skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The heat capacity of dry air is lower though, which I suspect is more important than the conductivity. Lower pressure also lowers heat capacity; you'll see a lot of electronics equipment with a specified maximum operating altitude of 10,000 feet for that reason. Incidentally, South Pole is around the same elevation, with local weather conditions varying the pressure over that range at times...

The bigger problems with keeping ICL (the IceCube Lab - where the computers on top of the detector live, also the biggest datacenter on the continent) are somewhat more mundane though:

* If memory serves, there's one air handler that brings in outside air. Like anything else, it occasionally breaks or needs maintenance, sometimes in the middle of winter.

* Anything that has to operate in outside-ish conditions there, like the air intake for example, needs to be simple and robust. I think that early on in ICL's life, they had problems with frost clogging up the intake louvers, but that was before my time with the project.

* South Pole Station gets Cold, and so you need to be careful with mixing a little bit of outside air with much warmer inside air, to keep the heat evenly distributed and temperature from fluctuating too much.

* The station's HVAC is controlled by a DDC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_digital_control) system, which is reputedly a pain to work on, and sometimes people get ideas about ways to improve it, which of course leads to new and interesting quirks in the system...

edit: formatting
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Logical? Sure, most languages do separate words for this reason.

But languages are never completely logical. There are planty of writing systems where there are no breaks between words. Some of the ones I can think of includes Thai, Korean and Chinese.
Razer Core X is plug and play with Macbooks.

https://www.razer.com/gaming-laptops/razer-core-x

Now if you use a NVIDIA GPU, instead of an AMD one, then you need to do extra configuration.
This seems really counterproductive to me. This post is extremely relevant to the HN community and could do a lot of good if people see it here. I read it before this message was put up and thought it was really well-written.
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I think setting up machinery and waiting for discoveries like this one can be compared to being patient at the slot machines; it is essentially economically equivalent to gambling. Eventually, as a person living in society you may run out of quarters before you hit the "jackpot." Yes, you can use your quarters today on other things in society that are more guaranteed to bring you more quarters, but, we don't know what kind of "jackpot" is waiting for humanity until we hit it. This makes a sad, difficult decision in the life of a scientist, which is why we should have more rich people funding (since a lot of them have gambling problems any way, ie: stock market, brothels, etc)

edit: to sum up, this would be an efficient economy at scale. Some one with money already puts someone with expertise to good use :)
This interests me. I find HN to be one of the least toxic places on the internet. I mean, I left Twitter because the outrage constantly made me angry, I never joined Facebook or Instagram. I have a low tolerance for toxic. Yet HN, here I am, and have been for years.

I truly wonder, without judgment, why the author thinks that HN is toxic. I doubt he reads this but maybe some people who don't share my impression can guess?
Omnistream (Singapore) Is Hiring Data Engineers
Omnistream is looking for Data Engineers. We are a small team making a (fairly) big bang. We are a Singapore-base data company working with retailers in Asia. We ingest truck loads of data everyday and return insights and action to our customers. We actually apply Machine Learning to real world problem.

We need experts in at least one of the following three things:

- Python, for production environment and for Data Science

- Cloud Infrastructure, in particular AWS

- SQL and ETLs

Bonus:

- MS Azure

- Machine Learning / Scientific background

The stuff we do:

- Data Engineering, using Python / R and SQL. We do a lot of data manipulation and we work with large amount of data

- Cloud Infrastructure using AWS and MS Azure

- Business Intelligence, using PowerBI

- Machine learning

The person we're looking for:

- Doesn't have to know all of that

- Need to show they're able to pick up new stuff quickly

- Strong scientific mindset and curiosity

- Need to have some CS background, practical and theoretical. Diplomas don't matter that much.

The technical interview process tests the candidate reasoning skills and overall CS knowledge. Candidates are expected to know a little bit about everything, and master a few technical topics that they will be ask to talk about in detail.

Candidates will also be asked to talk about something of your own choosing, without slides, for 5 to 10 minutes, with the idea of testing communication skills and one’s ability to explain stuff. The candidate should pick something that 1. she is quite passionate about 2. is out of the ordinary. One’s favourite movie doesn't count, how one built a particle detectors during the week-end garage definitely does. Alternatively, something about a previous project that the candidate is particularly proud of.

Think you have what it takes? Let’s find out. Head on #omnistream@Freenode to get started.
If I click the link, I get the following message:
"This page is unavailable when linked to fromn ews.ycombinator.com. Please find a less toxic place to spend your time."

Pressing F5 obviously works around this referrer trick, but I find it interesting that someone would (ab)use the HTTP referrer to send a message to visitors from a specific site.

This is quite an innocent one, as it is obvious. But what about news/informational sites that subtly modify their message and influce. At least I would not have noticed.
> Terminal only?

Yes, but there's a GTK proof of concept: https://gitlab.com/Screwtapello/kakoune-gtk

> Anything comparable to emacs "shell" mode?

No, it's design goal is to be just an editor, things like shell mode are left to something like tmux or a tiling window manager.

> Is it easy to extend?

Yes, but not in the same way as emacs or vim, it's very much built around the unix as an IDE philosophy so it makes interacting with external tools easy through shell scripts.
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Graham died in 1980, but this obit was published yesterday because it's part of the NYT's project to write obits for "remarkable people" in the past (e.g. Ada Lovelace and Henrietta Lacks) who apparently died without note.

Not interested in getting into a gender bias/history debate (I think most of us can agree that there was inequality decades ago), but I was genuinely surprised that the NYT in 1980 wouldn't have written an obit for Graham at the time of her death. Her life has all the facets of a great interesting story, and she was wealthy in her own lifetime. And the newsroom then ran on typewriters, so it's not like Liquid Paper would've be an obscure topic.

Her story of invention is fascinating enough on its own -- a divorced single mother hacking something to make her job easier, reading books on her own to learn the chemistry, implementing it in her kitchen at night, then getting fired when her boss finds out she has a side-gig. But even more remarkable, she actually succeeded. Unlike a lot of inventors, she got to reap the benefits of her hard work and brilliance, including owning her own company (even fighting off her ex-husband's attempt to steal it) and becoming wealthy. That her death wouldn't be noticeable for an obit (again, at a newspaper that has thousands of typewriters) is really surprising even if you think 1980 had the same social standards as 1930.

FWIW, Wikipedia has had an entry for her since 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Nesmith_Graham
Overlooked? The fact that Bette Nesmith Graham invented Liquid Paper has been a staple of trivia for ever. In part because of her famous son.

The story starts from a biased almost sexism-baiting opening line "obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men". Perhaps the New York Times didn't write an obituary, but the rest of the world knew who she was. This is aside from the fact that there are certainly white men who they probably overlooked as well.
Ok thanks for the reply & details about emissions (e.g. cows & methane). Actually I have a blog and it's static pages already :- ) (+ blog comments)
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Not really, many of those developers do have C99 compilers with partial C11 support at their disposal.

There are almost no vendors left offering C89 only compilers.
Software construction shouldn't need this level of drama or comedy.

It almost feels like hero worship.
I'm the tech guy in charge, AMA!
While true, there's a significant difference: It's very easy to ignore a notification - the same can't be said about a verbal/face to face interruption.
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“Never Split the Difference” - fascinating read on negotiation. Author is a former FBI hostage negotiator and his stories were themselves worth the read, but it’s full of good advice on negotiation generally as well.
Ha, I just did that this week. I have a late 2011 MBP and I noticed it was dragging a bit so I upgraded it from 8gb ram to 16gb and bought a 500gb SSD to replace the factory HDD. The next day I decided I wanted more space for my pictures so I bought the little enclosure and swapped out my CDROM and just reused the factory 1TB HDD. Like $220 later and it feels like a brand new machine.
This is very helpful. I usually just summarize all this to other developers as "Be very Thorough in all you do". But this post gives alot of good advice.
Thanks for your words of encouragement! Very interesting to hear that you've come across an internal tool that did something similar.
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Cisco seems to do this well. And sometimes poorly. The screwed up on the consumer products space. But they regularly succeed with enterprise hardware solutions. If they can add something their global field team can sell and support, they succeed. The leverage of their sales pipelines exceed what the acquired business could do organically in any meaningful timeframe. They have a teams of entrepreneurs that have been acquired, then left to start something new again, and then been purchased more. I think the key thing is that there isn't a fundamental disconnect. Even blockbuster did well with aligned "bolt-on" acquisitions of regional chains during its growth phase.
Recently got a chance to read - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari.
Good description of Human history
Not supported in all browsers I thought? I recall a browser couldn’t do SVG animations
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Having had a few posts show up on HN from my site usually because I posted them (although not always), I can say that the comments are frequently nitpicky, unrelated to what you're talking about, and frequently unnecessarily critical. They rarely engage in the substance, and instead engage aggressively in minutiae. Not wanting to have to deal with the HN comments on your work is something I completely understand.
Does anyone know if this would also affect desktop/Electron apps that use those packages?
For some reason, the situation reminds me of the plot from Dr. Strangelove :P
>I find HN to be one of the least toxic places on the internet

I love it here but sometimes it can be very negative. Any discussion of Bitcoin for instance used to bring out the worst of people.
Strange. There was another site doing the same thing recently. Detecting referrals from HN and redirecting to a message.

Edit. Found it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17414652
What % can be upgraded? This seems like a self fulfilling prophecy, just like mobile phones have moved towards non-user serviceable batteries. Great way to bootstrap an accessory ecosystem into existence.
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The blue line is $2.50 I believe...
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I agree.

I find toxic subthreads from time to time but they are mostly flagged or already dead.
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Source code is the input data for the automated tests. Mutation testing is like "fuzzing the tests": providing a bad source code data to see if they fail to detect it.
It certainly looks very different now! I stand corrected!
I'm not saying I don't understand, but I am saying that I've found it more valuable to engage with nitpickers (and learn their perspective while sharing mine) than to continue to do my work in a vacuum free of nitpickers.

I've got plenty of nits worth picking. I think most people do.
It's hardly a mid-range GPU. If you have a desktop PC, you can spend that money and get a much higher end GPU for the same price...
> enough to insure a family of 5

Individual mandate is gone as other poster mentioned. Also, this makes literally no sense - you only have to insure yourself. Sure, it's stupidly expensive, but like - that's health insurance these days.

Assuming you do take that up, it's good to know that, if you end up breaking your leg or developing surprise cancer, you're going to stick everyone else with your grossly inflated, probably 5 or 6 figure bill (indirectly, of course). Thanks, I guess.
WSL with ZSH and WSL terminal https://github.com/goreliu/wsl-terminal. Simply Rocks!
> Any discussion of Bitcoin for instance used to bring out the worst of people.

Same goes for messaging networks (surprised me) and politics (not all that surprising after all.)
Great article, thanks!

OT: I keep meaning to join IEEE - do you get any commission or perks for referrals?
Can you say more about the last paragraph? I have often wondered if you could avoid identifier mangling with a better designed object file format
Sorry, didn’t mean to sound condescending. I re-read my comment and I’m sure it wasn’t updated at the time you looked. My bad.
Prof Aaronson said the best upper bound they have so far is O(log(n)^33)... to give that more meaning, O(log(n)^33) grows faster than O(n) until about n = 10^15, so "not practical" is a bit of an understatement!

I still get why this is an interesting result, though. And if Scott thinks that lower bounds are achievable he is probably right.
In mathematics:

Read the title and abstract. Then read the statements of the main theorems and corollaries (skip the lemmas and interstitial commentary at first). At each step, evaluate whether you want to continue or abandon the paper for whatever reason (not interesting, not relevant, whatever).

Finally, if you made it this far, read the whole paper word for word with a pen and paper (or chalk + chalkboard) handy.

For longer papers or books/theses (say, 20+ pages), do this whole process on each individual section/part/chapter that you want to consume.

It also helps to have a reason to read the paper besides curiosity. I find things that are relevant to current work to be easier to get through than more peripheral sorts of things. Having a colleague to discuss things with also helps.
I guess the details will depend on whether it happens before or after the discovery of the giant poo-bergs nearby :).
I've seen comments on this article elsewhere around load balancing not being needed until you're at scale, but do others not put it in quickly, not for volume, but for availability?
Tried this a few years ago, it was interesting. Foreign country, not very good at the language. Sure, let's try the kiosk. What I didn't think of that they would mumble the number of my order when I was supposed to pick it up.

Tried this recently again, it failed horribly.

Enter local McDonalds, see huge queue at normal counter and short queue where you grad your stuff.

Notice new kiosk, choose stuff, it works flawlessly and quick.

Try to pay with card, machine doesn't accept my card. Now I have to use the long queue to pay. Awesome. Of course the card worked there.

That's my main problem with these "automated" things - it's fine for the regular use case, but you better not run into any trouble (which is not your own fault).
Image Holder – Self Hosted app for managing own images
Image Holder is an open-source, self-hosted app for uploading and storing images. GitHub: https://github.com/PopovMP/image-holder

I created it as an alternative to the free third party services like imgur.com or postimage.org in order to solve two main issues: improper advertisements on the image pages, unreliable persistent.

It happened that PostImage lost about 500 screenshots I'm posting in my support forum and it happens for a second time.

Now I started a simple node.js projects for holding private screenshots.

Here are the main characteristics of the app:

- Image Holder is a self hosted app on node.js
- it provides a Drag / Drop images upload.
- it stores the files in a public local folder.
- it may require a pass key for an upload (set in the server's settings).
- it shows the latest images preview on load.
- it has a RegExp search through all uploaded images.
- it manages duplicated files.
- it validates the image size, file extension and the mime type.

The app works pretty well for now. I have to make it creating a thumbnail of the uploaded images and presenting a proper link for a forum post. Because my forum uses BBCode, the link will be something like:

[URL=full-image-url][IMG]img-thumbnail-url[/IMG][/URL]

Other formats are also possible.

Image Holder in action: https://image-holder.forexsb.com/

Please fill free to clone and use the app. Feedback is welcome.
I believe the Squeak/Pharo VMs are much faster than the Python and Ruby interpreters. There are other tricks - an Int maybe be an object, but a special one that fits in a register.
The part that other languages don’t get is it’s the Smalltalk environment that makes it special, and there is just nothing like it in our modern tooling.
> what is before?

Before Trump’s zero tolerance policy, when criminal charges for illegal crossing were essentially never pursued on their own and families with children targeted for deportation without criminal charges were also (since the court order limiting the use of immigration detention for children) not subjected to immigration detention specifically to avoid separation, and where active steps weren't taken to force entrants seeking asylum to enter illegally by preventing access at ports of entry, which is what actually pushed most of the families subjected to Trump's zero tolerance policy into the system in the first place.

> there are no problems reuniting families when they are actually families

Yes, in fact, there are, in the present situation.

> it is when kids are alone

Unaccompanied minors have been a particular problem at times in the past, but that's not the current issue.

> or abused as drug mules

That happens, but, again, is not the source of the current crisis.

> they still leave horrible conditions so why arent you upset over how bad the other countries are?

Most people upset about this administration’s blatant and indefensible mistreatment and hostage taking with regard to asylum seekers are, also, unhappy with the conditions in the countries that they are fleeing. Which is actually a big reason why they are upset at the Administration’s further tormenting them when they are trying to flee, and actively preventing them from lawfully seeking asylum.
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I wish I could delete this.

In retrospect, it's perfectly normal to promote your friends' startups, funds or books.
I got the top-end i7 about 5 years ago, it's still fast. I have tried to justify upgrading it many times but I just can't see the benefit in replacing it with something that's just a bit quicker.

I can at least upgrade the SSD and GPU without throwing the whole damn thing out, but even then it's hard to justify.
I don't think that social influence critical masses were really a factor here.

Blockbuster was brick and mortar, and 'on demand from home at $10 a month' is going to kill that business on the basic fundamentals.

There's no special science here.

Blockbuster executives were fools - not so much to 'not see it coming' (few did) - but to not react when the writing was on the wall.

Video streaming might be hard but it's not rocket Science, and a lot of people still wanted to rent videos.

Using the massive installed base, stores, and gazillions of customers to launch an 'on demand' service that was 'pretty good' might have snuffed Netflix.

After all - Netflix had to make the switch from DVDs.

I worked at BlackBerry and saw kind of the same thing - sitting on the Titanic watching the iceberg get closer ... not at all alone in my concern, however the large ship was unable to change course.

Especially as Netflix was just getting into streaming, and however we can point fingers, the fact remains that Blockbuster had all the opportunity and advantage, it was squandered.
That's just normal partial function application, right? Or am I missing something special?
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if you want financial security and health care and many other things that make up the quality of life I suggest to relocate in Europe. The dalary will be lower but what you will get what you are asking for.
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> Thinking that linting and static typing will stop all errors is foolish

Did you reply to the wrong post?
I think it's not the best deal, but it's so much better than other jokers in this space, because, the alternative I've found is Razor Core series (https://www.razer.com/sg-en/gaming-laptops/razer-core-v2) which is a joke - $500+ ($750 where I live) and it doesn't even include a GPU in it!

I'm seriously interested if there's some sort of DIY out there wherein you could just buy a bunch of chips from eBay, put together some enclosure yourself and use your own graphics card. That'd be the dream. Any money not spent on enclosures is money well spent on a good GPU.
My personal opinions:

- HN is generally favorable than many other websites, but only because those websites are hopelessly toxic.

- Voting system works well for filtering non-informative contents out, but it does prefer some kinds of informative contents than others.

- Conflicts in HN are not common, but once started they are hard to control. HN is not a good place for managing conflicts; it's only good for mild discussions and it has no effective measure to stop discussions from becoming conflicts.

- Of course there are many different opinions less represented in HN. Some of them can be considered as to an inherent bias of HN.
If it does LTO it gets worse. Maybe you can disable it for dev, if its enabled?
Yes. If you have ever worked on a site with lots of users, you will find that if there is a way to break something, someone will absolutely do that thing. It might not be super often, but it will definitely happen.
I’m using an Akitio node 3 with a 1070 on a 2016 15” Macbook Pro. I’m using my mac and macos to work during the day. When I go home, I start windows and plug my egpu to play.

It’s really easy to use on widnows, mostly plug & play.
It works so well that I stopped using my old gaming machine.

Main issue though is that you need to plug it to the left thunderbolt 3 port on your mac or the egpu doesn’t work. It also doesn’t work if you plug any other usb-c devices on the right ports. My solution for that is to use a usb-c <-> usb-a hub, plugged on 1 of the 2 usb-c left port, to plug my external ssd and gaming keyboard.
Is this a Threadripper or general Ryzen thing? Got this Asus RoG GL702ZC here, didn't upgrade and it comes like that out of the box (16G, just one socket filled) afaik.
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