skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The name is a joke. The whole purpose of SemiAccurate is to report leaks and rumors and one can never expect such reporting to be fully accurate.
I recently wrote a guide to using headless Chrome with Selenium and Chrome WebDriver [1]. I thought that some people in this thread might find it useful considering that the submitted article doesn't mention Selenium at all.

[1] - https://intoli.com/blog/running-selenium-with-headless-chrom...
^- While cheap toy SoCs like those found in SBCs do (all?) have NEON, which includes hardware acceleration for SHA1/2 and AES, don't assume good performance. A x86 desktop core is faster in software than those SoCs with hardware.

However, the poor I/O capabilities of most/all toy SoCs rule use as a high-bandwidth router out; you can't do Gigabit routing with just one built-in MAC and the other connected to a USB 2.0 port or somesuch.
Ah, that makes sense.

Monowall is kind of poor. The inability to edit comments is particularly annoying.
> Most of the pros I work with in the industry have gone from loving the mac to tolerating the mac.

This is true of myself (UX Designer with 10+ years in the biz pushing code and design) and ALL of the creative types I associate with. I know Apple is something like 90% an iPhone company now, but I'd love to see some long term analysis on the damage they've done to themselves, and even the iPhone, by alienating ALL of the creative content creators of the world. I know I'm painting in broad strokes, but it's hard to overstate the positive mindshare and goodwill Apple used to enjoy in this community. Now they're just the new Microsoft-a necessary annoyance.
Also, note[1] that Apple isn't being stupid here. Their strategy was just wrong (namely expansion via Thunderbolt peripherals and multi-GPU performance). John Gruber suggests this is a bit of an "Oh Shit" moment for Apple, too.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives
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As noted, you'll need the --disable-gpu flag for now. Hopefully that will go away around ~Chrome 60.

See

- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=546953...

- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=695212
Can't you pretty easily bike or even walk from Southie to the Seaport?
I like the Spurs (San Antonio) as a better goal to work towards than the oft-cited A's because ultimately, Oakland didn't win the World Series, and lost in that year to the big spending Yankees. Even though the idea of "Moneyball" has merit in many applications, it always bugged me as a sports fan because Oakland never won any titles with that approach.
It's just a bug :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14240460
The letter "e" is often used as a generic edge name in a graph. Usually "v" is for vertex in that context.
https://wiki.haskell.org/Anonymous_function

https://wiki.haskell.org/Closure
BTS with a memory operand. Now that would be bad. What compiler people learned was to avoid the CISC-iest instructions in favor of RISCy ld/st+registers instructions. What Intel learned was to make RISCy instructions fast. However after translation to uops, the instruction encoding itself just didn't matter.

Also, register renaming helps a LOT; so you don't need a 32 direct registers when 16 registers renamed to 180 internal registers will more than do. Register renaming predates RISC by 15 years (Tomosulo). I'd almost say it's anti-RISC.

BTW, Elbrus + Transmeta are kinda joined at the hip. Babayan consulted at Sun with Ditzel and is now at Intel. Half the Transmeta people went to NVidia (eventually) and did an x86 before switching to ARM (Denver).

Eventually people will see RISC as the provisional idea it is. Register renaming is a Great Idea. Uop translation is a Great Idea. RISC is provisional.
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Hell hath no fury like The New York Times scorned by Hollywood
I think the grumblings are impacting the bottom line, and have penetrated the Cupertino distortion field.

The slightly panicked assertion that "Hey we're working on new Macs for pro users" earlier this year is evidence of that.

Previously the strategy seems to have been to put minimal effort into the Mac line and push it towards a closed kind-of-good-enough commodity platform designed to maximise margins not performance - basically a step up from the iPad range, for people who have an inexplicable legacy interest in real keyboards and bigger screens.

That was a very bad mistake.

It seems to be the case that Cook doesn't understand the pro market, and may even be vaguely hostile to it, for some reason. In fact there doesn't seem to be anyone at senior level cheerleading for professional users, and no reaching out for input from professional communities.

I hope the grumblings have been loud enough to steer management back to reality. If not, we're just going to hold our noses and move back to Windows for professional creative software and Linux for everything else - which might seem like a small immediate loss, but will do massive damage to the Apple brand image.
The grid fins have paint like that, which is why they catch on fire.
Perhaps "Tardigrade" if they wish to continue with the "small thing that will survive"
Any newer Jepsen test since this one: https://jepsen.io/analyses/cockroachdb-beta-20160829

Also, how's the performance nowadays?
Huh. So, if you can express your PNG / PDF rendering in terms of HTML, SVG, Canvas, and WebGL... How much easier, faster, more reliable would it be to use Headless Chrome and --screenshot, rather than other means?
To take it even further, if you plug a USB keyboard into a Android-device, the settings menu will even uncover the ability to select a separate keyboard layout for the physical keyboard.

Deep down Android was clearly built to be a general purposey OS.

Too bad they botched the tablet-story.
Never co-host real applications and user controlled sites on the same root domain. You're just asking for a neverending stream of problems. (This is why everything ends up on googleusercontent.com and friends instead of google.com)
Fraud checking could be really quick and easy. A tag/placard is registered to an individual. If that information were easily available to whoever was going to enforce this (and maybe it already is quickly accessible, I don't know), they would merely need to type in the tag number and see who it is registered to. That person's state ID or driver's license has a photo attached to it and they could easily see if that person is either the driver or a passenger. If the car is parked in a handicap spot and that person isn't present, they can cite for a violation.

So there would not need to be any harassment of people who don't seem disabled. We would continue to assume, as we do today, that the issuance of the tag is valid. We would just be checking that when it is utilized, the person associated with it is actually present.

"After that the state only has to authenticate the doctor's note and issue the placard." - maybe it is that simple. Let's assume it is. But when I renew my driver's via postal mail there is literally nothing that needs to be checked or verified. It's one piece of paper that requires no verifying documents and just gets processed. And it still costs something like $24 in my state. And for vehicle registration the process is nearly identical and yet it costs $56 where I live. You're argument in this regard doesn't hold merit because it is entirely inconsistent, unless you also believe the fees for those should be waived because they are disabled. And please spare me the "aggravating inequality" nonsense. All of that is a product of the entitlement mentality that has become far too common. Most people who are disabled receive a government benefit in some form or another. So the idea that a very, very small portion of the money that is already taken from others and given to the disabled be used to give them another benefit is not insane, especially when it's a voluntary application. Guess what, things and services cost money. Asking someone to shell out a pro-rated amount of 50 cents to a dollar a month to have that placard benefit from funds the taxpayers give them is entirely reasonable.

Yeah, flat fees do mean more to poorer people. But basic consumer protection laws dictate that you are supposed to charge like buyers the same rate. And if the cost of doing whatever costs X, it doesn't magically cost less than X because someone is poor. It still costs X and that money is coming from somewhere. In the end, all you're really arguing for is an additional flat benefit of $25 to be given to anyone who is deemed legally disabled. Whether it gets paid to them first or is absorbed on the back end doesn't mean much, except for perhaps income tax purposes if they received it first so they would have to pay with after tax money (like the rest of us).
How the MP3 Accidentally Destroyed the Music Industry
FB told advertisers it can identify teens feeling 'insecure' and 'worthless'
No SSL. Ouch
I've never seen 80ms in practice and he elides over how (even if true) it would only matter for command line programs as if those are rare, when in fact they are quite common.

Only knowing "java my.jar" means you have zero knowledge about the nature of your language's run-time and having a good understanding of your languages run-time is necessary to write good code. The more complex the run-time of your language, the higher the cognitive load of that language.

His discussion of memory use doesn't mention the pre-allocation of the heap for the JVM. The memory used by the application itself is irrelevant when the JVM is what is actually using the memory.
The Science of Debugging (and Neutrinos)
Are we underestimating the vulnerability of bridges?
True, much of math is relegated to experts. This is _exactly_ the problem. Why do you think so many adults have such little understanding of math and will proudly proclaim that they haven't used algebra or geometry in their adult life?

Yes, there are are some areas of mathematics that are extremely specific and do require experts but a lot of math is useful to people in general and anything we do to make it easier for a new person to learn is something that will help the average person use it and will also make it easier for new people to enter the field.
ARC stands for automatic reference counting, not atomic reference counting, so this criticism doesn't really apply. The LLVM docs say:

> ARC makes no guarantees in the presence of race conditions.

So, it seems they agree with you, to the extent that they agree that full atomic reference counting would be a bad idea for performance optimisation, which is why they don't do it.

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html
A rebuttal: https://blog.plan99.net/is-jigsaw-good-or-is-it-wack-ec634d3...
Personally I just struggled to rename a small github library with < 100 stars because I was concerned it might impact some users or cause some confusion. I can't imagine what it's like renaming a much larger project which is also a brand. I mean hell look over at the Jade projec-- woops I mean the Pug project to see some of the logistical concerns of renaming software.

Why don't they just do what porn companies do, create a professional sounding parent company that can interact with various enterprises while leaving the underlying implementations opaque?
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But, that's leveraging A talent across an entire organization. Why pay for 2-3x for all A players(that are going to piss all over each other anyway) across the entire org when you could with 1/2 hr of help a day use a bunch of B and C players. and save a lot of money.
Having each TLD application owned by a separate LLC allows the otherwise non-transferable application to be transferred if someone wants to buy .coffee from you.
I don't think this is the central thesis of Moneyball. I'm a huge baseball nerd, including on-field and statistical side. The idea behind the WAR (Wins Above Replacement) stat is that you should adjust for context, then evaluate players in that vacuum.

Moneyball was about identifying and exploiting market inefficiencies. It actually rejects the team level optimization ("he's a team player" is explicitly rejected as a valuation of a player).

Instead, Billy Beane identified what components led to team success, then found which of those the market doesn't pay for. Then he got those guys.

Used to be thought that a good baseball team had a speedy leadoff hitter. Teams would play objectively worse players because they thought their style better "fit" their role.

Moneyball was the start of the revolution that you just want to get the best players. Then accept that playoffs don't really mean anything other than randomness with small sample sizes.
"A small but growing collection of studies suggests that spending time in green spaces—gardens, parks, forests—can rejuvenate the mental resources that man-made environments deplete."

Does this explain why it seems all great cities have large walkable parks near their core downtown areas and near any areas considered to be more livable? It isn't the park, per se, but perhaps the ability to find walkable conduits that can be ambled without concern for bodily harm.

When I move to a new place one of the first things I do is locate the longest walkable circuit that does not involve busy intersections where waiting is required.
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The article should have gone further then — as ESPN suffers, so will the NFL, NBA, etc. They're not going to be able to get astronomical payouts for their content. Soon we'll start to see the owners of the teams losing millions.

Ripple-effect can be a bitch.
> Taleb believes that this is true of markets and he may very well have a similar strategy (consistently buy out of the money puts).

im not sure that statement is an accurate description of Taleb's barbell strategy; for one thing it ignores one half of the barbell
Yes. As an example of how we programmers are no different than mathematicians, consider terms like "service" (or "data"), which is pretty much our version of the variable "x". Some of the terms in our jargon get used and reused in so many contexts, it must appear nonsensical to an outsider.
"I used to drive but finally gave it up when my employer changed the way they compensated commuting expenses. Now, I take Boston Express Bus which costs me $315/month. The buses are always over full. There's probably about $100K per month for the Bus Company just in work day commuters."

Most buses hold about, what, 80 people - 80 x $315/month = $25k. How did you get to $100k?

It looks to me like a tough business from a capital perspective - if each bus costs your $300-500k (or you lease them), you'd have them utilized for only 4 hours per day.
Isn't most research funded out of external industry and government grants that also pay into the university (ie grant overhead)?

Given that even most top research universities get by on a fraction of Harvard's endowment—while running largely comparable research programs—it's definitely possible to do without. Harvard obviously does strong research, but not that much stronger than the rest of the top 100 (top 200? 500?) universities. Certainly not 10–50× stronger!

My impression is that what really makes Harvard and other highly endowed universities stand out is their really aggressive financial aid. That's probably one of the things that's almost entirely funded out of the endowment as opposed to external sources or tuition and fees.
yes! coaching helps you become a better team member, and you better understand the need for meshing personalities and having the right blend of specialties, not just stars. in basketball, i like to emphasize passing, moving without the ball, and help-and-recover defense, which are crucial skills to winning, but are often neglected at the expense of individual offensive skills. there are parallel sorts of skills in product development--you don't just need features, but also testing, documentation, visual design, analytics, etc.

i recommend coaching heartily. just don't get overly invested in winning (it's an important goal, but it's not everything).
No, this is not true. The top paid players in professional hockey are almost all high-scoring forwards.

4 of the top 50 highest paid players in the NHL are goalies.
It does happen in practice:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16272
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