skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently picked up one of these as well.

Regarding the fans, highly recommend using an overclocking tool to undervolt the CPU and iGPU -- reduced temp under load for me by nearly 15C, runs stable with cpu at -130mV. Stops the fans from turning on as often or running as aggressively.

I too was unlucky in receiving a Toshiba as the vendor of my 1TB SSD. There is a reddit thread out there about switching from Intel RST to AHCI with OCZ drivers -- this improved my random write performance significantly.

The most annoying part of the system to me is the "coil whine" coming from the internal DC/DC converters. Lots of different pitch and erratic high frequency noises come from the laptop. My colleagues can confirm that my ears are not particularly sensitive to high frequency noise but this laptop is very audible. Just do not feel like it should have this kind of defect on such a high end machine.
Would you be able to send me an invitation to signup to lobste.rs please? mail at-symbol therobotking dotcom
What I'm suggesting is that if big business and mass media can can effectively control the population, it doesn't matter if they have to control 500 or 500,000,000.

I'm not suggesting we wait for elected representatives to get better, a more direct form of democracy would be preferable, but there needs to be a shift in the way we engage with information and debate before that will make a positive difference. In other words, the priority should be sorting out the news media first.
After China’s crackdown, now Russia is banning VPNs too
The risk of injury or death while installing solar may be greater than nuclear by the numbers, but if a guy falls off his roof installing a solar panel it doesn't poison the land around him for hundreds of years
Good point. Here is why I don't see that as a problem.

1. Things are democratic overall. You tend to follow people that share things that you like. You see what they post AND what they "upvote". Whenever someone votes on something, it also shares to their followers. Combined with some weighting on how popular a post is, and how recently it has been touched by someone else, this effectively means that you get a list of posts relevant to your interests, sorted by popularity. Any one person leaving would have negligible impact on your feed's content.

2. You also follow topic tags.
The 50-move rule was extended for certain types of endgames, but then it was felt that keeping a list of exceptions like that was kind of silly, and they reverted back to the 50-move rule in all situations.
Check out NuScale if you want to see what a modern nuclear company is trying to achieve.
It turns out people want something to remember the sports season they participated in even if they didn't win. What a tragedy this is for the world.
It has been true multiple times throughout history. Every time some negative feedback kicks in changing the rules of the game enough for a certain balance to exist. If anything, it seems this balance tends to improve every time -although it might be too early to tell. However it does seem to me that the difference in power among humans (no matter how power is defined) is never big enough to make "other human interests" irrelevant.
They provide a 15" Precision developer edition which is the same form-factor as the XPS and better specs.
You can get a 1080 TI fo $709:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1332743-REG/asus_turb...
LOL at how a chunk of the comments ended up being the author or this and an author of Diesel for Rust discussing cool capabilities of Diesel.

Personally, I prefer my ORM/query builders to be more structures and adhere to the parent language more, with sane escape hatches for small bits of raw SQL as needed. This does look like it would be cool for a project that took the inline SQL or SQL phrasebook approach that wants to add a bit of structure, as it might be easier to put this in place over that?
I don't think the site lacks intellectuals. I think it isn't brimming with them. And I also disagree that it's more intellectual than most other forums. Some, perhaps. Generally though HN tends to think too highly of its own intelligence and the intellectual qualities of the conversations.
It doesn't help that devs try to run the database on a t2.small instance with the smallest hard drive possible.
Wait, we're sharing an article that quotes "Psychology Today"? Can we get Breitbart's take, too? What does InfoWars think?

So, let's take a look at the abstract of the actual study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27504935

And, as it turns out, not a word on young people there. The entire study is on a conceptual model of entitlement, and how it leads to disappointment. Maybe the actual study (paywalled) actually does break things down by age, but it certainly doesn't seem to be a major focus.
That ignores another factor- we've been decommissioning nuclear and replacing it with natural gas & coal capacity while we wait for the eventual renewable ramp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Calder_Hall_nuclear...

Early commercial nuclear reactors, here the British Calder Hall Power Station, were producing plutionium and electricity.
Thanks for sharing, and glad things are going well.

I would say, though, regardless of age you should get it checked out. (not just if you're 40+)

I was diagnosed with stomach cancer aged 33, which is highly abnormal, but... it happened.

(finish up my chemo/surgery/chemo+radio this friday... whoop!)
Europe? You need to be more specific than that. I find it hard to believe what you say and I live in eastern europe (Romania). I don't have any problem paying with cards here. It's an actual european law that asks the merchants to accept credit cards.
There was nothing Gates or Jobs did that I and many others I personally knew couldn't have done at the same time. We had the knowledge to do it. We were just unaware of the possibilities, and lacked the nerve. Opportunity stared us in the face and we were blind.

None of us were wealthy or privileged.
I stopped using digg as soon as digg.com/videos stopped working.
Wow it really seems to work better. But sometimes I would like to see several results.
No, it is not.

Area of Oregon: 254,806 km2

Area of UK: 242,495 km2

Area of Texas: 696,241 km2

Area of France: 643,801 km2

Area of Alaska: 1,717,856 km2

Area of Western Europe: depends on which definition you use. But smaller than Alaska by most.

"Europe is also much more densely populated."

Yes, it is. It is smaller and more densely populated, which means that rail transportation makes sense (note that you also see rail transportation in the more densely populated regions of the United States, such as the BosWash Corridor, Chicagoland, etc.)
HN in general will tolerate dissent, if you can provide good argumentation.

Sure there's groupthink in HN as in any other forum, but HN is more open to different ideas than any other forum that I have known since the days of Usenet in late 1980s.
The coolest things you can make with Apple's ARKit
This sounds awful.

Time to startup a competitor kills reddit the same way they killed digg?
"Today's smartphones are yet another instance of this: they're slow, bloated, and spyware-infested, yet people love them."

Slow compared to what? Both making phone call and sending text message are as fast as dumb phones used to be. The other functions like browsing or playing does not have much to compare to. Maybe some PDA somewhere is faster, but I cant make calls with it so it is irrelevant.

Customers don't care about bloat, unless it interferes with them somehow. Nor have reason to care about it. Bloat is just functions they do not use nor care about.

There is some theoretical network effect in place when it comes to phones. Even if you would make great linux or whatever phone, if I could not run my android games on it I would not want it. However, linux phone I have seen was neither fast nor impressive, so it does not really matter.
They respond to the environment the previous generation created for them and now people are surprised?
You are right, there is pretty much nothing in biology that is. Humans are no exception, but until recently it was not a big problem because we did not have the power to significantly damage the climate and the biosphere (though the megafauna would probably disagree).

Fossil fuel powered technology has changed that, but we are psychologically and socially ill-equipped to deal with its transformative power.
If I understand correctly, this research shows that young people are more entitled than older people. It does not show that young people now are more entitled than young people in previous decades: that a 50-year-old was as entitled when he or she was 25.

This gives me a great excuse to trot out my favorite collection of headlines and quotes:

Young people: the “latter-day cult of individualism; the worship of the brazen calf of the Self.” (1907)

Young people: those for whom “the phrase to make a living could have absolutely no meaning”. (1968)

The “Me Decade”. (Baby boomers in the ’70s)

The Now Generation? Slackers? (Generation X)

The Not-Me Generation? (1980)

The Video Generation of “preening narcissists who have to document every banal moment with their cutting-edge communications technology”. (1985)

The “entitlement” of Millennials is the same entitlement that plagued their fathers and grandfathers. It's young people in the workforce. Some are idiots, some are limited by idiot managers. Everyone wants more responsibility, and no one wants to wait and get there.
While I would love this and ultimately believe it would be the best route for Reddit, there is just too much advertising potential for people to not want to throw money at it.

The "reddit hug of death" is a term that was coined because of how much traffic a front page hit could deliver - to the point where it crashed the server or over-exceeded bandwidth capacity for sites.

The issue is that I don't see a lot of potential where investing money into Reddit that helps the users, only the advertisers, which makes their announcements seem extremely patronizing as they try to convince Reddit users why it is better for them.
Yeah I know I'll be on vacation for a long while!
Breeder reactors are ridiculously dangerous. There's a good reason nobody uses them except for weapons-grade material generation.

They're also a major weapon proliferation problem, since it's easy to use them to generate weapons-grade material. Are you planning to build one in Libya anytime soon?
If we are getting semantic, the "feel" part seems to be intrinsic to the definition of entitled:

"adjective: entitled

believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment."
You underestimate the power of propaganda. It's what made people like radioactive materials half a century ago [1] and what makes them fear nuclear power now.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=radium+water+filter+ads+from...
Isn't Voat where The_Donald threatened to go when they finally got slapped around for their antics?
Thought experiment:

Enfranchise every individual with the sole right to all data about themselves.

Transmutes every privacy and identity issue into a property rights issue.
Seriously cool. Great work. I did get a glitch every now and then in the rendered output (say 1 out of 5 times) using Safari 10.1.2, MBP touchbar 2016 15", Radeon Pro 460 4096 MB.
Really cool demo. How does this compare to https://github.com/transcranial/keras-js ? Do the authors have a licence in mind?
My favorite bit is, the first customer & funding grant of the transistor was for a particular application that needed something far more resilient to vibration, temperature, etc than vacuum tubes - ICBM's.
Have you tried this mod?

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/84005-1...

It was a game changer for me, and really made interplanetary transfers "click"
Am I the only one who believes the title "AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software for Vega: Crimson ReLive Edition Vega Pro" doesn't really roll off the tongue?
Nevertheless, perl is pretty much not used anymore, except for small scripts. Java still happily lives on server and inside larger projects, where the hell I would not wanted to use something like perl.
That was more or less a prototype. No one uses power reactors to produce plutonium. It just isn't done.
> Amazingly, much of the free press in the US have made themselves a liability to society by obfuscating what is truth and what is fiction without giving a second thought as to how detrimental it is to the country. Think Alex Jones and Fox News types.

And the climate nowadays is better than it ever has been for outlets like Infowars. Alex Jones is supported by the president of the United States. Yet it's problematic for people who write well-substantiated, honest pieces on powerful entertainment celebrities like R. Kelly.

The Gawker case did absolutely nothing to hold Infowars to account. It instead had the effect of demonstrating that it can be dangerous to write negative things about entertainment celebrities with deep pockets. Needless to say, with the president of the United States being who he is, it's hard to argue that that particular outcome is a societal benefit.
Could you expound on your question?
Where is the repo?
If it ain't broke don't fix it.

What 'broke' looks like for a business like Reddit is a question about generating revenue rather than design (though the two things are intrinsically linked). If the company can't make money with the current design then it has to change.
When I bought my first PC, there was IBM PC-DOS and IBM CPM/86 at the store. DOS was $40, CPM/86 was $180 (if I recall correctly). I (and everyone else) bought DOS for that reason.

Data I/O, the company I worked at, bought a few copies of CPM/86 and we tried it out. There were a few people who liked it, but most preferred DOS. Nobody could explain to me any reason to prefer CPM/86 - technical, practical, or price.

CPM/86 had a shot. IBM sold both. CPM/86 lost fair and square.
> That being said, it is still probably a bad idea to put a power plant in a place which is known to be exposed to tsunami...

...Especially in the country which originated the word tsunami
For machine learning Tensor Cores in the upcoming Volta GPUs seem much better idea, delivering 120 TFLOPS. Although the price would be a multiple of 400 USD, for sure.
Any site which requires this type of thing to signup sounds like one I don't want to be a part of. Seems like a recipe for a hive mind.
Veeam Backup & Replication for all VMs, first of the year, first day of the month, last 7 days. Storage on dedicated server with 6TB RAID 5, some replicas on NAS in other building.

For restoration tests, the best way : yourself.
Yep, that was the one.
Did you customize the Leaflet marker clusters or create your own? Great design
Ask HN: How do you get into supercomputer programming?
Are there specific techniques you need to learn if you want to write code meant to be run on a supercomputer?

Are the optimizations, if they exist, domain specific?

Is supercomputer programming even a field in itself? If I have a research team and we want to run a simulation, can researchers on the team who know how to program just write the code or do you need specialists?
They ran out of rackspace now they are on real hardware.
https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
Contentless, illogical mince.

GitHub clearly contributes a fair bit to open source - not only their own projects, but the free hosting for open source projects. You have no basis for this accusation, and frankly we are all stupider for having read it.
There's also plenty of DIY distributed issue tracker tools to keep issue tracking inside a git repo (often as yaml+markdown). I'm still surprised a good one hasn't stepped up with direct GitHub issue/project tool integration+sync, but that should certainly be a possibility.
Walking into any discussion with that mindset impacts the conversation. It might still be the right strategy if the CEO is really like that.

For example, it would probably be a bad choice to go into negotiations with an used car salesman without a "Warrior"-like mindset.
http://nirvdrum.com/2017/02/15/truffleruby-on-the-substrate-...
> This site isn't brimming with intellectuals having significant, deep discussions

If you stomp out humour you can pretend it's exactly that.
Well, the way to stop it would be to outlaw it. More difficult and niche/low-visibility issues have been fought and won, over time. Not impossible, though not easy, and you'd be up against a maybe-unprecedented number of lobbying dollars.
FUCK.

The design of reddit is one of their biggest assets. It's perfect for what the site is there to do. You can quickly and easily skim through and look at what's interesting to you. It sets them apart from the garbage design of a majority of sites out there. I don't want facebook, and I don't want digg.

This is really sad to hear.
How does that actually work? GIFs are often made by random anonymous people and then they just spread. Seems like a big task.
This reasoning is really closed minded and nonsensical. I've never seen the literature where people said "they are safe! Nothing could ever happen!". In fact melt downs are in many hollywood movies so I'm not sure how anyone could ever get this narrative.

Also, Chernobyl and Fukushima never "blew up". There are myths that many still believe today that a nuclear power plant can explode like a nuclear bomb (it can't). You seem to be attempting to stroke that fear with your wording whereas what you really mean is "melted down" or "failed".

Regardless, each generation of nuclear power plant is safer than the last. Some of the newest designs require reactions to be explicitly maintained and when that stops or fails it stops the reaction. What you seem to be suggesting is that, because there were past failures that have caused damage to surrounding areas and people, that we should never try to make further progress.
Does she play video games? Download a copy of Human Resource Machine and have her play it. It's basically assembly programming on a Harvard Architecture computer with Single Accumulator.
I sent you the invite.

For some reason I can't reply to am1988 but maybe he's right, I don't know.
That's seems like a very low valuation for a site that heavily trafficked.

What is their average time-on-site statistic I wonder, i'd expect it to be much higher than most other websites.
But most users aren't even logged in.

Customization can help prevent a short-term backlash from the most engaged users, but whatever they choose as the default is what they will live or die by.
This is laughable. It's almost like saying that nuclear weapons are safer than sticks and stones because nuclear weapons have killed less people. Never mind that nuclear weapons have the possibility of making our species extinct.

Likewise for nuclear power accidents.
While I mostly agree with the article's risk assessments, it unfortunately leaves out one major risk factor: Nuclear proliferation. If more and more countries have access to nuclear power plants, then they also have the possibility to divert significant quantities (SQ) [1] of fissile materials towards nuclear weapons.

I cannot find the source right now, but a talk given by non-proliferation experts outlined how accounting for fissile material in a reactor is about 99% accurate. But even 1% of nuclear fuel, on a nuclear-powered-world scale, is equivalent to hundreds of SQs per year, assuming current genration and next-generation reactor technologies.

A nuclear conflict, even if regional (only a few dozen discharges) can potentially have dire, world-wide consequences. The article should have at least touched on those.

[1]: http://nsspi.tamu.edu/nssep/reference/technical-safeguards-t...
Long distance love story and proposal
I was going to quip that reddit has gone full-Digg.
I'd be surprised if they implement a change as jarring as it sounds like they're considering. We'll see though.
Okay I have no idea what you're talking about either, and I've used OS X on a 4K monitor. It scales to a virtual 1920x1080p by default; everything just looks sharper. What did you expect to happen?
No they shifted from Rackspace.
https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
People have been saying this since the very first day comments were enabled on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/17913/reddit_no...
Because "refactoring"/"consolidating workers" in headcount means firing people, and that's pretty cruel to do on a pure cost-cutting basis in a small company :)
As far as I know, they reversed their decision on getting rid of CSS. A bunch of subreddits decided to rebel against it and they changed their mind.

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6auyq9/reddit_is_p...

They're going to work with mods and make sure CSS still works.
> The japanese nuclear industry is famous for their corruption.

Not just the Japanese nuclear industry, Tihange 2/Doel 3 Nuclear Power Stations are sitting right in the middle of Western Europe and they are another catastrophe waiting to happen.

These reactors pressure vessels have serious issues with micro-cracks in their steel and at this point, it's not certain their structural integrity can actually be guaranteed [0].
The solution? Just "regulate" that in the case of emergency cooling the cooling water needs to be pre-heated, so the temperature shock doesn't break the pressure vessel.

Whatever could go wrong with that approach? I guess nobody can imagine a scenario in which the reactor would need massive cooling but the surrounding infrastructure is destroyed and the water can't be pre-heated, what happens then?

Nobody knows and I'd be really surprised if anybody, in a position of responsibility, has even thought that far about this whole mess. It rather feels like they are operating on the principle of "Let's just hope this never happens instead of planning for what we gonna do when it happens and set resources aside".

[0] http://www.fanc.fgov.be/nl/page/doel-3-tihange-2-flaw-indica...
Careful how you phrase that. There are lots of storage options that are viable - batteries, gravity, thermal, compressed air, etc - but none that have become major commercial products or installed on the grid at scale. Yet.

But there is no reason it should be impossible, or even outrageously difficult, to store enough offline energy to make a solar/wind grid viable. And, given modern software's ability to manage an automated pricing market from diverse sources, there's tremendous pressure to do just that.

This is why we're seeing massive active investment in storage products - not just Tesla, but many competitors. And not government funding, but rather venture capital. This is a technically feasible market worth hundreds of billions to whoever gets there firstest with mostest.

So I'm not the least bit concerned. Storage options will happen, and they will happen very quickly.
"AWD technologies should be further developed so that slippery road conditions are not disguised by the improved traction provided by AWD."

AWD provides more traction, and thus more control than 2WD. I have no desire to give that up because some people take more control to mean "I can go faster." You're welcome to come to a different conclusion.
This is happening too frequently now.
Thank you for this! I think SQL is a great language, and I've always wanted to write straight SQL with compiler guarantees, as projects like Esqueleto almost let me do.

For rapid prototyping, I think ORMs are still the best solution. However, their benefits start to diminish when scaling the team and product start becoming priorities. Working /with/ the database becomes a lot more fruitful than trying to wrangle it to your format. After all, web applications are just database skins.
A) you can't

B) Nothing in particular

It's not about the application or any technical concerns. It's purely a business decision - above $25k a month you have room to hire people and still save money, below that you really strictly do not.