skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Identity-based content is helpful for when marketers get incredibly lazy.

I firmly suspect that African and African-American movies will put a much needed spotlight on the consumption differences between the two cultures.

Any word on content for Colonial African culture?
Nice idea...

As an employee you could get the ride in the car free, as a perk, iff you watch the educational material and pass a test on it. This would be assessed during the ride via onscreen multiple-choice questions; get less than 50% correct (or, turn it off) and you have to pay for the journey!
My dad said he had to read Hoare when he got his M.S. in the eary '80s, and that half the people who read it didn't understand it, and half the people who understood it ignored it. It's 30 years later and people are still using crappy synchronization primitives.
Some mailing lists get spammed.
Looks cool, but I don't think I'd ever use it over Scapy.
What would you have him do with a functional but old car otherwise? Crushing a car that is functional and building a new modern car to replace it takes a little north of 125 Gigajoules of energy.

An older functional car may be better for the planet than destroying and replacing it.
Probably because nobody paid them.
Without owning the foundry, it's not clear if this is an IBM tech demo that goes nowhere, or if it effects GF's roadmap. GF uses a Samsung process for 14nm (really 14/20 hybrid), so it really looks like IBM is out of the foundry business as far as taking a process all the way to manufacturing.

GF might leapfrog down to 7nm, but if they aren't even fully 14nm at this point, does that really seem plausible?
You may have allow and remembered. It click to plays for me.

(if you haven't checked that, click the brick to see)
It's really difficult, though. There are dozens of different ways someone can be fingerprinted [1], and you may have to make serious or even crippling changes to browser features to mitigate some techniques.

It's not fair to say "privacy is dead", but I think it's safe to say "browser fingerprint evasion is dead". Solutions to easily and selectively block unsavory companies and networks (ad or otherwise) while letting users allow some things, like uBlock and uMatrix, are probably the only feasible solutions.

[1] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/client-ident... (This still isn't a totally comprehensive list)
I came here to say the same, it is super confusing. Something about sharing colours?
Have been reading your hn posts for a while. At this point I am intensely curious to take a look at the space curve codebase :)
Absolutlely true, it takes time to have good relation with producers, and that's why we have worked for one full year to establish these relations.
If these were automated drones that were killing people without human involvement, I would agree that they are a problem. However that isn't the case here. There are still flight and maintenance crews on the ground and there is still a human pulling the trigger. Drones just make things cheaper and less costly in terms of (friendly) human lives and they aren't alone in that regard.

Here is another comparison technology for you, satellite imagery. That has made military planning massively more effective as generals can now see the real time location of both our troops and our enemy. Should we stop using that because it allows us to kill our enemy too effectively without paying a high enough cost?
A related question I like to consider from time to time: "Are corporations conscious?" They are composed of many individuals who we consider conscious and they gather a whole bunch of information on their internals. They even have entire departments of conscious beings devoted to communicating information to other conscious beings that often speak as if they were the corporation itself (sure, corps may have a strange habit of referring to themselves in the third person, but so do some people). How would we even measure this?
URL of website about game camera settings
Hey, I read about some months ago a website (a one pager) about ingame camera settings and viewports of some important games like super mario. Sadly I can not find the URL anymore, can someone help me?
Kara's ethics statement claims that she has no non-public information related to Megan's job:

http://recode.net/ajax/writerinfo/ethics/kara-swisher/
Fewer cones may be better for low-light vision. Apparently mammals grew out of a evolutionary niche where this was important, and they generally only have two cones while other vertebrates have four. Remember how dogs have poor color vision? That's true of almost all mammals. Primates are unusual among mammals in having 3 types of cones and better color vision. Meanwhile reptiles, birds, amphibians, insects have 4 types of cones and much better color vision than us.
They already license anime .
I advanced a similar hypothesis five years ago:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2010/10/great-conspiracy-without-...

http://blog.rongarret.info/2010/10/mega-memes-and-great-cons...
A more succinct way of asking what you're asking is "How do I keep focus?"

Answer, it's a matter of discipline to attention. How to do those? Lots of practice and lifestyle changes. Reduce distractions and opportunity for distractions.
I still see it as a statement of just how many people we kill. Even if the problem with it is drone's, I still think the piece has merit. And beyond it's message, its construction and aesthetic is eerie and disturbing. It's built incredibly well.
I would love it if NASA's budget was ten times bigger but the U.S. already spends more than everyone else combined.
FSX – Cruz Pipersport – Difficult Approaches Mountain Air – TrackIR
So by your generous estimate, it affects more than one million users. Sounds kinda bad.
Would also be worth saying this is for iOS / osx somewhere obvious on the homepage. looks like a cool project!
> Handmade candies aren't popular, they're trending. Just like artisinal pickles.

Things trend because they're... wait for it... popular.

> Also, there's a reason why orchestras all over the country are going on strike or shutting down.

Unless you assume that all classical music is orchestral or that you can only experience such music in a certain setting, I'm not sure where you're going with this.
I keep thinking about OTP in Rust. Unfortunately, they got rid of M:N threads, which makes threading less of a useful abstraction.
Hey, I was feeling a lot of eye strain a few months ago while writing my dissertation. I went to an ophthalmologist, and he gave me a few tips that changed my life (no, serisouly):

- DO NOT have the monitor at eye's level as some people suggest. Our muscles relax when the eye is looking down. 45 degrees down is fine. See for yourself: Put your finger at eye's level and keep looking at it for as long as you can. Then drop it down to chest's level and see how much better it is.

- Get yourself a bigger monitor, in case you don't already have one, and stay further away from it. Also related to eye muscles strain: focusing up-close is really bad for you. Do this test: look at your finger really close to the eye, and then place it further away.

It puts a lot of strain on the eye's muscles to look up and focus up-close. Those were exactly my problems. Putting my chair a little bit higher and my monitors further back in my desk solved my problems.

edit: Make sure to use only your eyes to look down, and not your neck or back, otherwise you will replace one problem with another.
Or phrased another way: we still have no real solid leads on consciousness. There's all sorts of neat things thought up about it, we have some questions we'll want to answer or dissolve, but there's not even a consensus on what consciousness is.

This is really disappointing, because consciousness is neat.

I also find it questionable to posit fake scenarios then try to draw conclusions from them. I can say "what about a fire that boils water, but it's actually frozen?", but it doesn't really mean such a thing is possible. See also p-zombies, an exercise in imagining nonsensical things in order to draw questionable conclusions.
I bought a LEAF SL in Dec for $31K and change before $10K in credits. That was less than a third the cost of a Model S after rebates, IIRC.

On the downside, range is closer to 75 miles in the winter (driving normally for MA, meaning fairly fast) and a pretty regular 90-95 miles in the summer.

Overall, I love it. It's no Tesla and is not a economic winner over a good used car, but it's a damned good car and I think it's one of the most economic of the new cars, even with MA insane cost of electricity.
Rescale is looking for UI/UX Designer
Responsibilities:

- Transform complex ideas into beautiful and intuitive user interfaces

- Work with other developers to turn mockups into web pages

- Be on alert for any possible design improvements for the company (e.g. document templates, email templates, office decorations, etc)

Qualifications:

- An eye for clean and artful design

- Demonstrable design skills with a strong portfolio

- Ability to present your designs and sell your solutions

- Experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and/or site maps

- Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, or other visual design tools

This is an on-site/full-time position. Please include a copy of your resume and your portfolio.

Contact: des-jobs@rescale.com
There's something called anti-trust regulations, and it's a very serious issue.
I'm guilty of this too, but it would really be great if we as a society could develop some impulse against putting all of our eggs in the first shiny basket we see.
I think even Google should fear the prospects of Linus Torvalds on a mission to "fix email".
No accident. Google controls enough of the worlds email now that can just turn the screws and capture the whole market.
Can't you just set a filter on the wrongly dotted address? Not something you should have to do, but...
That's not the spoiler.
I never said it should, or shouldn't be used. Simply that it shouldn't be dismissed as being the same thing as what came before.
So there are two different things there, bidirectional tracing without and with VCM. VCM takes longer to trace but takes care of outlier samples that can't be oversampled away in practice.

When it comes to any sort of bounce, forward raytracing is painful, anything that helps is good.

Most renderers don't take into account much cache coherency of textures at all, which makes me think you work for Disney?
Future Tesla Rival (Maybe) Faraday Future Boasts Top Electric Car Talent
Strike the word conscious and try to rephrase your question.
I don't have any experience with federal FOIA. However, a state-level version, the Missouri Sunshine Law, has been instrumental in convincing the Dept of Natural Resources to do their job and regulate wastewater treatment. It's so easy to lie to uninformed citizens.

"Oh that facility hasn't had any excessive pollution levels."

"Yes they have: on this date, that date, and this other date."

"Well at any rate they were never referred to enforcement."

"Yes they were: the document is dated such-and-such and was signed by so-and-so." It's fun to catch liars lying!
And someone else just pointed out that the python line should instead be the two lines:

3 -4 tiny number # python 2
3.5 -3.5 tiny number # python 3
You'd be better off raising the ride height as the dynamics of raising the ride height will increase downforce on the wheel/tire assembly at the start of the transient.
Can you provide a definition for consciousness? Perhaps you have a different notion than most people keep in mind (even if they are unable to explain).
> waiver of nuclear weapons to which they have the same right as any existing nuclear power

No one has a "right" to nuclear weapons. You can search the Magna Carta, the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, the United Nations Charter, etc. No international agreement recognizes any such right. In fact the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Iran is a party to, does exactly the opposite.

> Would you say it would be good foreign policy if the rest of the would put an embargo on the USA until the USA dismantles all its nuclear weapons and facilities? If the rest of the world would start sabotaging those weapons and facilities?

Anything that forces the current nuclear powers to give up their weapons would be excellent. In the current balance of power, that's unlikely to occur outside of mutual disarmament agreements.

I will point out that it's not like the rest of the world is refraining from sanctioning the US out of some sense of higher morality. International relations is power politics for everyone. Aside from the pure power differential and the economic consequences of refusing US trade, many countries (not all, obviously) benefit from the security of the American military umbrella. Many countries (e.g. much of the EU) refrain from developing their own nuclear programs precisely because of American security guarantees. Those guarantees would still exist in a post-nuclear world, but only if everyone disarms at the same time, which is, again, hard to coordinate.
After 2 years on HN, I finally created an account so I could upvote this comment.
Are those updates over the air, or do you need to take it to a dealer to apply them?
why?

how do you got a work there?
The less shitty car makes use this to start the infotainment system early, BMW and Mercedes comes to mind.

But the overall state of infotainment systems is laughably bad, there's a few that are merely ok, most are bad, and some are rage-inducing. (Hello Cadillac!)
Pretty ironic, then, that many suggestions in comments (on the source) are "you should just run your own mail server". Maybe two 'wrongs' do make a right..
Your argument is essentially against all forms of safety equipment that protect against being rear-ended, and can be used without substantial modification to argue against safety equipment of all kinds: why bother with crumple zones when I could just insist everyone else on the road were better? The reality is that I am in the car being hit, there is little to nothing I can do to make people not hit me at some point in my life (and to this date, I have been in a car rear-ended twice; in both situations the person behind us was 100% at fault under essentially any useful definition of "at fault"), and so I have a budget I am willing to spend on random safety equipment to make me less likely to be injured when this happens. I already am spending a lot of money on safety features for my car: at least these ones sound cheap to add.
i personally know one of the first people that brought electric cars to your country (im assuming USA, sorry if im wrong!) and i know for a fact he was sunk by your oil companies on purpose and they threw the idea away. in his case, it certainly wasnt anything to do with a lack of market or bad business decision, big corporations ruined him on purpose.
Sam Altman's Keynote at Startup Voodoo
Hey guys, founders here! Would love to engage on any questions/thoughts on what we're building.
theres only about two journalists in the world with any integrity or truth to their reports anyway. i think a lot of people are moving away from traditional media, and indeed rejecting it entirely as irreverent and usually useless to their everyday lives. news is designed to incite fear, and is mostly conveyed directly from your corrupt government.
That's kind of an argument from ignorance, though.

It's conceivable that any kind of system whatsoever is conscious in ways that we can't understand or comprehend. But if the author's position is that the US should be provisionally considered conscious because it takes purposeful, intentional actions, then a lack of apparent purposefulness seems like a reasonable criticism of the argument.
Hey hey hey now...I said C# and Haskell, not F# ;) F# has some (from what I've seen) more readable syntax than Haskell.
75 miles is embarrassing.
Try again. tnftp, tcpclient and nc are my friends. And, increasingly, q's builtin TCP client (alas, closed source).

There was a short time long ago when I used wget. That period did not last very long.

curl is overloaded with "features" I will never use.

My idea of a good TCP client is a small, relatively simple program with few options that compiles quickly and easily.

FreeBSD's fetch utility is another one that comes to mind.

Perhaps counterintuitively, I feel I get more "control" from the simpler TCP clients with fewer options (that I complile myself) than I ever did from the more popular programs with too many options and unneeded libraries linked in by default.
But that's just my opinion, nothing more. I would not "recommend" the programs I use to anyone. It is just my personal preference to use them.
Nintendo 3DS Automatic Puzzle Swap Robot [video]
I see your tetraquark and raise you a pentaquark.
On the topic of hardware, I've been rocking the tenkeyless keyboards for quite a while now and they work better than you might think with Blender. With a simple pie menu for changing views bound to the q key the numpad is pretty extraneous. If you want a good set of pie menus that's premade and ready to roll, Wazou's are pretty good. https://github.com/pitiwazou/Scripts-Blender

I do agree that a 3-button mouse is super necessary, though a Wacom or equivalent tablet is a better bet in the long run (much better for sculpting, concepts and texturing) and less likely to wreck your fingers.
One should really look into works of Russian publicist Sergey Pereslegin. He (plus other people) produced a lot of fascinating speculation on such concepts (superorganisms composed of humans and organizations)
>> In this approach, threads own their data, and communicate with message-passing.

This is the same paradigm as MPI, the message parsing interface. Using it, you also get for free the ability to deploy your "threaded" code in distributed memory architectures. But any person who had just a bit of experience with this standard can tell you how tedious is to develop a parallel code with it. Maybe this is product of the paradigm or just the verbosity of the API (see for example: http://www.mpich.org/static/docs/v3.1/www3/MPI_Alltoallv.htm...).I wish there was some sort of OpenMP or Intel TBB equivalent for MPI to ease out the pain.
The article includes the following statement, which got my curiosity up:

"It would shut down the Federal Express hub at Memphis and flatten large numbers of the rickety tilt-up warehouses, packed with inventory, that have grown up like mushrooms around the Memphis facility as companies try to out-compete each other in shipping speed."

The word "tilt-up" was a link to Wikipedia[1], which article includes the section Risks:

"In the wake of the 2011 Joplin tornado in which seven people were killed in a Home Depot when the 100,000 pounds (45 t) panel walls collapsed after the store was hit by an EF5 tornado, engineers in an article published in The Kansas City Star criticized the practice. They said that once one wall falls, it creates a domino effect. [...] Shortly after publication of the Kansas City Star article, the technical committee of the Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) formed a task force to investigate the claims presented in the article. With the cooperation of Home Depot, the task group performed detailed engineering calculations, research and investigation of the claims posed in the article. [...] The final report was published on January 12, 2012.[22]"

Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article doesn't say what the final report says. Fortunately, reference 22 has a link[2], and the report's executive summary has:

"The Task Force’s findings to date include:

"1. The failure started in the structural steel, steel joist and wide-rib deck roof system. This roof system is one of the most commonly used systems in commercial
buildings, including those with masonry walls, precast concrete walls, and almost all
forms of wall construction

"2.
The Tilt-Up concrete panels performed very well and survived the extreme loads
of the EF-5 event only to collapse after the roof failed due to lack of bracing
mechanism.

"3.
Tilt-Up construction methods played no role in the failure.

"4.
The perception that the nearby Wal-Mart store performed better because it was
concrete masonry is false. The Wal-Mart took a glancing blow from the storm and
the Home Depot took a direct hit."

In other words, the roof of a large, open building is the weak link.

On the other hand, as a professional programmer, I wonder how well typical commercial software development effort would perform under similar scrutiny. I know I haven't ever seen such an effort.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_up

[2] http://tilt-up.org/tilt-uptoday/2011/12/19/task-force-comple...
I wonder what happened to all that money? Surely, it couldn't have cost that much to operate?
Unfortunately there is already a widely known project called Pig.
I don't know about the spam filters but Torvalds' rants when he's onto something are awesome.
Her premise smells fishy:

“one Sunday” at her previous company, she and some coworkers “were bored” and decided to put their salaries in a spreadsheet. As it spread through the company, thousands of employees added their salaries and it allegedly revealed “not great things regarding pay. ...”

I find that extraordinarily hard to believe. If the salaries are accurate within that spreadsheet then I suspect something more sinister took place such as a blatant theft from HR.

Friendships are lost over the subject of pay and I doubt that Google would be unaware of a spreadsheet such as hers circulating throughout the company reaching thousands of people without Google figuring it out. (I am also surprised still still has a job after bragging about this.)
Your mail server isn't real competition to Gmail. Yahoo and Outlook probably are, but considering Gmail handles their mail fine, I'm not sure "anti-competitive" is the right angle here.
That's pretty hard to believe. Next they'll be telling us that Google conspired with Apple and other large firms to suppress wages!
Isn't this meant to happen automatically? I submitted it assuming HN would tell me if it had been posted before.
Unfortunate name. I thought this was related to Apache Pig[0]. On the other hand, this was the first time I've heard of Hefesto[1], the build system. I wish, however, that there was an example of a build script.

0: https://pig.apache.org/

1: https://github.com/rafael-santiago/hefesto
> However, these programmers aren’t fleeing concurrency itself - they’re fleeing concurrent access to the same data.

He's not wrong.

Modern real world example: Golang authors designed net library in a such way, that everyone who uses it has to think about concurrent access to shared mutable states. Which is hard and unnecessary. Event loops never had this problem, but for some reason got labeled "non idiomatic" by Golang folks.
So I had to implement event loop myself.
Did you actually read the tweets? According to her, people above her at Google knew about it, but they couldn't really do much about it.
On top of that, how many of those thousands of threads are unique individuals.

I would venture a guess that many or most of them are coming from similar people, or at very least similar domains, or even the same mail server.
why what? why no offices? keeps overhead lower, we like working from home, who is going to tell Linus to show up at an office every day?
Google's Laszlo Bock on Strategies for Hiring and Managing Employees [audio]
If your newsletter has a good reputation then clicking "mark as spam" in Gmail prompts the user to automatically unsubscribe instead of marking spam, or to do both. If your newsletter has marginal or bad reputation or does not offer automatic unsubscription then that doesn't appear.
an image search and it comes out alot of old concrete walls... wtf? https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&imgil=5aN7IeRgNSROxM%...
Blame subsidized gas; not everyone can afford to act as if it were priced correctly.
What are Bloom Filters?