skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm interested to see the how existing crypto exchanges will handle this currency, if it can be traded on them at all. The market that develops in the cryptosphere around Libra will certainly liberate any attempted sanctions on the coin itself, unless Facebook can prevent free trading of the currency on exchanges.
HBM2 vs. GDDR6: Tradeoffs in DRAM
Check out The Morning Paper. https://blog.acolyer.org/

Near daily reviews and write ups of technical white papers.
I think we've just discovered the real use for Apple's Face ID. Staring contest video games.
Is it really a cryptocurrency when it's completely centralized? No. This is just Facebook-bucks. Store dollars. It's has absolutely none of the benefits of a real cryptocurrency.
I'm really annoyed with all of Google's Android apps. a few months ago they updated apps like Gmail, maps, YouTube, etc to be blinding white mode
I feel like this move will almost guarantee anti-trust actions. Although if nothing has already, who knows.
The supreme court has, however, held that federal courts can enjoin states from violating federal law, and copyright infringement is a federal offense under Title 17 of the US Legal Code.
In some cases evidence is scarce, but in the story told in this article, there would seem to be a set of messages recorded in Slack, so it wouldn't just be one person's word against another. If the person being harassed wanted to make a really strong case, they would have sent a Slack reply saying "Don't ever send me this kind of message again!" to have a record of it.

This also makes it scary for HR, since if they do nothing and the victim sues, the Slack messages could turn up during discovery.

(I'm also guessing that this kind of behavior suggests that the aggressor is not of higher rank. Someone with real power over the victim probably wouldn't just stalk them on Slack, and any manager would be acutely aware that you don't want to say things like that in writing.)
The physics is pretty well known at this point, and there's only so much you can gain by increasing from second to third order approximation. The errors in the initial conditions are just larger. Most of the action has been on data assimilation and better parameterizations because of that.

I've been out of the field for ten years now, but it's really nice to see improvements to the core physics to this degree.

I'm still skeptical of your supposed two week 500 heights forecast from the ECMWF model. I live near the western Pacific (i.e. the data hole) and it's really easy to find crazy model solutions after 7 days. And I'm pretty sure you weren't looking at the Southern Hemisphere.
The acceleration is more of a function of the powertrain design in steam cars. If you replace the direct drive drive train with one similar to a ICE car (ie clutch+transmission) you can get the acceleration of a ICE car in a steam car. If you want to keep the direct drive though you would need to have a larger engine and use hook-up and variable cut-off to keep the efficiency of the smaller engine while cruising. Steam engines on the whole are pretty similar to electric motors though in having most or all of your torque from 0 rpm which is why many steam cars were direct drive (I think only the Whites and a few race cars had a conventional layout instead of direct drive).
Apple CEO Emilio (Jan' 97) in “Next, and the Return of Steve Jobs to Apple”
Added a few cites to these works, thanks.
You made a good point about offline editing but Overleaf's main reason for existing is precisely TeX software not being so good.
Thankfully, Stack Exchange has provided some guidance on these matters.

'Practicality of a thorium-powered, superheated-steam car?' https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/69576/prac...
Towards Multimodal Sarcasm Detection (An _Obviously_ Perfect Paper)
Stream engines are no longer used on large ships (except for nuclear powered warships). Merchant ships now use large 2-stroke diesel engines for maximum fuel efficiency.
Let me know your email address and I can send you an invite
Manning was a member of the military with access to classified data and she uploaded it to the internet for publication.

And, unlike Snowden, none of what she leaked revealed violations of the U.S. Constitution. Her judgement was terrible and she deserved to spend some time in prison for what she did.

Assange is a journalist, not a member of the military or even a U.S. citizen, and all he did was assist and enable the publishing of this classified data.

The cases are completely different.
I experimented with Graphene as part of my engineering thesis at uni back in 2010. I was trying to synthesize anode materials for Li-Ion battery applications. The idea being graphene would better accommodate volume expansion during intercalation leading to better cycling performance of the battery.

I don't think there is any particular "secret sauce" in the technique I was using to make the graphene - I was using Modified Hummer's method (MH method) to make graphene-oxide and then reductive precipitation (RP) - it's well covered by the literature. There is even a wikipedia article on it.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummers%27_method). I don't think anything would really stop a dedicated amateur.

I agree with you a lot of the difficulty is sourcing the chemicals and especially the equipment (sonicator, centrifuge etc) which makes it much more suited for a laboratory than amateur experimentation. Also agree it's slow and time consuming to produce at least using method I was.
I mean... Are they kidding me with that name?
Seeing as these are suspected child sex predators, they may be better off dead in a hole somewhere. I don't know if the prison population takes child predators too kindly and if we as a people should be paying to keep these alleged sickos alive.
I like the book but the contents seem to go well beyond the prerequisites of category theory—-it’s almost 900 pages.

I got the impression that the author was not simply attempting to connect high school math to category theory but was providing a broader survey of higher math. I interpreted the author’s remarks about the path to category theory as the inspiration for embarking on the project that has turned out to be a wide survey of higher math that might benefit young mathematicians.
I did the same and spent 45 minutes enjoying explaining the time value of money and opportunity costs when they were trying to upsell me. I also googled the prices on the hood rock cover undercoat and pre paid maintenance plan.y favorite was the panicked look when he said that the warranty was void if the oil was changed outside the dealer and I informed him that was illegal in the whole us. Eventually he just gave up and sold me the car when the manager was trying to get the room for another sale.

I enjoyed putting the warranty In terms of a bet. Would you spend $5k on a lottery ticket that had payout capped at $25k? No. Then why are you trying to sell me a 3rd party warranty?

I enjoyed the whole process. I set aside a whole day for it.

The best part was when my credit card didn't run for some reason and I didn't have the full payment :)
Means pound in Spanish. As if it holds any weight in the real world. Alt Timeline: Zuckerberg becomes POTUS in 2018. By 2020 he becomes POTKW and conquers all countries with just the information he knows about people on Facebook.
Often the most expensive drugs you hear about are lifesaving drugs. Imagine you could charge whatever you wanted for a lifesaving something that only you are allowed to sell. Is it really that common for a competitor to come up a unique (patentable) invention to treat the exact same niche disease? It should be no surprise that drugs are expensive.

The article also says: “Another thing federal officials can do is to use independent cost-benefit analysis to set a drug’s list price. The United States is the only developed country in the world that doesn’t do this”

I’m not saying pharmaceutical companies should not be able to profit off of their drugs. I think we should decide on some reasonable limits.

Also, what are you going to do to loosen regulation? Get rid of several years of clinical trials and let consumers decide for themselves whether a drug works? There’s too much of an incentive for drug companies to misinform consumers for that to work.

I’m also not trying to say the FDA is perfect. There are probably things they could do to speed up the process. I think the FDA is not the root of the problem though.
There was a time when reddit, HN, digg, etc were all tech oriented. The problem is that once a platform gets slightly popular, journalists, NGOs, PR, foreign actors, think tanks, etc sneak in and push their wares ( sometimes with the help of the forums themselves ). Slashdot might be worth a look but I gave up on them years ago.

The problem is that so much of "tech" forums, magazines, sites, etc are not run by "techies" but agenda driven media people masquerading as "techies". TheVerge, arstechnica, etc being prime examples.

My advice is to browse the "new" section of HN for the interesting tech/science/hack stuff. But unfortunately, most of the interesting stuff has no traffic or discussion. But maybe that's a good thing.
The are a lot of niche subreddits which are very technical. Making an account and only adding those will get you a very tech home page. I am not talking about the mainstream ones like r/programming but more like r/haskell r/idris r/agda r/dependent_types etc (if you like programming; there are similar niche groups for other interests). They are low volume but together they are about the same throughput as HN but only technical.

It will take a while to find all that interests you; some only have posts once a week but are still worth it.
Your fastest path to project manager is to get certified. Decide which project management method you want to get a certificate in and go for it. You'll need experience to finish your certificate so after you've done as much as possible towards the certificate either get a job as an assistant PM or find a startup that's willing to take a chance. Once you get some experience you can call yourself a PM candidate and get a better PM job. At some point, you'll have enough work experience to get your certificate.

DO NOT expect that your current job will let you transfer into the position. It's very unlikely that they will take a chance. Being a developer gives you an advantage but it's a matter of you putting in the time and effort to be a PM.

Also as PM, you will need to develop your soft skills to get the best effort from your team. PMs are responsible for getting a project completed on time but they don't have the ability to fire team members so you better be able to get the best from your team through other means than intimidation. I know PMs that blame the team when a project fails but the truth is that they are just as guilty if not more since a good manager should have been able to anticipate problems and manage the project to completion. Good luck.
Question: why does it matter that the image was generated using ML? Seems to be a main point of the article, but I really don't see why it matters based on what was discussed in the article.

Software that does this automagically exists on GitHub, so any 13 year old with a < 10 year old laptop could have made it. So the ability to generate this image doesn't matter. A person could have changed a face into a new face in Photoshop or GIMP, or just grabbed a random sample from the internet. So I am a bit confused as to why it's even mentioned; it seems a pointless detail, and even more so to appear so promiscuously in the headline.
Why gas stations and food trucks cluster together (2008)
I've always been bothered by the "Apologize to your brother" idea.

In general, it is totally fake, and everybody knows this. I'd rather not encourage dishonesty. Granted, dishonesty may be a useful skill, but I think kids can figure it out without parental encouragement.
Sounds a bit "free lunchy" to me. So nothing can stop the tidal wave of more government freshly printed money? What about the fact the money is really debt and that needs to be kept serviced? What about another credit crunch?

Hyperinflation? What if people run from holding USD. Not likely, but who knows what will happen in 20 years time?
Why gatekeep though? If we make it easy for people to make games, who cares if they end up learning to program?

No one actually cares about the code in the games they play. Programming should be a means, not the end. (See also: https://prog21.dadgum.com/87.html)
Why do I need steam for this? Seems very odd.
> But it isn't? I mean, yes, every machine that requires both v4 and v6 is more complicated than just v4, sure.

You don't need to do that. I've set up IPv6 only networks at conferences. If throw in a IPv6->IPv4 NAT (eg, tayga) the only machine that requires a dual stack is the router. We didn't have a single complaint about connectivity issues from over 500 delegates. Modern clients (phones, tablets, Mac's and so on) just slide seamlessly into an IPv6 environment without the user even being aware they are using IPv6.
Is the ledger public and irrepudiable, at least? That'd be something,I guess.
Web Browsers and You: How to Protect Yourself Online
It's as good as any ICO; exercising control isn't good for businesses, but Buterin has shown he can make it happen if the stakes are big enough, just like Zuck will also be able to do.
Pinterest Is Latest Tech Company Drawn into U.S. Culture Wars
Steam provides a CDN, updater, friends list/social infrastructure, really terrible but functional user generated content sharing infrastructure, and cloud saves to game developers, so it's pretty appealing even if you're a team inside Google since the alternative is building your own installer and updater - Google has no competitor to Steam on Windows or any other platform of note other than Android.

Also, Gamers actively get angry with developers now if a game releases on something other than Steam, so it's probably better for PR and adoption rates to just target Steam and be done with it.
It will be marketed a lot better, it will be slightly more efficient and function more easily as money and it will also much more evil and bring a curse across the land, making horses lame and suchlike.
Yea, you’re right, I can see that working in the right context. These ARE essentially DSLs, though, so their success largely depends on hard to define things like documentation, coupling, and quarantining to expected places.
The fact that Ethereum Classic exists proves that Buterin has no control.
Nice strawman
Disappointing rehashes of Christie is what we get these days. See Kenneth Branagh's recent Poirot attempt.

If we're giving out links to harrowing yet anticlimactic tales on Wikipedia, may I suggest https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident
Unpopular opinion, but I truly feel battery powered cars are a dead end. Gas won out over earlier models because of its unique properties, most of which is its easy availability and high energy density. Batteries are heavy, and range limited. A true successor to the ICE must offer the same freedoms afforded. Whether it's super fast charging, nuclear, or a greener fuel, though, I'm not sure.
Whether this succeeds or fails it is very good for crypto.
Measles Outbreak: N.Y. Eliminates Religious Exemptions for Vaccinations
This sounds like the kind of concern that you should express to your manager. It's probably much more effective for management to speak to the offenders directly than it is to convene a committee to endlessly debate a code of conduct.

When presenting this to your manager, emphasize that you're concerned about the negative effects on the company (e.g., people leaving, etc.).
The real question here is if there will be a way to exchange this coin with Bitcoin or other crypto
Sunkara (of Jacobin) is not a founder of Vox.

> Klein literally says "I'm a socialist" or "I write for a socialist magazine" (Jacobin).

If you're referring to https://m.facebook.com/ezraklein/posts/10156608843688410, he's quoting Meagan Day.

> Yglesias is also part of that Jacobin group.

In what way? He has never even written an article for Jacobin. The closest thing is a Jacobin article interviewing him and other pundits for some analysis of the Democratic primaries.
Has been deprecated since 10.8 (2012) and was never ported to 64 Bit. It was pretty clear they weren't working on a Carbon replacement imo.
there seems to be a desire, arising from confusion and encouraged by opportunism, to conflate the term cryptocurrency with conventional notions of electronic cash.

I've listened to people from the world bank, the IDB and at least one representative of a central bank explain to me with enthusiasm how their pet crypto and blockchain projects were creating new opportunities for their organizations. There's always some crypto consultant lurking in the background of these conversations.
i dunno if the parent post meant this, but i personally do feel that a game which seems to "let you do anything to solve the problem" plays better than one which has a "designed solution".

Think an adventure game, where in order to proceed, you have to figure out the intention of the game designer for items and combinations (and pixel hunting). Compare that to the recent zelda game, where puzzles are more free-form - where you can employ physics to solve the problem at hand (such as crossing a cravice by falling a tree trunk across it).
On the other hand, the public is the property owner of the beach.
Has anyone taken up a hobby for the sole reason of staving off a neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer's?
They can connect cause and effect if you are consistent and very fast.

Proposing some plausible numbers: raise 2 to the power of their age in years, and the result is how many seconds you have.

It may be a bit low, giving only 3 days at age 18, but you get the idea. Use e to give the 18-year-old a couple years.
I would suggest you read "Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky. The media has an enormous amount of power in shaping public opinion, and in particular also has a massive amount of control over the Overton window. There are countless examples of this happening very publicly -- just in the past decade.
I would only put money on Facebook standing up for individual liberties if they were going to make money off of it.
I suggest you read 1984 critically instead of repeating the nonsense you were told.

Which "news organization" in 1984 was punished for reporting on topics that made the state look bad? Did you even read the book?

The point of 1984 was that even the opposition was controlled by the "state".

You can talk about Russia, China, North Korea and mindlessly participate in your 2 minute hate. But 1984 was not about Russia, China or North Korea. It was about 1940s Britain and the West.

And your comment didn't address what you quoted: "Who are the champions of censorship in the west? The news industry". Who were the champions of censorship in 1984? The Ministry of Truth.

Even if everything you wrote was true ( which it is not ), it didn't address what you quoted.
Facebook has done horrible things, but bad business is not one of them. They already have 2 billion+ people on their platform(s) and if Facebook enables a virtual currency to exchange goods (real or virtual) it may be a hit. Just like mobile wallets have taken off pretty well, this could too. Again, I am not a facebook fan, but they know how to make money. This could be the next billion dollar idea.
Might be changing a bit over there. I've been sending a lot of Medium authors there. Medium's paywall is a good deal, but not necessarily a fit for everyone. Of the programming oriented sites to publish on, Dev.to has the biggest community and the best community leaders.
You are correct that for this type of pde solver, you don't have enough computation per byte of data for a GPU to be fast.
Ugh. This will pass too. The value of Bitcoin is in the fact that nobody can control and censor it. It's black market money. If it didn't have this quality, it'd be useless. Nobody (meaning customers) cares about Facebook launching a coin. Facebook will not be the champion of freedom. How do I know? Ask yourself, if Facebook Coin is going to be available in Crimea (currently under sanctions) or Iran (currently under sanctions) or China (where facebook is banned). The answer is of course not. Bitcoin is available in all of those places and not a single government was able to do anything about it yet.
Pretty horrible typo from the NY Times there. "Tressa" should be "Teresa".
Good point! it is only usable from 32-bit apps, which don't run anymore.

But -- if we want to be technical, the function still actually exists, since macOS menus are still driven by Carbon code.

$ nm /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/HIToolbox | grep HiliteMenu
0000000000077d86 T _HiliteMenu

That's kind of amazing to me!
Just adding to this: TeXPad is what I use on both my laptop (when working on a big screen, though I mostly use Vim when working from battery) and my iPad mini 5 (+ a little bluetooth keyboard) on flights and before meetings.

Honestly, using that + iCloud syncing (+ Git, on my laptop) has been great: all of the changes I do sync across all of my devices, as do the PDFs, which I can easily bring up in meetings, while also having the plus side of git (diffs, general VCS niceness) once I get back to my computer and commit the changes to the remote repo.

Of course, unlike the OP, I'm not aiming to completely replace my laptop... I'm trying instead to augment my workflow to not carry my laptop to meetings, while waiting for people, etc.
what do you think is weird or bad about it? it's a pretty appropriate name for a currency
First sale doctrine protects your right to rent out a copy that you own to one person at a time. Since movies are in high demand when they first come out and the demand tapers off quickly, this alone doesn't create a very appealing economic model for rentals. At $20 per DVD it's hard to make back your cost. So the studios have offered rental outlets deals in the past.

I actually don't know the details of Redbox. The specific example I remember is Blockbuster video, which used to get copies of movies for virtually free, in exchange for sharing a portion of their profits with the studios: https://www.quora.com/How-much-do-movie-rental-stores-e-g-Bl...

I think the studios agreed to this because of market segmentation, for any given movie there are people who have no interest in paying $20 to own it, but will pay a few bucks to rent it once or twice. If the studios didn't support this model they'd be leaving money on the table.
GE Wants to Sell Its Stake in More Than 100 Startups
Really interesting. (...Huh.)
They are very active in progressive causes. Perhaps when they sold the company to Unilever they negotiated some deal that allows them to continue to use Ben and Jerry website for their activism?
Training them to disarm traps could cause more harm than good. Training them to avoid traps would maybe be better. If poachers learn that their prey are hanging around the traps all day disarming them they become lures. We also don't want an arms race between poachers and trained disarmers because the poachers are at a massive advantage. Once they know a significant number of their traps will be disarmed they will just develop traps that are more difficult to disarm or even traps that hurt the animal attempting to disarm them at which point we've trained Gorillas to walk right into their traps.
Show HN: "Good For The World != Good For Facebook" – a rap about social media
Song url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zJSmiimxoQ

Quick background on the project: I'm a full time programmer and I love making rap music. I see a lot of humor (and some serious things) in the profession/industry, and thought it would be fun to combine the two.

I'm always open to feedback on audio quality/topic ideas/ways to get more exposure/etc! I am also open to collaboration with beat makers/videographers/producers!
Quitting Gmail: any way to create a searchable archive of my gmail mbox?