skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i read this as battle of the shredders. like, a proper shred is hard isnt it. you need to disperse the shreds. youd think by now wed have fully entropic shredders that slowly burn the paper as it goes through
One conclusion you could draw from this: economics might actually be a giant mud moat.
People probably recognize the individual books rather than the Incerto collection. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/

Skin in the game is the latest, it is on my reading list. Taleb is an arrogant *hole, but I love following him on Twitter and reading his books. A genuinely great opinions.
"On the cloud providers it is fully managed so nothing really to troubleshoot"

Clearly, you haven't run much at scale or experienced many problems.

Troubleshoot a network issue through an ingress, kube-proxy and then down to the pod.

Troubleshoot an issue with kube-api or etcd when you have no access to either the master or the etcd cluster.

Troubleshoot a load issue on a node related to IO.
A good companion book might be : The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute

It has a lot of insight on how bubbles can grow -- and pop.
Take a peek at our class [0]! We present a bunch of topics not covered in undergraduate courses (at least to our knowledge), such as proximal gradient descent, random features, etc., without referencing any probability. The course is aimed at mostly Sophomores/Juniors in any STEM field with the only prerequisite being the introductory linear algebra course EE103. [1] All of the material (minus solutions) is available online for both courses.

I'm probably highly biased, but I'd like to say this is a fairly fresh take which departs heavily from the usual CS229 (Ng's course) presentation style and order since it's meant for a completely different audience (and was, to be fair, written this past quarter, unlike 229 which was written perhaps 15 years ago).

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[0] http://ee104.stanford.edu

[1] http://ee103.stanford.edu
> It's dead as a company that everyone is afraid of. Now they're just a company that competes, does it very well, and makes a lot of money.

A win-win for everyone, then.
Karabiner Elements can do that.
That may be, but an X-ray is a simpler and cheaper procedure. To achieve “feature parity” with something more expensive is an advance.

I’m looking up the things you mentioned and they’re interesting, though. I’d love to see imaging and home-computed assessments become a bigger part of the “quantified self” movement.
7 Tips to Scale Your Business
IoT for Ninja’s: microcontrollers and sensors meet martial arts training
This is actually what I'm afraid of - specifically vendor lock-in and being stuck with a stack that has high operating cost. From some of the comments I've seen, Firebase has high operating costs. But I'm still planning on testing this out myself with a small project soon.
Static damage? Where I was raised, winter temps regularly reached -40. That cold, outside air already had most of the moisture 'wrung out of it'. Now let that cold dry air into the house and warm it: the relative humidity plummets.

Now walk across a carpet in leather-soled shoes. Do NOT even touch metal doorknobs, let alone metal faucets!
(I, like sibling comments, feel that greater restraint in tone and wording, such as avoid "name calling" would amplify, or at least keep the focus on your point, which I believe has at least enough merit to discuss.)

Being in Ops, and having first been paid to do sysadmin work 30 years ago, and having been raised by semiconductor industry veterans, it's pretty safe to say I know tech history.

Having experienced plenty of that history first-hand, including learning to "know better" the hard way, has resulted in a certain amount of conservatism and skepticism toward any new technology, especially one that gains popularity with particular speed.

However, "skepticism" isn't a synonym for "summary dismissal", but, rather, actual skepticism in the sense of asking uncomfortable questions and paying attention to the answers, even they end up being uncomfortable to hear. That's how we grow and, ultimately, know even better.

I've also learned that I enjoy working in smaller companies and/or startup environments far more than the alternative and this has, inevitably, required adapting to some amount of the "move fast and break things" method. Even if its genesis is with leads that can legitimately be labeled as "immature", it merely increases risk, and risk is inherent in startups anyway.

As it applies to my evaluation of new tech, it usually means I get to evaluate it already in operation, instead of merely asking questions. Often, that empirical data is far more valuable, even in forming an argument to stop using that tech.

All that said, so far, I can't help but agree with your assessment of "boondoggle" when all the layers of abstraction, complexity, and cost are included in, languages, ci/cd, virtualization/containers, orchestration, and cloud.
Is that "bokuno bucks", or did I miss the idea?
I really can't stand the keyboard. Been using it the last year and a half and it is definitely causing joint pain. I ended up buying an external keyboard to use with it most the time. Also, I want my escape key back. Not having tactile feedback is annoying and frustrating, especially given how much I'm in vim everyday. Just go back to the old keyboard please, you can even keep the touch bar if you must but I will not buy another until the keyboard is made useable and not just flat for no reason beyond making the computer slightly thinner, which is of no value to me.
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Free software has no value, you claim?
Some mission critical production systems don't really want you installing <insert current trendy software here>. That's probably a highly unpopular view on HN, but having downtime on IceCube, for example, means they may miss an extremely rare event (neutrino hitting something and generating muons/photon shockwaves) that they could detect.
Two Senators Called for an Investigation of the Smart TV Industry
Never heard of it and I consider myself a huge sci-fi fan. What would you compare it to?
> If you don't want to serve the users ...

I don't understand how Guido van Rossum's message was interpreted as "he doesn't want to serve the users". His message said (to me) that he will continue, but he will not make decisions.

> Companies that shut down open-source dev teams are at least usually honest that that's what they're doing at the time that they do it.

This sentence implies that Guido van Rossum did something worse (than these companies) today. Is this what you are saying or I misunderstood?

BTW: I don't know him personally. I don't use Python regularly and I don't have any knowledge or position on Python's developers struggles and disagreements (if there are any).
For me it's hard to describe but I get a feeling of knowing how the other person feels from a face to face meeting. Keep in mind, this only works for people I know well and in person (close coworkers, girlfriend, etc.). I still get this over a video chat but it's at a 10% level so I feel like I'm operating without one of my senses.

I often express myself poorly and this extra feeling helps me realize it and take some corrective measures. Really helpful when trying to communicate a difficult technical concept.
David Lynch's Thoughts on Meditation, Art, and Life
Please do! I cannot.
That's an interesting technique that I've never heard of. Do you have fast shortcuts/keybindings for removing the # when you are ready, or is it '(left arrow x N) + ^H' each time?
Ideally, the electorate.

In a small government scenario, who watches those providing services?
Designing Fluid Interfaces [video]
What you described is literally the same thing SouthPark makes fun of in the Sodosopa episodes. https://imgur.com/gallery/Xgea4Ot

It's amazing how on the nose they are.
In Rust and Haskell you can do:

match foo() {
Bar @ foo => foo.x,
Baz => ...,
}
> It's the findings of a statistical analysis of the life and habits of millionaires.

I have not read The Millionaire Next Door, but that seems fraught. Does it avoid survivorship bias? E.g. Playing the lottery is a 'habit' common to all lottery winners, but it's also common to all lottery losers, of whom there are many more. If you only studied the winners though, the lottery might start to look like a wise investment. Maybe the habits common to millionaires are counterproductive for the average person and only helpful to the lucky few.
yes, this. I'm just skipping the whole Docker thing this time around, and waiting until the circle turns and the herd decides that containers create too much complexity ;)
'Malazan: Book of the Fallen' by Steven Erikson (that is actually 10 huge books).

I've only read 2 books and a half so far and it is brilliant!

I'm not a big fan of fantasy books (prefer hard sci-fi), but Malazan just blew my mind. One of the best things I've ever read.

Not an easy read though, be prepared!
> Sadly I already remap caps-lock to ctrl.

What about your ctrl key? You could remap that to esc.
Yes to all. The most difficult thing is persistent volumes, but leveraging things like Heptio's ark allow you to send them to an alternative storage class. It's awesome stuff.

https://github.com/heptio/ark
> removing reproduction from our bodily purview does not only liberate us from the body, it also subjects us to the tyranny of the mind.

The “tyranny of the mind”? Being completely subject to one's mind without outside constraints (or, realistically, bring subject to one's mind with fewer outside constraints than in the status quo ante) is not reasonably described as tyranny. And there is no argument advanced for this description, it's just tossed out as if tossing out the word tyranny is sufficient to establish the claim.

> Liberation from reproduction is liberation from sex,

While obviously reproduction is a central (though arguably not the sole: it's social role cannot be ignored) evolutionary function of the sex drive, the human sex drive isn't restricted to a reproductive context on a way that even the total elimination of a bodily role in reproduction would eliminate the drive or function of the sex act, so the implication claimed her I'd not justified.

> At which point, gender truly becomes fashion with no remaining foundations in the story of human origins.

Ascribed gender and gender identity are already separate things from sex (well, ascribed gender is, there is actually a strong reason to believe that gender identity is in part an element of the complex of sex-related inborn biological traits that come in a wide variety of combinations but two dominant clusters which have been labelled as typically male and typically female.)
> That you presume they have any other goal in mind is frankly bizarre to me.

Google is an advertising company. They are not a search company. There is absolutely no reason to think that their goal is 'good' results. Their goal is 'engaging' results.
> In terms of news, there likely is no such thing.

Most countries have public broadcasters like the BBC that are much higher quality than most of the commercial options. We're already paying for news.
Patreon mistakenly shut down successfully funded project Armory3D
I was sort of on board with the two-paper rule until I got to the arguments about the reviews. Maybe in his mind integrating literature into a cohesive summary (ala meta-analysis) is a novel contribution, but if not, the attitude behind the two-paper rule is part of why science is in such crisis. The author is right, that the interpretation of the literature should be based on an accumulated read, and not one or two papers (unless they're reviews or meta-analyses).
I don't know why the title says "Apple's". It works with MBPs but the company seems to have nothing to do with Apple Inc.
Curious: alcoholics have Bill Wilson to help them recover ... who do astrophysicists have?

(the kind of question that reveals search engine limitations)
The LED power indicator on my monitor is absolutely equivalent. When the monitor is off it doesn't produce light because I press the button. It only shines when the monitor is on, and I still find the need to cover it.
The idea that venture-backed startups are going to "democratize" finance and wretch it from the hands of big banks is ridiculous.
Kubernetes is the absolute opposite of everything you said. Open source, cloud agnostic, cloud optional..., it literally abstracts the hardware so you are not locked in. You can run it anywhere.
Kind of a weird nitpick there. Democracy needs someone working to uncover things that the public needs to know to make informed voting decisions.
> based on my anecdotal knowledge that restaurants take care to throw leftovers into a garbage bin rather than leave them out somewhere where someone could eat them and expose the business to liability.

This is an outright lie. It has NEVER happened that a business has been sued for donating food. Not once. It's just a convenient excuse for saying '%$@# the poor.'
But the original hypothetical situation has the baked-in presumption that the company wants to and is able to hire more people. If they can afford to do this via space expansion, they should (for purposes of the bottom line).

If they can afford to hire more but not to expand and give each worker adequate space, it suggests the company is just wrong. They actually can’t afford to hire more and would be creating problems if they do. Rather, reinvest what would have been spent on crammed headcount into the ability to expand spatially and later increase headcount with adequate space.

If a company, even a sink-or-swim growth mode start-up, believes it needs to hire people faster than it can provide minimally adequate space for them, then the company is just wrong. That is just not a thing.
No, he's claiming that regardless of the value of the software, the user provided no consideration, no value in exchange for the software.
But that has little to do with whether you have 600 xeons to run black sholes.
Replace "atom" with "section" throughout this article, and you'll have the same thing as what other linkers can do and have done for a very long time, without the additional obfuscatory language:

https://elinux.org/Function_sections

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/opt-opt...

http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/the-most-underused-compiler-switc...
Right after you empty the dishwasher, put in soap. Then if the soap is still there, the dishes haven't yet been run. So easy, maybe you don't need to even consider buying that overpriced gimmicky crap that's just going to surveil you for its brief software-truncated lifespan.

Who the heck would want to always being turning down the music to utilize these devices anyway?

... I've been pondering the idea of a generalized replacement control board for say washers/dryers, with the primary goal to reestablish the expectation of user control over these things (and perhaps enable sane IoT rather than gimmick-based). Faced with the prospect of needing a new microwave and remembering how my blood boils when using the ones that can't even get the basic #-#-#-Go keypattern right, I'm seeing the angle there too. Perhaps in the future we'll just have to physically gut the control boards of appliances immediately after purchase similar to how we presently have to gut the software of new phones.
What part of this attack is npm specific?

What feature of typescript would have prevented this?
Setup a MySQL Cluster Step by Step
See my other comment, < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17519080 >.
I agree with this but feel the need to add that the Stormlight Archives is his best work yet
If you're in a field in a windy day you cannot tell where the wind is originating from. If you're in a room with a fan turned on, you can tell where the wind is being sourced. The source of the wind has been localized in this latter scenario, whereas in the first you can detect the wind but you can't tell what the source of the wind is. That's the gist of the local versus non-local neutrinos being detected.
Perhaps by "soulful cry" Jones was referring specifically to the blues and gospel? The article mentions that these were two of Elvis's primary influences.

It's hard to imagine a world without cultural exchange. It seems a huge part of what makes us human. I don't think people who write or speak about "cultural appropriation" want cultural exchange to end. I think it's more about questioning the terms under which the cultural exchange takes place. E.g., who has the power to begin with, is it a fair exchange.

>I also wonder what people would say if someone told Wynton Marsalis or Yo Yo Ma that they can't play classical.

Growing up as minorities in America, one supposes that Marsalis and Ma were told in ways subtle and unsubtle that they were less than. So playing classical music might be seen as a way of defying the prevailing and unjust expectations, rather than appropriation.

Realistic or not, there may also be an expectation that, if you benefit from a people's culture, you should be a proactive ally to said people when the chips are down. And pipe up even when it's not politically expedient to do so.

It was interesting to read in the article that

>the two black newspapers in Memphis at the time, both reported favorably on Presley, whom they saw as a kind of ally.

I wonder why.
Patreon's response was basically "Ups, we have removed all your funding but you start over again".. the fuck
How is this relevant to the upstream comment?
But on the other hand, Python's overall popularity has grown (mostly on the back of 'data science' I think), while rubies has shrunk, and python is definitely more popular than ruby at the moment... so python's lesser success at that transition didn't actually matter much in the end?
I think it's worth pointing out that the Spiral compiler seems to be written in F#, which is itself a terrific functional programming language. (And it looks like the Spiral compiler actually emits F#, which is then compiled?)

The author states that Spiral "was made for the sake of making a deep learning library which was too difficult to do in F# itself." I wonder what he thinks about DeepML (http://www.deepml.net/), which is a deep learning library written in F#.
Pretty cool! I was having trouble understanding the relationship between monoids and deterministic finite automata, but once I worked out an example by hand I was able to implement that transformation in Haskell:

data MonoidMachine monoid input = Monoid monoid => MonoidMachine
(input -> monoid)
(monoid -> Bool)

-- From the proof of Theorem 1 in the paper.
translate :: DFA state input -> MonoidMachine (Endo state) input
translate (DFA _ _ delta initial accepting) =
MonoidMachine f g where
f a = Endo (\q -> delta q a)
g (Endo h) = h initial `member` accepting

runMonoidMachine :: MonoidMachine monoid input -> [input] -> Bool
runMonoidMachine (MonoidMachine f g) = g . mconcat . map f

The rest is here: https://gist.github.com/newjam/428613f083d289b83de0ddfeedf4e...
Agreed there is no transparency around which endpoints are being used. There needs to be a screen that shows what data you’re providing like FB or Google login before you link anything.
Except every comparison on the page is using a MPB, the bottom
of the page says “Buy at Apple” and when you click on the link to Apple.com, Apple’s page says “only at Apple”.
Ficciones by Borges.

A real classic, each story is intriguing and some center on incredibly creative ideas.
Designed 'in collaboration with Apple' and sold exclusively by Apple. It's in their FAQ, pop-up right above the 'buy now' button and the price.
I Have No Mouse, and I Must Scream
Presumably different referenda would be put to a vote if a supermajority were required, namely, ones that are less controversial.
Both are great. I was hoping for another sprawling historical fiction by Tolstoy with Anna Karenina but was treated to a sort of Russian psychological drama in the same vein as Dostoyevsky.
Does anyone here currently run a eGPU on their MacBook Pro and can share their experience (including what card you are using)?
You’re right. It’s just two quick drags to maximize the volume. Or one drag to get about 80% there, which covers most situations. The slider stays open when you lift your finger.
> create an alternative

Or maybe just adopt one of the dozens that have been around for longer than NPM in the first place.
Apple worked closely with them according to this article: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/7/12/17563646/a...
I bet it's pretty bright though. LEDs like that usually are.
I’ve been an employee in a buyout twice by a company that didn’t get it. One of those times they thought they did, but they still crushed us anyway. It was hard to watch. Especially from a front row seat. :/. I’ve worked at two places a year or two after the buyout. Not as real for me but my coworkers were clearly frustrated.

For a while I was pretty sure I knew what a healthy buyout should look like. Now I’ve no idea. How do people pull this off?
I think if the service is good enough, people will pay for it regardless of the look. AdWords / Amazon / EBay. People used these things even tho they didn't look very good. Because the value proposition was good. I think either CronStorm is not valuable, or I have not marketed / sold it effectively.

Maybe the visual look is part of marketing / sales. But I don't see how a slick look will help people part with > 50 USD a month or more.
The Authoritarians (2006) [pdf]
https://github.com/mrakgr/The-Spiral-Language/commit/51fe8b7...
1) The Imagineer’s of War by Sharon Weinberger

2) The Pentagon’s Brain by Annie Jacobson
Highly recommend James Clavell's Asian Saga starting with Shogun. Also Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson might be one of my favorites
Probably the poster meant to say the Apple partner featured in the new macbook pro promo materials: https://www.apple.com/v/macbook-pro/o/images/overview/perfor...
https://github.com/mrakgr/The-Spiral-Language/commit/d75e304...
pipenv for applications with module dependencies :)
From the FAQ:

> Can I upgrade the GPU chip in the Blackmagic eGPU?

> No, the design has been optimized for quiet operation so it’s better suited for creative customers. This means the design is not a simple chassis with a PCIe card plugged in, but an integrated electronics, mechanical and cooling design that cannot have the GPU chip upgraded or changed.

$699 and no ability to upgrade makes it pretty clear that they're targeting business customers.
> The Millionaire Next Door was a game changer for how I though about wealth accumulation. It's the findings of a statistical analysis of the life and habits of millionaires.

So, it's been a while since I dipped into this book, but my recollection was that I read the summary and intro and thought "this sounds like an analysis which suffers significantly from survivorship bias." Did you find with a close read that was/wasn't a problem with the picture it presented?

(Not that I think that the advice I skimmed over was bad, certainly, I don't like to buy depreciating assets like cars on credit, and more people could likely benefit from budgeting investing conscientiously.)