skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t have a ton of experience with Azure as a whole but have used their VM service for a bit.

Azure VMs are way behind compared to EC2 IMO. Burstable VMs (the cheap ones) aren’t available in all data centers or for all images (which they call SKUs), storage accounts are weird, provisioning times are slower, their cheapest instance types (Standard_A) are REALLY slow, documentation is confusing, extremely spread out and contradictory at times, account management via Azure AD is way more confusing than IAM at least at first, their auto scaling service (scale sets) is less flexible than AWS autoscaling, etc.

Also, Microsoft and HashiCorp are pretty much the only maintainer of the Packer and Terraform providers. The difference in commit history between the ARM provider and the AWS provider are stark. This means that when you encounter bugs or cryptic errors from the Azure API (which will happen), you’ll be waiting a bit for a fix, even if you cut the PR.

The other thing with Azure is that every large company uses it for Windows workloads because they get massive discounts and tons of credits
I used to wander the isles at blockbuster and wonder why with all that space ... there were so few movies.

And like you said hit and independent place and you could do some discovery.

Netflix with DVDs in the early days with user reviews (that were seriously well written) was so great for discovery. Now.... nope, discovery gone.
There are tons of other eGPU enclosures on the market that take normal PCIe GPUs. This one is interesting because you can use it with the UltraFine 5k Display which connects via Thunderbolt.
"The future we were promised" sounds like he's talking more about a combination of ergonomics and productivity that were promised by Lisp but it never got there because the community just didn't expand to the same size. Python is so widely used that the combination of adoption and design decisions is in the sweet spot we were "promised" by Lisp advocates.

F# could also play that role since it can access the rest of the .Net ecosystem but for Python is more approachable as an OOP-ish language.
The sound can also be muted by clicking the sound icon in the menu bar. There is a volume slider there.
Short version: power vacuums get filled.
EFF Responds to Vigilant Solutions’ Accusations About EFF ALPR Report
As a manger who has had to support moves to these environments, I can share that it is also about money. Higher density offices, cheaper to furnish and easier reconfigure.
Less fixed wiring. No desk phone, no pabx.....and collaboration.
Apple have improved (and probably fixed) the keyboard and increased maximum RAM top 32GB for the 15-inch. These resolving two of the most common complaints seen here previously.
Apple have also improved the display, added Siri, better system security and much faster CPUs. The leather sleeves are nice too - wildly expensive but lovely.

It's sad therefore to read so many complaints here - but I suspect many people have silently purchased one.
Egypt's Draconian New Cybercrime Bill Will Only Increase Censorship
Could you go into it? I’ve kept hearing good things about AKS, but my experience with their VM service left me skeptical of those claims.
Some intuition about minima (gradual descent), linear regression, etc. will get you to a certain level--which admittedly may be a bit hard if you've never had the math. But as others have suggested, you probably need to equivalent of a few semesters of calculus and linear algebra (which I never took in a formal way though I did some variants of pre-MatLab).
Error Handing: – fail-fabulous
And it's delicious in all sorts of dishes.
Many companies do illegal things all the time. Often they get away with it, or just eat the bad PR and fines when they're caught. So just because it might have been illegal doesn't mean Blockbuster didn't do it.

Also, media companies censor all the time. Take a look at youtube, which will not allow porn, ostensibly because it'll affect their brand and image. Blockbuster was probably trying to do the same thing to keep its "family" video store image. They certainly did not allow hardcore XXX porn in the store because of that, and may very well have stocked censored videos for the same reason.

Finally, you don't have to rely on just my memories. There are others discussing Blockbuster's practices of at least stocking censored films. Whether they cut the scenes out of those movies themselves or just bought censored films is immaterial. The fact is that their customers had to watch censored films. That is a fact supported not just by my memories but the other people who talk about this happening, some of which I linked to in my previous post.

If you are really interested in getting to the bottom of whether they censored or not, you could probably find and contact some former Blockbuster employees and others in the industry who can give you a more authoritative account of what happened.
Wow, that's kind of unacceptable.
It makes me smile that his concept of immiseration has the valid alternative spelling: e-miseration
- The Origin of Wealth. Fantastic book on the new field of complexity / evolutionary economics

- The Language Instinct. How mind creates language.

- The Elephant in the Brain. I’ve posted notes here https://invertedpassion.com/notes-from-the-elephant-in-the-b...

- Existential Cafe. History of existential thought. Excellent book.

- 12 rules of life. Highly opiniated but well argued book on how to live life

- Skin in the game by Nasim Taleb.

- Daemon. The sci-fi book that anticipated what rouge blockchain like programs can do. Again, highly recommended
They're targeting DaVinci Resolve users. It's not a great deal for gamers and related nerds but there are lots of Apple-compatible enclosures out now. https://egpu.io/ is a good resource.
Marketing.

It was either Linus or Dave2D that did some videos on external GPUs and IIRC, all AMDs work on Mac, but only a subset of nvidias do.

Since we are talking about Resolve, which is cross platform, you could just save a bunch of money by buying a PC/Linux box. Several gaming laptops have really good GPUs builtin, although Apple did finally refresh their laptop offerings.

Also keep in mind that if you want to watch video on your laptop screen, you do lose some bandwidth for the image to come back over usbc/thunderbolt (vs external display). If you do a lot of video editing and portability doesn't make you more productive, you can save a decent amount by building or buying a desktop.
Exactly. Don't use other people's code / depend on their code / services.

But you're wrong about size. It matters. If your code is small enough you host it yourself rather than relying on external CDNs. Risk surfaced reduced. And smaller code mindset leads to less use of dependencies / bloatware like the React/Babel tool chain, so of course this leads to less risk.

But it also makes fools of a lot of people and conventional/fad wisdom, so I'm unsurprised they're unhappy to hear it.
There is one, but it doesn’t do much
You made me curious. Do you have any links to the criticism you quote?
> $699 and no ability to upgrade

Sounds like a perfect fit for the Apple ecosystem.
can say at a very basic level ... I don't really focus on the study at my early age. I still can understand the equation but not really know why and how to implement it, and come to a very complex situation I can't make sense on the calculation ... Every calculation that Andrew Ng teach are new to me even for the matrix, vector, and sum over are new to me. Even tho Andrew Ng did say "if you don't understand math is ok." but I still love to understand math for my machine learning career, that's why I seek for help.
So basically Clojure protocols? As in, multimethods that dispatch on the type of their first argument?
I would like to know as well. And if anyone knows if they work well with thunderbolt2.
I just started Death's End! Great books so far, though The Dark Forest felt very slow compared to The Three-body Problem.
+1 on that book, as well as the author Ryan Holiday's more recent book Conspiracy on the Hulk Hogan / Gawker trial.
I don't plan too far ahead, but I am going to finish the absolutely fascinating book A Natural History of Human Morality by Michael Tomasello. This is an exceptionally well researched book, full of citations, presenting a theory of how humans developed their sense of morality, from an evolutionary perspective.

I does so by contrasting our behavior with that of the great apes so that we can determine the characteristics of our common ancestor and then build a scenario for how we could have gone from there to here.

I'm about half-way through right now and I highly recommend it
I'm not commenting on GvR or GvR's behaviour at all. The discussion took a more general turn, with people seriously suggesting that the developers/maintainers of high-profile, publicly-evangelised open-source projects don't have any ethical duty to support or engage politely with their user base even while still in post. Obviously van Rossum is completely entitled to step down, certainly since there will be others to pick up the reins.
It's measuring consumption, so I think that imported goods are included.

My top guesses as to causes would be a reduced pace of building/infrastructure construction, reduced steel content in cars, and cars lasting longer.
> merchants can push through transactions without prior authorization

Why was the transaction not denied? What entity was responsible for the authorization? Trying to understand if your network was involved at any point during that transaction, and if so why a charge was allowed to go through. I'm aware that pre-auth for automatic billing can get pass closed accounts at traditional CCs, but if Privacy.com follows that same practice than doesn't that sorta defeat the purpose of disposable numbers?
you can program f# fully as an oop language, where i think it is still more approachable than python for that. add in async, first class events, tasks, observables, etc., and you have a very approachable but high ceiling with f#. and the syntax is still cleaner than python.
If you haven’t already, check out “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman.
I warned you about beans.
>But once you call it an open-source project, and you have docs and a roadmap and an issues page and stuff, you're making an implicit contract with people who use it that it will do a reasonable job of solving the problem it claims to solve.

Not at all. If I do all that, maybe I just did it for practice? Maybe I get bored or RSI and quit developing software? Nobody owes you anything, regardless of what they've offered you prior.
You don't really need to isolate every library. Really, just every "project" (e.g. I just cloned X from Github).

And that does have process isolation.
Was there ever a real adoptable alternative to npm for node packages? I'm all ears for suggestions.
Intercept did a lot of good reporting on this.

https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
it's the same userland as "real" Ubuntu, so apt will give you the same results on both.

Perhaps do a "sudo apt-get update" (updates the local resources of apt, not the packages themselves) so that when you do a "apt search" or "show" in the future it has something to show?
While I welcome the line endings support, and text zoom makes sense for accessibility, by far my favorite feature of Notepad is that it loads in milliseconds. If new "features" like Bing integration push that startup time into the deciseconds, I hope they will also make Notepad an optional Windows component because installing it will be pointless.
The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
Npm uses a lockfile by default now.
You'll need some more explanation for your claim. Second sentence:

It is not "section" based like traditional linkers
which mostly just interlace sections from multiple
object files into the output file.
Needs a (2012), this was written with the Xcode 4.4 release.
People unfamiliar with history live in a fantasy world.

Smalltalk or more specifically one of it's dialects, Self (an even more "extreme" Smalltalk), made huge advances in JIT compilation. Advances which later ended up in the Java HotSpot virtual machine. Some benchmarks hit half the performance of optimized C. That was in the late 90s.
Huh. They're targeting ... people who don't know any better?

I want to see rendering benchmarks (both 1080p/2160p) of this vs external Thunderbolt GTX/1060,1070,1080 enclosures (and AMDGPU equivalents). I mean if it works better and you do a lot of video, then yea, go for it. If it's only marginally better, buy something with a real PCIe slot that's upgradable.

Even business customers should not buy this if the benchmarks don't align. Seriously you're hurting everyone, even if you can afford it. Stop that. Planned obsolescent is terrible. Pay more and buy something you can upgrade, fix and repair.

Throwing out electronics after four years hurts the planet.
Awesome language and wonderful people
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You take a performance hit even with tb3. Tb2 (for eGPU) is not directly supported by Apple and not really worth it.
Reading Antifragile is life changing. It is very well written. I can't comment on how profound the maths are (although his arguments appear very solid), but the stuff he says about stoicism and morality is fantastic. As others have said, Taleb is a total A-hole, but his ideas deserve attention.
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One fine day Enpass pulled the their app from BlackBerry users - no warnings, no refunds: https://www.enpass.io/blog/discontinuing-the-support-for-enp...

There are quite a few comments from paying customers, who were locked out of their data. According to timestamps, Enpass team successfully ignored these comments for months.

Perhaps this should be mentioned whenever Enpass surfaces as an option...
I like that it has four USB Type A ports. This would essentially take the place of a Thunderbolt 3 dock for me, which is already $200-$300. I'm considering getting one.
> There are, however, a number of people in the field that are all ops and have no development abilities. There is less and less of a need for those kinds of people.

I very strongly disagree, unless what you mean by "no development abilities" is merely an inability (or refusal) to write or modify (maybe debug) code. There is here, what I believe, a very important distinction, that is routinely lost, and has all but totally devalued Ops skills in the minds of many tech hiring managers who have exclusively programming backgrounds.

I was on a phone interview today, in fact, lamenting, along with my interviewer, that there exist such sysadmins who don't even write scripts or automation. He suggested that they've started to call themselves "IT", and, IMO, that may well be a more apt term even than "Ops". My own experience is that, back in the dark ages, a traditional sysadmin not only had to be proficient at scripting but also at some amount of C just to port open source tools between various proprietary Unix version, especially with new releases.

That does not, however, bestow upon me, anything that I could call, with a straight face, "development abilities". I hold in my head none of the best practices having to do with programming that have accumulated over the 3 decades of my career, for example. Instead, I hold the Ops best practices. Being able to implement FizzBuzz in bash is neither necessary nor sufficient for software development.

> Developers must learn to operate their software in production.

I disagree here, as well, on behalf of developers.

I think you'll find having to learn what is, essentially, a completely separate, new, engineering discipline, in addition to software development, severely cuts into their productivity.

Unless I bring production to the developers, almost like bringing the upstairs downstairs in the cartoon pushbutton house[1]. I do actually feel it's a responsibility of Ops as part of Devops culture to create as frictionless (for their needs) a simulation of production as possible for developers. The practice has all sorts of benefits, including eliminating "works on my machine" debugging issues, that has been one of the rallying cries for containers.

[1] https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080403063620A...
I tried to watch his "Untold History of the United States" and it felt like some of it was taken out of context or attributing malice where naivety, incompetence or insufficient information would be a more plausible explanation. Can't think of any specific examples. Just what I remember from watching it before stopping.
norvig is the only one anyone ever quotes for python vs lisp. he is beyond my knowledge, but i just cannot see what he says in this quote. python doesn’t feel like lisp at all when programming in it. the mindset is completely different.

edit: i thought this quote was much more recent. it was from around when he first joined google or even before.
Sure this is true. Though the audience of folks that would 1.know what an ssh key is and 2. Know how to generate one I would put better than average odds in on the ssh key not being compromised than any internet account particularly if it does not have 2fa enabled
Thank you Guido
If you look up gaming benchmarks. The performance losses make it more economical to build an entire separate computer, at least for that use case.
Their site describes who this is for at great length. I'm not sure where the GP got the 'business customer' idea, it's not accurate.
Okay, I'm looking at the numbers more closely now and I concede that Europe's most densely populated city, an extreme outlier, is more densely populated than America's extreme outlier. I also concede that it is denser than Dallas, which is one of the least dense cities in the United States.

If you look at the population densities of median American and European cities, they're quite similar (~13,000/sq mi. or 5000/sq km.). Which makes me wonder why you insist on comparing two cities that are not remotely comparable. Seems like cherry picking.

> ED: I should add that I don't consider New York an average American city because it's a success!

I'm almost curious why you consider the "average" U.S. city "not a success", but this remark smells too much of the pompous anti-American groupthink that has become so popular on HN lately, so I know better than to expect a rational explanation.

Honestly, I'm starting to find your undeservedly superior attitude and cherry-picked data tiresome, so I don't think I'll bother with this conversation anymore. Have a nice night.
I found all of them looked awesome. Also, I hate it when articles tell me what I should think or that my taste is wrong.
Yep. All those fantastic color pictures of the Orion nebula are just that. (Personally I think there should be a requirement to post, alongside them, true color photos.)
I feel like you could have written this https://jjj.blog/2016/08/todays-software-is-terrible/
You shouldn't use windows to access the WSL filesystem, there are several issues with that (which I believe are being worked on). If you want files accessible from both put them in the Windows filesystem.
Regarding themes I can't help that much, I have successfully solarized vim though. I needed:

let g:solarized_termcolors=256
set term=screen-256color
set t_ut=
Thank you Guido, https://www.thankyouopensource.com/letter/280/Thank-you-Guid...
Terminal Emulator of Sublime Text
they invalidated keys based on when the attack became non-functional (due to the pastebin getting removed at 12:27 UTC). But the window in which any packages could potentially have been similarly compromised is from the point the attacker had access to tokens through the point they were invalidated.
Suicide is the ultimate protest.
I lost all respect for the product when I saw Beats headphones in the promo photo. It says a lot about the focus for the product.
I have been for a couple of years. Mine is an DIY version with a PC power supply. I made it about 3.5 years ago. Last time I checked, I couldn’t use my particular setup for accelerated graphics in MacOS (I could in bootcamped Windows) but I think that works now. I just haven’t done it. I use it mostly for 3D rendering.

It’s an Akitio enclosure, which was the first popular one. I use it with a GTX 980Ti with a little 400 watt power supply on a late 2012 MacBook Pro and it works great. I travel with it and everything.

The performance hit is a lot less than people make it out to be. Mine runs on TB2 and I don’t remember numbers but I have done graphics benchmarks using it in boot camp Windows against the same card in my PC. It was a few FPS different on most tests. I don’t remember exact numbers. For 3D rendering/data processing, there is no performance hit.
And what about after that? In my experience at least, I can highly recommend Stanford's EE364a Convex Optimization. http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee364a/

When I was an undergrad at Berkeley, one particularly well known research lab would only look at your resume if you took that course online. Warning: that class is not for the faint of heart. And be good at linear algebra.
It's a pain to reach. And now that I have an escape key, no need.
Why aren't you complaining about Equifax instead then? Now there's a company who absolutely deserves scorn.
I’m playing PUBG on a MB Pro Mid-2015 (integrated graphics only) with a Akitio Node TB3 + nVidia 1060. It worked out of the box on Windows 10.

Yes I’m losing some bandwidth stepping down to TB2 but it’s enough to satisfy some casual gaming.
1) Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor

Everything from the tulip craze to the dotcom boom.

2) If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look On My Face? by Alan Alda

Alan Alda of MASH fame teaches you how to build more empathy and improve your communication skills.

3) Bad Blood by James Carreyou

Theranos. Enough said.

4) Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll

I think of this as the last book in Coll's unofficial trilogy on Afghanistan. First up was Ghost Wars, a history of American involvement in Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion up to 2001. Second is his biography on the Bin Laden family. Last year he released Directorate S, a chronicle of American and Pakistani involvement post-9/11 primarily told through the lens of the Pakistani intelligence directorate tasked with influencing Afghanistan.

Coll has interviews with everyone from in-country CIA agents and foot soldiers who were on the ground all the way up to defense secretaries and military leaders, from both sides. An in-depth examination of what went wrong and why we're still stuck there.

5) Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux.

The greatest travel writer of the last half-century finally turns his attention homeward: the American Deep South. Four road trips over four seasons. He published an article in Smithsonian Magazine hitting the highlights: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/soul-south-180951861/
A log of network requests made on install would be a valuable start. Even if it doesn’t reveal anything actively hostile, I imagine there’s plenty of telemetry servers getting pinged and probably some http going on (both of which the package may also do at runtime but that’s a whole other problem)
How does a Radeon Pro 580 compare to an Nvidia 1070 or 1080?
I would argue that fat jars make everything simple and portable. Especially if you do performance testing frequently on hardware that isn't running docker. You can compare performance baremetal vs. VM's this way.

Furthermore, as log as you use gradle/maven with artifactory then maintainability of fat jar artifacts is pretty simple.