skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There needs to be a punitive aspect as well. Simply taking away their profit doesn't discourage this in the future, as being caught isn't certain.

I'm not saying the company should be bankrupted, but it has to hurt them enough that they wouldn't want to risk trying again.
In an introductory course, we should be teaching people to collect enough data that any reasonable choice of prior or method doesn't matter that much.
Pure profit margin (otherwise known as net profit margin)
Just for my understanding, any special reason to have 100's of tabs open?

Meaning: I basically have a mindset which as a programmer would say: "shall I spend effort trying to optimize my app for users that have 200 tabs open? Naaaa, I don't see a usecase for that to happen."
Internet should be classed as a utility and regulated as such. Infrastructure and bits should be separate.
I read it as “(most) developers will have little need to spend $6000 on a 6k monitor just to code”. It’s not that developers aren’t the target market for a vertical monitor - it’s that they’re not the target market for a $6000 super-duper-dynamic-range 6k monitor.
Good post. A lot of people see platforms like Twitter as inherently terrible, but if you follow the right people, Twitter can be a very good platform to learn new things and talk to interesting and smart people on. You just have to carefully curate who you follow, remembering to unfollow anyone that posts bad or excessively polarizing or uninteresting content.

The same goes for blogs, which are often looked down upon more than they should be due to the negative connotations of referencing a blogpost rather than a paper in a published journal, even though there are clearly some blogs that are better than some journals.
For the world in general, indeed, it is better than having a dead or hardly-maintained project (which needs financial incentives from project owners). Don't you agree?
For example here:

Budget build for $1100:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HGNWHh

More beefy I/O build for $1500:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KWCtMZ

And those are prices in retail. One can get this kind of machine second hand at 30-50% discount.

These would have comparable performance to what Apple is proposing for $6000, except for the Afterburner card, which I am not so sure about. Doubt it is worth $4000 though.

High-end gaming setup would begin to touch $2000, but that is not what I am talking about.
iOS 13 will differentiate Shortcuts by trusted/untrusted
Also comparing a mini-series of 5 episodes against multi-year of 60+
Me too! I first parsed that sentence as:

Subject:

Proper name: Limor

Title: Adafruit Founder

Verb: fried (past tense of "fry"), as in "burned out".
In which case would I open a file with vim like that? Or can it be hidden in innocent looking files? I always first cat a file.

And never heard of modeline even though using vim for over 20 years.
I'm amused by this because when I called Mozilla out a few days ago, I got a bunch of downvotes [1]. Plus one of the top comments was a subtweet of mine.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20055322
Stay away from PayPal for anything involved in receiving money - they are notorious for freezing funds.
I can't read the Y axis values so I can't tell.
Why Does Google Know Everything You’ve Bought on Amazon for the Past Six Years?
Better than what? In my area within just a few miles I can get to 5 different produce markets that offer world-class quality produce at rock bottom pricing. Organic or not, anything you want to eat.
>I never see the kids in my neighborhood doing that. I've never seen any of them leave the street, and always with the parents on the patio, chatting with each other. The last time I saw a roving band of 9-to-13 year-olds biking around town was probably the early 2000s.

My life was similar. Be home by dark and stay in the neighborhood. Aside from that, it was explorations in the woods, roaming around, and generally just making fun where I found it.

I now have an 11 year old, and we recently put up a basketball hoop. A side effect is that we've started to attract some neighborhood kids. When it's a first time visitor, I do like to query to make sure it's ok that they're out and about, and I've received a refreshing number of "Yeah, I just have to be home by 6" responses. Occasionally, my son will join a small group and "go on an adventure" and I remind him to stay in the neighborhood, and be home by dinner.

Yes, it's a bit nerve-wracking at first, and I'm sure there's a non-zero risk of something happening, but watching my son thrive and the pride he has at having some independence is immeasurable. As parents, I think we forget that our task is not merely to get our kids safely to a certain age, but it's also to enable them to operate in the real world as independent, fully functional humans.
> So AMD handed over their most valuable IP for basically nothing.

Can you elaborate on how you get this conclusion?

From the article "agreed to license its x86 and SoC IP for chip development in a deal worth $293 million (plus royalties)", that's at least 5% of AMD's 2018 revenue (out of 6 billion).
It is a backlash against Game of Thrones which ended so hated that anything better got upvoted I guess.
Completely agree, but I also think many shows end up being significantly longer than they probably should be. If you have a gripping story that only fits in ~4 hours, don't make it longer than 4 hours. Trying to fit narratives to traditional series / film lengths often reduces overall quality.
"If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it." –J. P. Morgan
All of the available information includes information about which information is safe to ignore.
Turns the patent only describes the paper, but not the implementation. Great, and somewhat ironic
> Are you arguing that you you personally don't think it's worth doing lock-free for various practical reasons? Or arguing that's never why anyone does it?

No. Lock-free is great. When it is done correctly.

The code in this blog post was NOT done correctly. It only works in the case of 1-reader + 1-writer, so the "advantages" you're talking about are extremely limited.

You have to keep in mind the overall big picture. Lock-free code is incredibly difficult to write and usually comes with great cost to complexity. However... sometimes Lock-free makes life easier (okay, use them in that case). Sometimes, lock-free can be faster (okay... use them in that case... if speed is important to you).

But in many, many cases, locked data-structures are just easier to write, test, and debug.
Vast majority of people don't understand how Internet startups are run. Even here on HN, people need frequent reminders.

Myself, for a long time I believed tech startups are micro-R&D for new technologies. Couple years of HN and in the local startup community later, I finally realized that a lot of Internet startups tend to turn investor money into business model R&D - i.e. ever more innovative ways to break an existing market and siphon off enough wealth to get flipped and net the founders FU money. Regular people don't know any of that; they don't understand how the game is played, or why - they only enjoy free web services and cheap pirate taxi rides.
A lot of the proposed efficiency improvements involve new engines, new fuels, or new materials. This is a new design which could stack on top of any of these other improvements. Including a hybrid or electric engine.
> It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years.

Sure, we're still testing, if stuff works on IE10...
It bothers me because the term pretty strongly implies that a "choice" involves a human doing the choosing. When I first saw it, I'd hoped it was a sign that Amazon was going to be investing time in curating their junkyard swapmeet of a store. Not so much.
Eh, I'm not sure Band of Brothers holds up as well as you might think. It's really strong in episodes 2 through 6, where the core characters are all together from Normandy to Market Garden to Bastogne. But after that those core characters disperse, either by getting promoted or becoming casualties, and then from there the series just kind of fizzles out; for better or worse, in those early episodes Winters is the de facto protagonist, and once he departs the show never really manages to find another one.

The later sequel The Pacific suffered from the same problem of not having a stable, interesting point-of-view character for the audience to attach themselves to, only unlike Band which starts with one and then discards him The Pacific lacks one throughout.
> The Prius is single handedly the reason that a market for Teslas and other EVs exist.

Can you elaborate on this please? I would never own or drive a Prius, or really a hybrid of any kind. I do own a Model 3. I see it as polar opposite to a hybrid.
I notice the iPhone SE, the phone Apple stubbornly refuses to update, is the single most traffic-generating phone ever discussed here on HN, even at its announcement.

Maybe that’s just me, but you know, I would assume that means something.

So eh, Apple? You guys listening?
there is no way Whatsapp would be allowed to use a privacy oriented crypto.
All payment are under surveillance, except cash.
The second PoC hides the modeline when printed with `cat`.
Reading every possible review of a product I'm considering sounds far less clever than a simple heuristic to me.
How many does Facebook have? It has often seemed to me like the best way to identify criminals would be to get special access to the Facebook face matching service for photo tagging and go from there.
If iMessage group chats are any indication, you just lose your access to that identity. Notifications meant for it will silently fail to be delivered, and you will need to create a new identity outside of Apple’s ecosystem and inform any groups still using your old identity that you have a new one.
Agreed, I've never heard anyone refer to a Wells notice as being "sued" (officially or unofficially!) but since there have been a few thread on HN about Kin/Kik's response to the Wells notice it was the only explanation for the wording I could think of.
So this would largely imply that Amazon's Choice truly is about giving customers the best experience (to the extent possible given the quality of keyword and review data)?
> If this show isn't on HBO, and isn't following the exit of Game of Thrones does it even get noticed?

Well, yes, because the article notes that it's most popular in Ireland. It was a co-production with a British company, so over there it has no connection to HBO at all.

> TV Critics are, in my opinion, completely useless and only ever write articles about popular shows.

Maybe TV critics giving positive reviews to a show helps make it popular?
I did definitely notice much better WebRender performance on Nvidia than on Intel, so I turned off WebRender on the Intel laptop.
Yes I agree. They just need to find a good business model for self-hosting though.
They say there is no "i" in "denial".

Disclaimer: I use emacs.
Great analysis. You've given me some food for thought.

How did you get such deep understanding of that industry?
How is showing the catastrophic consequences of nuclear power fear-mongering? I mean the stuff which is depicted in the series literally happened, and a lot of it / most of it actually exactly as depicted. How is that fear-mongering? It's the reality.

But whenever the topic of nuclear comes up here on HN, and there is only the slightest mention of the risks, there is always someone shouting about fear-mongering...
> This is not the message I want to see introducing such a complex topic.

I don't see the need for such gatekeeping. I think telling people over-and-over how "incredibly hard" something is will tend to discourage people from learning about that thing. I think that's bad.
GCP just started offering Postgres v11 in beta in April and it was released on 2018-10-18. They skipped v10 (released October 5, 2017). Comparing to Postgres, three years feels like the right balance (i.e. in the zone a cloud provider would want to offer it).
The article cites security bugs in bugs from 2016 and 2002
Quicksort is an algorithm, a copyright on it would not hold up, but a creative use of it may hold up. Kafka is not part of the public domain, but available through an open source license, that AWS is arguably exploiting to make some money off the back of open source contributors.
You are correct that I believe the US stock market is generally strongly efficient.
After watching this show I realized a very deep appreciation for those doomed men who managed / cleaned up the accident. Most of them are dead. I consider them heroes. Very sad all around.
I guess we have a winner for Editor Wars.
If they're cheating then they won't hang on to those research spots for long.
Why do you think Apple is simply behaving benevolently? It's in their interest. Not only do they buy good will with customers, they also keep people in their ecosystem. They can wax on about how they're providing these services on principal, but it helps their bottom line, which is what you want in a system. Google/Facebook model provides different trade-offs and services for those that don't want to pay the Apple tax.
Digest from a bank: what's currently hot in blockchain: Layer2/Web3/Standards
I think you misunderstand what I meant by lock-in. Everything you just mentioned is not a lock-in for users. You can use your Android phone with non-Google operating systems without hacking your phone. The same is not true of iOS.

If you buy an iPhone, which is a big investment for most people, then you must either use Apple's App Store or jailbreak.
Very interesting exploit. Makes me feel good that I disable modelines because my company always sets columns=96, however I usually open multiple files with :vsp and I have to manually change the columns to what my terminal actually is.

I would be interested to hear the historical reason for having such generic modeline execution in the first place. It seems a little out of place in text file editing.
Many techies reach a point where they go: "Oh crap, now I have to move into management." More money but less fun.
first link missing the last part:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-story-behind-the-wo...
Isn't that an oxymoron?

No. I've got the same thing in my RV. Solar panels, big-ass battery, big-ass inverter. It serves the exact same purpose as the propane-powered generator built into the RV (were it not for the air conditioner, I'd just remove it), and it runs on solar. I don't even know what the hell else you'd call it but a "solar generator".
It is certainly much better. And much nicer to visit than back then.
Not too surprising for anyone who has owned a parrot - you're clearly warned to not use nonstick since cooking with it can kill them. Not surprising that there's at least some traces there.
> it's inferior and more expensive

Would breaking google into 4 companies give us 4 googles or 4 bings? Considering that the more data you have, the better your results, it seems like winner take all is the norm in any sort of data-driven tech.
And then you have to trust the third party.
Except Wawa is explicitly take-away (there are no seats), it's part of a gas station, and they're everywhere.
While you were there, how much was Valve still an "anarcho syndicalist" paradise? When you say projects were cancelled, was that because the teams working on them decided to stop (since everybody there is supposed to be their own boss) or was it a decision that came from the top down? Just curious how close Valve still is to its roots -- or at least the popular mythos of them.
Uber, Square, FlexPort

I would rank FlexPort higher for growth potential, but my understanding is that they have a gnarly large Ruby on Rails legacy codebase that I wouldn't want to work on. If I'm wrong here, please correct me.

I don't think Instacart will do well long-term.
I was going to suggest Hiya, but since you have it already. The numbers from those calls are usually made up/bogus or someone else's number. There is no way to stop 100% unless the telecom gets involved.
You don't have to deal with 5 stores. If you like Apple, use Apple's.

The difference is in whether other people who dislike/distrust Apple have another option, and right now they don't.
You're right that all we can do is speculate. That means that we can't assume things will work as they always have, or as they currently are. Which means you have to assume things will change.
If you still wanted to fine tune it a bit further, you could have used a WeakAtomicExchange (?). Performs better on some systems, and a strong one is not required here.

On x86, it's of course same.
CockroachDB has raised over $50M of Venture capital which obviously pushes them on the "grow revenue fast" track, which is much easier if you do not have competition from the cloud vendors.

I think there is so much black and white positioning of this issue - competition from AWS does not eliminate revenue for the project, but reduces it, by a lot. It may not be enough for Open Source company which relies on heavy monetization
> 15% of high income households have abandoned wired internet for cellular only, and that number is growing.

Do what? I find that a bit hard to believe. Even the most premium "unlimited" 4G/LTE plans will switch your ass to the slow lane after you burn through a certain volume in the billing period.
Agreed. I really liked Chernobyl but I honestly thought Breaking Bad and the first four seasons of Game of Thrones were superior, in no small part because of the high excellence that’s extremely difficult to maintain beyond a few episodes. It’s also much harder to make character development feel earned in only a few episodes.
Imo the key difference here is that they're owning the decision and not trying to paper over the fact that it is no longer OSI Open Source.

The three year change is also a big deal in my mind. Would make me a lot more comfortable to adopt knowing it is absolutely guaranteed to become OSI Open Source later.
It’s commonly known as a “strategy credit”.

But if I have a choice between trading my money for services and trading my privacy/dealing with annoying ads, I would much rather pay for services.
Yup! That and gravitational forces specifically are how we discovered Neptune-and, IIRC the exact same phenomenon has some scientists theorizing the existence of another planet or some other large gravitational mass way out in the Kuiper belt

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/2...
Wow, when you see it laid out like that, crypto looks terrifying. Note, I mean as an investment independent of technological prospects.
GraphQL on Rails: from zero to the first query
He does talk about gusts and stability in the video (around 34min in). Not the greatest communicator, but it does seem like they've put some thought into the concepts.
Emacs has similar functionality https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sp...
Endangered baby dolphin dies after swimmers pass it around for selfies (2016)
I would love to see more academic scientists blogging, especially if they wrote "laypersons" summaries of their scientific papers. I think this would be a clear net positive for the world: scientific literacy would increase, people would learn about all the amazing things going on in academic labs, and professors and grad students could get more recognition (and maybe income?) for jobs that are quite demanding but often dont pay a ton

But I wonder if blogging / social media would be viewed as "not serious" by academics, or even make the blogger's peers think they are sell outs? I've heard of grant funding decisions getting denied because a researcher issued a press release, which one reviewer thought was too self-promotional. No idea how widespread this attitude is however
Businesses typically need a level of oversight, confirmation, traceability, and accounting integration that a service like Venmo doesn't provide. Even Zelle doesn't really provide this level of service yet.

Is there a reason standard ACH transfers via a normal business checking account aren't an option?
I have never understood the appeal of modelines. Why on earth would you put editor specific configuration inline with the file you are editing?

Thankfully I've had 'set nomodeline' in my config ever since I found out about this insane option.
Permissive licenses are basically public domain with some attribution clauses and litigation indemnity.
Earth's carbon dioxide has jumped to the highest level in human history
> So if you look nationally, yes, the coverage is split between several companies, but at the local levels the areas serviced are often carved up such that there are local monopolies.

It's not just that they are monopolies, but that they are anticompetitive monopolies. In some cases, they are even granted by local governments.
There is also a...non-recency bias in other rankings like AFI, where movies from the 50s and 60s are way overrepresented in the standings. Was "some like it hot" really the funniest movie of all time?
Goodreads ratings are massively dubious to the point of almost uselessness, frankly.
I hate this about HN — the preachiness. People are generally good at evaluating their own needs and spending their own money. If a truck wasn’t valuable and useful, so many people wouldn’t buy one.

Maybe it’s “city slickers” not understanding that a lot of people own boats, or trailers, or jet skis, or just plain haul shit every day and they need a bed in the back and real towing capacity that will handle well with a trailer attached on the highway.

If you don’t have a lawn, so much as a lawn service, I guess it’s easy to forget why anyone would need or want a truck?

Looking forward to the Rivian and Tesla trucks hitting production and for so many minds to be blown by how much fun and how capable they are.
Big delays mean trouble for Nasa's Artemis
And what is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good — need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

Yes Socrates, let's consult the mob.
those end-cap spots are usually paid placements as well.
Optimize for the user who has 100s of tabs open or the user who has 10 tabs but one is Slack.
In the picture, the passenger cabin appears to be using only 1/3 of the wingspan, so the vertical movement of the outermost passengers (in the last row) will be much smaller than the vertical movement of the wingtips.

A last row width of 25m is much wider than the 5m of a conventional aircraft, but much smaller than 70m.
Agree.

I usually use http://themoviedb.org to have an at least slightly more reliable idea of how a film is - not perfect but I can usually get an idea if I compare the rating of the candidate movie against other films which I liked and disliked in the past.

P.S.: the guys of tmdb have (or at least they used to have) as well a nice API to download stuff (ratings, posters/images, etc... if I remember correctly when I programmed a simple media player looong time back).

Edit - link to API docs: https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/getting-started/introduc...
>Will it compile takes 10 minutes.

That's a sign something is wrong.
As another person posted, cannabis with more than .3% THC is marijuana which has not been descheduled.

However, pure THC has been descheduled (regardless where it has been derived from?).
What would the HN community get out of it? If nothing but the feels, then that's called donating.
> Makes me feel good that I disable modelines because my company always sets columns=96

Your company places this as a modeline in all its source files? If so why does your place of work enforce modelines in its source?
AFAIK TensorFlow is not Tensorflow but "Matrixflow". This library is truly tensor-based if I understood it correctly?

I found useful the diagrammatic notation, by the way.
You only have to trust a third party with a throw-away email forwarding system. But we know how to do anonymous remailing/forwarding already, and Apple could have adopted a spec that forces developers to use a forwarding system that is end-to-end encrypted if they want to email your throwaway.
Meta Intelligence – Writing Programs That Write Programs; Genetic Evolution