skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working on a MBP (non touchbar) for a month now. Coming from years of using Windows I'm rather satisfied about the OS.

The big issue for me is that it heats up an awful lot. The keyboard being thin makes me feel the heat if i keep my fingers on it. My palms get hot and I'm not even doing a lot of CPU-intensive tasks (webdev).

Some colleagues told me their touchbar MPB also heat but I see nobody in this thread complaining about it, which is really wierd to me...
Microsoft unveils new deployment options for Windows Autopilot
The sad thing about this is that there aren't better alternatives. MBPs are designed extremely well and not many Windows laptops are comparable. Windows is a complete mess. I also don't think premium Chromebooks are marketable (Chromebook Pixel experiment failed). Linux has too many issues.

The best thing to do is hope that the MBP team addresses their major issues (keyboard, etc).

Edit: Looks like the new Pixelbook is actually a decent competitor!
I'm also doubtful about the management of hosts. Yesterday, an Airbnb Superhost cancelled my upcoming reservation without explanation. I booked with a hotel and saved about $25. Airbnb has been my first choice for awhile. I think it is going to be my back up choice for the near future.
I'm answering your question: maybe that's how he measures its success.
I don't begrudge losing the karma to share facts that violate our shared expectations.

The view I have on it is that in China, there is a large and growing interest in large, long-term investment in new technologies and new ideas. Obviously there's a continuum and China is also still implementing and scaling technologies built in the west, but there's a definite commitment towards breaking new ground as well.
It depends a lot on the project. Usually it starts with a team standup and walking the physical wall. The usual one minute status on the story, and in case of any impediments, a call out.
Regular checks on emails, chats etc. may follow.

Most of the day goes into pair programming on the planned stories for the sprint. Usually TDD is preferred, but the pair decides their style of working. Tests are a must. Usually there's a build monitor to track test failures.

Tech huddles are called in case of important technical decisions or if there are hurdles. Stories start with a Kick-off to dissect all aspects of it in detail. These are attended by business analyst, quality analyst, tech lead and the pair.

Dev box testing helps catch defects early. So on and so forth. There are sometimes evening meetings with clients depending on time zones, availability etc. Features are demoed in this meeting to get feedback even before they are deployed to Dev or Staging.

Overall the org is unstructured but empowering. There's very little hierarchy.
I've been asking myself this question for over 20 years: who are these people that click on ads anyway?

Ads are inherently going to be the opposite of Google's values, yet Google depends on them for the vast majority of their revenue. They show you some search results in line with their values, and if you can't get to the top of that "intrinsically", you buy ads or SEO. The folks that use that system to exploit the least intelligent win here, and Google takes a share of the profit.

Based on my Google search results in the recent past, Google isn't doing a good job of making sure the "best" websites (by my own value system, of course) make it to the top. I find myself having to go into second and third page results to get legitimate information. I'm seeing pages of medical quackery that "sounds good" but isn't based on science when I try to find diet or exercise advice.

As technology becomes more democratic, more people will use it. That means that the people that spend more time trying to sell you shit are going to win, because they're the ones that are willing to reverse-engineer the algorithm and push stuff up to the top. They add less value to society because they're spending all their time on marketing and promotion.

I wish I knew how to solve this problem. By imposing morals, Google "bites the hand that feeds".
My reference is a non-Retina MacBook Air and external displays that are around 100 DPI - I still live in a non-Retina world and the difference is still glaring.
It's incredible that nobody in this discussion mentions the massive fraud and incompetence on the part of Wall Street banks, and the deregulation and lack of oversight that allowed it.
I've been typing for longer and some keyboards just suck.
I love Ubuntu. But I installed it on my MacBook and still had plenty of trouble with it. External monitor support is meh, plugging/unplugging them too quickly will cause issues. Plugging into a 1080p monitor alongside my MBP's retina monitor causes issues because I can't seem to run different DPI scaling factors on different monitors at the same time. Suspend didn't work at all at first, and didn't work reliably even after some hacking.

For a work machine, it comes down to reliability and a hassle-free experience for me.
In what sense? The ranking is still based on LINPACK scores, and it's intended to represent the fastest machines for scientific computing.

We can argue about whether modern simulation codes look like LINPACK (they don't) but neither Google's nor Amazon's cloud is competitive for that type of workload. Even if the clouds are physically bigger, nobody at Google or Amazon is running really big numerical jobs of the sort that DOE does. Many are running smaller scale HPC and ML jobs, but it's expensive, and for latency-bound physics simulations (most of what we run at LLNL, ORNL, etc.), cloud networks will not perform at scale.

The question of whether China's machines ever performed well for big multi-physics applications is up in the air, but they were certainly beating us on LINPACK. The Chinese set out to show that they're serious about HPC, and I think they accomplished at least that. I wouldn't be surprised if you saw this race go back and forth a few times in the coming years.
Whilst macOS is pretty polished for many thing it still has some pretty big usability issues itself particularly with regard to keyboard shortcuts.

Case in point Split View; it doesn't have _any_ keyboard short cuts. In Gnome 3 you can snap a window to either side with Super-Left or Super-right. Shift-Super-<arrow> will move it to another monitor.

You can't do anything like that on macOS without installing third party software like Better Touch Tool (which you have to pay for).
Does anyone remember MS Velocity / AppFabric Cache? No. Because it was crap and they canned it suddenly.

Really, if they are still supporting this in 3 years and it materialises into the promises I will take a look again.

I will never immediately adopt an MSFT platform component.
Nvidia's “infinite resolution” patent could be a game changer
If the SV/Startup set ever move past this ridiculous "outsource all the things" idea, now is as good a time as any to enable realistic self-owned CDN's using a lot of low-resource nodes across a variety of providers around the globe/your service area.
Arch is an OS for people who like hacking together an OS. For a full desktop experience, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu flavors, Elementary, and many other distributions are probably a better way to go.
OpenCL didn't seem to be succeeding, so that's not entirely surprising. It is disappointing that they've chosen to deprecate OpenGL and ignore Vulcan in favor of Metal, though. Although I don't know much about this particular area, and I couldn't tell you about the merits of Vulcan vs Metal. It's hard to tell whether there's any good technical reasons for their decisions or if it's purely just business in that they don't want to contribute their resources to something that will benefit Android.
I thought that I had wavy hair

Until I shaved. Instead,

I find that I have straight hair

And a very wavy head.

- Shel Silverstein

http://shelsilverstein.yolasite.com/wavy-hair.php
For many of these systems, you actually are talking to a human. The person listens to what you say then directs your call as (hopefully) appropriate. They don't have a mic, so clarifying questions are limited to buttons they can push on a glorified soundboard -- in your case it sounds like there were several departments that handle different aspects of billing and they were trying to sort out where to route your call.

The guy you were talking to eventually just routed you to someone with the same job but who has a mic, because you weren't giving him anything to go on and all he'd have been able to do is push the button again to ask you the exact same question (and having a person do it who can at least vary the inflection of the question is less infuriating than seemingly being stuck in a chatbot's infinite loop).

--

Source: have a friend who used to have this job. He has thankfully moved on to something less soul sucking than being a human literally pretending to be a robot.
I would be surprised if Google or Amazon had an existing capability that could match this machine on linpack. Stringing together FLOPS isn't the challenge. It's constructing an interconnect that can support the bandwidths needed to keep the compute units busy and actually hit anything close to what theoretical peak performance they are capable of while solving a specific problem. Google and Amazon have machines built for very different purposes.
Yeah, pretty much.

The person I responded to didn't mention physique, which can be influenced by lifting weights. Diet works to a certain degree (ie, you can avoid most of the really bad stuff and you will see improvements, but you probably won't end up as a fitness model). I think there's a good chance that the ability to stick to a diet is highly influenced by genetics, as evidenced by the fact that dieting is a notoriously poor long-term intervention, even though it is incredibly simple in concept.

The person I responded to specifically mentioned abs. Having visible abs requires an incredibly low level of body fat, which is not achievable my most people unless they take performance enhancing drugs of some kind. But, you know, the people selling programs and methods for achieving abs have a vested interest in this not being widely known.

As for sense of humor. I dunno. I guess you're probably funnier when you're in a specific state of mind (at ease, not stressed out, etc.). And I guess you can memorize some jokes and gags. But in my personal experience, funny people all tend to be funny in unique ways. As in, there's no way they learned their particular brand of humor from somebody else.
> You really start appreciating macOS when you go and install Linux on laptop and use it for a month

Actually, the opposite happened to me: I started really disliking macOS after switching to Ubuntu + i3 on my main development machine. That's on a desktop computer though, not a laptop, so I didn't run into any Linux issues regarding battery & sleep. The experience might not be as good on a laptop, especially if the hardware is worse than my 2015 rMBP, which unfortunately seems quite common for non-Mac laptops even today.
The rankings come out every June and November. They’re always talked about here because big computers are really cool.
While I think Obama's economic policies were total crap, at least he had a partially-supported justification for his deficits. Trump has no excuse for his deficits, and his neo-Smoot-Hawley "reforms" are going to put us back in the same place that Smoot-Hawley did. He's reckless and out of control.
I think I get your point, and the misunderstanding may be that by "nature as living beings" I went beyond just humans. For the vast majority of living things, avoiding reproduction seems, to me, unnatural, hence it would go against our very nature.

Now, from a anthropocentric view of this contraception is quite natural as, like you well explain, it let us satisfy biological urges while reducing the risks and potentially undesired side-effects of them.

The point that I tried to make was that being for or against "our nature" does not feel, to me, to be a good measure of mental health.
This is crazy, people actually believed chatbots were going to catch on? My employer developed chat bots, but only so we could grab the associated PR from a few press releases to ride the hype. We knew no one was going to use them.
A solution for me is to avoid dealing with shitty companies like this and seek online-only alternatives (with a good web UI), and failing that, if a shit company screws up and I can’t fix it quickly through their awful customer support I stop paying and let them call me.

It’s funny how they never keep their promises of calling you back until you actually stop giving them money. They also magically start paying more attention to what you say, and complaint letters that went unanswered for months and presumed “lost” suddenly become found and answered.
I'm hesitant to give Obama credit, but I think Trump claiming that the unemployment rate was 30, 40, 50% during the election and immediately taking credit for the unemployment numbers in january 2017 was so disingenuous that it truly boggles the mind. Anyone that gives Trump credit for the current trajectory of unemployment numbers is beyond the pale.

Giving Obama credit to me is at the very least questionable - things were at rock bottom, they could almost only go up (and I supported Obama). There are so few absolutes to hold on to in terms of economic indicators for the layperson, but its hard to see how the Obama years were an economic catastrophe, and unfortunately we'll never know what the effect of a larger stimulus might have been (or no stimulus for that matter).
Once you start down that dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.

(If you can manage it safely, it's not a bad thing to consider. But it really easily turns into a cognitive hammer big enough to beat any fact into submission to your prior beliefs, and seals you off from intellectual discourse.)
Visualization of octopus merge with 66 parents:

https://imgur.com/gallery/oiWeZmm

Run this:

git log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --date=relative --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset) %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)' 2cde51fbd0f3
Why wouldn't it be compatible with GDPR? It's a content copyright checking requirement, mandated by law (that part by itself likely makes it compliant with GDPR).

If I submit a blog post, that content gets run through a mandated copyright check, nothing about me or the actual content is permanently stored by the checking software. The content of the blog post is flagged or not for violating a copyright, the flag determines whether it's allow to be published.

Someone correct me if I'm misunderstanding how this law would work.
When I read stuff like this, I'm reminded why, despite working professionally with Linux on average 5 days a week for over 15 years, my home machines run Windows 10 and OSX.

The tragedy of the "Linux on the desktop" coming-revolution-that-never-arrived is most obvious on the laptop environment. The user community, at least when one googles solutions to problems, seems to fall either in the "completely clueless" or the "elite expert who's skeptical of people" categories. It's excruciating to look things up, and 'fixing it yourself' is no longer possible for me given time constraints. Time is money, much more so as you get older.

I'm a sysadmin/sys engineer and not a software architect, but is it possible that a software project that's essentially defining an entire GUI system that apps would have to follow would ITSELF require human centralization at the developer level? It seems what makes OSX's UI so clean is that specific people made specific rules that everyone has to follow.
That's true of the political battles at any large company. However, the question is asking about engineering culture.

Sure, company politics can interfere with this on occasion but it's rare. I read the question more as, "Which companies have the best philosophies regarding how engineering should be done?"

Could be a difference of course, but it's not clear.
That often depends on your definition of easy – most large companies have poorly designed or buggy websites, lousy account management, etc. The problem is that the phone acts as a safety valve for those problems but when management sees the cost they react by trying to have fewer humans answering the phone rather than getting serious about UX.
Neighbor stays and is subject to enforcement, AirBnB guest leaves and isn’t.
That's a great way of putting it. Also, GUIs attempt to use human natural reasoning (about objects, space, movement, etc.) and have some kinesthetic components (the mouse, pointing, dragging).
The slender skyscrapers changing New York's skyline
The narrative sucks but nations being competitive with each other is a pretty powerful driving force for people.

I'm not sure about the U.S., but from my personal experience working in a multi-national industry, and also being East Asian myself, patriotism is a huge motivational factor, especially when it comes to beating "rival" countries. (Prime example: Korea vs Japan).
If you have non-blonde hair... laser removal. For blonde hair it's still electrolysis.
You're getting down voted, but you raise the one issue I have with being bald: sun damage. In spite of daily sunscreen and hats, I'm still accumulating sun damage to my head. This will continue into old age. I like how I look now, but I'm concerned about how I'll look at 65. Hopefully, baldness will be cured by then, or we'll have the ability to completely reverse damage to skin.
Not sure about that location, but around here they might not actually do anything the first time you call it in, but if it happens regularly they will talk to the landlord.
Nobody likes being duped by a non-human when you're looking for help. Rather like nobody likes to hear a recording down a phone line.
Mobile Firefox plus uBlock origin set to block all 3rd party scripts and no 'subscribe' popup appeared for me.
This will create a super-DMCA where there are zero penalties for false claims, no counterclaim, and no recourse for false claims. All content sharing is DEAD in Europe.
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For some context, the U.S. foremost supercomputer up to now was Titan, which had a theoretical peak of 27 petaflops at 8.2 MW.

Summit has significant higher peak performance at slightly higher power. It also has significantly fewer nodes, with higher performance per node.
I really regret making my comment. It was about presidents getting credit and blame for the consequences of whatever happened before they were in office. It just shows that people are not capable of discussing things without immediately going into their partisan positions.
AT&T and Nokia to deliver rapid global IoT deployments
> The PR to implement DHT has been languishing since May 2017: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/856/files

But it just received an update 4 days ago! :)
She has an updated post here: https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/saveyourinternet/

Quote:

> It currently looks like there is a razor-thin majority in favor of Article 13
Seems more like a rant from someone who has a Mac but doesn't actually wants a Mac for the current workload. Then instead of using a Mac, use something else? (this also goes the other way around, and for many other "appliance X isn't want I wanted" or "vendor Y should have made product A more like product B" posts -- you can give feedback, but direction is ultimately decided by money)

Also, just because there are default options delivered with the OS, doesn't mean you have to use them or that they are in the way. At the same time, if you don't like your preload, why not change it? Make a simple script, put it in version control and be done with it. On top of that, pretty much all of it also goes for Windows, Gnome and KDE etc. If you install one of those you get a ton of crap you don't really use as well, so it's more of a 'I selected a bundle of software to use but I don't like everything in it'-deal. It's not the bundle's fault that you don't like what's in it, is your choice and the only person who made that choice is you. Goes for all hardware and software out there, and just because it's not feasible to write a whole OS + Tools + DE yourself and be productive and compatible at the same time doesn't mean everyone else is to blame for not creating the bundle that magically matches everything you can dream of.
Farming and the like have always been tough economically - you have to fork out for equipment and land but the income from the crop varies dramatically - good year and there is a glut and the prices drop, bad year not much crop and so on. I think it may be better to either have corporations do it where no one is hurt so bad if they go bust, or a regulated subsidised market like the EU.
What’s the point of this comment?

It’s an Apple library for an Apple platform, to make things easier for people using Swift/Objective-C.

Some people care about that.

Just because it’s not an open standard t shouldn’t be discussed?
Shouldn't jpgs be generated per device (from SVGs) for performance reasons?
Could you provide some factual basis for this? For example, my understanding is that the corporate tax burden in the US was lower than other advance economies; one particular tax, which few paid in full due to loopholes, etc, was higher.
Since AI is the last great problem in computer science, I can't help but feel a tremendous sense of sadness and foreboding about this. I always wanted to dabble in AI in that far off mythical future when I have the time to do so. But if it all gets patented, what's the point? Might as well patent relativity, or quantum mechanics.
Whilst you do need third party software for this, it is not the case that one need pay for it. Spectacle [1] is free of charge. I have personally used it for years.

[1]: https://www.spectacleapp.com/
Minor mischief is fine, but throwing one’s integrity out the window for money says something.
I actually don’t mind giving up the ports on the mbp when these self-powered USB c docks have (HDMI, 3xUSB3, sd, micro sd, gigabit Ethernet, and power)

The hubs are pretty small. And fit in travel bags nicely. They actually make pretty good dicking stations too
You could feed your family by cleaning toilets. Surely you care about more than that?
So far this dead end outperforms traditional ways though.
I think what bugs me about bluetooth on Ubuntu the most is that it forgets its state on reboot. Turn it off, reboot and it's back on.
> no one keeps the title because that's not how progress works.

Wrong [0]

> This "race" has been a global endeavour since the 50's

From the article:

> But the United States retook the lead thanks to a machine, called Summit, built for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

When computers are used for nuclear weapons simulation, it's clearly not a global endeavor.

[0] https://www.top500.org/lists/2017/11/
As others have said, these 2 airframes are the first two delivered, significantly overweight and a nightmare to maintain. The frames were essentially wired by hand, after the pre-made wiring harnesses were the wrong length (French/German Airbus facilities used different versions of CATIA, the lengths didn't match, 2 year delay costing billions)
My question is where are those companies moving to?
On a positive note, the university of Leiden, founded in 1575, was the focus of new physics in the late 19th and early 20th century. Professor Kamerlingh Onnes needed and founded the Leidsche Instrumentmakers School in 1901. Students of this school become specialists in the construction of high precision glass, metal and electronic instruments. After more than 100 years, the school still has strong ties with the university and its students are never jobless.
You could jointly train a NN to parse the sentence and tackle the NLP task you have at the same time, or instead of just using the tokens you could use a parser to add more features too.

edit: clarification