skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a small Flutter app recently and rather enjoyed the experience. I'm reluctant to spend more time on the technology, though, since it seems like it has a high chance of dying out. But as I understand it, Fuchsia would have native apps written using Flutter as well, which would be great, so I really hope it does take off.
> If you aren't, then your online opinions are akin to writing in chalk on the nearest fence, and just as valuable.

This is the default case no matter what. Either way, I can explain my opinion if I feel like it, adding a "disclaimer" feels like some sort of weirdly perverse anti-pattern to make someone feel as though their opinion is invalidated by having a reason for holding it in the first place.
And if you were living in the Bay Area at the time, you probably found out about all the upcoming shows from The List.

Web-friendly link –> http://www.foopee.com/punk/the-list/
True, but, if it were just that, I would expect Python to only have the map, filter, etc. functions, which have been in there since 1.0. List comprehensions were introduced much later, in version 2.

That makes comprehensions the 2nd way to do it. They're also less obvious in my book, since their readability tends to drop precipitously once you start adding multiple "for" clauses to one.
>Fukushima is aweful for the nearby region and still a cautionary tale. But it didn't poison the whole world.

I would be careful with that last statement because seafood from Japan is global.

Only time will tell the true impact of Fukushima's radioactive water.

"More than 1 million tons of radiation-laced water is already being kept on-site in an ever-expanding forest of hundreds of hulking steel tanks—and so far, there’s no plan to deal with them."[1]

12 US gallons = 100 lbs and 1 million tons is equal to 2.4 million gallons

https://www.wired.com/story/fukushimas-other-big-problem-a-m...
I don't know. I don't even know that I'd want to be making those decisions. But I thought the discussion was getting reduced to a caricature of the actual issue, and wanted to elevate it. It strikes me like the trolley problem in that there may not be a "good" solution, let alone one that everyone can agree on.

I'm just as curious about your ideas, honestly.
You’re Never Going to Be “Caught Up” at Work. Stop Feeling Guilty About It
Government debt isn’t “debt” in the classical sense. Let me suggest an analogy: a bank lends you a loan at intrest, but no expiry date. You can pay back the loan at any point in the future. Not only that, the bank has no ways of enforcing you to pay it back through legal action. On top of that, you are infinitely credit worthy, you can get as much loans as you want, including loans to cover existing loans. Would you consider this a “debt”. The answer is that it’s nothing like a debt in any meaningful sense of the term, it is merely a label used because of accounting convention.

Could you “print”* an amount of money several times the world GDP and get inflation?

That depends whether te money is circulated at all. Inflation is not a function of the money stock, it happens when sellers collectively mark up their price above current market rate. This is easier to do with rising expectations of higher return. The money stock is not some magical denominator on top of a real goods numerator.

*(it’s really just incrementing a number in a database, zero production cost, so print is another misnomer)
The Big One™ that sends the entire Bay Area into the Pacific can't come fast enough.
microG acts as a drop-in replacement for Google Play Services. Apps do not have to be rewritten
When they say “bathed in radioactive cloud” they actually mean “wind carried trace amounts of radioactive materials”. Anytime anything “nuclear” is involved, the reporting gets very poetic.
like a helicopter?
Dominating the market segment of people with greater than median average disposable income seems to be best strategy.
Teach them Swagger? Do you mean to generate Swagger or to consume it? Because as far as clarity I don't think Swagger could be clearer, what with the interactive endpoint GUI and copy/paste curl commands and so on.
Wildfires rage in Arctic Circle as Sweden calls for help
This fact may be hacker but it is not news.
Can this technology be used to detect stop the fake news epidemic that we have right now?
>Wasn't a BART extension proposed and vetoed by NIMBYs?

It was the 1960's... so I'd probably say "vetoed by Racists"

Despite California's stereotyped liberal/progressive values, the 1960's also saw Prop 14 "allow property owners and landlords to turn away colored people" winning 65% support.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_14_(196...
The pleasure and pain of seeing inside living cells/
Quietly? The entire development has been public, hasn't it?
Moving big data to the cloud
the isotopes from the air would contaminate it.
The oldest code we have is probably ~65 years.

Our genomes are ~1.2B to 3.5B (sexual reproduction and life at all, respectively) years old.

Now imagine trying to patch that codebase in production...
Exactly, this decision will benefit apple a lot, as they would be free to integrate their platform and offerings in all sorts of ways, continuing to charge their premium, where as the "dominant" mobile OS will have to keep itself open and not force anything on users or makers.
> Inputs into "The Machine" include round size, syndicate partners, past investors, industry sector and the delta between prior valuation and current valuation. The algorithm then ranks deals on a 10-point scale, with green said to represent 8 or above

I'm sure there are more inputs than this, but from that list you'd imagine they basically pick deals based on who else is investing. which is not that different from many other VCs. at least in biotech, i typically see GV co-investing in deals led by other top notch VCs
I didn't know about SETL, that's interesting.

https://docs.python.org/3/howto/functional.html#generator-ex... claims Python borrowed them from Haskell, but the ABC link seems more likely.
But why then did other laptop manufacturers not get affected by the issue?
No, the claim is that they're using Android's dominant position to push Google search and other Google products. Chrome's default in itself is not an issue.
Also, the item needs to be sold by amazon itself - even if it's shipped prime. That's unfortunately easy to overlook.
My 2017 MBP keyboard is also starting to go, and I really can't be without a machine for a week while they fix it. I was going to bite the bullet and upgrade to the new model but with this throttling issue I don't see much point. At this point I'd happily trade this machine back for my MBP 2015.

I'm seriously considering buying a Windows laptop for the first time in almost a decade.
I think there's a confound there that these are both very thin machines, limiting the size of fans (=CFM per an acceptable noise level) and heatsinks. Not sure how others feel but I wouldn't mind a slightly larger form factor if it improved thermals.
The throttling isn't the issue. The issue is that the 2017 MBP i7 is faster than the 2018 MBP i9 in tests. That throttling is making this happen is immaterial. That the 8th gen chips are problematic aren't the issue. The issue is that the newer higher end MBP is slower than the older MBP.
The issue is with a potential mismatch of expectation and reality.

When a customer sees "i9" they expect to be able to get the performance of which the i9 is capable.

If I were to purchase a laptop with an i9, I'd expect to be able to run full-throttle numerical simulations and data analysis on it. If I didn't plan to do that, I wouldn't have purchased a fast chip.
> Why can't you?

Because you have no information to make that conclusion.

But if you want to make a wild guess, sure, go ahead.
Great question.

In theory, jobs put an upper limit on housing usage. People almost always follow jobs.

There are many beautiful cities in the world but only SF is near Silicon Valley.

You can find cheap housing in nice areas if they don’t depend on jobs (college towns, retirement communities).

People will present counter examples at the margins of course, but generally the relationship holds.
Regarding roads, it's not true that building roads can't alleviate traffic congestion---although there are special cases where building roads makes travel times. It depends on the network.

In general though we should expect building roads to reduce travel time. The fact that driving increases following road-building is evidence of this: why would driving increase if travel times between all origins and destinations stayed the same? Validated models of travel demand all depend on travel time, not the existence of roadspace. Just because driving increases upon building new roads does not mean it does so to the extent that travel times are unchanged.

For the record, I do not support building many more roads. They have become very expensive to build and maintain, the maintenance backlog in some places is severe, and in a thick network like many US cities have they do little good. In some cases the pollution they create is severe and disproportionately impacts poor people. But I still feel compelled to nitpick this common misunderstanding about induced demand.
I don't think that buying adapters is the biggest issue here. Personally for me it starts to become a question about the compromise I'd need to make on a laptop that is really expensive. I don't see $50 adapter as an investment on a Macbook when there are really high quality alternatives that satisfy my use case just as well. But then again, all of this is really subjective and every body will have a different set of requirements that they value!
This is why my wife wants a beefy, heavy laptop that has cooling systems that wrap around the moon once. We haven't chosen one yet, but we it will probably be one of those inch+ thick ones, not the razor thin laptops. She's going to run circles and then some around my MBP 2014. and I'm really really jealous and ready to go back to the PC now.
Looks like content was pulled directly from this site. Kind of sketchy, but I really love the overall idea of investing in early stage startups. Would like to see a section on who you are i.e. who is doing the investing, since money is not the only thing which make investors valuable.
Of course. At this point I'm not sure what this has to do with the code snippet mentioned upthread or the response to it. Your analogy didn't really convey why you'd think java allowing "String s = gridWrapper.get(0).get(0).get(0);" is a good vs bad thing, it just tells me that types don't protect you from everything, I think. I didn't find that the analogy added anything valuable and instead kind of simplified a problem that didn't need simplifying. The topic isn't whether type systems are valuable, but whether the positive value of java's outweighs the harmful logic it allows the developer to write.

A language like rust can prevent writing code like that, and thus prevent that sort of error, while a language like javascript is even more lax. Both have their tradeoffs wrt productivity and performance.
SB827 would have overturned zoning near transit hubs. It was shot down by a coalition of NIMBYs and Bernie-progressives accusing it of not being good enough despite acknowledging the existence of the problem. The upshot for me was making a donation to Scott Weiner's warchest - we need more new ideas and original thinking to get out of this mess.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/04/californias-transit-d...
There's a high density apartment right next to the famous Painted Ladies, and tourists still come: https://d2v9y0dukr6mq2.cloudfront.net/video/thumbnail/NYb7kU.... Most people aren't for bulldozing landmarks and genuine historical areas, but rather building on mundane areas like old laundromats: https://sf.curbed.com/2018/2/14/17012606/laundromat-2918-mis....
If your goal is to land a job with the skills you acquire, you'll need more than just solid basic skills. It would be helpful to keep abreast of new developments, where there might not necessarily be a lot of training material yet.

One way to keep up on what's new, is to watch the talks posted by security conferences. Speakers generally submit their freshest work, and are often playing their own game of resume-enhancement by getting their name associated with hot topics. So pay attention to not just the topics, but also the vocabulary around them...

A lot of the newest-fanciest research won't necessarily be within your grasp as a neophyte, but some of it will, and some of it will inform your direction and focus as you work your way up.

And some of it will suggest entirely new avenues, disciplines, and modes of thinking.
It's tough to adhere to that principle, but its nice to see as a focus. Python wasn't even object oriented originally (and a lot of their standard library shows it). Guido has said he wishes he never added functional concepts like map and filter. Deprecating things hasn't been taken too well by the community.
Take a look at this friendly graph of carbon-14 concentration in the atmosphere since 1955 for just one example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-14#/media/File%3ARadi...
How is this not on Apple? Surely a company with the resources that Apple does could and should have done more than just throw a new processor in the chassis and ship it. Instead, they went with the laziest approach and advertise the new specs knowing that they can't reasonably be achieved consistently.

Frankly, this feels like false advertising to me. If I'm going to drop $3k on a MacBook with a Core-i9 chip that flies, I better get what I paid for. And clearly people aren't.

They should've redesigned the chassis to address this, but instead they got caught shipping a subpar product. So "brave"...
I'm torn. On the one hand, much of this complaining seems a bit much. These remain pretty solid devices, albeit maybe not as world-leading as they used to be, and at a price point that is hard to justify based on features.

On the other, it's absolutely hilarious given the history of this community. Those of us with Linux-running Thinkpads remain ready to receive you guys. Seriously: it's pretty nice over here.
Inflation is not a tax...

Inflation also reduces the value of old debt in relation to current income.
"Mahattanization" is used as 4 letter word in local city council meetings and letters to the editor.
China-US trade war: will Donald Trump’s favourite MAGA hats be next?
I really wanted to like GraphQL but ultimately decided against it. It's one of those things that seems great in theory but when you actually start working with it you see all the warts.

The client libraries are too complex, there's too much magic going on, debugging is a pain, there's not a lot of native support in browsers and mobile devices. I don't want to step into the code of a client library I didn't write to figure out some simple query issue. It's no longer a simple matter of just an HTTP request anymore. It's not a pragmatic choice.
PHP only got this halfway right because it borrowed "." from Perl. It should have also borrowed "eq" instead of making "==" unusable.
> How can you still hold this belief after reading articles like this?

I think neolefty answered it very well. I guess i forgot to mention i also have lived in china and have a chinese wife, wich has taught me the same. Reading articles and watching the news teaches you very little about humans compared to actually talking to them, in my opinion.
The "Marin Nimby" spin isn't the full story [0]

Maps were drawn for BART in Marin showing stations in Sausalito, Mill Valley, Corte Madera, Santa Venetia with a possible extension to Ignacio. A 1956 poll found 87.7 percent of Marin residents wanted BART in the county.

Dreams of BART in Marin took another hit when San Mateo County pulled out of the plan, saying costs were too high. Additionally, San Mateo County had Southern Pacific commuter trains - which later morphed into Caltrain - to meet local demands.

With San Mateo out, the tax base to support the BART plan was significantly weakened. Marin's small population would not provide much tax base to support the project with San Mateo County no longer in the plan.

BART officials also worried that Marin voters - faced with conflicting bridge studies - might vote against the plan believing they might never see service.

"There was a big concern that Marin might vote it down and if that happened that could have killed the entire proposal," Dyble said, noting votes from all the BART counties were tallied as one.

With those concerns, BART directors asked the Marin County Board of Supervisors to vote the county out of the system.

"There is one significant difference - (San Mateo) withdrew voluntarily," Supervisor Peter Behr said at the time Marin withdrew in May 1962. "We are withdrawing involuntarily and upon request."

After that vote, Marin tried to get back in before the November election, but BART officials rejected the idea and the county was locked out of the system, Dyble said.

Without BART, the bridge district later started bus and ferry service to serve Marin commuters.

[0] http://www.marinij.com/article/ZZ/20100807/NEWS/100809186
There's only one way to truly understand another person's mind
Oh my god! Ban all nuclear reactors ASAP!!!

Just kidding. A regular banana is probably an order of manitude more radioactive than these wines.
Food deserts don't help either.

https://socialwork.tulane.edu/blog/food-deserts-in-america
Ironically low density neighborhoods such as the Sunset District are the few places you can actually get fiber in San Francisco. The grid streets of single family homes and above ground utilities make for an easy permitting process with little challenges. This is changing; but for years I’ve looked at my Westside friends’ Sonic.net Gigabit service with envy. I generally agree with your statement though.
I was looking at apartments in Marin.

Me: "Man I wish BART went up here."

Marin landlord: "Nope. We don't want those people here."
I think this vision of the future is a little too despondent for my first cup of coffee.
Have you or your gf been there for a while? Is the homelessness worse than before? I lived there about six years ago so I’m curious.
Does it make a difference? You are entirely free to dismiss my opinion. By the same token, does not owning a house in SF automatically lower the validity of one's opinion on demanding denser housing?
Then you need an additional USB-C to female HDMI of which are tons from various brands + the office's male cable.

Or you can get just the USB-C to female HDMI alone, and a standard HDMI cable for your monitor. You aren't going to be carrying HDMI cables around anyway.
>You have no right to tell people what they can do with their own property, unless it's harming you.

The definition of "harming you" in CA is far more inclusive than it is on the east coast and that is reflected in the local laws that restrict what people can do on their own property.
> Isn't this not so much an issue with the Macbook itself but with this generation of processors? Yeah, when it gets hot (and it runs hotter) it will throttle

CPUs have very specific TDP figures in their manufacturer datasheets, the problem is with laptop makers trying to cram too much wattage into a package that is too thin and light.
They've already tried. There's no interest currently for a 3rd also-ran OS, especially from a vendor that would be changing up the toolkit yet again.
Power doesn't corrupt
I'm kind of surprised that we haven't seen someone like google try to build a company town in another state where they just buy up tons of land, build nice homes/apartments for employees, and move their headquarters there.
Part of the appeal of Kindle for me is that I'm really shitty at keeping backups effectively.

Separate AWS account won't necessarily save you - if they can connect the two by name, address, credit card, etc. they're at risk. If you've got a business, having it under the business name might do the trick, but that's still a risk.
Those laws would be a great example of legislators being technologically ignorant. Optimizing for bursty behavior is not only acceptable, but is what you typically want. Even if you're a developer, your compile-edit cycle typically will be on the order of a couple of minutes of load, or less. Being able to ramp up to 4 GHz during that time and then rushing to idle is what maximizes performance within a given thermal constraint.

As to advertising, advertising the burst speed, with the appropriate caveat, is usually the correct decision too. Under full load, almost any modern laptop will get under 2 hours of battery life. Should they be advertised as such? No, that's a completely un-helpful metric. Under typical use, where the machine is idle most of the time, you will in fact get 8 hours or whatever of use.

Apple actually advertises these machines as 2.2 or 2.6 GHz machines, with "up to 4.3 GHz Turbo Boost" in smaller font below. This is actually probably deceptive (though in a way that is not favorable to Apple). In typical use, the machine will feel more like a 4.3 GHz machine than a 2.6 GHz one. (E.g. comparing it to your 2.6 GHz Haswell-era Mac.)
All metropolitan zoning decisions should be made based off of short-term trends? Were you around for dotcom?

Character and cost played a part in the early post dotcom techwave. They didn't start coming here for the jobs. They came here because they already had a job in the valley (with >70% low-density housing) and it was cheaper and hipper to live in SF. They slept on my couch for weeks while apt hunting. Then that wave required busing. Then some employers decided to move/expand in the city because workers wanted to be where it has hip.

I'd be happy to bring a bulldozer to Valencia or Dolores. Problem is, a few thousand early-adopter otherwise glibertarian techies will be the first to jump in front of it.

And for some reason, it's those baddies in the zoning department who refuse to adapt to the latest fad. To think of all the strip malls we could have had. Or that freeway running thru Hayes, the Panhandle and GG.

https://hoodline.com/2015/03/panhandle-freeway-revolt
Funny this comes up. I've recently become friends with someone who worked for Chihuly, doing precisely this.

They have commented on how the "technicians" put a lot of effort and research into turning Chihuly's designs into a piece of glass. They aren't just "cranking it out"; they're figuring out how the pieces can be made, in the first place.

This is without getting into personalties, beyond this rhetorical tease of a sentence.
Radiation from high altitude is a concern for frequent fliers and air crews.
1. No they didn't. They incorrectly used the word language instead of Kernel. Chrome Os is not built with Java.

2. Correct
you should definitely return those things. I've never heard of them firing their customers. I don't think Amazon got to where they are by offering a terrible service. And even if they do ban you, you can always go to a indie book store and there's plenty of other places online that sell books.
It was 2013.

Gateway was bought by Acer and stop selling online and sells (sold?) exclusively through third party retailers.

Support was decent though. The hard drive crashed and I had to ship the entire computer back to them.
Check out Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean.

Far less interesting a read, an article about how many molecules of Beyonce's breath you inhale with each breath. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/12/beyonce-breath_n_6...