skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll likely keep buying Apple laptops, because it's the environment I prefer for scientific computing and general productivity rolled into one.

But for a long time, I was also a Mac Pro loyalist. They were my workhorse workstations, and there was every reason to suspect my lab would keep buying them in the future. But the new ones are overly expensive, have no CUDA-capable GPU option, a pain to upgrade and generally weird to target.

When a recent grant got funded, I ended up going with Boxx.
> If we consider VICE a legitimate news outlet

Well, there's your problem.
PixelCNN – Generating images pixel by pixel
The thread pools are optional, and reading the link you posted, not recommended unless specific conditions exist. They use streaming media as a good use case for the thread pools.

Nginx is commonly used as a caching proxy, and called out as being high performance in those cases. I can't speak as to whether what's being cached is "hard-to-cache" files.
Looks like it was Steve https://www.flickr.com/photos/allardjm/480786084
I don't understand this.

Back in 1991 Robert Patrick was an outstanding T-1000. Did anyone experience an uncanny valley for that character? I didn't, and that was 25 year old CGI.

For me the transitions were seamless and very convincing between "real" and "shapeshifted". So is there no uncanny valley if transitions occur quickly enough? Or is it that we know he's a shapeshifter that keeps us from being disturbed at any point during a transition?
1) Lack of heap-allocated convenient strings, dynamic lists and a dict/hashmap structure. They would not need to be fast, but the total lack of such types built in means that you cannot even deserialse a JSON or YAML config file without it getting very verbose.

2) Main reason it is faster than C is all arrays are nonaliasable by default (e.g. if you have two arrays as arguments to a function you know they do not occupy the same memory). This enables some important optimizations. In C99 there is the __restrict__ intrinsic to declare the same thing in which case C99 is just as fast. However you still need to write a lot more code in C99 since you need to write loops, while in Fortran "a+b" can add together two arrays (with full compiler support for optimized array expressions).
1) Old Fortran code was intimidating. New Fortran isn't.

2) C can be faster than Fortran (not by a lot mind you). But when it comes to math-y type things, Fortran code can be made very, very fast, and can be parallelized with little to no effort.
Yeah, fair enough - it was more of a general assertion that it's easy to forget that high-level solutions exist. It's NIH.

Does using certs still suck though? I get that it's a hard problem, but cert revocation and distribution, that's really hard even for OSes.
editorials in newspapers used to be a mode of public discourse.

Do you mean letters to the editor? If so, I agree that they do permit some public discourse. I'm sure papers also chose which letters to publish, in effect moderating the discussion.
I see this "artificial supply constraint" hype-mobile getting played up a lot by consumer electronics marketing.

It's pretty easy to get the factories in Shenzhen to crank out a couple extra to meet demand (it USED to be a lot harder).

I call BS.
What about someone being disruptive at a open presentation? Or someone showing up to your local game meetup and being generally disagreeable?

What about a public park that has gotten ruined because someone keeps on doing donuts with their motorbike on the grass? A library whose books keep on getting ruined by certain people?

Even public services need to have some maintenance to not fall apart. There's a reason we call 4chan moderators "janitors".
I got what you meant, and that was my first thought too.

The main reason I haven't bought an Echo (and am looking into self-hosted solutions instead) is the privacy concern.
Not all universal health insurance systems are created equal. Read up on Molina Healthcare. Some of the Medi-Cal heavy provider networks in Southern California are so bad that they are effectively inaccessible.
1981 Vanagon Westfalia is aircooled. Contrast that with the 1982 diesel with a heavier engine block and a cooling system.
The http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_suspendtab.html.en extension also help keeping cpu and memory down when using lots of tabs. (of course when a tab become suspended the state is at least partially lost)
My desktop and console are wired and I have reliable 200 Mbit Internet. There are a few things my phone is very good at picking up and I use it for voice commands there. My friends have Echos and Dots and they're great! No one has to get up from the table to pick a song!

Man, my life is good. The secret? Get good Internet. Wire what you can. Get a damned good wifi router for the rest. Know your tools.

I buy paper books because they're much cheaper but take my Kindle when traveling.
My new MacBook Pro finally arrived yesterday and I'm feeling pretty underwhelmed to be honest. Don't get me wrong, it's a genuinely beautiful piece of art; every line, every curve is beautiful, the screen is utterly mindblowing, it's blazing fast and responsive, only having USB-C ports hasn't been any sort of impediment whatsoever, and Sierra is a great OS.

But overall, it just feels like it's going to be a complete chore to get accustomed to the horrific keyboard and the ridiculously large trackpad, the Touch Bar is actually pretty useless as far as my workflow is concerned, and not having a physical escape key is a lot more disorienting than I expected it to be.

My day-to-day processes rely on me being fast and proficient with the way I interact with my machine and every time I have to look down at the keyboard just to figure out where the fuck my fingers are or adjust my hands because my palms keep drifting over the touchpad or fumble around for the escape key, I lose focus for a millisecond and my flow gets ruined.

Fortunately I've got two weeks to figure out if I can adjust before it becomes too late to return the machine to Apple for a refund, so we'll see.

Right now, though, I paid well over $4,000 AUD for this thing and I'm not entirely sure why.
No joke, I have a couple projects right now that could be described as linear algebra as a service.
Since I'm no chemist I don't get the details, but the thin platinum anode "forces" Hydrogen to split into H+ to go through it, while electrons cannot traverse and thus will flow to the other output...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell#Types_of_fuel_cells....

Very tricky system.
Right, you also have the option of not resuming it at all.
Fabrice Bellard’s RISCVEMU Supports Fedora/RISC-V
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This is way out of my depth, but how different are these decoders? Could we have some more general purpose hardware instead of specific hardware for every format?
Always appreciate careful criticism! It turns out the ratio of centrifugal-gravitational force to aerodynamic force is about 10:1, so punching through the atmosphere is a solvable problem.
I love Max's videos!
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As a long time fan of my Macbooks, I'm really excited about this. This could finally kick one of the other manufacturers hard enough (Lenovo, Dell, HP) to make a seriously good device. The MS Surface Pro series is already pretty solid, but Windows is just not there yet. I don't think it will be Ubuntu taking the cake, but with some better software, I'd happily switch away from macOS.
I applied for Masters in ML , in one of these univ ,

CMU, UT Austin, Georgia Tech, UCSD..

I am not in US, thought getting MS in one of these would boost chances of getting into something like google brain, or Open AI..

Is it waste of time and money in your opinion?
I kind of want to write up a buzzword filled pitch and see if management bites.
Firefox also have extensions like that. I'm using http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_suspendtab.html.en / https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/suspend-tab/

It's marked as experimental, but I haven't had any trouble so far.
I really wish the author had chosen asciidoc which has well defined semantics for latex math incorporation and also supports asciimath
That's too kind! Say hi on fb some day.
I think you might be too YOUNG to get it.

I think older people love the idea of interacting with a computer with voice - it's way easier for someone to get a quick answer with voice if they're otherwise unfamiliar with navigating a smart phone or laptop (plus the added Star Trek "Computer, locate Commander Riker" aspect - with that added feeling of nostalgia, maybe).

EDIT: changed words for clarity
I got the 502 error and thought that was the joke.
If the price point is the only issue, I'm pretty sure the Echo Dot does the same thing for $40. My concern is that voice controlling the music might not be worth sending out recordings of everything said in my house.
We're experiencing the same issue here. Reports from multiple clients over the last few days. Surely enough checking the logs yields an invalid_credentials error.

Trouble is, we can't faithfully reproduce the issue from our network, but clients are reporting failures to authenticate every time they try!

Have contacted Instagram for an update. Anyone else still experiencing the issue?
I do play rocket league, but not yesterday. :D Do you play on PS4?
US $14.81 reballing = someone heats up your GPU with a paint gun to make it "work" for about a day to a week.

its a scam
Living in a house with no great internet options for a couple of years kind of cured me of my impatience with technology. I have co-workers who get ticked off immediately if the internet is out for more than a minute and get Comcast on the phone. I think it's good to lower your expectations with technology a bit. You really can live without internet or Bluetooth connectivity for a few minutes.

But I'm also in the same boat with using older "dumb" tech. People can't believe I buy cd's still, but hey, you can get nearly anything used on amazon for a few bucks and it's DRM free!
Definitely not a troll I think. I guess downvoted because of disagreement.

I'll also try to explain why:

A few weeks later I have forgotten the specifics about my own code as well.

Also: often there are fewer bugs in library code.

And: getting help (paid or through stackoverflow) is probably easier.
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Voice assistants aren't (in my opinion) for when you are at your computer. They are for when you are doing random daily tasks like getting dressed, cooking, watching tv, walking around the house... That's where the Echo shines.
I am wondering the exact, same, thing.

I have truly no idea why people buy these. I'm a tech nerd, I usually am an early adopter of newfangled technology. But this? I literally couldn't justify spending $5 on it.
Sorry to come across as grumpy. It wasn't really the venue or topic to argue about exotic propulsion. There are many excellent resources online explaining why EM cavities are reactionless. You can write down the Poynting vector and then use Green's theorem, it's a neat result. With dire consequences for wish-powered spacecraft.
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Do you have a link to that?
She gave five or six people a ride, served them coffee, and then sent them on their way. Hardly a refugee shelter!
No, the point of such policies is so that if the company is ever gets sued and is subpoenaed for e-mails, the opposing counsel don't get to get in front of a jury and point to Joe Schmoe at the company writing 'Yep, I think we broke the law!'

This is standard employee training presumably not just at Google, but at basically every company I've ever worked for.

The rule goes basically: if you don't think what you write would look good on the front page of the NYT, then don't put it in an e-mail.
"Don't be evil" was never Google's official mission, but it hasn't changed. All of the FUD when Alphabet was formed was nonsense.
Similar firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/suspend-tab/
It's not THAT impressive. ocrad.js is just Tesseract, an ancient OCR engine from Google (EDIT: originally from HP).

For bounded-length sequences of small alphabet sizes (e.g. digits 0-9 only), it's possible to use a convolutional neural network to get human-level 98+% accuracy (see Google's street view house numbers paper).

Even for general purpose OCR, I personally built an OCR engine from scratch in 2013 using convolutional neural networks and cuDNN that readily beat Tesseract and was competitive with ABBYY (both use ad hoc methods). Character-level segmentation and classification (with distractors) can get you pretty far with enough training data.

It did take me 6 months of time though, and I had some help along the way...
You sound like my brother. I swear he emits a wifi-disruption field around his person. We can be in the same house connected to the same router and I'll have 180 days of perfect pings and no dropped packets and he'll get 10 connection issues in an hour. Doesn't matter which computer he uses or where he goes, always with the bad internet. Meanwhile the last time I can remember having serious wifi troubles was way back in 2005 when I had a crappy netgear router that had to be reset once a day or it'd go a little funky on me.
The voice recognition technology is so much more reliable and flexible than I've found Siri to be. It has an API that allows developers to build apps for it, and is updated every week with new voice commands and features that make it even more interesting and useful.

I resisted for a long time, then bought an Echo, and I loved that so much that I bought a dot, then another, then a 3 pack for my kids for Christmas. It's great for timers, alarms, playing music, news, browsing Amazon, and so much more.

Being portable helps, especially with speakers that work so much better than phone speakers do.

FWIW, I'm a 38 year-old father of 3. I think that if you bought one, you would find yourself delighted (and surprised) by how fun it can be.
1. thread: hey kernel, I would like to read this page of memory.

2. kernel: hey thread, that page is still on SLOOOOW spinning disk, why don't you go off and do something else while I get it for you. I'll let you know with an event notification, so be sure to check in with kqueue regularly.

3. thread: OK then, i'll go off and serve these other people while you do that for me. kthanx.

4. kernel: hey DMA controller, I'd like you to get sectors 4, 5 and 6 from platter 3 on HDD 2 and load them into memory address 0x4fe6bb. Please send me an interrupt when done.

5. DMA controller: OK servo, please adjust read head to this offset. Read head, read me those bytes. Memory controller, please store bytes at address 0x4fe6bb. Hey CPU, here's an interrupt to store in your interrupt table, please wake up the kernel guy and let him know.

6. kernel: wow I just got interrupted. The interrupt seems to map to a request for data from this particular thread. Better let him know. (sends event up thread's kqueue).

7. thread: hey, I just got a kqueue notification that the file is now ready to be read. That means it must be in memory...cool!

Make sense now?
Absolutely not. They can't gain sales from this because they're sold out. High opportunity cost - flatline zero revenue for the next week, which is (at least one of) the highest demand weeks of the year.
Can you explain more what you saw? What fails, and how does it fail? Does it raise an exception and the transaction undoes all queries, or does a query 'half execute' and save a dirty state to the DB?
Wow that's cool! Making it obvious which branch is part of the actual storm rather than someone replying would be nice. Once zoomed in my avatar recognition doesn't work as well.

Or maybe the tweet storm is always the left most branch and I just didn't realise that? :)

In any case super cool stuff!
> For any given amount of infrastructure, proper pricing makes its use more efficient (of course, minus the inefficiency of actually implementing tolls), by shifting demand towards less busy times or encouraging use of mass transit and pooling.

You also have the inefficiency of destroying demand outright. Some people will just stay home.

It also seems like the presence of congestion would already be diverting traffic to less busy times, because nobody wants to sit in traffic. So there is not a lot of low-hanging fruit there.

And if you want to shift demand to mass transit through pricing, instead of making the roads more expensive, make mass transit less expensive. Then you don't need a toll collection infrastructure for roads and may even be able to eliminate the fare collection infrastructure for mass transit.

> In a lot of jurisdictions it's essentially impossible to build enough road so there is zero traffic, because buildings can grow upwards but roads cannot.

Sure they can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Bridge

But high density cities are the obvious case for mass transit improvements.

> Your point about the rich getting infrastructure seems like a non sequitur here. It's voters' job to get their representatives to build enough infrastructure, not just the rich.

The point is that congestion pricing benefits the rich over the poor, as compared with alternatives like funding another bus or subway line via taxes, or reducing/eliminating fares. Which voters care about when deciding what to get their representatives to do.

> I agree that congestion tolls are somewhat regressive, but the solution is to have a progressive tax system, not to avoid efficiency taxes.

It's politically a lot easier to not impose regressive fees than to impose them and then try to balance it by transferring more money to low/middle income people who are already paying negative effective tax rates.
For the lazy: Awesomebar is just firefox's the built-in address bar. It can be configured to search simultaneous through history, tab (titles of open tabs), etc.

Or one can specify what to search with this micro language:

Add ^ to search for matches in your browsing history.
Add * to search for matches in your bookmarks.
Add + to search for matches in pages you've tagged.
Add % to search for matches in your currently open tabs.
Add ~ to search for matches in pages you've typed.
Add # to search for matches in page titles.
Add @ to search for matches in web addresses (URLs).
Add $ to search for matches in suggestions.
Yes. I believe, users are they key. I don't know many online communities, where asking for "original, peer reviewed paper" just to prove your point is common.
I am not in the US, but I've also had many of the issues you describe. For me everything originated in the network equipment. I kept upgrading to more and more expensive routers until I came to the conclusion they are all just shit. I literally bought the best router you could buy from Asus for like $300 and I kept getting disconnects and issues many times a day. I tried the custom firmwares and what not as well, but I think it's all just so badly designed that there's no saving it.

I had a hunch that it must somehow be "me" and not my ISP, so I replace ALL of my network gear with Ubiquiti stuff. I got a UniFi USG (handles actual routing), UniFi Switch (US-8-150W), UniFi AP AC Pro (Wireless AP), CloudKey (runs the software that powers all this, but it's not strictly needed, you can run it on your PC/Mac as well just to setup things and it doesn't need to be running 100% of the time).

Since I've done this I've had ZERO disconnects. Not a single one. No WiFi problems either. I'm not sure if it would fix what you're experiencing, but I thought I'd share my experience.
sentdex (Harrison Kinsley) doing great stuff by making video tutorials of ML/DeepLearning. Do check them out.
This interestingly contradict with most fat burning theories circulating around for the past decades, wondering how true is it?
It is odd to me that the criminality of aiding someone in the interior of a country (I.e. not crossing the border) would hinge on whether they were there legally. As the author mentions, that would seem to put an undue burden on her to determine whether someone's immigration papers are in order. I guess that doesn't stop it from being illegal, but it makes it nearly impossible to determine if one is in compliance.
That's no longer the case. ESPN has seen its profitability roughly slashed in half in the last four years. Simultaneously they're rapidly bleeding subscribers while they've overpaid for sports rights at exactly the wrong time.

ESPN is at about $9.5b to $10b in sales for 2016 and $1b in operating income. Those numbers will decline until operating income is closer to $300m-$500m in the next few years.

By comparison, Disney did $9.3b in net income for 2016 ($14.2b operating income). ESPN is down to being closer to 10% to 15% of Disney's profits and 18% on sales. As a business it's a looming disaster of value destruction from the former peak.
> I think it's good to lower your expectations with technology a bit. You really can live without internet or Bluetooth connectivity for a few minutes.

I just get annoyed if something that would work instantly otherwise doesn't work at all. Say I want to put on music while cooking - putting on a record or CD would take 5 seconds, and work 100% of the time. But if Spotify is down, or asks me to update my password, or has removed the album I've played every week for the past year from their library, or I have to re-sync my bluetooth speaker, etc., then now I'm dealing with this instead of getting on with my cooking.

Whether this expectation is unreasonable or not is clearly a personal matter, but for me it seems like a pretty basic thing to demand from the objects I own.
Oh, there are. In particular, actual variables and arrays can be pointed to only if explicitly declared as "target".
In the case of your flaky wifi this guy seems to have the same problem and in his case it was caused by the non apple branded dongle he had connected: https://youtu.be/NYVjIjBMx6o?t=92
I think there are two things at play here. You point out the effectiveness of the CGI for the transitions in T2. I think you're right in that the transitions where quick and that we know he's a shape-shifter.

The other is that Tarkin interacts substantially with the other characters, and close up. There are a lot of additional opportunities for us to see behavior that doesn't look quite right, especially facial expressions during conversation.

When thinking about this, I compare the differences between how I reacted to K-2SO and Tarkin. I never thought once about the K-2SO effects until after the show: he blended right in. Perhaps it was just that I knew Peter Cushing was dead, I know I was always aware that something was just a bit off. I also thought that there was a little too much detail in Tarkin's face, but I think that be me focussing on it too much.
Online revocation check doesn't require buying HSMs. HSMs also usually operate on a much lower level / aren't really connected to the internet.
Had some weird wifi issues with Apple. Ended up creating a new "Location" (the top setting under Network in System Preferences) and the issue resolved.
This is probably a combination of factors like your ability to understand that your issues are technology ones (hopefully accurate), noticing and remembering problems comes more easily than remembering situations where you might not notice, that sort of thing...
I use Suspend Tab.

Earlier this year I realized a major offender was Google search and search results pages which would spin up a core more than once a minute.

This explained to me at least why it was still hogging cpu even with ad blocker.
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I also use it, thanks to a tip from HN :-)
> I guess downvoted because of disagreement.

Fair enough :D

> A few weeks later I have forgotten the specifics about my own code as well.

> Also: often there are fewer bugs in library code.

> And: getting help (paid or through stackoverflow) is probably easier.

I can definitely see your point, especially about being easier to get help. I imagine if you are anything other than a one man shop, you will be in much better position debugging Rails or Django, rather than trying to figure out the mess you ex-employee left.