skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is awesome. I've been wanting a tool where I can just plug in my database and get some graphs on some simple queries.
I would argue that's truly subjective. What's the definition of good content moderation?

Each platform has its purpose.
It is not about being inept but rather being willing to pass whatever someone pays you to pass. They simply don't care about the consequences because these will have nothing to do with them. If sh*t hits the fan, they'll retire on some island rich and happy.
I am a bit confused by the "Massive" statement. I understand that Mars has barely any atmospheric pressure, therefore, any "Massive" storm would be a gentle wind.

If fact, Andy Weir, the author of the "Martian", called the beginning of the book where the hero gets stabbed by a metal rod during the massive storm a complete fabrication for the purposes of the story and impossible in real life.
I learned that too in the last 12 months.
Maybe the Kilopower reactor [1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopower
ClearCase is a terrible version control system.
It is funny, this kind of "paranoia" was (is?) required for the shareware era of Windows software...
A lot of recommendations to see a doctor. I would strongly advise seeing a therapist or councilor first and follow the tips in this thread.

If you go to a doctor expecting compassion instead of drugs you will be sorely mistaken.
Well, they have the iPad Pro with keyboard cover already. Who's to say that they couldn't make that into an actual laptop product, replacing their lower-end macOS devices?

Also, none of your quotes mention the impossibility of making an iOS device with yet another different form factor. It merely says that they won't merge the two OSes. Plus, even if that weren't the case, it wouldn't be the first time that Apple went back on a public statement while rebranding the backtracking as the invention of a whole new computing paradigm.
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Hollywood has no foundation for offering opinions about morals, family, love or anything else.
Am I correct in assuming that you're the type who needs a "study" in order to tell you what to think? Or are you the type who can use their own eyes and their own brain and do their own thinking and come up with their own conclusions - maybe ones that are eventually validated by studies after all, but perhaps only years or even decades down the road?

I consider the first type a form of education-induced brain damage, BTW. And while I'm fairly well-educated myself, I've never been the type who needed the "crutch" of a study in order to figure fairly obvious things out.

I don't remember the details, but I did once try to do the math on the whole CO2:H2O thing, since I hadn't seen it elsewhere. Estimated CO2 emission numbers are routinely published (to the extent that these can be trusted), and I started off with the simplifying assumption that CO2 and H2O are generated in equal amounts. This led to a small but real potential effect on sea level rise. (Although when I once discussed this in another forum some years back, someone there tried to insist that all of that water vapor just stays in the air - which I thought was rather bizarre!) But when I tried to make a more realistic assessment of the situation, I realized just how variable things could be (see examples below), and that I really had no good information to go on. Any numbers I came up with could vary widely based on my starting assumptions, so they weren't really worth very much in the end - kind of like the way so much "climate science" is done today! :)

CO2:H2O production ratios, if fully oxidized. If not fully oxidized then the CO2 numbers drop and soot is produced instead.

Methane: 1:2

Octane: 8:9

Benzene: 2:1

These are for very simple organic molecules. Once you get past a handful of carbon atoms the number of potential molecular configurations and corresponding ratios starts growing dramatically, and for something like coal the situation can grow extremely complex.

I know your phytoplankton comment was meant as sarcasm, but such things might actually have a real effect over time. (You should probably do the math!) The buildup of organic matter, minerals, sediments from erosion, and "rocks" and such might very well be noticeable. Remember that, if land-building forces were to basically come to a halt, then eventually all of the continents would pretty much just erode completely away, leaving not much more than an Earth covered in seawater to some average depth.
Embrace the process!

I'm really bad at finishing things. I have a lot of side projects on the go when perhaps I should focus on just one venture. But I've learned to just embrace trying to do everything at once (even if far from perfectly), and enjoying it rather than beating myself up about failing to consolidate. Might limit potential, but I like it more this way.

(I've run my main business for 20 years. I co-run a co-working space. I have a SaaS project, sports forum, involvement in some apps, a vanlife showcase, an aerial photography side business, etc. About to add something else. List of the main things here: http://www.isaacforman.com.au/)
It is very exciting to see Optane competitive with conventional NVMe drives -- this is something that Intel got right early and their exploration into DIMM-socketed Optane drives is similarly exciting.

It has already been established that for most consumer workloads, the latency differences between memory and Optane is negligible. This article shows that heavy-duty workloads (ie: high-traffic memcached clusters) can be accommodated by Optane and NVMe too. Clusters of 500K IOPS drives can take us most of the way there.

I don't want to get all /r/hailcorporate but Optane drives are great products and (more importantly) you can run them on AMD platforms (ie: SP3) too. Granted, NVMe drives bring the fight and they're much more cost competitive at scale, but that will change soon.
Most stuff I use is the same across OSes. Chrome, Slack, IntelliJ, VS Code. I use WSL on Windows 10 to get my linux command line and then terminal is about as good as any other.
Cool, thanks. This seemed like a good service, but I want to run the daemon myself (and not pay $20).

I’ll contribute to the project or figure out some way to get money to the project team if I like it.
Wow, $2000! That's quite expensive for what it is. I didn't realize Dell costs so much over there.
I definitely hear your concern and will be upfront on the pros and cons of each platform.

The DRM-free first edition is here: https://pragprog.com/book/actb/technical-blogging
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That's a half truth about what is going on now. But in 2011 it wasn't.
Apple was a co-founder of ARM Holdings (along side Acorn and VLSI Tech). I don't know how much stock they hold now, but Wikipedia says they held almost 15% in 1999.

In the 2010-ish time, there was a huge mystery corporation looking into buying MIPS before it was ripped into pieces (with the actual MIPS design team going to Imagination Technologies). It's worth considering that ARMv8 64-bit is extremely similar to the MIPS ISA.

Insiders have expressed surprise at Apple's progress. It takes 4-5 years to make and launch a new architecture (and A7 was completely new in every aspect). The starting mark for a third-party design should be from Oct 2011 when the ARMv8 ISA was announced. What's the actual time to a shipping product?

* Apple A7 -- (Sept 2013) 1 year 11 Months

* A53 -- (mid 2014) 2.5 years

* Apple A8 -- (Sept 2014) 3 years

* A57 -- (Q1 2015) 3.5 years

* Apple A9 -- (Sept 2015) 4 years

* Kryo -- (Dec 2015) 4 years 3 months

* A72 -- (Q1 2016) 4.5 years -- basically a fixed A57

How did Apple design such a fast chip in less than 2 years? They did not. Even Intel with a virtually unlimited budget, many more designers, and in-house fabs can't make that happen (PA Semi was good, but not that good). Apple had to know about the new ISA when apparently no other companies did. If ARM told only Apple about the upcoming ISA, that could easily run afoul of regulators.

Here's what I speculate happened. ARMv7 is holding back chip design. Apple looks into buying MIPS because its a great ISA, but changing architectures without backward compatibility is super risky (this was during the app war period). You don't do risky if you don't have to.

Start designing a chip using a new ISA that's very similar to MIPS (a known good starting point to reduce design time). Approach ARM with the options. You can turn that ISA into a new MIPS ISA pretty easily or you can hand over that ISA for ARM to release with guaranteed backward compatibility. Between the long-time business connections, fear of losing Apple, and the fact that it's a good design, ARM agrees. MIPS is divided up with ARM buying rights to most of their patents (basically eliminating the chances of ARM getting sued over ISA similarities).

ARM starts on their own designs and releases the ISA 6-10 months later. Apple chips launch when expected (and have a multi-year lead). ARM chips launch when expected given a few months insider info. Kryo and other third-party cores launch when expected compared to the ISA release.
No. For most women it's awesome that men get paternity leave.

@rconti suggested that equal paternity leave might be unfair because of the additional physical costs that women pay to give birth; I was disagreeing with that, saying that if anything paternity adds value for those women.

Paternity leave even adds value for women who will never have children, because it undercuts any argument that prefers hiring men over women because of parental leave.

The only women it doesn't add much value for are those without partners. "Unfair" is probably the wrong term. They're simply put at a disadvantage relative to other mothers as a result.
How important it is to be proactive about career management - don't always take the easy path, even if it pays well.

Doctors are exorbitantly overpaid relative to the value they provide.

How little money matters once you have a few hundred K.
Most people believe whatever they want to believe, and it’s a massive waste of the limited time that is life to try and change their minds.

Peanut butter is best in savory applications.
This should be eye-opening to a number of Europeans here on HN who, in the GDPR debate, basically dismissed any possible negative implications of the law by trusting their politicians and basically saying “we don’t have to worry because this is not the United States”.
Grayshift isn't law enforcement though, they're a private company that is creating DMCA violating products. Apple has every right to sue them, and hopefully recover some compensation for how they have sullied Apple's brand.
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Can someone explain why Apple computers seemingly only have a 2-3 year lifespan? I've had the "opportunity" of owning three Macs in my life and none of them have lasted more than a couple years.

Sure, they work. I gave me Grandma my old iMac and she uses it to this day. But it's impossibly slow, as is my 2015 iMac that I'm writing this on.

Restarting this $2500 computer takes several minutes, opening applications takes similar period of time. The computer lags when you open ANY save dialog. Even opening finder takes about 1 second.

Meanwhile I also have a five year old Windows PC I built myself, restarts in under 15 seconds. As soon as I see my desktop I can launch any application instantly.

I like using OSX but it's fucking slow.
Engineering is not about “getting stuff done”, but what you’ve described isn’t engineering. The word is thrown around too loosely in the software world.
Asteroids and Adversaries: Challenging What NASA Knows About Space Rocks
Blot recently added support for git, I just haven’t updated the homepage to reflect this:

https://twitter.com/Blot__/status/996506149712211968
It's really important to put feedback loops in place in your life to change it in the direction you want it to go.
This phenomenon is a close cousin of the sunk-cost fallacy but it's not quite the same thing.

I'm talking about rationally assessing that the value of an asset has fallen, vs. sunk cost's "we've come this far..." - even if you're rational, it can be hard to sell and psychologically tolerate taking such a huge loss.
My apologies if my comment came off as disingenuous or overly binary. I'd agree you could take minimal MVPs too far. (Also, the phrase "minimal MVP" is RAS syndrome but how would I say it otherwise?)

What I haven't seen is "the current mess at many shops", and I'd be interested to hear about your experiences. I've only ever experienced failure by overplanning personally, and the stark divide between progress in things that can be cheaply iterated on and things that are expensive, preplanned disasters seems important to me.

This leads me to naturally think that if I wanted to make progress in e.g. medicine I should start by finding out how to make it cheap and iterable, rather than come up with comprehensive, well-funded plans.
I think they're calling it massive because the storm covers 1/4 of the planet and is still growing
dmerfield posted below he recently added support for git. His comment has details and a link.
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I don’t think this is a novel idea, but it is still a great topic for a PhD. While the results in this paper look impressive, my suspicion is that the system doesn’t generalize particularly well. (I suspect this from experience with similar, albeit simpler, ideas, as well as from looking at the datasets.) If you can make a system that generalizes to new environments and objects, or a system that works with real-world natural image/video data, that would be a tremendous accomplishment.
I mean Chicago is literally investing nothing in this. So there's nothing they're betting here. Their "bet" basically is that they don't need to spend any more money on transit. The worst case is they're in exactly the same situation they are now.
Happiness is a choice. I'm not saying bad things happening are a choice, often you're not in control of that; but you are always in control of how you respond.
Experts cost money. One side can pay for experts, the other can't. In this case it's the newspapers and publishers. Other times it will be the copyright lobby.

It's reminds me of well-funded think-tanks providing experts with academic credentials very articulately arguing that supply-side effects are a great reason to cut taxes for the super-rich and decrease or privatize those costly public services.

How many think-tanks advocating increasing taxes for the rich to pay for public services for all get a steady income stream?

It's like a biased random walk. Sometimes things go backwards a bit, but the direction's set by underlying bias of the system.
Deep Learning meets dependent types
Isn’t this the famous “feminist” bridge?
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The screen is also a regression from the iPad Air 2. The 10" Pro wasn't enough better, so they instead chose to weaken their non-pro line.

Modern Apple in a nutshell, really.
What about pictures of other crimes involving children, like dead and mutilated children. The parents can be re-victimized by seeing their dead children online again and again, potentially. If the child survived, it would surely be triggering to see themselves suffering so horribly.

Should people posessing such pictures be treated as harshly as people posessing cp? They certainly are not right now.

I guess intent is different on the production side. It's usually reporting (but often times people just sharing pictures they received from someone, without any censorship or much verification). But what do we know why people want to posess such pictures. It's a picture/video of a horrific crime involving a child, perhaps even more horrific than most CP. I mean how can you compare a child being tickled inappropriately for example with a child intentionally burned by chemicals until it slowly drowns to death because of pulmonary edema.

Sometimes society's rules are hard do make sense of if you try to make sense of them rationally.
This is a really important lesson to internalize (the first one).

In order to change peoples' minds, they have to want to see that they're wrong. I think certain personality types are innately more disposed to the sort of introspection necessary to evaluate one's beliefs and throw out what's wrong.

Really it comes down to how much you care about truth. Coming from the hard sciences, it's surprising how far you can get in this world without caring even a tiny little bit about truth in many fields, most of which involve "people" and not "things": politics, sales, marketing.
You were very lucky in more ways than the one.

Most definitely. I get a bit of existential vertigo when I think about how much of my often-happy life has depended on luck. It intensifies when I consider how many of those lucky circumstances were determined before my birth.
I've never heard of a feminist bridge, so if it is, it's not that famous.
How interesting would it be to read the article about the company that looked at doing the big, dramatic rewrite, but didn’t, and was successful?

This has happened at my company with a service called Firehose, which is basically PubSub over WS and HTTP written in Ruby Event Machine. It’s unstylish for a lot of technical reasons and an eng even tried to rewrite it in Elixir. We ended up scraping the rewrite project because the Ruby code just works and rarely gives us any problems in production.

The problem with that story though is it won’t attract engineers who like new shiny stuff.
For better or for worse, articles like this and the leaking of information from Grayshift gives Apple a lot of smoke to follow. If you’re trying to figure out how an attacker is getting into a system and you’ve cut off one major vector, that’s good. But if the attacker then comes out and says that they’re unaffected by that vector cutoff, it signals that was the wrong vector to block off.

It’s an interesting cat and mouse game, but I have a feeling that the cat will win. Apple can “go nuclear” and do something like remove wired data connectivity all together, for example. Low level boot firmware doesn’t need to change all that often — getting it “right” means that they won’t need to worry about it for a long time.

Apple loves showing off their investment to privacy as of late. It’s very tempting from Apple’s perspective to invest a lot of time and money in keeping attackers out now, more than ever.
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My experience is that macOS is similar to how Windows used to be. You have to wipe it out and reinstall it every year or two to get your performance back.
> They're simply put at a disadvantage relative to other mothers as a result.

How on earth are they put at a disadvantage that someone who does not exist, and so does not need the benefit, does not get that benefit?

And more broadly is it nice to talk about someone else getting a benefit that they need as being putting people who do not get it at a 'disadvantage'?

Are you disadvantaged that people who can't walk get wheelchairs?
Here's a discussion of flying a plane on a Cat III ILS autoland: https://youtu.be/UO2K4-zRubA

Note all the crosschecking between the human operators and the two autopilots. Mentour speaks almost exclusively about flying the Boeing 737, a very reliable aircraft. Even on this aircraft the human pilots are ready to take over from the autopilot at a moment's notice.

Here is an auto land using Cat III ILS in an Airbus 320, with the humans invigilating at all times, ready to go around if anything appears off nominal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSNE3SmYA-8

So to a naive observer, it may appear that you are correct: planes can land themselves without intervention. But that is only true for airport, aircraft and conditions qualified for Cat III approaches (i.e.: ideal conditions) and remain that way throughout the procedure. If the airport, aircraft or environment are not qualified for Cat III approach, you don't get this ultra-precise auto land capability. If anything goes wrong with any equipment during approach, you don't get the auto land capability (and indeed a go-around is required).

If there is anything outside spec (e.g.: aircraft manoeuvring on the taxiway can distort the ILS beam, thus Low Visibility Procedures), things will go wrong and the pilot needs to intervene.

At no point is it safe for a pilot to let the plane do the flying and sit back to have a cup of tea. The captain and first officer have their assigned tasks: be ready to land the plane and be ready to go around (respectively). Intervention is required from time to time, so they need to be ready to intervene every time.

Cars do not have the option of "going around". Every action has the potential to cause fatality within seconds. There's even less room for inattentiveness when using a car on autopilot.

The OP suggested that autopilot should be able to drive the car without any human intervention, but they have confused autopilot with autonomous driving, probably because of the "auto" prefix, yet they've never been confused about an automobile requiring constant human attention.

It's clear that Tesla have a PR/marketing problem, when the population is happy to drive an auto with auto, but can't differentiate between autopilot and autonomous.
I use it to help ease various symptoms of my cystic fibrosis(I take it in a pill form), It's been really life changing.
Fed-up AMA doctors overwhelmingly support gun restrictions in sweeping votes
Why should anyone care how many github stars one library has compared to another?
This is a really important lesson to internalize (the first one).

The second is too! I’m telling you, peanut butter is an amazing savory ingredient! You don’t have to go full Hemingway (peanut butter and onion sandwiches), but at least satay is the way. Peanut butter is especially good when it’s spicy.

Plus yes, the other stuff, but I just can’t say enough about peanut butter.
The loop system isn't about purely shuttling people to and from the heart of the city. Look up a bit on how it works.