skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Business: take the easiest most profitable problem and solve it... Which is generally a boring problem.
Some very interesting JavaScript particle animation collection
Is there a way to generate these variations and feed them into the network as training data?
I wonder how much truth the 'Introverts have hidden strengths!' and 'Introverts are undervalued underdogs!' memes actually hold. Is it conceivable that not being able to freely communicate in a professional setting is 'just' a weakness without hidden upside?

More generally speaking, I think people model positive and negative personality traits to balance out. Like a fixed skill cap in an RPG. 10 points on charisma means you have to be lacking in some other field.
I don't believe this to be true in the real world.

If I look at my personal development, I'm usually tested in the middle of the extrovert/introvert dimension. I've invested in overcoming social anxieties and - it suffices to say it can be done. I'm still somewhat introverted in the sense that I need to recharge sometime in solitude. I don't believe this is a fixed, set in stone need that will never change throughout the course of one's life.

Are there any scientific publications to back up the idea of a fixed personality on the introversion/extraversion skill? Same question for inherent upsides/downsides of a personality on either side of the spectrum.
I was an early critic (technorati objector) of the app server movement.

Then I needed to have a UI to monitor & manage a bunch of independent loosely coupled processes. Think poor man's workflow engine. Imagine my chagrin when I knowingly, faithfully recreated the Windows Task Manager for my stack.

I was very late to the Unix world. But I really think the Unix way is something akin to a golden law of the universe. Which each new cohort needs to rediscover for itself.
I'm wrestling with Sharepoint as I type. I don't see why all you lot shouldn't have to suffer too.
Nobody knows. It's like knowing how electronics work, from transistors downwards; and how software works, from machine language upwards; but completely missing the entire concept of a CPU, how it's built, how complex (or not) it is, and how to study it and tinker with it. Quantum gravity is one of the biggest remaining mysteries or unknowns in Physics.

(IANAP)
But it doesn't suddenly make Windows any less valuable than ChromeOS. Which means that under the assumption of 50% of the market still using Windows, they will continue using Windows.

You may be drinking the kool-aid, but 90% of the market doesn't care. Windows costs $20 per device; ChromeOS has a non-zero cost either.
> if they didn't fix the keyboard it really is moot.

I saw this mentioned in other comments but I'm not familiar with MacBooks - what is wrong with it exactly?
> Not all those hiding were Isis fighters. In fact, many were also hiding from Isis.

I'm very far from this war, from both sides of it. And I feel sorry for those who are exactly in the middle, like a small creature between the sea and the rocks.
Version control is a tool made for "us, the hackers, the techies", the ideal target population. Openness and decentralisation made git the tool it is.

GitHub is a center for activities: PRs, issues, notifications. It's only a matter of convenience. To be successful you have to create an equally (or more) convenient decentralised alternative.
I can’t see anything that suggests this was satire. The explanations given by the original commenter don’t suggest it was meant as satire. And I don’t see anyone else suggesting it as satire.

If it really was satire, then that’s interesting, and why I asked for the joke to be explained...

To be honest it seems more like it was meant as an honest joke... playing on the stereotype that wives often don’t understand things their husbands do... and that this is normal and this is how normal people are in this community.
The idea that you can bomb military targets and magically keep civilians safe is terribly naive.
> Apple's profits don't come from "their own ad channels" (other than trace-level profits from App Store Search Ads),

They have their own ad platform which takes 30 - 50% of the cut on advertisements shown in Apple News.
Only doing interesting work in my spare time outside the office :(
Are you saying this sentiment has existed for decades or the population loss has existed for decades?

New York and New Jersey each recorded their highest population levels ever in the 2010 census.
What is the difference between basic tally and professional tally?
Thanks. I must be missing something. If I have a particle emitted from point A and stopped in point B, travelling between the two at velocity v, and that I can magically change its mass in flight from M (when it leaves A) to m (when it reaches B), with M > m, wouldn't I create kinetic energy for the overall system of 0.5 * (M-m) * v^2 ?
.... and if you don't trust Microsoft: Why use Exchange and such? :-)
Smart. Ease of payment through the app you're already using is a big value added here though.
This is disingenuous, the big software outfits have entire teams of people to ensure their price points are reflective of existing market offerings. They'll raise prices when they can, and slightly lower them when they're looking to make a play like this. Nothing about the cloud makes this dance any different, we're still using the same steps and beat, just to an internet jukebox.
Wow, very nicely put.

> ...also get away from [the people in] the box...

This may be the harder part. I consider some of the people in the box to be friends. But then again, if I think about it... maybe they're outside the box too, but we're on opposite faces, and so close to it that we are still looking at each other _through_ the box.
> They also know that an iPhone without access to Google Maps, Search, Mail, Authenticator, Youtube and a whole lot of other essential services won't be worth much to end users anymore.

I don't know. Apple Maps is almost as good as Google Maps for me. Search I could use DuckDuckGo. Mail I use the native iOS mail client and could easily switch out from my GMail account to anything else. Authenticator I don't use and don't know anyone else who does either. YouTube's an interesting one, but I use it tons less since I got Spotify Premium.

If it was a choice between Apple protecting my privacy and losing all Google services these days, after everything players like Google and Facebook have done? It wouldn't be a difficult decision to keep my iPhone.
I believe this technique is called "delta encoding".
I left the game in 2015, but even then third generation sequencing could close bacterial genomes for < $1k. Long reads make it trivial to detect all sorts of stuff (sample mixup, contamination, phage activity, in vitro evolution) that goes unnoticed with short reads. Since the conclusion of large scale draft genome sequencing papers always seems to be 'we need a bigger sample size' anyway, I feel the money would be better spent on studying individual strains of bacteria.
If that is based on number of Xcode downloads then it will over-count, you need to install it to use Homebrew.
It could, but I am willing to bet that is even more niche than going to a physical shop.

The kind of experts capable of understanding if they are ordering hardware that is supposed to work together instead of blowing up in some form when assembled, is quite tiny.
> Maybe I'm just realizing something obvious that parents should have taught me when I was a kid. I don't know. Maybe it was wrong of me to seek meaning in the things one does? Maybe that approach is no longer supported by our civilization?

Ouch, this resonated. I've been walking this path with you.

Sometimes I make my own food. Or grow it. Or pickle it. It would be more "efficient" to buy such food in many cases. But if it gives me pleasure, I trade my time to do it.

My opinion: the point of life is not to acquire so much money that you can avoid doing any difficult things and wrap yourself in a cocoon of comfort. The point of life is to find your own good life and live it. That will entail some difficulties (at a minimum the difficulty of seeking your own definition of the good life, which is hard!). You may find that in your work (lucky you!) or you may have to work to support yourself and find this good life in other areas.
Self-advertising done right. Promote your business yourself
Does this only work because everyone has short hair?
I have literally had a mobile team threaten to quit if we adopted Xamarin after they built a small app in it lol.
IMO the problem is that today we generally still only have one name for all of these jobs (software dev|engineer) when it reality we probably need 2 or 3. It makes planning one's career and searching for the right job very difficult.
They also bought Intrinsity, who designed the enhanced Cortex-A8 cores used in the Apple A4 and early Samsung Exynos SoCs.
If your model doesn't beat a reasonable benchmark created using some business intuition then this is a bad idea.
In a manner of speaking, yes.
Almost as if they were a cartel.
I don't like to wade into black vs white ideological debates, but it's worth noting that every economic system has had wealthy elites and a relatively much poorer majority.

I'm all for discussing ways in which society's wealth can be distributed more fairly and how the worst-off can be helped to live more comfortable and optimistic lives.

But the evidence would suggest that when you constrain the wealth-generating capacity of the highest-achievers to reduce the overall wealth being created by a society, the people at the bottom are the first to suffer.
Found it on Reddit https://m.twitch.tv/events/-5UFZXuCQEK9X7avTUh_Mg
I think you are expecting 2 different goals to align itself for you: 1) work on interesting project 2) to be paid salary for it.

It rarely happens. If working on interesting project is very important for you, you can do it as side project or start up. Or, seek out specific department in companies where such interesting work is happening. You might also have to sacrifice some amount of salary to work in such companies/startup.
Consoles always had more game ports that other computer systems.

Having a fixed set of hardware to target is a dream.
There are some optimizations hotspot can do that substrate cannot
This is to a large extent because browsers can't make the same assumptions about reasonable graphics drivers being installed as games can.
Relevance can mean different things. Maybe FB is not "relevant" in a specific cultural sense, the avante guard users don't care about it anymore. Maybe that says something about the future. But...

It is the only relevant social network if you want to sell concert tickets, soap or win an election. For hundreds of millions of people FB is the internet, because of "free data" plans in 3rd world countries. It is the only relevant social network in terms of revenue, market cap, M&A and a lot of other things that are unrelated to cultural relevance.
If you have 100 examples and a high number of dimensions you will end up with a very over-fitted model.
Is this a single 28-core CPU? The only other 28 core chips that Intel has are the Xeon platinum 8176 and 8180, which cost $9-$13K and don't clock nearly as high.

Or is this like AMD's Threadripper any EPYC, and they are duct taping together multiple CPUs in a single socket? Eg, 2 x 14 cores CPUS connected with QPI or EMIB ? 4 x 7 cores? I wonder if AMD patented this technique..
To paraphrase what someone else said yesterday:

In a world where companies are expected to have growth every quarter, a project like GitHub is one bad quarter away from microsoft making major changes or being abandoned or being completely shutdown.

As we’ve seen with product after product, when companies are expected to have growth every quarter, they will sometimes (often?) make radical changes to the software. In the case of GitHub, if microsoft decided it needed far more profit coming in from GitHub, it is entirely reasonable to expect they may decide to shift it into a service which is only usable for their large corporate partners, or they may decide the social features need to go, or they may decide to stop allowing public repos, etc...

Microsoft has shown many many times in the past that they’re more than willing to throw out open standards and attempted to force adoption of their own proprietary standards.

It is entirely reasonable to be at least a tad skeptical given their history and their business model.
They are not the only two options open to us.
Yes. My goal is also to make money as well as most other developers. Would you suggest I turn the focus of my career back to writing Win32 API based apps or WPF or UWP apps?

Where are all of these companies that are making money selling Windows apps? Where all of the jobs for Windows desktop developers?
Ah! Inspiration. I'm a Sydney-sider and though I'm relatively satisfied in my current position, I'm having a difficult time finding the next job that could satisfy my computer engineering background. Software engineering has become a byword for web development/Java, (or selling your soul to work in HFT...)

Where would you like to work next?
Sure. For now.
Are people not logging Discord servers as well? If you can read message history you can use a fake client to export a couple hundred thousand messages in 5 minutes. This is how I got old messages. Now I just run it daily. CSV output.
That is not a macOS specific problem. Because CUDA interacts with the compiler, you can have exactly the same problems on Linux with gcc.

(Ironically, using OpenCL avoids this problem)
So a little from column A, a little from column B. Got it!

In all seriousness, I'm just interested in how much is being obscured when folk like Cox do a TV show, obviously written for those interested but not involved like myself. I've no idea what anything in your paragraph meant past the word "In" (yes, the first word), but I can definitely picture a loop, and get that there is a something which is transmitted / moves / traded / otherwise-not-at-its-origin within that loop, and trying to understand what that something is will leave me drooling into the carpet.

Still, I'm glad I asked. Thanks!
> Most of my work seems to be boring CRUD work where the challenge is gluing libraries together or figuring out business requirements.

I think there is plenty of work out that is technically challenging, but most companies want apps that do solve their business requirements. (Shockingly, they want to make money :) .)

But I've found that 10-25% of my time is spent on tough technical problems. They may not be pure CS, but architecture, optimization or troubleshooting are all tough and technical.
Why we (as a whole) respond that way makes sense from what I know about experimental psych.

If news is optimized for clicks / views, negative stories are more engaging, and the availability heuristic is accurate (aka we assign greater importance to things we can immediately recall), then viewing profit-on-engagement news fundamentally reshapes our opinion of the world.
The article says the new tunnels will cost €50,000 per inhabitant.

I don't know that NY/NJ need it that badly, and unlike the Faroes, what the area needs more are alternative travel methods (or more capacity for existing alternatives), not more cars.
They are actually advertising google cloud platform in self-hosted versions now:

https://i.imgur.com/OgrNMxn.png
GPU prices seem to be normalizing the past week, at least here in Europe using historical price data from Geizhals[0]. If things continue we will be back to "normal" 2017 prices very shortly.

[0]: www.geizhals.eu

Examples:

1070: https://geizhals.eu/?phist=1456548

1070 TI: https://geizhals.eu/?phist=1717563

1080: https://geizhals.eu/?phist=1449277

1080 TI: https://geizhals.eu/?phist=1587606
Marvell Announces New Client NVMe SSD Controllers
No, monopolys are awful.

Either everyone should have a monopoly or no one should.

Seeing how awful monopolies are for the world, no one should.

First to market + branding is a real thing. If a company is smart enough to develop something but cant figure out how to sell it for a profit, they arent that smart.
Musk started with $100m of his own money and a 1-in-a-billion reputation. He had leverage of that kind too, I would say far more than zuck.

The real leverage was not needing money after that A round.
Last week. Nvidia releases drivers for cards that the drivers which ship with macos don't support.

That's a tiny part of Apple's lineup though.
Exactly my first thought too. It's RyanAir in a cab...
Why Microsoft is a good steward for GitHub
What I meant by social problem for some people are things impacting their happiness and quality-of-life, reducing suffering, etc. Some examples to narrow down the possibility space:

- Make it so that people in your community have access to clean water. Surprisingly, it's a problem even in the most advanced countries.

- Contribute to something in healthcare that reduces costs, improves availability, or makes more people survive a procedure, an illness, etc.

- Make firefighting safer, or more efficient. Make it less needed in the first place.

- Make the air clearer. Make the energy cheaper. Make the roads better and safer. Etc.

- (Meta) make the market less ennui-generating.

I found that "what pays" is not a good proxy, because often what pays best is solving problems for a group of people, which also generate further problems for other groups of people. Usually, the benefits for the first group are purely financial.

To use a simple example - advertising. There's lots of people who would pay you for your work in this space, because your work will earn them more money. What your work will do downstream, however, is most likely one of those:

- It'll create more work for someone else to cancel the effects of your work; a lot of advertising is playing a zero-sum game, i.e. simply wasting natural resources and human time. (Conversely, often your work is only needed to cancel out the effect of someone else's efforts.)

- It'll disturb the market, promoting a worse solution over a better solution, leading customers to make wrong choices, and thus lose some amount of money and/or happiness.

- It'll add to the noise we all have to endure, also slowly eroding happiness.

Occasionally, you might end up promoting the right thing to the right crowd for the right reasons, but I doubt that happens very often ;).

Conversely to all of that, I feel that solving what I see as "social problems" pays less, if at all, again making "what pays" a bad proxy towards finding ways to address those problems.
This is sage advice. When other people run away, you run towards. The skunkworks setup is ideal if your company/team can swing it; it will be a catapult to a new world of experience and reputation. Good luck!
I remember reading in Steve Jobs biography book that he had the rule of making a 30% of sales in deals with third parties. Sometimes this was not remotely possible so in those cases the numbers had to be massaged so that he could see his 30% and approve the deal.
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-...

This is an excellent overview from a developer point on why you don't want to develop desktop apps even if you don't want to depend on VC. This is 2009, mind you.
Pretty much everyone is in the same boat. Even if you have an advanced degree, most of what businesses need is plugging together components and adding business rules to create a product.

As a discipline, we're too young and our technology is too immature to support a true split between engineering/science and computer programming.

If you want to work on interesting problems you're passionate about, there's a few ways to do it.

First, you can do research. Years ago I joined a lab as a professional researcher to follow my passion for machine learning and sensor networks. It's not the easiest path, but labs need disciplined programmers to complement the skills of PhD students.

Second, you can consult. If you're passionate enough about a topic that you have encyclopedic knowledge, I guarantee there's someone out there who will need that expertise and will pay for it. It might not cover all your bills, but it gets you exposure (and potentially a job if they need your skills a lot).

Third, you can start a company. I followed my passion for the challenges of learning from sensor data at scale into entrepreneurship and eventually started a company, http://sentenai.com . As a technical founder, I chose carefully the technologies we use (Haskell) and the problem we were tackling (making it fast and natural to combine multiple sources of time series data and find temporal patterns). You still need to solve somebody's problem and build a business, but you can at least lay the foundation.
Why is anyone surprised by this? Apple has a decades-long history of taking outdated technology and making it obsolete by forcefully removing it (which they haven't actually done yet with OpenGL):

Parallel Ports

Floppy Drives

CD/DVD Drives

Older USB, Firewire ports

Network ports

They were the first to remove all this stuff, and everyone was shocked. Now they are doing this with an API. Both Apple and Microsoft have long ago created much more modern, highly performant graphics technologies over what OpenGL offers, and serious vendors support platform-specific APIs most of the time. If it takes Apple to do this and say to the world "wake up, OpenGL sucks," I view that as progress.

Despite, I don't think your OpenGL app will fail to run on Mac any time soon. I suspect it's years away before they actually remove it entirely.
Sharp Returns to PCs with Purchase of Toshiba PC Division – Silicon UK
Bullets and missiles are like printer ink. They are consumables. They are subject to the economical laws of supply and demand. Well that’s money changing hands, from one person to the next. I want to know who is getting all that money.
I built most of my current side project on a 2005 Lenovo Thinkpad T400. It runs Windows 10 just fine.
I can't really blame Google/Facebook for this - they don't necessarily know if you completed the purchase.

It's genuinely bizarre when Amazon does it. They know I just bought a $500 vacuum... surely they've got the machine learning chops to teach their algorithm that means I shouldn't ever see a vacuum as a sponsored product for a couple years?
Ask HN: How much should I charge for inboxing marketing?
I have a site with 300k daily impressions and almost 10k registered users, and someone reached out asking if I do inbox marketing (in the website, its a forum).

Honestly, I have no idea how much to charge.

What are some variables I should take into account?

Any suggestions?
I wonder how much the "recharge while alone" feeling is due to the fact that introverts feel a need to put a front and think their every move during social situations thus making the situations unfulfilling and tiring while also making them very difficult to navigate.
I find that using logic and conscious thought instead of instinct for things like social situations makes you react much more slowly to the flow these situations usually have while also making you less spontaneous and making the socializing tiresome.
Maybe because we evolved to be sociable before we evolved conscious thinking and thus we have fine honed instincts that shouldnt be overidden by thinking for these things? Who knows.
Yes, little by little.

Quite a few apps like Adobe XD are store only.

Next Office for Windows 10 is only available via the store.

Microsoft has taken the other approach, if apps don't come to the store, the store comes to the apps.

So thanks to the outcome of Project Centennial, they are now merging the UWP and Win32 worlds into Windows containers and making the store Win32 aware as well.

https://bramwolfs.com/2018/03/13/msix-the-platform-for-all-w...

Deep down session from BUILD here, https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2018/BRK2432
It's not one party, they just said share buttons so that would include Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Pintrest, etc