skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
F1 is the pinnacle of motorsports, it's the most expensive racing series out there and one of the most advanced. Every team builds designs and builds their own cars and has new models for every season and then throughout the season they work hard and spend untold millions and man hours improving the cars.

A lot of the fan base is really engaged in the technology race while others are engaged in the personalities, that is what makes the sport so popular as it has a lot of entertainment to offer outside of what actually happens on the track.
Using high quality modern HDLs helped me to understand how e.g. Verilog should be used more than using Verilog ever did.
OT: Anyone know why a comment in this post went dead in less than 4 minutes? It was pretty substantive and didn't contain anything inflammatory, although the author did say he was using a throwaway.

link to comment (you need enable showdead in settings to read it): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15108272
Austin.

I got a call years ago from a recruiter to go work at Apple Retail Software Engineering, through their contract-to-hire process. I lived and worked in Cupertino for about six months, but it was clear things weren't working out. When the contract ended, I was very relieved that I could move back to Austin.

If they had made me an offer to convert, they would have had to pay me north of $250k/year in order to afford to live anywhere remotely close to the office and make it worthwhile. At that time, rent for a small 1BR apartment was well north of $2k/month, and that is much higher than my monthly mortgage payment here in Austin for a 4BR/3BA house in a very nice neighborhood.
Exactly, which is why the whole thing is stupid and isn't going to happen.

Enviros: You can enjoy longer summers and shorter winters, or you can be poor.

Sane people: Longer summers and shorter winters sounds pretty good to me.
This is what happens without an uncompromising design lead at the helm. One person is probably pushing this feature because it's their baby, and nobody else has enough power to shut it down (though they probably grumble about it).
They did sadly kill off the 11" macbook air shortly after the 12" macbook launched.
I disagree that a comment has to be sourced to be a contribution to the discussion. Whether or not something can be a contribution depends entirely on what people expect from comments. If all I expect is to have a little bit of thought, it doesn't really need to pack on citations, and even a question might suffice.

Which might sound dilletante-ish, but isn't really out of place for anyone reading a pop-sci article on animal cognition during a Saturday evening, on their spare time.

As for downvoting or upvoting, I've never seen any actual evidence that either does anything useful.
Uranus is fine in my mother tongue /p
An interview with Heroku on Postgres
The part of the Gospel of Mark that says one can handle snakes is widely regarded as a later addition. Modern Bibles tend to indicate its dubious status by enclosing it in [[brackets]].
Sure.

However, you are exactly falling victim of the illusion.

When you say "contaminated mushrooms and areas of increased radioactivity", do you have any idea how much damage such radio activity can cause? Is it really that serious at all?

When you say "catastrophe on par with Chernobyl or Fukushima", what exactly is the catastrophe? How can you quantify it? Is there any informed discussion?

Then go back to the point of the article:
Talk to an expert...
Stop acting like a manipulated mindless person...
It is really nice although the humidity is awful. Job opportunities are plentiful and we are within a days Drive of Atlanta, the beach, Louisiville if you like horse races and have many annual events such as the Steeplechase, etc. TPAC is great if you enjoy plays and of course we have the Titans and the Predators if you like sports events. College football is huge here so you can get your fill of football or basketball as well. Downtown is host to weekly music events during the summer and we have a lot of festivals throughout the year and of course we have Fan Fair annually if you like country music. We also have 13 universities/colleges if you are seeking higher education. and you can live in Nashville or in the surrounding counties with anywhere from a 30 minute to one hour commute time if you drive to work during the typical business hours.

Not to sound like an advertisement but it really is a great place to live and work. Cost of living is very reasonable but we do have one of the highest sales tax rates in the nation (just shy of 10%) but our property taxes are very low and again, no state income tax.
"Interesting how in US I always see articles talking about how to find happiness."

One of the things worth remembering sometimes is that technically, what you're seeing is the media culture of a country, not necessarily a country's culture, in articles like this. They are certainly not unrelated to each other, but they are not the same, either.

I've often thought, for instance, that part (not all, but part) of the reason so many of our journalists are down on capitalism is not just political belief, but the specific fact that they are in an industry being actively disrupted by it. Of course they're a bit dour about economic issues, they're not exactly looking ahead to great prospects. I expect there's an ongoing selection process where anybody who has any reasonable chance of getting out mostly already has, so a lot of who is left is precisely the ones who are trapped there.

Are Americans actually obsessed with seeking happiness all the time, or is just our happiness-starved writers? I mean, it's not a topic I hear come up in my casual conversations very often. I know self-help books sell, but there's also a bit of difference between buying one on a whim and scanning it, and obsessing over it.
Most of these skills seem pretty vague. How would you quantify "Judgment and Decision Making" in a generic sense? Seems a bit too context dependant to make that generalisation.

Reaching a basic level of success in employment is way more holistic than these bar charts would indicate.

Statements like this are just silly:

> "A skill like “judgement” could make you highly employable, but be hard to improve, and so offer poor returns per hour spent learning."

How about this for a pretty generic plan:

- Know your trade: Understand whatever system you are using in depth.

- Understand how you create value within the specific business you are in.

- Have an O.K understanding of how your work interacts with others, and be O.K at explaining your understanding to others.

- Try to consistently interact with others in good faith and try to score runs for your project/business/whatever. Subjugate your own ego as much as possible and remain friendly when things get hectic.
Primecoin also ultimately had limited utility. It found the world's largest prime number thousands of times, continually beating it's own record. At some point we had more prime numbers than had mathematical utility.

My unprovable guess is that any other non-sellable problem will ultimately have the same outcome. It's interesting and useful for a bit, but when you have a billion dollars of hardware grinding nonstop for years in a row, you eventually exhaust everything interesting about the original problem and then it's back to the same waste you started with.
Might wanna send that in an email to Jimmy :)
I have a new MBP with touch bar and I am pretty neutral on it. I don't mind the keyboard, but to keep getting the laptops thinner, you have to reduce the travel. It feels fine to me now that I've gotten accustomed to it.

As far as touch screens go, I don't care for them at all. If nothing else, it gets fingerprints all over the screen which distract me to no end.
As much as I think they should backtrack... is there any precedent of Apple backtracking?
I agree about the principles but not about how it happens on the real world. Many front-end jobs now require you to know at least one front-end framework (normally React), which is a totally different and focused problem-solving tool. Before you had jQuery that scaled from small, personal projects to mid-size projects. This worked great as a learning progression, however now you have React (and others) that don't make sense for small projects and are a bit overkill for mid-size projects.

So new developers get thrown in this crazy world where they have to learn a thing that has no real practical use just because they want a job in the field. IMHO, new tools must make things easier for everyone and specially for newcomers, while React seems to make large-scale problems easier but a LOT harder for beginners.

And finding a new job is a problem that we all have from time to time.
What makes it more tedious, the sense that you're meandering around an airport in "dead time"?
We are a Java shop .. there is a long history to the initial decision and the implications. Currently we have about 500,000 lines of code to maintain per developer.

With that said we have worked with developers proficient in other languages. Those experiences have taught us to avoid "religious" arguments about our development environment. We have made the practical decision to hire only those who follow the same religion. Does that make us biased? I guess so!
> So, just to be clear, you want to impose your will on the planet, as a whole.

When it comes to saving countless lives, the economy and in the most extreme of possible outcomes all civilization... YES.
Good catch, re: email in the URL. I'm likely to the blame the sender of the email for including PII in the Google Analytics UTM parameters, which is is a clear violation of GA's terms and best practices [1]. If it's 80000hours.org that sent the email and created the tracking params, then the OP should contact them and hope that they remediate this.

[1] - https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6366371?hl=en
> which many users already like and appreciate.

Really? Who? I haven't heard a single opinion on this that's stronger than lukewarm.
That's interesting because I expected to hate mine but am rather ambivalent towards the touch bar.

I've never had the touch bar malfunction, nor do I find it distracting or too bright at night, even on a lakeside dock in cottage country.

I agree, though, that occasionally I will switch the input language to French due accidentally hitting the the bar. It's too sensitive.

The biggest surprise for me, though, was that I don't miss the physical F keys nor Escape, even a little bit.
We literally did it once. That kind of proves it is feasible.
I just want someone to take another look at ontercooler js, the best CSS and JavaScript is the CSS and JavaScript I don't have to write. Every time we hire someone fresh out of college they ask if we can learn angular and my reply is why do you need it? Because you heard of it? And basically that's the only reason they mentioned it.
Pencils are inadvisable in space due to contamination control considerations. Graphite dust is electrically conductive, and wood fragments can clog filters.
Neither CLaSH nor Chisel do this. You're probably thinking of stuff like SystemC, which attempts to compile C-like imperative code to hardware.

If your language (in the case of CLaSH) or DSL (in the case of Chisel) is designed correctly, there's a clear and direct correspondence between high-level semantic constructs and low-level hardware constructs.

Take a look at Conal Elliot's Lambda-CCC. The semantics of synthesizable hardware and the semantics of lazy lambda calculus are exactly the same in many fundamental ways. There's no fooling or trickery going on. If you understand why your lambda calculus program is divergent, you understand why your circuit is unstable.
I did this for the first time on a personal trip. It cost ~$15 USD for a shower at the airport in Singapore. What a world of a difference it makes.
Sorry, I misread you.
Somewhere Marc Rich is laughing
Urban Dictionary: Chris
Why would they care about any other kind of flop?
It's a big problem for Apple, unless they somehow make touchbar support mandatory in XCode. No-one's going to bother developing the elaborate custom applications for it like Apple did in iMovie if a minority of their customer base will ever see them, and that makes the adoption problem even bigger.
If it wanted to, Visa could "become a crpytocurrency" tomorrow. It could make Visabux and continue working without real changes to infrastructure.

Bitcoin is a payment network with its own currency. Visa is the same thing, but the currency is linked to dollars. It is the most apt comparison.
This goes completely against another recent report that said even electric cars running on coal would still reduce CO2 emissions after about 3.5 years of average use, simply because the internal combustion engine is so woefully inefficient. (With green energy it was 2.5 years.)

I'm afraid I can't find a link to that article right now.
I think it’s a decent machine but I’ve had a few issues.

The power brick is super slippery and I dropped it onto the screen, which shattered immediately as if it was sprung/under constant tension.

The “b” key is intermittent or repeats randomly. There is no dirt under the keys.

The touchbar is flipping useless and I always select the volume slider accidentally rather than mute. The buttons at either end of the slider don’t mean mute or full volume they mean increment and decrement which is clearly wrong.

The screen replacement cost £724 but very very luckily it was within my 90 day accidental damage insurance on my credit card!
They're currently working on a Mac Pro backtrack; moving from this super-powerful tube to something modular like previous Pros
They don't have to sit. I walk and stretch all the time on long flights.
Sort of, they’ve effectively abandoned the trash can Mac Pro and are working on a whole new design: https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives

That’s the only real instance I can think of though!
How I went from customer service executive to junior data engineer
At what velocity a photon moves "in its own reference frame"?
One way to look at it is that balance is fundamentally about stability, not neutrality. Maybe your fulcrum isn't at the center of all possible aspects of your life, and maybe that's not something that needs to be fixed.
In Amsterdam, the city creates an electric car parking spot (with charger) near your house if you get an electric car. This is effectively a private parking spot if you're the only electric car owner in the street, and that's incredibly valuable in a city where parking spots are hard to find.
>As well as looking at income, we rated skills on satisfaction, risk of automation, and breadth of applicability.

Translation: We cooked up data by adding our biases, but since we teamed up with a "data science fellow", thus our findings must scientific!

This is worse than the average feel good pop pscyhology that appears in NYtimes.

Reminds me of this good bit from an EJMR post:

"Any approach that claims to recover the distribution of individual utility parameters from aggregate data based on arbitrary distributional and functional form assumptions is dubious at best,"
We run our RabbitMQ cluster with pause_minority as the partition handling strategy. This should eliminate most message loss on partition, no?
Plants are living organisms. Before we go into any kind of debate that presupposes that plants are "creatures", "sentient" or "feel" anything, you are going to have to provide a whole lot of explaining, backed by the same amount of citations.
Blockchain, as a technology of its own, is not that interesting. Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies around it is what makes everyone excited
At first blush this calculation may seem to placate some concern, but on second thought it's mostly worthless without any discussion of the current dispersal of the waste and it's "potency," i.e. the potential harmful effects of a given quantity.
I personally don't think so. As the author mentions, it's possible (rightly or not) for developers to use some upstream behavior that ends up being classified as a bug. Then what appears as a bugfix actually causes a breakage, which (I believe) is what Semantic Versioning is supposed to help prevent.

I think that's one of the reasons why Packager Versioning can be useful: The packager picks an upstream release, forming the base of the package version (for example, "12.2.2"), and appends an indicator that this is the first release of the package (so now we have "12.2.2-1"). Increasing that last number means updating the packager's changelog with an explanation of which fixes were cherry picked, and what other changes are done.

There's also capability for derivative packagers to add their own information, and for testing/backports packages that are lower-priority than the more "official" ones.

So, although Semantic Versioning is fine, I still like having packager version numbers!
I have long ranted here (check my posting profile) about the touch bar. I really don't want it, desperately. I literally stopped using my MBP without an external keyboard and mouse/trackpad at every practical opportunity.

Worse, the keyboard is fragile. Mine recently had its left arrow key become stiff in one corner. I couldn't do anything to get it to go back to normal nor pry the key cap off to see if a bit of dirt had got underneath. I went to the Genius Bar which told me the keyboard was unrepairable and the only way to fix it was, literally, to replace the entire top case of the computer. He did say they could try something to fix it in the back with some special tools. The first try it was fixed, but the key cap was only half attached. The second try it was basically entirely broken and only worked with extremely hard presses. At this point the Rep said it had to be sent in for repairs. I said try it one more time. This final time it was better but still terrible and worse than when I brought it in. So I took it home, dd'd the disk to another one (use rdisk!) and dropped it off for repair. Well, a few days later I am told I need to pay $99 and use an AppleCare+ incident to fix the broken keyboard that the Genius broke. I spent hours on the phone with Apple explaining what happened. Well, two weeks later I got the laptop back because their system kept saying it's not ready despite being back at the Apple Store four days after drop off. What a total joke.

I hate the new MBP, keyboard and touch bar. Give me a bit more thickness, a regular keyboard, and high repairability.
Payment systems like visa are relatively cheap to operate when being used honestly. There may be overhead when people commit fraud, but to me that seems more prudent than giving honest actors an intentionally inefficient system just to make abuse more difficult.

Since I personally don't worry about centralisation and "trust", I like the idea that a system like the blockchain could be used to revolutionise payments without the need for tin foil hats and proof-of-work.
They removed the dual drive option on the Mac mini. The Mac Pro redesign has also been mentioned. I'm sure there are other (less notable) instances of backtracking that aren't occurring to me at the moment.
The whole world was screaming for a new Apple laptop with better performance. Imagine how many more sales they would have made if Apple had not had the touch bar, kept one legacy USB A port and hdmi port, better battery life, updated specs and priced it lower than the older models. It would have sold even better.
> We are all impressed by your many internet points, but in future please be less of a prima donna.

I guess that's also a compliment of sorts?

I've petitioned the mods to reset my 'karma count' to 0, just to get rid of weird comments like this one.
It's not really clear, but if you read the attached material in their letter, there's kind of three things that stuck out to me:

1. The LCCRUL seems to have contacted NS and complained about Stormfront. A NS representative initially claimed they would not do anything about Stormfront.

2. The LCCRUL seems to have pushed back with the argument that Stormfront was violating NS's own acceptable use policy and NS was not enforcing it.

3. NS's acceptable use policy explicitly states they can do what they did if it is violated.

I'm not a lawyer, but one thing our organization has been told by lawyers (about totally different issues) is that violating your own policies is kind of setting yourself up in a major way for liability in certain situations. I'm not sure what that liability would be in this case, but you could speculate that it might be that NS could get sued for being arbitrary and capricious in enforcing certain acceptable use policies in other situations, or could be held liable for certain things resulting from Stormfront's activities. The general vibe I've gotten is that when it comes to liability, you shouldn't have internal policies you're not willing to enforce completely.

From this perspective, NS's hands might have been tied by the policy they adopted more than anything else.

The seizure part seems to stem naturally from them just following their policy.
There are a number of reasons for the fuel limit.

One is simply that the engine manufacturers want efficiency to be a relevant factor, because it aids in their R&D and marketing efforts. With a fuel limit in place, F1 becomes a showcase for both performance and efficiency.

Another vital reason is to limit speed and cost. Back in the 1980s, F1 was in the midst of a turbocharger-driven arms race. Manufacturers were adding more and more boost, which had a severe impact on both costs and safety. The high levels of boost severely stressed the engines, so teams were replacing the entire engine after a single race. Many teams were using "qualifying special" engines that were built with a lifespan of just five laps. The extra power was creating dangerously high speeds and the effects of turbo lag made the power delivery of these engines very erratic and difficult to control.

Many other racing formulas use a restrictor plate - a metal flange with a hole of a specified diameter that restricts the air intake of the engine, creating a hard limit on maximum power.
Disclaimer: while i'm not a physicist, i happen to date one working for plant security/contamination at Areva.

The claim about 70k tons of nuclear waste being uranium is frankly misleading. The author have to be aware of this, so i will not expand the discussion (because it could give him credit), but please be aware that the main part of nuclear waste is contaminated equipement, so very much not uranium.

In France, we consume several tons a year of screwdrivers hand hammers, and while our yucca montain equivalents are working, this is still a pain in the ass to get rid of this stuff. Maybe someone can explain how John Oliver is wrong, but please don't trust anything this guy write. i don't know much about nuclear waste, but if i am aware of this, there is no way a "specialist" is not.
John Oliver's point--which I will note had absolutely nothing to do with the safety of nuclear sites despite this article going off the path to defend them--is that while we have a strategy to store nuclear waste (with a designated national site for doing so), we haven't actually executed on that plan after many decades. His piece was not "anti-nuclear", and if someone wants to show that his arguments are wrong they also would be flying in the face of the scientists who put together the national plan.

Regardless, this author claims "please talk to a real nuclear scientist" and then provides not a single statement from a nuclear scientist on any topic at all, much less on the topic of "should we execute the national nuclear waste storage plan and how bad is it that we aren't making progress?"... this is essentially "trust this random reporter", and I personally do not think reporters are to be trusted sources with respect to science: that's how we have gotten into so much trouble to begin with :/. To put this another way: this article is, in my mind, even less scientific than John Oliver's skit, so I am flagging it for not being appropriate on this website.