skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well unfortunately yes those are some of the most valuable industries in the world - it's way beyond yearbooks - it is the potential of replacing ALL communication to people you know. It's not just blockbuster's killer but potentially a company that will own/control the distribution of all entertainment. and the last one isn't just taxis but the potential to be (with sound competition) a possible future replacement of car ownership altogether.

I'm not saying they have a great chance of making it that far, but yes, that's why people invest in them.
Can I please complain a little? Is hackernews the small local news source for the bay area bubble? I don't know what pioneer is or which scores are being manipulated or what happens to winners (or losers). I assumed the electronics company known for its amplifiers etc. was up to some dodgy shenanigans. Zero context from the title. I don't mind clicking stuff to get more context but I think some of it should be there without assuming everyone is in the loop at all time.
I'd assume they have small footprints as well, but there's a lot of them. A lot of tiny feet will still make an impact.
I'm scratching my head, too. I could've sworn the Linux kernel itself had a few chunks of hand-written assembly for better performance in key spots.

EDIT: I see several, just from doing a simple search against 'movq'

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=movq&unscoped_q=m...

I am not a kernel programmer, though, so I can't say whether it's being used in any capacity on modern, x64 systems or whether it's a compatibility mode for low-powered embedded architectures. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can chime in.
It seems to have ligatures, no? Fourth screenshot shows them off.
Exactly. Fixing bugs is one of the best ways to learn a new codebase. Assuming you have a process for code reviews and some form of testing in place, it's not like there's much risk of a bad change getting out.

I'd actually lean the other way: No one should be adding new features to an existing codebase without having successfully done some fixes first.
There isn't a meaning limit on the number of pigs that can be raised, unfortunately.
People using tripods are less likely to be aware of their surroundings than those who are holding their cameras -- think about it -- if you're using a tripod, you're probably peering into the viewfinder and hyperfocused on fine-tuning intricate settings on your camera to set up your tripod shot, right? If you're holding the camera in your hands, you at least have a part of your brain focusing on making sure you don't drop it or it doesn't get bumped out of your hands.

People like to complain about "health and safety gone mad" but there's usually a psychological component to blanket-banning things. It's usually the path of least resistance.
And it's been commonplace in industrial electronics for about 20 years. The reaction to it there was "It has an rs-232 over Ethernet adapter built in? That's convenient."
The shareholder value myth emerged from Chicago, not Harvard, FWIW.
so, he retired at 55. why is that mentioned in his bio as the most strange of things?
The joke goes "economists correctly predicted 10 of the last 2 recessions."

You can always retroactively find predictions to match reality, but that doesn't mean you have much ability to figure out how much they're guessing more than anyone else at the time. Hindsight is 20/20. I've been reading about how the economy is going to crash next year for 5 years. Of course it seems inevitable that it will crash, but I'm not convinced anyone can predict when. And I'm not sure how many people can predict why.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation
The style used by Turbo C is strictly inferior. There is no way for the author of the assembly code to cooperate with the compiler's register allocator or instruction scheduler.

You wouldn't even need both of those lines with gcc. You could ask the compiler to put 0x13 into ax, and the compiler might schedule that instruction far earlier or even take advantage of the value already being in the register by luck.

Turbo C makes a simplistic assumption about what registers might have been trashed. With gcc, the compiler knows because you told it. Turbo C must save things to memory before the assembly and then reload registers afterward, which adds enough slowness that the assembly might not even be worthwhile.
There's hardly any military work that would involve using code from GitHub in Crimea. All the R&D is done in mainland Russia. This targets common people who use GitHub for their pet projects or just regular work.

In general, this thread demonstrates that here there's very little understanding about the mass psychology of Russians, and, really, any nation other than Americans. No one in Crimea is going to rebel against the Russian government because of the U.S. sanctions against them exclusively. A policy like this only validates the Russian government's narrative of the U.S. going after Russia as such. If the U.S. government wanted to seek allies in Crimeans, they could perhaps focus on sanctioning Moscovian oligarchs. Well, except they won't, because Russian oligarchs that lose leverage in the Kremlin later make for good dissidents to be used by the U.S. as an ideological tool against Russia. And the oligarchic system is keeping Russia from modernizing, which is also in the U.S. interest.
social media is a real problem though. witness how Brazil's elections went: basically WhatsApp was used to spread really nasty stuff about the opponents, and since it's a country whose consumption of social media >> any other media, that had a real effect.

i suspect we'll see this used in other elections ASAP.

https://theconversation.com/whatsapp-skewed-brazilian-electi...
At the bottom of the glyph listings it does show glyphs for a number of the major programming ligatures. Doesn't seem to be a full set, in at least because I don't see the "Powerline" PUA glyphs, but a good set of the more common ones at least.
When viewing the movie in the theater I was stunned and had goosebumps when I realised that someone had the same weird feeling I had and made a movie about it. The scene where Neo wakes up was frightening for me. I was in a philosophical phase in that time.
Right after that there was a discussion on a new book on Slashdot. The book was called "Taking the red pill" I bought it and read it. Part one of the matrix is a really well rounded movie. The book compares it with multiple religions. It even has a nice essay on if we are already in the matrix.
Ok so then the purpose of Pioneer funding isn't to make a product that will actually do something, but just to have cute marketing and be located somewhere cool?

If that's their goal, then just go and make an ivy league global campus. Why run this circus?
Thanks for the feedback!

> you need to add as much formatting/linting into [step 1] as possible

Yes, project formatting is a whole other topic but this assumes the project already has the team's linting/formatting rules baked into the build. As a reviewer, we are pointing out failing builds here, whatever they may be. If there are deeper issues/disagreements with the build tasks, that would be a separate issue.

Thanks for the link by the way.
A good example of that is resumes. A friend thought his resume was good but could not understand why he got turned down every time he applied for a job.

I picked an appropriate font, aligned things a bit in the layout and made good use of a couple of white space. 5min job, minor tweaks, zero copy changes.

Suddenly he got loads of positive replies to his applications.

The target crowd was not one aware of typography nor design knowledge. The volume of applications was also entering the realm of statistically significant.
> The research team discovered that the aging, senescent cells stopped producing a class of chemicals called nucleotides, which are the building blocks of DNA. When they took young cells and forced them to stop producing nucleotides, they became senescent, or aged.

^ From the article. Yet, when I check the linked journal entry:

> Inhibition of nucleotide synthesis promotes replicative senescence of human mammary epithelial cells

^ journal article title, which seems somewhat the reverse of the article claim.

> To test whether cellular immortalization would reverse these observations, we expressed telomerase in HMECs. In addition to preventing senescence, telomerase expression maintained metabolic flux from glucose into nucleotide synthesis pathways. Finally, we investigated whether inhibition of nucleotide synthesis in proliferating HMECs is sufficient to induce senescence.

^ From the journal article abstract. This states NONE of the "took young cells and..." claims from the article, but rather the opposite.

> Taken together, our results suggest that nucleotide synthesis inhibition plays a causative role in the establishment of replicative senescence in HMECs.

Umm...unless I'm missing something, this is literally taking correlation and determining causation.

TL;DR: This looks like an exploratory data point in the "how does the telomere clock actually cause senescence in a cell". While this COULD lead to some "new" treatment, vast issues remain, including both "is this the sole cause", "is this actually relevant", and "if this is the Big Cause, what could we do about it anyway?"
No, anyone who trusts any company is a fool.
I was not making the efficiency argument in the abstract. I'm making it in the concrete of a neural network that can be trained in real time in a browser window.

There's a great deal of people who seem to mistake "the market isn't actually 100% efficient" for "oh, I guess we can just ignore the question of 'efficiency because if it's not 100% it must be 0%". Not that they say the last part out loud, of course.
It's run by Y Combinator, the SV startup incubator. This too is relevant news.

Also, there's a limit to the length of the headline. So it might not have been possible to include that context.
Hey, sorry for that! The title was changed by (I presume?) mods, and I have no power over it anymore. It had more context originally.
That's an interesting point regarding inbox scanning. Problem is it would require access to your email account which is arguably the most sensitive thing about your business. Of these two options which would you prefer/trust more:

1. Entering your email credentials for a bot to login and scan
2. OAuth SSO (limited to Gmail)

It's free for now (which I'll indicate more clearly) as I build a "beta user base".
Modern welfare states make unconditional and impersonal transfer payments. Neither your neighbors nor your social worker get to adjust your assistance based on how much they like you, they just cut a check.

There are good alternatives, but they aren’t based on relationships either.
Maybe, but given that there’s no requirement that companies offer any vacation time, it seems unlikely to me (a non-lawyer) that a case like that would succeed. “Unlimited” is probably couched in “subject to your team and manager’s requirements” language in employment contracts.
This algorithm is relatively well known. If I read right, the author is just implementing an older algorithm but switching the order of two steps for efficiency reasons.

No it never generates crossroads. Despite saying the maze can be imperfect, I think they are wrong. Anyway, it's kind of boring as maze generators go. For example, in the 1980's, the first edition of D&D included a simple maze generator (i.e. pen and paper algorithm) that could generate dungeons like this one.
I think airline bookings go through a GDS even if you buy direct from the airline, but why? Airline doesn’t want to build its own computer?
>99% of single threaded industry software doesn't need more power.

Again, I don't know if that is true. I'd love to see stats on that. My gut tells me improved single-threaded perf will always be welcome in most software because most data transforms are not not easily parallelizable. Certainly for me, more single threaded perf is always welcome in all the software I use daily.. from office suites to compilers to IDEs to photoshop to soft-PLCs/SCADA/HMI or even when opening a super large excel file with crazy forumlas. I don't think its just gaming.

The specifications of budget/cheap computers are not really an indicator of what will or wont benefit from single-threaded perf. Whether the benefit is worth paying for will obviously depend on other factors. For me its a nobrainer.
The title used to be more descriptive, close to the blog title itself, however it was changed to the current version at some point. No idea why.
Well you can't really say that the UK was welcomed into the EU (or EEC) with open arms in the first place. France blocked the UK's entry three times. So there's probably always been some mutual distrust.
That just shows the power dynamic between the two, and military assistance is a lot more open and obvious than the murkiness of the financial industry. The UK itself can't protect all this wealth with only a fraction of the power it once had.

This current issue is not a biggie, the US doesn't really need to get involved over a single British flagged tanker that is operated by a Swedish company with no British crew. The US already has been trying to hurt Iran with sanctions and pulling out of the nuclear deal, and they stated themselves that they have no interest in protecting tankers in the strait of hormuz. Clearly not important enough for the US's own oil industry.
It depends on what kind of anti-abortion one is. Catholics are anti IVF. Mysogynist patriarchists are pro-IVF.
Funny because one of the current trending topics on Russian twitter is forest fires in Siberia, how it's impossible to breathe in Siberian cities and how nobody seems to care (with Russian TV Channels ignoring this topic).
> I worry about allowing Japan

It's not up to you.
> You can't snoop any of this... Obviously hardcore reverse engineering is possible, but it's extremely expensive

The path to the platform you want looks like the iOS App Store.
Finally, Japan can make good on the real life creations from their anime movies.
It wasn't pacification. It was a nation collectively coming to terms with their brutal past and taking to heart the phrase "never again". If "not bombing non-knee-bending nations on a whim" equals "pacified" in your mind, then I hope you never hold a position of power in any government.
And the original comment was about Comic Sans being helpful, not about Dyslexie. So you can read it as "If Dyslexie shows no benefit, better use another font, like Comic Sans".
I've noticed that too. It seems like it is happening quiet a bit lately. Comments getting voted down out of no where for seemingly no reason.
> “But most improvements come from investing in your team.”

I agree on this but you have to cut your losses at some point. Some people just aren’t motivated. A surprise pay raise, catering lunches, taking them to an offsite, etc whatever motivational strategies you have may provide some short term result, and that could be sufficient if your goal is just X and it’s in the line of sight, but sometimes raising the bar on your team means finding a different spot for the unmotivated folks, and if they’re not investing even in that, then cut your losses and let them go.
People weren't anywhere near as dependent on technology the first time.
I stumbled across some interesting history related to this when doing a research paper in college.

Basically, because of a huge apple crop failure in the Santa Clara Valley, as well as having recently laid railroad crossing the area (this was in the 1800’s), apple growers in the Pajaro Valley (between Santa Clara and Salinas) began shipping their apples to markets farther away than usual. This eventually boomed into a global scale thing, with Pajaro Valley apples being sold in New York, then London, and even places like South Africa.

After developing a successful global distribution model, growers in Washington state took notice. Apples were shipped on northern rail lines after the growing season in Fall. No ice needed.

Soon, other industries followed (Salinas Valley lettuce included). This blossomed into the global food system we know today.

Tl;dr: Money in proto-silicon valley was used to start up the global food system
>If that's their goal, then just go and make an ivy league global campus. Why run this circus?

The cynical answer being because this way they get more participants which makes them look more impressive as a platform. Of course those participants have no chance of winning but it still makes for nicer numbers.
There's a site where AIs play RPS on an ongoing basis http://www.rpscontest.com/. Source code of the entrants is available. My best bot (called paper6) http://www.rpscontest.com/entry/5640686850277376 wins on average 67% of the time, but the top bots win around 80% of matches.
Have you actually attended MBA courses? That's not what was taught in mine.
fun fact: the name Britain comes from 'painted people' or 'tattooed people' given by Ceasar as he descended upon the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain_(place_name).

That author is just not aware of his heritage.
The whole thing hinged on the two points that the author doesn't like it and that people who do it are boring, predictable individualist-consumerists. These are not points that needed making with me.

So at the end when the author smugly predicts the tattooed masses how it will look bad with age, should I chuckle at the commonplace that people look worse with age?

There was just nothing in there for me.
You'd think so, but NFCs are far easier to program and re-program.

One of the NFC tags on my work desk triggers "focus mode". Lights change to bright white, a (non-local) radio station starts playing in the background, and the volume gets auto-adjusted to something bearable. That saves me like 20 clicks or so on two remotes.

It's all about those small victories that save me a few minutes each day, all without a need to route cables throughout the apartment. When I want to re-purpose an NFC tag, it takes me maybe 30 seconds to do so (instead of having to re-route the cables throughout my home). Physical buttons can do one task and one task only. NFC tags can trigger as many tasks on as many devices as I want them to.

If my Internet goes down, things still work. If I don't want to use my phone, I don't have to (I can achieve the same things from my laptop). I don't have to worry about turning shit off when I leave my home, Home Assistant does that for me (if an nmap scan doesn't detect any trusted device on my network). If a company whose gadget I'm using goes bankrupt, things are still perfectly usable.
Only if it's directly related to the problems the person will be solving. For example, asking data structure questions that aren't relevant to the position is a waste of time and biases your hiring to skills that aren't what you need.
Seems like if you ban product A from your platform, then come out with product B and that is permissible, while still disallowing any competition from other products and using your own size/reach to squash any competition seems like it may have an interesting outcome.
There is always historical influence.

The ghost in the shell never explored the philosophical aspect of existence, at least have not put it as the central theme.

Plus, live action movie, as an art form, is itself appreciable, if someone can pull it off. The visual and story telling is genius, if not unprecedented.
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Thanks.

Is there UI feedback to the user during the wait, or does the browser just show "waiting for response" for the whole time? If a user refreshes the browser a bunch of times during the wait, will the Hakuna proxy give up on those requests or still pass all of them through to the target server?
> who are already overcharging me for non-repairable planned-obsolescence-ridden products, to overcharge me a bit more...

NAS devices and networked home speakers are incredibly competitive categories in the IoT space, and as anyone who has actually owned e.g. a Sonos knows, you listen to a lot more music and they've supported the same 12 year old hardware throughout its lifespan.
Surprise. The bits can be in two or more places at the same time. You known... the magic of "cp"
I think it should be possible for companies to lose their trademarks, if they commit too many violations.

Brands/trademarks are a token of trust, after all.
You could reasonably argue that the highest impact investments a manager can make in a team are hiring better people and firing worse ones.
Massachusetts Storage Market Imperiled by Requirement to Buy New Utility Meters
With both the Fed and ECB considering interest rate cuts due to slowing economy indicators it seems an odd time to declare that bubble is ok.
It does not work entirely on votes. The mods have quite a bit of weight in deciding what gets pushed to the front page.

For example, there's an article about gorillas on the front page right now that has exactly 7 points. HN is nowhere near that anemic that 7 votes would be enough to push to the front page on its own.

To boot, I once submitted something that went unnoticed. An HN mod then emailed me and said it looked cool, asking me to resubmit it again so that it could get more prominent featuring.
How to Handle a Ransomware Attack
Ed...ward...
Good for mice i guess. Bad for rats.
All in all this is pretty hilarious and funny, however

>More recently, in what is no doubt a manifestation of the desire to fit in with the majority, even dark-skinned minorities, whose epidermis is unsuited to tattooing, are having themselves tattooed in ever-larger numbers.

smells a bit racist and ignorant to me, I mean, tattoos are part of African tribes culture for at least few millennia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tattooing#North_Afr...
It's the result of a risk calculation with limited information. Hanging out near war zones and sanctioned countries significantly increases the chance that you're committing financial crimes, so when they have some information that you're doing that kind of thing you're much more likely to trip an alarm.

VPNs don't help you with bank apps that report your GPS position.

Sanctions aren't particularly excellent at stopping bad actors.
Thanks for the input. I plan on creating a version for authors too.

If it's possible in your organization or release strategy, self-deployment is good for the reasons you say, and it corroborates Larry Wall's virtue of hubris [0].

The PR author is like a salesman. You should be making the lives of your customers easier and incentivizing them to look at your product in order to move things forward. That being said, you should prioritize team profit and not your own (i.e. don't be a crooked salesman).

[0]: http://threevirtues.com/
There was once an “Ask HN: What Font do you use for Programming?”. Most folks chose mono-space standards. One guy said “Comic Sans - to remind me to be humble.” I like that sentiment and I hope that he will enjoy this font.
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2 minute cold start is pretty slow for a lot of use cases... Amazon already built Lambda which is more widely applicable.
Advertising always shows an exaggerated presence of young children. People like things that are cute and associate positive attitudes with them. I've seen real estate stock photos of offices with people holding toddlers and sometimes businesses like local insurance companies will advertise with just a giant picture of a baby's face; it's the kind of thing you see on bus benches and billboards.
To be perfectly frank: it is our right to be put off by tattoos and the motivations behind them, just as it is your right to have them. Mewling that you are "hated" for your tattoos really just satisfies many of us that you got your tattoo to seem cool, and now you're pouting that most of us don't find you cool.