skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see something like this put into use for smelting titanium. We really need to start embracing it as a building material as it doesn't corrode or break down like wood, steel, aluminum does...plus it's light and strong which would allow moving houses and vehicles made from it much less energy intensive. It would be great to invest the energy into building materials that can last instead of continuously having to fight corrosion.
Nope, nothing to do with FreeBSD or Erlang. Can't say what it is, but there are hundreds of other differences between which pieces of FB infrastructure WhatsApp uses vs. what other products use. This is in one of those hundreds. ;)
> Headhunters having a hard time looking for Ruby devs now

Sounds like the supply is lower than the demand for Ruby devs, which sounds to be like the opposite from "steadily declining".

Also, one should look further than usage when it comes to evaluating a language.
It must be just a coincidence that PHP 7.4 was released today, and surely FB doesnt rely on PHP version updates to latest, right?

Just speculating..

Edit: that twitter thread is quite entertaining
"I don't have a solution" is a cop-out. You clearly have a solution in mind, because you've rejected the option of just letting people form their own opinions. Every single time I've seen someone make an argument similar to yours about how we need to protect the public from "disinformation", I've found that once you probe deeply enough, the real argument is that what the person talking about "disinformation" really wants is to put himself and his friends in charge of constructing official truths for consumption by the public.

No, thanks.
Thanks for the clarification and for building this great-sounding tool. I'm really looking forward to trying this out on Windows!
This looks a lot like a WYSIWYG editor, is that a fair description? e.g using ML in place of some deterministic, manually defined heuristics for code generation.

I can imagine how it might produce better results and code than the terrible WYSIWYG editors of the early 2000s. However I would be careful about how much you market with the term "AI", as it could create unrealistic expectations.
Privatizing previously public services have always turned out badly. This will be no different.
IntelliJ Idea 2019.3: Better Performance and Quality
I guess I should have known better but I was expecting a list of worldly advice, not _bay area_ advice. Still some good stuff though.
What can you do with the Librem that you can't with a Moto G?
Liquidation preference for later rounds might muck up that calculation.
Of course. This is the basic open source model, only better. You get support from the folks who made the design.
I do not own one but from what I gather their laptops are great.

I have also seen many review claiming the track pad is great and even one say it is as good as a macbook track pad.

However, one problem with them is that they are not refreshed often and use older Intel ships (currently 7th gen).

One of the thing I suspect prevents them from refreshing the laptops is they do not have enough resources (people) to do some while developing the librem 5.
Fair question.

In the category of still stuck in the 1980's:

Handling of bus rippers, and hierarchical nets as they expand through topological hierarchy. Especially in regard to the flexibility of naming ripped sub-nets.

Restrictive topological hierarchy.

Lack of separation between attributes files and topology files. Inability to mate a single topology file with multiple different attribute files for different circumstances.

There are also features like buried components and complicated material stack-ups that commercial tools handle, but I really can't fault an open-source tool for not including things that are expensive to validate.

General complaints:

UI is cranky and not intuitive, especially w.r.t. part libraries.

Obtuse and restrictive footprint specifications. The sad thing here is that KiCAD went through a gut-and-redesign of the footprint specification format, and seemed to willfully ignore the RS-274X specification and willfully ignored the hard lessons that led us to the methodology of using RS-274X macros to define footprints. If I can write a trivial RS-274X aperture macro for my footprint, I should be able to specify that in a footprint and have it come out correctly in the Gerbers. HELLOOOO!!! Please read up on years-old industry best-practices before "improving" your system. (Admittedly, I haven't read the KiCAD footprint spec documents lately, maybe they have evolved.)

In the category of just plain broken:

I don't use KiCAD a whole lot, but not too long ago a client asked for design file deliverables in KiCAD format. I was annoyed that my Rev A boards came back with trivial issues that the design rule checker completely missed. Sorry, that is one piece that needs to be pretty damn solid for me to take the tool seriously. (I have also use GEDA and have plenty of complaints about it, also, but at least the PCB DRC has never led me astray.)
Bird Dogs Needed
Notable exception, most of the time.
YouTube embeds have an option to allow fullscreen (allowfullscreen="true"). You didn't turn it on.
Interesting thesis. But I'd guess pyramid schemes (or MLMs) are still all over the food chain and over-represented at the lower tiers.

A variation on this theme, and this has basically been Matt Levine's take on SoftBank if I'm not mistaken: SoftBank, and Adam Neumann in turn, each spotted an opportunity for pyramid schemes at a higher tier of the food chain that hadn't previously been fully exploited. And they exploited it. Perhaps even unwittingly. They were incentivized by the market.

From Levine's 10/23 column:

Look, here I am speculating, and I don’t mean to speak for Neumann’s subjective experience of his WeWork career, but from the outside, in hindsight, objectively, one could describe it like this: He spotted a bubble in venture-subsidized fast-growing money-losing capital-intensive low-margin tech-adjacent companies, noticed in particular that SoftBank seemed to be on the long side of that bubble, and set himself up to profit on the other side—by raising money for his own ultra-unicorn, by setting up the governance of that unicorn in a maximally self-interested way, and by selling and margining a bunch of his personal shares. When investors like SoftBank were frenziedly buying unicorn stock, he was frenziedly selling it. He set himself up to profit from the collapse of the unicorn bubble, and accelerated that collapse. Lessons were learned, and he taught them. Now he’s rich.
I see you've learned a lot from your studies =) Good luck and may the force be with you.
How would we use a property of networks with random weights to estimate uncertainty of trained models in which which the weights are (as much as we can) trained to be not random?
Nope, no root required.
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This is one major benefit of having a decentralized blockchain. You don't have one entity that can decide one day to shut your account down because they don't agree with you or your policies. I they is why I am really doing most of my social interactions on Keybase which is connected with stellar. Its like what telegram should be with super duper privacy and without all the S*amers.
You can enable fullscreen in the embedded video. Specifically change &fs=0 to &fs=1 in the iframe src and add an "allowfullscreen" attribute to the iframe element.
You can still be CPU bound, even if the benchmark is using synthetic images. A quick check could be to look if your 2080 Ti is 100% utilized (with nvidia-smi). And calculate percentage of theoretical peak FP32 throughput that you are getting for both cards.

It is just that "more normal" result that you would expect to get, would be a drastic differences in performance. Note, Cvikli comment on "May 12" on that GitHub page:

* The result with RNN networks on 1 Radeon VII and 1080ti was close to the same

* Comparing convolutional performance the 4AMD and 4Nvidia, difference got really huge because of cuDNN for Nvidia cards. We can get more than 10x performance from the 1080Ti than the Radeon VII card. We find this difference in speed a little too big at image recognition cuDNN, I can't believe that this should happen and the hardware shouldn't be able to achieve the same.

Note also in that comment, it looks like 4xGPU system just didn't work.

It is hard to fully utilize GPU resources. Getting same result normally means that the same bottleneck is being hit. Algorithmic differences could result in drastic performance differences (10x). And as a final point of small things making a difference, note it is 1080Ti in that comment.
Judging by the numbers, you can guess they sold for somewhere in the $100m-$1B range. Hard to resist. And also known as corruption, when it comes to public services.
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> all they do is setup/shutdown hardware and provide hooks for the operating system

NVidia GPU driver does more than that, at least on Windows. Ever wondered why NVidia ships a new version of GPU driver at the same time an AAA game is released?
Another way of commitment was the devotio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devotio
It basically turns Sketch into a WYSIWYG editor, yes. Regarding the marketing angle, I agree. It has been a fairly common advice here; we'll review our approach to market.
AWS S3 in Elixir with ExAws
hmmm, i'm not sure there's anything special about hacker news itself, it would have to be a breakdown of YC itself. yc has a strong story, it knows who it wants to appeal to. I do like the original yc site which lays out that story very clearly. waybackmachine it. Most sites would do better if they started off with a manifesto on a plain html page, rather than a design template with 50 features, but nothing to really say.
This was in the related articles at the bottom. I wonder how the decision is related the test? I wonder how much say legal had. That is, if they end up in court is human-made easier to defend than robot-made?

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...
> Crackpots can be filtered out using logic, though. But people don’t do that;

For an excellent argument of why most people shouldn't do that, I recommend the essay "epistemic learned helplessness": https://web.archive.org/web/20180406150429/https://squid314....

The gist is that most people are so bad at evaluating logical arguments that they are more likely to be swayed by false arguments rather than correct ones, so the winning strategy is to simply ignore everything that sounds strange.
This may be true in c++ but I believe is not in JavaScript. The language defines iteration order over keys of an object to be the insertion order (except numeric keys which are in ascending order). Not sure if there's anywhere that iteration order is actually nondeterministic that's allowed by the spec.
> At least that will give them positive news coverage to offset all the bad news.

You know what really offsets bad news? Having your hooks deep into the economies of powerful countries to buy their tacit approval of whatever you do.
What bottlenecks are you seeing from Node? How can we verify that it’s not impacted by kernel characteristics?
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I love how their values-based pitch allows them to miss operational deadlines and still maintain their user appeal

When android devices have a major public video permission hole, everyone exhales and mentally checks out. When purism is late, it sucks but it's not the same

Pre-sale customers are along for the ride. If the lesson for other startups is 'if you're really innovating, your users will be there when you're ready', I think that's a really good outcome.
You need much larger structures for growing food than for living. Food can handle the radiation.
Thanks! Will push to production later today.
The original version of LOGO provided an emulated turtle that I'm pretty sure was shown on a display if one was present. It was on a PDP-something, though, so later cut-down versions might not have had it. (I think the Apple ][ one had one, too.)
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Already made the change, thanks!
Does it teach working laymen to embrace radical and countercultural ideas? That’s not my impression of Buddhism in Thailand, Burma, Japan, etc.
>Half of the Bay Area would curl up and blow away overnight.

So your suggesting that only 50% of the Bay is BS?
Now, rerun Cortes' landing a hundred times, and in what, maybe 98 times they all end up dead, or returning home in one ship. Yes the natives would still have suffered terrible losses from disease but some other leader than Cortes would have gotten the empire.

The secret to being a trader is to not risk it all, to be there tomorrow to claim tomorrow's profit. Or perhaps the secret to poker is to stay in till you have a winning hand then risk it all.

But We have made lottery winners our heroes - I fear this is entirely the wrong model.

NB
Ceaser invaded Britain and definitely did not burn his ships - his mission was not conquest of Britain but political gains in Rome. Caesar may have risked it all - but when the odds on him where around 50:50, not at Cortes' level of risk. To me the difference is profound.
CD-ROM laser pickups have been doing it in the 70s without AI.
Back in the 1940s a lot of people in the UK hated Churchill - certainly my father who had been in the RAF WW2 loathed him. He was seen as wanting to return the UK to the pre-war status-quo - which is most definitely not what a lot of people were fighting for and why Attlee's Labour government (which gave us the NHS) was voted in as soon as the war ended.
Well... no.

Motors and circuitry on each mirror instead of a simple screw drive are certainly not making the setup cheaper

It smells to me like a second Solindra in making
I don’t want to go all “you darn kids” so I won’t. But the pervasiveness of web technology I think has made the majority of us forget why it’s pervasive. Cross platform can be really fucking hard, especially if you don’t respect the challenges and end up down a blind alley.

One of my favorite books starting out was the Stevens book about Unix. It only covers the differences in system call availability and behavior across Unix OSes. It doesn’t even touch graphics. It’s a big fat book just covering file, network, processes, and memory operations. No Mac, no Microsoft, just Unix.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Programming_in_the_...
> Reduce milk

Have you got a source for that assertion? A brief search yields contrary evidence[1], unless you limit your audience to those allergic to bovine milk.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26287637/
They have more ways than that to create social cohesion. You'd probably see it if you weren't blinded by the China bad hate narratives. But that's for you to work out. You've got to open your mind on your own. It's not my responsibility to do that for you nor even help you do that. Good luck seeing China accurately tho, I hope you achieve that! :)
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Just align one mirror at a time. The one being aligned vibrates at some frequency, and detectors around the target just measure that modulated signal. So just keep cycling through all the mirrors.
It might be worth talking to a lawyer about this who is familiar with domain ownership issues and with IP.

I wasn't able to find any registered trademark (in the US) for "brand-colors", "brand-colors.com", or "brand colors", but a very brief look at the ICANN trademark dispute rules did not turn up any requirement that it be a registered trademark. Maybe I just missed that part, but if I didn't you might be able to get it back on trademark grounds.

The usual hard part of this is showing that the person who has the domain registered now is using it in bad faith. In your case, the fact that the first thing they did was put up a copy of your site, almost certainly in violation of copyright, and then changed links to ones to make themselves money from people thinking they were at your site should be enough to easily show bad faith.
Perpetually?
It was going on for 1000+ years before we even thought about operations over there.
We are also a species of just making statements that are bologna.
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The components of modern object storage: from Kubernetes to Performance
Vint 'father of the 'net' Cerf dodges dot-org sell-off during public Q&A
the scale FB operates on is staggering! Human factor, while still present, is very low. Wonder what could have happened there. They don't usually release postmortems, right? (since the general service they provide to the masses is "free", meaning minimum obligating to reporting. Would be curious to read the postmortem, analysis of what happened.
I recall seeing various benchmarks of Raku that were on the slow side—slower than Perl 5 / Python speed, which are already what I'd describe as "slow languages". I can't currently find what specifically I read, but https://www.reddit.com/r/perl6/comments/btvkoz/is_perl6_stil... seems to have some discussion (and I think you're on that thread, so I'm sure you're aware). This doesn't specifically address threading performance, but if the runtime is 100-500x slower than C, it's not like threading can make up that kind of performance deficit.
Sure, there’s no doubt that Mozilla has influence. What’s important to me, personally, is that they cannot dictate what happens. And we have non-theoretical examples of where that’s the case; Servo would have really liked some form of inheritance to model the DOM, but the team overall said no. Also, note that the core team doesn’t make most of the decisions, unlike core teams of other languages. They also have a minority of representation on the language team as well.

And, as someone who was involved before, during, and after working for Mozilla, Mozilla just plain doesn’t have interest in really guiding Rust development. If anything, it’s diminished over time, after all, when Rust started, it was sponsored by the CTO and a director, both of whom eventually left, but also that thought it was important for Rust to be as independent as possible.
Doesn't seem as user-friendly, and doesn't naturally takes into account wall-thickness, etc.
That's hippie talk. :) As another commenter pointed out, mindfullness and meditation was long used for martial arts training.

There is nothing in the core practice itself that leads to pacifism (or belligerence). It might even make easier to ignore that discomfort, like any other, if you have mental tools.
Swift was out before kotlin.
> What I especially like is that in many cases qwant returns nothing if there is no exact match of my query

I agree - I admit of having been surprised the first time that it returned "nothing" but in the end I did like the feeling of knowing that it did search what I wanted to search.
I designed my home before remodelling in Sweet Home 3D and it worked very well
Interesting, I had always heard him as being praised. A quick glance at Wikipedia shows some of the controversy.

"Widely considered one of the 20th century's most significant figures, Churchill remains popular in the UK and Western world, where he is seen as a victorious wartime leader who played an important role in defending Europe's liberal democracy from the spread of fascism. Also praised as a social reformer and writer, among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature. Conversely, his imperialist views and comments on race, as well as his sanctioning of human rights abuses in the suppression of anti-imperialist movements seeking independence from the British Empire, have generated considerable controversy."

I guess it's always important to look outside your current 'bubble' and see what others think.
Check out designpickle.com. They have unlimited design work for a set price per month. The founder has been on a number of podcasts and always gets asked if people abuse this (white label their own design company for example) and it's not been a problem.
Wow, I forgot what eat in pizza huts used to be like.
> We’re excited to roll out a list of unconfirmed revenue possibilities that involve crowdsourcing, a robust set of widget creation tools, 3G, augmented reality, social stuff, and an app store.

They joke, but WW were literally doing exactly this, updated for 2019 of course. A bunch of ill defined tech projects with no real link to their core business.
I don't post, why should someone like you take my account ? I did not post on FB in a long time either but I still want my account.
Since we don't get much Shadertoy content here, I'll point out that, while this is really cool, there have been some much crazier fluid simulations on Shadertoy.

The most insanely fast fluid sim I've seen there is the one by nimitz: Chimera's Breath https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4tGfDW

And the most insanely weird ones are hands down those by wyatt. They're often conceptual intersections between fluid, particle and wave. It's gotten so weird I have a hard time using words to describe them at this point. For example:

Communication and Grouping - https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wtSSDm

Branching Paths - https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ts33DS

Fluid Mosaic - https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MlVfDR
It seems like a slap across the face that they offer as a defense a 10% increase which compounds annually. That isn’t a defense... it is a stunning illustration of the problem! Even the cable companies would be jealous (while their own customers are cutting the cord left and right).

Worse, 10%/year isn’t a contractual limitation; it is but a statement of “intent”. It is nothing short of malfeasance to have sold a non-profit’s operations without sufficient safeguards. And to a private equity firm? Outrageous incompetence if not criminal in action.

His article doesn’t justify the transaction or allay reasonable concerns. In fact, he seems to be presenting the case for why this transaction is crooked if not criminal!
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Capitalism is about private property and freedom. If parents want to provide generously to their children that's perfectly fine.

Equality of opportunity is equally as bad as equality of results. It denies people the ability to reach as high as they can and forcibly brings them down.
SPJ is an absolute beast, though whenever I hear a talk of his all I can think of is the Impressive Clergyman.
Former Outcome Health Executives Charged in Alleged $1B Fraud Scheme
Agreed, and I also found it extremely hilarious that Softbank styled itself as the "300-year company", but their biggest investments are ridesharing companies, a real estate subleasing company, several eCommerce stores and so on.

I mean, if you're going all-in on the future where is the biotech, pharmacology and the robots? It's not just softbank that to me looks fishy, the entire industry looks like it has drunk its own kool-aid.
Or if they were already in financial trouble and C came in with 1.x liquidation preference, they get everything (or near it)
yes, because of memory management. It's a good thing.
I wouldn't rule it out but I don't know how to. I guess you would need a keyboard connected via USB to be able to input in that scenario
Given most of America, except those unlucky people like me that are at work for their 14th Thanksgiving in a row, are hanging out with family not starting at the internet either watching parades or football instead of tracking political happenings that the vast majority of Americans are clueless about because we have no realistic way as an individual to do anything about even stuff at a town/county level, I'm guessing it has nothing to do with that whatsoever.
But it depends where exactly in Europe you live. For example if you live in Milan, you can check it here:
https://www.deltamedica.net/en/laboratorio-analisi/tests-and... - this lab is on the expensive side as they ask for €14.
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