skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It didn't say anything about him being compensated directly for the idea. Presumably as he moved up the ranks he got compensated via profit-sharing. In the same way the highly paid guys who were SUPPOSED to be inventing new things like this (but didn't) were also compensated. And the same way they would have been compensated if they developed some hot new product (eg, at their same rate relative to the profit sharing of the whole org).
Why not?

Edit: to make sure we’re on the same page, I interpret “pure” as no side-effects and no non-determinism, so a call with the same arguments always has exactly the same result.

What side-effect does “catch” have? Something that’s visible externally, visible to the caller of the function doing the catch.

I suppose if you catch an exception and pull out the stack trace, that gives you some extra information about the caller. Even that doesn’t make you impure, though, if you treat the call stack as additional input.
per month? pretty amazing
The penalty is the amount of time you have to spend looking for a new job, and doing it while you're still working your soul-sucking current job.
Empirically, libraries with unique names are more popular than ones that aren’t. It helps to have a unique name when searching, they’re more memorable, it’s easier to disambiguate between two libraries that do similar things, etc.
The pound Sterling is the #4 currency. It has not been stable, it has been losing value against the dollar like crazy
> Nobody wants to receive $10 from a friend only to have it turn into $9.80.

The author thinks that the USD is the unmovable absolute and it's everything else that changes in relation to it.
It's a problem only for the government and existing financial institutions. Looks no further than China.
> depreciation warnings

deprecation?
Slack prices IPO at $26 per share
That's a devastatingly beautiful idea, I'm profoundly grateful for art amoungst these (soon perhaps to be?) ruins.
I came to comment on the same thing, only that it reminded me of an old browser-based game called Archmage [1] which would allow players, with enough resources, to research and cast Armageddon to end the world and cause a full reset of the game.

[1] https://www.the-reincarnation.com/ I'm amazed this is still around: I used to play this in the late 90s.
> It's mainly used by nonbinary (enby) people of Latin descent in the US who feel like both Latino and Latina are a poor fit.

It may be used that way, and that may be it's original use, but I don't think that's it's main use: AFAICT, the main use is as as a general gender-neutral alternative to “Latino” or “Latina” (i.e., basically equivalent to “Hispanic” or “Latin”, but awkward to pronounce either as an English or a Spanish word), often by people who are neither enby nor of Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx ethnicity.
I wish people would proofread their articles. How can you not notice a glaring error in your first paragraph? "the coin really a Facebook project." Geez. Just take a minute and review.
Oh man, this was ages ago, so I don't even know if it is still available on the web.

The best I could found is a similar tut where they are adding other features to notepad:

http://www.kaoteq.com/sites/fravia/fravia-darkridge/nnhnpad....

This brought me lots of memories, learning from +ORC, tKC and +HCU was the bomb back when I was in University.

I could not find the one specific for adding line numbers though.
Seems more like “how not to...”

> Conclusion - I think the Redlock algorithm is a poor choice...
Likewise, try showing a non-English speaker that "mass" and "mess" are different.

Or better yet: "Luke", "look", and "luck"

And for Spanish speakers there's "Jeep", "sheep" and "cheap"
It may be some people's only capital gain, especially considering the Libra target audience, which might greatly complicate taxes for those with US citizenship. It's not just the amount of money you make/lose through the forex.
Ghjattu volpe cat-fox discovered after being dismissed as a myth
Has anyone looked into a pneumatic powered bicycle? Is it way less efficient than a chain drive? What if you pedaled to compress air into a reserve tank that was then discharged to somehow propel the wheel(s)? That could soften the peaks and valleys of power and allow perhaps for regeneration during braking. With a large enough tank you could save up power during plains to propel you up large hills.
True. I'm not making a moral judgement here - merely stating that flouting anti-money-laundering laws and facilitating financial crimes has severe legal risks.

I'm honestly not even worried that Facebook is going to flout AML laws. I'm more worried that they'll use the fact that they're using newfangled technology and the political and economic weight of their crypto consortium to get favorable legislation passed. And then, because of said crypto features, we'll end up undermining laws that fight money laundering and other financial crimes.
It is matter of time this will happen. Even with self-driving cars. Using people to do this is just killing people. Think all the mental effort that has to be done to censor. Humans aren't that perfect and cannot oversee the entire FB daily activity.
Class diversity is pretty hard to achieve because you usually need some baseline class to actually be able to succeed in a role, i.e. you can't show up to a meeting with customers or shareholders chewing dip and wearing camo jorts. And social mobility from lower classes into corporate-ready roles is rather low in this country, so while there certainly are people who grew up poor and would be useful for companies to figure out what lower class consumers might need, there aren't many of them; furthermore, for the people who did grow up that way and into being a person able to function in the corporate sphere, it's probably in part due to their rejection of their poor background.

Maybe we just need more focus groups.
Try rural and epoch

(vs https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rural and https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epoch)
I think the cultural ideal of meritocracy needs to be addressed, and this is conflating two separate issues:

1) People of certain backgrounds want to and need to prove they CAN compete.

2) People of certain backgrounds should be helping make decisions even without credentials.

so there are both competent and less competent people that need to be included.

"wait what why? I wasted way too much of my life to accept why less competitive people should have such lucrative roles"

because the profit engine doesn't really need to care about the human worker's competency, it only needs to expand the addressable market. having already reached peak engagement, the business processes have already reached the evolutionary zenith for the incumbent nepotism and meritocrat talent's way of tapping into human consumptive conscious. Expanding that market further requires perceptions that people in those markets can relate to.
it’s good to hear that you recognize your privilege. now what will you do with it?

self discipline (class-based, in your description) is something foucault explored quite a bit.
Or to follow progressive enhancement: serve the core content quickly and accessibly and let JavaScript provide improvements. This usually provides significant performance and reliability benefits, too, because your visitors get the core page even if the more complicated code breaks.
> why does distillation always seem to come in second best in terms of efficiency compared to the use of membranes?

Offhand I think two or three reasons.

1. You need a temperature differential to drive distillation. Multistage distillation helps somewhat. That temperature differential limits the ultimate efficiency you can achieve.

2. You need to create a phase change for all the water molecules. And then recover as much of the heat as possible. Vs membrane which operates directly on the sodium/chloride ions.

3. Distillation uses really low grade (low temperature) heat. Turning high grade energy sources to low grade heat tends to result in a dead loss. Vs membrane which uses pressure. Pressure is high grade energy.
I didn't understand why this post was so controversial, but now I get it. If you undermine the idea that individual dynamism (the american dream) is solely responsible for individual success, you'll get downvotes.
Vegetarians get macronutrients from dairy, but they get it on minimums. Both vegetarians and vegans rely on suplements, sadly.
All right everyone! We're ALL wrong! GIF is pronounced: https://youglish.com/search/gif/all
> Because nobody calls people from Mexico "Latin".

Yes, they do, “Latin” and “Hispanic” were the dominant terms in English before “Latino” and “Latina” took over and are still current though less common; the main reason Latino/Latina took over is because they respect terminology used in the described community, in a way Latinx (used generically, use as a label for enby members of the ethnicity may be different) does not.
The title is kind of clickbait. The article says this is near the catacombs, not in them, which makes sense since the catacombs are ossuaries.

better title: "Scaleway's data centre in a bunker, 26 meters under Paris"
That was one expensive mistake
Linode bills per-hour: https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/billing-and-support/bil...
That pricing isn't too bad. They come with decent SSD storage too, which is key for the large datasets that make a GPU instance worthwhile.

Linode skews more towards smaller scale customers with many of their offerings so I think the GPUs here make sense. The real test will be how often they upgrade them and what they upgrade them too.
What better alternatives exist?
Bill Demands Facebook, Twitter Be Vetted for Political Bias
Exactly.

.. It is also pretty obvious that the guy wants to become a king of the world or something like that. He couldn't do that with his network. He will do that with money. It's also a diversification strategy, shifting business from problematic facebook (for how long it will last?) to a new potentially long-term venture.
The glibc repository has multiple test cases for atexit, it seems a lot of the current behavior derives from a fix for this bug in 2005: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1158

It seems odd for the author to have invested so much time in this, but not to have found or patches those glibc test case to demonstrate the behavior he expects in various hairy test cases glibc itself is worrying about, and which forms the basis for its current behavior.
My impression is that the CEOs often (typically?) leave as soon as whatever vesting periods are defined in the acquisition have passed.

But now you mention acquisitions, it could be argued that NeXT CEO Steve Jobs did OK as an Apple employee…
Interesting! Do you have a link? A cursory search yields nothing for that, but I found this: Squeak Makes a Good Python Debugger[0]

https://www.timfelgentreff.de/public/uni/NiephausPX2017.pdf
Facebook doesn't have anyone but themselves to blame for poor reactions to Libra. I think it's a cool idea with interesting tech and I'm interested to see what happens with it. I want to be optimistic, but I am not surprised at the backlash.
https://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate...

Scroll to the bottom there and it talks about the math. I took up through Calc 2 in high school so I only needed to complete the discrete math course. But as it mentions, some of the upper division CS classes do require upper division math courses. OSU 100% offers the courses, though I don't know about online.
I forgot about the Field Service techs hah. Straight (outta DeVry) programmer analyst types like https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/superman-iii/27817/what-sup... were pretty much considered users in the DEC world. That is, there was a distinction between systems programmers and applications programmers (who might use a DEC-specific forms-management library or a database API but didn't really even necessarily know what model their harmless-to-the-other-users code was running on).
It sort of bothers me that the kubeadm logo is just the K8s logo wrapped in the React logo.

That said, I’m a big fan of the improvements to the CRD’s. That was a pain point in the past.
I like Vue, but I don't like aggressive webpack+babel pushing.

What's the use of a module loading/splitting script that ends up with net increase of your bundle over non compresses/pruned JS every time?
Not really. Money laundering, extortion, and other financial crimes have negative externalities. It's absolutely a problem if we invent the technology that allows me to pay a crypto-ransom, since that pretty directly creates a bunch of ransomers.

Also, the principals involved in "disrupting" governments and existing financial institutions also face the problem of government reprisal. Liberty Reserve got seized and their principals arrested and charged with various financial crimes.
But what's different? Why is this a different concern now than it was 5 years ago?

Photographic evidence hasn't stopped Trump from believing his inauguration was larger than Obama's. And it has always been easy to get people en-mass to believe hoaxes using doctored evidence.[0][1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

[1]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dead-fairy/
> That is the definition of a cryptographically secure hash.

It is not! None of the cryptographically secure hashes are proven to produce truly random output. They only strive to achieve indistinguishability from randomness, bounded by computational complexity of attacks.

Anyway, what you're talking about, in general, is called a randomness extractor. The protocol described in the article, apart from verification, uses "a strong quantum-proof randomness extractor to extract Ω(N) bits of randomness from the recorded string". So yeah, "pure, verifiable randomness is hard to come by".
Ah, yes, Congress — the most competent subject matter experts regarding the internet and technology.
Microsoft’s Chromium Edge browser now available on Windows 7 and Windows 8
Isn't AWS cheaper?

edit: could be wrong thought I read of AWS being .65 dollars an hour for deep learning GPU use.
edit2: Did a quick look, the .65 dollars doesn't include the actual instance, so its around 1.8 an hour on the low end, I think this cheaper.
Seems to me that what's "supposed to happen" is "make it so the situation can't happen". That is, either make it so that you cannot unload the library if some function is registered with atexit, or else make it so that unloading the library unregisters the atexit function.

But of course, that can't happen, because you can have N function calls between the registered atexit function and the call to the library, and deciding if any calls to the library are anywhere in the graph and will be called is probably equivalent to the halting problem.

I agree that none of the possibilities are what we actually want.
I find the last paragraphs of this article about how GM improved it's panel gaps fascinating; especially with the discussion of innovation of flaming hot cheetos came from at the top of HN right now. It fits my bias that modern business/capitalism's biggest waste is systematic devaluation of human capability.

"Just show me what you want, and I'll get it for you, guaranteed!" The initial story was that it would take time, and millions for new assembly equipment, which I was ready to approve.

Strangely, within a few months, all GM vehicles were within striking distance of the world's best (and still are today.) And I never saw the request for capital. Years later, I asked Spielman how that had happened. "Well," he explained, "when we discussed it with the lower-level operating supervisors and the skilled-trade hourly folks, they told us they could do it... it's just nobody has ever asked for it before, so they didn't think it mattered."
"Re-mastering" is tricky shit. There was once a 45rpm single that was not terribly well recorded or mixed ... but in which the teenaged lead singer's vocal very much captured the vulnerability of the character. This version became a US#1 hit.

I can't prove it, but in the decades that followed, this vocal was replaced. The vocalist and backing may have been the same (??) but the vulnerability was gone. The original version became unavailable in any format (except originals).

Same music?? hardly. Many 'B' sides became hits -solely- because of the qualities of the performance. (Example: 'Louie Louie'.) So, it all hangs on who does the re-mastering ... and whether the mastertape survived.
>tariff is more a tax on imports, paid by consumers ie citizens

Only in the pathological case when most or all imports of the particular good is under the tariffs.

Just for sake of example, suppose for a second America had diversified source of steel; four distinct countries each supplying about 25% of imports. Suppose a tariff was laid on the Chinese imports only. Would the prices of other imports move up? A bit, but much, much less than the tariff. Competition does wonders.

OTOH, if the only significant source of imports is from China -as is the case right now- well yes, in that case the americans will end up paying. Luckily this also creates positive pressure to diversify sources - which in a longer run will make imports much more competitively priced. Doubly luckily, the money raised on tariffs goes into the governmental budget, which means it gets spent back into the american economy anyway (minus the inefficiency of the government).
I think you got US for “aluminum” because the US is the only country that spells it that way.
My intuition (and complete guess) is that ML is pretty far away from distinguishing slang words. Maybe it can understand it, at least to some extent, but categorizing it by country (well you really even need region) is harder.
Does anybody know if there are any cloud instances with AMD GPUs?
If that is your preference, you may need to take responsibility for it. The default in the medical community is to prolong, so if you're far enough gone that they control your fate then that is what will happen. "Living wills" exist but IME they change what gets argued about not the result.
The government can freeze access to your assets unilaterally without your input if they deem it necessary. They can even take your cash and charge it with crimes! That's not even including things like the US government OFAC list which you could end up on without due process.

But to your point, thankfully we (mostly) have due process with our government (in US at least); the same cannot be said of dealing with corporations. I certainly see your point. One large fear I have around money being a number in a database is that your access to the monetary system is more easily revoked, whomever the controlling authority may be.
Unlike Alexa, every time you ask it a question it replies “Nevermore.”
>instead of using `console.log(...)` they use `print (...)` as if it is Python.

There's a `Module.print` that wraps `console.log` with a bit of logic. The code might have intended to call that one.

window.Module = function (e, n, f) {
var d = {
},
p = [
'DEBUGGING ENABLED'
];
return d.print = function (e) {
return p.indexOf(e) < 0 && console.log('WASM: ' + e)
},
d.printErr = function (e) {
return console.error('WASM: ' + e)
},
...
d
}(e, n, f)
facebook couldn't possibly do anything that wouldn't be painted in a bad light in the current year. They could literally shut down their site and the world would be up in arms that they cut their access to their audiences. It's a moral panic, it will pass.
The essay being quoted compares two design philosophies, the MIT approach:

> I will call the use of this philosophy of design the ``MIT approach.'' Common Lisp (with CLOS) and Scheme represent the MIT approach to design and implementation.

and the New Jersey approach:

> Early Unix and C are examples of the use of this school of design, and I will call the use of this design strategy the ``New Jersey approach.''

(Unix came out of Bell Labs, which is in Murray Hill, New Jersey.)

When the anonymized Bill Joy is introduced, it is written that he is "from Berkeley (but working on Unix)". That parenthetical is important because it establishes him as working under the New Jersey approach (and possibly working with people in New Jersey), and therefore as being a "New Jersey guy", despite not physically being located there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20228480
Handy for debugging I guess?
Commonality is both are driven by the highly sociopathic and craven advertising/sales industry. You can order corporations by their dependence on ad and dark marketing revenue.
Maybe so.

But none of the Bitcoin thefts mixed with Bitcoin Fog have ever been traced, as far as I know. Some after much effort by reddit armies. So ???
It's not a bug it's a feature. Cryptocurrencies were invented by and promoted by libertarians from the beginning.
I agree the whole thing is complicated and especially hard to navigate without guidance. I was merely responding to parent asking to validate their reasoning.
I wish the world could decide on a standard console method. I, far too often, catch myself typing console. in Java. It's even worse if I've done some C# recently.
Stuff like this should be brought in-house. You can't outsource responsibility. Engineering and AI/pattern matching should be in the loop as a key ingredient so that a terrible image/video won't have to be viewed by human eyes at all, or worst case just once.
I think the same about Uber and the drama with drivers. If the work is so bad, pay so terrible, riders don’t want to pay more, then why hasn’t the market killed itself?

Now we have gov externalities trying to legislate something that shouldn’t have existed?

I’m not saying any of this is write or wrong, I’m just at a loss how people get mad at Uber when the model shouldn’t have made it. Where did the market dynamics go wrong here?
I have a friend who converted a coat closet in his house into a datacenter large enough for a MicroVAX II with air-conditioning. He had run terminal lines to every room in the house to plug-in VTs. That said, he had a legit reason for doing it. Basically writing code 24x7 a day for his customers in those pre-laptop days.
A few people saw a wolf a handful of few times in an area I regularly walked through one summer, and I started carrying a bat if I was alone, but mainly trying to walk with dogs or another person. Both can be scary, even though both are less likely to harm you then a car.
A new Presto scheduler to improve cache reads
> “How much market share do you think you can get?”
"I opened my arms and I said, ‘This much market share!’"

Brilliant answer for a stupid question that was probably meant to put him down.

> Frito-Lay began testing Flamin’ Hot Cheetos in small Latino markets in East Los Angeles. If it performed well, the company would move forward with the product; if it didn’t, they’d scratch it

So Montañez assembled a small team of family members and friends, went to the test markets, and bought every bag of Hot Cheetos he could find.

Also brilliant, as such a "test" would certainly fail due to no marketing, likely intentional by the exec's and politics.
Can these be used for crypto mining at any level of efficiency? I was able to mine GRLC back in the day on AWS spot instances at a VERY mild degree of profitability.
Congress enacted the first sugar tariff in 1789. Politics has changed a lot over time. However, it’s the substitutes of sugar beets outside Florida not sugar cane that provides most US sugar production.

That’s currently less relevant at industrial scales where corn is a fine substitute even if it’s a slightly different chemical and not granular.
> The move largely gives states the authority to decide how far to scale back emissions, or not to do it all, and significantly reduces the federal government’s role in setting standards.

> immediately drew a flurry of challenges, with attorneys general in California, Oregon, Washington State, Iowa, Colorado and New York saying they intended to sue to block the measure.

I'm a bit confused here by these 2 statements. Why would states sue, or even have the authority to, when the Federal government is delegating control to the states?