skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a poorly-written article with no benchmarks – so I think it might be worth reserving judgement until we have a better idea of how this all plays out.

It will definitely be great for competition if AMD can become more competitive with Intel's latest chips.
> You also haven't answered why you feel this way.

My feelings are irrelevant - they make my points neither more nor less valid.
A new mac Mini with 8GB RAM is 819€ in Germany. A new iPhone 7 32GB is 759€. That's 1578€, or $1880. Add a one-year developer subscription and you're still below $2000. Your claim is just plain wrong.
Even Netflix finally moved over to up/down and they were famous for squeezing every drop out of their previous star based reviews [1]. In theory stars work better, but the issue seems to be everyone has a different ranking system.

For example, Uber seems to think anything but a 5/5 is a failure. I know this so I skew to accommodate, but in my personal ranking system I've only had a couple 5 star rides (someone really going above and beyond).

Up/down with an optional qualifier afterwards (e.g. "why were you unhappy?" after a thumbs down) seems to remove a lot of confusion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize
the article mentioned wall climbing as a prior pursuit, with less of a market.
In a less cynical world, what the government actually needs is the mandate of the people to rule. Therefore protecting their personal interests could be of interest if it was demanded by the people.
As one of the "experts" quoted I agree, but I'll take it as meaning "from someone who knows a little more than me about the subject."
As an expert on silicon and solar, the technology is doomed- here's why:

•It is totally possible, in terms of the physics, to do what they're proposing. All you have to do is take your ingot or boule of FZ or Cz Silicon, draw a vacuum on it, backfill it with hydrogen, and run your ion implantation head over it. Like a Durandal bomb, the upper surface is relatively undisturbed but a cutting effect occurs beneath the surface. Pop, off comes your perfect and thin wafer.

•This idea has been proposed before.

•There's nothing fundamentally wrong with a 3 micron thick silicon wafer. It takes some different processing steps to trap the light, but you can still make a decent solar cell out of it. It's not better than a 400 micron wafer in terms of efficiency, but not much worse. Also, by it being so thin, it's flexible and not so darn brittle. That reduces breakage but also makes handling a little more challenging.

•The idea fails when you consider the economics. First consider the market you're trying to break into- there's a huge glut of silicon wafer manufacturing capacity in the industry. Silicon manufacture is going gang busters, so it's not a commodity that's expensive to begin with. Solyndra bet on silicon prices staying high and that, more than any other reason, is why they failed. This is the same bet with a different topology.

•Bill Nye should perform a little math problem- consider the amount of electricity and hydrogen gas necessary to perform a cleave, 100% efficient, 100% yield, and multiply these quantities by their respective commodity costs. You will end up with a number in excess of the cost of a 500 micron wafer, or perilously close to one.

•I did the math five years ago and it made no sense then, when silicon wafers sold for over twice as much. Just because the existing technology is materially wasteful (it definitely is, generating a lot of kerf and going through a lot of expensive wiresaw blades and polishing processes) doesn't mean that it's economically wasteful.

It's not too late to pivot- I'm sure he'll have no difficulty raising the money in spite of these shortcomings. I'd be more than happy to steer this company in the right direction, contributing IP that actually delivers on these promises. All it takes is an e-mail.
How is someone like that qualified to work as a software engineer? These were things I did when I was 13 on our old family Pentium, not something I would want a production engineer to do.
While using a metaclass is indeed cleaner, it's slower than generating code on the fly and exec-ing it.

This video talks about it: https://youtu.be/sPiWg5jSoZI?t=1h37m18s
Isn't IQ based on a standard deviation? If everyone had an IQ of 120, wouldn't 120 become the new 100?
You are making an invalid comparison here. In your possibly hypothetical example (were the founders of non-euclidean geometry dismissed as cranks by their peers?) your lone post-euclidean would be justified in calling the others wrong for dismissing his mathematics, and also justified in denying their claim that Euclidean geometry was the only geometry, but he would be wrong if he were to say that Euclidean geometry itself was wrong. Wildberger is doing the equivalent of the latter, apparently.

I am sure you understand that being labeled a crank is not evidence of actually having greater insight. Instead of arguing from a dubious analogy of uncertain applicability, you would be much more convincing if you first took the specific objections to Wildberger's position from the article, and refuted them.
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blackblaze has a backup plan now.
Also I use SpiderOak One for my backups. not to bad on the pricing.
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I'm not an audiophile at all but satellite radio sounds worse to me than anything other than AM/FM radio. Spotify over LTE and Bluetooth sounds night-and-day better.
I guess that works, but it's a pretty big departure from the expected API of a normal namedtuple, or any other object-with-constructor, for that matter.
The only real problem with the GATTACA world was that not everyone got the genetic enhancements, creating an underclass. If everyone got the mods, what's the downside?

Well, I guess Jude Law's character couldn't live with the idea of being completely engineered for winning, and still losing. But his problem seems orthogonal to widespread genetic engineering. Everyone has their ambitions thwarted at some point. It has always been a problem humans faced. Hell, maybe even that can be engineered away, by being created with low propensity for self-loathing.
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Clojure is the language I'm most productive in. At the beginning of the year I quit my job to write a book about Clojure [1], do some consulting, and build a developer tool I've been talking about for a few years.

For the tool, I'm using a client/server model, and on the client side latency is a huge concern, so I'm using Java. Java is basically assembler for the JVM, and has extremely predictable performance characteristics. Where performance is a non-issue, or I only care about throughput, I'm using Clojure, because it's much more expressive. I think the tradeoffs of the two languages are very complementary, but also much less extreme than, say, Ruby and C.

I find the inertia of the core implementation of the language annoying, even if it's not a huge problem for most applications. Clojure's immutable data structures were world-class when the language was first released ten years ago, but there have been a number of papers which detail improved approaches since then. I've implemented most or all of them [2], but the chance of getting these back into Clojure is effectively nil. That doesn't affect me (I can just use my own data structures), but it does give me some concern as to where the language will be after another ten years.

[1] http://elementsofclojure.com/

[2] https://github.com/lacuna/bifurcan
I don't think 20% of the budget is capable of being discretionary. If you're really wanting to do so, some government agencies actually accept donations. When I sold my business, I donated to NASA. I couldn't earmark the donation for something like educational outreach as donations have to go into the general fund.
Where is the 'unsafe publication' of String.value that you see? If you can create a 'junk instance' of String, your problem is with String.
Did you read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15098152 from just a few days ago? Not that it should kill your plan, but perhaps it's another thing to take into consideration.
EDIT: I misread your post.
This is our experience as well. On one service with 3 backends, we lost all connections to one at about 0530UTC, then the second at about 1010. The third backend has been able to handle all of our traffic so far, but we're also seeing intermittent connection resets or failed connections.
It also doesn't help when reviews aren't made on the merits of the product. Pretty common on, e.g., Steam:

> DOTA 2 users then had the brilliant idea to do the dumbest thing any fanbase can do to a game, flood Metacritic with bad user reviews. The slew of zeros since the forgotten Diretide has dropped the game's user score about two points to a 4.5.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/11/02/valve-for...
On the other hand if Max Brod had listened to Kafka we wouldn't have The Trial, The Castle, or Amerika along with much of the authors other work.
I hate this stupid argument. Nobody ever marketed me to be into computers - my parents just had one, and I liked it, and wanted to use it. Whenever I saw a computer I wanted to play with it.

Nobody needed to "market" it to me.

Also, it's a shitty argument, because there are a million and one different things that could convince you to not be a part of something. Part of being an adult is learning to sometimes ignore what society expects of you, and also adjust your understanding of what society actually expects of you.

If the thing that stopped you from working in tech is because "there were too many boys" then you probably weren't all that interested in the first place.
This one? https://tinyurl.com/ybkbuma7

Is this the same as the Cheerson Cx-10 that the site recommends?
> Miller acknowledges that shifting work towards automated factories could threaten jobs, but argues that more efficient manufacturing plants will create better jobs for displaced workers.

How exactly?
It's a good lesson for me really - I should have just said "unrelated" or something.

(Also, whoever down voted you for admitting you were wrong should rethink what they are doing)
"Agile" should have stopped at the Agile Manifesto. Everything else just made it worse.
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http://berkeleyearth.org

Not just data, but analysis tools as well. Run by a Berkeley physicist who was originally a climate change skeptic and changed his mind after doing this analysis.
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Hopeless, ridiculous scam from top to bottom! Silicon isn't even a big factor in price of solar cells. It is dirt cheap nowadays, there is less than 1 cent worth of silicon in 1 watt of solar cell (which is worth 22-24 cents nowadays). And that is a small fraction of cost of watt of installed system ($1-$6 depending on type, size, country, and who you ask). That means, for solar industry, that is at best fraction of percent level of improvement.

Shameless scam for people who must be so stupid they deserve being scammed.
Yeah those look like brushless electric motors, the kind used in RC vehicles.
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Just wait until Thursday 31st Aug, the day of the YouTube Purge

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-24/google-ro...
Pretty sure OP meant five units of Alexa.
The author sounds like they have an axe to grind with Intel. That's totally understandable, since Intel really has been soaking the server/workstation market, but it's not appropriate for a comparative article, especially one with no actual benchmarks. Just the facts, ma'am.
I disagree. The main changes I feel are the ones caused by the business requirements. Where I see the most changes in the past couple of years are the requirements from our marketing team, their data is a freaking mess!
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Thanks for the suggestions.

And thanks for the heads up regarding coming to wrong incorrect conclusions. That's important and useful advice.
The fact that value on string is a final field is meant to give you a guarantee that it will have been initialised before any other thread can see the object (assuming the object does not leak itself deliberately in the constructor). This does not depend on the reference to the string itself being final.
If the namedtuple is used so heavily, why not make it a part of built-in functions?
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My high school physics teacher told me that during the first Internet bubble more students signed up for STEM electives and actually paid attention in class. Technical fields were exciting and lucrative. But when the crash hit students became disillusioned and lost interest in STEM again.
Ah, I see how I worded it confusingly.
Is there a way to turn off the watch-this-next feature? I sometimes show educational videos to my toddler, and if she sees the tiles of other videos, she always wants to watch them (and will often throw a fit if she's not allowed). I would literally pay money to turn off this "feature".
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Kenya hasn't developed yet, why do we think it will?

Putting it another way, Kenya's development has not been held back by lack of sweatshops but by corrupt government and misguided go-gooderism.
Just ask your suppliers for those. It’s not overly secretive
Ask HN: Diagram tools?
I'm trying to formalize some of our network and data flow diagrams. What tools are you guys using these days for building these types of diagrams? Vizio was my previous go-to but I'd like something that has some nicer defaults and is easier to work with.

I like Cloudcraft, but it's AWS-specific.
Only one ding? I'm disappointed.

Anyway, check out the frequency range for other animals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_range

Notice that there are a number of species whose range extends well past 20kHz. Even with 192kHz you're still chopping off the upper end of what dolphins and porpoises can hear and produce.

So please convince Apple and friends that you need 200+kHz to truly capture the "warmth" of Neil Young's live albums. Then we'll be able to crowdsource recording all the animals and eventually synthesize the sounds to communicate with them all.

Maybe then we can synthesize a compelling, "We're really sorry, we promise we're going to fix all the things now," for the dolphins and convince them not to leave. :)
> Doing a PhD in the UK helps, in and out before the funding dries up in 3-4 years is expected along with no class requirements and no masters needed (can go in straight from Bachelors).

This is a key point. My wife's university in the UK actively tried to get its PhD candidates in and out in 3 years (with an optional 4th year for writing, typically part-time), and more than half of her cohort achieved that. While it's possible to get through a US PhD that fast, the norm is much longer. My wife's PhD is in biomedical materials.
I've been saying this for years, thumbs up/down is the only system that makes sense to me.

Foursquare uses it and I've found their scores to be way more useful than Yelp's.

The biggest problem with star ratings is that it's so arbitrary. What is the difference between 3 and 3.5? What is a 1 vs a 2? 3/5 is 60%, that's almost failing when you think about it on a grading scale, if I scored something as a 3/5 I would never use that product or service again, yet, many of the best restaurants are rated 3/5 on Yelp.

Unless the user has some scoring system in place for different qualities of the product or service, there is no way you can get anything resembling an accurate score.

I would never trust a user to accurately assess a score given 10 different options (.5-5) but I would be way more likely to trust a user to say either "I like this product" or "I do not like this product."

But yes, the Wirecutter approach works great, but it just doesn't scale.
Can't remember where this quote is from but:
A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive.
How would you know? It looks difficult, maybe even impossible to measure academic productivity.
It makes sense - a product doing what it says it will doesn't stand out / incentivise a review, whereas a bad product makes you want to caution others / get some sense of justice on the company (not sure of a better way to word that).
At least in Germany you need a masters to start a PhD and I think this is true for most of Europe. Actually, I always thought America is one of the few countries where you can start a PhD right out of undergrad.
Wasn't Fizzbin a made-up game [or a winning hand] Capt Kirk used w/the gangsters in one episode? I'm too old.
> DNS operates in this way, as far as I'm aware.

Your awareness is wrong. DNS is, by and large, operated by for profit enterprises. Y combinator, for example, uses Amazon Web Services as their DNS provider.
Some people like it (obviously, the "loudness war" would've never occurred if it didn't work commercially), some people don't.

My personal example of a song where it doesn't work is Johnny Cash's "Hurt". Around 3 minutes into the song, Johnny Cash's vocal noticeably distorts. From my perspective, the distortion is absolutely a loudness war phenomenon: if you look at the waveform in an editor, the song starts off pretty "hot" given that there's a very noticeable crescendos at the end. At the end of the song, where the music is pretty much maxing out, there is no bandwidth left. There is no other option to stand out but to push Johnny's voice to distortion.

I've seen people in message boards say the distortion in the vocals adds "intensity". Personally, I'd love to see an un-Loudness War version where Johnny Cash gets several dB more to cleanly sing over the music. Where dynamics, not distortion, is what is driving the intensity. For my tastes, it would be much preferred.
I am and it is a blast. This hobby gets me outside a lot too which is great. Currently #24 on the MultiGP UTT1 leaderboard :)
Fair point. Then instead maybe it makes more sense to consider the inverse: the refusal to grant the right of autonomy to certain people.

You also bring up a good point that there are currently few instances where this has occurred, but that's sort of my point, that past standards are not always applicable to the future.
I think that the technical challenges of growing cannabis vs. tomatoes is indeed different, but can be equally difficult or simple, related to the quality of the product you want. There are similar such inventions for growing tomatoes to what you mention for cannabis. Tomatoes too have a long history of breeding for size and other aspects as well, again similar to cannabis. You can grow "ditch weed" just as easily as poor quality tomatoes by not tending the plants etc.
I recently picked up a book called, "No Wall Too High", the translated man who escaped from a Chinese labor camp under Mao Zedong. In this book, during his time in a re-education camp in Lijiang, the author relates seeing the story of Yang Shukang -- a man whose crime was simply writing a letter to the central leadership in Beijing saying that two thousand people had starved to death in his town of Jiuhe during the great leap forward.

The author tells the story of seeing Shukang stand up in front of the entire prison and refuse to "confess his crimes" -- and was summarily spat on and beaten to near death by a group of party zealots. Tortured this way for three more days, Shukang hanged himself on the fourth day after writing characters on the wall, among which -- "The victims of the Great Leap Forward will live forever in the hearts of the people!"

We must not forget the victims of the past, and we must remember that we are less than two generations removed from men being killed simply for telling the truth when the facts do not align with political convenience. The intolerance of dissenting voices and contradictory information is a dangerous slippery slope on the fall from a free and healthy society.
Would this be a potential competitor to netlify.com or perhaps partial competitor or a complement?
> Programming in C/C++, Java, Javascript, that's easy, anyone can write code. But having the skill of standing in a circle and saying what you've been working on, what you will be working on, and if you have any blockers, that takes pure talent.

That may be the dumbest thing I read all week.
It's not generous. They aren't running a charity. There is a market rate for work and that rate isn't limited by geographic location. It's your ability to sell which will get you that rate.

As a developer, you have all the power to become a black hole of resources, sucking in all the money paid to you, the time of everyone who deals with you and all positive energy. That's why the start-up gurus will tell you that one bad hire can sink a company. On the other end, you have developers who can will into existence the sun, the moon and the stars. Location and nationality don't matter.

I think what people get caught up on is they think it's about developer skills. But paradoxically, when you are hiring a developer, it's those development skills which are the last things on the list of importance aside from the fact that they should be present.

https://80000hours.org/articles/skills-most-employable/

There was an HN thread on this article the other day. Agree with it or not, but I think all those things above programming is what separates a disaster looking to pick up a check from an A-team operator who doesn't have to worry about getting work.
There's a reply that's dead, but I'd like to address it. It asked:

"We have 25 years or so invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?"

That's a fair question, but my aim definitely isn't to try to find something wrong with the data. My aim is only to explore the data and find out what's right and what's wrong about my current understanding of the situation. I don't plan to blog about or even discuss the work I do.
Headless coming to Firefox. I suspect Puppeteer would support it too very soon.
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No, this has been in the works for a while

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338004

So not in reaction to Chrome.

In fact, the first attempt for this was almost a decade ago (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446591)
Yeah, that's my biggest gripe with this.

Even though $10/mo is expensive for my usage, I was also very happy due to the GPs points. However not allowing a local backup is a non-starter for me.

For cloud backups I already use tarsnap (albeit for a much smaller subset of what I backup locally) which I think is a bit safer/better.

That's what made CrashPlan so nice for me. Having a no-fuss local backup strategy.

I'm really sad CP decided to go this route without offering an similar alternative :(
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While this is certainly not comparable to CrashPlan, for the odd Windows System I have at Home, I just setup the builtin FileHistory backup and use my existing Linux Server/NAS as a target storage.

As a second step the Linux Server already runs a more sophisticated, encrypted etc Backup to offsite storage, and I just added those folders to that too, but you can of course skip that if you are comfortable without a secondary physical backup location.
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A nice desecration, as I hoped it would be. The bit about git hit the spot.
Well, racist requires there to be race so I'd argue xenophobic rather than racist, but how is that not ignorant?

Where was large scale migration ever mentioned? It's hard to migrate, that is a fact.

>Commenting on immigration is not a crime.

Neither is replying to a comment on immigration.
Thanks!

I'll take a look.