skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why do you prioritize support of googlenet browser and leave Firefox for later, while google is a main competitor of Microsoft?
I'm a little irritated by using the Visual Studio name, when this is really just VSCode in a browser with some bits and pieces. Similarly with the Mac version, which again, is not Visual Studio, but Xamarain Studio/MonoDevelop with some paint and extensions.

It's a bit like saying that your car is a Porsche, when it is really a VW Rabbit. Sure, both cars are ultimately manufactured by Porsche SE, but it's not quite the same thing.
MotionRugs: Visualizing Collective Trends in Space and Time
As a UK-resident, I find the omission of considering a pedestrian in the road quite unexpectedly, and unfortunately, overly car-centric.

There isn’t really the term “jaywalking” here. It’s just “crossing the road”. I’m not sure on exactly who has what legal responsibility, but it certainly feels like pedestrians should look out for cars when crossing, and drivers should look out for pedestrians.
You mean... you mean they figured out time travel tech???
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative
Even with a “new type of blockchain” (whatever that means), “permanent” isn’t something I’d trust a startup with. Even “lifetime” deals from profitable established companies tend to run into horrible problems a few decades later [1], when unexpected trends appear. Average company lifespan is now in a low number of decades [2], and startups tend to be at the lower end of that curve just by the nature of being more experimental.

1 - https://thehustle.co/aairpass-american-airlines-250k-lifetim...

2 - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/technology-killing-off-corpo...
Exactly. ARM's intellectual property (ie. CPUs) is used in more devices than Intel.
Very true that languages evolve and you're right, "created" was poor choice on my part. In the case of the US however, even they spoke British English at one time, and then some guy called Webster decided to write yet another English dictionary, one with significant differences, in an attempt to standardise the language. This xkcd comes to mind:

https://xkcd.com/927/
Would you say that if that was your family in front of that car ? Very ignorant comment.
> we could define what kind of growth we want and in what direction

The best proposal so far is growth with speed of light in all directions.

> Do we really need growth or do we need happiness?

What about the people who are not happy when our knowledge about world, and the number of populated planets does not grow or does not grow fast enough?

> Once we scientifically solved major health issues

The two greatest health issues are senescence and limited capability of learning new things, when we solve those we'll need even more people to create art so that we don't get bored, and to develop new technologies so that we do not die when sun explodes in couple of billion years.
We could build solar-powered versions of those things right now - but we don't. Where's the money in it?
We can either have fast technological progress, or we can be completely tied up in bureaucratic red tape, with every potential innovation having to go through endless "oversight" committees staffed by non-technical airheads.

I know which I prefer.
What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics
What does it matter what the "object" was, if anything/something is moving to intercept then the car should stop.
Emergency brakes were disabled because they behaved erratically. So I'm not sure what it would have done if it had ID'd her correctly, it was still relying on witless behind the wheel. What a shit show.
"Companies want the flamebait...." The moderation system on reddit seems to heavily promote group think. Actually promoting controversial comments as a default would be interesting.
That is true. Most companies have bench+overhead and billed resources may be 60% or less of total work force. Average billing works out to $10-15 for the low value high volume work these IT services firms do and that has not changed over the last 20 years or so. What has changed is a bloated middle/senior management which is a drag to the above business model. They did try to move up into consultancy and productised services - which did not really work.
I agree to some extent, but that’s not the only reason. When earlier US sanctioned ZTE that almost stopped all IC tech blocked, instead of rising nationalism, the view of the future was very pessimistic inside China. However now common people realized US just use it as a leverage and it appears US can’t even make it happen. With multiple US retreats from the trade war, Chinese people are never been more confident in history
People writing code like this should exchange these question marks for some wisdom ;)
This byte article does not seems concerned about the choice of endianness (big-endian or little-endian).
Coming from the defense (go ahead, clutch your pearls, I won't be offended) industry I just can't understand why people ship things that fail into in potentially dangerous states on some known non-trivial fraction of inputs. If the purpose of the software were entertainment or some other low stakes thing I'd understand but software controlling things that can kill people or lose lots of money need to be able to handle unexpected inputs gracefully.
Streaming boom has caused costs of scripted TV series to explode
It actually most likely isn't common. In the past it was, but there was a serious crackdown on doctors improving their golf handicaps in luxury resorts on the dime of big pharma and all variations on that theme. Surprised to see this make a recurrence.
Proving Groupoids with Idris
> Most airlines typically try to purchase their fleet all from the same manufacturer

Emirates: A & B

Lufthansa: A & B

Cathay Pacific: A & B

American Airlines: A & B

Delta: A & B (& M)

Air France: A & B

KLM: A & B

China Southern: A & B (& Embraer)

ANA: A & B

Aeroflot: A & B (& Sukhoi)

Air China: A & B

Ethiopian Air: A & B (& De Havilland)

etc.
Nope, definitely vi. I have a vintage book about Unix written ca. 1980, and the author's concern was that "vi's code segment will fill up most of the main memory of a large PDP-11, leaving you little space for the text you're editing". They considered their university's heavily modified fork of ed (the standard text editor, remember?) to be a better choice.
It is worthwhile mentioning that the Airbus A320 wing was designed 35 years ago for a 70t platform, and has remained the same on all versions, from the A318 through to the A321.

While unchanged, the wing has seen a steady loading increase: to 83t on the first A321, then 89t and 93.5t, and is finally expected to go up to 101t on the A321XLR. This increased wing loading has meant higher take-off speeds, reaching close to the maximum tire speed limits, and a lower safety margin at altitude – in other words, a tighter “coffin corner”, and lower stability protection.

Airbus just hasn't had it's day yet.
I have a similar sentiment about nuclear weapons. What's the problem if someone needs to be pushing a button?
MFC was built for a reason. To provide that doc/view/OLE GUI. If you wander too far away from that it becomes well, lets just say, 'interesting' to use. I would many times just include MFC just to get some of those helper classes though. CString was way ahead of the game. C++ did not get a std::string standard that most people could use until well into the 2000s. Its database classes were good in a pinch to abstract away the nitpicky junk in ODBC. Then C++ took a 15 year sideways journey into getting templates right. During that time MS created C# and basically took away any reasons to really use MFC and C++ on windows for business applications.
I have two questions:

1) Why would you select a frequency that water absorbs?

2) Who gets to be in charge of aiming the orbital death ray?
Figuring out whether today is a working day is actually a dynamic problem. It is different for every locale, and it changes more frequently than one might expect.

It's actually a great example of something that changes rather frequently, and it's a concern that cuts across dozens (or in Monzo's case, maybe hundreds) of services.

Causing a roll-out to hundreds of critical business functions (whether hosted in a monolith or microservices) because Uganda added a holiday seems quite excessive.

The rule I and my company follows is that the shape of a module should follow its deployment model and scope. Some services are global in scope (literally targeted at the earth) others are scoped to a small subset of our inner network. They should have a different code repo because they have a different rollout schedule.

In the case of the working-days services. Only 1 rollout needs to occur, and it seems like a fairly safe rollout.

Let's consider another service, the CriticalTransactionService, or CTS. It executes critical business transactions in a very stateful way. When deploying a new version, in order to avoid any loss of availability, often a special rollout dance must be executed. E.g. switching the master transaction writer to another region, which means changing databases from passive replication to active master, and vice-versa.

One might consider this rollout "risky" and therefore only limits it to happen at 3am on a Saturday. It seems like a good idea to limit the scope of this 3am Saturday rollout only to the CriticalTransactionService, and most other services are free to deploy to prod whenever they wish.
I may be totally off-base, here, but isn't WPF independent from Win32?
I'll admit this, I was wrong about Satya. I didn't think Microsoft was salvageable but he's been doing a stellar job. He's a great CEO and embracing open source was a really good move.

I shifted to VSCode from atom (before they purchased github) due to atom's memory hogging issues a while back. Haven't regretted the choice. For my private repos, I used to only use the free version of bitbucket but Microsoft introduced free private repos to github so I've been trying that out lately. If I like it, I'll stick with it.

Also, all my code is hosted on Azure now from AWS since late last year.

I tried WSL but didn't like it to due problems with paths but at this rate with which they're moving, it too might improve and I might find myself using only Microsoft for my work. Would not have predicted that if you asked me a few years back when I couldn't run away from Ms/Windows environment fast enough.
Heroku. I just pay for the privilege of not thinking (almost) about such issues.
If there's a "hidden" intrinsic ordering in addition to the by-column orderings, then the third click should indeed reset the data to that intrinsic ordering. A music player playlist is a great example; it's a list, meaning each element tuple is augmented with a unique integer, its index on the list. The user can reorder the elements on the list arbitrarily, and the list must be revertible to the custom order after sorting by any column.
> We can either have fast technological progress, or we can be completely tied up in bureaucratic red tape, with every potential innovation having to go through endless "oversight" committees staffed by non-technical airheads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
Yes, found it strange too. The third quote block directly states that copy-on-write design is encouraged by the current hardware.
You think 5000 is a big factor here? You should spend more time around humans!
Freedom comes with responsibility. The idea that they are not responsible for the content (i.e. you can't hold Youtube/Google legally responsible for the content they have on their platforms) while at the same time they make profit on the very same content and can censor it as they see fit -- this is idiocy in its purest form.

We hold newspapers or TV station legally liable for the content they serve. This is fair. Situation in which they couldn't be sued for the stuff they air still making money on it -- that's the current situation with them. It's even worse because they can somehow censor the content they don't like for their own political reasons.

It's like with banks. Yes, we can make money. And yes when times are bad we can get money from the government/tax payers too. This is not freedom this is fascism.
> Most snapchat/whatsapp dealers are 100% fake

You'd be surprised how dumb some dealers can be. (This also depends on the location). I may or may not know of people who used to operate on Facebook Messenger, Instagram, but Snapchat is surprisingly popular.

Most dealers who have half a brain use Wickr (it being closed source; I still don't approve, but it's better than Snapchat).
I started my career as a researcher at NASA. I helped scientists visualize data
Consistently hitting the "other" category would be a massive improvement over what happened. According to the timeline for the pedestrian was initially classified as a vehicle, later as a bicycle, with short periods in between where she's classified as "other" or "unknown". And of course when an object changes classification it loses all history and is initially predicted to be static. Despite detecting her for 5.6 seconds the system never had more than 1.5 seconds of tracking history because it couldn't make up it's mind and kept throwing everything away.
That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Building a C++ project with even a few critical dependencies (e.g. graphics libraries, font libraries, a client for a database or other complex network protocol) is a massive hassle. Sometimes those are curated well, sometimes they're not--but they remain essential for many projects. By taking a hard line against the hypothetical explosion of low-quality dependencies, you compromise the ability to use even the "small, curated, relatively standard set" of dependencies that are genuinely essential.
Confessions of a Used Programming Language Salesman (2007)
Or managers barking at sheepish recent grads/h1bs who don't know how to or can't push back. Does not seem like a very strong engineering culture.
"I don't get it." </Tom Hanks, in Big>

There's no stack I work in for which a single program is enough to get things done, even if it's a giant, bloated IDE like Visual Studio, IntelliJ, or RubyMine. When I need to operate on the outputs of the IDE, how am I supposed to use my other tools with those files, when they're locked up in a cloud service without a filesystem? Maybe this works for a pull-request review and merge, but I can't see it being useful for any more than that.
Open Call for Self-Driving Car Engineers
There's no right / third mouse button for mobile users though.
Agree, a licensed human driver is in charge of a "summoned" vehicle. Any operation you might expect from such a vehicle is on the person holding the button.
then why do you need the runtime bit?
>I hear you, a nuke is the ultimate tool for implementing widespread death.

That's not my point. I agree that the barriers to entry for biotech are lower.

My point is that whereas the only 'defence' against nuclear weapons is deterrence, i.e more nukes, it is possible to defend against biotech weapons without starting an arms race. This would consist of ongoing, costly research of antidotes by government and university labs (with a high barrier to entry).
I use uptime robot http://uptimerobot.com for monitoring, they have a free plan or paid if you want faster checks.

If it's truly critical to have no down time then you probably need to build that resilience in to your architecture.
Nobody is going to let them go back to TFS. Git has won, for good or for bad.
Bernie Sanders: Apple's $2.5B Loan Program a Distraction from Tax Avoidance
> due to electrons memory hogging issues a while back.
You realise VSCode is also electron based, right?
Other investors have been saying that SoftBank has been overpaying for years. It looks like they were right and you need to discount any SoftBank valuation by about 50%.

The SoftBank playbook has an even bigger negative impact on employees. They are granted options at an inflated price. When the stock collapses (Uber, WeWork, Wag) they lose more than others because most of the comp is in equity.

As an employee, I would stay far away from any SoftBank funded company.
In news coverage of drone strikes/bombings of sites thought to contain known terrorists, mostly high value targets, I've absolutely heard them say identified/confirmed by DNA. Here is the first example I could find:

>A DNA sample from one of the men killed in the U.S. drone attack was successfully matched with a close relative of Mansour, the interior ministry statement said.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/pakistan-dna-test-confirms-tal...
Genetic weapons will use genetic factors.
Side note, is a Bloomberg subscription worth it? I’m looking to get a subscription and a lot of their articles are great. Especially ones by Matt Levine.
Human minds don't work that way. Paying continuous attention to a vehicle you're not controlling is quite simply impossible, and if safety relies on it then your safety system is broken.
You don’t call having to use its biggest rivals browser engine and Bing missing out on the web?

As far as mobile, Apple was able to take its much smaller less bloated OS, cut it down to a size that could fit on a device with 128MB of RAM and have for what at the time was a full featured web browser. Did you ever use IE on a Win CE device?

And are you forgetting that Microsoft was the dominant consumer operating platform before mobile? MS didn’t have any choice but to retreat to Enterprise.

So what “bigger technologies” do you see coming out then mobile? The smart phone already has an 80%+ worldwide penetration rate of adults.
Warp Transactional Filesystem [pdf]
Worst drought in decades hits Chile capital and outskirts
I suppose that referred to Merkle trees? Those are from 1979.
Noticed it almost instantly and edited. You probably didn't see the edit due to hn's caching.
Hint to test-takers and their parents: Opt out of all the contact options when you sign up for the test. Otherwise you'll be receiving 10 kilos of glossy school junk mail a month, hundreds of emails, and a slew of cold calls.
Live StarCraft AI Coding with Bruce Nielsen, the Author of Locutus
Do you stare at a button when you hold it? That seems very odd. If that were true, video games wouldn't exist.
Ask HN: Where do you look for gigs for compiled languages?
Since I have moved away from interpreted languages to compiled languages, I find the demand for contracting work to be abysmal in comparison to the likes of PHP or JavaScript/NodeJS. I understand that the nature of the compiled languages makes it more prone to be used by larger companies that usually hire full-time employees instead of contractors and so one-off projects are lacking. But still, I am curious to hear where freelancers usually go to look for gigs in this line of work? Just don't tell me upwork :)
That argument simply assumes money will solve the problems with fusion. There's very good reason to think it won't.
The linked video talks about updating laws regarding the legality of operating the smart summon feature on public roads. I don't see how that can be called "blatant sensationalism".
This subject has fascinated me for a long time. One of the best books about it is called "La Place De LA Concorde Suisse" it's actually in English and well worth a read.
IANAL, but given that the disabling of the security system was an act of commission, not omission, it could be argued that this was more than just "negligent". On the other hand, car manufacturers have no legal duty to include collision avoidance systems, so disabling one is probably not illegal in itself.
Vscode has been great open source tool and ms has been heavily investigating in open source community. I think it is safe to assume for now that they will leave git alone as is.
I guess pirsquare meant going back to default sort by "Removing the sort", which is a very reasonable thing which I personally miss in some software.
by not managing servers, use a PAAS such as heroku, it significantly reduces devops allowing you more time to focus on what matters, ie product market fit.
EMC was in talks with HPE before deciding to merge with Dell. The next logical player would be Cisco. A merger with Oracle doesn’t sound likely but isn’t outside the realm of possibility.

HPE is a more complex acquisition now since they’ve started pouring more investment into supercomputing, which heavily depends on getting a few good long term deals. They’re no longer a pure infrastructure play.

But if someone buys HP it shouldn’t have any effect on HPE. These are separate topics.
Outer space is pretty much a nuclear furnace with no gravity, not a very appealing place to go. I haven't heard of an serious solutions to either of those problems.
Fuck the Puritans.
A team of 7 Students who just launched Isle of Ewe on GameJolt
Um, there is in reality only a handful of Americans being irresponsible with guns. You are the subject of a mass propaganda campaign designed to fool you about that. Believe me, if there was really a problem with guns for most Americans, the entire country would be on fire. We own 46% of the privately owned firearms in the entire world! Pretty much every house on my street probably has one or more guns located inside of it. Oddly, there is no crime here at all.

Inner cities are where the trouble is. All these cities are run by Democrats and have been for decades now. We have a massive welfare state in place that nurtures a welfare class of people who combine low IQ with mass quantities of illicit drugs in a consequence-free environment. Those are the people committing 99% of the murders in the USA.

In addition to the inner city problems, we have a media-sensationalized issue with people going off their meds or otherwise going beserk and committing mass shootings. These incidents also mostly take place in Democrat controlled "gun free" zones where the perpetrators know they will not encounter resistance. Why do they do it? Because modern American society does not take care of its mentally ill--our entire health care system is a mess right now. At the same time, our entire culture seems hell bent on creating stressful situations and misery through high taxes, high cost of living, too much traffic, and overpopulation in those cities. Thus, a few apples go rotten. I'm actually surprised it isn't more, honestly. The stress on ordinary Americans in those cities is ridiculous.

But the USA is overall not a violent nation and most people are not prone to violence. We go out of our way to help each other. I have seen far more violent every-day behavior in Europe, where it is far more common to be assaulted and mugged. I was once threatened at a outdoor cafe in Munich simply for trying to be friendly. Well those guys weren't having any of that! They were going to beat me simply for asking what beer they were drinking. Idiots.
That is a false-dichotomy. We can have something more in the middle, or at least less an extreme as "let cars just drive wherever without any tests and when it kills someone just say o well, that's progress".

In this particular case, Uber got a deal with the mayor (Governor? I can't remember) of the city to do testing, and it was clear the government bureaucrat allowed them to do whatever, and then coordinated with the police after Uber killed a pedestrian to fabricate evidence that looked like the woman came out of nowhere.

I would say that is really far from "endless oversight" and much more into the "just mow them down one at a time until you get it right" territory.
> continually detected as a pedestrian

Interesting, from the article and this, it sounds like the system can’t maintain position tracking of an object if it’s classification changes. So even if it could detect a pedestrian, something that could be ambiguous like a pedestrian pushing a bike might have no motion tracking data from one moment to the next, so the car would have no ability to predict its trajectory.