skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's perfectly okay to minimise the time spent checking you email. Moreover, it's quite a waste of time to do it more often than once, maybe twice per day.
However, going into 1-2 times per week sounds already somewhat harder. It's doable once you've built yourself up, but not while you're still growing.
+ Email kinda has become the place at least I'm getting most of my news nowadays - via various newsletters...
I'm the same way. Give me a problem, I'll find a solution or a workaround. Ask me to study for a project or a cert, I'm screwed. I'll forget what I have read and I'll have to start over again. It's quite irritating, changing the study venue doesn't really help me. So.....

Wat do?!?
> but it's hard to see what 20 or 100 CPUs would do for a laptop.

This only if we want to keep the laptop in its current definition: a clunky device requiring lots of cables and holes in the casing, showing flat image at 4K at best and average quality audio, typing every single letter of a every command to get something done. No useful voice recognition/speech synthesis, no gesture tracking etc.

Specialized (sub)systems (media, wireless, smart networking) already use dozens of CPUs. Having generic CPUs to do the same work is not currently justified, mostly because of power and memory consumption. As these will go down, generic CPUs will assume more and more specialized tasks, because they are always easier to program, and probably cheaper to use overall (licenses, software and hardware tooling etc)

Thinking about it, 20 CPUs in a laptop seems like a minimum to me.
The Dell UP3216Q should be good. I had it's predecessor at work which provides 4K at 32". I have poor eye sight so the extra size helped and for photo editing the extra resolution was very welcome.

I can also recommend an Ultrawide. Any of the LG 34" 3440x1440 are great, and almost like having two 27" 256x1440 monitors. I in fact went from three Apple 27" displays to just one ultrawide on my home setup with no regrets.

The lack of cable clutter and smaller desk foot print was very welcome.

If you really need that extra vertical real estate then there is the new LG 38" monster 38UC99 which does 3840x1600. Might be a bit too big but never know - some folk love it and it has USB-C making it a little more future proof.
Take a few days off and then quit your job.

It is a good job market out there and there is no reason should put up with a job that is making you sick.
I've always considered it more of a pragmatic thing. Execs don't change all that often, some roles need to be there (sales, press, service).

But in a growing company above a certain size keeping such a page up to date can be a pain.
Amazon.com controversies
Now that is a thing I haven't heard since my grandpa was still alive.
Have you seen the subbreddit for "Antarctic Anomalies"? https://www.reddit.com/r/AntarcticAnomalies/

I find stories and myths around Antarctica fascinating. It's one of the last places on Earth humans haven't turned every rock.
> He's a doctor too, so he's probably already making enough money.

Why do you assume that?

I get the reason for the stereotype that doctors are well-remunerated, but, real talk, the compensation varies immensely, especially for nonspecialist solo/family practitioners. They bill what strikes the rest of us as a lot, but also face very high expenses, particularly as they relate to liaising with insurance and beating claims out of them, but also malpractice insurance and staffing. And in low-income areas where they're stuck with Medicaid claims, well, that's not a good living.

This generalisation makes as much sense as saying that software developers make good money. Yeah, Full Stack JavaScript Ninja RockStars at VC-funded Silicon Valley companies do. Elsewhere in the country, there are a lot of financial services sweatshops and ordinary small businesses. I know lots of rather talented software and systems people with salaries in the $30k-$50k range as they work for some middle-of-nowhere county government, ordinary third-tier midsize municipality, urban school district, or soft drink distributor or whatever, and those are just the pay scales. About the only thing you can say is that they tend to be better paid than the general population as a whole.

Doctors work the same way, within their own sliding scale. There are lots of small-town solo practices that hardly make any money and at best yield a very ordinary salary for the doctor. Not enough for business class.

Lawyers are another good example. The lawyers we see do corporate litigation and make more money than god. But in the real world, there are lots of burnt out, woefully overworked public defenders who are paid beans. There are lots of associates at small to midsize firms who must endure a hazing ritual of 80 hour weeks and slightly-better-than-paralegal pay for ten years before they can move up. There are lots of mind-numbing in-house counsel type jobs for surplus law school graduates; reviewing vendor contracts in the dimly lit warehouse office annex of a fast food chain doesn't pay much. I personally know a lawyer who tried for ten years to get by as a solo family and bankruptcy attorney, and in the end found it too hard to survive. He wasn't a bad lawyer, it was just a time/place/demographic/market situation. He became a bus driver; he loves the superior steady pay and benefits.

So, it all depends.
I don't think you can 'translate' animal languages.

There is nothing to translate, basically.

We can get a good grip of the meaning of their sounds though, if we spend some time listening, but there is no deeper meaning hidden that we can not access.
I have found the recovery indication in the Garmin Forerunner 620 useless. I'm not sure it even really looks at HRV. As far as I can tell, it only looks at the intensity of the previous workouts. Case in point: if you do a workout without heart rate sensor, it won't tell you how 'recovered' you are at the beginning of your next workout.
Interesting with the Ryzen parts coming to market as well.

I'm in the market for a new developer desktop and if it shakes out the way it's looking an 8 core/16 thread Ryzen is hitting the price/perf sweetspot.
thats genuinely impressive...
Panasonic S25-S607 did the job for me. It was big, but a great, well built computer. It lasted more than ten years too. It had screws. It was repairable.

Plus, I did more with that computer than my constantly changing upgrading Macs. I am so tired of devices/programs not working; I am tempted to wipe my MacBook Pro clean, and only installing Linux.
Those tunnels the U.S is bombing in Afghanistan? They were built by the CIA
I have the Garmin Forerunner 620, and I will buy a cheaper model next time. I have found the recovery indication useless (see comment above).
Programmable bank account for software developers
I thought vscode used delve to do go debugging. Also, the vim-go plugin has a lot more useful features than the vscode one
Well LA is a county, as well as a city. Therefore the perceived featurelessness stems from the huge geographic spread. The city of LA does have metropolitan aspects, but this doesn't extend to Santa Monica, Compton, East LA, etc.
Passive voice is a key element: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_were_made
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Getting started with UNO
>Even for highly parallel workloads like ray tracing, the performance increase levels off at about 20 times. “No matter how many processors I apply, ray tracing ain’t going to go any faster than 20 times faster,”

What? That's just not true. Matrix multiplication is one such embarrassingly parallel workload that can go much faster than 20 times. Ray tracing very probably too.
No you can't. I also think that's a pity, although I don't doubt this policy has its fans.
Maybe every comment is a TODO, as some better, clearer, simpler code wouldn't need comments?
Ask HN: What about the other type of “time machine”?
I'm talking about the type of machine that creates time. For instance, you get into a room and stay there for 30 days. When you get out only 30 min. (for instance) have passed in the real world. Of course, you'd be 30 days minus 30 min. older in the real world.

Any sci-fi stories about this (as far as I know, only [1]) ? Does real science have ever talked about it?

[1]: http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Hyperbolic_Time_Chamber
> I just don't get the real moaning and groaning and trying to make things trivially easy for the students

If colleges treated students with military expectations, they'd stop getting as many applications. The school would paradoxically become less completive over time.

It's why colleges are putting in luxury student dorms and spending millions on activity budgets. The pampering of the American college student is a direct result of universities turning into degree businesses, instead of the halls of mutual development they used to be. Growth and development require sacrifice, paying for a slightly higher number on a transcript does not.
> Modern domesticated dogs are definitely intelligent, especially socially intelligent. They understand words, they look you in the eye to get your attention, they understand their name, they seem to have simple emotions. How fast would they evolve if directed scientifically by humans?

The crazy thing about birds, parrots especially, is that they do all that without humans directing it.

I have a bird at home. The biggest difference I've noticed between having a bird and having a dog or a cat is that birds have moods. Dog/cat emotions always seem to directly correspond to what is happening right now.

Bird emotions seem to correspond to whatever has been happening for a while. Like, if you upset the bird in the morning, he acts towards you with resentment 12 hours later when you come home. It's hard to explain, but acting the same way towards my bird definitely produces different results based on his mood.

And he's very adept at getting attention and asking for help. For example, he's used to drinking water from human cups. If he's thirsty and there are no cups around, he's able to communicate that he needs me to go fetch a cup and fill it with water.

When he needs help with getting some food item, he's able to get my attention, then fly away to where he's having trouble, and signal that he needs help. He's even figured out, from observation, how to open some of the drawers in our apartment so that he can get treats.

Currently he's figuring out how to open cage doors. Luckily his main appendage is the beak so while he can open the cage physically, he can't hold the door open while he gets out. So it slams shut (by gravity) when he tries to walk through the opening. Fingers crossed he doesn't figure it out :D

It's really quite fascinating to observe.
I've needed it once in the past 30 years ;-)

Actually, I needed it a couple times before Git was invented, but that doesn't count.
This pre-supposes a team of people who care about technical debt. I remember Eclipse in the early 2000s was already doing this (FIXME, TODO and something else IIRC).

In my experience there are lot of productive programmers who, overall, add value (stuff gets done, it's not a bug-infested disaster) but simply don't care. Might not even have heard the expression technical debt. Might care more about short-term reputation wins from Getting Stuff Done. They aren't going to leave TODOs.
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Manage your code all in vscode with evermonkey and evernote
.pdf creation is a nice little bonus, thanks to decktape.
I think written language is our primary difference. Prehistoric wild humans had spoken language for hundreds of thousands of years, but we didn't have the explosion of "intelligence" until the advent of written language ~5,000 years ago.

Or in more general terms, we have the ability to use our environment as a durable supplemental memory. This is what I would look for in assessing whether another species has the potential for human-like intelligence.
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Yes, I was so happy to learn that AMD is finally pushing 8 cores for mainstream processors, they were too long stuck on 4 cpus. Of course, building software fully using those cpus is the challenge, but thats where Go comes in.
I think addhoc multicellular life could be very comon too
Generalities again.

You can be shy and be confident and aggressive in how you think and live your life.

Some women will be attracted to shy men because they are just less of a hurdle to flirt with.

There are trends those days, maybe due to feminism, where women are taking more initiative in dating. Women are selectors by definition, so if we let them choose, it might be simpler and just better.

Also women can end up hurt and bored by alpha males, and they will end up seeking simpler relationships.
> I don't want to harp on this point, but the birds-are-dinosaurs seems a meaningless semantic classification to me, more about our definitions than reality.

It's a lot more direct than "mammals are a type of reptile".

Particularly because late stage dinosaurs, the theropods, had feathers and generally looked like birds with teeth that can't fly. Some later models could in fact fly.

If you look at this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feathered_dinosaur

You'll see that there is a single step from Velociraptor to Birds.

> The scientific consensus is that birds are a group of theropod dinosaurs that evolved during the Mesozoic Era. A close relationship between birds and dinosaurs was first proposed in the nineteenth century after the discovery of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx in Germany.

It took a lot of steps to go from reptiles to mammals.
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"Embedded firmware updates - especially for M2M devices that are not necessarily user-facing - are sort of like changing the engine of your car while driving down the highway. It's a very tricky thing to get right. Plus if something goes wrong, it's not like you can just SSH into your server or kill that cloud instance and start a new one :)" -- I worked on marking 'embedded firmware installation' process better in a previous job of mine and you described the problems involved perfectly. There was a part of the process in which communicating with the device and attaching debuggers was a major pain and I had to rely on extensive tracing to keep an eye on the process. I personally believe that the better way would be to emulate what NixOS does(https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf). Painless rollbacks and reliable updates would help embedded development a lot and treating the state of the device as immutable is a great way of doing that.
This is very interesting. I thought it was best to keep yr db out of the k8s cluster. But this seems to make Postgres "cloud native".

The main reason for keeping dbs out of k8s was that the storage (persistence) solutions in k8s were not up to the task yet. Now I wonder how is Patroni doing persistence? I cannot find anything on it in the Patroni docs. Maybe Patroni is so "self healing" that a proper storage solution is not an issue -- dunno, just guessing here.
It looks like you discard the whole notion of 'energy efficiency' at all?
Is Your Network Performance Monitoring Tool Failing You?
Loved it. :)
New Shadow Brokers leak
Yeah, there needs to be at least an RSS feed. An email subscription is just going to get lost in my inbox and otherwise I'm never going to see when new issues come out. Once there's an RSS feed, there are a variety of services which will read the feed and send it to a Kindle.
Or a strong incentive to vertically integrate electricity production. I believe Google have done this in some form to secure and reduce cost of datacenter energy.
Filing Taxes in Japan Is a Breeze. Why Not in the US?
How to Create the Perfect Shopping Cart Checkout
Silver bullets often fail in the world technology. Especially when Chrome has taken up such a huge market share. There might not be any Mozilla if they don't ship it fast enough.
> A bit like the weekend warriors who buy $4000 carbon fiber racing bikes to shave of a couple of kilos, which, unless you're competing, is a complete waste of money.

Heh, As a cyclist I see that a lot, I ride a Carbon Felt Z6 2012 which cost me £768 new (about half what it cost originally here) when the 2013's came out.

I regulary ride with people who spent 5-8 times that on their bikes and go on about the weight savings (for reference my bike is often the same weight or at most 1/2lbs heavier), when I got the bike I was 245lbs, these days I'm 185lbs, the people with the 5 grand bikes are often a stone or two overweight...in terms of RoI skipping the cake would have been the way for them to go ;).
Some of the electricity is also done by gas.
Dunno but to me "working the fields" is more meaningful then being the marketing dude for some shitty consumer brands that cause more harm then good to the general population (yet because of the amazing marketing apparatus sell like hot cakes).

Now if only the wage gap between the two jobs was not that big, I think many more people would realize this and be willing to do the hard labour of working the fields.
If you're interested in this topic, two other books on the same subject from very different angles:

Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1566635055

Eichman in Jerusalam by Hannah Arendt https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0143039881/
Interesting that the author highlights CodeClimate's "support" of TODO comments via the FixMe engine.

The problem is that the TODOs get flagged as failures in the context of a pull request and require a manual override. The overall attitude in the tooling is TODOs as a code smell or problem vs. a solution.

Maybe this is not a big deal (since you can interpret the information however you choose) but it creates cultural resistance to embracing TODOs. We've recently started dabbling with TODOs again on my team but I still haven't overcome a bit of guilt I feel, like maybe "I'm doing it wrong" -- even though I think TODOs are a perfect fit for highlighting small tidbits of technical debt as the author describes here.
That's a different topic. Enjoyment. We were talking about health.
Richard Posner: “The Real Corruption Is the Ownership of Congress by the Rich”
> I bought my last desktop in 2010 and I can't imagine buying another one.

I still do 95% of my development on a desktop, I just can't see ever not doing that, I'm older now and a good desk, good chair, 3 big screens takes up enough space that a tower isn't taking up much more space.

That and I can put hardware into a PC for half the price of a Macbook Pro that will absolute annihilate the laptop on performance.

Portability and power efficiency does impose a constraint.

For me the trade off of having two machines is worth it rather than having one machine that is permanently hobbled by been designed for a use case I rarely use makes no sense.
Mind elaborating what problems are you facing now?
Online, where many people shed all their inhibitors, we can see the social value of shyness pretty well.
A Note on IoT Data Sets and Processing – Earth Notes
"Masculinity is defined by..."
Masculinity is not always prefered, at least not as the stongest trait in a person.

Shyness to me signals curiosity, a person with a healthy dose of undecisiveness, someone still learning. It's attractive to be in a learning or growing phase.

Me, personally, when it comes to women, I like them medium-shy.
I have a Vostro 3750 I don't want to replace as it has a 17" screen (though only 1600x900) and a full sized keyboard (with numpad).

If they gave me a modern version at 3200x1800 with a decent i5 I'd be buying another.
The last line was added to the movie, basically as an anti-Cold War statement. I find it unsubtle and clichéd.
Swift University opens course for writing Android apps in Apple’s language
Playing “Type Tetris”
That's assuming intelligent life always builds an industrial civilization...
10 ‘Harmless’ Habits to Drop If You Want to Be Successful
>Yes but a decade+ ago, they weren't a replacement for a desktop, so you ended up having both. Now even mid end laptops (or "low end" Macs) are totally feasible as replacements.

You obviously don't play video games, do CAD or video stuff or develop and compile large software. My desktop is never replaced by my laptop.
Does the Khan Academy know how to teach? (2012 – but has anything changed?)
He has every right to remove a passenger who is causing a disturbance or presenting a threat.

He doesn't have the right to because the airline wanted them off in breach of the contract of sale and the guy said "yeah no".

Refusing peacefully to go along with the fiction the airline has created isn't causing a disturbance. You can't force someone in to a "disturbance" state if they're just sitting there。
Show HN: VHDL pseudo random number tutorial
Six chapter tutorial - Pseudo random number generation with VHDL, Vivado and Matlab:

1. Initial LFSR code

2. LFSR testbench

3. Upgrading the LFSR code (using symbolic constants, etc.)

4. Exporting the VHDL simulation data to files

5. Checking the data with Matlab algorithms

6. Analyzing the output data with Matlab (FFT)

http://fpgasite.blogspot.co.il/2017/04/pseudo-random-generator-tutorial.html
He was talking about intelligent species.
This whole recommendations thing is a battle ground for corporate interests. It is better to do your own research (find doctors that argue in favour and against) and weight the evidence yourself.

> Full disclosure: grew up on a dairy farm. Like milk. Might be biased.

Dunno if yr biased. Only after to gather enough info and are ready to pass a judgment by yourself, then bias might show. Currently I expect your are merely uninformed. Some of the bigger "abandon milk" doctors grew up on dairy farms themselves.

And enjoyment is different story from health-impact. Some claim to enjoy smoking :)
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By that stage, you will probably have enough experience to do consulting.
Play as the bad guy in these AAA games
Interfacing D with C and Fortran
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/...
http://www.businessinsider.com/estonia-efficient-tax-filing-...
Success Is All About Luck
I am not really sure Patroni has anything to do with the persistence of data. It just uses etcd, zookeper or consul to elect a master in case of a failover and uses their key value store to save the information about the current master. Its upto you whether you keep your database on a container or not. And how the data is managed by the container.
This talk by Josh Berkus explains how Patroni works pretty well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH9WSEiMsAw
offtopic: Is this a new thing? Double clicked a word to try and select it, and the text changes size. Windows 10, Firefox.

Up there with "smooth scrolling", "clipboard hijack" and making me type something in the browser console so I can use javascript. Annoying.
Who will remember you in 100 years?
> Zero chance everyone starts wearing VR headsets for office work

I'd say unlikely not zero, the assumption that everyone is going to strap on an occulus for work is close to zero but if VR finally takes off the 4th or 5th generation systems will be smaller, lighter, cheaper and better that is just the way things seem to go.

I'm old enough to remember when lugging a mobile around was seen as something that made you a bit of a twat because they where huge, clunky, only worked intermittent, expensive and had terrible range.

Now I have a £200 quid phone from 3 years ago (Nexus 4) that is none of those things.

I actually think the first thing we'll see in workplaces is the first none-sucky AR systems, there are a hell of a lot of use cases when you combine them with things like facial recognition.

Receptionists, doctors, pretty much any role that deals with the public.

If they could display decent high quality text and graphics they'd be excellent educational and maintenance tools, back when I worked as an electrician I would have loved to have been able to pull building wiring plans while working on things.