skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone can answer that question for me:

Why has Nintendo shifted towards producing underpowered consoles? I used to play the Super Nes when I was a kid, and it was the most powerful console of its generation. The N64, the GameCube, the Wii and subsequent offerings were all underpowered in terms of graphical abilities and raw power after that. I hear people say "But the gameplay is what matters", which I agree with, but my question in the end is "Why can't we have both?".

Is it a costs thing?
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I wonder if certain professions have a lower incidence of kidney stones, which can be linked to exposure to G forces or vibrational forces applied (Pilot, truck driver, etc.). That'd be an interesting occupational health study (When controlling for all other occupational factors).
Today, the egg, tomorrow, unverified account names. Are they going full Facebook?

And filtering out keywords in messages... I suppose that's ok, and certainly their prerogative, but talk about creating more social bubbles. As much as I disagree with the random twits on the site, it reminds me that not everyone is a left-leaning political hobbyist. Hearing things you don't necessarily like is part of being an adult.
It is a bit different, Firefox doesn't support one TLS extension that Google wants to perform a Yubikey authentication.

Not trying to blame FF here as I am also using it...
Applications do it already, but edge routers are adept at ignoring these flags or applying them only to their own service.

So that you use it and not competition.

Net neutrality would be the antidote.
Ask HN: Why do all cloud providers have Tesla K80 vs. cheaper Titan X or 1080ti?
For Tesla:
K80 seems to have higher double precision flops

For Titan X/1080ti:
> In terms of raw performance the titan x and 1080 ti have more flops per GPU.
> They are significantly cheaper (~1000$ vs 4000$)

There are numbers which show that the common nets like AlexNet are faster on Titan X (https://plot.ly/~JianminSun/4/nvidia-titan-x-pascal-vs-nvidia-tesla-k80/). However, most cloud providers like Amazon, Azure and Google recently introduced gpu instances with K80's. Wouldn't it be better to just have cloud instances with 1080ti s/Titan X s ?
So they have literally hundreds of tech jobs and they're looking to interview literally 100 people?
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On the positive side, plugging a powerbank into the Switch causes the console to recharge faster than it depletes its own battery even in a stress test scenario with brightness and volume maxed. [1]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-ninten...
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Clickable - https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/5wrdk2/car_that_uber_...

Full text of /u/clonetent's comment:

"It's their xchangleasing leasing program. It's basically a sub prime car loan like from the housing bubble days.

You use Uber as your income verification and they'll let anyone lease a car provided they do X amount rides each week regardless of credit. They require a three year lease, you a have month to back out but after that you're on the hook for the car 100%. So if Uber cuts it's rates they still have same payment but less fare money each month. They did this to a lot of people and it's well known within the company that a lot of Uber black drivers were screwed when this happened.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-31/inside-ub...

<q>He leased a 2016 Toyota Corolla from Xchange in November, paying $155 a week. Two months later, Uber slashed fares nationally. Soon Hofstede had trouble keeping up with his payments. He went from making $200 in a weekend to $140 in a weekend, he said. "It got to the point that I would drive just to meet my payment," he said. "If you were short on your payment for a week it would roll onto the payment for next week. It starts adding up." </q>

In this guys case they did a similar program for uber black years ago. Then they changed which cars were considered black cars. If I remember right a year after they started the program they changed which cars were considered "black" cars and this guys Lexus?? Was no longer a black car. They said it couldn't exclusively be used for black and had to pick up Uber X riders as well. Uber x pays a lot less. The people this happened to were basically bait and switched when Travis changed the terms on them. He can refuse uber x rides and only pick up uber black riders but if he refuses more than 45 rides in a month he's fired and forever banned from Uber but still on the hook for the car lease. The old Uber black leases started around 4k or 5k a month(I forget which cars but this was for a base "black car") but they made 6k to 8k, 10k a month back then depending on market. They cut rates and required you to pick up cheaper fairs and you're underwater. That's the 97k he's talking about. A lot of Uber black leases were repo'd because after this change their leases were more than their entire monthly wage. That's the personal responsibility Travis wants him to have. It's "Sorry the market change, too bad".

Also the market changed or I mean people did. They just stopped using Uber black. I mean if you're taking at 10 or 20 minute ride across town are you really so vain to need a uber black. Turns out actually rich people are cheap and flocked to Uber x. That's why Travis mentioned their reducing the amount of drivers beacuse the number or riders also drop double screwing guys like this.

Now let me say YES Travis is correct the guy is responsible for his desisions and things don't always work out like you'd expect. That said I see the guys side he made a 3 year commitment to Uber he couldn't walk away from and everything he was promised changed."
I completely agree.

Kotlin is close to the ideal language for me because it is just Java done right. If they want to go native and can do it without impairing any of the JVM usability, I guess go for it. But I don't see the point behind it. I don't develop native apps so maybe I just don't know enough, but it seems like Go and Rust have already satisfied the desire for modern natively compiled languages.

I feel the same way about the Kotlin compiling to Javascript ability. I write both the frontend and backend of web apps so I theoretically should be the exact target market for Kotlin to Javascript but I have no interest in it. ES6 and/or Typescript work better there and have an entire ecosystem around them. And even if they didn't work for me I'd prefer Dart which targets the frontend first instead of being an extra like Kotlin Javascript.

My advice to Kotlin: Stick with what you do best. Kotlin is on the exact right track on the JVM but I think all these different modes are going to make people more cautious about adopting it in any of them because they'll worry it's a jack of all trades but master of none.
The 360 controller gets my vote, but the Gamecube comes in at a close second :)
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Except global mean wage hardly means anything. There is a difference between income and wealth. The amount of income fails to differentiate between purchasing power at different locations. $20000 dollars in America means poverty whereas in South Sudan it means vast wealth. I bet that those complaining are in the lower bracket of purchasing power parity in their respective country.
FWIW they link Firefox ESR, and October-now is only 2 quarters to migrate a complicated app.

Sucks though, Firefox probably could have make a longer exception for them if it mattered to them.
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I'm sure there is a good critique of that Frey and Osborne paper. Epistemologically, it sounds weird to assign 'probabilities of automation.' I don't have the time to read the paper in detail, but here are a few things:

1. Automation doesn't imply that jobs go away. Classic example, deposits and withdrawals were automated by ATMs. Yet, the number of cashiers increased.

2. Automation by itself is not sufficient. Will we reach a point where it is cheaper to automate a job than hire a person? Think of non-forklift lifting/moving of heavy stuff, we don't really need people doing this manually, robots should be able to do it. But we see with the Boston Dynamics robots that we are many years or decades away from commoditizing lifting robots.

3. 'useless' class already exists. Employment and usefulness aren't necessarily the same. There are many millions of people in jobs that are 'useless' by some metrics (gas station attendant, supermarket cashiers, etc).
Yeah, its a cost thing from what I understand. Sony and Microsoft actually sell their consoles at a loss, they lose money on hardware sales.
I hope they took into account that blind users usually also don't upload avatars.
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Not all of us can delay playing Zelda in 900p@30fps for that long. I mean, if I don’t get it on Friday, I will be pissed. Also, note that there’s the Pro controller, which is better for playing on the TV anyway, so at least in that case, this is a non-issue.
Willful ignorance is endemic in America these days. I'm rather curious what specifically the further left-leaning segment of the population is willfully ignorant of at the moment. Care to share?
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My experience with attending a coding bootcamp was this:
I'd been working as a video producer/editor and photojournalist since the mid-2000's, and slugged it out in a tough-to-advance-in industry. Got to the top of the field, seeing my work on network television and on the front page of newspapers you'd know by name, and picked up two Emmy awards... but I was still freelancing, paying for my own gear, my own health insurance, and spending 80% of my time looking for clients vs 20% of my time doing creative work for them.

I wanted a career change, and I enjoyed/had an aptitude for programming - so I decided to attend Dev Bootcamp (DBC) in NYC. I looked at it as "Well, it's the same price as a semester of college, and the same time commitment - and if I want to invest in another bachelor's degree afterwards, I'll have a solid idea on if I'll enjoy/do well with the curriculum."

DBC was a rigorous academic program and covered a lot of ground, provided that you covered the optional reading materials, and tried to build ambitious projects along the way... there were definitely those among my peers who did the bare minimum, and others who pushed themselves.

Not all 'bootcamp' programs are created equal - I've met developers from other accelerated coding courses who could barely create a user-authenticated blog using gems for all of the functionality... and I've met others who - like myself - jumped into stacks way outside of what we knew, taught ourselves what we needed to know, and can generally find high level and standards-based solutions in the docs on our own.

It was a tough hunt for my first job afterwards. I found that a lot of companies don't understand the difference between what a bootcamper should know vs. what a CS student should know: intermediate execution without knowing the 'why' vs. CS theory without knowing above an entry level of the 'how'. After about 5 months of job hunting, I got hired in the industry.

Presently I'm at a startup, building a client/server application using Elixir/Phoenix for the API, and C++/11 and Qt for a cross platform client. I'm making 33% more than I did at the top of my prior field - and enjoying the heck out of coding... and it just took 8 weeks of my own coding self-teaching, 19 weeks at a bootcamp, and about the same in job hunting/interviewing/reviewing offers afterwards.
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I don't mind the occasional potshot, but if it's not coupled with constructive criticism, I think over time it festers.
If you have experience with Python but not with Ruby, Django might be worth a look as a more batteries-included web framework (and maybe quicker to try out if you like that, since less learning is required).
Lets not generalize here. Outsourcing when done right can be very beneficial to businesses and to the economy overall. Would you say that low wage textile manufacturing should have continued to be in America? A lot of the IT outsourcing is usually for repetitive tasks that people can be trained to do for, and they are, in countries like India. And its not just the unwillingness of the owning class/businesses to retrain workers, the workers are not willing to put in the effort to retrain as well.

> That's because America's not willing to spend any resources on retraining workers or redistributing wealth away from the owning class, so "jobs" are the one thing people absolutely need to stay alive.

I kinda agree with you here, however the alternatives to jobs seem to be some kind of UBI which seems too radical just right now (may change in the future though). Universal medical coverage and higher minimum wage is definitely not as radical.
Did you consider that we would need to have scientists predict that the planet will be devoured by an enormous mutant star goat beforehand (or maybe a gigantic swarm of twelve foot piranha bees),and convince them about that didn't you? ;)
What I described is taken directly from a scenario that happened to me personally while working in a neuro-imaging lab. The lab didn't have any research computing support, neither did their department, neither did their college. The university had an IT department.

The CS department had research computing support, but it was in a totally different college (and about a mile away on campus). In my story, university IT had solutions for the scenario I described.

And really, their computing requirements are far from a "research computing" group. You just need to store 50 TB of data ("I forgot how to count that low?!") and have a single 8 or 16 core computer to do some number crunching. The entire setup could (and did) fit in a half rack in the neuro-imaging lab (which is what they wound up doing).
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Globalization is centralization: finance is centralized in New York and London; manufacturing is centralized in China and Germany; IT outsourcing is centralized in India.

Over the 19th and early 20th century, the benefits of American westward expansion and the development of the industrial Midwest largely accrued to the big banks in New York. The same is occurring, just on a larger scale and accelerated due to leaps in technology.
what happens when human labor (and life) is cheaper than robotic output? storm the castle with a swarm of useless humans, or put your really expensive robot at risk?
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It's a must-have for 3D programming, for working with vectors and matrices. OpenGL's shader language is basically C with (hard coded) operator overloading for this reason.
I've had a ton of pain for a few months (chronic?). It didn't affect my mental state, as far as I know. It did however hurt.
On the other hand, adoption is usually easier in niche markets.
> How is it possible to use PDEs to model boolean circuits?

Be Richard Feynman?
Beyond the fact that there's no employer/employee relationship between Kalanick and the driver, I don't think the specifics of the business partnership they have much matters. Nor does the amount of market power the driver has. The driver has a specific grievance. He might be right or he might be wrong, but he clearly has standing to relate it to Kalanick.

Kalanick's insulting response isn't unethical; it's just a breach of norms. As I said, it shows something about Kalanick's character that I'm confident Uber doesn't want to be broadcasting right now.
I'm rather afraid there is.
> The N64, the GameCube, the Wii and subsequent offerings were all underpowered in terms of graphical abilities and raw power after that.

The N64 was underpowered?
Can't wait to see the home brew being made for this. Especially how the exploit will be fed into the system.
I think you're doing yourself a disservice. I remember coming across your portfolio (and possibly even speaking with your team, I don't recall) when I was looking to get a new logo made for a client. Now, if I'm ever in that situation again, how will you ever convince me to pay market rate for a logo when I know you've been doing them for $2, $4, $6, etc?

In other words, you're lowering the perceived value of your work.
Weirdly enough I find that Firefox works better than Chrome with Hangouts a lot of the time
Charge to hyperlink a URL. Maybe it costs $100 per year to have hyperlinks in your tweets. There are tons of businesses that rely on Twitter for distribution and twitter makes nothing off those businesses. You could still post a URL to a tweet for free, but hyperlinks cost some nominal amount.
> flabbergasted

Not really surprising at all.

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/opioid-lobbying-ph...
Oh for sure - I don't doubt the guy is upset, and clearly something caused that, there just seemed to be some kind of consensus that the actual driver receipts per mile/per minute on Uber Black had gone down given the numbers in the Bloomberg article which seemed to be drawing conclusions.

If the guy had yelled "You are making me accept Uber X fares which is making me make less money" then it would be easy to see where he's coming from if TK pushed back on that - anyways, it's just a technicality but it seems that TK may have actually been correct if all the guy was upset about was the reduction in Uber Black time/distance fees to drivers.
It worked so well for Sega.
DNA computer could outperform fastest supercomputer with fraction of energy
But our telephones would become unsanitary!
They've always been underpowered, that's part of their shtick. Just some generations all of the competitors are underpowered too.
Whether it's for economic gain or for political gain, yes. The UK government is pushing through aggressive legislation to try and get people away from smoking, e.g. the recent ban on branded packaging, smoking in a car with kids is illegal, etc.

See my reference [1]. You can make the economic argument either way, however there is one thing that's almost certain: revenue from smokers is at an upper bound now. Increasing the cost of cigarettes is probably not going to improve tax revenue.

On the pro side for smoking, aside from taxation on cigarettes, manufacture of tobacco products pays salaries which gets fed back into the economy. It's also possible that healthy people actually cost the health service more because instead of dropping dead of emphysema, people live longer and rack up more routine costs over time.