skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Sgt. Peppers documentary you get to listen to the rough acoustic version of the song and honestly I think it’s already a great song. From what I got to hear even better than the final version.
The website hasn´t changed and notably hasn´t improved in over a decade.

The customer feedback has gone from being the reference for buying products to only being able to trust the 1 star reviews.

It´s flooded with stuff relayed from China, and consequently its cheaper to just buy direct from China.

Here in the UK we have creepy corporate amazon stakhanovite "we just love pushing these parcels" ads to endure all christmas. Apparently one of the workers brings in cakes for her colleagues every Tuesday - oh, Amazon, the company that can´t even put food for its underpaid and overworked employees in the company break rooms.

What a wonderful world.
Buying these would defeat the purpose though.
Nicely written
exploit office docs are less rare
This is only correct in theorie.
Now I can’t claim to be an expert by any means but I feel like you are over complicating this. For one, we know in practice the performance is much better when you force enable AVX2 on AMD with MKL; it was benchmarked. For another, that’s already obvious, because even without micro optimizing we’re still talking about codepaths that are able to better fill the processor and support 256 bit integers. Certainly not everything will always be straightforward but MKL seems like one of the single most obvious libraries for this.

Further, Intel has a rich history here. They have been sued and lost over Intel C++ Compiler’s “Cripple AMD” bit. Funny thing is, it's still there. Although now Intel has warnings throughout their pages. Guess removing a strcmp cpuid, “GenuineIntel” was too much work.

Let’s be realistic. Intel wants to win the benchmarks. There’s no need to construct an elaborate reality where this is all done out of concern that they might make performance worse on microarchitectures they did not design.
you kids. We calculated with charcoal on the cave's wall while the adults were out hunting for wooly mammoths...

ZX81: Z80/1KB RAM... more recently though PIC12 (C501 IIRC) ...
Why go to all that trouble? Why not just send their version of a National Security Letter?
I don't know why you're being downvoted either, for what seems like a legitimate (if slightly oddly framed) question.

Linear algebra libraries have a ridiculously simple task (by comparison) that can be optimized incredibly well - there seems to be no amount of intellectual effort that isn't worth doing to get 1% more on BLAS given the massive usage of it.

By contrast, Hyperscan has many different subsystems (string search of various kinds, NFA, DFA, various quick SIMD 'lookarounds', different acceleration schemes for NFA and DFA etc. etc). It's enormously complicated already (and a bit unpredictable in terms of the different tradeoffs that can happen) and the optimizations have to be best-effort. We couldn't put in nearly as much optimization into any given hot loop as the linear algebra guys can.

That being said, we've done quite a lot, and many people have picked up useful techniques from our codebase. For example, the string search in Hacker News user burntsushi's regex scanner is an entirely legit (i.e. he freely credits where it comes from) clone of our "Teddy" literal matcher, for example.
I'm surprised how little is written about employer-operated mass transit. The shuttles that Google, Apple etc run in the SFBA are great.
This should be solved like the "bad backlinks" problem in SEO - a disavow mechanism. The author should be able to simply reject edits/flags as he sees fit.
Aah, that makes sense, thank you
The Shield, Dexter...

But I’d agree they are not procedural shows.

And TBH, on my point of view, manichean stories are not that good storytelling. On the contrary (but there’s room for everyone taste)
There are brokers for larger sums.

I haven’t used them but I’ve heard good things about: https://cumberland.io/

Last I heard, you can buy millions of dollars at a time if you can pass a KYC.
The problem with the big bang rewrite is it violates Gall's law

>All complex systems that work evolved from simpler systems that worked
Now that's authentic Christmas spirit! If only more people would follow his Christ-like example of truly selfless behavior and service to others.
Ask HN: Friends and Family? With Money?
Being a minority founder who grew up in a low-income neighborhood, asking "friends and family" for money was not an option. When everyone I knew is just barely getting by, asking them for money is fruitless.

It makes sense after looking at some founder stats. 77% white, many went to Ivy Leagues and come from higher-income families.
(Source: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/untapped-opportunity-minority-founders-still-being-overlooked/).

Is that the way of the world, or should there be more effort into supporting founders without "friends or family" that can kickstart their ventures? Does anyone have any literature on this topic they can point me to?
I wouldn't count on it. As long as the product is available and marketed in other countries they can get caught in legal issues for not following those countries laws relating to marketing and offering of products.
> A full book manuscript is tiny, and requires zero spinup whatsoever, unless you count opening a PDF or DOCX file as such.

That is not uncommon, but neither is it the quantitative norm. A lot of authors are particular about the typesetting of their documents, and it does require a rendering environment.

It isn't unusual for a half-LaTeX half-something-else monstrosity to be rendered in a semi-custom environment. Especially if you're dealing with anything academic.

In those kinds of environments you may have a ton of assets, like graphs, that may either be large file-sizes, and/or re-generated during the rendering process from various large datasets. Those assets are not small, and may prevent you holding much more than a couple books on your $4 thumb drive.
FWIW Digikam has a light-table feature for this.

https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/LightTable

Sorry if that's not helpful to you, it might be useful to others though.
“Breathability” Comparison of Commercial Outerwear Shell Layers (2018) [pdf]
If Samuel Morse had understood electricity better, Morse code would have been ternary.

English precursors to his telegraph had three states, positive, negative, and zero current flow. They had automatic transcription, too, using an electric spark to blacken a spot on, above, or below a line.

But Morse had better access to capital, so his design won. There must be some kind of lesson in that.

Maybe if someone manages to realize a qutrit, the mistake could be rectified, and we could blossom into the glorious ternary future.
I worked on an AI program in the 80s that is perhaps the only program from that era that's still being used.

I got hired in 1984 into the AI group at Boeing Computer Services (neither the AI group nor BCS exists any more, and yes, it was part of that Boeing); I was in the Natural Language Processing group (the expert systems group was a different set of people). I left in 1987 to do s.t. else. By that time, we had built a syntactic parser of English that covered most everything in "standard" English (but without most of the probabilistic apparatus that modern parsers have). It was a solution in search of a problem.

After I left, the rest of the NLP team came up with the problem. When Boeing builds an aircraft, they have hundreds, if not thousands, of manuals. (No comment on the 737 MAX...) The planes are sold to airlines around the world, many of whose employees don't understand English anywhere near as well as a native speaker would. Boeing wanted its writers of manuals to write in simplified English. There was (and is) a standard for that, but it was very hard to ensure that writers conformed to it. The solution was to rip out all the "interesting" constructions from my grammar, and retain only the constructions and lexicon that conformed to the simplified (technical) English standard. Then the manuals got pushed through the parser; anything that didn't parse had to be re-written to conform to the grammar. And (I think, remember this was after I left) if anything parsed too ambiguously, it was sent for a rewrite as well.

And that's how a 1980s AI program is still in use today.
Quote from that paper:

> The Battle of Austerlitz was the decisive French victory against Napoleon

It didn't even catch that Napoleon was the leader of the French. And this was when it just generated text of similar size as the input. Based on just that paper I highly doubt that this method will generalize to creating entire books.
Muslims Were Banned from the Americas as Early as the 16th Century
I have to admit I almost spit out my tea when I read that.
Quote from that paper:

> The Battle of Austerlitz was the decisive French victory against Napoleon

It didn't even catch that Napoleon was the leader of the French as described in the source snippet. And this was when it just generated text of similar size as the input. Based on just that paper I highly doubt that this method will generalize to creating entire books.
Though we'd also see a drop in cyber attacks and malware.
At the end of the day, every government regulation is enforced at the point of a gun.
That is really interesting point. Could you give an example when you avoided project because of understanding of categories?
He's right to not trust journalists, and that's precisely why I don't trust his article.

He talks about spreading the true story of Thomas Monson but what I see in his article is an attempt to pave over the negative contributions and criticism he has received because he did some amazing things in his youth. No one person is owed immunity from criticism and there is plenty of critique to be thrown here.
Worked, usually. Was working on vision system for autonomous cars (in our case, an RV sized “bus” because of the size of the computing gear) for Daimler-Benz Research as part of Prometheus.
It's probably not that difficult to manufacture and there will be a black market for the tech.
Pentagon warns military not to use consumer DNA test kits
Great news! Happy casual user here.

Just the other day I decided to include Darktable in my yearly donations. Not a chance. They don't take donations :-)
That's certainly good news and the renewed focus on start-up performance is very welcome. I wonder what the numbers look like for small Kotlin programs.

(Although I see now that the comparison disabled CDS on Java 8, so the actual improvement is perhaps not as large as it seemed.)
New Tesla Update Visualizes Stop Signs, Trash Cash
The writer of this piece is either naive or disingenuous. The NYT is primarily focusing on how this person's actions have affected their readers and at the end of the day the LDS's homophobia and misogyny are the ways in which the LDS has most affected NYT's readers in New York and Americans nationwide. That's why the NYT leads with those sections and focuses the most on them. There isn't an "agenda" here trying to dirty the image of the Mormon church: the church earned that reputation through actual actions that harmed millions of marginalized Americans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temple
Realized I didn't have to care about why my experience couldn't fit the narrative of someone else who had gone through a 'similar situation'.

Don't be judgy about someone else's experience, instead appreciate them sharing it with you. You don't have to add "I have experienced/understand that too" to every sentence from others.
It's OK to not relate sometimes and understand that's why you are you, not x.
"he was still in conflict with Emperor Napoleon, the French Republic’s king"
The point remains that driving provides the most flexibility and choice for families and everything else is a downgrade. As you yourself pointed out, for one spouse to bike the other one may have to drive.

Bike advocates tend to be disproportionately single, white and male, and for those reasons they tend to underweight that flexibility.
Did you learn languages in the same family tree (e.g a German learning English) or not? Just curious.
Yup, and it’s filling out every other company in Seattle with people conditioned to be assholes - this isn’t a leadership principle but it is how you act over time after being ranked according to the leadership principles.
If he'd lived two more years, he probably would have had obituaries like that. The Guardian did give him a obit like that. "The man who created Playboy, who has died aged 91, has been remembered as an American icon – but others recall a controlling, emotionally abusive manipulator"[1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/sep/28/hugh-hefner-pl...
Google's website hasn't changed either, and neither has HN. And that's a good thing. Nothing drives customers away faster than change for change's sake and constant pointless redesigns.
I believe in recommendations number 5 ("Leave the market...") is also marked as [sunglasses], which makes it about equivalent to /s here.
Access to what had until then been an 0day.

Ibrahim Balic "ruined" it, though public bragging (which is not responsible disclosure).
NASA contractor convicted of subbing Chinese steel for space launch,and cover up
The "hallway track" is honestly the most value I get out of conferences. Talking to others, people willing to share things verbally in smaller groups, etc. Requires some amount of social networking to meet and talk to folks to build those relationships but the value out of that has paid off over the years for me. Super useful if you ever need to reach out to someone unicast for a question/favor.
This is a pattern now in greater society, one of the (arguable) downsides to tech is that the bar for publishing or organizing just about anything has been lowered - so now it isn't tenured professors with years of experience in academic best practices giving carefully prepared talks summarizing months of research, it's programmers with no formal education presenting whatever in a totally casual manner.

Don't get me wrong, that it's casual isn't necessarily a problem, but literature, journalism, even scientific publications are all seeing wider distributions of quality now that it's so much easier for the average person to find a platform. And I think the predominant expansion is at the lower end of the distribution given that there was previously a strong effective selection pressure for quality, since it took substantial resources just to publish any media.
You have nearly a hundred years of quantum mechanical experimental evidence that supports CI as equally as MWI. But you have no experimental evidence of any kind which would allow you to rule out CI, or any of the many other interpretations, in favor of the MWI.

See, no one disagrees about the evidence itself. That's why there is an "I" in "MWI." It is one of many possible interpretations of the evidence.

So that puts your whole "settled" nonsense into the category of philosophical posturing. You have a preference for the the MWI, but you have no scientific reason for it. That is why your reasons are entirely philosophical.
Depends where in Brussels, from the southern neighbourhoods (Boitsfort, Auderghem, Woluwe, Etterbeek, etc), it's 30min-50min. There's little traffic in that direction. Did it for years from Boitsfort :)
You can't statically typecheck deserialized data. You must validate that deserislized value matches the schema, and you can only do so at runtime.

In other words, proto has a typed interface, but you must runtime check that a given bag of bytes conforms to that typed interface.

This is true for any io.
When the Edens Expressway was built, all of the wealthy north shore suburbs entered a pact to ban billboards. It’s so pleasant.
Maybe he should have worn a stocking over his head...
We can finally pursue our minimalistic religion, iterate quickly, and collect maximum wins.

Religion implies dogma, and I don't like dogma in my field.

Side note: the biggest takeaway for me here is: be careful when writing such self-confident articles. The general public doesn't take kindly to such displays.
It doesn't scale -- the more you do it, the more likely one of them is to squeal or be caught, then MSS would be leaking their priority target list straight to the the FBI. Instead they would carefully target people with access, but not necessarily force them to divulge information / tamper with systems except when they really need it.
Not exactly sure why this is on Hacker News.
Saudis are amateurs.
The PDP-11 had 16k.
Merry Christmas What are you doing this week?
The Sega Saturn and Transparency (2016)
Classic mix up between Santa with Peter Pan. I hope they don't come down too hard on him, his heart was in the right place.
You weren't paying attention when we were doing all paperwork by hand.

No more software = computers are bricks. You go back to manual operations. Emails? Replaced by letters.

Writing "I fail to see any downsides to this" is pretty much equivalent to "of course we should ban cars, that way we stop car accidents; I fail to see any downsides to this".
it's NP-hard to determine the chromatic number of a graph. So I'd wager you wouldn't get far with a brute force approach.
I imagine the bank tellers who were robbed and afraid for their lives probably don't feel that way.
dweis isn't a designer, so he'd be the wrong person to answer those things.

Sanjay, Jeff, and Kenton are probably the three best to answer such questions.

Presumably the top few concerns for protos are wire performance (decode/encode speed and cost, wire size), compatibility for changes (what this suggestion just totally breaks), and cross language usability.

Some other tradeoffs might be non-wire perf (I believe protos beat flatbuffers here, at the cost of worse on wire perf), but it's not clear that that was intentional.
You should compare yourself to your own potential in the industry you're in, otherwise you're just capping your pay for no reason.
Full screen seems to be glitchy - particles dont go all the way to the bottom
There are 25,000 Mormons in New York City. They’re a vanishingly small percentage of the New York Times’ readership. I think the paper would have poorly served ita readers by delivering a hagiography for him from the perspective of his religious followers.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

My intellectual curiosity feels gratified. I admit I could be a special case, but given 77 others have also found it so, I don't think I am.
That's really a non-sequitur. OPM was a basket case, unmaintained legacy systems in a backwater agency.
The Z80 was around $65 when the $25 6502 came out.
I think when people say "literally" to emphasize a point, that isn't fluid.. it disrupts the flow of the conversation because in my head I call them an idiot. People who claim spell checks because they can't understand turns of phrases are the problem.
I call these "real scientists", because they only exist in books and movies.

In reality, the scientist will say "let's publish! who cares about testing, publish or perish!".
Jesus Christ whipped (yes, whipped) moneychangers, and this man didn't commit murder or harm anyone. Arguably, this man did less harm than Jesus Christ.
My point was that the text lacked coherence, that quote only makes it worse. If it can't even keep coherence for a single page how would it manage for a hundred?
The root cause is amazon.

The kindle store has been around 12 years.

Amazon tracks what you read and when and other "book reads you" stuff you can't turn off.

You can highlight passages in any book. Amazon will share this with the world via popular highlights.

But, trivial as it sounds, you cannot highlight a typo or grammatical error.

This would clean up the books, quietly and offline, but amazon doesn't do it.

12 years kindle has been around.
Software Testing in 2020: 7 Biggest Trends
My idea is to extend fennel-mode with a fennel-hs-mode that will take preprocess code by removing newlines[1] and wrapping in something like

fennel.eval([=[ (code) ]=])

and then sending to the hs cli.

I haven't done much yet; this is the first time I've tried to write a real Emacs mode. It would be much nicer to have a real Fennel REPL integrated in Hammerspoon, but the above would be enough for things like eval-last-sexp and org-babel-eval.

[1] Sadly, the hs cli does not handle multi-line strings.
fish, water etc. everyone thinks their weltanschauung is simply reality. a wise writer knows that reality is complicated. the focus on politically convenient grievances and total ignorance of conflicting information should give you pause.
Lucky! We had the same 486 system but only a 40MB disk. I had to spend some lawn mowing money to get a 400MB second drive so I could install Sid Meier’s Gettysburg. :)
>These perspectives aren't necessarily wrong, but you can't be a good journalist if you've internalized them.

In what way can both of those things hold? If the perspectives aren't wrong, what bearing do they have on good journalism?
Windows 10's networking settings is the perfect example of this. You open the Windows 10 network settings, find the button to get to the Windows 7 version, then click the button to get the XP version that actually gives you a list of all the network interfaces with the controls you want.
Oddly, the article seemed to overlook the most obvious elements of why it’s hard to shift that behavior:

Driving around picking people up consumes precious morning time. In exchange, one sacrifices their bespoke commuting routine.

That is, instead of getting to work in 40 minutes of listening to RPG podcasts with the window open in winter, I get there in an hour and fifteen while engaging in small talk and compromising on climate control.

People don’t just forego carpooling because the costs Of driving are externalized; they forego carpooling because carpooling carries significant personal costs.

Is there a reason these analysts couldn’t bother to include the element of “people don’t carpool because it sucks”?
All transfers over $9999.99 are reported to the federal government.

That includes multiple transfers made within the same 30 day period that in the aggregate would exceed $9999.99.
That’s because Amazon knows retail is already dead. Either they get beat out by a competitor or the fed breaks up the company and retail is doomed without the integration. AWS is just quietly milking the cash out of retail and funding the science projects.
Tell HN: Merry Xmas
Reply here to wish a Merry Xmas to all!
> Of course security is an obvious pretense for control.

Russia doesn't need pretense for control.
And the most successful tax refund scammers claim to have invented Bitcoin, claim to have spend a hundred million buying a non-existent supercomputer, then claim $54 million in tax rebates related to their "research and development".

When the authorities catch on, they then pivot to pre-selling their embargoed "bitcoin fortune" in a advanced fee fraud[2] and use the victims to pay a settlement with the tax authority. Which in AU, like the US, is surprisingly forgiving of outright fraud so long as you give them money.

Best of all, because printing obviously false speculation about Bitcoin's creator sells more paper than a story about an audacious but fundamentally boring conman, even the media barely takes notice of the crime.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4htw3t/how_to_stea...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4cdsna/craig_wrigh...