skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you start following pages of news outlets on Facebook, your feed starts to be filled with news coming from them, making it seem somehow like a RSS reader. At the beginning it even used to somehow work, but in the last few years the content selection algorithms started to be so heavily optimized towards user engagement - likes, comments, reactions, shares - instead of providing interesting content that it became clearly visible, and the difference between a reach of promoted posts and regular one increased massively as well, in turn making Facebook's feed useless as a news provider.
This is published as a transcript of a speech. Is it the official position of the SEC as a whole?

I understand that even if it isn't, it does show a glimpse of where the SEC is thinking on this. I'm not so sure about it being an official position though.
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LIDAR is certainly useful in building up point clouds, especially when coupled with RADAR, however the devil always lies in the details

LIDAR is higher resolution than radar, but often slower - counterintuitive to be sure, but such is the case - i.e. this large volume of data can lag reality by some small delta, and at 60MPH, that can add up.

Uber does use LIDAR and RADAR, however the informed external commentary I've seen, admittedly guesswork based on the NTSB reports seems to indicate it was a fusion error behind the AZ fatality. Sensor fusion is a beastly complex problem on top of miserable calibration exercises :-(

More importantly, AI only exists in the minds of marketers, media, and the improperly informed. This is all just pattern recognition - we're a ways off from having a system understand that if an occluding obstacle moves out of the way, then high priority previous unknown information now exposed needs to be checked. I'm sure such tests will get hardwired into current systems, however the system is then limited by what does get hardwired into it.
At the end of the day a visual system, no matter how sophisticated is still only a visual system.
I'll throw Lenovo and the Dell XPS line to start. Sadly the line I loved, the VAIO Z, is gone now but hardware wise they were excellent too.
Forget 32GB, looks like 128GB RAM laptops have just arrived:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/6/13/17458712/l...
If you want to punish people purely for the speech, without regard to the consequences, then no, you do not support freedom of speech. If someone shouts "Fire!" in a crowded theater and is ignored, it's not an issue. If someone causes people to be harmed by starting a stampede in a crowded theater, whether through yelling or pulling the fire alarm, it is the harm that they are responsible for.

Compare this with the censorship imposed by many governments. Blasphemy, a pure speech act, is a victimless crime. Anyone who supports laws against it does not support free speech.
Such nonsense. Tell me, when will we get some articles which promote women willing to date men who make less than them? Or women who are ok with men who stay at home to take care of kids? Those biases are still very strong amongst women.
Spec wise every single PC manufacturer has more performant machines than Apple at the same price point, and I at least definitely wouldn't describe the current line of Macbooks as polished or solid. My personal experience, at least, has been the complete opposite - a machine that's basically falling apart after 1 year with multiple hardware problems.
The macro commodities picture is looking pretty solid, I've been looking at getting into raw materials. If anything they seem undervalued
I've personally used node-replay with great success. It has minimal configuration https://github.com/assaf/node-replay
Not sure if he is part of it, but there is a large amount of people faking this kind of content on YouTube for those juicy views and clicks. Kind of amazing to be scamming with an anti-scamming vibe.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Apple needs to sell off Macintosh. Their lack of focus on Mac hardware has cost them hundreds of millions of dollars, which for a normal company would be a big deal, but is rounding error for Apple.

I bet they could easily sell 1,000,000+ units of 2015 Macbook Pro laptops with 32GiG RAM and an updated processor/chipset/graphics.

I don't think it is a coincidence that 2015 was their peak unit sales for Mac [1]. 2017 was down from 2015 by 1.3 million units.

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/276308/global-apple-mac-...
>Or: Taking a Picture Every 30 Seconds and Sending It To A Server.
I've worked in a lot of coworking spaces where inevitably someone starts a group to talk about the harsh realities of starting a business. It sounds like Gambler's Anonymous.

Surprised to hear only 70% fail. Those odds actually sound pretty good. I've made enough in the startup world to pay the bills for a decade, but probably below my market rate at a big tech co.

I don't regret a thing. Each time I get a bit further into the wealth creation game. But I also wouldn't recommend it to anyone, and actively work on dissuading new founders from trying.
I would feel better with a paid solution.
I'm trying to understand your point. Are you saying that in support of habitue's comment, or as a counter-argument?
You need wide tunnels to reduce aerodynamic drag on the trains.
I'm curious. Why did Apple switching to Intel CPUs make you lose respect for that company?
If you speak Spanish or French, I strongly suggest Pequeños Detectives de Monstres / Petits Détectives de Monstres. Played it with 4 year olds, it's great, collaborative, non-violent (the only enemy is the Fear of Monsters), has a little song, encourages to use physical accessories to represent in-game objects, etc. It's also designed to be played along older siblings.

Oh, and finally, game sessions last only about 15 minutes, which fits within the attention span of children.
UDP is the stepchild of protocols. Many devices drop it first during congestion. It is not the peer of TCP in that regard.
Meh, S3 is nice and lightweight for a very particular kind of analysis interoperability. S4 isn't super useful IMHO. RC is very well thought out, and I've heard good things about R6. It might not be sane language design, but it works well for designing very different kinds of analytical procedures.
If one company made a laptop trackpad as good as Apple's that worked perfectly in any mainstream Linux distro I'd buy their laptop in a heartbeat. I've never seen one that fits that bill though.
The keyboard is one problem, but there are others.

My secondary machine, a 2014 13'' retina MBP, started having battery problems. Went to an official repair service (Apple does not fix stuff here in Mexico). To replace the battery I would have to replace the whole top panel of the machine (keyboard, trackpad, etc) which costs like $600 USD. Apple would in turn buy the piece removed from my computer and lower what I had to pay to $350 USD.

$350 to replace a battery is still ridiculous, specially considering that it's the first piece to degrade on a laptop.

Since I don't depend much on that laptop I will live with a bad battery as long as I can. In a year or two I will reconsider my options.
My brother wrote a Wizard of Oz RPG with a recommended minimum age of 8. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/83891/Adventures-in-Oz-F...
I use a mid-2012 at home too. The RAM/HDD slots have been updated multiple times. I love how long the device has lasted me.
People who have been 'weeded out of the gene pool' are non-experts. I don't classify them as experts to begin with. Even with open systems, to qualify as an expert in any sense, you need to have some kind of a track record, otherwise you're not an expert, you're just a bullshit artist, and your opinion is immaterial (immaterial to me at least, they may have a great deal of influence on others, which I guess is something that needs to be factored in to any predictions you make re: cult of Elon vs. Tesla shorts). Someone claiming to be an expert is not necessarily an expert, that's the first distinction that needs to be made.
The Economist isn't a conservative news source by almost any possible metric. They are actually very socially liberal (and generally economically centrist).

A lot of their positions (taxation, free education, government spending in infrastructure, universal healthcare, etc.) would be classified as left-leaning or left.

Additionally, I've seen that leftist news sources aren't by any means behind rightist ones in terms of fake news. They just focus on different sets of fake news.

Maybe the fact that you find rightist news more biased is just a result of your own bias. You overlook the bias in the publications that are aligned with your beliefs.
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When all you've got is a hammer...
performant != polished
Only until presbyopia sets in, starting in your 40s and completing in the early 50s (usually).
Still have my 2008 Mac Pro desktop, that has been frankenstein'd to the max. Seems to get by just fine considering it's ten years old. Still blows my mind how much they've pushed the power user away. All they had to do was keep the cheesegrater box updated, and there would be no complaints. Now we're all using or looking for alternatives. My latest being an old Dell corporate throwaway running Linux for my dev environment. If Mac's are such a minuscule part of their revenue, then just get rid of the entire hardware line completely and be done with it. Stop stringing us all along for a god damn decade, so we can move along.
it's a sad state for hardware these days, just look at lenovo's thinkpads. they are destroying their brand too, but perhaps in another subtle way, by slowly removing things that people liked and adding bogus features. i really don't know what to buy when my mid-2014 macbook stops working. might just skip computers, go on a spiritual quest and find true love instead.
Neat, I'm a huge fan of anything in the intersection of programming and bbq.
What do you mean by "systems programming"?
The iPad Pro is the future of Apple. I am beginning to suspect that general purpose computing has no future apart from Linux—and even then, those of us clinging to it are going to start looking a lot like Amiga enthusiasts who’re keeping their old machines alive by sheer force of will.
> Engineers, surgeons, pilots, all these kinds of ‘trusted’ experts operate in closed systems.

Unfortunately, the prosperity of the "traditional medicine" industry is evidence that people don't even trust their surgeons/doctors.
Of course it's not a security. It's a commodity... right?
Had both, pretty similar. Better keyboard on X1 Carbon, nicer form-factor on XPS 13, better camera placement on X1 (but I don't use it, so...), X1 is just better. This is using Fedora, you need a later kernel for both of them (4.17+) to stop bad things happening.
Wow. I've used Twilio API before... had no idea you could do something like this. How do you log categories?
I actually don't think Apple loves to announce things that won't ship for many months; the majority of their hardware announcements even in recent years have been for products that ship within a couple weeks, or even days, of the announcement. The only exceptions that come to mind offhand are ones driven by screw-ups. The iMac Pro and 2019 Mac Pro wouldn't have been pre-announced at all (and the latter probably wouldn't even exist) if the trashcan Mac Pro hadn't become a minimalist garbage fire, and AirPods, AirPlay 2, and the possibly mythical AirPower clearly ran/are running way behind their intended schedule.

Hardware just doesn't come out every WWDC. I agree with Rogue Amoeba that Apple needs to be willing to do minor hardware updates more frequently than they have been, but I would be surprised if most or all of their laptops don't get an update in the next three months, probably along with the (non-Pro) iMac and the iPad Pro.
But what about battery life?
You can have multiple platforms and send trains to each not just separate load/unload platforms. This was very common with passenger trains as boarding times could extend for long periods. Even when it was a single line for loading and unloading they would normally have a bypass line to avoid the station.
Sure, but you just described an area of approximately 2400 square miles. No one who lives and works in denver is going to be happy to start making the commute all the way to fort collins(or vice versa).
Sometimes you may not want to pause execution. Adding a print statement is often faster than starting a debugging session - especially in languages like Common Lisp, where you can simply recompile a single function of a running program. Another benefit of print statements is that they're append-only, not self-overwriting - that is, I can stick one inside a loop and quickly collect a bunch of values to review, or even copy over to another tool for analysis.

A modern debugger is a powerful tool (especially if the language you're using isn't itself very powerful). It's worth knowing your way around it. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be using simple print statements whenever that's faster or more useful.
That's awesome. I personally used to be a daily smoker (like start the day with a bowl, end the day with a dab type smoker). It definitely was insanely beneficial for me at first. After about 5 years, it lost its magical effects for me because my tolerance was too high. I took an extended tolerance break and when I came back, something still wasn't quite right and I've been sober ever since. My productivity has increased and I'm feeling a lot better.

I hope cannabis continues to work well for you. For me personally, I hit this wall at around 5 years of daily smoking. I can't imagine how my life being on it's current trajectory without it though. It really was a big boon to my creativity, productivity, and life.

For those who have never tried or have only used prohibition era cannabis, sativas and indicas have significantly different effects. With the ability to choose your strains, you really can craft your experience. Cannabis can be a very powerful tool. Also, please, don't take this as an endorsement to go out and try it. That's a very personal decision in my opinion like whether to consume alcohol or not.
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MBPs circa 2014 were/are more polished and solid than brand new 2018 MBPs. They've actually taken steps back in offering anti-features that their users don't want.
FWIW, the refresh of the Skull Canyon, aka "Hades Canyon" is even more impressive than its predecessor.
You’re making unjust light of the phrase “skin in the game”. Your version is more like “potential monetary gains in the game”. To overlook the difference is to undermine the utility of the phrase. Simply, risking one’s own skin is anything but equivalent to risking potential monetary gains, and all the more so when the remainder of your life’s financial needs are secure and the profits at stake is mere bonus.

My understanding of the Democrats in the last election is precisely that they were unwilling to have “skin in the game”. It appears that if they had embraced class politics, (the tradition of the American Democratic Party) the election would have been theirs. Because they were unwilling to take that risk, which so many with undeniable “skin in the game” demanded of them, they would have won. Or in other words, they did not have “skin in the game”. Maybe if such a risk were necessary to enter the race, they would have sat it out, in which case we could be quite certain.
I'd love to hear more about your troubles with Scala, and any examples of "clean code being hard to write". Do you think this had more to do with a lack of experience with strongly typed functional languages, or more to do with Scala's mixed paradigm?

Also, thanks for sharing your story. Elixir is a great language and I love seeing it being adopted more and more everyday.
Not in my experience. We have 6 of them running Ubuntu. Constant heating/throttling problems. A persistent USB power problem. Frequent kernel oopses.

Coming from a Mac, stuff that just works there is a constant struggle on the Dell XPS 13. It is pretty though.
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Purchased one about a year ago. Screen, sound card, and keyboard needed to be replaced on arrival. Replaced the screen and sound card under warranty and sold it disclosing that the keyboard’s spacebar sometimes inserted two spaces on one press. Have Dell’s QA issues on this laptop gotten any better?
Slim seemed extremely similar to Haml to me — the primary difference IIRC is that Haml uses more sigils (probably due to influence from Ruby). They both have that quality of basically reducing your document to a minimal syntax tree.
Beyond that, the burden of proof in a criminal trial is much higher. So it wouldn't be unheard of for the DOJ to not pursue criminal charges if it doesn't think it can pass that higher bar.
Thanks for the memories! I hated that keyboard, but the one on the 600XL even though it was full-travel was arguably worse.
It seems like internal applications (manufacturing, etc) are the only reason they keep the Mac Mini around.
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I'm a heater meter fan myself (with a combination blower damper)

https://github.com/CapnBry/HeaterMeter
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I use EveryDollar; it ticks most of our boxes, but it's not a ledger (it doesn't give me any confidence that I didn't make an error in my allocations). Still, it's good for planning and trcking. They also have a $10/month premium plan (which I use) that automatically pulls in transactions (a la Mint) but I don't get the spammy adverts and they had a much better privacy policy last I checked. Still, it's SaaS...
What you are saying makes sense but it also means that Macs shouldn't get thinner and prettier but more utilitarian with upgradeable parts, plenty of ports and so on. I guess Apple doesn't know anymore who Macs are really for.
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It's also posted on SEC.gov, not like a Twitter post here
Even without ECN, routers can indirectly slow down sending sides by dropping TCP packets because most TCP implementations behave politely.

QUIC also adapts to packet loss, but I guess it's those other fire-and-forget-style UDP traffic that gets dropped, taking QUIC down as casualty.
I've been using YNAB for about 6 or 7 years I think. I really enjoy the software and the ideology behind it. It's helped me quite a bit.
>the Exceptional Talent visa. It’s a true hidden gem: tier 1, valid 5 years, no work restrictions

Is this a successor to, and similar to, the HSMP (Highly Skilled Migrant Programme) that the UK had some years ago?
What is it about this system that you like better than YNAB? (new or 4)
It's hard to imagine when there is still, like, active PC gaming communities and PCs are so important to office work.

I remember seeing a lot of this take when people were buying up iPads, but I think there are real limitations -- tablets are just not really good for doing work.
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> Developers are the only people Apple really needs to make Macs for and that's a pretty small market in the grand scheme. Creatives doing photography, 3D, video, etc. have long left for other platforms. I don't expect things to get much better.

Apple alienated the creatives and it seems like they've started alienating the developers, too.

If the Mac platform becomes nothing more than part of a development kit for iOS apps (sort of like developer version of a video game console [1]), it will be a sad day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_development_kit
We were promised light rail, and even raised taxes to build it out, and then the government decided to give us a toll lane on a highway(managed by an australian company) and a bus route as a compromise. Front rangers talk a lot about environmental stewardship but from their actions I don't believe they really care about it.
Don't trucks transport something like 80% of all the goods in the world at some point?
How does this compare to RestructuredText?
I found Gnucash to be difficult to use.
I thought my coworker from Castle Rock was out there (and he did end up moving to Erie). But when you look at bay area commutes it seems reasonable. The mind boggles.
Sam usually puts a disclaimer into his articles. From his playbook: "A word of warning about choosing to start a startup: It sucks!...Joining an early-stage startup that’s on a rocketship trajectory is usually a much better financial deal."

I doubt these disclaimers work well when a crazed founder has dollar signs in his/her eyes. But he tries. Yes, VCs profit from a larger market of risk-bearing founders, but Sam was once a risk-taking founder too.
So, roughly one person out of 600? That's a lot. Especially online, you probably interact with such people a lot more often that you think.
No, the SEC would have to explicitly issue a ruling.

This would be equivalent to equating the opinion of a single Supreme Court Justice to a ruling of the Supreme Court on a subject.
I believe there are several divisional directors, but the commission is made up of 5 commissioners appointed by the president. So while he has a big job, he is essentially a staffer, with policy being set at the commissioner level.
I don't think I've ever seen that in the US. Would be useful information to know, though, for sure.
Hey this is ian hogarth. I first presented a version of this essay at an event at a place called Ditchley which had brought together various ML researchers and politicians from North America and Europe to discuss this topic. One of the things that really struck me was the similarity between the U.K. and Canada in terms of their depth of academic talent around ML but the paucity of independent “domestic champions”.
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If I could develop on an iPad pro I might. If I had Xcode, access to other compilers, Bash, Perl, emacs,... There is no underlying platform for development to begin with (there is Un*x down in there somewhere). Forget development for the moment, iPads are really "content consumption" devices not "content creation" .. I don't even like editing spreadsheets on an iPad.
Maybe it is time for Apple to embrace the Hackintosh and let us install MacOS on our own hardware.
I'm on startup #8.

I would be retired if I just worked the last 25 years instead of doing startups.

Startups are fun though, working at corporate jobs is so soul sucking I can barely do it for the time frames between startups.

If I'd just followed the safe path, I would have totally regretted not trying to go out on my own. My only regret is marrying a terrible person the first time around, crapped out on that one :-/
A good, durable, keyboard, twice the battery life, lots of storage, memory, maintainable, and still easy to lug around? I'm gonna swoon...
Did you have clinically diagnosed depression?
The biggest problem that I find with programs like mint is that they aren't real time. Even my bank accounts aren't current. They often lag 24 hours, so when I look it may seem like I have more than what I do ... so I guess (often wrong, or forget something) what I spent the day before and try to mentally assign that amount to different categories (like groceries, Transportation, restaurants, etc).

Does anyone know software that can keep real time accounting of my personal expenses?
The point I was trying to make is that utilities and infrastructure don't add up in ways that make budget decisions simple or that seem sensible when viewed from a simple calculation of total cost divided by number of households. If we did that same calculation for other utilities, we would not have many utilities at all!

Honestly, I'm not really sure how it's all paid for at the end of the day.
I second EveryDollar. It allows your budget to be flexible month-to-month because spending in different categories will always ebb and flow.
They discontinued YNAB4 so unless you already have a license then you're out of luck. Their new system is SAAS.