skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What kind of code am I looking at, it seems pretty cool.
I this some automatically 'reverse compiled' assembly?

In any case, I'd love to know how you generated this. Would be very cool to get something similar out of an executable.
Still the lowest death toll per time unit of energy produced. Lower than solar or wind.

So, producing electricity isn't safe, but doing the safest thing isn't usually called unsafe.
What city are you in? That is absolutely nothing at all like anything I’ve ever experienced in any of the Costco’s I’ve ever been to! That sounds terrible! Honestly you should send them an email a lot this, especially getting run over by carts.
What about if you were choosing between a coal plant, nuclear plant, or solar on the roof of your house with 2 tesla powerwalls and off grid.
Bought a TV that died at 5 years. Costco had a 5 year warranty, so they gave me cash back, which I promptly bought another.

The new one has a seven year warranty, which is a combination of manufacture, Costco, Costco credit card, and Square Trade. Just can’t beat that anywhere else.
There's no such thing as "produce without waste".

What you're proposing is the equivalent of wanting to eat only such things that don't cause you to have to take a dump.
Apple Card user claims to be victim of fraud despite never using titanium card
Bloom filters are likely useless in this situation - following facts for phishing only:

1. Phishing sites have a lifecycle of about 15 hours.

2. Most malicious links are hidden within benign domains.

3. About 400,000 phishing sites are created each month.

From: https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/4-eye-opening-facts-abou...

I haven't run the numbers, but I am guessing that a clientside solution would have a lot of bandwidth sucking and avoiding false positives is very important.

Also with a clientside solution, how are new phishing URLs detected?

PS: perhaps try to assume HNers know what a Bloom filter is (I've seen them come up lots of times in comments).
Here context is important:

"Homemade Ice Cream"

even on Hacker News is more likely the meaning than

"Homemade Integrated Circuits".

"IC Density and Moore's Law"

is clearly about integrated circuits and not ice cream.

Yup, a lot of people in computing really hold on to jargon like hugging mama.
Millionaire buries $5M treasure in the mountains
> Almost any kind of change starts small and then builds up. I don't see anything to indicate that banning ads isn't just the first step in the process. Cigarettes have become more and more restricted over time and they also started with banning ads.

Cigarette commercials have been banned in the USA since 1969[1], but smoking is still allowed. So I cannot agree with your concerns. The advertising ban and taxation of unhealthy products that impose externalities on society have proved far more effective than outright bans.

> If this doesn't alarm you yet, then will you be alarmed once they start banning ads for meat?

No. I'd even welcome that. The same applies to sugar, alcohol, marijuana and salt: Don't ban them, tax them and maybe restrict advertising for them.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20080305012949/http://tobaccodoc...
> if you are grading papers do you want to mark up bitmaps?

Why not? Get a tablet with a stylus and draw your commentary directly on the image.

That is the way teachers have always marked up student work, just now without a paper copy or a physical red pen.

Trying to mark up documents using MS Word or Google Docs or whatever is a horrible experience in comparison.
Do style transfer on videos (alpha)
I absolutely love Brian Eno's music. Apollo and The Pearl are engraved in my memory and will stay with me until my last day. But I really don't see why I would take Brian Eno's ideas on why we need nuclear power any more serious than some sports person talking about politics or a computer programmer talking or writing about the finer bits of mechanical engineering.

This whole 'famous person speaks about subject they have little knowledge about with authority' thing goes right past me, it's weird how we seem to project all kinds of magical properties onto those who manage to get name recognition. As though fame somehow automatically bestows instant expertise on a hundred unrelated fields on the famous.

I'd love to hear Brian Eno write and say more about music though, like Vangelis, Tomita, Jean-Michel Jarre and Klaus Doldinger he managed to make electronic music sound organic, which was - given the tools at hand - a magnificent accomplishment.

Renewables are sorted out, massive deployment is more of a political problem than a technical one. Better batteries would be useful but windpower doesn't need batteries as much as solar does. Better transmission lines, that would make a big difference.

Creating more nuclear power plants is a dead end economically, the power produced is going to be more expensive than the same amount of power produced using renewable energy. On top of that you will still have to deal with the waste and the eventual decommissioning, assuming you get the license to operate the thing in the first place and your budget overruns won't kill the project.

So regardless of what - insert favorite famous musician - who was against nuclear power for all the wrong reasons and now is pro nuclear power - also for all the wrong reasons - thinks we are on a different path now and just maybe it will be possible to get through the eye of the needle without relying on nuclear technology. And if it has to be nuclear, then let's hope that fusion will finally be delivered, that would be a game changer.
Vim works over a slow communications line; emacs does not.
It's not at all unreasonable for people to think that power flows back when the grid is operating, and when the grid isn't, they'll still be able to use their solar panels.

Yes, you and I know this requires extra equipment and introduces some safety issues, but the first blush assumption is not unreasonable here.
Taking a dump fertilises things to eat.

"energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another."
> ____ZN7Backend6Google12SSBUtilities24shouldConsultWithTencentEv_block_invoke_2

I'm glad I don't use Objective-C... That's some Java level function naming there.

Edit: may have spoke too soon, appears to be possible reverse engineered / decompiled?
Suppose peeps going to HN are suspect. Then anyone who often produces hash prefixes that match HN is suspect.
When you start getting sequences, you could possible start matching how people navigate a website.

Essentially, a hash-prefix allows you to rule out / semi confirm guesses about browsing behavior.
Sort of! For starters, Discourse, Flarum & Vanilla all share a similar structure of a single feed of posts organised by tags which is quite different to an "old style" forum where there are individual boards. These kinds of set-ups are possible in those ones but aren't highlighted as much. But not only that...

Flarum is not at v1 yet and isn't really recommended for production. It's also quite feature light and I would be hesitant to expand upon it while it's not stable yet.

I've never seen a Discourse forum that doesn't look like another Discourse forum, have you? They all look the same! I had a pre-launch landing page up where something like 75% was on desktop. Discourse seems to have a mobile first, desktop never approach to its design and appears to be difficult to customise. I felt it was a sub-optimal experience suited better to communities centered around a single topic or perhaps support.

Vanilla is the most mature of these new style options but just wasn't doing it for me.

I don't think going a bit "retro" is a bad thing. I thought XenForo had a great balance between retaining that classic, nostalgic, familiar vibe while still providing lots of nice QoL features to go with it.
It's "decompilation" of a block invoke for Backend::Google::SSBUtilities::shouldConsultWithTencent() taken by opening /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SafariSafeBrowsing.framework/SafariSafeBrowsing in Hopper Disassembler.
For living next to? Obviously the solar installation. For generating energy to power our economies as we scramble to mitigate the impact of climate change? Obviously nuclear.

What was the point you were trying to make?
When I was working in retail during college, they made it very clear that most shrinkage actually comes from employees and not shoppers. Employees with bags were searched by loss prevention on their way out of the store, and we were required to use a separate entrance/exit than shoppers.
Costco has better quality meat than the grocery stores -- although I don't find their prime grade meats to be significantly better than the choice cuts. The vegetables and fruits are high quality too, but I live with enough people to make it worthwhile.

I live across the street from a grocery store. Over the last 30 years, I've seen it transformed from a slightly upscale supermarket to a glorified mini-market. After every remodeling or floor space expansion, the selection and service would get a little worse. Now that Albertsons bought all of the supermarkets in the area they've significantly cut the quality in the last bastions of why I would shop there at all -- produce and bakery. They do have a large enough alcohol section that I get to see shoplifters running out of the store all the time.

So now I'm driving ten miles to Costco to get quality ingredients when I live across the street from a supermarket. The clerks read their script, "Did you find everything you need?" and I respond, "Well, I didn't find X and Y." Their response: "Oh." And people wonder why they're all losing ground to big box stores.

In retail you can compete on service, selection, and/or prices. Fry's Electronics chose the last two, but were undercut on both by Amazon. Local supermarkets seem to have yielded on all three to Costco which is freaking crazy.
Or, make it impossible to go anywhere but out after paying. Just like ticket gates / events funnel people in, just funnel them out.
I had the same impression about the hello.webwide subdomain, thinking that a person had to sign up to see everything.

I'm certain that impression is intentional. They're using it as a conversion page, which is of course why it was the page posted to HN. Dark pattern in action.
Why You Can’t Control Your Social Anxiety Is It Linkedto Having a Small Family?
Freshness could be one option.
It’s because the Green New Deal is, as its name implies, primarily about rehabilitating socialism, not addressing climate change. Start reading AOC’s bill, at page 3: https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.go.... The whereas clauses spend more time addressing things like wealth inequality and labor protections than the scientific findings of the IPCC.

For example, section 4(H):

> (H) guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaing wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to all people of the United States;

Can anyone seriously look at provisions like this and say the Green New Deal is actually about climate change and not socialism?

Nuclear (or technology in general) doesn’t give you a big new stick to for addressing, for example, the declining influence of labor unions, or wealth inequality. Technology is something you typically do with markets and investors. That’s why technological solutions have fallen into disfavor on the left.
Most programming I do is exploratory as well. Sometimes it takes a couple of years of exploring to find the thing. Sometimes I have to rewrite pretty hefty subsystems 5-7 times before I know how they should really work. I find that this kind of programming works much better in a statically-typechecked language than it ever did in a Lisp-like language, for all the usually-given reasons.

I agree that there is such a thing as writing a program that is only intended to be kind of close to correct, and that this is actually a very powerful real-world technique when problems get complicated. But the assertion that type annotations hinder this process seems dubious to me. In fact they help be a great deal in this process, because I don’t have to think about what I am doing very much, and I will bang into the guardrails if I make a mistake. The fact that the guardrails are there gives me a great deal of confidence, and I can drive much less carefully.

People have expressed to me that functions without declared types are more powerful and more leveragable, but I have never experienced this to be true, and I don’t really understand how it could be true (especially in 2019 when there are lots of static languages with generics).
>Europeans failed to keep Latin relevant. Indians failed to keep Sanskrit relevant.
They kept the languages for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians kept hieroglyphics going even longer. We are able to maintain languages without any problems, if we just choose to.
With the advent of database-managed, self-hosted personal clouds (i.e Nextcloud/Droppy,) the difference is even smaller. It's developing into a self-hosted "just works" personal cloud ecosystem.
This is a block invoke for a mangled C++ function. You'd know it as a lambda inside of Backend::Google::SSBUtilities::shouldConsultWithTencent().
Intel i9 9900k 40% Faster in Chrome Octane Bench with mitigations=off
You just need to eat more bread
True, for this family of 4. We buy the big pack of Scott toilet paper, and store it amongst 4 bathrooms; same for tissues, both 2x a year. Paper towels in the garage, along with detergent and bleach. Bulk meat in a small deep freeze. A $6 bag of garlic lasts for months, but just toss it even if it’s only 1/2 used, as that would buy you 6 bulbs at the normal grocer.
It's been my view for a long time that Green Party has been unreasonably stupid being generally so hard core anti-nuclear that they can't even think about logically anymore. Like it's one of the best clean energy sources out there, works in any climate and location and the waste is quite trivial to store away for time being - until we find out a way to use it. But no, they rather stoke fear with doomsday scenarios scarier than another and advocate building expensive wind turbines and solar panels in places where they just can't support the energy demands of the whole country.

It's just dumb. They are too stuck emotionally with their idealism on "non-polluting" things. Everything pollutes, nuclear waste albeit worse than the normal garbage can be taken care of quite easily. I'd rather have that than coal plants. Sure it would be nice to not to have even the nuclear waste, but sometimes you have to be pragmatic. That's what engineering is about.

Here's a fun story I heard about the woefully famous Finnish Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant. As some of you might know it was the most expensive building in the world for a while costing 8.5 billion euros (it seems some hotel complex in Mecca is now more expensive with 12 billions). Why you might ask? Well Olkiluoto 3 is a nuclear plant with 1600 MW output consisting of only a single reactor, unlike no other plant. Commonly nuclear plants are built in sets of 2 reactors, so that they are easier to maintain (one is still running when the other is offline) and in general easier to build than one massive reactor. But why only 1 reactor you ask? Well, as some Nokia engineer told me in sauna, the administration at the time consisted of multiple parties one of them being the Green Party. And Green Party was terribly afraid of nuclear energy, and the decision to build a new nuclear power plant really didn't sit well with them. Everybody knew that Finland needed a new power source and nuclear power plant was the only viable option. But Green Party just didn't. want. the. nuclear. plant.

So a compromise was made. Green Party agreed to allow the building of a new nuclear plant but only with one reactor. Dumb idea, but I guess they thought that 1 nuclear reactor was less scarier than 2. What the other parties then decided to? Well in order to supply the energy demands Finnish industry required, they said "hey let's build a reactor that in fact has the power of two reactors". Which was never done before, and the results are now well-known.

In the end, what Green Party gained from this? A nuclear power plant with only a one reactor, but which is double the size of regular one and whole thing billions of euros over-budget and everyone generally unhappy. But hey, only one reactor.. I'm not even sure does it produce the same nuclear waste as two reactors would. A major success nonetheless.
We don't have much sunlight where I live.

But if that was the case it would be a safer option. Probably. Do they explode?
Please don't take HN threads into ideological battle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Shopping at Costco is like riding the NYC subway - it's a cross section of society from all income levels.

The linked article says this isn't true.

"Unlike other discount chain customers, the majority of these cardholders are largely affluent ($100k+ income) and college-educated"
I root for Bitcoin and Ethereum more than I root for Libra. But I am rooting for all of them.
Fun fact about Costco. More than 100% of its profits come from membership fees. The actual selling of goods loses a small amount of money.

See this super interesting twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/investing_city/status/117997425777998233...
They weren't riff-raff, but one of my neighbors who was on a tight budget couldn't afford to shop there because buying in bulk meant laying out a lot of cash at once. They were convinced they wanted to buy bulk staples and save, so the went rice and beans for a month so they could save up for a Costco trip. They claim they save quite a bit buying at Costco, but those bulk prices can indeed be a hurdle.
Really cool writeup! I'm surprised you trained with TF and then deployed with PT. I feel like PT is considered easier to train with while TF is easier and faster to set up production-level serving. I think you might have had to do less work if you used TF Serving.
Detailed discussion from September when the decision was made.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20920753
Yeah HDF5 resulted in some amazing speedups for some things I was doing with decently large data sets. It's very practical for standard use cases. The authors are really using and abusing HDF5 and based on some of the tricks they were using to eek out extra performance by going off reservation so to speak, I'm not surprised they ran into data corruption issues.

That's an issue I've never had with HDF5.
Nuclear waste - rather than a non-issue - is a giant issue. The amount of nuclear waste is only increasing, our ways of dealing with it for the longer term - say up to the next 500 years - do not stand up to scrutiny and there is a fair chance that we will end up with numerous sites that make your average Superfund site look like Disney Land.

In France, the UK, Japan and the United States there are dumps of radioactive waste that are off-limits for the next couple of centuries. Alternatives have been suggested (such as - ridiculous - shooting the waste into space or dumping it into the deepest parts of the ocean). But none of those are even remotely viable or politically or socially acceptable.

As for the waste from fracking and tar sand processing, yes, that's terrible and it should stop. But nuclear is not the only alternative there.
> In particular, even with my decades of experience, there is no good way for me to guess that the acronym "IC" abbreviated "integrated circuits".

IC to mean integrated circuits is a very common acronym, and right in the center of the HN focus.

I’ve literally never once seen “IC” used in any context to refer to any of the strained alternatives you propose.

It really feels like you had a canned rant that you've been waiting to find a place to use, and you decided to strain to make it seem like it fit the first thing that you felt like you might get away with stretching it to cover.

> even for the Hacker News audience, the acronym IC more likely abbreviates "ice cream" than "integrated circuits".

I disagree that this is true, either in general or in the specific context.
I would think that would actually benefit companies like AWS. Patches for the bug causes applications to run slower, because of that their customers will be forced to use bigger instances and bigger instances cost more.

I suppose only loss for AWS would be if someone decides to move back to own data center because of that, bit I don't think this would cause that.
Good point; it's exceedingly weird that the version uploaded February 2013 is dated April 2018 (on the file itself), whereas the most recent version, dated later in 2013, has a date printed on the file that's also in 2013 ….
In my experience, there is never enough time to complete the existing projects comfortably before the deadline. (If there is enough time, it means some team member should be moved to another project, or a new project should be created. Otherwise the managers are not doing their job.) So the actual problem with employee training is usually time, not money.

If you could learn a new work-related skill in literally zero time, most companies would be happy to pay the expenses. It wouldn't be different from buying a new chair, or a larger monitor. But if learning the skill takes a few days (forget about weeks!), in short term it means that a project that is already late would become even more late. Which is why the company totes supports investing in their human resources, but sorry, you can't get the training right now, because there are higher priorities. (Spoiler: there will always be higher priorities.)

Which is sad, because in many cases what is needed is time, not extra money. There are free tutorials, free online courses; the employees have skills they could teach their colleagues. In theory, the company totes supports employees with initiative to offer internal trainings, until they realize that this actually requires some time, too. Then you get the usual "yes, but not anytime soon". (Translation: it means "no".)

I have also seen it from the other side. At some point of my life, I was providing courses for companies.

Generally, there are companies willing to pay you for lessons of MS Word, or MS Excel. (Also Photoshop etc., but I wasn't doing those.) But with anything more complicated, time became an issue. Like, there would be a market for e.g. Enterprise Java lessons, assuming you could teach the whole thing from scratch in one day. Two days, maybe. But three days is definitely too long.

Literally, I once had a potential client asking me whether I could teach their new employees, who had zero programming skills (in any programming language, ever), make Java Enterprise applications. They gave me the checklist with dozen required topics, like web services etc. How quickly can I get my students from zero to expert? I thought about it, and concluded that perhaps in one week, I could at least tell them something about each topic; with no hope that they would remember it all, but perhaps if I also gave them detailed written notes, they would be able to reconstruct parts of it later. When I made a schedule and showed it to the potential client, they were horrified why should it take so much time; there were expecting at most three days, preferably two. At that moment I understood how much the complexity of technical knowledge is underestimated by those who make the decisions.

tl;dr - you are supposed to learn in your free time (and sometimes the company is willing to pay for it)
Localbitcoins now requires KYC.

https://localbitcoins.com/blog/id-verification-update/
You're 100% right. Actually was a bit concerned myself when I realized hundreds of people were peering into how my server is doing.

But at the same time, I understand the security risks and if I have to I can just stop netdata's container and add some more security on it before turning it on again (I'm not running some SaaS startup, so security isn't a huge concern and I don't think you can do anything with my netdata that can affect or show anything else that can make me prone to attack)