skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proprietary application developers pretty much have to do that, because there are no standards between distributions so they have to remain flexible. OSS developers don't bother because, hey, you can just recompile from source! Not that that would actually make your application portable, mind you, you'd just have different hardcoded paths.

If there was a standardized base system and AppImage was embraced for deploying applications, that would make all application developer's lives easier, proprietary or otherwise, and all that wasted effort maintaining out of date applications across distro-specific repositories could stop.
Ha, I've been subscribed to Wendy Vainity's YouTube channel for years. I had no idea anybody else gave a fuck, I just thought it was genuinely weird stuff. I'm not even sure how I came across it.
Sorry to Bother You Has an Eerily Familiar Villain
I'm going on a slightly controversial limb here, but this comes from a place of dear love so please bear with me: it is my experience that the U.K. (or perhaps just England) is woefully outclassed by Americans when it comes to podcasts, or even radio in general. I have been looking for an entertaining British podcast for the last two years, and I am coming up depressingly empty handed.

The only half-redeeming British radio show that I could find was My Dad Wrote A Porno, but after half a season, the novelty wore off and that too is now but a note in the history books. I have been asking around (for two years!) for any other good tips. Alas: nothing I can bear to listen to for more than 1 episode.

Meanwhile, in the Americas, we have Planet Money, Serial, This American Life, Hidden Brain, SYSK, Freakonomics, Hardcore History, Fresh Air (!), The Moth, etc etc forever etc. These are all absolute smash hits in their own right. Americans "get" it.

It kills me. Why?? I don't know if it is the dreary of the English accent, or just this dry demeanour which perhaps looks engaging with visual feedback, but just sounds completely vapid over sound only..? What is the secret to good podcasting?

Why is it that America has Planet Money, and the UK has Moneybox? They are probably roughly targeting the same audience, but one is a riveting listen whose only fault is they don't release more, and the other, well.. the other is Moneybox. I applaud their effort, but it's Just Not There.

Now, this will undoubtedly trigger bad feelings: I'm sorry. Just to be clear: I don't mean that Americans are better than Brits. I am neither, so I have no stake in this fight. This is just an outsider's view. I love radio, I love the format, and I love both Brits and Americans, and I wish everyone did well at everything. And of course, this is my personal opinion. On the other hand: this is a pretty stark pattern, and I am anything but surprised it showed up in Drunk History just the same. And I would love to hear others' opinions on this, because it's frustrating me to no end.
I also find github's UI/UX much cleaner and easier to work with, gitlab tries to put too much stuff in one page and they are have low contrast.
Pretty soon, no more need for Apple.
I can't understand most of it, to be honest. My perspective is art can sometimes take centuries to make sense from the creator to the person that it's right for, so it doesn't make sense to expect a functioning, mechanized economy to provide for it.

That's the point of art. To tell an idea to someone who needs it. If you tax it and expect it to work like everything else does, it can't do that.
This rate is extraordinarily low.
I don't think America should fear what China is building but it should only serve to encourage it. Why shouldn't you be able to board a 300 mph train in Los Angeles and get off 30 hours later in Buenos Aires? Imagine a Colombian rose grower being able to use rail instead of plane to ship his product to the US West coast. I think it could lead to a huge boom for entrepreneurs in South America.
The important fact being that it only applied to the Intel iGPU. You also had the option to disable that and the HW decoding with the iGPU was also disabled.

The successor is called Intel Insider and it's still aimed at the GPU. Basically it's there to make sure the stream goes to the GPU (which has DRM) to be decrypted not to the CPU. That's because nobody was "courageous" enough until now to put the DRM label on a CPU.

https://blogs.intel.com/technology/2011/01/intel_insider_-_w...
With A/R, it will get worse.

When I used to work with Motorola in the early-to-mid-90s (it was an actual company, you know), we had some HUD A/R things, and my kids (3 y.o.? 4 y.o?) got pretty accustomed to flicking at books and objects in real space.

Motorola tanked. Kids grew up. Learned how to type. Everything is fine. It was just a weird thing for my wife to try to process at the time.
I'd love to live in a small town in Italy (where I'm from), however - to oversimplify a bit - I am afraid that the type of people that I would normally meet is not exciting or interesting as people in bigger cities (I currently live in SF).
KCAL9 Employee Tells Harrowing Story of Being Held Hostage Inside Trader Joe's
How Survivorship Bias Distorts Our View of Successful Entrepreneurs (2017)
I changed to single-click (and select-on-hover) a few months after moving to Linux, and won't come back, maybe your prof would like it too?
It should be seen as appalling that the overall wage growth is less than inflation.

Secondly, yes, the absolute refusal to train on the job is an indictment of how the industry views software engineers. Rather than being treated as creative professionals we're treated as assembly line code monkeys. It also leads us to working in low trust environments that like to make us think that we're highly trusted.
Don’t rock the boat!
Another problem is that companies (though not necessarily users) love thinner and thinner phones and laptops, and a cubic CPU wouldn't fit in such a device.
You posited that if one can inherit wealth, they should be able to inherit social responsibility as well. Computing one's inherited social responsibility is the intractable problem, not making the world more racially equitable.

> The number of educated, upper class Americans I know that refuse to is very frustrating.

I've found that people are very willing to improve race relations if you present it as "here's an opportunity to help some people" and not as a "everything you have is because of your skin color so you basically should give everything you have to other people". Lots of people go around pushing the latter view, so you have to be careful to distinguish your message from theirs if you want to get reception.
There is also at least one advantage to being a Rockstar programmer:

"...poetic literals allow the programmer to simultaneously initialize a variable and express their innermost angst."
Except that the Tesla's huge touchscreen is about as usable as the Vertu phone. And unlike Vertu, Tesla has no precious materials in it. Tesla has the innards of an old Hyundai.

I can understand when you laud Tesla for being emissions-free, or for high torque, or for figuring out how to cool Panasonic's battery packs properly. But pretending that it is a luxury car is just silly.
Driving is wasteful, dangerous, expensive, and toxic.
I basically agree. SICP makes a lot more sense when considered in the context of a course at MIT, taken after a first course in calculus. The exercises are easy to motivate if one can motivate the study of calculus (e.g. calculus is useful because X, therefore doing calculus by computer is useful because X but faster). The examples therefore feel relevant to what one knows and what one knows is useful (or at least considered useful by lecturers).

I think it is hard to find good exercises for this sort of early computer science outside of mathematics sadly. It seems to me that there is less variety in the computational constructs one might use in solving problems about producing or processing text (which are concisely written and have a small solution), but I think the book does emphasise mathematical examples more than needed. For example there are other first examples of higher order functions than Newton Raphson, and proving things on the way to a logarithmic Fibonacci algorithm is largely irrelevant to the kind of computer science that people looking at Teach yourself Computer Science are interested in.
But why can't I disable the remote administration capabilities?
A lot of people go around predicting calamity... They’re usually wrong. Generally not liars, just evolved monkeys who are trying to avoid problems.
> Why don't they start making CPUs 3 Dimensional like a cube with 6 "processors" each with multiple cores as its "sides" with the pins on the opposite sides of the cube wall.

Not directly an answer to this specific question, but a (somewhat) colleague who writes his PhD thesis about 3-dimensional chip design made a popular scientific lecture about this topic. As I understood it, the central problem is that it is very hard to produce chips with multiple (lots of) layers (where you want to have interconnects inbetween). In particular producing the interconnects between the layers is really hard if they can lie "everywhere" instead of only at the border. There exist multiple ideas how this might be done (e.g. drill holes with high-precission lasers into the substrate and try to fill them with something conductive), but none of them as of today "really works" (at least if we are talking about chips with somewhat more than 4 layers and interconnects everywhere inbetween).
I would say those ones are not marketed as functional, but they do support functional constructs; same as JavaScript. Elixir for example does not market itself as functional but as a niche language for distributed systems which happens to be functional.
Probably an unpopular perspective here,but, I look at feelings as something that must be understood with applied wisdom.

Feelings can be extremely deceptive,and self-deception is the worst kind. One should completely distrust and be hostile towars a "feeling" until one is confident he/she understands why the feeling exists and is the way it is.

To add on that,we should strive to make conscious and intentional decisions, making sure we understand our own intent.

I am not saying emotions are bad or it's bad to say "I feel ..." But rather to know why you feel that way and if you make a decision based on that feeling,make sure to be conscious of that why behind the feeling.
It looks more like "CSS-less" HN :-/
Is it? Because there's an awful lot of base knowledge you need to understand any kind of OSS project. Can you explain what nginx does to someone who doesn't have a smart phone in any kind of meaningful way?
This link indicates the process relies on water's conductivity: http://www.amasci.com/emotor/kelvin.html

(and works in spite of the higher resistivity of fresh, or even deionized water)
GOLD: Rejects Lower Prices, Eyes More Upside
Elixir does not market itself just as a functional langauge but as a niche language for distributed systems which happens to be functional for very good reasons. As opposite clojure markets itself as functional in spite of having many elements of imperative languages and sitting on top of the JVM.
I find that to be a fairly insightful (at least partial) explanation of sprawl, especially in Canada (where freeways seem to have been relatively unpopular to begin with) and in the US after the freeway "revolt" of the 70s.

The US Interstate system and freeways into previously undeveloped land to create new suburbs near large cities would certainly fall under even your definition of "car-centric" design (and this could, arguably, be seen happening in Southern California to this day), but it doesn't in much of Canada.

I do expect some of the design is driven by a desire by citizens to live in low density (the "to each his own" idea brought up elsewhere in the thread), and it stands to reason that people attracted to suburbs would generally be those low-density seekers and would thereby encourage more of that kind of development.

However, that seems insufficient an explanation for a stand-alone town of a few thousand, that isn't a suburb of a nearby city.

Is building "out" really cheaper than building "up" a couple stories?

Maybe it's simpler than that, and city folk fail to understand that small enough towns are actually rural, without central sewage treatment, and every building needing substantial open space for a leach field. Even when centralizing becomes cost-effective, it may only be applicable for new growth, and it will still need land (and of a certain kind).
How do you define interesting or exciting?

I spent a summer in Sardinia a few years ago. I didn't meet anyone who was a programmer like myself, but I met plenty of people who taught me about food, literature, philosophy, herding sheep, and how to live simply.

I fully understand the appeal of SF and I know that there's more to SF than Silicon Valley, but I'd much rather live somewhere where I'm surrounded by people that I wouldn't normally meet. I feel like those environments give the greatest opportunity for growth and expansion of my personal perspective.
Secret variables are NOT output to Gitlab CI job logs... but if someone echos them, they WILL appear in the log. This may be obvious to some, but, I like to point it out nonetheless.
I was in Brooklyn for 2.5 years living in South Slope just off of Prospect Park. Now I’m in a suburb of Birmingham, AL. I basically live in a forest. Have a 5 bedroom / 6 bathroom home that is significantly cheaper than my 3 bedroom / 1 bathroom apartment. Raising three kids, I am just so incredibly happy with life out here. My commute is a 10 min drive through beautiful woodlands in a comfortable car. Any time I get slightly annoyed by traffic, I remember jamming myself in a crowded subway where I’d be lodged between sweaty body parts of strangers for 45 min and I just grin.

Public transportation is great, except for rush hours. And the nights and weekends scheduling.

Don’t get me wrong: we loved our time in NY (and, like most people in NY we also hated it; it was a bipolar relationship). And my career might takes us back that way. But I hope not. It’s not really built for single income families raising multiple children.

I’m perfectly happy if you’re happy with the city trade offs. Because they are just trade offs. But I prefer the trade offs of living in unincorporated county outside a small city.
https://github.com/facebookincubator/BOLT
Why Intel Must Respond to AMD’s Single Socket Threat
isn't `.gitlab-ci.yml` just the same as a jenkins pipeline?
Well, with all the cancellations, perhaps some of them are thinking this through.
I work with a designer that has something like 20+ years of print experience. We make web sites. It's true that some habits are hard to break, like wanting pixel perfect shapes and alignments, which of course doesn't work too well with today's needs of responsive design, or mobile first interfaces.

But, after a basic introduction to the fundamentals of modern web design, the guy has come up with some great ideas, elegant and easy to navigate... And can still do posters flyers etc.

He is now even getting into 3d stuff for animations.

Point is, learning is incremental, and it's always possible to extend what one knows in new directions, if one is of curious mind and willing to change.

Now, concerning toddlers and tablets... the thing is, we are governed by the physical world in which we live. It's very important on a mental but also motor level to have a good understanding of that. I mean things that adults take for granted like balance, dexterity, hand eye coordination, a subconscious understanding of gravity, etc.

These are actually learned by trial and error, if you've ever seen a toddler stack blocks or learn to throw you'll have seen this in action.

During this period of learning about the world, having regular interactions with objects that do not follow the same rules is confusing to very young children. This is not just my opinion but something which many child psychologists agree on.

Again I'm not against tablets, but better not to introduce them earlier than 3 or 4 years old at the earliest.

I think that still gives them plenty of time to assimilate 21st century technology and think of the next big thing in 20 years. Which I probably won't understand ;-)
NH, MA, and the southern parts of ME have quite a few of these kind of towns, as a natural side effect of developing in the pre-car era.
The Cold War-themed board game that feels more relevant than ever
Hello extralego,

I'm not certain what this will mean to you, but if it's worth anything: I am very comfortable saying this article was 100% not an ad, because I'm one of the people who created it. The rough draft was written by me.

Your friend,
Kevin Q.
I probably shouldn't have described autism as I did with so few words. I did not mean to sound insensitive in my limited understanding of the subject. As I understand it autism is a wide umbrella of various possible disorders.
> The answer was "until we get a significant result."

Done properly, it might be way more efficient than setting your parameters ahead of time, see [0] ; If I had gotten that response from him, I'd assume that's what he meant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_probability_ratio_t...
It's not. It currently still uses OpenGL.
"They won't let you disable ME because of Hollywood".

I don't know, Rick... I'll call this argument bullshit.

I'm pretty sure there is a very good (evil) reason Intel won't let us disable ME, but it's not "Hollywood".
I'm from Belarus. There's lots of propaganda around having more children. Our president regularly says that women should stop having careers and start making more children.

Lots of people are leaving Belarus, but since we're not in EU and it's not as easy to leave, I don't think it's the main factor.

Education levels are very high in Belarus. Check out these stats. https://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/belarus_statistics.html Literacy rates are close to 100% and majority of women get higher education.

Belarus has a very poor economy and low salaries (families can't afford to have more than 1 child).

And finally, a lot of people are dying. Alcoholism issues are pretty big, a lot of men die young for example. Women would have to have looots of babies to offset the mortality rate.

It's probably a combination of all of these factors and more.
HN discussion on Fabrice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5187585
It depends on if you are happy with the state of things as they are. I would think that if all of humanity was content, and not a single soul was unhappy then we would stop the analysis. But so long as our minds can imagine a newer 'better' reality, i.e. so long as the grass is always greener on the other side: We will act this way.
Paysa claims the median SWE in mountain view makes around $190K total comp, with like $65K of that being bonus and stock. (that's lower than I would think from talking with people, but a lot of my friends are mid to late career and working at the more desirable companies, so I guess that makes sense.)

Note, a lot of companies pay more. according to paysa, the mean Facebook SWE makes like $230k in Sunnyvale (the closest location to mountain view that paysa has information on facebook for.)

Trulia claims that the median 1 bedroom in mountain view is $860K, which is higher than I thought; (santa clara, where I live, it's $622K) 20% of that is $172K... so four and a half years of living off your base salary would be required (three and a half if you commute in from santa clara) I mean, depending on your tax bracket, of course.

And all this is looking at the median, and in the comment I'm responding to, you were talking about the best SWE jobs at your company. I can tell you that it's not at all unusual for individual contributors who are pretty good but not famous or anything to do rather better than the paysa numbers, salary wise.

All that said, I personally don't plan on buying at these prices; (and I'm a sysadmin and have no degree; I'm gonna make maybe 15-20% less than a SWE with a degree at my level) I think right now, landlords are willing to lose money on the actual rent in order to make money on the appreciation. I dunno if this is a good idea long-term, just 'cause if this is the new normal, if housing prices keep rising, I might actually price myself out of desirable metros, and be forced to move to a second-tier city, which I would find unpleasant... but I see no reason to hurry to those second tier cities. Certainly, rent seems to be limited by what people can pay, and as someone SWE-ajacent, I make more than most people, even here in the bay area, so something would have to go wrong with my career to the point where I wasn't making more money than most people locally for me to get priced out of the local rental market.

I mean, if there were smaller, cheaper places available, I'd drop a quarter-million on a "plan b" just so I could continue to live around here if my own career went south... but I probably have much stronger social reasons to stay than you do.

Some of my friends and I have been considering investing in real-estate in a second tier city, just to hedge against the case where real-estate continues to climb globally, but paying half what a house costs here seems high for that. A buddy of mine has been talking about Cleveland (one of his value functions is functional public transit) Cleveland is a lot more than half cheaper than the bay area... but I don't think I'd want to live there.
I applied for a position about 4 months ago that required a relatively niche skillset. I felt the interview went well and I had at least some experience with all the technical stuff as well as some experience in a similar industry. Since interviewing with this company I have received requests from a half a dozen recruiters on LinkedIn who are recruiting for this same role. It is somewhat amusing that they are still searching after all this time.
Depth in OpenGL is a separate 2D buffer. You can use it to approximate the effects of 3D space, but it’s still fundamentally a set of 2D operations.

Of course, it’s all fundamentally just bits on a heap, so past a certain point the argument becomes academic.
Really? You can "understand" why a person, a public figure who runs several large companies, would make baseless accusations against a person he disagrees with, in an attempt to ruin this person for life?

I can't understand that at all.
The direct translation, "egg-laying wool-milk-sow", gets the point across fairly well.
I'm not sure which companies you have worked at, but at every one of my jobs, at a mix of small-medium, medium-large, and really huge companies, learning on the job has been absolutely expected.
This is not a "Show HN" material. It's a thinly veiled ad for your wedsite design services.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I've sometimes thought that it might be nice in an abstract sense to have kids. I'm sure there are some nice moments. But in practice whenever I see my friends with kids, they look so beleaguered and complain about never having time. I just think: Who needs it?

I think typical people have a real blind spot to the incredible personal costs to having kids. Something about it makes them forget about or discount the bad times and keeps them from dispassionately weighing the pros and cons of having kids. Many (for whatever reason) will simply not realize there is a choice at all.

Having kids is such a hassle, that to me it's no wonder that people are opting out once effective birth control came onto the scene.

Edit: @codersbrew (to whom I can't reply because your comment is dead) I don't understand why you think my opinions are short-sighted; I actually think they're the opposite. Also, people without kids have to be able to form opinions about having kids, otherwise how could anyone make an informed choice about it? And if it's an actual, real, choice, people can make either decision. I'm not sure if my opinion is correct either, but it's all I got.
I've noticed this at theCoderSchool where I teach kids to code. The majority of the kids can't type.