
They could, but would they? That would mean their offering is less competitive vs anyone providing fully featured Redis.
I work for a megacorp (~250,000 emloyees) - the level of spam messages it puts out every day to all employees is honestly just staggering. I guess I average 7 such emails a day, never mind a week.

Just as bad, is many of them are repeated, over and over again - some every few days for a while, some every week in perpetuity.

And even worse is that every single company email that goes out is an image. And I don't mean contains images - the actual email body is a single image with crappy 90's graphics and rendered text! On the odd occasion where you want to copy and paste, you're out of luck.

I've got several Exchange rules set up to put them in a "Cruft" folder, but new ones keep popping up, and every once in a while it catches a "real" email, so I still need to check it from time to time.

/rant
https://github.com/niofis/raybench/pull/8
What you said is so mild compared to the rhetoric deployed by right-wing HN commenters every day--few of whom get the same reprimand from the mods that you just got.
> Tesla doesn't have an advertising budget.

This is an oft-repeated trope, but one look at Tesla's reports will show it's not the case. Last year, approaching $100M (I want to say certainly greater than $80M) spent on "Advertising and marketing".
It's not logical, but it should be possible to do something trivial in a package.

What's the alternative? Allow only packages with code over 100 lines? 1000 lines?

Packages are an excellent way to share code, regardless of complexity...
Take some fresh brussel sprouts, chop in half, toss in salt and pepper and throw in a frying pan with a heaping tablespoon of lard.

Also works well with the sous vide.
So you think that nothing should be done about it at all? It definitely seems like there should be a plan to at least assess the situation.
The 5 says "look the same if possible", which is fuzzy, contradictory, and exactly what people want, of course ;)
The difference between us is that I explained why I said what I said while all you have done is repeated your position with no deeper explanation, which I'm guessing is because you don't have a deeper explanation, just an emotional belief.

If you think that people should not have private communication on the internet, prove that you aren't a hypocrite and upload an archive of your emails and chat logs. If that bothers you, maybe your hypocracy and poorly thought out position on encryption should bother you.
It did seem rather like a modern product advert to me too. Far less informative than it might have been.
The results are more or less in line with what I would have expected, except for SBCL and Luajit, which I would have expected to be much faster.
I dont have any shares, but if I had the money I would purchase a boat load of them.

1) He has a fleet of cars which is giving him a lot of data and edge cases. Of which is growing with every new car purchased and on the road.

2) He has a team developing the software, refining it with each new release and it's just getting better and better with more data.

3) He has a team developing the hardware, on the investor day he said that another chip will come out in 2 years and be 3x more capable. Going from memory on that one, so feel free to correct. But this point still stands. They aren't standing still. I do believe that vision trumps lidar and they'll get to level 5 automation with much more precision than waymo and get there a hell of a lot faster than uber.

4) It seems with every car that rolls off the assembly line, they are consistently making modifications and improving the battery tech and drive train. Again, they have the data to keep on improving their cars.

5) With the maxwell purchase I'm sure they'll start to develop their own batteries and get even better performance due to optimising the whole car.

So, Tesla owns the:

1) Data

2) Self Driving Software

3) Self Driving Hardware

4) Drive Train

5) Battery Tech

6) Power Grid Network

Also don't forget that the grid and charging stations keep improving over time. Imagine if we get to 5 minute charging, faster than the current paradigm? Game changer.

Can anyone suggest another vendor getting close to this? Once Telsa put out the robo-taxis it really is game set and match. They own the whole stack, end to end.

He even mentioned that the price could go down. Can you imagine a $25k robo-taxi and does 1k miles? The other car makers should be very afraid of this prospect.
Yes. I agree entirely.
Thank you so much. yes on the ADAH, no the skin flushing. Really appreciate your help.
I don't know where you got your numbers from, but according to next move it has about 200 miles of range at 150km/h, going ever so slightly slower (and you probably will have sections with a speed limit anyway in between) would let you comfortably make the trip: https://nextmove.de/tesla-model-3-reichweitentest-bei-150-vs...
I agree and it's similar for me. The closest work friends I have are from this company and formed during this period. 5+ years later and we still have regular gatherings. Of course the topic of conversation inevitably drift back to when we worked together and specifically during this period.

A bit of silver lining in all this I guess, the friendships that have formed.
I usually have a jar of bacon lard in the fridge mainly because i love to fry hot dogs in it. For other things (mainly pastry crusts), I've never had trouble finding lard in 1-lb blocks at the supermarket.
The current title here (“ICANN Sells Out: Will Let TLDs Price Gouge Your Domain”) is actually more emotionally loaded than the advocacy piece that is the source.
“A random selection of words for a title that may or may not describe an article promoting a book about models, but I’m a VC so I have to work in the fact I’m on Sand Hill road. ps - my assistant really wrote this.”
AI is a technical term with a specific meaning:

> Computer science defines AI research as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
Maybe the days of the US being the only country whose special access projects are mistaken for alien spacecraft are numbered:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/et-denied-many-uf...

It's a little amusing to me that people assume if it's not American, it must be alien.

Maybe they're just Chinese?

If another country is buzzing us with their new tech, it makes sense to not want some sailor to refuse to report it out of fear they'll be branded insane.
Interesting concept. Adult stories are definitely a lucrative market. I believe literotica is one of the largest websites in the world by traffic (I believe in the top 50), but they don't really have much competition.

I do wonder what the monetization opportunities are here. Advertising might not be a good option since not a lot of brands advertise on adult sites - so you're left with scammy or predatory ads.

Do you guys have a plan for the long term monetization yet?
Linux on DeX Now Supports the Galaxy S9, Galaxy Tab S5e, and Galaxy Note 8
Agreed. Also s/brussels sprouts/broccoli & crushed garlic/
Have it on my desk right now. :)
Why has this garnered so much press? The Markup hasn't even published anything yet.

Tech journalism is oversaturated. The world doesn't really need these people to "expose" or "investigate" anything. Even the broader space of "quality longform" bla bla is oversaturated.

Dear Markup: write something or don't, but no one cares about your SuperGroup drama
Generally speaking the poor report better mental health than the wealth.

That is absolutely untrue.
I like the thread so I’ll pitch in my ¢2. :)

If you end up looking for it you do so because you’ve learnt what you need.

“Different people, different needs”, to quote the great leader David Brent.

If you end up here eventually — interview the hiring manager and members of the team. You are the one looking!

For me personally I’ve realized that a company being listed or near IPO is usually a problem.

I’ve recently turned down a couple of interesting offers due to looming IPO.
Some might think this is odd, but the track record of my “career” is all I have to go by.

The best places I’ve worked at is where the CEO was the founder and company not listed.

This could indicate that there’s proper heart involved and in my experience usually a lot less politics, hence less bullshit.

No truths here, just my own path.
> More concretely: would this music be able to convince you that a gifted human composer created it?

Would a computer? If it could, then in theory it could use that as an optimization goal...
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