skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a Google Max for a couple months. It sounds great (bass is insane) and plays well with Spotify, not to mention the available actions, home controls, etc. I do have an iMac, iPhone, MacBook, etc., but I can't see myself buying a HomePod. I'm just not sure what the value is (over Max) especially when I prefer Spotify to Apple Music. I've noticed a lot of reviews and tweets avoiding the comparison of Max to HomePod - seems most are comparing HomePod to Echos and Homes.
IBM’s 2018 Rollout Plan for Power9 Systems
Musk tweeted an orbital projection: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/961083704230674438?s=09
At the very top end, the VC707 ($3500) will let you run a quad core 64 bit RISC-V at about 100 MHz. At the bottom end you'd be looking at one of the boards supported by PicoRV32 (https://github.com/cliffordwolf/picorv32), and some of those are as little as $100. If you want flashing lights as in the video then the Nexys 4 DDR might be a good compromise (but you'd have to program the lights to flash yourself).
I think the worry isn't that they are listening to everybody all the time. I think it's more about the potential for abuse by Amazon, their employees, or law enforcement.

If the police approach Amazon with a court order saying they want to the microphone turned on in Someone1234's home, what do you think Amazon will do?
New Memory Challenges Legacy Approaches to HPC Code
I'm interested to see if the US is able to do anything to Bitfinex now as a litmus test to see how wide their reach is in 2018. As far as I know they have zero US presence, and don't offer services to US customers.

BTC-e went down hard for example. But they had some much more obvious links with criminal enterprise.

Although even if it is possible to stay outside of the reach of the US, losing access to the international banking system is quite the handicap for any business.
> This is a weird article at this point in time.

It's a timely article, because a number of things have changed in recent years to make the tradeoffs around using Python quite different from what they once were. Ten years ago, Python was slower than the alternatives by a small constant factor, datasets weren't big enough for python performance to be an issue, Python had a world-class tooling/library ecosystem and higher-performance languages at a similar level of conciseness/productivity were basically unknown.

Today, as the article says, things are different: Core counts are rising so practical Python performance is falling further and further behind, datasets have gotten large enough for Python performance to be an issue, Javascript has proven that it's possible to get much higher performance out of a scripting language, languages like Haskell have gone mainstream and offer a comparable-to-Python (better, in fact, given what a mess Python's packaging situation is) tool/ecosystem experience and comparable levels of productivity with much higher performance.

Every tool is a "sometimes", but good engineering is knowing when a given approach moves from being the right one 90% of the time to being the right one 10% of the time.
Establishing security guidelines for smart city projects
How Augmented Reality impacts the insurance industry
It's the distro supplied CE package.
Design by contract (in PHP) easier with Dsheiko\Validate new version
There is no profit to be had right now in mining stuff in space and sending it down to Earth.

There is however plenty of profits to be made in space, when we'll have a full space economy. Asteroid mining is an important part of both the future economy and of the current process of bootstrapping that economy.

The idea is to use material mined in space, combined with manufacturing and processing in space, to create products and resources to be used in space, for space operations. Ultimately some of that may return to Earth, but the main goal is to avoid spending money on lifting things from Earth.
We've got rid of hierarchy at out tech company, here's why
Don’t be quick to assume that people just don’t understand the technology – it could be that their concerns are based on understanding history.

Apple doesn’t run an advertising and sales business and they’ve made privacy a major selling point. That gives many people reason to believe they won’t quietly change functionality in an update or start selling data from the cloud services backing these systems.

You can see this happening in the mobile space where Apple has been proactive about privacy concerns and Google has generally waited for public outcry or impending regulations before cleaning up their app store.
I do this too, but I have 1 file for everything, with each project having a section. At the end of the day, I rotate the file and archive it in a directory. I can run a script and figure out how much time I spent on a project over several years.
FWIW, I have had very positive interactions with the community, including some discussions about proposed features on the github issues with founders as part of the discussion.

My impression is they are thinking very deeply about this work, from a theoretical CS standpoint, but also open to input from average users of the language.
Why Nim rather than e.g. Haskell (mentioned in the article) or OCaml, which are much more mature and have much bigger, more established tool/library ecosystems?
Fair enough, I really should have caught that. I guess it's been longer than I thought since I had to deal with that stuff. :/

It doesn't change the point I was trying to make much though.
They could do it back then too.

If you dig past the internet comments and read some of the "primary source" books, the picture of the leaks is very different. I can't remember the exact book I read it in, but the author states there was a tank sealant, and it lasted around 50 hours (I think), before it needed to be replaced.

This is somewhat backed up by the Jenkins book [1] which talks about the time consuming process of replacing sealant, and the Graham book [0] that is the source for the Wikipedia claims on expansion. It talks of different sealants used, and how leaks were precisely noted and collected in _shallow_ drip trays.

[0] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dX5cCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA129&dq...

[1] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lEpWE748QUsC&q=sr71+seal...
Windows 7 adds some nice things like search and the explorer shift+Rclick menu, but it also hides some settings panels that haven't changed since 2k behind more clicks.
Not me but a friend of mine read a lot of Kafka in his mid-teens, which seemed to strenghten his existential angst.
Some friends have reverse engineered the file sync protocol and are writing a small Haskell lib to interact with the rp1 storage.
> Yes, but unlikely in the next couple million years.

So, the reason I asked was because of not having a source. Did this come from SpaceX or someone authoritative who has done the math?

> A planet has a definition involving size and shape, which the Roadster does not fit.

That was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I know, correctness > humor.
If everyone consumed like an American we’d need something like 4x Earths. There are not enough resources on this planet unless westerners start scaling back their consumption and members of developing societies scale their ambitions down to match the new, lower consumption models of the West.
your tone is condescending but i'll bite: cursory search will provide plenty of evidence for the claim that telecommuting is on the rise; very little evidence to the contrary.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/21/pf/jobs/working-from-home/in...
Do you think they will open up the ecosystem?
Which reviews in particular? The ones I saw all compared the HomePod to Google Home Max (and Sonos and Echo Plus)
I buy Audible credits, which come out to ~10/book.

I don't see an option for them on the non-logged in page, but I buy a set of them, and then can use them how I want, not per month.

While the Netflix model is nice for residual content, 90% of the books I want are available on Audible - I'd rather have that selection than a more limited selection I could get in a subscription model.

I think some places do a subscription, though - Have you looked at Playster?
I admire people who go through libraries and re-implement them, especially because I found Arrow (and Parquet) code very annoying to understand.

The documentation doesn't cover the design decisions that the crew took, and what the concepts are in-depth.

At least Arrow improves upon Parquet, by actually adding a type for INT_8 and INT_16, which for some reason Parquet actually stores as (a less efficient column of) INT_32s.
Exactly. This is a chicken-and-egg problem, and to break out of it, you need to address supply and demand simultaneously.

Asteroid mining isn't happening in a vacuum (well, it is in a physical one, but not metaphorical). Fortunately, there are people working on using the mined material to manufacture things in space too; missions plans are being sketched around those capabilities.
I saw that, but that doesn't tell me what will happen 10^3 or 10^9 orbits later.

Or does it?

Not trying to be snarky, genuinely curious.
All of my friends have iPhones.
I assume Adams still did some amount of recon. Driving around, sees something he likes, comes back when the lighting is better.

Two of the pros I know shoot professional cycling. Lots of time on the back of a motorcycle to get action shots. But some of panoramic shots of the peloton are what takes more work/planning.

And of course, my own personal biases come in as well. I strongly prefer photos that are on the "journalism" end of the spectrum vs pure art, if that makes any sense.
Although neat in its own right, anyone whose looking at this project out of concern for subversion should know there's still process nodes in use that you can see with your own eyes. Well, you dissolve coating around random chips to put them under a microscope. You're limited to 350nm and up if I'm right that the property ended around 250nm. There were also 500nm and 700nm available when I last looked at shuttle runs.
I applaud your effort, but generally speaking it looks like we were lied to about the diesel efficiency claims.

And CO2 is not the only pollution consideration. There are all sorts of carcinogens, heavy metals, and particulates that can be released when burning anything.
> Where are the main blowouts in python performance?

I did some research a few years ago that tried to quantify some of this. If you trust my methodology, the biggest problems (depending on application, of course) are: boxing of numbers; list/array indexing with boxed numbers and bounds checking; and late binding of method calls. Basically, doing arithmetic on lists of numbers in pure Python is about the worst thing you can do.

And it's not just due to dynamic typing: Even if you know that two numbers you want to add are floats, they are still floats stored in boxed form as objects in memory, and you have to go fetch them and allocate a new heap object for the result.

The basic idea of my study was as follows: Compile Python code to "faithful" machine code that preserves all the operations the interpreter has to do: dynamic lookups of all operations, unboxing of numbers, reference counting. Then also compile machine code that eliminates some of these operations by using type information or simple program analysis. Compare the execution time of the different versions; the difference should be a measure of the costs of the operations you optimized away. This is not optimal because there is no way to account for second-order effects due to caching and such. But it was a fun thing to do.

The paper, with data for a set of benchmarks, is here: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/gergo/papers/dyla14.pdf

As for how to improve this, I think Stefan Brunthaler did the most, and the most successful, work on purely interpretative optimizations for Python. Here is one paper that claims speedups between 1.5x and 4x on some standard microbenchmarks: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2300

Basically, you can apply some standard interpreter/JIT optimization techniques like superinstructions or inline caching to Python. But these things are hard to do, they won't matter for most Python applications, and come with a lot of complications.
It's less fun when you realize that being able to drop any meaningful amount of material from space is equivalent to having a weapon of mass destruction.

(This is actually a constant thing in spaceflight, that comes up because of the scales involved. Similarly to that, any engine able to cut down interplanetary travel to reasonable lengths (days, weeks) will have energy output of a WMD, and could be used as such.)
Or carry more mass, the car didn't even have a roof
Spark is great, but at that point why not just use Scala? It offers Python-like conciseness/productivity, and by using the same language Spark is written in you avoid a big class of possible interop issues.
Well, .... yes.

I was explaining that my use of "dress down" was in a business context. And it's not like I have a pan-European experience. My account was a chance to tell an anecdote which supported the OP's views.
What author refers to as "stylus lag" is actually a limitation of the E-ink display.
Here in Oregon some people wear sandals and shorts to work in winter. Hiking boots at work are also sorry common.
With AI, your Apple Watch could flag signs of diabetes
It's set off a catastrophic chain-reaction of collisions in the asteroid belt. You've killed us all, Elon!

/sarcasm
The Uber Pay Gap
Wow, what a bad review:

> I’ve seen a lot of commentary along the lines up “Well, of course Apple is promoting HomePod’s audio quality, because Siri sucks compared to Alexa and Google Home as a voice assistant.” I would argue that’s not true across the board, but it’s inarguably true that Alexa and Google Home are far better than Siri at certain things, and if those things are important to you, you probably aren’t even reading this review, because you know HomePod isn’t for you.

"This product is perfect, if it isn't perfect for you is because this product isn't for you"

> The harder decisions are choosing between HomePod, the Alexa-equipped Sonos One, and Google’s Home Max. Based on my side-by-side listening experience — admittedly, in a demo set up and conducted by Apple, but in a residential room that I would describe as very typical in terms of its size and acoustics — HomePod does sound better.

Pure advert.
A month of uncontrollable diarrhea sounds awful.
How come they need to introduce 'no idling' zones? Where I live (Norway) idling is banned all over. As far as I know idling for more than one minute is banned all over Scandinavia. Doesn't stop inconsiderate drivers doing it of course.

In fact it is already illegal in the UK. Here is a quote from Confused.com:

"Stationary idling is an offence under section 42 of the Road Traffic Act 1988," ...
The Act enforces rule 123 of the Highway Code which states: "You must not leave a vehicle engine running unnecessarily while that vehicle is stationary on a public road."

And doing this can incur a £20 fixed-penalty fine under the Road Traffic (Vehicle Emissions) Regulations 2002.
There are some reviews which compare it to the Max and the HomePod seems to compare well to it. But most reviews agree, that if you want to regularly use the HomePod with music from outside of Apple Music or your iCloud music library, then the HomePod might not be the ideal speaker for you - at least in the current software configuration.
Nonetheless I don't see much that is irrational about the way economists actually behave in aggregate. I think they more or less rationally response to the incentives they are given.

The controversy surrounds what those incentives actually are.

Other people (e.g. gamblers) perhaps not so much.
Just want to let everyone know that dogpile.com is still a thing and you can still "fetch" to your hearts content. They're poised to make a comeback any day now.
It may not be your cup of tea, but I don't think your concern about large code bases will be a problem. Ensuring invariants across large code bases is what rust excels at. You'll more likely have the opposite problem: getting frustrated at trying to use an API in a way that it was never intended and compiler won't let you.
Cognitive Computation Symposium: Thinking Beyond Deep Learning
Rapha and Outlier make some good clothes. The most interesting new category of clothing is coming from outdoor technical apparel retailers who are moving into more urban/city clothes, and reinventing everything using better fabrics and technical features, and, in keeping with the conventions of the technical apparel industry, everything they make is field tested up the wazoo.

I bought these cycling pants from Arcteryx, they're the best pants I've bought. They're Teflon coated, presumptively to shed road splatter, but they shed everything else as well, they don't get dirty! I've worn them 20 times, they haven't been through the wash yet. I spilled flour, spaghetti sauce and coffee on them, there's no visible evidence that any of that has happened.

https://arcteryx.com/ec/en/shop/mens/A2B-Commuter-Pant
> So, the reason I asked was because of not having a source. Did this come from SpaceX or someone authoritative who has done the math?

SpaceX said that wrt. their original projected trajectory of a Mars Transfer Orbit. Since right now we're talking about something more like Ceres Transfer Orbit, the projection can change (and, as per article, astronomers are asking Elon for details to calculate it), but keep in mind one thing: space is big and empty. The chance of it hitting anything on short timescales are close to 0.
Sometimes even for a one-shot job you dive down and write passable code then as you start to tackle the complexities of the problem at hand you realise that the amount of ropy code has just tied your hands and now it gets increasingly harder to wrap your head around your implementation and finally complete the one-shot job.
I have not, I would be open to it thou. We have hired contractors that sometimes help us on code issues on an on-going basis thou from Upwork.
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I wouldn't categorically rule meltwater as safe. People can and do dump garbage and human waste into glacier crevasses. What gifts you leave for the glacier, the glacier eventually returns.
The section "comments on the results" is well worth reading.

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How large is the team? Specifically, is it project management for 1 person or more than 1 person?
> I bought a Bose sound bar (the wide one) and wasn't overly impressed with it

Isn't this normal for Bose products? Usually you buy Bose for the looks and the prestige, not for the sound quality.
This isn't a choice between foreign-owned factory or a locally-owned factory.

This is a choice between a foreign-owned factory or no factory.

Also, why would you expect the profits to stay inside? If Nike opens a factory in Bangladesh, wouldn't the profits go to Nike? I don't understand your "local profits" statement?

And the jury isn't out on the benefits of neoliberal globalization. It's been shown to clearly reduce poverty among the global poor. It's why Bangladesh went from 41% extreme poverty to 14% extreme poverty over the last 25 years...
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That's entirely because of the cost of lifting to orbit. If resources were available at reasonable cost, demand would soar. It would be the largest expansion of commerce since the discovery of the new world. It cannot be underestimated the impact this would have on human development.
"many of the things that make life worth living aren’t measurable at all, or if they are measurable then they aren’t comparable. How many dinners with family equal one random act of kindness?"

I think there is a dangerous mysticism in this idea of the immeasurable, incomparable, and unfalsifiable value judgement. It may be difficult to reason about the value of family dinners or acts of kindness, and more difficult still to calculate or approximate some kind of dinners-per-kindness measurement, but that's a different thing entirely from claiming there is not and cannot be such a measurement.

For example, you could adopt the axes from the rest of the article, and ask questions like "how much of my money and/or free time would I give up for a family dinner?" "how much would I give up for a random act of kindness?" "is there a minimum amount of money and/or free time I need to be able to afford family dinners or acts of kindness?" "if I only had enough to afford one of the two, which would I choose?"

Saying "my values are complex and I don't know how to reason about them" is the start of a series of interesting questions that ultimately yields a better understanding of yourself. Saying "my values are so complex that they cannot be reasoned about" is anti-intellectualism dressed up as profundity; it's nothing more than an excuse to stop trying to understand.

Worse, the entire foundation of the premise is rotten. Oh, sure, rational thinking is great for measuring laser waves or whatever, but can you reason about the beauty of a sunset, the warmth of a lover's embrace, the blissful confusion of waking from a nap on a summer afternoon?

Yes you can. And the sooner you stop thinking that significance demands ignorance, the sooner you can start understanding and improving the things that are most important to you.
I purchased the remarkable and was really disappointed. I ended up returning it. Ultimately, if i'm spending $700 for a writing tablet (after accessories), it has to work as described. Some of the deal breaking issues:

- Battery lasts for hours, not days.
- Mobile apps are buggy, viewing notes caused them to crash
- Randomly stops responding to pen
- Randomly freezes up
- Customer support takes weeks to respond
- Ereader experience is horrible (no bookmarks, table of contents, etc)
- UI really needs improvements (pen style settings aren't retained)
Sure but this is a highly impractical method when you are hiking from dawn to dusk and consuming 1L of the water an hour on a backpacking trip. For most backcountry excursions, water purification methods must not only be effective, but also reasonably time efficient. It’s a different story if you are setting up camp somewhere for a prolonged period of time, but then you can just boil water.
I think Audio Quality is all about taste, just like how lots of people said Beats ( before they were acquired by Apple ) were great. My god they were absolutely awful and disgusting by my standard.

You will have to listen to it yourself and make a judgement. But given how i like most Apple's product sounded, and the changes / improvement they have made to the recent Beats, I think those speaker will likely well worth $350.

Although I really wish they open up AirPlay Video for TV manufacture. Or actually make a God Damn Apple TV Set. I dont understand how I cant use my speaker for my TV.
One question I had about the Tesla launch that wasn't clear is whether the car was thoroughly sanitized prior to sending it up. My understanding is that any object that has the potential to reach another planet has to be thoroughly sterilized to avoid inadvertently introducing Earth organisms to another planet. The chances are technically low but it is theoretically possible and its why NASA has a dedicated page on "planetary protection": https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/technology/insituexplorati...

My hope is that the SpaceX people did the same for this Tesla. Otherwise it would be rather reckless especially since now it is clear there wasn't a specific controlled orbit path, just a burn to launch it as far as possible, and now its possible it could end up impacting something and potentially contaminating it with Earth organisms.
I'm not sure which is more funny: that his name is Cheddar Man, that he looks like Jerome Jackson, or how butthurt the racists are going to be.