skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, like the other posters, I was impressed with your accurate portrayal of Shenzhen.

But I do have to say this comment surprises me even more as many of the expats I've met are either blind to or aren't willing to admit there is white privilege there (and other parts of Asia).

I'm really glad there are people like you as our "ambassadors."
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I don't respect Jeff because of exactly the reasons you point out. He's a smart fella. He's not out of the loop about this shit unless he chooses to be. A fish rots from the head down. Even as a customer of sorts via Amazon Story Writer, I still think Jeff is essentially a Robber Baron in new clothes unless he finds humanity like Gates did and tries to use his war chest for good.
That was not realtime nor collaborative on a single pane. It was a "remix" platform where one user created the initial drawing, then people used it as a base and drew around/over it to change it - in a new picture.

It was quite interesting for a little while.
Where do you think the hydrogen will come from? Electricity is still in the hydrogen production equation.
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unrelated question for any Googlers looking at this, I like how PolyGerrit has an "Old UI" option at the bottom of the page. When I enabled PolyGerrit on my internal gerrit instance that button did not show up, and docs were rather sparse.

Question - is it possible to turn on PolyGerrit with ability to switch back to Old UI in open source gerrit? I found the option to turn on PolyGerrit here[0]

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/repo-discuss/3JjvqB-mK...
In China, it's called an "Egg Pancake"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QSivyUEQIY
Looks like a daisy chain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75XNCMKW7XE
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Even if Apple invests in Toshiba's unit there's no way they're going to use them as a single source. They might give them a guaranteed percent of their NAND orders (especially if they get favorable pricing). It would still be in Apple's interest to shop around.

Also they already design memory controllers. They purchased the Israeli company Anobit in 2012 to do just that [1]. That's why Apple's storage benchmarks on recent products are really good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anobit
But you don't need the grid. Instead of pushing power around via wires you make the hydrogen near the power plant and push hydrogen around. That's the de-electrification, the lack of the extensive grid to move power between source and demand.
I bought my last desktop in 1996. After that, I switched over to using a docked laptop as a replacement in 2000.
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"Merely"? I'd agree completely with your post if it weren't for that word. Makes it sound like being unethical is perfectly acceptable.
City of Quartz, by Mike Davis is a good book on the city's architecture.

It's a young city, relatively speaking, and it grew up with the automobile - leading to the infamous sprawl you see today.

It's a city that's meant to be experienced by car (historically), meaning that many things are primarily accessible by car, to the extent that without a car you were basically of another class, kept out of the various "fortresses" (shopping malls, etc.)

Hence the famous song, "nobody walks in LA."
Curious: were you a direct SVB client? I can recommend them enough, I basically can't imagine a better banking experience unless someone made the tech side of it better. I have heard recently of a lot of folks on HN who are somewhat unhappy with SVB because they're clients through Atlas and those accounts are apparently a bit clunkier and less worked through. Is that the case?
Excellent for both. C1 may have better rewards though I'm not sure, love them for both banking and credit at the moment.
It is definitely not obvious that machines can weld better than humans can. I think a lot of computer tech people would be surprised by how much welding is still done by hand. Most of the welds on a Boeing 787 are done by humans, for example.

I feel like this fits the description in the comment above:

> When I hear claims on how many jobs will be replaced because of deep learning (in contrast to the base rate of the long, steady slope of automation over the last 175 years), it's often about an abstract and simplified notion of the complexities of jobs outside the claimant's area of expertise.
How often you need to load Tesla from 0% to 100%? Everyday?

Current gas infrastructure would also be overwhelmed if everybody filled up from 0% everyday.
Women can be dudes.
And in LED projectors.

The only question is why aren't there chinese made FullHD LED projectors in the cheaper price range?

Maybe as people still buy the 320x200, 800x400 and HD (1280x800) LED projectors. It would take one chinese manufacturer to change the cycle, if he releases a 1920x1080 FullHD LED projector for $300 or less.
> In outdoor lighting they are too bright, and over-illuminate at night, but people use them anyway.

I couldn't disagree more. Not only can you control the lumens to a much finer extent, as more cities retrofit to LEDs, you're seeing better illumination with less distortion and far lower light pollution.

There are striking images[0,2] from the LA Bureau of Streetlighting[1] that have made the rounds at a lot of lighting shows to prove this point, after they conducted the world's largest LED retrofit.

The Bureau got praise from the Dark Skies movement for reducing light pollution while increasing pedestrian safety and lowering energy costs.[1]

You might find a few in Hollywood that are nostalgic for the hazy yellows of sodium, but most photographers are really struck by the improvement, "in nearly every case, better for cinematography."[2]

EDIT - On second read, you seem to be referring to the specific case of neighbors who don't understand how many lumens they need. It is easier to crank them up on LEDs, that's true. But that's really a problem with people installing high-lumens for no reason. They could as well install incandescent spotlights and be equally noxious. LEDs in general have so many upsides, attacking them broadly seems like throwing the baby out to spite your face.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurelmoglen/2017/03/15/eben-ba...

[1] http://bsl.lacity.org/led.html

[2] http://nofilmschool.com/2014/02/why-hollywood-will-never-loo...
I think strip mines wouldn't be too difficult to detect. Some of them are comparable in size to the ancient craters we've discovered. Maybe canals--I don't think there'd be much left, but maybe enough to notice an unnaturally straight depression running for hundreds of miles. I wonder if aqueducts and transport tunnels could survive the ages, in hard rock in a geologically inactive area; but I suppose the entrances would probably be buried in any case.

My personal nerd theory along those lines is there there may have been life on Earth before the giant impact that created the moon. All evidence of any sort of life whatsoever would have been buried under hundreds of miles of magma. It's very unlikely, as the Earth was so young at that point that it might not even have had a solid crust yet, but I find it compelling. :)
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It's partially that, but EUV litho is REALLY hard to make at a low enough resolution.
No it doesn't. It's just a video trying to justify pre-judging others on bullshit ID labels.
You can simulate the users for load testing. Have them random walk from an arbitrary start point, changing a pixel every 10-20 minutes.
The writer of this article put to words something I've noticed constantly about corporate press releases and news articles, but have not been able to articulate with such distinctness. The example further down in the article illustrates this "bureaucratic style" well:

“One Dead in Fremont Officer Involved Shooting”

Officer involved? The wording pretends that the police officer was a prop on the scene or some uninvolved bystander, rather than a real person who did a real thing. Re-write it as, "Police officer shoots and kills someone in Fremont". Much more accurate, but you'd never see a press release like this because it correctly describes the police officer as the starring role rather than as a prop in a situation that just spontaneously happened around him.

Think about this style the next time you read some press release where a company is responding to being accused of bad behavior, you'll see it everywhere: Anything about the company's actions will passive and it will be hard to figure out whether anyone in the company actually did anything: "A situation occurred. Procedures were followed." Conversely, anything about the accuser will be active and impart agency: "She became uncooperative. He yelled and acted threatening." It's a deliberate rhetorical tool, and I'm grateful this article gave it a name and described it so clearly.
It's moderately annoying. I'm particularly miffed that there's no actual way, even with accessories, to use my Apogee Jam or to debug apps while using headphones.
I think a key point that's ignored is that data movement is the new problem. For example, according to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, the cost of moving a 64-bit word 1mm ON CHIP on the 10nm projection is approximately equal to doing a 64-bit FLOP. And the cost of DRAM is outrageous... It's what's holding back exascale and will hold back general purpose compute as well.

Architectures MUST change radically to adapt to this or there can be no progress.
You've got to be kidding. Due to hydrogen embrittlement and fire risk from leaks there's no safe way to push hydrogen around in an underground pipeline network. The closest we can get is distributing natural gas and then converting that to hydrogen near the point of demand, which still requires a lot of electricity.
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A good point and strong advocacy, though @mus, who thought up this particular handiwork and built it from scratch (not all of lipography, just this journalistically-fascinating lipography discussion forum), and also said in this discussion, supra, "this kind of broad situation is hard to fix" and so on, was so bold today as to post "300" in a toot purporting to follow lipographic norms. Ipsa dixit!

But if you say "300" in words and not digits, you would say two words both lacking suitability for that forum. So I ask, possibly oratorically: by what logic is "300" OK if "viz." (or "BRB") isn't?
I didn't realize dropping this bomb or doing nothing were the only possible options, the whole 26 day campaign with two wounded US soldiers they did last year led me to believe there may be more options.

What reason is there for a war of aggression beyond imperialism?
Yup :)

By the way, the all-caps in your message makes your post kind of confusing, and it almost sounds sarcastic? I'm just letting you know in case English isn't your first language. :)
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So, this is common in clothing because, as described above, the purchasing process guarantees the production of many illegitimate copies for every one legitimately branded item of clothing. (Also common: two brands who serve different social classes contract with the same factory to purchase the exact same clothing, then sew different labels onto the identical clothing to create a large difference in retail price.)

I have no reason to believe the supply chain for sunglasses is anything like the supply chain for clothing. But I do have reason to believe that people who think sunglasses are less valuable by virtue of not being Prada are more interested in the brand than in the functionality.

If you want Prada sunglasses because you're The Right Kind Of Person and that kind of person wears Prada, getting genuine-but-discount items isn't really better than getting "fakes". Cheaply purchasing expensive sunglasses fakes a signal that you can afford them, but the fact that you can't will still be instantly apparent to the same people you were hoping to fool.
use of the passive voice to avoid responsibility

No, it's use of the passive voice to more accurately communicate the outcome of a system designed so that nobody has responsibility.

Saying that using passive voice is dishonest and evasive is a special case of shooting the messenger.
This is not just a tiresome sneer, but a myopic one.

Leave aside that interpersonal communication is one of the most fundamental of human needs, and thus any new medium or mechanism that enables people to do that more effectively and enjoyably is valuable.

What matters more is that many of the the technologies that have been developed by companies like Google and Facebook, in order to (sneer) get people to click on more ads, or (sneer) let teenagers share duckfaced, princess-filtered selfies with their friends, have been open-sourced and can now be freely used by researchers working in medicine, climate science, energy, cleantech, particle physics, etc.

I'll bet the medical researchers who are using TensorFlow to improve cancer detection [1], or the CERN researchers who use Cassandra to store and process data gathered in the ATLAS experiment [2], aren't sneering when they see Google and Facebook doing things that make themselves more popular and commercially successful.

[1] https://blog.altoros.com/tensorflow-and-openpower-driving-fa...

[2] https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1432912
There are no jacks in the hearing aid.
Ah, I no longer have the box. Guess I missed that.
Not the OP, but something a bit more open ended and allowing interesting answers (IMHO):

- If you had to design a programming language, what would be some of the decisions you would make?

- (Since he lists things such woodworking, fiction writing, etc.) How has programming influenced your life?

- If you had to write another book, what would it be on?

- What do you think about the general state of interviews (programming related positions) in the industry?

--

Other non-question comment:

- UX/Usability/Readability, layout, font selection of you website is really poor. Please make it easier for the readers (e.g. https://blog.ycombinator.com/chris-slowe-interview)
AI processor speedups will advance faster than Moore's law in the next 2-3 years, mostly due to lower precision (12/8/4 bits instead of 64/32 bits), massive parallelism, and a different programming paradigm. Google's TPU's for example are close to hardwired matrix multiplication. Maybe speedups for traditional scalar-oriented code matters less now.

Intel Lake Crest: "will enable training of neural networks at 100 times the performance on today’s GPUs, said Diane Bryant, executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s data center group"

https://venturebeat.com/2016/11/17/intel-will-test-nervanas-...

Google TPU: "The TPU...used 8-bit integer math...process 92 TOPS" (trillion operations per second)

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/04/05/first-depth-look-goo...

Generally:

http://www.moorinsightsstrategy.com/what-to-expect-in-2017-f...
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>The comparison should be a laptop from 2007.

>Laptops have always been substantially more efficient than desktops.

No, they haven't; not on a MIPS/Watt basis. A laptop-to-desktop comparison is entirely valid. I use a laptop now, and a desktop in the past; I do the same work, and I get better performance out of my modern laptop. I even have dual 24" monitors on the laptop (docking station).

Demanding a comparison between desktops of the mid-2000s and desktops of now is like demanding a comparison between the fuel consumption of a Corvette from the 1980s and one from now, instead of recognizing that I can buy an economy car now that gets better performance than the 1980s Corvette while also getting much better fuel economy. If you're comparing on the basis of performance and capability, you don't need to stay with the same class of device, because capabilities and performance have changed so much over time.
Another answer is to get a coach, who can hopefully step back and see if you're doing more harm than good to yourself, instead of just lone-wolfing it.
I use [1]. Does this work for you? I'm not sure the exact criteria at play.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gerrit-ui-switcher...
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I really don't think so. The current graphic cards are heading torward the same issues Intel is doing. It's getting longer for improvement in GPUs to occur .
Simulating hundreds to thousands of writes per second via post requests will be easy. Simulating 100k simultaneous readers of an eventstream will be much harder. I don't know of any tools which can load test that many readers. Do you have any ideas?
I've got annual checks sitting here somewhere for both me and my wife. They're never huge, since REI sells such expensive stuff, we never spend much. I think both of our checks add up to around $50. Still, it's nothing to sneeze at.
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Ask HN: Can someone explain what “doug1izaerwt3” is?
I found this stub of code on a website:

<script type="text/javascript">
var _kmq = _kmq || [];
var _kmk = _kmk || '<something here>';
function _kms(u){
setTimeout(function(){
var d = document, f = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0],
s = d.createElement('script');
s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true; s.src = u;
f.parentNode.insertBefore(s, f);
}, 1);
}
_kms('//i.kissmetrics.com/i.js');
_kms('//doug1izaerwt3.cloudfront.net/' + _kmk + '.1.js');
</script>

I understand most of it, but not the "doug1izaerwt3" part.

Can someone throw some light on this? TiA.
I'd be really interested to see how many of those 200M users are actually people.

Instagram novelty/celeb/art/bs accounts are all over the place, it's fairly lucrative to push products on the hot trend of the day and the whole platform is pretty spammy.

Snapchat doesn't really have this problem, you don't interact with people you don't know unless you seek them out. There is no easy way to add randoms on snapchat, users tend to be actual users.
Because italicizing words implies emphasis.
What's the reasoning behind this ? Honest question.

I'd like to think if that were true, WikiLeaks would be replaced with a new group that releases more.
"Push" includes transport in tanks ... something that happens today. And if vehicles are going to be running on hydrogen, they are going to be transporting it in tanks too. Just like gas stations today, the hydrogen will be transported from the plant to the stations somehow. That movement of energy, as opposed to pushing electricity over wires, would reduce the need for grids as opposed to electric cars which will increase the need for grids.
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mona.py does that entire exploit in 1 command. It won't work against any supported version of Windows.
I've done some work on intelligent cropping for media assets that pertain to motion picture works -- 9591359 Blohowiak, et al.

Pretty neat field and projects. I think we haven't really seen machine vision reach ubiquity / full deployment yet.
I've been pretty happy with my Garmin Vivoactive HR for cycling -- I too was worried that it would be wildly inaccurate, so I did a few rides with both the Garmin (using its wrist sensor) and my old Polar watch with a chest strap to compare them. They were very close to each other -- both on the bike looking at live readings and later looking at the charts at home.

However, it could see it having less accuracy with an activity with more arm motion, like running. And I have no evidence that my Polar sensor was very accurate itself.
Curious why you would track tech debt separately from other things that drive code changes...new work, defects, etc.

Is this because it allows the devs more control over priority...like putting it in the work queue might result in outsiders deciding priority?
Many companies are paid handsomely to take the blame.
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Living in LA could mean anything from Brentwood or Bel Air (which I'd strongly argue are not bad places to live) to ghettos in South Central. Most people speak in terms of neighborhoods in LA, and most people consider Santa Monica a kind of neighborhood in LA even though it's a separate city.

Like if I say I live in Marina Del Rey and I have a friend in Santa Monica invite me over, it's not a big deal. That's what important. If I live in SF and a friend in San Jose invites me over, I'm like hmmm do I really want to drive an hour..
Thanks for the comment! Which "bullshit ID labels" am I using in this video that you object to?
Almost no one needs to fully recharge a Tesla once per day, in fact that's really bad for the battery. More likely, they'll be doing only a quarter to half-charge every day, on average. Also, Teslas aren't the most efficient EVs around; they're big and high-performance. A Leaf will use less electricity.

People don't need to own land to recharge their EVs; they can just hook up to the grid, just like normal people today don't have solar panels usually and just buy gasoline and electricity. There's tons of room in cities for more solar panels though, on top of roofs, on large commercial buildings, and also over parking lots. Fill up all that wasted space with PV panels and we'll have more electricity than we know what to do with.
The paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a book called 'Wonderful Life' about the Cambrian Explosion, when mutlicellular life really got cranking. Basically at that time the ecological slate was clean, and an enormous diversity of organisms developed very quickly. All the expansion of ecological diversity was lateral--essentially green-field evolutionary innovation.

Over the next hundred million years or so, the evolutionary innovation was mostly in smaller and smaller tweaks on some evolutionary branches, and the extinction of other branches as they were outcompeted. Never again was there the same wide range of innovation and experimentation--except following expansion into new environments (e.g. when organisms moved onto land) and following mass extinction events.

It is really interesting to see how research centers like PARC develop but you're absolutely correct in that it's easier to be creative with a clean slate.

Maybe we shouldn't be trying to emulate or reproduce PARC unless we have found a new clean slate somewhere. Instead we should look to where innovation develops particularly rapidly in spite of an establishment.
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Not compared to oil heat it isn't. Unfortunately, a lot of people are still stuck with oil heat. It sucks; it's horribly expensive.

And heat pump heat works pretty well in a modern home.
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Is it fair to say that kind of people that want to pay for an SFTP client for an automated process probably aren't doing much digging around on stackoverflow?
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"Sutherland's Sketchpad"

Fantastic read, "Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system" ~ https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-574.pdf
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Vertical integration (e.g. designing and fabricating their own hardware components, sourcing their own raw materials) is probably the best investment of Apple's cash reserves.
This is actually more common than you'd think (and keep in mind that the Drivelog is relatively secure, even by non-IOT standards).
Interesting, my sense was we just completed the opposite transition over the last 24 months. A couple years ago it was all about being a unicorn (ie. fundraising) and now it's all about revenue. I guess these things are cyclical though.
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