skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you account for all the vulnerabilities paches in Intel? Some benchmarks might now show it, but in real life you'll get that performance hit (or you'll need to disable those protections and some people don't like it).
Werewolves? Harry Potter?
A 2 hour career as a bug bounty hunter
Thankfully PWAs will kill Electron, as per my prognosis.

XUL and HTA apps also had their fad phase.
On the one hand, this makes sense - nobody is coming to save us, and we have to do it ourselves. Whats the best mechanism for this? Business isnt a wrong answer.

But lets be honest here - these businesses havent finished the job. We can celebrate "capitalist innovation" starting to attempt to address a problem functioning government would have had fixed a decade ago.

We need to make a choice - either quit pretending that government can only work when it is in someone's pocket, or we can become a third world country. We need to understand it as an active choice.
I accept all of what you're saying and also spend a lot of my day reading ML papers :)

To boil it down a little perhaps, the point I'm making is that the incremental gain from new ideas coming out seems to be slowly decreasing, in my view - which is perfectly natural! It obviously makes sense that that would happen.

Where that thought leads me though, is the idea that we may be slowly moving towards the exploitation half of the explore/exploit choice. I'm not saying greenfield ML research is gone by any means, only that I think a lot of stuff presented as such may in fact not be because in many cases it doesn't really fundamentally re-think the problem being addressed.
Almost all of my posts on G+ were autoposted from my blog. This was true for most of the people I followed as well. It was just another checkbox for promoting content hosted elsewhere. Interaction occurred in comments on my blog or on Facebook but almost never in G+.
I think G+ failed because of design system. The effect of auto popup when you hover the + button is annoying, at least to me.

The overall design is "circle", which i think is annoying for most of people, too.
>On the face of it, the Slack UI works beautifully in Browser, Desktop and iOS clients.

It's not accessible. This alone destroys "beautifully".

But even beyond that, it's just not a good citizen or experience wherever it is. It's deeply single-paned and hence single-tasked: you can't open a conversation in a tab or separate window. And switching between conversations/threads/groups on any platform is much harder than it needs to be. Their quick-switcher is a quasi CLI bandage over this that increases cognitive load on the user.

The enterprise multi-slack experience is even more horrible as it expands that problem across multiple quasi-discrete instances.

On iOS it does unnatural things with text so you can't select portions to copy and paste.

On desktop it is so much of a resource hog it's our generation's version of Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.

And this isn't intrinsic: none of this stuff was an issue when you could use IRC clients to access it. But they turned those off.
Depends where you want to spend your time: on substance or on volume.

Either way, your lifetime will never be enough to cover everything.
Has anyone attempted to copy it? Ie HP or Asus?
> many of which from shills and throwaways

Yes, andrew and bill are both shills. And my comments have everything false written in it.

Have you even read the comments?
Did you try midomi.com or similar sound-based search?
The robot itself is ok, it basically holds a dish and rotates a sponge/brush. I can see how it can compete with a regular dishwasher. But the business model really takes the cake. Dishes as a service? If you're going to ship off the dishes to be processed at a central site anyway then do you really care if a robot is washing your dishes? It wouldn't surprise me if the robot only exists for PR and they secretly use dish washers.
This is a really great idea; so simple but quite useful! Thanks for sharing!
> It’s “don’t be evil”, not “do no evil”. There’s a subtle but important difference.

So, too, the difference between "don't be evil" and "be good."
Exactly, and any low-level (assembly/machine) engineer would be unlikely unaware of the high/low-level terminology.
Please stop generalizing humans and the west like that, you know that's not true because you yourself are aware of it and can be a counter-example.
This would be after I told them I was Mexican. Some people struggle to say it.
That's our impression, too. There are AMD Motherboards that take ECC memory, but we've never seen them act on ECC errors that were uncorrectable (the correctably errors are handled, but uncorrectable errors aren't reported!).

We will only use Intel Xeon for our work because of this. You'll get about 1 bit flip/GB/year. With 128 GB or more in our standard builds, this would be more than 2/week. We just can't have that uncertainty in the data we provide.

And while Cinebench is a useful benchmark, all our heavy number crunching is done on NVidia 2080 architecture so the fact that AMD may have an advantage on some cases isn't that interesting for us. Perhaps if you're a gamer, who doesn't care about an occasional bitflip, looking to squeeze the last drop of value out for his dollar....
Yeah that's why they invented the nomenclature such as "AMD Athlon 3200+". It was equivalent to a 3.2Ghz pentium in performance.
I don’t think so. I only have On Lisp on hand and it deals solely with the language itself.
While coq is an automated theorem prover, I've had a tremendous amount of fun working my way through Software Foundations[1]. The vast majority of the proofs are assembled "by hand", but with coq verifying steps. For someone like me who has a "late in life" fascination with mathematics, doing proofs using coq has been fantastic.

[1] https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/
>no-one prevents you from using them for your business

People who complain about these products probably aren't in the position to use something else, or they probably would have switched already.
I've not deep dived into nouveau for a while so wasn't sure if they added cuda support in the past couple of years since I played with it which is why I only said "maybe".
"The one single real advantage of Slack is marketing."

Respectfully, NO.

Providing a very useful turnkey set of features out of the box that are technically possible but fiddly and hard to use in IRC is in and of itself a huge advantage. This is why they're successful. This is why people use it. This is why people use it who barely know what a command line IS.
> I basically called her a crank

That doesn’t help.

The people that get swept up in these movements have been called similar in the past and if anything it strengthens their resolve when they finally do find that group of likeminded people.
They tested it on Googlers. However, that's an atypical audience and more testing with a different group would have helped.
I always thought the name had something to do with it, "google plus" doesn't sound right specially for a social network, also "Hangouts" is a terrible name, it doesn't internationalize well nor does it work for an enterprise setting, and "keep" is a good app but it should be called "google notes" nevermind they already used that name on a now defunct product.

Google has been worse at naming products than they have a right to be.
You might not care for low level TCP/IP details but this project will make for a great learning experience for anyone wanting to dig deeper into Rust and network programming.

It works with tun/tap interfaces and there's a tcpdump clone in the example using raw sockets that works on any regular Linux network interfaces.

Pretty cool!
> ubers worth is their international recognition as a premium service

Anecdotal perhaps, but that's not my impression among friends & family. (based in Central & Western Europe) Unless you consider "less likely to be totally ripped off" as "premium". Which I guess it is to some extent, but taxi drivers in many western countries have set the bar so extremely low in terms of service that competing services such as Uber just need to meet the bare minimum of expectations customers would have in other industries.

In Japan meanwhile, as has been said by others, you literally get the white glove treatment in any run-of-the mill taxi and screwing people over totally goes against the grain of the local culture, so it's hard to see how other services might differentiate themselves. Plus of course, public transportation in the cities is fantastic and reasonably priced.

(We recently did a trip to Japan with our then-9-month-old, which meant we had more luggage than we'd normally like. So we ended up taking a few taxis instead of dragging it all the few hundred metres from the train station to whatever next hotel/apartment we were staying; in Europe, many taxi drivers would probably not even have stopped to pick us up if they'd seen us with all our stuff.)
> C is the L0 language needed for bootstrapping anyway.

So it is your hard dependency. Describe so.

> You say "also". What else?

If you think that they are spreading the misinformation because some of claimed dependencies are actually for stdlib, you should think again. A substantial subset of HN users would think that "zero dependencies" promise extends to stdlib, as it is technically possible to have out-of-box UI and graphics in the stdlib and especially Go was famous of its independent crypto and network libraries. Your statement was not clear enough.
>In fact it can be racist even if the same person accepts e.g. Japan, as Japan and Korea faced the same dismissals in the 60s to 80s (as copiers, second rate quality places, corrupt states, etc) before being accepted.

They also had a democratic process, a lawful system ( bias or not ) in place where many of these issues can be solved diplomatically.

Not the same of China, everything is tangled together. CCP.
The core issue, I think, is that software development remains unpredictable in many very common situations (for a whole lot of reasons, most of which are not technical). Management and planning requires predictability, so we devise systems like Agile to attempt to impose predictability. This addresses the wrong problem: the work itself is unpredictable, no matter how predictably your sprints start and end and how well you fit X% of a project into each sprint. Things improve (in many cases thanks to systems like Agile) until they hit a local maximum constrained by that fundamental unpredictability, at which point planners and management are still unhappy, so more process is imposed, abd eventually we end up in the situation described by this article.

Usually,causes of the fundamental unpredictability remain unacknowledged and unaddressed beyond a superficial level.
Do like the French and simply issue a blanket ban on some of the pesticides involved: https://www.gouvernement.fr/en/ban-on-neonicotinoid-insectic...

Some solutions are that simple. Stop doing the things that we know are bad. We had functioning agriculture before people started using this. Part of the problem is assuming these things are hard to solve. They are not but it does require measures that are inevitably going to hurt some companies with powerful lobbies. I don't see how this can be avoided though. There's probably a few more things that need to be banned. But this seems like a good start.
One time I accidentally left in an HTML tag when adding a note on the Social Security website. That page got messed up and would no longer load properly. I just stopped using it since I didn't want to report it and get in trouble. It was shocking that they fail to do even the most basic input sanitization.
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No, they're different things. Correctness is nice, but it's much more important to me that my software doesn't let some bad person take over my computer than it is that my software works perfectly all the time. If I can get both at a reasonable cost, I'll take both, of course. But I'll settle for safety.
I know that I'm in minority, but could you tell me what do you find great about Hitchhiker's Guide? I find it ok-ish. It feels overly chaotic for me. Like it really tries to wave the idea of improbability at me and eventually shove it. Of course everything is exaggerated for comedic effects, but for me it's like it tries too hard. The result is very incoherent.

It reminds me of a few movies I enjoyed dearly when I was a kid. After a rewatch they seem like a bunch of good gags, that tell a miserable story. If I would judge the scenes by themselves, I would say they are nice. However if you put them in order, it seems forced to put a story together.

I had similar thoughts after reading Pratchett's The Colour of Magic. Though after I started reading The Light Fantastic it fell into place. I would say that those two books should be inseparable. Whatever happens in the first does not make sense until the second book. Now I can say that I enjoyed it more then Mort and Guards! Guards!, but at the moment it's all I read from Discworld, do maybe my opinion is yet to change. I wonder if it's the same with Hitchhiker's Guide. But I'm on 19th chapter of 4th book and although this one feels much better, whatever happens in previous three still does not make any sense.

I'll pass if you will tell me it should not make sense, that's figurative 'it' and I get it as it is. Because coherence is what makes a story for me.
Isn't cinebench mostly video encode and decode? If so, isn't that mostly per-architecture handcoded assembly? Is it possible that AMD has done work to make it more efficient specifically for their architecture?
>Sure, you might catch the themes and be able to have a water cooler conversation, but the best books are the ones that aren't page turners; ones that you spend all night on, and only make it through 20 pages.

Going to have to disagree with you here. I don't think you're wrong, but your stance is personal matter of taste that's somewhere between 20 pages per minute and 20 pages per hour.

I prefer fantasy and sci-fi (both YA and non-YA), because I like to explore the world building. I don't mind the simplicity of YA novels. I use reading as relaxing entertainment where I can shut off a few cylinders. Though I do enjoy heavier stuff like Sanderson's Stormlight Archives.
Since nobody yet mentioned it, just going to remind everyone that a 16 core, 32 thread desktop chip for Zen 2 will exist, and be priced under 800 dollars.
> Except for ##2 killer features##, IRC already has all that, and even that is possible ##if you implement it yourself##.

That's what normal people see when they read your message.
Is this being posted to Hacker News so we can laugh at it? Are we that much in need of entertainment?
I was about to post the same view (though I hadn't bumped into Exploration vs Exploitation before).

One year I decided to blow through as many books as I could, and the next year I took my time and re-read the interesting ones much more closely. If I hadn't spend the previous year getting through as many as I could, I wouldn't have found even half of the interesting ones.

There is a middle ground between consuming as much as possible and carefully reading every book.
Also remember that the honeybee is not native to North America and is technically an invasive species here. This along with domestication means lower genetic diversity making the honey bee population more susceptible to any single issue than our native wild bees.
If your priority is single-threaded performance, why did you choose 9900k? I was under impression 9700k is single-thread king.
Kubernetes Ingress on Kind (Kubernetes in Docker)
"Except for message retention and search"
My guess is that a 10ms difference in network latency would be a bigger impact on page load times than the latest Zen2 vs Intel CPU.

In reality I think for general web browsing the difference, if it exists at all, in either direction, would not be perceptible.

I know that's not EXACTLY what you're asking, but I think it's worth mentioning the practical aspect as well.
This is really happening, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
Maybe people are generally jaded to to the slowness of cross-platform Javascript apps, but if you take a step back you can really see how bad it is.

I had people at my last job who had to quit Slack because of how hot it was making their laptops, and how much memory it was using.

At my current job, Slack is definitely one of my most rate limiting applications for how quickly I can get things done. Scrolling in chat, searching, switching channels- these are all actions that are extremely slow, and sometimes seem like they don’t work at all.
Florida city agrees to pay $600k malware ransom
>....rule of law and long-term stability in politics, policies and enforcing contractual agreements, established historically or by implication, to nearly the same degree as most Western countries.

May be it is time to stop using the word Western, which is a word China likes to use. Both I don't see Japan, South Korea, Australia being in the West.

May be we should start using the world "International".
I left off something Backpage should have both helped police catch adults pumping out kids and worked with agencies to help the kids who were involved with prostitution whether they were forced or not.
The number of Chinese immigrants to Canada cannot be underestimated. There are whole cities where Chinese constitute more than 50% of the population [1].

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[1] http://www.richmond-news.com/news/chinese-reach-majority-in-...
This may not be the best forum for this, but I actually have a (what I believe to be) really good story about consuming books.

The first time I read Howl by Ginsberg, it was a copy given to me by someone who, as I look back now, was trying to guide my life away from its trajectory at the time. I was young, had, again as I look back now, an un-diagnosed mental illness, and was self-medicating through a combination of illicit drugs and terrible decisions.

This man gave me his copy of Howl that was from 1958. It was one of his most prized possessions. The gift came with a lecture, as did most meetings with this man, about my life and the life of the Beat poets back then. He expressed several lessons that have stuck with me to today. He demanded that I read the book that night and consider its themes.

There are times in your life when conscious decisions have an everlasting impact. I remember, I vividly remember sitting in my car - where I lived at the time - looking at that book after finishing a cold can of Dinty Moore beef stew. It was mid-October. The leaves were turning brown, but not fully brown yet. It was unseasonably warm, and the mosquitoes were bad enough that I had to use a t-shirt cut in half to cover the window opening, just so I could have some air movement without being eaten alive.

And there on my passenger seat was this book. Again, conscious choices. I heard Jim's words, how desperately pleading, but still forceful they were. I think he could see that I was actively trying to burn myself out.

So I picked up his, again, 1958 edition of Howl, and started reading. Jesus that poem. It's just the perfect thing that has ever existed. You can taste the sweat and shit and hate and love that Ginsberg poured into that poem. It's over 60 years old, but FUCK is it still so fresh.

I remember sitting in that car, just devouring that poem (metaphorically). I, for an instant, saw myself dying, and for what? Some weird anger I couldn't let go of about how my parents treated me when I was a kid? About how my life was seemingly unable to straighten itself out?

That book, and I cannot stress this enough, hit me so hard that I broke down. I cried. Ugly, snot faced, loud sobbing, just awful.

And I knew, at that moment, that I needed to get help. I knew that I needed to seek out someone, probably Jim (it was Jim) to help me. And I knew that my life would never be the same from that moment.

I knew that I had to remember this moment for when it got too hard to cope with 'straight' life. I knew that I needed to do something to be able to remind myself that change was now a part of me, not just something I was doing.

I ate the cover of the book.
> when you pull a fish up from a hundred-plus yards underwater quickly, they tend to not survive if you do toss them back

I see, so you're doing them a favour.

The only thing that still seems a bit off is, who gets to define them as 'pests'?

I suppose some deep sea fishermen have that opinion, but they must serve some purpose in the ocean?
On the other hand, I don't think anyone accused slack, with multi-megabyte webpages and even worse mobile app, of being a great experience. I think I used it once, and said no more.
I looked at your NOAA link. I could be mistaken, but I think it said the snow cover extent increased.

Ie was there snow on the ground in a given area. Snow that melts come spring.

This isn’t ice. Is there something in your link that suggests ice is growing? The sea ice portion showed it to be shrinking.

You’re claiming new glaciers are forming somewhere, basically.

Your timeline of the Maunder minimum is completely wrong. This doesn’t lend confidence to your interpretation of the NASA report: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
Never had a great manager, but I can tell you what makes a bad one. Sometimes knowing the opposite of what you want can be just as helpful:

- No communication outside of routine things (assigning work, asking about deadlines, etc.)

- No vision or goals for the team or individual team members aside from "show up on time and get your work done"

- No attempts to encourage or reward employee development

- Doesn't effectively manage workload and deadlines (it's impossible to learn new things when you're always behind)

- Not receptive to suggestions, even less receptive to feedback/criticism

- Never fights for team members when it comes time for raises and promotions
Fair point. I guess you could say Rust is just as secure as the weakest library routine you call from your code.

That said, in C++, unsafe is just form example a harmless looking pointer cast or array [] indexing away.

At least with Rust you know where the dragons lie. Just grep for "unsafe".
I honestly detest the overuse of the word 'consume'
Is it known yet whether the 32-core Threadripper will be discontinued or whether a potential 32-core 7nm Epyc will run at higher clock rates?

I'm searching for the fastest C++ compile machine, that includes linking (which is single core).
And the motherboards from two years ago (AM4) will support the latest Zen2 / Ryzen 3000 series CPU[0]. Meanwhile intel changes the socket every generation which adds another $100-$300 to the cost of a CPU upgrade.

[0] double check your board manufacturer for bios updates to support new CPU, my cheap B350 board does.
Not that I'm particularly fond of it, but how is Medium evil in a way that G+ was not?
Absolutely agree. Unfortunately this kind of "always optimizing" viewpoint seems to have spread like a virus over this past decade. It is sometimes difficult to remember that spending time to read/understand things slowly is not a waste of time, but an important way to appreciate the work of a master in a way that speeding through it at 1.5x on an audiobook simply will not provide.

Do we speed-walk through the Louvre to see the masterpieces as quickly as possible?
Whoever downvoted my question can explain why? or it was just for fun?
That seems like a good way to get divorced within a week or weeks of marriage.