skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, so you are repeating the talking point that unless intel agencies role out all their evidence of what they say, completely burning sources and methods for future use, their claims (no matter how logical and rational) aren't valid. Or (even worse) they are no better than the claims of Wikileaks or RT holding up conspiracies theories that don't even make sense.

Evidence was presented behind closed doors, of which even the hardcore Trump loyalists didn't argue against. This is your proof, but again you aren't asking in good faith. No amount of "hard, undeniable fact-based reality" would ever convince people that already made up their mind.

In summary, you are asking for something you know not to be possible (complete disclosure), to confirm something you already decided wasn't true.

Snowden did that too. "If you have the evidence show it" know ing damn well they can't do that. And idiots lap it up.

Your "We can't know either way" both sides arguments are actually worse than lying. It promotes the idea that no representative government is possible because no truth is possible. The Kremlin loves this idea, because that rational is how they stay in power. And you are promoting this uncertainty, it's unclear if you realize your useful idiot status or not. I promise you the enemies of democracy don't care.
> Is it wrong, no

Yes you are wrong about Ram Dass. He was no Osho or Jim Jones.
I'd kill for a comparison with the IBM J9 AOT flag. It essentially just caches jitted code for startup. Also if startup time is super important than you can try -Xquickstart.
I'd heard similar complaints to GP about embodied energy, but not for electric vehicles. Only with HEVs and ULEVs, which are far more complicated than either of their competitors. It's no wonder they'd have higher embedded energy footprints.

> Under the average U.S. electricity grid mix, we found that producing a midsize, midrange (84 miles per charge) BEV typically adds a little over 1 ton of emissions to the total manufacturing emissions, resulting in 15 percent greater emissions than in manufacturing a similar gasoline vehicle. However, replacing gasoline use with electricity re-duces overall emissions by 51 percent over the life of the car.

This has steam coming out of my ears, and I agree with the goal they set for themselves. I haaaAAAAaaate when scientists pull tone-deaf shit like this. It's why I ran away from theory into applied as fast as my legs could carry me. Nobody is gonna drive an 84 mile range vehicle. The market has shouted this from the rooftop and if Concerned Scientist have not heard this, then they're nowhere near as smart as they want everyone to think they are. Use real numbers and spare us your white tower bullshit. A competitive car will have 2.5x times that range. That probably lowers that lifetime number into the high 3X%'s which is not as compelling but also not lying.

Lying to prove a point is the worst kind of lying, because when your detractors catch you in it then the unconvinced have confirmation bias against your original premise. Cut that shit out. For everybody's sake.

35% lifetime emissions reduction is not a slam dunk. Many more additional efforts (read: lifestyle changes) will have to go along with that improvement. And that's nearly as hard a pill to swallow as a car that only gets 84 miles per charge brand new.
Kindly note that I am responding to the specific assertion I quoted, rather than complaining about anyone pointing out flaws. If you have some beef with an 'SJW worldview' that seems like your problem, rather than mine.
Pretty ridiculous that manufacturers are still leaving ISVs to rely on reverse engineering in order to support their products. It's not like the formats are "protected" somehow by not being documented; they inevitably end up well documented.
Because I need to isolate myself from a crowd that goes on public transport sick, coughes down my neck and sneezes into my face, doesn't wash properly and doesn't have train manners (NO phone calls, NO food, NO party, NO litter, NO loud conversations, NO music I can hear from your cans). If I don't protect myself, I'll get sick and irritated. Public transport is dirty and littered.

On metros here, there is no 1st class coach I could pay for to get some distance, quiet and respectable company.

So the personal car it is. Unless you fix people, I will use all my privilege to keep myself comfortable.
The Bay area is famous for very high priced housing and long commutes.
Another interesting one about databases and category theory:
Relational algebra by way of adjunctions: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3236781
I have a dedicated winter bike with studded tires, and dress warm. I don't realistically expect very many people to bike year-round, at least when they're just getting into it. But the bike paths are certainly not empty during the winter in Madison WI.
Haha. I little — have to say. I'm actually quite happy how well it works. This is only the second time the commenting widget is in active production use.
Indeed, this article suggests that distance is a key factor:

https://peopleforbikes.org/blog/best-kept-secret-dutch-bikin...
First and foremost: beautiful and performant website.

I don't understand how exactly the Volument product actually performs A/B testing (or distinguishes between different variants). The only code docs [0] I've found are very, very light on details and doesn't mention how the active variant is detected. To be fair, the product hasn't launched yet so perhaps the docs are currently internal-only.

That being said, very interesting idea of linking engagement to eventual conversion to get "results" faster. It certainly seems reasonable that there is a causation relationship (increased engagement, e.g. more scrolling and longer visit duration, eventually leading to increased conversion), but I don't know how statistically valid that is.

[0]: https://volument.com/learn/client-api
Other than passive sources like books, movies, radio, I worked a lot with tutors both in person and through iTalki. One tutor (now back in France) became a good friend, which was validating for my language learning goals (being able to connect with people I wouldn't have otherwise due to a language barrier). Lots of up and downs along the way, and currently, but I've found that the more I work the better I see what I need to do differently. I also did a couple group classes but found tutoring gave better value.
Related from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18599728
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Prior to WeWork, many companies were (are) in the business of renting commercial real estate. CloudKitchen's bet is creating a huge valuation proposition by making securing a kitchen (as a restauranteur) as easy as provisioning resources on AWS. In a sense, there is some logic there, as restaurants in major cities come and go. There's some degree of food being subject to a fad boom/bust cycle. And as a customer, having access to a constantly rotating set of restaurants, as opposed to a much more static set of brick-and-mortar restaurants in your neighborhood -- maybe you're more likely to engage more with the whatever food delivery app CloudKitchen might eventually make, for it's continuing novelty in dining options.
Is there any point in learning category theory without first learning the things that it generalizes? I didn't see any value in learning about geometric algebra until I had learned enough about complex analysis to appreciate what it would mean to connect it with vector calculus.
I setup a Twitter account so I could easily get images off my PS4. Right afterward they locked my account for not entering a number. Today I feel justified for leaving it locked and never looking back.
I mean the entire article was silly so no amount of credibility would have made it any better.
I go to a few conferences for fairly specialised tech (like NixCon) and also to the much larger generic events (like the Chaos Communication Congress) and while both kinds have a lot of excellent talks going on, the talks are only peripherally what it's about for me.

Networking and community building is by far the #1 reason why I attend these events, you can always watch talk recordings later.
This doesn't work from a first amendment perspective. The town council is BFE, Mississippi is not going to approach its censor role in a fair way, for better or worse.
Could you elaborate on what “dispassionate” means in this context, or link to the article?

As an aside, I’ve just re-read a Terry Pratchett novel and your description of the good engineers’ behavior made me think of Leonardo da Quirm :)
The vast, vast majority of code is not optimized to the level of some linear algebra code. Pointing at MKL or comparable linear algebra packages as an example of why that level of optimization is not "rare" is silly.
First active fault zone found on Mars
From what I understand, alcohol hastens the onset of hypothermia but at the same time in some circumstances it may delay the onset of frostbite. The mechanism should be the same in either case, the dilation of blood vessels near the surface of the skin, particularly in the extremities, which leads to more heat transfer between your body and the cold environment. This warms your skin but at the expense of cooling your core.

Doctors would never dare recommend alcohol for somebody operating in the cold since it hastens hypothermia (which is deadly) to delay frostbite (which, while potentially deadly, is a less severe/immediate concern.) But, despite the aversion medical professionals have to liability, it's seems theoretically possible that there could be scenarios where consuming alcohol would be a minor net benefit (they would have to be scenarios where it's trivial to step back inside to warm up.)
I agree. It is a mixed bag though, while too many conferences might equal a lower average quality, more conferences might mean that conferences are more accessible.

More conferences also can “peer-pressure” other conferences into good behavior, e.g. a lot of conferences now provide the talks online for free. A lot of conferences have diversity or student grants. Some conferences even pay for babysitters for speakers.

Personally I don’t like the big conferences I have been to in Frontend Development. I like smaller one day events much more, higher information diversity. And I like other conferences outside of my normal scope, because I can learn much more.
6 minutes is a pretty optimistic estimate for that length of commute. It's only 6 minutes if there's no lights whatsoever and you pedal decently fast.

My 3 km bike commute averages 11 minutes on account of all the lights and traffic congestion :/
bike commute
I find the concept of a morgue on rails (no phone calls, no "loud" conversations...) pretty amazing. How'd we arrive to the point where we expect people to not be social in public places?
>> Conferences now feel more like a show and tell with blogpost level quality writing. Most non-academic conference talks I see could have been summarised easily in a blogpost and a few screenshots or at most a slide deck.

Exactly why I stopped going to conferences. The quality of the speakers is mostly terrible. They choose a grand sounding topic then the talk turns out to be incredibly shallow and pointless. I often wonder how many of them could actually speak at depth, extemporaneously, about the subect of their talk or if their actual knowledge collides with the end of their slides.

I think also it's just a way for the speakers to advertise the company they work for.
I wrote my own serialization library for embedded systems recently. It serializes data that can be defined and initialized natively in C. The intention is for data section only data, not heap data. So for example, you can have variable length arrays, but you must have a maximum length to match the preallocated C array declaration.

The serialized format mimicks JSON, except that it supports tables- arrays of structs. This saves space compared with actual JSON, since the column names only have to be given once. Also tables where the columns are primitive types can be loaded directly into common spreadsheet applications. This is useful for my specific application.

The application has a CLI that allows you to browse the data with xpath like expressions. You can set or get any field of the hierarchy (using the serialization format), and since the type is known it can parse and schema check the user input.

I use the serialized format for storing a copy of the data in flash memory, so that it can be restored on boot up.

The metadata with the type information is all marked as const. In embedded systems, this data is placed in flash memory instead of precious RAM.
Please keep reflexive tropes like "whataboutism" off this site. They don't add information and count as name-calling in the sense that we use the term here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. See also the bit about shallow dismissals.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
My biggest issue with Lightroom is that it is dog slow with large catalogs > 100k images. It is as if it kept everything in memory. Can Darktable be used to store the data in mysql or postgresql?
The article just briefly mentions it, but the game I remember most from my AppleII days was RobotWar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar

We were a couple of guys (and one AppleII) staying up all night designing robots, I still remember the names of some of my robots.

Like M.U.L.E. it was a good multiplayer game way ahead of its time.
I’m pretty sure the proposal is actually for on-the-spot extra-judicial executions of anybody who even criticizes the idea. Or maybe it’s just a call for a bit of regulation, I dunno.
If you think A and I think B, I am allowed to say B without proving it to you. You can say that my claim is unsupported but by insulting me in a parallel thread you learn nothing. Be open-minded and assume that what you see in open is not everything primarily due to different compute capabilities available to different actors.
The module system actually makes start-up slower (the designers admitted in some presentation) because of the checks it has to perform. Java 9 was a lot slower than 8 and subsequent versions have gotten better but are still slower than 8.
I wouldnt recommend staying away. That implies the whole thing has no value. I've used it and found it ok for what it is. The tumbleweed effect of no-one around hits me due to timezones. That is a bigger negative to me.

My experience with freenode was similar to other forums. But I'd never be surprised by an online forum containing aholes. It almost necessary as part of a diverse ecosystem. How the forum deals with the bad is the real measure. That's hard when the admin is the part of that bad.

I prefer Discord for actual online group tasks because just about everything is better for our group's usecases, especially voice chat, bots, history, images, video etc. Being text only, IRC is less useful now in comparison.
If you've never multiplied numbers in balanced ternary, work out the algorithm and try it on some simple numbers. It's a real pleasure.

The sense in which it's “optimal” is that if you consider a one-hot encoding for each digit, well, for numbers up to a quintillion you need 18×10=180 vacuum tubes in base 10 (like that abortion the ENIAC), 2×60=120 in base 2, and only 3×39=117 in balanced ternary. If your base 2 is also signed, the crossover happens earlier (you need 122 vacuum tubes in that case), but either way, it's not a large difference.

Still, there are a number of things that come out pleasingly simpler in balanced ternary: in addition to multiplication, there are comparison results, rounding (as mentioned in the linked paper), numerical type ranges, and negation. It's easy to imagine a world where ternary had come out on top.
The book itself is constantly updated by the author and community, people add particular language flavors. Scala flavor[1] (along with the original Haskell one) is already part of the book, OCaml flavor[2] is being worked on and mostly finished.

[1] https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf/releases/tag/v1...

[2] https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf/pull/201
I don't have a ready answer - but in general the type of software you're looking for is digital asset management (DAM).

There are some open source solutions in this space, but AFAIK no really great ones.

You could just use bitkeeper (now ope source) for just kerping track of files - it's said to handle binary files better than git.

I suppose you already have a Mac or two - I'm curious if anyone use icloud with only free software? Is it possible without any Apple devices - and would it even make sense to try?
Being into functional programming helps quite a bit I think. In particular, category theory seems to nest well and illuminate some complicated uses of polymorphism and continuation passing style transformations.

Categories are also a useful abstraction/pattern for designing interfaces to libraries. It's sort of a more mathematically flavored version of dataflow style libraries like simulink or gnuradio diagrams and stuff. Gluing together lego blocks and building up pipelines. I have been fiddling around with a categorical interface for solve linear equations which I think is pretty neat. http://www.philipzucker.com/linear-relation-algebra-of-circu...
All: there's a decent debate about journalism to be had here. Please keep the comments substantive and within the site guidelines—no flamebait or flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Authors could also use an automated system that processes these complaints, applies them unilaterally to the manuscript (false positive non-typos be damned) and uploads a modified version.
GM Requests Green Light to Ditch Steering Wheel in Its Self-Driving Cars
I ran a bbs system in High School and it set me on a path for web development because I understood computers and learned Linux commands using IRC that played well into using Apache, Perl and other Linux things from the 1996 web era. Personally I ran Renegade BBS software which had its origins in stolen Telegard BBS pascal source code.

http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/AAA/AAA/CBBS/thoughts.txt

http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/AAA/AAA/CBBS/
> As someone who doesn't want to lock my whole photo-processing pipeline into a subscription-based model for the rest of my life (Lightroom) it's by far the most powerful tool at my disposal.

Couldn't you just outright buy a Capture One license?
Yes, I understand the guidelines.

Our area of disagreement, from my perspective, seems to be your emphasis on "assume good faith", whereas mine is on "strongest plausible interpretation". To which I would point out, with the context of the account's past posting history, the assumption of good faith is no longer the strongest plausible interpretation. Doubly so in the context of a comment thread specifically about/containing discussion of bad faith actions and hostile workplace environment stemming from said company.

Now don't get me wrong, I think it's possible for two people to reasonably disagree over this.

But I think that's it's also reasonable to point out that in an attempt to stop discussion devolving to personal attacks under such an interpretation of essentially ahistorical accounts/context, you raise the bias and de-evolution of the comments on HN to biasing towards marketing, boosters, bots, astroturfers, etc.
Scrip is certainly not limited to the products a company produces. In the states it was lumber and mining companies but the stores offered whatever people needed.
I don’t need more conferences. But I do appreciate smaller conferences.

Ad-hoc BOFs (Birds of a feather) usually give me some good ideas.

If it’s on a specific open source project I can usually code with the core maintainers and squash bugs with immediate feedback on my MR.

Smaller settings mean better Q&A with a keynote or a discussion at breakfast the next morning.

When I contrast these small conferences with the mega conferences. I find it hard to justify just exactly what I get out of the big ones. You can usually watch the sessions on YouTube after the fact.

Smaller conferences probably in the end equates to “more conferences” being held though. So I don’t mind all the conference notices for conferences I won’t attend.
Yeah. I can see myself switching from LR to this if I could import my catalogue. I wouldn't expect the develop settings to be exact but it would still be a big help.
This article reminds me of a documentary I watched recently about the Maya. I’m paraphrasing, but the guy said all civilizations were richest before their final fall.

I don’t see the 2010s through the same lens this article does. It seems like the last orgyistic quantitative-eased decade of excess before the whole thing collapses.
You can make it soooo smooth. Scan your boarding pass, get an envelope with some Id, put item in, drop into box. Update address later (or gets sent automatically to address provided by airline). Whole experience takes less than 30 seconds.
Would they still have more market share if they weren't selling a dollar for fifty cents?
Using encrypted VOIP will not do anything about SS7 hacks, as it will be your voice calls and SMSes that get rerouted, and remotely MIMed
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the electric scooter rental services. For a while they did make traffic in Santa Monica and surrounding areas better. It went from horrific to less horrific but no one talked about that.

My boyfriend works 1 mile from work and he took them almost everyday in the beginning. When the cities all cracked down and required a licensing fee for each one, the numbers were drastically reduced and they were no longer consistently available within a 2-3 minute walk. So back in the car he went. We've looked into buying one but right now they're too expensive, heavy, and unreliable to own. It's so much easier to just leave it when you arrive and not worry about maintenance.
This is a cool idea and I dig that you're focusing on content. One thing I noticed after clicking through a few was some are far better than others. The flight attendant provides awesome details and pros/cons. Whereas the F1 performance engineer is a single paragraph with nothing more than what the title means.
Welcome to the Center of the Universe (2018)
I’m sitting at a restaurant with a friend.

Waiter asks my friend, “are you both ready to order?”

My friend replies, “I don’t know”

I follow, “yes, we’re both now ready to order”.
I look forward to the mainstream catching up to seeing advertising like second-hand smoke: harmful enough to others to ban based on widespread democratic support.
As it is speculated now, this API leak also leaked private accounts as "privacy" check was possibly done client side.

Doubi was one of main developers of Shadowsocks, a traffic obfuscation tool to jump the Chinese firewall.

As said, the guy openly defied Chinese 3 letter services for years, and even trolled a number of agents whom he managed deanonymise himself.
No, but I think the tweeter is making the point that there should be a distinction between actual typos and slang/vernacular. Apparently, there isn't a distinction and his typo rate is thus artificially higher than it should be. Seems like a valid point to me -- there needs to be a distinction or at least some automated checking to ignore reports for informal words...
any darktable expert here knows how to compare two photos side by side in darktable

Also, can we use magnifying glass, instead of zooming in and scrolling the photo

ideally, would be select two photos to compare, click on compare side by side, and the two photos viewed on screen
Japan's Births Decline to Lowest Number on Record