skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5 minutes walk or 1 minute drive to a shop for groceries, hardware, lumber, restaurants, kid parks.

I've never lived in, or even seen, a small town in america where this was possible.
Why is Go so popular in the industry at the moment? What's the decision process for choosing Go?
The strains are harder to find as they are considered premium strains these days with the rise of CBD but an easy replacement would be to consume your regular cannabis and then take a CBD pill immediately afterwards. It won’t be exact 1:1 but you can play around with it to get the effect you desire.
I agree that GitLab is using too much RAM. Stan Hu, all time MVP record holder, will start working to reduce this. Options are removing Ruby code in Gitaly 1.1 and using multi threading in the application server.
That sounds like Atlassian's products to me. That can backfire after a few years of use when every page is customized to hell and back and no one knows how it works.
> Sommelier and Price found that so far during the recovery from the Great Recession, the American top 1 percent has captured nearly 42 percent of all income growth.

Is that surprising? The people that created the recession also benefited the most from it at the expense of everyone else. It wouldn't surprise me if the recession was created on purpose for this exact reason. Regardless, we know the solution (high taxes especially corporate taxes and regulation) that can reverse this trend peacefully. We unfortunately also know the solution that can reverse this trend violently. At this point, it's just a matter of waiting and seeing which solution the US will pick. I have my non US passport ready to go at a moment's notice. I'm pretty sure I know which solution the US prefers, the one the US has always preferred in its history: violence.
Yes, there are two reasons that python is an ideal tool for quantum computing libraries at the moment.

- In the NISQ era [1], circuits have limited depth and size. It doesn't matter so much which language (or even algorithm!) you use when N<1000.

- Simulating a circuit is expensive, but all the heavy lifting can be delegated to highly optimized C code. The most expensive part of Cirq's simulation is (or soon will be) a call to `numpy.einsum` [2].

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00862

2: https://github.com/quantumlib/Cirq/blob/24638f234704686c4bb6...
I'm living in a small town right this moment where is is all possible. Toss in a library, a bar, a couple barbers, and a fresh bakery too.
I didn't realize we needed a word for this until just now
> GBTs win over NN for most tasks in practice, although they don't get much hype

I've always thought GBDTs get too much hype. As a data scientist, it seems like everyone wants to immediately throw a random forest or GBDT at the problem without knowing anything else about it.
I think that's kinda the point of the style. The bizarre stacks of features create a hallucinatory, or "dream-like" vibe, which snares the Chads and Jessicas looking for their, and I quote, "dream home".
Show HN: Generate multi level geohashes in proximity
Pointing out that he has merit is the whole point of meritocracy. Credentialism is about formal credentials, like academic titles.

I'm not sure what is called the kind of tabula rasa system you're advocating, but I don't think it's meritocracy.
These kinda of comments seem to be growing in frequency on HN.

Why? Who cares what decisions people make? I've lived on acreage in the woods, small towns, suburbs, mid sized cities and urban environments and guess what? The only thing I've learned is that each has pros and cons and that every time I've said I would "never" live in one of those situations again I was surprised when I chose to do that very thing.

Why limit your lifestyle options with arbitrary mental boxes? Maybe I'm just getting tired of reading strangers opinions on the internet, it seems like a waste of mental energy...but as you say- "To each their own"
That still means multiple silicon dies, which we have known how to do for a while (see: Intel Core 2 Quad from 2006, and more recently AMD Epyc).

Having more dies lets you dissipate more heat, but then it's kinda hard to build low-latency / high-bandwidth interconnects between the dies. Inter-die buses go over a PCB or interposer, which impose higher parasitic capacitance and make it difficult/expensive to run wide interfaces. That's why techniques like "dark silicon" allocation are important - it allows us to get more perf in a single die.
> Team members in high-wage regions having less discretionary income then ones in low-wage countries with the same role.

Heh, so their answer is to take away (presumably unearned) discretionary income from people who win the location lottery?

How very egalitarian of them.
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The info design of the site is horrible .. playing video when there is no need and makes the reading experience one of the worst ...
I love how vegans and vegetarians have this 'holier then thou' attitude. Not like we don't need still a lot of land to grow our crops, but whatever.

What will be his next move? Bans using electricity? Orders every employee to live in a cave?

I hope he will write the holy book of Wework with 10, 20, maybe a 100 commandments.

I am excited to see the exodus from Wework. Maybe that can be a chapter in that holy book.
Very much so. It is very deceiving to have a lengthy discussion on licenses and not mention that using this on a public-facing website without a comprehensive patent license in place is going to get you sued.
I grew up in São Paulo. Then I moved to Dublin, Ireland (which is, compared to São Paulo, tiny, but, with over a million people living here, shouldn't be called a small town).

I now live in a quiet and walkable city. Have a huge shared backyard where kids in the neighborhood play. We all know each other, we have Whatsapp groups for the neighborhood (wives created one, husbands, half-jokingly, created another to keep a balance of power). I almost never have to use a car. We have only one.

I never considered moving to a smaller city, but, really, I can see the appeal of not living between tall buildings, with sirens, beeps, engines and the constant hum of large city.

I'm now in San Francisco (for the week) and the constant noise is already getting on my nerves again (happens every time I come here - I'll be cranky for 3 days or so - and, mind you, I've been living in Dublin for only two years and grew up in São Paulo).
Unless they have forgotten the last 2 decades, Intel only has to not let you have access to specific keys that are only available to a securely booted Intel ME.

Trying to prevent you from running something else is pointless posturing for that purpose as it is only useful to decoding DRM if you already have some means to compromise Intel MEs and extract key information.

Not allowing anyone to build an alternate system with ME's capabilities is not pointless posturing when it comes to getting the NSA to bless your export of higher performance chips than the US wants many states to have.

To put it a different way, they want Hollywood to have strong low layer encryption on your computer but they don't want you to have it, especially if you might be outside the US.
I doubt anyone can answer this for you, but why shouldn't it be? It is a very sensible language and toolchain. When writing source, it is easy to write tests and testable code and to run the tests as part of your build. At build time, it's fast and it produces easy-to-deploy statically-linked applications. At runtime, it's pretty fast and compact ... compared to python, Go is most of the way to C++-level performance.
T480s. No weird issues with the laptop itself. The Thunderbolt dock can be finnicky. It loses USB of the dock sometimes; that's about it. Kernel patches are underway I believe.
Thing is an absolute joy under linux. Don't get me wrong, it excels in nothing. But it's 4 out of 5 for everything.

- Battery is fine

- Weight is fine

- Dimensions are fine

- You can add a ram stick for 24GB total (8GB is soldered on).

- Thunderbolt

- Fan management is fine.

- Thermals are almost fine.

- Exception: The speakers are embarrassingly bad.

For context, I came from a Macbook Air 13.
But isn't OCT more rigorous, with proofs/guarantees and such, and ML more experimental?
The Model 3 is looking a bit over priced now, with cars like the Kona and coming Lead 64 offering similar features, performance and better range for less money.
I've completely separated it out. Except for some authentication pages, it's all JSON APIs. Django project does not have any frontend assets of Vue/vuex
Said another way, Tesla still has existing orders that will keep it busy for a couple years, by which time the Model 3 line will be profitable. Which is to say, Tesla will have succeeded in creating a mass market electric vehicle and turning a profit while doing so, thus changing the landscape to one in which electric vehicles are in some instances preferred to internal combustion vehicles, and so competitors follow suit. Thus accomplishing Tesla’s stated goal of: “to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport by bringing compelling mass market electric cars to market as soon as possible”.

Which is jaw dropping.

But everyone is still jumping on the schadenfreuden wagon, why idk.

In other news. While you were sleeping SpaceX has a successful launch of one of their block 5 rockets. Oh and landed stage one on a moving target in the ocean. While in parallel developing a rocket to take people to mars.

This is insane. And we should all enjoy it while it lasts. Because it’s not a given that these type of accomplishments happen any given day, year, or decade.
Simple fact is I think many many people would look for better places to live if they could afford the lifestyle they wanted there. That’s why so many of my friends have moved from the Bay Area to Seattle and then to Colorado and sometimes to Portland now.

Main downside of moving to a small town if you’re LGBT or queer is that you’re always going to be the odd one out - at the very least you won’t have much of a dating pool.
I was just reading those last night. Definitely good stuff.
Forget UBIs and other bandaids. Just simply taxing their wealth away would transform society. Plutocratic governence won't end until there are no more plutocrats.
To paraphrase Keyser Söze

"The greatest trick the Super-Elite ever pulled was convincing the world that inequality is a desired outcome of a properly functioning economy".
My urge: Let me CMD+F this -oh right, it's a physical book
From the article
"The heat generation per unit area of an integrated circuit passed the surface of a 100-watt light bulb in the mid 1990s, and now is somewhere between the inside of a nuclear reactor and the surface of a star. "

I can't tell if this is hyperbole or not, it amazes me but no amount of googling is coming up with a useful answer. Is anyone able to confirm or deny it for me?
It has it's own default rules but it's quite easy to write your own ruleset. There are rulesets for civ2, civ3 and even alpha centauri iirc.
I just realized I was actually thinking about AMT FW not being present (the management over the network part). ME is indeed there since 2006 and can be removed with varying degrees of success.

But I was under the impression that the ME FW on non vPro systems is there just for things like BootGuard or TXT, which (presumably) wouldn't need the full ME functionality. I did not expect that some manufacturers ship the AMT-enabled FW without marketing it as such.

I can't see the actual demo so I imagine they found some non-vPro system where the manufacturer actually shipped the full AMT FW. I'm curious if that's a common occurrence.

Non-AMT firmware is about the 3-4 time smaller than AMT-enabled firmware. That's a hefty difference so if you have the non-AMT version and you can still somehow enable it you'd get a very limited subset of what AMT usually is.
So the author is claiming that the main reason why ME exists is DRM.

I can see it being one of the reasons but it is also a pretty good anti-theft system if you look at it naively.

And I haven't seen a laptop with a CD tray for at least 7 years. Who is playing these bluray discs in their laptop?
Any thoughts on Manjaro vs. Antergos?
Seriously, there should be a law against this. This is almost bordering on inhumane practices.

A billionaire built on modern slavery?
Exaclty! Except I use many unachievable goals that I work towards endlessly...to develop my touch-typing skills.
More and more I agree with this.

Google and Facebook are boring monopolists. It makes sense that we enjoy their failures.

But Tesla is a really amazing company. The media coverage makes more sense when you realize that most journalists are deeply unhappy people who are, internally, banging their heads against the wall as a result of never having learned any practical skills. They viscerally hate the idea of progress, because by definition they will not be part of progress. They much prefer that the world be stuck.
This stuff doesn't exist because of a particular vendor or ISA; it's a mainstream feature for modern application platforms. Many ARM systems achieve similar ends through a kind of hypervisor / shadow OS that can't readily be disabled by the device owner [1].

[1] https://www.arm.com/products/security-on-arm/trustzone
I cancelled, but only because I want an extended battery version with autopilot. I'm sure others cancelled their orders for the base version to speed up delivery.
What do you think of Matrix?
I do mean SNS. Though at some point, I may switch to SQS or rabbitmq.

SNS is "good enough" for my use cases and I don't have to run a beanstalk worker (like for sqs).

I chose beanstalk because of how dead simple it is. It is non-standard in a way, but was the fastest way to get the app out.

Again, I know the app may outgrow it's needs at some point. At that point I'll invest time to move it out to the flavor of the day:).
So Uber updates the app, requires the user to take a photo of their seat in the car when they exit the vehicle, gets the driver to acknowledge the picture in order to close out the transaction.

Dunno whats so hard about this?
As a transparent company, our roadmap (what we spend time on) along with our strategy (why we spend it there) is public.
https://about.gitlab.com/direction/
https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/
The "breadth over depth" section might help to shed some understanding.
When I'm evaluating a system like this what I want to read about is how is it hardened against client stupidity. For example, someone deploys an application in my datacenter and it emits metrics that have gibberish in their names (consider a common Java bug where a class lacks a toString, so the metric gets barfed out as foo.bar.0xCAFEBABE.baz). How does the system cope with this enormous, hyper-dimensional input?
So either have a completely separate install or recompile your application from source (which assumes it is open source and you've got the build environment correct). Gee, isn't that convenient?

Like I said: try to color outside the lines and all that fake ease of use stuff goes away and you have to deal with the garbage pile of a system underneath.
It's not a problem when you know how to talk to people.

Bear in mind, although I am a developer. I have spent many years in sales environments, with upper management teams such as working with VP's and CEO's directly.

In such environments you learn very quickly how to say a lot without saying anything.

If you need more information take a look at channels such as [0] and [1]. There are plenty on youtube.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/user/CharismaMatrix

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/charismaoncommand
I don't recall if this is accurate, but an example would be wanting to make a note in a text file. Under Excel and captive Windows you would have to save and quit, exit Windows, start your note app under DOS, take the note and then repeat the sequence in reverse order (perhaps minutes).

Under a DOS app, you hit the hot key for your TSR[0], made the note and continued (a few seconds). As the series mentioned, being a power user under DOS was very productive. Lotus 1-2-3 especially had a notable menu/macro system, as did WordPerfect etc.

GUI environments are not very useful for one program. They have far higher system requirements, and perform slower than native text environments. And they especially do not play nice with others. This is why there was so much scepticism at the time amongst those paying money for hardware and software. Of course new customers and more of them were just on the horizon as the series will soon reach.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate_and_stay_resident_pr...
I have a better idea. How about we just assert whatever it is that we want to be true, repeat the assertion enough times and then just want until our minds become warped enough to believe it.

Say you want better healthcare. Do we really want to go down the rabbit hole of establishing metrics (infant mortality, obesity rates, whatever), having wonks work out policy, have bureaucrats turn the massive Ship of State towards that goal towards redistributing taxes and modifying lifestyles, spend years following up on all this? It's insane, people can't have democratic control over this, we can't expect them to put up with it.

Instead we can just vote in someone who'll us we'll be "beautifully covered", then we'll all get together frequently to listen to him tell us how great things are going, then we'll hype each other telling each other how great things are. Who you're gonna believe, some rando egghead on TV yammering about metrics, or your community? As long as we all believe, everything will be great. And your shitty health? Well, you did what you could. shrug
In the name of anti-racism, engage in racism. Got it.
Not quite. Your past projects have become the new credentials. E.g. at most software shops, it tends to be the biggest factor in whether you get hired.

The essence of meritocracy is that anyone can do something like this. And in this case, it's simply not true. No one would be paying attention if Ballard didn't write this, and that's at odds with the idea that you yourself could create it.

Another way of putting it is that in a meritocracy, each project should be judged on its own merits, independent of the author. Art is separable from the artist, but unless your culture values this, you get a clique of insiders.
HEIC is based on HEVC ( H.265 ), and therefore requires licensing and paying royalty before using it, most likely paid by Microsoft (Windows), Apple or any of your hardware manufacture. It could cost up to ( capped ) $100M per year for hardware manufacture. HEVC Advance Group has made software decoding royalty free. But you still have to paid MPEG Licensing and Velos Media. Because Apple and Microsoft likely has cross patent arrangement to most of the companies within the group, so it wouldn't matter much to them. But for everyone else, HEVC licensing is still a bag of hurt.

AVIF is based on AV1, by Open Media Alliance lead by Google, is royalty free. ( But not patent free, please don't mixed this up ) It is new and the spec has only been released for no more then 6 weeks. Google doesn't want to pay the licensing, especially when the initial licensing terms for HEVC include cost per streaming. All of Youtube video requires VP9 ( the predecessor of AV1 ) for 2K+ resolution, and does not and likely will not ever include HEVC.

Chrome does not support HEVC decoding even if you have hardware decoding. The same for Firefox. That is why the parent said BPG won't ever be included in browser, or Chrome and Firefox. M$ IE 11 / Edge and Safari both support HEVC.
> I met an old friend the other day for board games and he spent more time playing Pokémon Go than actually interacting with me (or the board game). I told him he was being rude and he just laughed like that was absurd.

I've had similar issues with friends, girls, associates, coworkers, just about anyone.

It is a social problem, but there's an easy fix: set your boundaries, communicate them, and make it clear that this isn't acceptable (how you go about phrasing it differs on the person and their relation to you, wing it). If somehow you end up stuck with someone that can't respect your time, then maybe they're not worth your time. Setting a hardline helps me filter out different sorts that would otherwise waste my time, not just now, at this one lunch, but would continue to do so in the future.

I think it's important that as technology advances and becomes more pervasive that basic social courtesies also need to evolve in lockstep. It takes individuals to start addressing this on a case-by-case basis, but I'm optimistic that given enough people putting in enough effort that we'll get closer to the ideal of a civilized society that doesn't just know how to use their technology, but when and where it is appropriate.
What a delightfully Kafkaesk way to make a living.
It was on the door. Or back of the passenger seat. Now you got to take like 2-3 photos every-time you exit. Super hassle.
> why shouldn't it be?

I didn't imply that it shouldn't be.

I am genuinely interested to know the thought process and why it seems to be the defacto language these days.

Your arguments are strong, thanks.
A 20$ admin theme from themeforest, based on bootstrap3. Nice enough that it does not warrant massive re-styling right now. If the app becomes bit of a success, we'll outsource this part to more competent people ( me and partner are both backend-ish people)
The more I looked at the 3 the more I saw its less than desirable points. I really wanted to like it.
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I hope they publish how many employees decide to leave.
They wouldn't be "coming" nearly as fast if the government didn't plunder to subsidize them.

The article calls for more state meddling into what market should sort out in its own. Every meddling makes it messier and the solution is of course more meddling, etc. until one day the US turns into a failed centrally planned economy similar to most of Europe today.
At least one company is developing "a solid approach on how to run a freed Intel ME": https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/
Professional diversity trainer says things like "you are all invested in and collude with the system of [white supremacy]" and is surprised when people are a bit miffed.
Like a stapled MDF Schloss Neuschwanstein...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle
How Zildjian, a 390-year-old family business, avoids layoffs (2013)
Fortunately I own a bike.
You have it backwards. They're only selling the long range version right now. Standard range won't be out till next year
I don't want to see this kind of article on hacker news, or anywhere else.
Reinforcement learning is direct adaptive optimal control

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/126844/?reload=true
$60000 is a lot to pay for a $35000 car. The insides look at like a nissan or a honda. At $60k the benz and audi do feel luxury as compared to this.
Wow! Quite a bit.
I make roughly 150 Amazon purchases a year. The only “counterfeit” (and I use the term loosely) product I’ve ever gotten was a knock-off electric toothbrush head from a third party seller. It wasn’t passed off as being from Oral-B, and it did fit the toothbrush— it just didn’t work very well.

I chalked it up to a life lesson. Other than that, never had an issue.