skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough and thanks for the reply!

The frequency argument is an interesting one. This recent survey seems to indicate that travel maps pretty closely (within a percent or three) to population of the area which I wasn't actually expecting (sure, lobbying group doing the research caveat caveat):
http://airlines.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016Survey.pd...

It also looks like there's a pretty significant difference between Midwest and Plains states in terms of numbers - less people, many fewer airports.

I totally get why the stereotype kinda makes sense given a certain view of a large swath of the country (though I've generally found these to be poor guides) but the statement would've worked without the regional or gender modifier :)

This is also a bit raw for me because I JUST flew my kids to Disney haha
Good point. It's worse than email or username.
Same repository, 3 different directories (client, server, shared). This also makes it easy to have shared docs, dockerfiles, and other things needed for the complete setup on any machine.

But you can also just do this with a git submodule for example, or any other method that will physically get you the shared files there.
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I'm not picking on you specifically for this, because many people do it, but you're actually contributing to the problem you're describing. When you make a distinction between "on-line" and "real-world," you reinforce the notion that these things are separate. They aren't.

The notion that anything goes online because it's "not real" or somehow separate from "real" encourages all kinds of reckless behavior. I'm not saying we should all use our real names or anything, just that nothing about the consequences of speech changes by nature of having been transmitted to the Internet.

"Comments can have devastating implications." That's the nut of it. Don't fall for the mirage of the Internet as a separate space, because it isn't. Can you be anonymous? Sure, to varying degrees of success. But the anonymity you might presume isn't guaranteed, just like putting on a mask doesn't make you immune to handcuffs. When you're found, you're found.
This is a false choice. Society would almost certainly benefit from a larger proportion of highly intelligent people, and doubly so if they were also engineered with a genetic predisposition toward cooperation and prosocial behavior.
> Communism includes centralized government control over markets, and pseudo-religions. It falls apart because sane people come to power and realize just how stupid it is.

You mean state-capitalism. Communism is where the people, not the government, own the results of production. An example on a much smaller scale, existing inside a different system, would be workers being given shares in the company that they work.
I don't have any use for Guix, but as language geek it is nice to see Guile being used in production.
This looks like a laptop to me! Having read your comment I imagine I have to reassess. But in my head while watching the video I was evaluating it to replace by old MacBook Pro.
On the same boat, waiting for the sweet spot laptop, of a good enough processor, but still 16GB ram and enough hdd space. Whoever provides the better laptop will get me as their customer, whether Apple or Microsoft. Anyone else has to fight for it hard enough, I am considering Dell for Ubuntu though.
What is the current position of guix Vs mix? Is one clearly more popular? Is one "winning" or is this more of a Debian Vs redhat, where both can continue to exist?
I've worked with clients who were very adamant about the trademark and registered trademark logos overly apparently. Can anyone explain why?
> Give me UBI and I quit my job to settle country side tomorrow, so would my wife. So would a few of my colleagues.

That's one of the problems with UBI. It has a negative impact on productivity which is bad for society.
They'll "give" you a USB-C dongle.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/23/15674254/microsoft-surfac...

> Microsoft is planning to release a dongle that will plug into the new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop devices and provide USB-C support. It’s like any dongle you’d expect, and it simply slots into the Surface connector port on the device. “If you want to charge a device with a Type-C charger, you can. If you want to put data back and forth with a Type-C peripheral, you can,” says Panay.
As someone who has a bunch of SurfaceConnect devices, and still has zero USB Type-C devices but plenty of regular USB accessories...

This product wouldn't be appealing to me if they'd put Type-C on it instead of SurfaceConnect and Type-A.
Ask HN: Good examples of interactive command-line user experience?
What are good examples of interactive TUI/CLI user experience? I'm looking for nice layouts, use of ASCII color, interaction patterns, nicely written help text, etc.
They lowered the prices on the SKUs to compensate.

Honestly, there's no pleasing some people. When the pen was included, everyone was saying, "let me buy a cheaper SKU without the pen; I don't want it!", and now that they've done that everyone is complaining.
Top model has 1TBGB SSD ! That's 1 terabyte gigabyte or zillions of all kinds of bytes :).

Typos aside, hardware looks promising, but Windows...

The only place were I'm ok with Windows is a multi monitor gaming rig.. And that's because there's no other choice.
Was that suboptimality, or just admirals' natural prejudice against small boats? After all PT boats were too small for the least senior captains.

Also it seems that if any USA ally could ever have used some surplus boats, then surely Philippines post-WWII could have... what a waste!
“During my early acting years I was told that to succeed you needed personality, talent and luck in equal measure,” Moore said to the Guardian in 2014. “I contest that. For me it’s been 99% luck. It’s no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.”

Wise words.
Guix is a functional package manager, Flatpak is not. Flatpak is based on the idea of runtimes (a collection of libraries and toolchains). There is no dependency bundling with Guix and there are no "runtimes" against which binaries are deployed.

Guix provides the tools for bit-reproducible builds, which is why it's used in some HPC environments (including the institute where I work).
Hi! waves

Developer with a wife and kids here,

You pick your battles and as you age you determine what's actually a priority to learn as well as developing a system to filter out what's not.

In terms of languages, I made the decision about 5-6 years ago that I was going to stop bothering to look at languages unless they solved a problem that I couldn't solve easily in another language. I tend to refer to these languages as "Flavors of C" since they all basically do the same thing.

At the time I decided that, I already had a good bit of experience with Java, Groovy, Perl, PHP and Ruby. As it turned out, it's been a good filter and the only two languages that I've actually felt the need to learn in the last 5-6 years have been Elixir and Go...and Go was largely because it's getting used at work. Elixir is the only one I've actually dedicated my spare time too and that's because once I dipped my toe in the water I got a little bit obsessed (because it's IMHO, the 42 of programming languages for my use cases).

You generally do the same thing with the devops and peripheral side of things too.

I used to manage my own servers in my spare time to learn, but I just don't have the time to spare for it. I stay on top of things related to my job at work, but in my spare time I just use Heroku because the $7 / month is worth it even though I'm sitting on a lot of digital ocean credit.

In terms of databases, after I went deep on Postgres with one project and realized that it basically addresses every problem I've ever encountered (personally) with a database that I just don't feel any need to learn another unless I get to an extreme niche scaling scenario where it actually might leave something to be desired.

I've entirely avoided the Javascript framework-of-the-week stuff. If I had to choose one to learn, just based purely on observation I'd probably go with React since it seems to be the most stable-ish environment but I'd be lying if I said I didn't see some real appeal from Elm too. You'll notice a pattern that when people keep trying to solve the same problem a different way, that there is probably an underlying issue as a contributing factor. Plus, 99% of web apps just don't need to be SPAs.

You just pick your battles. You stop learning technology in search of a problem and start focussing on technology that actually solves your problems.

Elixir-Phoenix-PostgreSQL is, in my opinion, the 99% solution and when you have a toolset that addresses so many concerns so well, the only time you'll find yourself looking for more solutions is in the gaps.

The fewer gaps, the less you'll feel the need to fill them.
That is exactly what I meant. Like you're probably thinking, my estimate IS an amateurish one, taking into account no business admin/healthcare/etc. But I remember implementing this (as a small part of a project) at a time when I couldn't be bothered to put more than a few hours into any project. At any rate, I can't explain their failure to implement these checks, because they're SO trivial.
And if you read the above statement and think "I certainly do not think that way, that's nuts", keep in mind how many others may read it and think "Well, that's science for you; heartless but honest."

That is my primary issue with this line of research. Clearly it can't be banned or made illegal, but I think it's worth acknowledging that racism and sexism are significant problems and to spend a little time considering how this line of research will make these problems even more intractable.
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Why was "Instagram" removed from the title? It is in the linked article and in the body it's explained that Instagram is the worst of them all, so I would say it's highly relevant for the title.
Any Linux support? I'll buy Microsoft hardware if I can keep my full development environment (Qt creator included)
When? The second time I start typing almost the same thing.

If I anticipate typing the same thing again I'll prefactor and head it off at the past.

If you can get official refactoring time that's great; I've only worked at one place where we had official refactoring time built into our sprints, which can be frustrating.

"How" is impossible to answer in a general way other than restating all the usual refactoring patterns.
Ah I see. But task tracking != project tracking

And this does not necessarily require everything to be done by the developer

Even if the value that can be obtained by this is higher, it seems to me it's cheaper (in general) to have someone track the effort in this specific way than make developers do it. (Also if your developers are unhappy or busy no tax credit can save you)
The overzealous dum dums at https://uidai.gov.in/ should take note. Here's to hoping @ViralBShah will bring this to their notice.
Everyone makes mistakes. This one hurts, but they aren't trying to sweep it under the rug.
I got my dock for about $70. Presumably if you shop around a bit, you can manage to do something similar. I haven't seen a full dock, but I have seen off-brand SurfaceConnect chargers.
At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment and Bias Complaints
I'm interested to see if the claims of ~20ms latency on the pen hold up in reviews. That's less than half of the latency of the Apple Pencil and within spitting distance of the 10ms considered to be the holy grail of imperceptibility. I could never get into pen-based input because the latency drove me nuts, but may have to rethink that.
Lifestyle advertising is not new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Generation.
It's entirely possible you bumped into a group of young girls who've had a busy, interesting and stimulating trip through a cool country and who wanted to stop for a quick coffee and a bit of free wifi. Please don't jump to conclusions and judge people like this.
It started with your money transfers. Now it’s time for chapter 2
Life and the universe don't owe us anything. This concepts of "deserve" comes from some monotheistic religions and it's been called Just World Fallacy.

> I seriously doubt that most people today would feel like someone with a 2nd grade education or even an 8th grade education deserves a job

Thankfully, a large number of people in the world support the idea of feeding the hungry in a way or another.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_cre...

I differ a bit, but the idea that we are shoving only one type of skill set over another is what he touches on. He argues a lot for creativity how it's over looked in modern schooling.

https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_cre...
You grossly underestimate how far we are from "give everyone their own personal most ideal environment". If there's truth to your assertion that intelligence is purely genetic, we won't know until we get there.

The difference between me and someone way back in my family tree who was illiterate is not genetic.
> Strictly speaking, the brain is an organ, but operates more like a muscle, and as such can be trained and improved just like any other organ or muscle in our body.

Ironically, this directly contradicts your point of view, since your maximum physical potential is strongly determined by your genes. Only very few people have the potential to be a Usain Bolt or a Michael Phelps.

> Every single human being has the potential to be an Einstein, so to speak, in my opinion [...]

Well, it seems that your opinion is wrong, then.
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Speaking of HCI killing, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/03/24/f...

> Nonetheless, the official said the incident
> shows that the Air Force and Army have a serious
> training problem that needs to be corrected. "We
> need to know how our equipment works; when the
> battery is changed, it defaults to his own
> location," the official said. "We've got to make
> sure our people understand this."

The solution is almost never, "be more careful."
It's nice to identify genes that have influence, but I wouldn't cal it an "Enormous Success" by any means. Given the following:

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/directors/thomas-insel/blog/2...

It turns out that one genetic variant has caused two different mental illnesses and they still don't know why. The treatment for them is the same though. Of course they are not twins, so there may be other genes in play that may account for the difference in manifestation.

For me the bottom line is that evolution is still hard at work changing the human brain to work the way we need it to in modern times.
I had the same issue.
31 points as of 10 PST. Very interesting. I may do this more in the future and write something about it, I appreciate your help!
It will be interesting to see how many people immediately accept the genetic influences on intelligence when it becomes possible to do something about it.

When safe, effective germline engineering for greater intelligence and health is possible, I predict that it will be embraced as enthusiastically by the majority of society as indoor plumbing was.
One way to raise money is to sell the future product to the people who need it before it is completed. The ability to presell the product validates that the product is something people will pay for because it solves one of their important problems. Even without presales, talking to potential customers initiates a benificial relationship for future sales. It also begins establishing your company's sales culture and practices.

Good luck.
Ask HN: How to prevent losing confidence in the idea few days after starting up
IPFS is an immutable store. You add something to it, and put the resulting hash into a transaction.
So what risks does the architect mentality warn you of regarding giving a large chunk of data to a company?

I'm personally very much in the "I don't mind if they have my data if it helps me find products that I like" camp. More specifically: I want the capabilities these technologies afford me, and if the requirement to use them is I fork over my data, sign me up. Because there isn't an alternative out there that works as well that isn't collecting a lot of data to power that functionality.
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But they're not a new paradigm as they are often stated in 'marketing talk'. Also, what are you referring to by 'tpu'? Google's TPU or nVidia's Tensor processing core? Because AFAIK, there aren't any details about TPU's processing pipeline other than that one paper about data center use.

I realize they are physical parts of the die, which is why I said in my last sentence about how they take up unnecessary die space. Why? Because that die space will be better used for higher precision FP units which will be useful in training, which is more important than inference for most of the people in this thread.
Adding to the sentiment of others, I've been a long time Arq user and grateful for Stefan's openness and honesty.

I imagine most or all of us with that sentiment did not suffer any data loss or rather did not need to do a retrieval and discovered data loss during that time. So much easier for us to write it off as a non issue. Where is if it affected us I imagine we'd all be quite a bit more upset.

Though most people use common alternatives such as Time Machine which every few months runs into data issues and far less transparency. Stefan could have quietly updated with a fix, and waited to see if anyone discovered the issue and then only announced the issue if that occurred. But instead he proactive announced it. So bravo. And I'm sure he will instill new procedures to hopefully avoid that in the future, but of course with any software there is always room for error no matter how much testing you do.
Well...the product GP is criticizing does bill itself, right up top, as "The most versatile laptop."
I miss bytesizematters.com ( http://lea.verou.me/2009/07/bytesize-matters/ ), made by a true dude bro in more innocent times.
One idea I heard was you would just store the IPFS hash address on the Ethereum blockchain, so you can store basically anything in there without blowing up the size.
yeoman is pretty good. It gives the option of interactive or command line. Reasonable use of colour, with some layout formatting. Dynamic options.
If it becomes popular enough, others will enter the market which will drive down costs. I could see Xiaomi creating something similar.
Take a rest my friend. You don't need to stay current on all the new technologies, just to be aware of them. And most of those are basically easier-to-use or more-popular versions of things already existing in the past. The things that are truly new in our discipline, arrive slowly.
> I'm pretty frustrated ... and confused as to how its beneficial to the company to operate this way

It's very likely not a considered strategy; rather the total opposite. Technical managers and by extension teams are, generally, really bad at onboarding.

It's nobody's fault per-se, just an unfortunate artefact of giving people responsibility for something they never trained for, usually without any formal plan, and expecting them to just figure it out on instinct.

Of course, most don't. Some do though, really well, and if you find one you've found a gem! It's unfortunately not the norm. Don't frustrate yourself thinking that it is.
The main map of the game is almost 30GB on its own and is a result of work of hundreds of people - suggesting that limiting ourselves to 4GB on work machines would be "beneficial" is silly.

But hey, we're always hiring!
This is a set of brilliant observations... Humans have always had a social identity around ourselves, formed through memories by others, our appearances and the surroundings we create for ourselves...both for us and for others to see.

Until the digital ages, (cameras, print, now bits), these external representations decayed somewhat organically. With perfect copies, these images persist for others and for ourselves. It makes it harder to escape.

As others noted, yes, we have more potential to escape our self-created representations, but there's also a higher escape velocity.
“ projects involve far more than just the development team; Design, project management, video/photography, client, SEO, etc. ”

This is an excellent point and something we are thinking a lot about. From a design point of you, we need a way to share and maintain multiple design files across a distributed team. This is something we are actively working to solve for ourselves within GitLab.

From a project management point of view, we need to be able to see all the issue the team is working on along with what is in the pipeline. Multiple assignees is just one step in our process to giving users a holistic view to the entire project.
He is probably right, it is the default behaviour in the UK.
You specifically cannot cash out with HKD. The only ActualMoney you can get out of Bitfinex at present is Taiwan NTD to a local account.
Disclaimer: I have been working on Guix since 2014 and use it in production.

Guix and Nix are both implementations of the functional package management idea. Nix has been around for quite a few more years than Guix.

In Guix package expressions are first-class and the DSL is embedded in Guile, a general purpose language, so packaging has a very different feel to it. It also allows for fun tools like "guix graph".

Guix is used in scientific environments (e.g. where I work); I don't know if there are deployments of Nix in HPC environments. I do think that there are more bioinformatics tools packaged for Guix.

Another difference is in how the two projects approach certain problems, such as bootstrapping from binaries. (Guix just got a new Java bootstrap from C.)

There is no rivalry between these projects and members of both projects cooperate in the reproducible builds efforts.
You are missing some aspects of the problem. Whole point behind free-market capitalism, is the creation of property rights and then allowing trade between them.

Fisherman (with potentially outsider) creating a set up a property rights institutions maximise their own profits is exactly what free-market capitalism is all about. Voting in a private club that you can only get into if you fulfil several requirements is NOT DEMOCRACY, only voting.

That's what people like Hayek are talking about things like local knowledge. There is a hole field of economics that try work on these issues, property rights economics, constitutional economics, economics of clubs. There is a subfield called "free-market environmentalism" that tries to use property-right economics to achieve better outcomes for the environment.

The same problem applies to your idea that a captain is a king. The owner of the ship has the power to set up whatever he thinks is the most effective way to get people to fish with the limitation that they have to volunteer to join him.

So the reason free-market capitalist are free-market capitalist is because it allows free people associating with each other create the institutions that solve their problem in the most effective way.

Also I want to point out that none of these things are anti-state, a state can need to provide the legal system that allows for such institutions to be created and needs to enforce the contracts.

Some things that might be of interest:

- Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

- Choosing in Groups: Analytical Politics Revisited

- Free Market Environmentalism
I think most of the replies are solely technical. Sure that is important, but I'd say you need to also spend time with users, customers, management, marketing etc to find out what they want out of the system. Also HR issues - can you hire & fire people? Get money for resources? Bring in new tools?

Its often easy to dig into the code as that is familiar but that probably wont be what you'll be judged on down the track.