skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to buy a Ryzen 7/Vega 10 laptop from Dell last Thursday. By Friday, it was gone, and only Ryzen 5/Vega 8 laptops are available, even for the 17" Inspiron. Not "Out of stock" gone, but "This product doesn't exist" gone.

Lenovo makes one with only 12Gb of RAM, Asustek's effort is 8Gb, a single channel. AMD makes the best integrated CPU/GPU for laptops but you cannot buy it anywhere.

Commentary elsewhere is that Intel is leaning hard on builders not to use the Ryzen 7/Vega 10, or if they use it, to put it in an otherwise shitty spec box that cripples it.
Good lord, that looks like Death By Parentheses

(do (set f1 0) (set f2 1) (set x 0) (while (neq (get x) 50) (do	(set x (+ (get x) 1)) (set next (+ (get f1) (get f2))) (set f1 (get f2)) (set f2 (get next)) (print (get f2)) ) ) )
The HPET bug: What it is and what it isn't
https://www.insaturnsrings.com/trailer

Wow. Just Wow.

I have already emailed the link pleading for a London release.
Somebody builds a maximally efficient, hellish dystopia of a simulated city with no roads, no cars, and everyone's needs provided for within one city block if not a single building. Hackernews gasps in awe, then goes right back to lamenting the existence of suburbs, calling for bans on personal automobiles, and wondering why their city doesn't have superdense "walkable communities".
So how do you know that your low-level construct is on the path to where you want to be?

It's kind of growing the grass and let people walk on it, then decide where to put slabs on the paths.

Anyway I bet you are considering the cost of making changes. That cost is different for different languages.
Cool.

I wrote a gameboy emulator a few years ago now in Go (https://github.com/djhworld/gomeboycolor), it was a personal project that had a lot of highs but crippling lows.

Very rewarding, but frustrating. I don't think it builds anymore due to library conflicts.
The very first program I wrote was a game for the TI-83+ graphing calculator where the calculator picked a random number and the player had to guess the number. After each guess, the calculator would tell you if you were too high or too low.

I've never had a more enjoyable experience writing a program than that. There were no rules or good practices to follow. I didn't even know what most of the TI-BASIC commands did.

There was no version control, no documentation, no compiler, no wondering if I was using the appropriate framework, and no real goal in mind. It was, possibly, the only time I've ever played with a computer in the sense that a child plays with things.

I didn't write another program until I switched from an unrelated major to computer science during my second year of college and at first, some of that magic was still there.

It's now entirely gone. I'm not sure if I will ever enjoy programming a computer again. Luckily, I'm still young so there is time for me to do something else with my life.
Hashing 4GB files may roll some eyes

That sounds kind of unhealthy.
Somewhere in the US, there's a Goldman's Sack analyst furiously making phone calls trying to prevent this catastrophic cure from spreading.

(Did I type Goldman Sachs correctly the first time?)
It is not cheating, since no rules were broken.

That said, that power and water isn't free. The city must be paying through the nose for all that power and water.

It has been a while since I played SimCity 3000, but IIRC those deals become extortionate after you hit a certain scale.
That's a personal question that you'd have to answer for yourself. Work doesn't give you time but it does give you money. Money can assist in providing you opportunities to do things that give you substance but it most definitely isn't the only tool that provides that opportunity.

If you would like your work to provide fulfillment you should look for other job opportunities. No harm from that.

If it isn't necessary then find work opportunities that allow you more freedom, such as, flexible schedule or working remotely.
In Saturn's Rings – Film for Giant Screen, IMAX, Fulldome Planetariums
> You dont get those types of salaries elsewhere easily.

Except for all of the other big tech companies?
And even though it will reach to the top in HN and other sites we'll probably forget about it in a couple of weeks as any other meme.

But then again I spend my time daily in other meaningless activities that won't even be noticed by a single person. So good for him. I hope I'll reach that level of determination in the future.
No. Digg was more like Reddit for content but without the community. What comment sections there were were more like forum posts.

The content was also different back then, lots of content made it to digg a day after it was on Reddit but some top Reddit posts were too techy/nerdy for digg.

Now of course most Reddit content (on r/all) is the same as digg back then, pics, GIFs and memes.
Pff, I'd like to say yes from the narrative and feelings people have in the city, but I haven't seen an empirical study.

Amsterdam is quite strict about airbnb too, entire apartments can only be rented out 30 days a year, but it's hard to regulate. Basically, you can get 150 a night, i.e. 4500 a month for apartments that normally rent for 1500. So there's quite an incentive to break the rules. Basically, if you have one 1500 home, you pay 18k a year, rent it out for three times that (54k), and basically live on a median salary at the cost of managing a single rental. It's pretty crazy.

I'm quite okay with tourists, but I think they should put a big fat tax on them. The notion that there's 7 billion people who may find your city of 1 million people an interesting place to visit, puts the locals at a gigantic demand-disadvantage. It's virtually impossible to compete on free market economics.

But if tourists are still paying 150 a night, but landlords are only getting 75 a night after-tax, then locals who can 'only' pay 50 a night can compete for space, you can keep tourist flows in check but keep it open to tourists too, keep your city open, let tourism sustain the local economy etc.

That having been said, Amsterdam has a few unique problems. For one, it's got an old city centre, the image of which is part of its protected heritage. That's why it's general policy not to build high-up, which means you're limited in your population density and get very expensive housing. In general building upwards is also tricky because it's a city built on swampland. Secondly, the crisis hit pretty hard here and construction halted for a long time and is only now picking up, but with a lot less (labor) capacity than before the crisis which had to be shed off to survive. Then there's the fact there just isn't a lot of space left to build, the Netherlands doesn't really commit to urban sprawl which is great, but also limits the radius of the city. And if you can't go further and you can't build upwards, plus you're not building as fast as you should after a crisis, you've got some big issues.
It doesn't. That said, in companies like Google, an eng has a lot of flexibility to choose the team they want to work on - so eventually many people find the thing which they really like. And good money on top of it is the icing on the cake.

Also, I linked money since the parent comment talked about finding interesting ans similar paying role as Google's.
hmmm... I kinda feel like I can't read the most important part of this as he explains in the footnote:

"So, I definitely messed up with yesterday’s article in a way none of you noticed; given that on Monday I wrote in-depth about Google’s new Chat initiative, I kind of skirted over the details in yesterday’s article, Open, Closed, and Privacy. Unfortunately, that meant I got a whole bunch of tweets and email from non-subscribers taking me to task for items, well, that I already explained (I didn’t get any from subscribers). The perils of paywalls!"

Because even after reading it twice I am not sure I can follow along.
> futuristic, renewables-powered dystopia

Why is it a dystopia?

Assuming one day China goes to space, achieved nuclear fusion. Would human being be more freed in that way than stuck in the freedom in a tiny ball of mud in the universe?
They have cars though!
This looks genuinely awesome - a tour through space / solar system using genuine footage.
No, I meant less physical window, although I see what you are getting at with the other sense.
I don't know if he's mocking China. He is is expressing the ambivalent feeling that many have about China, and he's doing so in a bit of a comedic way.
Yes, there are cases when arrow functions are useful: when small functions are used inline, like this:

var numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4].map(x => x * x);
var bestUsers = users.filter(u => u.getRating() > 100);

But for a case when you have a large non-anonymous function, `function` keyword suits better. You don't need to use `const` keyword just becase it is something trendy now.

In your example, the code with arrow functions is smaller, but it is not more readable. Because there is no indentation, it is difficult to understand how code is nested. I cannot read that.

It can be rewritten using `deferred` pattern:

var deferred = new Deferred;

methodOne(data, function (error, response) {
if (erorr) {
deferred.reject(error);
} else {
deferred.resolve(response);
}
});

return deferred.getPromise();

This way we can get rid of a callback in the Promise constructor. Please note that our code now looks sequential and we clearly see what happens after what. Asynchronous code is difficult to write and read; therefore we must put an extra effort to make it easier.

In my opinion it is generally bad idea to nest more that 1-2 levels of functions inside each other.
Ask HN: What could you contribute in 1918?
If you were transported back a hundred years with nothing but your brain to work with, what technology could you build and share with humanity on your own? Let's assume you could use all technology available at the time.
The internet is enabling a community of men who want to kill women
What's the spin of the article that you object to?
I don't really see what impact this has on our ability to extract information from a person's brain. We can already stick brain-computer interfaces into a brain while it's attached to the rest of a body. The significance of this technology combined with BCIs is in my opinion positive; that people may be able to have a meaningful conscious existence without a body, beyond their natural death.
Making Alexa More Friction-Free
Suffice it to say, [1] is not what was being referred to (though it’s still a fair point).

Let’s talk about the costs of this case. It’s been dragging on for 7+ years now and I’d love to share an official accounting of what it cost every party involved, but no such accounting will ever exist. I’m sure it’s immense and well into the 7 figures by now.

We’ve been unable to afford our own counsel (a situation verified by, and kinda forced by, the government) so our defense has been paid for by your tax dollars. The 4 prosecutors in this case have been paid for by your tax dollars. The judge and jury? Yep, you guessed it. (BTW, judge earns more each day than the entire 14-member jury does). The 17+ agent FBI assault team armed with M4 assault rifles and hundreds of hours of “billable” phone hours by certain agents who couldn’t recall under oath the names of the people they spent those hours talking to? Your tax dollars.

Even if that company gets that amount of money from us (and gets to keep it), I’m certain the amount they’ve paid their own people to tilt at this particular windmill will make it a loss even to the company. That’s before the upcoming news of the consumer data leak makes it out there.

Dear taxpayer, you’re not done paying. The only question left is whether the bureau of prisons or yours truly, or both, will be cashing those checks.
A very good observation, actually. The history of China has always been that of a very strong Central State managing the mainland. With the advances in technology in the future, the State will surely consider this form of urbanism "ideal": concentrate the population in dense urban areas, while the rural hinterland is farmed/mined by automated machines supervised by a few highly trained engineers.

They could even promote the dense urban clusters as "utopia" at first, attracting most of the populace. Once they are in, the conditions of the city would slowly deteriorate; but a population that was born in the city and never moved beyond a few blocks would just not know that there is anything better.
My current job is incredibly fulfilling on many levels, because I make a direct and positive impact on individuals on a daily basis, meet lots of interesting people from all over the world, and get to do it all from home. I have two daughters with autism and having freedom to pitch in at home during the day has been great as they grow up.

I'm a former tech recruiter and now I'm a resume writer and career consultant, and I've written for many here on HN as well as clients all over the world. Most of my work over the years has been with tech professionals, but right now my clients include a mobile developer in Australia, an engineer in Japan, an entertainment professional in LA, a product manager in SF, a nurse in Seattle, and about a dozen software engineers. I've written in the past few months for award-winning human rights advocates, film directors, journalists, doctors, and countless other professions.

I make a good living and at least a few times a week I get a note from a past client saying they got an interview at their dream company or just landed a job they really wanted. Getting paid to help people and make a measurable impact on their lives is a big difference from how I felt about recruiting, as there is no conflicting alignment of incentives as a writer. The opportunity to meet people around the world and learn about different jobs is a bonus.
I think the most amazing statistic represented in that graphic is the DECLINE of super commuters in the Chicago area. This tells me that the Chicago/Illinois exodus is digging it's tentacles deeper, and the state is in a death spiral.
From hero to zero – closing my 3rd startup
Me personally, I'm concerned that media creation companies are trying to add harder penalties for DCMA by disguising it as a privacy issue. In the end, the voters will get nothing or very little to improve their privacy but we will get tougher DCMA laws and penalties.
You're talking to someone who has been openly and aggressively pro-facebook on this site so you're preaching to the choir.

What I'm saying is that society is made up of people who make knee jerk reactions and moral outrage thrives. You can play the "above it all" card but that doesn't change the fact that our laws and society actually run on those perceptions.

Telling people to take personal responsibility doesn't matter at all except to inflate one's ego through social shaming. If enough people complain about something reality will reflect that from the bottom up.

You're working against your own interests by saying things like "take personal responsibility" / pull yourself up by your bootstraps, etc. Your narrative comes off as self serving and I'm almost certain you know it does. You've become addicted to how people react to you giving them the "uncomfortable truth." Good for the ego not much else.
That makes sense.

I've never owned a Macbook so I see it as a huge iPad or iPhone charger instead of a new version of the old Magsafe bricks.
Consider this: A blood test today costs $100 in USA. A complicated blood test costs $250.

If we could invent a serious AI algorithm that can replace lab technician and drop this cost to $10 and $25 respectively. (Note that every single item in USA such as Cars, phones and bread is damn too cheap compared to mere 30 years ago).The lower cost of blood tests would save thousands of lives each year.

A small efficiency in making bread will save lives and put food on table of more people and improve sustainability of our planet.

It is not about jobs but efficiency. Making things more and more efficient is a moral imperative. It is something we need to do for the future generations.

Secondly, a cashier losing job is not as big a deal as people make it out to be because these people will do something else. Large availability of cheap labor can invent new industries as long as government does no criminalise being poor or skill less. Minimum wage jobs for example make it a crime to have no skill.

In future I imagine human beings with driving skills sitting a automated car simulators and teaching the cars to drive or clicking on images and video feeds to teach computers to get better while receiving am minimum wage.

Losing job is also something that makes a society ant-fragile and robust. Without laying off inefficient arms of the company you will haev a fragile North Korea/ Venezuella like economy.
How can you measure sleep quality ?
What is in the "Annotate" menu?
> That's just second hand synthetic snobbery.

Not really. Try ordering a "burrito" or a "breakfast taco" in Mexico. And, you will note, I was careful not to claim that either one was more "authentic".

Foods evolve as they move and are adopted. This is doubly true of "ethnic" foods. The original article is a beautiful example of this with the grandmother starting with Siberian pelmeni, adding pork to a dish while in a nominally "Muslim" area and preparing it in Chinese bamboo steamers.

Melting pot, indeed.
I believe the meaning is the opposite. The iPhone was secure, and Trump is now using his personal Android phone[1].

To quote Obama about his iPhone[2]:

"this is a great phone, state of the art, but it doesn’t take pictures, you can’t text, the phone doesn’t work, you can’t play your music on it"

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/post-inauguratio...

[2] http://fortune.com/2016/06/10/president-obamas-new-smartphon...
No, I was under the impression 20 is decent, 12 is mediocre, and 30+ is "great."
The pricing model might have been ok a few years ago but now with ProseMirror, Quill, Slate and others it would be pretty hard to justify for a SaaS to spend that much.

The demos are pretty cool though, especially the collaboration + comments one.
Everything we know about the OnePlus 6, one of the most anticipated smartphone
Jim Keller Joins Intel to Lead Silicon Engineering
Please also look at my idea how to rewrite the code for readability using `deferred` pattern: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16933983
But some people prefer what used to be called "Green Top" Milk i.e. raw milk) which had very strict rules on what H&S measures the Farmers had to take.
I was trying to get context on this number- 10 Gigawatts of power is enough to power 7,000,000 western homes!

China is supposed to have 455 million homes, and there is no way the average chinese household uses as much electricity as a western one, but I don't know how to make a reasonable comparison.

Also in the US, commercial and residential use accounts for 40% of energy use, so this should be a pretty substantial amount of clean energy, even for a country as big as china.
> Let's... say that Tesla's collision warning and automatic emergency braking are responsible for the entire 40% reduction in accidents... That means that the introduction of autosteering at worst had no effect on the accident rate.

That doesn't follow logically at all. Collision avoidance and autosteer were introduced within months of one another. One could be reducing accidents while the other increases them. The most conservative interpretation is that the study may not have properly isolated these variables and is misattributing the safety gain of collision avoidance to autosteering.
I'd rather keep the 120 a year and allow tracking.
1. X11/X.Org make precision monitor support (especially DPI) a royal PITA

2. Perpetually broken video card drivers mean basic acceleration can't be relied on.

3. GTK and Qt just don't have the polish of Metro or Cocoa. I think both are prettier than Win32.

4. The comparison isn't all one-sided: Windows definitely has its rough patches too. It's making improvements however so Linux has no room to be complacent.
This is a bit far-fetched. Not everything China does is for mass surveillance...this could simply be the Chinese government had a taste of how bad Beijing's air quality is and decided to push harder towards renewable energy.
I know an engineer who prototypes GPU-like systems with FPGA and he has told me to be skeptical about performance miracles.

No matter how fast a system is on the inside you have to get data in and out of it -- at the very least to memory. SRAM takes too much area and there is a limit DRAM bandwidth despite technologies such as eDRAM and HBM. Some tasks are compute intensive, but for general tasks, a processor that is 100x faster would need 100x faster memory to really be 100x faster.

Thus advances in real-life performance are likely to be more like a factor of 2.

For training I never pay full price in the AWS cloud, rather I run interruptable instances and pay a fraction of the list price. People I know who train in the Google cloud seem to get interrupted all the time even though they are paying full price.

Inference is another story. Once you have the trained model, you will usually need to run inference many many more times than you run training and this gets more so the bigger scale you are running at. That hits your unit costs and it is where you need to pinch every penny.
The US used about 2 million GWh of electricity in 2015[1]. There are 8760 hours in a year. So the power usage averaged over the entire year is 243GW. The amount of solar the article is talking about could supply about 5% of that average usage. And that's just what was installed in three months.

If the rate of installation stayed the same then it would take five years for all US electricity needs to be met by solar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#Co...
None of this information makes sense. How did the gentlemen in question come by roughly 30,000 ink cartridges, or induce people to turn them in, in his name?

I'm guessing that's the fraud bit.
It kind of is, since Linux is the one insisting on being actively hostile drivers that aren't part of the kernel source tree.
What do C-Sections have to do with inherited gene disorders?
think LiDAR is a short term advantage, but the companies/stacks depending on LiDAR will reach a local maximum from which they won't recover without totally starting again from scratch. LiDAR is short range, low resolution, and extremely expensive. There is no reason that visible light (+ IR) CMOS cameras can't do better by an order of magnitude, at a lower cost.

I disagree. A visible-light based system like Tesla proposes is, quite frankly, a joke. Camera-based systems are too easily confused and require too much processing power to work in high-speed situations. (For example, at least one of the Tesla deaths was the result of the camera system failing to identify that a stopped object wasn't part of the road. A radar-based system would have easily recognized the obstacle.) Camera systems are also too dependent on maintaining the cleanliness of the sensors, and their performance degrades based on lighting conditions. While they certainly will be part of future AV systems (i.e., for street signs), they won't be the primary sensor.

Some combination of radar will form the basis of AV systems going forward. LiDAR is the most likely foundation, given its accuracy and speed, especially as LiDAR is expected to drop in price by nearly 99% over the next 5 years. (Recent developments in the underlying technology, plus economies of scale, have reduced the price of a full LIDAR suite from nearly $100,000/vehicle to just over $1000/vehicle. Technologies in the pipeline that are close to commercial production should reduce that cost to $100/vehicle or less.)
My thoughts exactly. Being written in C++ isn't interesting enough on its own.

What about the implementation is interesting? Does it make heavy use of some new feature like coroutines, or something? It is supposed to be very elegant? What?
As a twitch user that sounds so obvious to me.