skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People often forget how much computer science and engineering is in those machines that allow them to fully saturate two and a half full height racks of high performance IO while running COBOL programs that are blissfully unaware of all that goes behind their ABI and just see a ridiculously fast computer.
Try again, timing can matter a lot. Friday 4pm est vs Monday morning will change the number of responders and even the responses
This is a liberal empty thought. An underprivileged kid being bored is entirely different from another kid with access to near-unlimited resources.
Agreed but what's the best way for a main street investor with a full time job and families to research? Ratings distill research down into a single number. Super efficient when they work.
> I think it's fairly obviously mainly a marketing move.

I wonder though if it's the right marketing move and the right deployment of resources.

Car manufacturers found out a long time ago that car sales are not driven by these types of improvements. Cars are purchased emotionally and to a lesser extent functionally. Obviously a Tesla is an emotional purchase since it doesn't really make sense for most buyers to burden themselves with the higher price and inconvenience of an electric car. This seems a great deal like a little icing on the cake of 'we are just a better purchase down to this type of detail'. That's separate from the GP assertion that there is little power savings.

Sure it gets employees thinking of power savings (similar to when Apollo was done everything mattered down to the last detail). But the development and implementation of this is not trivial and it will take meetings and decisions and testing. What else could be done with those resources?
Inconsistent behavior among browsers when clicking on buttons
>2017
> The article also covered spouse of suspects arrested on suspicion of spying... which no shit justifies exit bans.

So mere association is the justification for the spouse's exit ban?
Just a note: it's not a Linux watch.
An Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax (PDF, 2013)
Out of pure curiousity: "... That is where it all went pear-shaped: that model is totally bogus today. ..." I agree that most concepts about operating systems are dated but where are the good resources that give an overview without being overwhelming?
The main problem of Free Software (read GPL) is that it is not free, compared to say BSD. It doesn't promote competition and doesn't help small player, as you have to release all changes back under GPL. On the other hand, GPL increases barrier to entry, so big monopolistic players, like Microsoft and governments, win from it, while small indie devs lose.
I went to a normal school. We didn't have TV but everyone else did. Like you I was top of my class. I thought it was all the reading I did but it seems we're both wrong.
I'm from a very rural (coastal) area, where every surrounding town and village has been affected by loss of jobs, displacement of fishing industries, etc.

Fishing is, and has been for hundreds of years, the lifeblood of the area.

One thing I've noticed is that people are unfortunately vehemently anti-regulations and anti-gov involvement. Any new company, no mater how shady, is welcomed with open arms. As long as they bring jobs, all is good.

As it often happens, these companies skirt (or just completely ignore) labor laws, and will work their employees to the bone, ignoring contracts, and what not.

Not too long ago a company like that was taken down by workers that actually sued, because it turned out that they'd been working double digit hours, 7 days a week, without pay, and in dangerous conditions.

The company simply shut down, knowing they wouldn't stand a chance to compensate workers on owed salaries.

The locals were furious. Not at the company, but at the workers that sued - because one less business meant less jobs. They'd rather have workers get abused and cheated out of money, than no money.

And that is unfortunately the attitude in many such places - not only slave workers from south-east Asia.

Desperation really plays a trick on people, and can make them susceptible to exploitation.
Thank you for this, I am a self taught software engineer about 3-4 years into my career and I've been studying lots of algorithms on my free time, especially using HackerRank to solve the problems with Python. It's nice to have such a complete list of lectures like this. I struggle remembering all the operations on the data structures like percolate a tree, or some types of graph operations.
The Group Effect
> The fact that the author has an agenda doesn't mean that the blog post that was linked is inaccurate.

What it means, for someone reading the comments here but has not yet followed the link, is that it’s not even worth my time to read it and try to separate the racist tripe from any valuable content. I’ve got plenty of other things to read without wading through garbage.

In other words: you’re right that the well is poisoned, but the author poisoned their own well, and I’m not going to waste my time by drinking it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18771384
The two examples involving humans look terrible to me, the others look really nice. Probably some bias on my perception.
A big problem here is that, in the future, you won't be able to defeat autonomous warfare with human controlled warfare. So everybody needs to develop their autonomous warfare systems anyway, even if a treaty says they won't use it.
Forward Reasoning and Dependency-Directed Backtracking (1976) [pdf]
Your initial comment was just parroting the anti-semitic trope that the Jews control the media and use it as propaganda. Your source for that claim was a blog that you admit professes anti-semitic ideas. I didn't expect you to "fall to [your] knees" but anyone who isn't anti-semitic would probably be uncomfortable with how that looks and maybe try to explain how their comments weren't anti-semitic. You didn't do that. Your only defense seems to be that your and/or your sources apparent bigotry is based on facts. These is no way to have a legitimately debate against bigoted ideas like that which is why I am not trying to dispute whatever you are specifically citing.
I think it's messed up that soaps shampoos and other items are even allowed to contain micro plastics when we know the damage they cause.
Still utterly incorrect. To distill the article's own summary:

"1. Everyone is capable of doing arithmetic, understanding fractions, percents, basic algebra and graphing, basic probability and statistics, and should be able to read a graph in a newspaper or hear a statistic on the radio without getting flustered.

2. Everyone deserves to see some beautiful ideas of mathematics.

3. We need to teach like anyone and everyone in our classroom could have a gift for math that’s about to manifest… because they just might, and we may never know unless they’re given the opportunity."
Lol, i was thinking about the usefullness of Music, MIDI and AI. That i have no relation to it.

BUT, this is probably the only thing that i want to do with Music - learning how to play the piano.

Nice one!
It isn't much of a second factor if it is the same factor as your password.
Some thoughts based on looking at the video a few times more (disclaimer - I'm not a video professional)

* There needs to be some variation in the zooming if you use this in a slideshow. I'd even say bias it towards zooming out more often, since that gradually reveals more of the image.

* You might have enough information to work with here to develop a similar "focus pull effect from single image" algo. That would be really cool.

* Maybe also you could try to develop a "sunset fade" for images where you detect blue sky. Graduallu adding a gradient yellow-orange fade for the sky, gradually warmer and darker foreground and non-sky background.
Yes and I wouldn't consider Melivlle to be boring!
just [acquisition synonym verb][madeup/foreign language word].com

for eg [get/try/use/make][sutra].com - most common variant is get nowadays.

then when you become big enough pay off the squatter to give you sutra.com
Depending on the level of work required by the college, it would get in the way of said work. 3 hours a night is a lot of time spent not doing homework and not being social.

College was useful (at least for me) for those two aspects, neither of which I would have been able to really do well with 3 hours a night of gaming.

Post-college? Do whatever you’d like. In-college, you’re paying for time you won’t get back. :)
I worked for Unisys in 2002 or so and I always thought it was funny to see a mainframe able to run Pinball...

For some time I defined a "serious computer" as something that didn't have ports for keyboard and monitor.

Having said that, the pre-x86 A series were pretty cool. And ran the most user hostile OS ever created, to the point its very name was used for Tron's villain.
It's just weird to bring up AS/400 in a conversation about mainframes.
Respectfully I think you're not addressing the point I'm making, but a slightly different one.

In the case where a piece of data can be missing, and that's fine, I completely agree that optional/maybe types are useful to model that explicitly and unambiguously. They let you and future maintainters know that this is the case, via the type system, at compile time.

But what I'm talking about here is genuine runtime exceptions (which NPE is in Java, of course), where the design of the system says that this piece of data cannot be missing and yet, at runtime, you encounter a case where it is missing, erroneously, because of some bug somewhere.

Types like optionals won't help you here, because you wouldn't have used them at design time anyway. The same applies to languages completely without null references.

All type systems do is formalise expectations about how data is going to look. If the real data breaks from those expectations because of some bug at runtime, the type system can't help you.
Re: immediate downvote from American censorship bots.

Good to see America's censorship still in force. You go "freedom of speech system", go you.
> They're not available anymore for purchase and the few used ones remaining in still good condition are sold ridiculously overpriced.

Thanks! I have one in original packaging somewhere. Bought it to give away but never did for various reasons.
Do you wear a helmet while walking?
Everyone's got their little snippet but here's my 15-liner that gives you $() and .on() syntax:

$('p').on('click', el => /* ... */)

https://gist.github.com/paulirish/12fb951a8b893a454b32
a classic of pious parenting is making the lives of your own children especially difficult to teach them some kind of life lesson. this one especially gets to me.

though I didn't know it at the time, I grew up with adhd and depression. an interesting facet of that is that people with adhd get to skip on some of the most important effects of the frontal lobe development that happens between the ages of 18 and 22 as a human matures. this gets interpreted as being 'lazy' 'energetic', 'childish' and -- easily bored.

This kind of parent has a conviction that the reverse hallmarks of adulthood -- being quiet, controlled and focused are not something as neurological as we know it to be, but something that has to be instilled by force, and as someone who feels the same boredom every day a kid does, that lack of knowledge and empathy makes me deeply, deeply sad on a personal level.

It's absolutely correct that kids not given something to do will find themselves something to do. Kids are natural explorers and learners. But is that boredom and thirst for new things something that has to be learned out of a child? I'd like to think that at least some of us embrace that stage of a child's neurology and help them find things that they find exciting, new and interesting instead of trying to teach them to stop complaining and sate themselves with busywork.
> Could there possibly be an innocent explanation where the channel through PRC somehow happens to be less saturated or otherwise faster?

AIUI these aren't empirical measurements of routes actual traffic takes, but reconstructions from historical BGP announcements. I guess when they say traffic was hijacked, they mean there were announcements originating from China Telecom for subnets that unquestionably aren't supposed to be served by them

How to detect that? Well, I guess after a hijack ends, it is possible to compare the origin ASNs announcing those subnets with before the hijack. If a subnet suddenly starts to be announced by an origin it had no prior relationship with, then that announcement later disappears, only for the subnet's old announcements to continue, it's easy to say this may have been a hijacking

It goes without saying when some origin begins publishing new addresses, humans were almost certainly involved somewhere along the chain. So for the innocence part, nope

I think they can report that Cogent are affected by analysing Cogent's own announcements, where BGP (IIRC) records the path of ASNs causing the announcement to be made. So CT -> Cogent announcement, then Cogent -> their customers announcement, that the origin is CT is actually identified in announcements the customers receive, and likely where data for reports like this are being collected

(disclaimer: I'm not a networking guy whatsoever)
OK, so this is depth estimation from a single image, right? Like this classic paper.[1] Then that's used to turn the image into a set of layers. This is often done for video; that's how 2D movies are turned into 3D movies.

[1] http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asaxena/learningdepth/ijcv_monocu...
A lot of people here keep mentioning mainframes and reliability/uptime. Mainframes were not particularly great at uptime (it was not a prime concern for batch processing), until Tandem, which was founded specifically to make fault-tolerant computers for on-line processing, started shipping systems in the late 1970s and taking market share away from IBM and the other manufacturers, forcing them to add fault tolerance.
I’d say physical activity and face-to-face interaction.
Huh?

pdftotext
massage with grep, tr, sed, awk, sort, uniq, etc
paste into Calc or Excel (or some SQL first)
It would be helpful to have a page that introduces your web hosting service to the user. I can't see myself using this without knowing what terms apply to me.
See my response to the sibling - my point is that optional types are useful as a design tool for writing more robust code that deals with expected missing data as per the design, but don't help at all with actual bugs that cause unexpected missing data at runtime.
I have personally spoken with three women who have stated that they will not attend conferences where rms is also attending, or speaking, specifically because he won't leave them alone (by which I mean "keeps coming onto them"), and won't listen to them when they ask him to leave them alone, which they have done repeatedly, and unambiguously.

Is that a direct enough statement of facts for you, or would you like their phone numbers or emails or whatever, so you can fact-check for yourself?
I guess great minds think alike! It's gratifying to see the smart engineers @ Google use a similar solution to solve the security problem. Unfortunately, it seems Crostini is tied heavily to ChromeOS.
I would agree that is really a display of power, and not a good one.

They are learning to manage this kind of situation, for sure: that is, random disruption.

I see them learning peculiar time management strategies that they will have to unlearn as adults.

I see them learning that their efforts on medium-difficulty tasks are often going to be randomly wasted and are therefore not worth bothering with.
I'm not here to promote my own publications, but if you search for basically any language or technology that your project is associated with and follow it with "weekly" or "newsletter" (e.g. "javascript weekly" or "python weekly") you will almost certainly find a newsletter curator hungry to promote your project (if it's any good or would be of interest to their readers). I have almost half a million such subscribers now, plus about the same on Twitter, across various developer niches.
The History Of Engineering and Science in the Bell System - The Early Years (1875-1925)

The History Of Engineering and Science in the Bell System - National Service in War and Peace (1925-1975)

The History Of Engineering and Science in the Bell System - Switching Technology (1925-1975)

The History Of Engineering and Science in the Bell System - Physical Sciences (1925-1980)

The History Of Engineering and Science in the Bell System - Communications Sciences (1925-1980)

The History Of Engineering and Science in the Bell System - Electronics Technology (1925-1975)

The History Of Engineering and Science in the Bell System - Transmission Technology (1925-1980)

There are two editions of Engineering and Operations in the Bell System one from 1983 and one from 1977.

Another one worth looking at is Transmission Systems for Communications.

For more information about divestiture, read Heritage and Destiny - https://www.amazon.com/Heritage-Destiny-Reflections-System-T...

At least some of these are available as PDF's from archive.org

Another thing looking at is back BSTJ articles: https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/bstj-a...

AT&T was anti-competitive, but it also spent much money on the public good, its a mixed bag - we did lose something with divestiture.
No, not at all
CIDR Report for 15 Sep 19
That is called guided upsampling and we are in fact doing just that to get a better estimate of the scene geometry. Specifically, we estimate the scene geometry at a resolution of 256x256 pixels (for a 1:1 aspect ratio, it varies for other resolutions) and then use the original image as a guide to upsample this estimate to 1024x1024 pixels. So yes, it could be used to a greater extent but it needs more work to be able to do this.
I guess it also helps that those implicated in the Epstein scandal very much don't want her extradited. I would not be surprised if she also "commits suicide" within a year.
The Uncol (Universal Computer Language) Problem
Heck, read a book together occasionally! I remember doing this with my father and sister. I think we all enjoyed it as much as each other!

Edit: spelling
Can I get some clarity on pink bits?

Haven't heard the term and googling around, I am certain the author isn't talking about what I am finding at the top.
So has Singapore's social services gone bankrupt?

Did they just run out of young people to fund it?

Edit: OK, OK, I found a 2011 Brookings report that explains it: "Social Policy in Singapore: A Crucible of Individual Responsibility".[0] Basically, social services mandates savings, with more or less self-managed investment, but doesn't guarantee benefits. And it has emphasized home ownership.

So no, their system isn't at risk of bankruptcy. But then:

> Like the standard criticism of defined-contribution pension plans, the standard criticism of somewhat minimalist social policy such as that which characterises Singapore is that it does not cover enough risks and actual problems faced by the poor, the elderly, and the sick and disabled. As we have seen, European, Scandinavian and North American countries spend around 35% of their GDPs on social programmes. Although a comparable figure on total social welfare spending is not available for Singapore, the Government of Singapore spends only 16.7% of its GDP on all its programmes, a figure that is less than half as much as European and Scandinavian programmes spent just on social welfare.

So there we have it: individual responsibility.

0) https://www.brookings.edu/articles/social-policy-in-singapor...
At the risk of sounding Nationalist or Jingoist... it seems that innovation isn't something that comes easily to many Chinese companies. Innovation is done by American/Western companies, and many Chinese companies piggyback off of Western innovations. Since many Western companies produce their products in China, it's easy for that factory to just keep the production lines running. When Apple asks for 1,000 products to be made, the Chinese factories can make the 1,000 products for Apple and then 5,000 products for sale on Alibaba at basically no additional cost.

When you're selling hardware at-cost and copying OSS software to run on it, it's not really profitable to add additional software maintenance costs like producing an SDK or offering English-language software support. I'm 100% sure there are Chinese companies who offer software and English-language support, but I am also 100% sure those Chinese companies charge similar prices to Western companies, negating the benefits of Alibaba products.

You certainly do have Chinese companies who attempt this: Huawei and Xiaomi come to mind. But their products sell at prices very comparable to Western companies. For the true "Chinese prices" companies who only sell on Alibaba etc... if they're offering Western support and Western innovation, there's no way they're selling at Chinese prices.
Nice article. In the past years however, the number of e-bikes used by elderly people has gone up so much, that fatality for that group has gone up quite notably as well. Many elderly buy an e-bike while not having ridden a bike for many years. Meanwhile, traffic has become more difficult. And their reflexes not really what they have been.

See e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/25/older-men-usin...
The problem is that you need a lot of headroom. If you are fully depleating the battery almost every day that will typically result in a 50% capacity drop over 2 years.

And suddenly even if your device had some headroom when new it still won't last a day.
That was a great talk, thanks for sharing. I guess it all makes sense once you have bought into having synchronous dependencies between microservices - which is the part I was struggling with. But I guess if that is what you have to do, that is what you have to do.
China appears set to unveil high speed drone during military parade
Also the question I have is what are we fighting against? This is the world we created and we want our lids to live in a different world? Without online games, social networks etc?
Can we replace that with http://sniklaus.com/papers/kenburns the actual paper?
https://federated.withgoogle.com/ this is another fun one
Maybe we are not discussing the same hypothesis.

null hypothesis: "We can put genetic alterations in the environment and expect them not to propagate" or if you prefer:

"Modified mosquitoes will never, ever escape and reproduce, because we are scientists, really smart, we know what we do, etc"

(Modified mosquitoes escape and reproduce)

Null Hypothesis is false, and Crichton is still a rich man. Next question.
When I'm on a longer hike I don't know how long my phone battery will need to hold out (don't get me started on solar and extra battery packs) so it stays off with periodic check ins to stay in contact.

Dedicated music players tend to have a much longer battery life, are lighter, cheaper to replace (weather, drops, being left on wet ground...). It allows me to listen to things without sacrificing my safety net.
I'm a huge fan of http://www.LeanDomainSearch.com - but only on a desktop computer. For mobile, you have to scroll for a mile to change the sort settings.
Right, but if you run mypy over your code, you're in the same situation as in java. It's a one liner to run mypy before you invoke your tests. You have to cast to subvert the type system.

In c you have void ptr everywhere anyway.
As always with these fears, you can substitute with nuclear weapons, guns, bronze weapons..

though

> The machine doesn’t have the discernment or common sense that the human touch has.

Discernment or common sense has proven no barrier to atrocity...

(also Google worker = contractor)
Do you walk at up to 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) in roadways right next to cars going much faster?
Just saw the Bitcoin logo in a Premier League game
Hidden websites with lots of pink bits is exactly what you think it is. Images are served through CDNs and thus caches like varnish.