skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UI is incredibly slow just about everywhere. Electron is a good example.

The lack of people developing desktop UIs using native toolkits (or libraries with native wrappers) is disturbingly low. It seems everyone is using these cross-platform behemoths that are just slow as hell.
Super Mario Odissey Review
> What part of "age/deterioration" makes units lose value, exactly? Is it just that buildings aren't built to last, or is it that newer buildings have newer amenities?

My place is (San Francisco) affordable, but:

- 2 people have been shot & killed on my block in the last year

- there's regularly poop on the sidewalk in front of my building

- one of the two elevators in my building is often out of service (and occasionally it's both!)

- my apartment has no kitchen

- the plumbing is old (aka leaks)

- the door to my bathroom doesn't quite close

- the paint is peeling in some noticeable places

- some places in the common areas never get dusted

- random people walk in and steal packages from time to time

- there's no air conditioner (don't really need it tough)

- the heater barely works (don't really need it tough)

- the electrical outlets are in funny places

- the main window never stays open quite all the way

- there are small gaps under the fake hardwood flooring

- my bathtub looks like it was attacked by a 5 year old with a sharpie

It's nice a primo place. Don't get me wrong, I love where I live. But I wouldn't pay primo prices for it. I'm just talking about "age/deterioration", since you asked.
Some "programmers" are just not good at programming. Actually, that is a vast majority of them. This is why they think it's so hard to have a side project, and it's the same reason companies that actually care about who they hire have to do 20 interviews to find 1 viable candidate.

There are plenty of new people entering the workforce, too. I can't remember the last time I took an Uber/Lyft where the driver wasn't in a coding bootcamp. It scares me just to think about having to be the engineer "training" the new hire at a company that didn't make its interviews hard enough.

(As a corollary, this means that if the engineering interview at a company is objectively easy, that's a RED FLAG, and you should not work there.)
>You just need some talented people...

Well, yea, hence silicon valley. Like begets like - if there's a place where all the best engineers are hanging out, why wouldn't a budding engineer head out there? This is literally why I moved to San Francisco from Houston :P

And then, the best of the best engineers making oodles of money are probably not going to want to live in like, Michigan, growing tech sector or no. Give up good weather, quick access to great vacation spots (mexico, vegas, anythign over the pacific, all the national/state parks...), legalized weed, etc? Nah man.

edit: My language is assertive but I am very open to being challenged on this.
Please note that the article is primarily about historiography - not politics, per se.

And so hopefully won't be flagged.
There's a new approach that competes with Monsanto's herbicide-resistant crops. Robotic weeding is finally here.[1] John Deere just bought Blue River Robotics for $305 million. They make a unit that's towed behind a tractor. Cameras look down at the plants, and when they see something that looks like a weed, it gets zapped. No need for herbicide-resistant crops.

This is for vegetables and row crops, rather than field crops. It's been used on cotton and lettuce so far. For lettuce, it's weeding as a service. They bring in the machines and do the job at a flat fee per acre. They're doing 35,000 acres in California and Arizona now. This isn't experimental. It's out there working in fields.

Bosch has a similar product. Blue River kills with a spray. Bosch either pounds the weed into the ground or zaps it with a laser.

[1] http://www.bluerivertechnology.com/
Not really, no. We grow so much extra corn that it's easily recouped.

Don't get me wrong. This is a problem. This is not okay.

It's just this isn't quite Set The World Ablaze And Panic level bad. Is mostly just annoying. Of those three million acres, they were 'damaged' which is different than 'destroyed.' I suspect we will still have plenty of HFCS and ethanol.
I wonder if Apple will bite. Previous APUs had decent perf, but ran too hot for a laptop. This is 14nm stuff and if Ryzen desktop flavors are representative, thermals and power should be roughly on par with Intel midrange.
^ bot
She's a champion
Hopefully with Microsoft and Google getting in the game we'll get some competition and that margin will reduce
I think it was MITs involvement the above poster was concerned about... but the fact that it is open source is indeed relevant!
It's a shame that this happened, but you can see how it did.

Those chips were built on the fervor of people imagining what we could someday do with them. They could create a connected world, solve and create so many problems on a global scale...it's not super surprising that their successors went on to do those things.

What is surprising, and shameful, is how investors reacted, buying into the mania hook line and sinker. There cannot be a Bell Labs or Fairchild Semi in silicon valley today, because they could not promise 10,000,000% user growth and a massive acquisition in N years.

It seems like the market equivalent of snorting pixie sticks instead of eating a balanced meal, but I'm not the person with billions of dollars to swing around.
Let me be frank.

> that is why things like terms of service are held to the more objective letter, and not the highly subjective spirit.

I replied.

> You mean as in the case that we're discussing?

Clearly your objection is that the TOS is not held in this case at all.

Which could indicate that they're failing to act or they are interpreting their TOS subjectively per his special role.

> No, I'm claiming he has no more legal right to make threats than any other person.

This is not about freedom of speech. This is about his position, that threats are sometimes part of negotiation and he can legally threaten (as an example).

Large classes of other people cannot, for instance, negotiate on behalf of the U.S.

We're not arguing about the same thing here.
>[1S] sed '1d'

Similarly

sed 15q

will print only the 1st 15 lines of the input and then terminate. E.g.:

sed 15q file

or

some_command | sed 15q

So, when put in a shell script and then called (with filename arg or using stdin):

sed $1q

is like a specific use of the head command [1]; it prints the first n ($1) lines of the standard input or of the filename argument given - where the value of $1 comes from the first command-line argument passed to the script.

[1] In fact on earlier Unix versions I worked on (which did not have the head command (IIRC), I used to use this sed command in a script called head - similar to tail.

And I also had a script called body :) to complement head and tail, with the appropriate invocation of sed. It takes two command-line arguments ($1 and $2) and prints (only) the lines in that line number range, from the input.
I bought a pair of trousers recently that have a small pocket embedded rather deep into the right pocket, which seemingly isn't a watch pocket—it's a different size.

Interestingly, it snugly fits (the bottom half of) my iPhone 6 (without case.) I put it in that inner pocket, and it prevents it from bouncing out of my pocket if I'm running somewhere. Just as easy to take back out as if it was just in the larger pocket.
Holy crap, i just got our first bug report about this exact same problem, Ember 2.14.
I'm on the Android team and no, we don't. The current spec workstations are 128GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and 2x Xeon E5-2690 v4. But there's still a lot of the older 64GB & 96GB workstations in use as well.

The low clock speed of the Xeons (plus NUMA) means that for most things the machine isn't actually that fast, though, unless you can put the all the cores to use.
Why run farm without their seed? Can't you be buying their seed while suing their ass off?

If Monsanto think they can stop selling you their wares because they don't like you they should be dissolved today.
Computers already demand a level of precision that is hard for biological lifeforms to conform to. Now this. Not sure if I should laugh or cry.
ANY requests are considered harmful due the large response sizes (DNS amplification!).

Some DNS servers will truncate the response or refuse (like CloudFlare).
Is there a car with a touch screen but without volume controls on the steering wheel? Carmakers are racing to add more and more buttons [1]

[1] http://uploads.haystak.com/Production_Templates/Images/2017/...
One source of this meme is the seemingly-cryptic language used in prescription scripts, which uses terms that are clear to doctors and pharmacists but not so much to laypeople.

There was at least one study on this perception:
"Conclusion: This study fails to support the conventional wisdom that doctors' handwriting is worse than others'. Illegible writing is, however, an important cause of waste and hazard in medical care, but efforts to improve the safety and efficiency of written communication must approach the problem systemically—and assume that the problems are in inherent in average human writing—rather than treating doctors as if they were a special subpopulation."[0]

http://www.bmj.com/content/313/7072/1657
It’s not Europeans in general; some European cities, including some German cities, are very expensive. Berlin is an oddity.

Many European countries, do, or have at some point in the past, had extensive social housing production, which does help ease pressure.
Level 4 actually seams best to me.
I just sell things on reddit. Something about having access to the other’s post history keeps things honest.
Reminds me of bash roulette.
http://www.bash.org/?96164
Things I can think of: Broadcast a tv spot, then measure how much hashtag mentions it generates. Find regions where people are more receptive to your product based on Twitter sentiment. Filter for stock mentions and use it for your trading bot.
> Twitter has been criticized for not being as proactive as Facebook, which this month said it planned to strengthen its review process for political ads and would begin disclosing which pages purchased them moving forward.

Facebook's solution of transparency seems a lot more reasonable than Twitter's solution of outright bans.

With that in mind, however, will we just see political ads on Facebook purchased by 'Random Company LLC'? It'll be interesting to see how Facebook plans to stop companies created blatantly to anonymize those behind the ads.
Mmap seems like a silly hammer when each byte is read just once. Just read into a reasonable buffer.
Sergey, I'm also running into this. Is there a way to prevent grammarly from running on our app from the code? An a css class, or <meta> tag we can add to opt-out?
What I think you're saying is, prices drop in Portland, so people move there from city X, which drops demand in X, so prices drop in X.

One problem, though, is "stickiness". I wouldn't move to a different city for $1/month. I probably wouldn't move even for $100/month. Why not? Well, I'm not single, and I have kids. It's not just that I'd upset everyone's routine - I'd also have to move all this stuff. I'd also have to sell my place and buy (or rent) a new one. Total cost to me: Probably in the $20,000 range. I'm going to do that for $100/month? No way. Even for $1000/month, it would take 20 months to pay back, not counting the time and aggravation.

So cities are "sticky". I'm stuck here; it takes a seriously better situation to break me loose.

Many people have lower thresholds than I do; but for most people, the threshold is some way above zero. (Exceptions do exist; if the current situation is socially or emotionally difficult, they may move to something even if it's economically worse.)
Alas, since I moderate this place, it is my business. You've posted many more unsubstantive comments than that one, and worse, many uncivil ones. We ban accounts that do that, so would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them from now on?
Agreed. I wonder how much of that money is from strawman purchases that can't be traced directly to russia yet. When the dust finally settles on all this we'll see that twitter received millions from russian surrogates.
I think for both Vim and Emacs the decision comes down to this: Do you intend to invest in your editor? Not only in the sense of investing time to learn their idioms and acquire some basic muscle memory, but also to configure it to your liking.

Both Emacs and Vim are usable in the default state, but there's much much more you can get out of them. As opposed to most IDEs, which usually have one proper way to use them, both Vim and Emacs thrive on configurability. On the flip side, that means that you're going to spend time setting up and maintaining your config. If that's not something you can endure (or even enjoy), you might want to leave it be.

As far as I can tell, that's also the main reason both are often overlooked in CS classes: The goal of most professors teaching programming is to actually teach you a language, not explain an editor for a couple of weeks.
> As it is, barely a day goes by without "Twitter" being mentioned in national news.

What are you talking about? Before Trump was a thing, Twitter was routinely mentioned in the news. It was the lazy source of react quotes: "Today, X tragedy happened in town Y. 'UnrelatedPerson' on twitter said 'what a tragedy'".

The name is more prominent now, sure, but it already was routinely reported in the news.
Computer models certainly produce forecasts, but humans are needed to interpret these forecasts.

At each National Weather Service office, forecasters typically use model output to guide their daily forecast products, such as temperatures and precipitation probabilities. However, these forecasters are aware of smaller-scale nuances of their forecast area, such as topographic influences, land-sea interactions or urban heat island effects, which models may struggle to resolve. Human knowledge of model limitations helps to produce a better forecast.

A further example would be hurricane forecasting, where National Hurricane Center forecasts typically outperform most models (see http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/verification/verify6.shtml for starters).
Apologies for the appalling Mathmo joke, but...

* What's yellow and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice?

* Zorn's Lemon
At some of the larger tech companies the salaries for scientists/researchers is usually higher than for engineers specifically because of the extra educational requirements. Where I work there are actually on two separate pay scales to account for this. I can't say this is true everywhere but there are definitely cases where you could have made more had you stayed in industry (emphasis on "could", it's not guaranteed).
All these rent signs point to is people being pushed out by rent increases due to a perceived demand provided by people with higher incomes. It doesn't point to a change in the housing crisis at all. I lived in this area about 6 years ago and prices were already becoming highly unaffordable for the 'unprofessional' set back then.
There are a bajillion eBay alternatives in the wild. Here are a few... /s

mercari.com, swappa.com, letgo.com, offerup.com, snapsale.com, wish.com local, varagesale.com, listia.com, carousell.com, shpock.com, 5miles.com

Believe it or not, eBay has even made their own local selling app close5.com
I could be pedantic and say it melts at 32F _and above_ including 212F. But I won't.
> This is why as well as cooling systems, some EVs even heat the battery in the cold.

IC cars have that feature too, if you live somewhere like Saskatchewan. You need to plug the heater in at night (https://info.kaltire.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jan-6-Pl...) or the battery will be too cold to start the car in the morning.
How I Overcame a Failed Startup and Created a $30,000/Month Business
Housing economics is not a first level econ course. It's much deeper than supply and demand curves.
Facebook and Snapchat: metrics versus creation
It's almost like the VCs in whatchamacallit road tell everybody else to telecommute, but they themselves don't care much about moving around to keep an eye on the troops.

Lazy bas --- err, I mean, damn efficient, well done, old beans.

(Screw the cattle who have to deal with the fallout. Not adding value.)
But the state also has no competitive pressure to be economically efficient, or to design units that aren't staggeringly ugly, or to not line the pockets of a buddy who's a contractor, or...

The general historical evidence is that government operations are not paragons of efficiency.
Ask HN: FaaS (Function as a service) for Ruby? (2017)
Hi Folks,

It has been a year since I last asked this question, so I thought I'd put it out there again!

Do you use / know of any services like AWS Lambda that supports Ruby out of the box?

I've been playing with AWS Lambda using travelling Ruby and Mruby, but have hit issues ( I need to be able to use native gems). Whilst it is possible to use native gems w/ travelling ruby the setup is fragile.

Thanks in advance for your input!
Counter?
https://hackernoon.com/yes-python-is-slow-and-i-dont-care-13...
It's not just corn:

The new "low volatility" versions of dicamba didn't stay where they belonged. They drifted into nearby fields, damaging crops there — mostly soybeans, but also vegetables and orchards.
A Candidates Angry Response to Rejection Email
People called Obama one too.

I think the difference is the subtle embrace of white supremacy via the inability to dismiss or criticize those “good people” on both sides.
Vectors Are Back: The New NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA Supercomputer – InsideHPC
Prefetching at least one cache line in advance should speed up the whole process.

Also, multithreading.
When people talk about AI threatening humanity I suspect folks imagine The T-2000 model Terminator. But here is the real thing; AI is going to change our society in a profound and slow-moving way, very different from our perspective of how war and soldiers change power structures.
Your point is perfectly valid, and shouldn't have been downvoted.

But as a footnote, the sibling comment here happens to also be correct: like any truly effective propaganda outlet, RT leverages a mix of largely legitimate / mundane news along with a certain proportion of fake or distorted news.
But for the sake of simplicity it's best to stop citing RT or feeding it attention of any other form, altogether.
In Canada flu shots are free. It's pretty great - I catch the flu easily and I've managed to avoid getting sick the last few seasons possibly thanks to getting the shot.
10+ years of losing money.
Maybe if you read the entire file into RAM first and then timed just the processing of the bytes.

But I'd wager it's probably limited by the SSD speed and filesystem caching code at this point.

(Would be easy enough for an assembly guru to prove either of us right or wrong!)
Worth noting that $2B is roughly 13% of Twitter's market cap. Fascinating to think how one person simply using your service is worth that much.
portland has special problems. The state constitution prevents property taxes from going up in proportion to the value of the property as long as you don't do any renovations on it. This means that the only economical reason to develop land is because you intend to charge a lot more for renting it, since any construction will cause your property taxes to spike.
... or that the margin stays the same, and they're able to further innovate and offer additional value!
The latest version of the Grammarly extension resolved the problem entirely for us. Hope it does the same for you!
Not making money is a conscious choice.

Growing this fast at scale is insane, Amazon scares me.
> It's rather weird to me that you need to install entire other IDE's as developer dependencies to build mobile apps, but that seems to be how it is.

I don't remember the details, but a couple years ago there was a way to install just the Xcode build tools without installing the entire IDE. I'm sure there's a similar process for the Android SDK. (Though, of course, none of that is officially supported, so you're on your own for the most part.)

Edit: Turns out Google provides downloads for just the SDK without Android Studio[1], so it looks like the separation is unofficial only for Xcode.
I'm responding to your question of "Why should we have density?" I do not care to quibble about the number of benefits, merely to state there are measurable ones.
> There is no company that tries to fix the internet in the profound way eyeo does

Which issue is fixed by "acceptable ads" in a better way than a plain ad blocker that has no exceptions?

The former tries to "mediate" between ad providers and users, while the latter is an actual "user agent" in every sense of the word.

Maybe it is just me, but I don't see any shortage of the former. And I'm missing the latter one in many aspects of the internet. NoScript, uBlock origin and miniwebproxy[1] all are just first steps to fix issues which browsers (in the sense of real "user agents") shouldn't have in the first place.

[1] https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/miniwebproxy

> The reputation they got are based on stories created by the ad industry, and yes, obviously they hate eyeo

Not sure which stories you allude to. I'm not aware of any such stories, being placed by the ad industry or any other entity.

However, I am aware of much criticism that is based purely on their business model, by well-known people far away from the ad industry, without involvement of any additional stories.

> and yes, obviously they hate eyeo

Almost nobody feels sorry for the ad industry, but it is quite a far stretch to argue that we (i.e. the ad targets) should like Eyeo because they are the enemy of the enemy.

Maybe my perception is wrong, but all people I know don't care, because they just see different flavors of shady businesses that happen to step on each other's feet.

What's noble in being involved in that game?
True, but part of the reason talent is so expensive is because companies have to compete for it. I would not call a market where good people regularly pull down multiple offers one that is good for employers or one where talent is readily available.
(co-founder here) We have hundreds of customers, half of them on recurring subscriptions, half just one-time customers paying for crawler configurations.
So, how much do they have to spend to stay "zero-profit"?
I agree again, I think there is a lot of blame to go around in Twitter, also another reason why I think they could have a healthy purge and move forward with some fresh vigor.
I totally agree. I just think the shutter noise is a bit of audio skeuomorphism.
As far as I understood it, it learned sub-tasks then learned to apply those sub tasks.

Kind of reminds me of the Soar system except using Deep learning instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soar_(cognitive_architecture)
Sass grid framework for frontedn
UAW Files Complaint Against Tesla, Claims Workers Were Fired for Being Pro-Union
I feel like this is a joke. I don't get it.
> These "old farts" are the people engineering and designing our modern world. Empowering people with domain knowledge to answer data driven questions is what the democratization of data science is all about.

BTW I don't begrudge that TileDB has MATLAB support.

I see plenty of modern scientific/engineering workload in my day job. From what I see around myself it is usually a handful of people set in their ways that are holding others back by keeping a ridiculously overpriced tool alive that has comparable if not better alternatives. I gather from comments that it is different in Europe.