skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the feeling that we're (the US) in a few bad ruts right now:

1. We have identity-based policies in place. People are attempting to blacklist others based on where they stand on politics/etc (non-money based discrimination). I've seeing this in the tech industry where the most passive-aggressive individuals succeed. (i.e. Tests we don't need them)

2. We're seeing lots of profit grabs and they're being ignored due to PR reasons. (I.e. Silicon Valley and workers rights.. oh wait, nevermind this startup isn't bad because they're "diverse")

3. Inflation, we're seeing a lot of inflation of prices, and decrease in value. (Go overseas to see how bad this is) Even Germany with a 20% vat on products is a cheaper COL.
Two things I've learned since writing the book:

1) It's also important to align your energy levels and what you want to do with your list of high-leverage tasks. When you're really excited about doing something, even if isn't strictly the highest-leverage thing you could do, you can actually end up creating more impact because you do a much better job of it.

2) Sometimes what's needed is just a change in perspective about things you need to do. I play with this a lot in the leadership coaching that I do. For example, I hate responding to emails because processing them all feels like a chore. But if I reframe responding to emails in my mind to be hunting for gems that might lead to new opportunities, I'm much more likely to go through them (at least the ones that are gems).

And oh yes, there were definitely discouraging points. The story about early, negative feedback from my wife (that I posted in another comment) was one.

Another is that ten months into book writing, around the start of 2014, I started feeling a sense of intense FOMO from reading Hacker News. Stripe had raised a valuation round of over $1B, and WhatsApp had been acquired for $16B. That led to moments where I would wonder "What in the world was I doing writing a book?" and "When will I ever finish?". I had just finished a first draft, I wasn't sure how rewarding financially the book would be, and I was feeling like I had removed myself from the startup game.

That led me to start looking for jobs, which quite fortunately, also led me to my current role at Quip. So everything worked out in the end.
It's just someone's notes from reading a book.
I do have an opinion on the phenomenon. There are more and more mediocre engineers who need this sort of thing in order to justify their existence.

Once the majority is mediocre, it becomes accepted practice.
Note, this is from 2012. The original paper authors followed up with similar proof for other games: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1895 .
maybe you have a very distorted perception of how much disposable income the median middle class has.
Yes - there's a difference between doing it yourself through the GUI for free because of website management tools and paying somebody 50 dollars an hour to hand modify forms and HTML for you.

Also, I believe unless you set the robots.txt file, most sites are crawlable, and SEO, like I said, is not really important for smaller businesses. Mostly they are existing customers who want to find out hours of operation and maybe any daily specials you might have, not somebody who stumbles across your site organically.
Successful habits through smoothly ratcheting targets (2017)
Ask HN: What to replace my MacBook with?
Seen the recent issues with Apple hard- and software I’m not 100% sure I want to replace my 2015 MacBook Pro with a 2017 MacBook pro. What are your suggestions for a decent replacement?

I’m looking for something the size of a MacBook that can run Ubuntu or something similar. Good boos quality and a good screen.
I was quite surprised to get the Nougat update on my 2+ year old Motorola Pure Edition the other month (it originally came with Lollipop). Is it slower? A bit, yes. But I can't say that's because of battery degradation or the new software.
Hello, OP here. I'm certain that you can fine tune every OS for specific use case. I may indeed do that in a future blogpost. The question is what to compare ? Should I compare Linux kernel versions, PostgreSQL versions, filesystems (and features like compression, block size, ...) ? As you can see the permutations are endless and thats why I compared stock OSes with their default filesystems of choice.

I don't think that a Linux distribution is just a variable and the only thing that differs is the kernel version. Each distro made its own choices, for better or worse...

As for the clients connecting over the network - that was exactly my point. My idea was to benchmark in conditions similar to production deployment. I doubt that many production systems connect over unix socket.

And for the warmup period, as you can see in the benchmarking script there is a 30 min warmup period before I start to record the results.
I agree somewhat here - however I'll counter with the fact that Apple has a monopoly lock on Unix desktops that work well. I'm guessing a good part of Mac sales are on the engineering/operations side (devs, sys admins, etc). If there was a real competitor to that (e.g. Linux alternative OS that had a consistent UI, great user experience paired with "just works" hardware" etc) Apple would be in trouble today. Especially with all the hiccups lately...

BTW I'm not saying Linux is not an alternative - I run it on my laptop - but getting it tweaked just right, dealing with some of the eccentricities of the desktop environment (gnome I'm looking at you) make it less than grand for a great out of the box experience.

However I will say it is worlds better than it was 5, 10 , 15 etc. years ago...

Finally, in regards to the touchbar - you really are not given a choice. If you want a powerful box you MUST get touchbar. I wonder what the adoption would be if it was an a la carte option?
There are good ways and bad ways to interpret the book. Just because good engineers have historically not lived their lives according to these particular buzzwords, does not mean they haven't implicitly incorperated similar, analogous, strategies. I would be surprised if Linus Torvalds and Peter Norvig and the like didn't use concepts like prioritization, investing in tools, and some similar idea (though not necessarily expressed in that way) to the 80/20 rule. Why should it matter from which culture productivity buzzwords originate from?
I wrote that response quickly, but that's what I was saying:

> If I were in their shoes, I'd [do what they're doing right now and] agressively undercut the price...

I also agree, if they're telling the truth that their plan is to make their earnings off the data, yes I don't have faith either. I'm saying, if they managed to pull a miracle and get a majority of the movie-going public on to movie pass, they could be in a position to then negotiate with the theaters (and other forces down the line) to strong-arm their way into profitability. Even if it's just "oh hey pay us and we'll feature your theatre to our users in the area".

This is all conjecture, arm-chair theory.
Let's go one step at time. Matter and antimatter should be created in equal way and they annihilate once they bump into each other. This very fact should raise an eyebrow that no matter should exists, but clearly does. If we solve this mystery then we can go further another step.
On top of the extra complexity, a blockchain has much weaker consistency properties than Paxos/Raft/Kafka. Because of finite propagation delays and network packet loss, there are normally multiple valid chains at any given moment in time.

Even if you assume that all nodes are benevolent, and try their best to converge on the single longest chain without needing mining fees as an incentive, you still can't know whether the chain you're querying is the "winner" unless you have an omniscient view of the entire system. So you only get eventual consistency, as opposed to sequential consistency.
Same setup, different story: 2013 15" MBP, nVidia GT 750M, 16 GB RAM. After upgrading I got intermittent mini lock-ups (key presses, clicks, etc. would queue up). Happens in all apps regardless of what I'm doing. It felt like having a dying HDD instead of an SSD.
If the justification for a tax is social engineering and not revenue for a budget or project it is probably not a just tax. This tax happens to align with commonly held values, but that alone does not justify the tax.
Neither was I. It appears to have been released around July 2017 as ISO 32000-2:2017.
Not always true, I have every privilege available on the site and I still ran into the minimum number of changes for an edit. I spent far too much time looking for innocuous changes just so I could push an essential edit through. I don't deny that some rules are like that though.
There have been movie and television shows about how movies and television shows are made. The same about newspapers and magazines. People don't really have a clue how games are made and what it entails. When I say I work in video games, people usually say: Really, do you program them?
> Yep, the problem is cultural. The whole system of reciprocity is out of whack. The system would work more smoothly if more people took on responsibilities, QA'd, contributed patches. Give engineers a % of time to contribute back to the libraries they use.

I think this need not even be framed just as "the moral thing to do" - in an environment where attracting quality engineers is a continuous challenge, small "sacrifices" like this can be far more effective than spending the same amount of money on raising the potential wage. If a job lists "contribute to Babel maintenance one <time unit> every <time unit>" as one of the responsibilities, that'd make me far more interested.
There is a 30 min warmup period before the actual benchmark. It is shown in the benchmarking script.
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There is some good substance buried here, but it's phrased in a voice thick with hype and slathered with emergent jargon/slang pidgin of folks mentally and emotionally invested in the loftier suppositions of the cryptocurrency movement. It's indistinguishable from a parody, but it's probably sincere.

By my reading -- and this is hard to glean -- the central thesis seems to be that cryptocurrencies shouldn't be used to one-to-one reimplement currently present systems of digital social interaction; instead, think about what can be accomplished from the ground-up when your individual, small-time holders are vested.

It's both cutely observant, and painfully oblivious to nearly all of human history, where individuals pooled together resources to build, invest, serve as a patron to the arts, etc -- a range of activities from basic survival to abstract societal good.
Sharing data with an amateur is asking to have your time wasted. It'd be nice if this wasn't the case, but I don't blame scientific researchers for preferring to spend their time advancing science.
On the "read code written by brilliant engineers" point, as someone just starting to learn Python, where would I find some?
Well, it IS grandiose if true (like the word suggest anticipate). I don't see how is this not accurate.
> [NP means that] a non deterministic machine (one that could magically search multiple states at once) can find a solution in polynomial time

Which is exactly what quantum computers can do for certain classes of problems, such as integer factorization.

Sadly, it seems not to be the case (or not yet found?) for the most well known and useful class of NP problems, NP-complete.

See this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1371150
This adds very little to the debate at hand. I asked specifically if the Washington's or Franklin's or other families have established dynasties that give them heavy influence on politics for years from inherited wealth.

This point is no less worthy of discussion, but it is a different discussion. Oddly, I would think fixing either would gain advantage from policies such as the estate tax.
But, iOS 11 is a dog. A buggy, wet, smelly one. So while most of their income comes from iOS devices, this doesn't in itself explain the decline in quality for Macs because it has been a decline across the board.
uBlock and HTTPS Everywhere both enabled but no uMatrix - works for me on Firefox.
> 1) You can still buy a new 2015 MBP with a processer nearly as fast as the 2017 models and 16gb ram

Speed is not everything. The 2015's Skylake can't do HEVC (and VP9 but I have no idea who outside YT might use VP9).

> 2) Laptops with more memory don’t have the same transfer speed or power efficiency.

Everything is faster and more power efficient than using swap - in fact, my MBP with nothing more than Chrome, Outlook, Slack and Excel open has 13.12GB of RAM occupied and 16.5GB swap usage. Not to mention all that swapping drastically reduces the life of the flash memory - which is, to make stuff worse, soldered on the motherboard on the 2017 model. Yet another thing that Apple forces down the throats of its users, no way to get data recovery on these when your mobo gets fried.
DeepMind has produced a few agents playing well classic games.

When the authors of this paper are saying that these games are NP-hard, they're taking some "poetic license": complexity classes are defined for problems that have instances of increasing sizes (as the complexity is defined as a function of the size). Super Mario is only one instance.
So they analyze generalizations of the game, and as the game size grows to infinity it becomes very hard to play it.

For the real games, DL does pretty well (and even simpler agents do well).
I blame strongly Apple’s inability to make developer-focused tools easy and unbreakable.

For instance:

- I do not file bugs anymore. Their system is absurdly complex, requiring a lot of information up front, and is then 100% opaque. Bugs stay marked New and untouched for months or longer, only to be closed with Duplicate or some other lame status (with absolutely no way to search or read the apparently-similar bug reports to understand the issue and resolution). If their goal was to ensure no real participation in the process of helping their products become better, they’ve succeeded.

- Xcode 9.x routinely has failing background processes, even in response to explicit actions, and not just for obscure features. For instance, an ordinary build seems to spawn background tasks that frequently display old errors as new errors, only to mysteriously produce a “Successful” build while still showing all those older errors; I have to Clean and Build to be absolutely sure!

- Xcode 9.x failures are somehow better than Xcode 8.x failures where Literally. One. Second. Can. Pass. In. Between. Every. Character. You. Type. Then, SourceKit can enter an unending failure loop, to the point where Xcode must be restarted lest you have to click OK on errors every second. And you would think I could simply move on to Xcode 9.x but I can’t stop using Xcode 8.x due to other developer-unfriendly decisions Apple makes, such as ending support for SDKs or changing compilers in backward-incompatible ways, where using the Xcode 8.x suite (faults and all) is unavoidable.

Apple is showing signs that a split into sub-companies would be useful (kind of like Claris/FileMaker Inc.). There’s no particular reason why things like bundled apps couldn’t just become preferred 3rd-party downloads from the App Store, where spin-off companies make iThis/iThat or even things like Photos.

If that happened, Apple would be forced to actually communicate with several entities on a regular basis and improve their external-facing tools. You can bet that SpinOff, Inc. would not stand for having major problems with developer tools or SDKs for instance.
Maybe find a very well received project on GitHub and check out the author and see some of his code
The fix: stop the annual release cycle. There isn't a customer demand for it, and it’s a hassle for basically everyone.

The issues in 10.12.x get fixed with 10.13, but 10.13 has the same amount of different issues, so it’s a wash. There’s no stable version anymore.
Somewhat recently I visited a webpage that referenced Gabor Maté's work, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction [0] - my local library had a copy. Dr. Maté spent decades working with the most hopeless of the residents of "the drug ghetto of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside".

[0] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=editions:4tpUFXvV_8s...

Part I has some anecdotes from patients - virtually 100% of Dr. Maté's patients suffered from childhood trauma. Part II goes into the science of addiction. "'It may be said without hesitation that for man the most important stressors are emotional', wrote the pioneering Canadian stress researcher and physician Hans Selye."

I went to the science library to look up the reference - Dr. Selye discussed how he came to appreciate the general syndrome of being sick, and claimed to have originated the term 'stress' into the medical lexicon. I have to wonder why good science gets ignored, while garbage science [1] persists for decades?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020617 (my comment from yesterday about bad science)

This theory of addiction basically matches my observations of my girlfriend's predicament. She had some childhood stress (won't get into here). After six months of my influence she was doing fine, then she got sucked into the mental health system. Her current drug treatment program costs $10,000/month, and is mostly a scam. They try real hard to be helpful, though - I think they want an 'A for Effort'.

Helping people to feel safe is most important intervention of all [2].

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15024780 - my comment from 134 days ago about the importance of helping people feel safe, and how drug rehab helps people feel like failures.

(minor edits)

Edit2: Dr. Maté's book tells of how one of his patients described heroin as 'a hug in a needle'... "Chapter 14: Through a Needle, a Warm, Soft Hug" [3]

[3] https://books.google.com/books?id=Oew75Hp8XP4C&printsec=fron... (pg 156)
let me guess... they only make black turtle necks?
It's quite the opposite in regards to the Ruhrgebiet. Ruhrgebiet cities like Duisburg, Dortmund, and Essen are growing fast. Not as fast as Munich or Hamburg but fast enough for rents to go up considerably. Gentrification is also in full force there.

The actual losers are the former GDR states that are being bled to death by thousands of little cuts. Siemens recently announced that it's closing two high-tech factories in Saxony and with it whole towns will lose their currently well-paid jobs. This will lead to an even higher loss of jobs in retail etc.
One thing that occurred to me about the estate tax is that, to the degree that we can view it as a tax on wealth, the rate may differ quite a bit by demographic. I haven't looked at the numbers (it's not death rates alone, but death rates amongst those wealthy enough to be impacted by the estate tax, which is harder to get at) but that feels like it might be improper.
Another example on edits then, you must be familiar with the "edit queue is full" bug? You can clean the edit queue if you have enough points.
I had an issue with “purgable” space on a non-APFS system preventing me from creating a Bootcamp partition. Probably not what you describe but thought it was worth a mention. Followed this guide to “fix” it: https://www.jackenhack.com/mac-os-purgeable-remove-clear-spa.... Wasn’t best impressed.
Oh cool, didn't realize someone posted to HN (I haven't been on HN in a while =D)! Open to questions and clarifications (on the actual content of the upcoming release, process, how to help, future, whatever)!

There are a few things we need to do like a upgrade tool and some other things that haven't been addressed like how library/module authors should publish to npm (do you include/exclude polyfills, do you compile down to ES5 or start introducing ES6+ code under a different folder or package.json string like "module" or "es2015" which will be out of date, etc)

Also didn't write much about the Typescript support yet but we want to help people use that too if that helps with their development
I am fairly sure the Magna Charter which is part of UK common law which US law descends from explicitly has "the right of all free citizens to own and inherit property"

The UNHCR also has Article 17(2) (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property
And until it's not confirmed enough times, the number on your account can effectively change if enough parties agree. You seem to agree with what I wrote so far...
Fair enough -- I was severely understating the extent to which there are financial incentives. But I think you're making a similar error in the opposite direction, coming from the approach of of "that problem is solved because we have a law for it." Imagine in any other context:

"Everyone makes a living wage, because we have minimum wage laws." -> No, cost of living can eat it up in some areas, and some people are forced to go contractor, where take-home can get arbitrarily low.

"Taxis provide vital, universal service because they're obligated to take you anywhere." -> Yeah, but in practice they can flout this with impunity.

In this case, yes, the most obvious cases of hospital failure will be undercompensated, getting some incentives right. But is that the same thing as saying that actual, effective measures to avoid screwing up will translate into higher profits, and the people capable of identifying these will benefit from pointing them out? I think that's a stretch.

Why do you think such a simple measure, as proposed by this startup, has to drag them kicking and screaming into implementation? Isn't this something a hundred doctors might have noticed and suggested? Something system level isn't working. Either the feedback loop between hospitals and doctors is broken, or it's too easy to relabel a readmission as being a new issue, or something like that.

If startups have that kind of resistance to something so simple, that suggests a lot of easy improvements are still being held up by misaligned incentives, and supports my original point that system level fixes are a bigger target for health outcome returns.
There are some dominant chat apps already existing, so you will certainly have competition. Just know there is absolutely nothing wrong with developing an alternative web app at all. Most people like to have a few options or alternatives.
When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out... once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant... once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity...
It depends on whether you regard the game as limited to the pre-defined levels or allow new levels to be constructed using the same rules. The constructions discussed in the article are all about encoding NP-Complete problems in new level layouts, such that the player has to make a series of irrevocable decisions that need to encode a solution to the NP problem in order to solve the level.
Nothing about capitalism demands an ugly lack of proper legislation, regulation, and enforcement. I would not like to write off capitalism on the basis of a rigged system that just uses the name for ideological purposes.
other folks have mentioned it, its not desirable to receive pay-wall articles. Don't post them, its not polite.

For everyone else, Non-paywall link: http://archive.is/XwCtU
https://system76.com/laptops

8th gen i7s. Up to 64Gb ram. Or if battery matters, 8th gen i7u with same performance as 7th gen 7700, and 32Gb ram.

Three year warranties available.
I wouldn't use those words (temporary problem) since I think we should be better at recycling batteries already, but yes - once the amount increases, so does economic incentive to build recovery facilities. Tesla has said they plan to do it.