skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Initially, yes. Later this year or next year, Thunderbolt will be an open royalty-free non-exclusive format.

Source: Intel: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/envision-world-thunder...

Once it is opened up, it should in theory drop the prices with more companies being able to product TB chipsets.
How do you pronounce "XAR"? "Ex-AR"? "Sar"? "Shar"?
> After booking the weekend, we were told that we’d need to vacate the premises from 12–4pm because the room was located in a spa retreat.

After booking they told you that?

IMO either do the sane thing and cancel or get into whatever horrible interaction you describe in the rest of the blog.
Correct -- you should at least try and then make a fair judgment of yourself. However, that judgment is still hard to make.
This all reminds me a bit of Tiny Core Linux. IIRC, it uses SquashFS images for all its packages, mounts them in a specific spot, then uses either symlinks or UnionFS to put everything together.
Same thing happened with South American Malbecs a few years ago. I used to find very nice quality Malbecs from Chile and Argentina for under $10. Now they sell for double.
"If I want a professional hotel experience, I stay at a hotel. If I wanted a less predictable experience from people playing at running a hotel, I'd stay at one of these amateur hotels."

I really appreciate a nice hotel and often opt for that, however the ability to rent an entire freestanding home (or flat) is a game changer for families and groups traveling.

I find that there are some pretty simple heuristics you can employ to avoid these bad airbnb experiences ... the quality of the home/unit can instantly be assessed by looking at the bathroom and kitchen pictures. If you see shower curtains, you pass - if you see glass shower doors, you proceed. A high end surface and a nice range/stove in the kitchen pictures tell you everything you need to know about the unit.

As for the hosts, never, ever book with new hosts and always discuss things over the phone and get a sense as to whom you are dealing with.

The nicer and more expensive the unit, the better the experience you will have.
You mean the last time you drank a bottle of whiskey by yourself right?
The definition of personal data in GDPR doesn't mention "created or provided by that person" in any way. Can you provide a reference limiting the scope past the definition in Article 4?

Article 14 explicitly talks about data not provided by the data subject, further clarifying that it is in scope.
My advice to anyone would be to pick a career/job that at least relates to something that interests you. In the end it will make work a little more enjoyable. But as others have mentioned here, at some point you have to actually work and sometimes it's going to suck. That's just life. You can find a career that you enjoy, or sparks your interest enough to keep you doing it, but the idea of "never having to work a day in your life" (or however the mantra goes) is complete crap. So, get a job! And get a haircut!
I'd just point out that taking a number of months to find a new job is pretty much absolutely the norm for most people in many types of professional roles.

Last couple of times I changed jobs, I had interested high-level people who I already knew from Day 1 and it still took a few months to get on interview calendars, get through internal processes, etc. I have no doubt there are some people who can pick up the phone and have a new job the next week but it's absolutely not the norm just about anywhere--remote or otherwise.
For the most part yes, the only sizeable difference is the caching/NUMA strategies and implementation between the two platforms (L3 <=> DRAM controller(s), and interconnects if necessary).
Title: TEARDOWN OF USB FAN REVEALS JOURNALISTS’ LACK OF OPSEC

Content: "The real story here is that accomplished journalists would be grateful for a random USB device given to them by a foreign government. There is every indication this journalist actually plugged this USB fan into his computer. But even if he went the safe route and opted to use a USB battery or a cable with data lines disconnected to protect against malware, I’m sure others didn’t take precautions. Out of 2500 journalists at the Singapore summit, some unquestionably plugged this threat into their computer."

Question: What is the indication that the journalist actually plugged this USB fan into his computer?

Reality: there is no evidence of any journalist plugging in the USB fan.

Conclusion: YAZWPSRAAS (yet another zer0cool wannabe posting self-righteous articles about security)
>The EC was arguably created (in it's existing format) to protect the interests of southern, slave-owning states. At the time, roughly analogous to resisting tyranny of the majority (as the urban north had more people, especially as slaves weren't fully recognized as people),

I don't know that this is true.

1789, 1st Congress

Slave States (40 representatives)

Delaware 1

New Jersey 4

New York 6

Maryland 6

Georgia 3

North Carolina 5

South Carolina 5

Virginia 10

Free States (25 representatives)

Connecticut 5

Massachusetts 8

New Hampshire 3

Pennsylvania 8

Rhode Island 1
The lambdas are only triggered when there is data in the stream, so the "consumer" in this case is not always running. Under the hood there is a process that polls Kinesis to check for records but it's completely managed by AWS and you aren't charged for it.

Plus, in any real world scenario, if you're running 24x7 your load isn't evenly distributed throughout the day. Which means you're setting up autoscaling (w/ added time+complexity) or provisioning for peak, wiping out your cost savings.

In my experience if your data volumes are low enough like in the article, a Kinesis+Lambda setup is stress free and quick to implement. That makes it worth the cost over raw instances.
Tom, have you heard of EDN and Transit? Like JSON, but:

1. Extensible, custom types

2. Streamy, efficient, compressed and fast, leverages platform's existing native/optimized JSON parsers

3. Wide platform reach

4. Made by Rich Hickey

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2014/7/22/transit
If everyone can watch everyone with equal transparency, that would seem to imply a distributed system with information symmetry, which is antithetical to centralized authority. If there was a central authority/super admin in such a system, how would you keep them from covertly creating information asymmetry?
Snow – Conceal messages in ASCII text (2013)
A couple people recommended Red Plenty on one of these threads, and I took the recommendation and agree, it's great. Earnest Soviet economists try to solve the Russian economy with mathematical models running on computers. The story is told in a series of anecdotes, kind of similar to Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars.

There are diversions along the way about Soviet cars, the probability of getting lung cancer from any given cigarette, academic freedom, etc.
Seems like a strange headline... the teardown apparently didn't "reveal" anything unexpected at all.

"Lack of opsec" is still all fine and good as a comment about this story, but this article is implying (really, more than implying) that they actually found something hidden in the fan.
One syllable, rhymes with "car" but with a "z" sound ("zar").
Don't take it so literally.
I too have been struggling with this a lot recently. I get myself into a state of high panic/stress, seemingly over nothing, and find it very difficult to get back down.

It doesn't interrupt my sleep all that much but it completely ruins my waking hours. I have to be very mindful not to let those thoughts creep into my head but sometimes I loose the battle.

Stay strong and don't give up!
Makes sense, this is somewhat analogous to the import speedup you can get by putting all the python modules into a zip file. I tend to do that when distributing python applications on windows, where the speedup is more noticeable.
Glasshouse is awesome, I definitely second this recommendation. Also, Stross' "Laundry Files" series.
> … Java consumes in order of magnitude more memory…

Not for reverse-complement.

Not for k-nucleotide.

Not for binary-trees.

Not for mandelbrot.

Not for regex-redux.

The others show the default JVM memory allocation mas o menos.
Do you have more than two kids?
Frankly, running for office is the worst way to effect change of this sort.

Zoning isn't really driven by politicians in most polities in the US as it is the public who firmly believe their NIMBY-ism is necessary to protect their children, property values, and way of life (although not necessarily in that order of priorities). The local planning boards and town councils are mostly responding to whatever signals they receive from their constituents.

If you want to change things, you need to change public opinion. The best case scenario of jumping to the top with some sort of majority cabal and changing things against public opinion is that you'll be voted out in the next cycle and all of your changes undone.

Instead of campaigning for public office, you should start a campaign to inform the public with concrete, incremental, individual proposals for changes to zoning and explain how those proposals will increase property values, protect children, and improve the quality of life in a way consistent with people's desires.

If you succeed, whoever is currently in office will happily put your proposals into practice as a feather in their own cap.

And if you can't convince a majority of the people in your community, well, should your desires and opinions have priority over theirs?
Luxury? I travel _a lot_ (been to 45+ countries and travel every couple of weeks for fun) and more often then not, AirBnbs cost more. A lot of my friends travel just as much, if not more, than I do, and we've all slowly moved away from AirBnbs as much as possible. ftr we don't mind AirBnb, and I've had good experiences with them. Also, we're not luxurious travellers, but we do so as cheaply as we can manage.

The main reasons (cost aside) are unresponsive hosts, late hosts, and incorrect details. I've never had any 'weird' arrangements either, just normal stays.

Hell, people's experiences like this person's are reason enough.
That’s assuming the software can’t be exploited.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13962441 ?
>Why even make an argument if you don’t believe it is the “moral high ground”?

Everyone, at the very least, believes their arguments to be correct (unless they're doing some Devil's Advocate/false-flagging/Socratic thing,) but the problem with believing one view to be morally superior is the tendency to then believe other views are immoral, and therefore invalid, rather than see those views as being held from alternate moral perspectives.

Both sides of the abortion debate, for instance, believe with absolute and unshakeable conviction that theirs is the moral high ground.
ZFS on Linux's sharenfs problem (of what you can and can't put in it)
Teams is a Slack competitor, where cat gifs don't seem as cool, for some reason.
> Why is this on hacker news? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17522522

> Generic ideological tangents, and generic discussion generally, is off topic on HN. Its signal/noise ratio is too low. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523230
Show HN: Deterministic Style Sheets
Google Cloud steps up storage game to court Hollywood, launches Filestore
Ordinary users and commenters should ignore trolls, but administrators and moderators should not. They should use every underhand trick in the book, just as trolls do.

Users only add fuel to the fire. Administrators can extinguish it.
Do you have any recommendations for a great whisk(e)y under $100? I'm at the stage where I've had Scotch, both peaty/low peat, as well as bourbon. Here's what I've tried, and my thoughts. Please excuse my poor descriptions, I'm still a newbie to the world of spirits!

Lagavulin 16 - I hadn't had much scotch before I tried it. Very confusing, as I initially didn't like the peat, but was more and more intrigued by the same thing that turned me off to it. Kind of the same experience I had with IPAs.

Tamdhu - I really liked this one. Felt easy to drink, familiar, and comforting.

Balvenie Caribbean Cask - Pretty bad. The rum notes made me feel nauseous.

High West Double Rye - Really good. "Fresh" for lack of a better word (but I had a second bottle years later that was horrible so who knows).

Pappy 15/20 (before they became $$$) - I thought the 20 was okay. Tasted like a mellowed out Buffalo Trace. Really liked the 15--flavorful, hot, and just the right amount of sweet.
I share your frustration.

In my team, I estimate the cost of these boards are equivalent to the cost of about 3 face-to-face meetings of my team.

I think there's also a productivity / opportunity cost from only being able to share a whiteboard (real or virtual) during these occasional f2f meetings.

So it drives me a little nuts that management doesn't invest in this more, and treat team communications in general as a first-order problem.

I've been around long enough to know there can be factors I'm unaware of that management must consider, so I'm not assuming they're being irrational. I just don't know either way.

(I know there are other pros and cons for f2f meetings, making a purely monetary comparison incomplete.)
Oh, you mean you want something like:

list = [
"1.0",
"2.7",
{ version = "1.4", path = "..." },
"9.9",
]

Is that correct?
+1 Vermonter here too. Howdy.
Well.. I think its fair to acknowledge this as a perfectly cromulant "next generation Peace Symbol" as a consequence.
Maybe it's an OS for people who like systems and not CSS?
Tesla drops $35,000 price from Model 3 page–insists plans haven’t changed
Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Rise of Radical Incompetence
I think we are already seeing the first group of power users migrating to Julia. Those that are unhappy with the current status quo and look for a better language to create new stuff.

In my opinion, a sign of this are new packages that are quite unique to Julia: JuMP, DifferentialEquations, OnlineStats...
We all are... sigh. That and the final book in the "Christopher Snow" series by Dean Koontz.
Paper doesn't taste terrible to me, but plastic does.
And it was one of the reason ( IF not the ONLY reason ) why certain Scottish Whiskey are now 3 - 10x the price. And since the Chinese has nothing against the Scottish, which means its place as gift will likely continue for many more years to come. Japanese Brands tends to go up and down a little depending on the state of diplomatic issues.
Yep, it's similar, but squashfs is more optimized than zip files for random access like a filesystem (rather than an archive). Also when using zstd-based squashfs files, there is much less overhead for the decompression itself which effectively becomes free.
Hi Chip, thanks for releasing this as open source. From a quick look XARs seem pretty similar to AppImages in the sense they both use an executable preamble and a squashfs so I'm wondering which would be a better choice for me to distribute my Python apps, and why. Thanks!
We have cases where we do this, yes. We create a cluster in the cloud mostly for traffic optimization between the cloud zones and the on-premise datacenters. The cost to value efficiency needs to be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis.
I'm a big Cal Newport fan. Compared to other authors I've read, his books seem to have a good mix of practical, technical, and high-level advice. "So Good They Can't Ignore You" in particular is absolutely worth the time to read
Without context that you're using a word with a century old archaic definition, yes, the assumption is that the progressive movement of today has racist roots.
In defense of double brackets, I first encountered TOML in pipenv[1], and just by experimenting found I could add another source. So they're reasonably obvious if you see them in an existing file.

[1]: https://github.com/pypa/pipfile#pipfile
That already exists as penthouse. I was thinking if you would get permission to build a farmhouse with lawn around it in the middle of Manhattan if you could afford the land.
Mueller charges 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking 2016 election
yeah and be sure to only flush the toilet three times a day; you shouldn't need more than that.
Nesting has locality value, which is often desireable.. but as I said, the [[toml]] syntax yields open arrays, it seems you can define thing in multiple passes (which can be harmful but may also be a need once in a while)
Looks a lot like Rebol/Red.
This is false as well.

The problem is, games and apps have to opt-in for eGPU support. That's been clear since the original eGPU support in macOS 10.13.4.

There is no universal eGPU support in macOS, it doesn't start acceleration on its own.

I believe Tomb Raider is one of the first games that support eGPU: https://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/headlines4083.html

DaVinci Resolve support it as well as mentioned in this video:
https://9to5mac.com/2018/04/19/macos-egpu-performance-test-d...
> The problem is that not everyone has the budget to buy a fully-speced machine at the time of initial purchase

Yes. In some markets Apple offers financing options right on their website. In case of businesses, they can deal directly with their banks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling

None of this crap really fixes anything, it's just a way for Western people to pander to a hyper-liberal worldview that "solves" peripheral problems because it's too privileged to fully understand the central problems facing the world.

I read a paper someone posted on here a few months back that described men as less environmentally conscious when their masculinity is threatened. The experiment itself was poorly structured and rife with assumptions of what constitutes environmental consciousness and threats to masculinity. I bring this up because it's an example of multiple academics devoting their time to totally nonessential problems in an effort to gain recognition in the winds of a hyper-liberal zeitgeist.

Hunger, access to goods, guaranteed medical care, literacy, freedom from tyranny and corruption, democratic institutions in the third world, clean water.....these are some of the actual problems that face the world.

Single-use plastics are a problem too, but plastic straws are not the central aspect nor the simplest low-hanging fruit with which to begin tackling the plastics problem.
I don't really buy this, I'm an amateur wine snob at best, and blindfolded I had absolutely no trouble telling apart white wines and red wines. In fact, no one at my table of 4, the other 3 having less knowledge of wine than I do, had any trouble whatsoever with red v. white, and all of us were close to right with region or grape variety. The only kicker was a rose champagne which everyone thought was a prosecco.
Montgomery Co Home for Sale
I wonder how this compares to AppImages https://appimage.org/
That's understandable, but it's complicated, right? I can deal with a certain level of phenolic, but I really dislike iodiney seaweedy flavors. But there are other wood flavors that I really like and that might read as "campfirey"; I love resiney and vanilla-ey flavors.

My point is: sure, if you don't like pungent alcohol flavor (another suggestion: dilute with water!). But there are other flavors you can get in your whiskey besides swamp muck. :)
This is elegance.

Balancing between user experience and cost.
Definitions are usually important though, because they show up whenever one speaks of rights for example.

The context Lewis Dijkstra operates in is that of global development goals, so trying to improve the lives of people across the world by seeing who has it bad. Obviously having varying definitions is simply fatal to that effort.

He explains:
> For example, a narrow definition focussed on the city centre will lead to poor scores on air quality and the presence of open or green space, but it will give better scores for access to public transport. Also measuring changes over time will be influenced by where the boundary is drawn as most growth occurs at the fringes of a city.

https://unhabitat.org/the-tale-of-broadville-and-narrowtown-...
Agreed. Based on the headline I was expecting the journalist had inadvertently revealed some data about which they weren't intending to.
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Couchsurfing and AirBnb are not even remotely the same.

Hosting on Couchsurfing is a way to meet other travelers and show them around your city, and most importantly, you don't get paid.

Hosting on AirBnb is a business. AirBnb is far closer to HomeAway and VRBO. These existed before too, but their usability was terrible and they were prone to scams.
Someone please help me understand. I use relational databases everyday for my projects (db, api, frontend). I'm well-versed in SQL and general best practices, and my projects scale well (admittedly I'm not in the petabytes level of scale). Does the desire to use NoSQL databases come from a disdain for having to think in terms of declarative programming instead of imperative? Is it desirable to have dynamically typed fields in a database? I've always thought that the biggest motivation to use NoSQL is simply due to high-level language programmers' unfamiliarity with relational database logic and SQL syntax. Once I grasped the concepts, the relational model has proven indispensable for me.

I will say, though, that it is important to get your schema correct at the beginning. I've also always worked full-stack, so I don't know what it's like not to have the ability to manipulate the database.
Is mining equipment purchased and paid for in advance? If so, this sounds like a few years ago in oil and gas. Prices dropping but quantities supplied rising due to sunk costs in drilling contracts.
eGPU support is opt-in on macOS. Games and apps must enable support for eGPU to use it, regardless of external or internal display.

Here's a video of it in action with one of the first software that supports eGPU acceleration, DaVinci Resolve: https://9to5mac.com/2018/04/19/macos-egpu-performance-test-d...
Cool idea! Is there any particular reason to use SquashFS via FUSE instead of via the Linux kernel driver?

Slightly related: we also recently switched to SquashFS for the gokrazy.org’s root file systems.

If you’re curious about how SquashFS works under the hood, check out https://github.com/gokrazy/internal/blob/master/squashfs/wri.... I also intend to publish a poster about it at some point.
Can you back these claims up at all? Without some claims why should people believe your words at face value?
Should lab-grown meat be called meat?
The problem isn't the recognition, it's the data retention...

You can recognize me all you want as long as you get rid of the data and metadata when the my interaction with your system is over.

Edit: I'm not saying it's even possible to have facial recognition be useful without lots of data retention, just that retention and potential for bad things as a result of these sorts of data sets existing is the problem, not the act of recognition itself.
I wonder what the folks that kept claiming an inside job have to say about this?