skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another Ryzen owner here. I came from mobile 2nd and 3rd gen i7s.

The price to performance is insanely good. I'm on an x370 desktop, with 2xrx550 and rx560. I'm using it as a virt/dev host. I have 16 docker instances running on the host os (Arch Linux).

Then 3 vms with PCI pass through. One for windows gaming/development. Until about three weeks back I was getting a solid 60fps @ 1080p on high across most games, but recently it's been down below 10fps. The next VM is a Linux developer desktop. Lastly, an emulator box connected to a projector away from my desk.

To switch between I just have dongles, 1xhdmi and 1xusb, behind my keyboard, and alternate the plugs. I did this because I couldn't find a good hdmi kvm that did 4k above 60hz.

This year has really been amazing for enthusiasts.
>move bikes around in vans

The irony !
They're not debating the competitiveness of the console. The OP suggested a modern ARM core is comparable in performance to the Jaguar cores used in the AMD chips in the PS4 and Xbox One.
Philosopher Michael Huemer considers this one of the most wasteful charitable donations: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2018/01/huemer_on_ultra....
Here is the tweet that sums itup (a credible source: VC firm A16z partner)
https://twitter.com/conniechan/status/958765216338132992

Tencent Credit has been rolled out nationwide in China:

a score of 300-850 points based on historical data from WeChat and QQ. A good score gives users access to credit, installment payment shopping, and deposit free rentals of bikes and apartments.

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Anonymity on WeChat is already virtually nonexistent. China has phased in a real-name registration requirement for mobile phone numbers since 2013, and all WeChat accounts must be linked to a mobile phone number.
Sure, happy to share a few of the gory details.

Yep, Observable runs user JavaScript code, but that code has no access to your login credentials or anything from the 'application': user code runs in a sandboxed iframe on a separate host - host that doesn't have any cookies or user information. The application communicates with that iframe host through serialized postMessage information only. That's the gist of the 'user code' portion - the rest of the application has additional layers of best-practice security like very strict content security policies and so on that defend from other kinds of attacks.
Pigs are pretty cool too though.
I have a (maybe) interesting twitter related anecdote. 5-6 weeks back I went to the twitter website and I was greeted with a login screen. I couldn't remember my password and didn't feel like finding it so I went off to look at other sites. That happened a few times, until I went back and POOF, I am automatically logged back in again. I've never seen a site un-invalidate an auth token before. Cool beans.
Copy from China?
Most on porn sites is, though.
Their insurance risk pool is far more favorable - those in the military are generally more healthy than the general population, and they have pretty much guaranteed income.
I would love to see them release something that competes with or beats the new Kaby Lake G NUCs
Yes, but the GDPR doesn't apply if the poster is eg a US citizen, as ycombinator isn't based in the EU.

It will/would apply to my posts - or my relationship with ycombinator, for example.

And then it would depend if/how yc would comply; by refusing access from the EU, or aiming for compliance.
The facebook tracking pixel absolutely fingerprints non-users.
Start Together. Finish Together
I feel like we could extend this to essentially be like mario kart or the wacky races and it'd be great!
This is not documentary on North Korea. Its a documentary on ' the north korea show', there isn't even a glimpse of 'real' real korea in those documentaries. Youtube is filled with these tourist documentaries, everyone from bbc to your next door tourist neighbor seems to have one about it. Almost all of them with identical content. All of them present NK in a very sterotypical way, brainwashed population, cult of kims, hatred for america, starving children, deserted roads, total govt grip on people ect ect.

I recommend the watching the follwing media instead

1. Children of the Secret State https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csI1EoMOXXk

2. Loves and the Despot

3. Under the Sun
Rust roadmap for 2018
Syncing and backing up personal data is still too hard
small bug: the earthquake notebook points to `http://www.example.com` instead of the youtube screencast.
Stepping up to crowd-sourcing movement data and constructing robotic/AI replacements? The AI scare is becoming wider and wider, and this time because of what corporations actually do (rather than mere pandering to the sci-fi crowd).
> In what way are nvidia cards more efficient?

The usual way, i.e. "efficiency=performance/power"? Here, I did the math for you. Numbers from whattomine.com:

https://i.imgur.com/2u2HOw7.png

https://filebin.net/fr1sqfwtvulkoynu/gpu_efficiency.ods

As you can see, apart from Vega being a very efficient Cryptonight miner, and Polaris being an acceptably efficient Ethash (Ethereum) miner, AMD cards have absolutely garbage efficiency, they use just tons of power for their performance. And they are one-trick ponies: there are only one or two decent algos for AMD cards.

The 1080 and 1080 Ti specifically have problems with a few algos due to their GDDR5X (which results in half of the memory bandwidth being wasted) but on the whole NVIDIA cards are extremely efficient miners across a variety of algorithms, and usually keep up with AMD on efficiency even on Ethash.

The 1070 Ti, in particular, is the reigning champion of efficiency. It's basically a 1080 with GDDR5 instead of 5X, which makes it the most efficient card in most algos, and its worst-case is "only" being as efficient as a 580 at Ethash.

Again: people prefer AMD cards because they ROI quicker during the booms. The half of this that efficiency obscures is power: AMD cards have higher TDPs and are capable of pumping out a lot more watts per dollar (RIP Planet Earth). But when profits are down and efficiency matters (or for those with expensive electricity), NVIDIA is better, and you also have that flexibility to move across algorithms if there is a hot new currency.

There is also a pretty substantial cargo-cult with regards to mining: people use AMD because that's what they see other people using, and they don't bother to do the math. But NVIDIA has the same efficiency advantage in compute as they do in gaming: 1.5-2x the performance-per-watt in most situations.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/RX_580_Nitro_Pl...
How do people who've used it feel about the dockless iteration of bike sharing?

I've never had occasion to try it, but I'm very skeptical. It seems like letting people leave the bike more-or-less wherever is optimizing the end-of-ride experience at the expense of pretty much every other part of the operation aside from actually riding the bike.

I don't think I'd want to start my morning commute by hunting around in an app for a nearby bike (and hoping there is one) and then wandering around my neighborhood trying to locate it. I'd much rather have the consistency of walking to a known location near my house and grabbing a bike that I know will be there.

I also don't know that, as someone who has to use the sidewalks when not riding, I'd want to have these things just scattered all over the place. Which I fear would be the case. When people are parking these things, it's not _their_ bike, so they won't be so worried about doing a good job of it.

Last, having the bikes scattered at random has got to really do a number on the logistics costs. Going to a relatively constrained list of known locations to retrieve bikes that are due for maintenance sounds a lot cheaper to me than having to drive all over the city, possibly including going to places where the van can't go like random spots in the middle of public parks.
This isn’t high art, but perhaps it will be useful to others. Getting my family data reasonably well backed up and synchronized between our many devices was a harder problem that I expected it to be.
Does the price point of $2 for 30 minutes seem a little high to anyone? Ofo is 4x cheaper at $1/hour [1] in Seattle... even when taking into account the high COL in SF and the extra benefit of electric bike, this seems excessive. A uber pool with the express option can be $3-4 for a short bikeable ride, I think I'd rather default to that in a majority of cases.

[1] https://seattle.curbed.com/2017/8/15/16153622/ofo-bike-share...
It's fair to say that the theory "everything evolves to go back to genesis" is correct.
Next thing is Airbnb promoting caves and tinder releasing match with your hunter app.
Somewhere in the middle Google will come with Fire App.
It appears that through their Social Bicycling program, JUMP bikes offer a $1 credit to people who lock a bike to a charging hub, rather than just a ‘dumb’ bike rack or pole. JUMP claims that bicycles typically require a charge every 48 hours. I’d assume it’ll work the same way with Uber Bike.

Keeping the conservation of energy in mind, any other method of charging isn’t feasible.
I'm a little unclear as to what your end goal is.
> And the other 1% I went to google

Next time, don't go to Google, but go to Startpage. They have the same results as Google but they strip all the Google crap for more privacy.

You can search Startpage.com from within duckduckgo by "searching" in Duckduckgo for:

!sp hackernews

:-)
The official Boris bike app is lame, but fortunately no user of Boris bikes ever has to use it, as they have a solid API. You can get a fantastic experience with apps like CityMapper, which incorporate Boris bikes into the overall public transport landscape. They show you live maps with availability. (Hopefully they'll integrate the newer bike platforms too soon.)
I think, that's kinda been trend with western design in general. Also I agree with the article, that a lot websites are basically low information brochures. If I am going to your website it means I want detailed information. However, a lot products, the site is devoid, and just looks nice.
You could just join a company that runs Holacracy... it’s like a board game for the company rules. Not strictly RPG - but it does have roles...
But he also starts the video saying this is at a basic to intermediate level. Plus, picking things from the tool bar rather than just using keystrokes is a little more video-friendly.
Yes. We use <iframe>s with the sandbox attribute (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/if...) to uh ... sandbox away the running JavaScript.

If you inspect them, you'll see that those frames are hosted on observableusercontent.com instead of observablehq.com.

It's a similar security model to how raw files on GitHub are served from githubusercontent.com.
In SF, they will need to worry about theft of their product.

I have two electric bikes, and I just don't use them. What works for myself is throwing my old mountain bike (cheap bike) into the back of my truck.

Look for free parking(which is getting harder, father every year)--and bike to work.

When my bike gets stolen, I don't care. I have another rusty bike ready to go.

That said, since I'm in construction, it doesn't matter if I'm sweating, or my hair looks like a tornado simulation. I couldn't imagine going into a business meeting after a hard bike ride. Then again--I hear times are changing in terms of attire, hair grooming?
Alexander Hamilton’s Deep Advice
Anybody but Oracle. Google perhaps, or VMWare.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/amzn/

Not new territory at all. P/E is not a good indicator of future earnings, because it artificially penalizes capital investments. Cost of revenue is a better metric.
Rio de Janeiro had an awesome bike system in 2012. You could use an app to unlock the bikes, find hubs, save your credit card info on the app, super easy to use the bikes. This was all setup and subsidized by a local bank, surprised more cities haven't been able to replicate this kind of system.
Cisco's reach beyond the network silo is very small.
I would in a heartbeat.

The mining meta has changed. In 2013 it was about squeezing max perf out of cards at any cost. Now the focus is on efficiency. Most miners will undervolt and underclock cards.

In this scenario, cards used for mining see less heat cycle stress than the cold/hot workloads a typical gaming PC sees. The primary stress is on the fans. However, even those are rated for 5-10 years MTBF under constant use.
Don't the cars have to pay? Otherwise it seems fair that they should compete for the space.
It's not just a "trivial" eyesore in Dallas. It's gotten to the point where there are so many of these dockless bikes around Dallas that there literally isn't enough space on the sidewalk for them, so they start spilling onto roads, train tracks (which cause delays and accidents), blocking sidewalks/paths, etc.

Dockless sounds great in theory, but in practice, humans are assholes and have no problem tossing the bike on the ground with no care to the fact that it's now blocking the sidewalk, road, etc. Then you also have other people who have no problem vandalizing bikes and essentially creating litter that other people are then responsible for cleaning up.

See http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-bike-share-mess-ph...
Recuperation alone would prolong the max. distance by max 5% or so. If you would have to recharge the battery while pedaling this wouldn't be a great experience. Together with the heavy weight of a ebike this wouldn't make any sense.
… the idea that receiving faster or better care because you can pay more is fundamentally unfair.

Is it unfair because it’s health care specifically or because of something else? Premium service offerings abound: priority mail delivery; first class passage; reddit gold; ongoing memberships or subscriptions to movie theaters, golf courses, publications, and podcasts; “freemium” model web services, and Amazon Prime.

… there's no room in a just society for a "basic service" which does not provide the best possible care.

Basic service and best possible care are at different ends of the spectrum for whatever good or service we’re talking about. What did you mean by this remark?
Scoot works pretty well with this model. I would much rather have a shot at getting a nearby bike than consistently walking a distance.
Not sure why I got down voted? Honest question? Why is the government and NY times looking into this?
Many possibilities:

- gain the remainder of users who perhaps can afford a bike ride but not an uber to their destination

- gather bike-specific data which could immensely improve safety for autonomous vehicles

- improve their horrible image by aligning themselves with environmentally-friendly and traffic-alleviating transit

- bikes are fully automated and require no troublesome humans to keep the system going. Uber drivers a big hassle for Uber.

- optimizing a bike rental system is a training ground for running an autonomous car rental system

Just off the top of my head..
Communism as you're referring to it is not what many supporters of communism (and/or opponents of capitalism) are advocating for.
> It would be good not have any of that damned Python monkey business involved in this.

please, GDB internals are open source, you can do all of that in plain C :D That's what I did initially, to give GDB the ability to distinguish user-level threads (see libthread_db).

Having a high-level language / interface to GDB is a great again of time !
Lol, ironic that an account created 33 minutes ago with 0 karma is commenting on someone being a bot.
That's exactly what I thought, but then the recent FCC report (quoted at https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hawaii-ema-fires... with the source scanned and available at https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/repor...) says:

>Employee 1 has been a source of concern for the same SWP staff for over 10 years. Employee 1’s poor performance has been counseled and documented and the SWP members have stated that they are “not comfortable with Employee 1 as a supervisor, two-man team, or as a part of the SWP in general. He does not take initiative and has to be directed before he takes action. He is unable to comprehend the situation at hand and has confused real life events and drills on at least two separate occasions.”
It looks absurd, but it's standard advice if a backhoe or crane hits a power line.

https://youtu.be/Xvlk_73bSvc?t=2m31s
> in our increasingly non-local economic systems, laws that vary by area are problematic and often go unenforced.

More often,
“in our increasingly non-local economic systems”, laws (especially civil laws, where the complaining party chooses whether and where to pursue violations) that vary by area are effectively enforced at the level of the most favorable (to the complaining party) regime available, rather than being unenforced.
It can charge while you’re pedaling :)
In many parts of SF, an electric bike will be quicker than an Uber
Ethereum Now Has Its Own Self-Sustaining Pyramid Scheme
Scientists Sequence Human Genome with Handheld USB Device
Generally, they're making things worse. After finally getting around to dealing with doctors over-prescribing powerful opioids, they just shut down the legal supply. Now all those patients, many of whom are addicted because they've been taking chewable heroin for months or years, have to kick one of the toughest addictions known to medical science. On top of that, they're back to dealing with the back/knee/etc pain that caused them to start taking opioids in the first place.

It's no surprise that many of them simply can't do it, and thus turn to a VERY thriving black market.

The DEA gets involved again, and now those people hooked on pain meds given to them by their doctor are in the legal cross-hairs because they're buying the same shit from somebody who illegally imported it from Mexico or China.

This is not a new problem in America. It's been an issue in the past. First it was morphine after the civil war, then it was Bayer-brand Heroin (which was marketed as a non-addictive morphine substitute) after WW1. Every time somebody gets the bright idea to restrict an opioid because of how many addicts it creates, they never seem to have an answer to the follow-up question - what do we do with the addicts? Then we are collectively shocked about the size of the black market afterwards.
[Solid Commerce vs. Jazva] an Honest ECommerce Software Comparison
I'm not sure how interested the NSA would be in archiving information that's 100 or more years old, especially as the cost of doing so might become very significant for that volume of data. It's also far from clear that they'd ever give this information to any other agency or corporation for safekeeping, even if they no longer have a use for it themselves. They might not ever even give researchers access to it.
Right, we didn't have the URL yet last night. Thanks! Fixed.
> If I store them electronically, I will never look at them again.

That seems to be an actual problem for everyone, isn't it?

Maybe a notes app could try solving it by doing the Facebook-like thing where it occasionally shows you a random note from the past. :)

Or suggesting similar past notes when you write a new one that matches them. e.g., if I'm writing down an idea I've had for a role-playing game, the app suggests past notes with RPG in them.
Ah, to solve the social media bot problem, we must first simply uplift the world to a unified economic system.
> What is the boundary, in digital devices, between hardware and software? It follows from the definitions. Software is the operational part of a device that can be copied and changed in a computer; hardware is the operational part that can't be. This is the right way to make the distinction because it relates to the practical consequences.

> There is a gray area between hardware and software that contains firmware that can be upgraded or replaced, but is not meant ever to be upgraded or replaced once the product is sold.

See http://ps-2.kev009.com/pccbbs/mobiles/7buj19us.txt
^F EC version
Exactly my point, actually.
The key word in your comment is 'seem'. It seems that way not because it's true—we've banned many accounts for abusing HN from the opposite ideological side—but because there's a cognitive bias in such perceptions. People with the opposite ideology have the opposite perception.

I've written about this a ton if anyone is interested: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...
Rentier syndrome and fraud has more to do with high healthcare costs than utilization.
Apple’s Organizational Crossroads – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Any plans to make the notebooks embeddable in other sites?
I know I'm healthy. There have been 420 confirmed cases of Lyme disease in Tennessee over the past 15 years. One person for every 250,000 will get infected in a given year. And even then, those people will only get infected if they leave the tick on themselves for 48 hours. Shower once daily and you're fine.

But let's pretend the tick is infected and the tick feeds for 48 hours. Take some antibiotics and you're fine. Lyme disease is stupidly easy to treat. And no it does not come upon you suddenly. There's a huge rash that covers the infected area.

I'm sorry for what happened to your father and uncle's son. Truly, I am. More awareness should be raised about Lyme disease. You don't need to fear it or spray your yards. If you see the rash go to a doctor.
For those who might not have twigged from the domain, this is published by the Cato Institute, a think-tank has a clearly stated agenda to promote libertarianism.

Whatever your stance on libertarianism in general, it's not hard to imagine that a communist state is a libertarian's worst nightmare from an ideological perspective and that we should probably view this with the same scepticism we might from an article put out by a hypothetical pro-DPRK think-tank.
Prob. PER is only really useful for a firm with a stable and positive net income (think of things like industrials where growth capex isn't such a major factor). For something like a firm fluttering around zero EPS you would use a more forward measure of expected profit. The problem with PER is that stock price is forward looking while EPS is backwards looking.
Generally speaking, I agree with what you're saying - I think FanBoost is stupid. BUT - the limit would still be there. They limit the RPM, etc. in the petrol cars for other reasons too. I think this is a really small impact on how "crippled" the cars are.
Flattr extension is now open source
Regarding the full docks, Hamburg (StadtRAD) has a nice system: you still have to go to a dock, but if it's full, you can lock it by itself and leave it there. Having previously tried JCDecaux's system in Paris and Brussels, it was a pleasant surprise.
I’ve ridden some Bird scooters in Santa Monica. They’re amazingly fun. But yes, scooters are left at night, especially on the beach bike path when they finally run out of battery. I can’t imagine Bird not sinking a lot of money into gathering those scooters and charging them every night.
Taking WebAR for a Walk in the Park #AugmentedReality
I don't think they would move to continuous recognition and upload. I think it would simply be listening for a different keyword, which it would recognize on-device, and then upload the audio following that.

It would be pretty insane if every android smartphone was continuous uploading audio to Google's servers for processing. Can you imagine the processing requirements, the bandwidth load, the battery drain?
So by this reasoning, you're saying virtually every other country on Earth that spends less than half as much per capita as the U.S., has no such concept as medical bankruptcies, and covers a greater percentage of citizens must be LESS altruistic than America?
some contractor sold some an artificial intelligence predictive crime product to catch baddies somewhere in that pipeline
I have an electric bike that goes 20mph. It only feels fast for the first week or so until you get used to it.