skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also Blender (most likely). It supports video editing and general vfx, not just 3d asset building. It's also being used professionally for this purpose in a few places too!
How long would it take you to automate this process and pin it to the top or side?

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> "2019 exceeded the value we expected for the worst-case scenario in 2069"

Exponential curve? This is highly worrying.
Database doing some housekeeping or backup; virus scan; perhaps automated check for windows updates (patch tuesday is every 2nd tuesday of every month so prob not that); completely separate task fighting the DB or other application layer you sis uses. Something else. Anything else.

It's not something anyone can diagnose from what you say, it could be anything, even weirdness such as a hardware fault kicked off by something else (office cleaner plugging something in?) causing power spike RF interference affecting the network causing mass packet drops and retries (ok, unlikely but it's not impossible, I've heard of such).
I doubt HN is even on the CCP's radar. Not only are we a low-value target, we're much harder to subvert.
Nothing new except the medium.
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Your basically complaining that paper can be used to write whatever you want on it, by you and by people you don't like.
So an opt-in GC would be considered zero-cost abstraction?
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This doesn't really explain the money they took from Xinhua News to promote certain tweets that lied about the protests being violent or unwanted by the majority of HK residents. https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1162711159000055808 https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-running-paid-ads-...
This sounds like convenient achievement to establish that they’re tough on shenanigans they don’t like.
You might also ask yourself if a person working half the time is half as productive. There is evidence to support the idea that a person working a bit less per week can actually maintain the same weekly output: https://4dayweek.com

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18GB of very fast memory will still be just as hard to keep fed with data as that 6MB cache
> Bushnell later bought out Dabney, who was forced out after Nolan told him he would transfer all the assets to another corporation and leave Ted with nothing.

This is an interesting juxtaposition with 'Dirty tricks 6502 programmers used.'
Sure. It's called Rc and Arc.
Because AWS is competing for savvy customers, and US telecoms increasing look like a cartel.
Depends on whether the state can politically afford to rescind the media entity's budget.

Compare these two scenarios:

• I, an advertiser, give YouTube $20. YouTube decides to not give the content-creator on whose media my ads ran that $20. That's up to them, because YouTube controls the relationship. I, as an advertiser, don't even really have a relationship with content creators; I just have a relationship with YouTube, and they have a separate relationship with YouTube, and sometimes YouTube chooses to pay out the content creator with money that I just paid in. But that's a policy choice, not an obligation. As an advertiser, I don't care what happens to my money as long as my ads run and people see them. They can do whatever they like with the money—pay content creators, pay themselves, burn it, whatever.

• I, a buyer, give PayPal $20. PayPal is obligated to give (most of) that $20 to the person I am buying goods from; the $20 is a liability on their balance sheet. Why? Because I (and a number of other people) would get quite cross with PayPal if they didn't give the money to the person I intended it for. That transmission-of-money-to-intended-recipient is their business model; it's the reason I trusted them with my money in the first place.

A "taxpayer funded" media entity like the BBC is presumably more like a PayPal-style relationship than a YouTube-style relationship: the taxpayers are giving the government money under the assumption that it is obligated to give that money to the BBC; effectively, the BBC is the one the public feels they owe the money to, and the government is just serving a role as the BBC's tax-collector. If the funds were spent somewhere else, people would be very cross with the government.
The memory protection doesn't account for the performance hit. It's all the layers of shitty software and garbage devices on top.
A quarter of a second in measurement resolution of an EKG is huge. An extra quarter of a second interpreting or documenting that EKG couldn't be any more meaningless.
I think this is a good thing - in fact I'm sharing my specifics with you because I think it could help out others.

I have 20 years professional experience. Systems admin -> DBA -> software developer, with lots of overlap with each role change.

Job #1, 20 hours a week, no set schedule. $115k USD salary, no benefits. Yearly bonus is 5-15%. Less than 50 employees.

Job #2 30 hours a week, set schedule, $122k USD salary, full benefits. Yearly bonus is 2-6%. Less than 500 employees.

Both job titles are senior level software-related things.
Moveable 0.7.0 – Support Grouping Draggable, Resizable, Rotatable
Pretty sure the hours-long rabbit hole thing didn’t start with Encarta :D But you still would have been considered a geek of the highest order doing it with Encarta. Wiki first popularized the experience.
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> Studies have shown that in liberal democracies, state run media tends to be the least editorially biased

Rather than pretending to be unbiased, I'd rather my news sources disclosed their biases clearly so that I can take them into account.
I've mostly worked in public-sector bureaucracies, not software companies, so my experiences won't line up exactly. In each case, the rule has been strictly pro-rata.

I've generally felt that the company has had the good end of that deal, especially for the higher fractions (0.6/0.8 of full time): productivity seems to me to be non-linear, and trading off the end-of-the-week burnout for a little more payroll admin and management sounds great. Where the fraction is much smaller, the increase in coordination costs probably means that it's more finely balanced.

The other point I'd make is that less than pro-rata will sound unfair to your part-timers, whether the intentions and justification are good or not. And defending that isn't a hill I'd die on: in skilled jobs staff goodwill is a precious commodity not to be squandered.

There may also be legal issues: I suspect that lower rates for part-timers would be unlawful indirect sex discrimination in the UK (the part-time workforce being female to a much greater extent) but that may well not be true where you are.
It's just a little further down: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi...
Eating a hamburger helps me grow, but that doesn't mean I am a hamburger.

Or, another analogy, if you smash my computer, I won't be able to type this response to you, but that doesn't mean I am my computer.

If the brain is an antenna for intelligence, then damaging the antenna will damage the signal, but doesn't damage the source.
A lot of that, I suspect, is that Rust's borrow checker makes specifying ownership correctly for callback chains extremely painful and unergonomic.

In my experience, closure-based async programming is only sufficiently painless in managed languages to be worth using. When you're dealing with manual memory management (or, rather, smart pointer memory management), you spend a lot more time trying to make the captures hold onto stuff.
But yeah “every voice”. May have to start explicitly excluding government propaganda and/or “troll armies”.
That's true, but it doesn't match their claim of keeping all of the model on the chip.

An 18 GB cache is huge for sure, but that's not what they claim.
There is value in "all" information being text. However there's also value in having interactive elements. From the contextual fitting video to i.e. an embedded star map: Imagine reading the article about a solar eclipse and being able to navigate a 3D model of the stars. Imagine reading an article about the human body and having a 3D model right next to it: If you click on "heart" in the text it's being highlighted in the model.

Of course Encarta wasn't there, but we have 20 years of technological advance. But for hobbyist Wikipedia authors that's too much work and for a commercial Encarta Wikipedia is too strong.
Correction: "let's hear it" instead of "let's here it". Modnays.
You expect that to be resolved in 30 days ?
The idea is that the whole model resides in the fast memory, so you don't need to ‘keep it fed’.
2 reasons:

1) Because interop with non-GC (aka, C) code is terrible from a GC'd language. D is better here than other GC'd languages as you can still build smart pointers via RAII, but it still sucks. It's a significant mindset shift in random spots in your code.

2) Custom allocators can be hugely important in achieving certain optimizations or runtime behaviors. This can either be for just performance reasons or in some cases are mandatory for correctness such as if it's a real-time thread.
> I also wonder if they consider owned by the head of state to be state-controlled (e.g. RT, Al-Jazeera)

That would effectively ban any publicly traded news like Fox, CNN, etc, wouldn't it? I'd assume most American politicians own shares or invest in indexes that do (like the S&P 500). Unless you define ownership as majority share or something.
The 2664 is actually what AlphaZero used. (It just duplicated the whole stack a few times for history.)

It's true that chess programmers usually use a different set of bitboards.
That was exactly my point; GP says they've been writing C++ for the past 6 years, but seems to be talking about legacy code.
China has been doing this for a while, not only on social media, but traditional media / institutions too. It's about time to get serious about this problem.

https://www.hoover.org/news/china-exerting-sharp-power-influ...
"It sees everything as a zero-sum game. The US, despite it's flaws, is excellent at building and maintaining deep economic and political relationships around the world. "

I can't believe I'm reading this here. The USA has bullied its will in the world unopposed (except a little by the URSS) since the end of the Second World War. Just go to wikipedia and read, for instance, the history of any country south of Rio Grande . Or Iran, now that is fashionable.
Was in China when the first protest happened and the news coverage was mostly saying things like that the people are clueless in Hong Kong and don’t understand the law about extradition. They had various experts all saying similar things and they would also point to random weibo posts about totally not on the payroll “people” saying they want their city back from the protesters.. I mean it’s one thing if China’S central government wants Hong Kong to be a certain way but dressing it up as “lots of ordinary folks agree with them” is pretty disingenuous and it seems very fair for any platform to call the government out on it—-especially non-Chinese owned platforms.
What if the value of someone's life is independent of their own subjective perception of their own value? Many people, tragically, view themselves as valueless, due to many factors, but that's a reason to boost their self value, not a reason to give into their misperception of self.

If a person's body is unhealthy, we don't encourage them towards greater unhealthiness, but rather health. The same with mental health. We should encourage mentally healthy perspectives, which includes self value.
Why and how we migrated Preply to Kubernetes
Oh. Sorry. It's quite prevalent in Europe...

https://i.imgur.com/zGSklKi.png - The local loop length is 2 km in this case.
Same for me with magazines. I’d read them cover to cover, even Computer Shopper which was mostly ads! It gave great breadth of knowledge and it was genuinely interesting because they had to be informative. I devoured them all. I miss that.
made by congress, publicly funded, stations owned by public universities. ownership wise, its a lot like pbs.
Show HN: Buy Real Estate with One Click
Founder of AlphaCap [1] here, we built a simple tool that allows anyone to buy real estate and immediately start receiving monthly rental income.
We encountered a problem in the form of an endless wall of paperwork when trying to buy real estate for investment purposes. Real estate industry is still pretty outdated, there are still real estate agents who charge 3% to represent the seller and another 3% to represent the buyer, there are technology platforms like Redfin that are trying to tackle that particular challenge by charging 1% and hiring a salaried employee to represent the buyer/seller. However, buying a percentage ownership in a property still remains a difficult problem. We strive to build a platform to connect interested buyers/investors with each other to raise enough capital to purchase a property together. This way if a property is a great investment, but you don't have enough money to cover the full purchase price you can use our platform to buy a percentage of that property and allow others to invest in the remaining equity. You will then receive your share of the rental income + appreciation on your equity ownership over time.

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It would absolutely in the Soviet's interest to make sure people know that the weapon exists -- it helps keep them alive! To paraphrase Dr. Strangelove, what's the point of the doomsday device if they don't know you have the doomsday device?

I agree with your assessment that NATO intel probably knew of it, but kept quiet to avoid political drama and keep sources secret.
> I'd start with deemphasizing Dr. Racket. Sure it's great and all, but most people aren't gonna use special IDE for your language.

I suspect the first impression of DrRacket has been scaring off real developers since the start (as it initially did to me, ~18 years ago).

DrRacket was designed for students with no programming experience at all (and then some nice pro features were added atop that).

Put DrRacket first thing in HtDP, but be very careful about first impressions elsewhere. (And this doesn't mean adding an additional explanatory paragraph, or an additional manual about all your IDE/editor options. Racket already has a massive wall of documentation manuals, with the useful stuff scattered all over. People tend to not read stuff on the Web under even the best of conditions.)
"wealth work" == servant

The only change is now the positions are less long term employer commitment and more gig work than ever.
I'm a huge critic of Fox News, but this is a totally empty accusation. Fox News is the exact opposite of state media: it's a capitalistic organization designed to be as inflammatory as possible, towards one particular segment of the population, in hopes of making lots of money. Like Trump himself, its motivations are nothing so elaborate as trying to push a sinister ideology: it just wants attention.
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Thanks. That's pretty clearly motivated by recent disinformation campaigns, but doesn't mention them at all. Kinda lets them off the hook in my opinion, not to mention keeping the money.

Edit: Facebook, for example, calls them out directly. https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/08/removing-cib-china/
I'd love to contribute to the first one you mentioned! How could I do that?
Not a company, but I think direct scaling based on time is about as fair as you can get.

An employee that works 4 days is likely to produce more than 80% of the output of someone who works 5 days, all else being equal, so even though fixed costs may not scale down, payment per "unit work" should remain constant.

This may not hold if you went down to, say, 1 day per week.
> but the right of ownership for a large percentage of the USA's economy is a thing that he directs.

Umm, no. Unless you have a very different idea of what "large percentage" means.
The key component you're missing here is the role of performance in overall design and architecture.

If responsiveness is a goal, as it should be in any GUI but especially must be in a system intended for use in medical emergencies, there are high-level decisions that can be made to keep things in the right ballpark. One of these decisions may be "the interface should never have to wait for a network response", for example.

The process of micro-optimizing specific segments of program code still needs to depend on actual benchmarks and measurements, but the value of reasonable and experienced system architecture that considers the actual requirements of the problem domain cannot be overstated. You're sunk from the get-go if you make the wrong tradeoffs here.

Unfortunately, the industry is mostly populated by clowns who are just blistering to get the hottest buzzword listed on their resume, very frequently rising up to the point of blatant professional misconduct. This leads to many truly absurdist design decisions that sink projects long before the first chunk of code goes into production.
Of the Communications Decency Act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act#Sec...
I never heard the full version of Sicuriada[0] as played in Encarta. It's not available on digital or even CD[1], it's only available on cassette version, which is not sold anymore and only available in libraries[2] which are far away from me :(

[0] https://youtu.be/deVyPq-AHfc?t=223
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Music-Andes-Argentina-Tahuantinsuyo/d...
[2] https://www.worldcat.org/title/music-of-the-andes-and-argent...
Maybe something like a hash table/array could be used, predefined with the key being the URL and the value being the config, then the function could do something like return the value from the array given the key, with some kind of logic to return the unknown config by default if the key wasn't in the array (this would all depend on the language - it could be that such a method might be worse for readability; it would also depend on if the array could be defined elsewhere as an included file/module or something, etc).
I bet it is an Access database inside. But probably some copy protection too
The general public.
Without conditionals, every program either terminates after a pre-specified amount of computation or never terminates. That leaves you extremely limited in what you can accomplish (less powerful than a DFA).

A DFA or maybe a 2DFA (which are equally powerful) is basically what you get when all you have is conditionals.

Without that, what you have is a box that can read finite input and compute a value. Equivalent to a finite lookup table.
Ask HN: App or Website?
I am working on a new project and we're trying to decide whether or not we should start out app-only or website-only

What factors do you think should be considered?

In our case, we're targeting people in their 20's and 30's. It'll be to help with financial literacy and so there'll be some financial modelling (that may be harder to drill into on an app)
If you are paying contractor rates, then that makes sense of course.

For a permanent hire I think it would be reasonable to ask more than half. Even working 50% hours, one does not usually completely unplug during other half - even if not active on corporate systems it's likely they're taking problems away and thinking them over.

I think you may be surprised by the output you get - when I have worked with part time technical staff in the past, it often seems to help grant a laser focus of sorts.
Yes basically this is a state sponsored misinformation campaign.
The speed and reach makes it different. You wouldn't say that flying is like walking faster - it's fundamentally different.
They're just yet another business selling user's attention. That's not new. The utility was never users sharing with each other, it was always users providing minable information.

All of that information sharing just makes the sold attention more valuable to the buyers.
Sometimes. Sometimes they are given equity (or options on the equity) - other times there is an "understanding"[1] about equity as happened in Toptal. Once you have equity... it's worthless, or near to - it only becomes valuable if the company does well... and if your effective equity isn't diluted in successive rounds - which it quite often is. You've surrendered a portion of your salary for a potential to get paid if the company does well (maybe) - and it's doing well is, in a large part, out of your hands. There is far too much good-faith being required from employees in these sorts of setups and, if everything goes as planned, why should you get a payday while the person who went to work for a perfectly good company that failed gets nothing? That could have been you!

1. So, some deceptively worded stuff that ends up being worthless.
I'd love to see some metrics on whether this idea has any merit. Because obviously any problem that can be done on a massive wafer can be done on multiple smaller wafers. The question is, are the compromises to get something working on a massive wafer killing performance to the point where just splitting the problem up efficiently would have been better. It's also important to think: Stuff isn't just going to happen to be the size to fit on this wafer, it's either huge in scale, or not. If it's not, you don't need this wafer, if it is, you probably need to partition your problem onto multiple copies of this wafer anyway. Take their comparison to a Nvidia GPU. It might be 57 times bigger, but I can rent 1000 Nvidia GPUs from AWS at the drop of a hat (more or less).

So yes, maybe they've done some interesting stuff, but they need some decent benchmarks to show off before we can really distinguish between whether this is the Boeing 747 Dreamliner or a Spruce Goose.
I mean, say, photosynthesis also happened by evolution. There is still a lot to understand about photosynthesis, and we do understand now, although it took decades of research.
Just saying... IF a team of experts would put time and effort into curating and editing and adding in useful interactive vizualizations into a subset of Wikipedia I'd care about I'd pay a hefty subscription for it!

Really, Encarta was freakin awesome... now we have a lot more information, but nobody is curating, checking, validating and arranging it in nice and easy to consume ways :(
Given that Encarta was the bomb in the late 90's and early 00's and the 25-35 age group is well represented on HN I'd say Encarta i prime HN nostalgia material.
Or the actual Sharp symbol. The plain octothorpe (#) is reserved and unavailable for filenames, but most Unicode-capable file systems should be fine with the Sharp symbol, and I'm sure that wouldn't be confusing at all

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/266f/index.htm

ETA: Of course HN's own Unicode eater doesn't like the Sharp symbol in posts.
Great to see an awesome product - primarily in Chinese!!! That will teach me to not take English language domination for granted!!
One way or another, pretty much. We've reached a boiling point in only a couple of weeks. I don't see the standoff lasting another month.
Based on where equities are and where the bond market are, you're going to have one hell of a hard time trying to get 5% return on the loans they're handing out. Take a look at some of the projections on 10 year returns for equities and bond market. The 2018 Vanguard report shows equities will return 3% real return over the next 10 years, and there are many estimates lower than that. Bond prices are also at all time highs. I wouldn't even take this loan if it were 2%.