skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if the stores are more efficient with packaging/recycling, consumers still have to go to the store. What is the carbon footprint of 500 people driving to the store and back vs a UPS truck delivering 500 individual cardboard boxes? I don't know but I suspect that UPS is going to be smaller.
This article discusses the damage that empty walls (or blocks) do to the pedestrian realm. You might find it interesting.

http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20151021.php
Using Python Sphinx. Compiles markdown to html. Searchable, TOC, index. http://www.sphinx-doc.org/.
And incredible (in-store) after sales customer experience, in my experience. If you're visiting NYC, anyone interested in technology, photography or just wants to see an incredible retail/sales operation in action should visit.

NB - As they observe religious calendar/holidays both in store and online, make sure they're open before you visit.
I use IntelliJ/WebStorm. I open a Google Drive folder which contains a markdown file for each day.
Boostnote (https://boostnote.io). Writing markdown in vim mode, annually rotated, version controlled with SparkleShare.
The current recommendation is "no", since some of the microcode updates are known to cause stability problems. It's better to wait for Intel to fix that first, then make sure your BIOS update has a microcode version without the stability problems, then update. Yes, it's a mess.

Note that the microcode update does not have to be delivered through a BIOS update. Linux can also update the microcode during early boot:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/microcode
GANs are an automated ‘cat and mouse game’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_netwo...
> In reality, our material lifestyle is still supported by a very large number of people working away in countries most Americans can't find on a map for extremely low wages.

> I've been calling amazon prime a "hiding of the poor" to my friends and family. (I don't have prime, I don't use prime, and I don't want this to be our future.)

Amen, parent and grand-parent posters.
Sometimes, the world doesn't present us with a solution that is "fair", especially when demand is greater than supply. Assuming you were tasked with reducing the congestion of the road network in NYC and its surrounding areas, do you any ideas of a solution that is "fair"?

Edit: Elsewhere in this thread, someone posted a link to Beijing's solution to congestion, which seem interesting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_space_rationing_in_Beij...

Unfortunately, I don't know if I would trust the politics of NY to allow for that.
I like "sprint" because it sounds energetic, but the reality of two week sprints is more like interval training. Sort of like this:

Days 1-3: Walking, talking, and enjoying life.

Days 4-7: Jogging. You climb some minor hills and get a little out of breath, but life is still good. You've got this.

Day 8: Big hill day! You eat an energy gel and start on up. You expect to be exhausted at the top, but you'll have two more days to relax a bit afterward.

Day 9: Dark night of the soul. You ran all night but got lost in the night. You're way off course, further down the hill, and the entire hillside is on fire. It's all you can do to just find the course again.

Day 10: Intent on staying on course, you slowly slog on up. You get burned a bit from the raging fires around you. Life sucks. The job sucks.

Day 10+1: You aren't quite sure how or when you agreed to this, but your Saturday is shot as you try to climb up the final stretch.

Day 10+2: You're there! Everyone else is there and you're all exhausted, but proud of your accomplishment. Sure your Sunday was shot, but it's a one time thing. You tell yourself you'll never over commit again.

....

Days 1-3: Walking, talking, and enjoying life....
I find concepts of road space rationing like in Beijing to be more fair.[1]

This plan for Manhattan will obviously only stop people with low financial power from driving, although they might already have paid for these roads via taxes and duties.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_space_rationing_in_Beij...
More money for politicians. There's a novel idea. I'm sure it'll pan out spectacularly.
I've literally watched every lecture he has out there lol :)
The extra information is all linked to from the main parts. The reason it's also on the main page is so anyone looking for that info independently of this particular tutorial might find it more easily.
Photo format from Google and Mozilla could leave JPEG in the dust
I'm tempted to print them for those moments when the internet is down and I still need to access SO.
A lot of things are partly public-funded and partly user-funded - museums come immediately to mind. That doesn't seem wrong - the public funding is justified in terms of the public benefit (even a road that's only used by "the rich" can increase productivity enough that the generated tax revenue outweighs the cost), and the user funding is justified because those who use it get the benefit.
Hawaii EMA Simulator
I doubt gp is encouraging people to jump into threads to say they don't know something. I imagine the insight is that online communication lends itself too well to an unfavorable s/n, one that militates against reasoned discussion.
AngularJs is different from the completely redesigned Angular (2+).
Introducing RLlib: A composable and scalable reinforcement learning library
the point of good estimation is not the estimation itself (which is not very reliable), but actually thinking about what the details of the task are. I think the estimation should be seen as an excuse to partake in this exercise
I love my MBPro. With Homebrew, I love it 10X more. Thank you so much for all your hard work on this.
Tesler's law really rings true in non-UX environments too. I have worked with several people insisting that you can somehow remove complexity by wrapping it in more levels of abstraction, which is utterly infuriating. Sometimes you really just have to accept that certain things are complex, and deal with it.
Or, with enough automation, the world would be making leaps of progress in a variety of areas of human interest, because everybody is pursuing their true interests.
Homebrew is a package manager for macOS, not language libraries. I know there is a bottle for Numpy (and I'm sure other libraries as well) but I'd suggest not co-mingling your OS and Python package managers.
Except looking inside a neural network is almost impossible. For example, google photos still turns mum if you search "gorilla". They could not figure out wtf was wrong with the recognition networks and had to just blacklist the keywords.

https://www.wired.com/story/when-it-comes-to-gorillas-google...
Pretty creative

Shame about the photos though
> That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
Because cars in Manhattan are a blight on livability and safety. There are only a handful of reasons to legitimately have a car in Manhattan; off the top of my head: moving large items, transporting those with mobility issues, getting from specific subway dead zones to other parts, and leaving manhattan altogether. There is an enormous (albeit overloaded and dilapidated) public transit infrastructure allowing people to both move throughout the city and come into the city from basically anywhere in the tri state area. And even if direct transit options into the city aren’t spectacular, you can drive to any of the thousands of park-and-ride locations on the cheap and take public transit from there.

There are legitimate life circumstances that necessitate driving around manhattan, and I would be more than happy to exempt those from congestion pricing. And I have no problem with Taxis and buses and delivery vans operating, as they have high utilization. But private cars cause so many problems in manhattan, including danger to pedestrians (which make up the bulk of people in the city at any given time), noise pollution, air pollution, and inefficiency for legitimate ground transport/logistics, that I have no problem disincentivizing the use of them in Manhattan with large tolls. There’s a certain hubris required to be the only occupant in a vehicle in manhattan when the public transit infrastructure is so expansive and affordable.

And don’t even get me started on all the wasted space dedicated to parking that could be used for public space, business, bicycle lanes, etc...
You're just a few steps away from building an arbitrage platform.

Why not create a spin-off site and make arbitrage trading easier for people?
Yes, it's not unlike surge pricing or any sort of increased pricing found for any product/service in the face of increased demand and constant supply. However, I find these types of situation to be different. These are supposed to be public roads, usable by anyone with a license as long as they obey the state laws governing the operation of a motor vehicle.

Now NYC wants to add an additional charge to each and every ride through it's most populated region? Seems unfair, especially to those who make less. Some might argue that those in the lower incomes probably don't have cars in a city like NYC or even live in Manhattan at all due to it's cost. And they may be right. But it's also a matter of principle. Seems immoral to me to charge people to use what they are already taxed for multiple times (direct gas tax and some form if income/property tax is used to pay for road maintenance). It also seems especially unfair to tax them to use what is essentially a public good that is already paid for. The tax is simply to incentivize a specific activity (i.e. not driving in Manhattan).

Should we also tax everyone who walks through the streets of Mid-town? Those streets are insanely crowded and I hate being there. Maybe we should tax anyone walking on sidewalks?

Yes, they would be paying with time instead of fees. But many people have time and not so much money and they would probably much rather give up their time instead because it's what they have in a relatively larger amount.
NYPD Raids Newsweek, Seizes 18 Computer Servers
What if I want to experience racing in formula 1 and I'm not a billionaire?
Just like Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.

Apple had their own 3D API in the old days, Quickdraw 3D.

They only played nice with OpenGL, because of NeXT acquisition, NeXTSTEP had Renderman and OpenGL, and they needed to bring developers into their eco-system to avoid closing doors.

Now the bank is full and with graphics middleware, a 3D API is just another interface implementation for the scene graph rendering calls, that are actually used.

Metal is already supported by the majority of engines that matter in the industry, with Qt in the process of adopting configurable backends as well.
There's a language that has citations built into statements of fact or belief; you modify statements based on how you came to know them. If someone asks, "Where is Alice?", your answer of "Alice is fishing" would be phrased differently depending on whether he told you he was going fishing, or whether Bob told you he saw her fishing, or whether you saw her fishing.

There's nothing like that online, so any given advice or answer in a comment could be coming from someone with 20 years of experience, or from someone who googled the exact thing you already did, and copied the first answer they saw on StackOverflow.
Thanks! It's been a while since I read the book -- I'm guessing a little less than 40 years -- so my memory is beyond foggy on the details.

But even though I recall little about its specifics, that book was very influential on my approach to epistemology.
> Hide the laborers in a far off insanely demanding warehouse, you just get the goods.

Anecdotal, but I have visited a few of the Amazon warehouses in the Seattle area. I was surprised by the amount of effort Amazon went to to emphasize safety, work-life balance, healthy activities, and good work habits. There were free vending machines for PPE everywhere, and during the lunch hour each day, managers led workers in 20 minutes of organized exercise to keep people active and moving.

This is just one cluster of US-based warehouses, and probably doesn't account for the working conditions in all Amazon warehouses, but it was far from a sweatshop and workers seemed genuinely content with their jobs.
Yes. In fact, its major remit is to improve value for money by targeting NHS treatments better.

All of its meta-analyses and treatment guidance are available at http://www.nice.org.uk, if you want to explore.
This is wrong on so many levels. Where are you getting your data that CS is almost uniquely imbalanced?

Sweden has a complete record for what every citizen here work, their education and their gender. The data is gathered as part of tax collection and as a matter of policy they also make this information public so anyone can see what the gender distribution is for any industry or profession. 70%/30% distribution is extremely average, and the wast majority of the working population (equal amount women and men) work in such professions.

If you want the most uniquely imbalanced fields, look at the professions and industries that has over 99% of a single gender. From a few years back, that covers around 5 different professions. If the the professions from the CS field is stuck in the 1960, what should we call the psychology profession with 90% women and 10% men? Nearer the 99% bracket we have professions such as mechanics, midwifes and tile installers. If we again take a look around 90% we see professions such as veterinarians, dentists, construction worker, kindergarten teachers, secretary, truck driver, and the list just goes on and on if we were to list every profession with worse gender distribution that those from CS.

93% of the working population work in a industry that the government classified as having imbalanced gender distribution, ie professions that has above 60% of a single gender. 93% is a very huge number and without a question the norm. A fair distribution is the exception, one which hopefully will grow but where the trend has been in the opposite direction since 1960~1970 and just hopefully have now reached the peak.

The only uniqueness about CS+Mathematics as academic fields is that they have more men and women rather than the opposite.
What? No. Because way more people know C than rust. I wanted to be able to reach a wider audience. I know I would have looked elsewhere if I saw found this but I didn't know the language.
You don't want to extend it out from the floor, you need to extend it out from the surface you're mating to.

A more complicated example:

https://youtu.be/zKDCULxeYnQ?t=6m17s
After all the criticism here I took a shot of paraphrasing the website in a page length post: https://yozy.net/2018/01/10-laws-of-ux-digested/

A kind of an opinionated tl;dr
Sometimes in the hnews comments I'll ask a question and normally the answers I get back are pretty good even though my comment is rarely popular. Most recently I asked about some subtlety in the Meltdown vulnerability.

It would be cool in addition to "comments", there was a Q&A section. I find I mostly click on the comments to get a more nuanced understanding of an article only to find a 20-commeny deep flame war about something unrelated.
I'll just refer back to the last time you replied to me with that exact comment :P

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16086537

I suspect that Three.js is the main reason why so many WebGL demos are slow, rather than WebGL itself.
You might be making the wrong assumption about why Mike is saying what he's saying. Sequoia has been investing in China for almost 13 years, with 8 funds and $2.5B USD and $4B RMB raised, and excellent returns. I don't think that Mike is trying to dupe anyone in Silicon Valley into working harder for his benefit. He's already quite fine financially and his investment bets are hedged. The ball, so to speak, is already moving to another court. That plus 13 years worth of concrete experience watching Silicon Valley and Chinese entrepreneurs and startups evolving simultaneously might be informing some of what he's saying. Ascribe sinister motives and ignore what he's saying if you like. But if you do, you better think again about who's being naive.
No it doesn't, since of the people known to have cancer who were tested, only 70% tested positive.
I accept that to research doesn't have a binary quality and the amount of effort can vary. Nevertheless I encounter research close to the second meaning you mentioned frequently.
Ask HN: What roles have you had the most difficult time filling?
I am not personally looking for work but I was having a conversation with a friend and he was talking about a particular position he was having a hard time filling due to a lack of local people who have experience in that skill set. So I am curious, what roles are you having a hard time filling on your team?
A few years ago I co-founded a standing desk company without any experience in real world products in general. The plan was to source desks and sell them to companies. How complicated could it be?
Well, the freight company requires a lot of information about the destination building. The destination building require a lot of paperwork in a very specific format just to deliver something. The paperwork is always a little different. Then actual delivery need to be scheduled on the phone. Every time. The pallets don't fit in the elevator after all, so need men to move boxes. Someone need to dispose of the pallets. The building doesn't have large item disposal.
To assemble 60 desks we need men, tools, floor-plan, access to the building, etc.
Someone has to clean up the packaging material. Then of course one of the 60 boxes were dropped, now damaged and needs replacing. Sending one box is a different game than sending 60. Even if you know what you are doing it takes a lot of emails and phone calls to outfit an office with furniture, and somehow everyone wants to communicate over phone or email, so automation is impossible. And that's how my e-commerce company turned into a service business wiped out all my profits :) (edited for typos)
> Working that much is not good or healthy.

Nor is it good for employee retention, but apparently there is no concern for employee retention.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/954282877717422080

https://twitter.com/TProphet/status/954090579897466880
> Is it reasonable to continue to recommend that beginners use the 'brew install python3' command?

Yes. I cannot promise it'll be around forever (as I can't promise anything forever) but it remains reasonable to recommend that to beginners.
Or just download the pdfs to your hard disk
Would be great if there were a few samples available to load right off the landing page..
> In a two party system, you ignore bad things and back your guy,

True, agreed. They could still stand up for what's right. Criticizing your party doesn't mean automatically endorsing the other party.

But I was also talking about the mainstream media and the coverage it got there as well.

> The very same democrats who mock Trump supporters for not denouncing him when he said "Grab them by the pussy" did not denounce Obama

Or look at the recent "shithole" controversy. Trump said "shithole" (which was terrible, of course) and they talked about it for weeks. Forgot which reporter was even crying on screen about it. That's fine, it's good to be critical and scrutinize those in power. But Obama was dropping bombs on pretty much the same countries and everything was relatively quiet, not many tears from reporters there. Democracy Now was covering and other articles here and there. It's because Obama was polite, composed and projected a professional image.
The worst the attacker could do is prevent you from accessing the Tor network, but that can be mitigated by using Bridges.
The static libraries are only popular right now because people who don't need static cross-compiled binaries are convinced they need a computer that is exactly like the computer people who make websites need.

It's a very odd state of affairs. In an age of docker, nix uberjars, ever more sophisticated user and system space filesystems it's really questionable what value they bring.

People say, "Simplicity" then they bling out their docker containers with multiple layers of processes and initialization anyways.

Go's tooling would have been great in a pre-Docker era. Now... I don't see the appeal.
People get necks and backs broken in real scrums too. A real scrum is a violent fight for control between opposing teams.

A lot of these analogies were not well thought through. I will wager the methodology merchants behind scrum were neither runners nor rugby players ever.
Would rather see something like WebCL back in development for general purpose GPU computation, most importantly deep learning, on the web, then the Xth attempt on superseeding WebGL.
Funneling things through WebGL just doesn't feel right, where proper OES_texture_float support is also not guaranteed.

https://www.khronos.org/webcl/
No. It made no sense and I thought it was kinda off-putting to the actual narrative.
> for the price of cheap socks in a brick-and-mortar store I got some of the best socks I have ever owned.

Link? :-)
Coral reefs 'at make or break point', UN environment head says
I worked at a large consultancy in the UK where the platform team were 'agile' in that they had 2 week sprints, but those 2 week sprint goals were fixed for months ahead. If you needed a small API addition or specific bug fix in one of your apps (elearning courses) to launch a product on the platform and you hadn't foreseen this 2 months+ in advance then you were out of luck (unless you had leverage on one of the platform team higher ups of course).

That was my first introduction to uppercase A for Agile.

Ultimately the wider business never changes in terms of it wants predictable delivery and deadline forecasts, but internally they have to then wedge some version of lowercase a for agile into that because the benefits day to day are there so you have this clunky enterprise friendly version that poorly tries to get best of both.
> An AI is an "unlocked" brain. It can see all the things that it does and then see how it does them.

Except this AI doesn't exist. You're imagining there is such a technology, and this technology will just be able to see all the detail in the world it needs to learn, and presto it does everything better than opaque humans.

If you think deep learning is such a technology, then ask yourself to what extent ANNs understand themselves and you'll see they don't at all. They're just good at optimizing for certain problems humans are able to set them up for.

So, how will us opaque humans create such a transparent technology?
Amazon is taking over the lead in online retail advertising
The saying, “You are not your code” is offensive
Is it concerning yet that they haven't put up their semi annual warrant canary, actually? The last two times, they had it updated by January 14th [0] and July 8th.[1]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20170114100401/https://www.cloud...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170708164222/https://www.cloud...
Theoretically, yes. Asymptotically is one of those words that you often read about, but rarely hear in speech. There are plenty of words I come across in text that I understand the meaning of, but often am not familiar with the correct pronunciation as nobody I interact with in daily life use them. I can see this one falling into that category quite easily.

Whether or not the pronunciation is valuable information given that the communication method is again text remains to be seen.
Average annual hours worked
Nominet abandons its charitable trust
The space a vehicle takes up is also essentially a public good.

Your argument can probably be fairly recast as "everyone should have to pay equal costs in time if they want to use the road". And then never mind that a congestion charge is more predictable than sitting in congestion.
Most Itanium implementations had hardware branch predictors+predicates.
When It Comes to Voice Identification, the NSA Reigns Supreme