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we are NOT moving away. In fact, for all its faults, conda has been the most pleasant experience. We publish our own internal packages as conda packages.

I was commenting about manylinux becoming an official PEP - https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0513/ - could eventually end up supplanting conda.

I wish they had adopted conda itself. Because manylinux was clearly inspired by conda.

"Instead, we define a standard subset of the kernel+core userspace ABI that, in practice, is compatible enough that packages conforming to this standard will work on many linux systems, including essentially all of the desktop and server distributions in common use. We know this because there are companies who have been distributing such widely-portable pre-compiled Python extension modules for Linux -- e.g. Enthought with Canopy [4] and Continuum Analytics with Anaconda [5].

Building on the compatibility lessons learned from these companies, we thus define a baseline manylinux1 platform tag for use by binary Python wheels, and introduce the implementation of preliminary tools to aid in the construction of these manylinux1 wheels."
There's a relevant xkcd here:

https://www.xkcd.com/1232/
Elsewhere, flagged off HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17604933
Unfortunately Granny's Garden is not available freely due to publishers denying permission to do so.
The Harvard blog simply makes a statement without actually providing the proof.

And there's also the point that calories that "leave the body" aren't really calories consumed.

So if a portion of the raw caloric value of something gets expelled through waste because we aren't really able to process it in time, then it's not really a consumed calorie.

A large portion of the rage against Calorie In Calorie Out is really about our ability to accurately measure calories in any fashion.

We make estimates about the caloric value of a food because the means by which we can measure it is destructive. And we assume that every calorie that enters our body stays there until used as energy. Which may not be true either.

And the WebMD article specifically mentions that the low carb group was essentially stressed the whole time. And it's a study of 21 young people who lost 10% to 15% of their body weight. That's 10 - 20 pounds of an average person.

This guy lost weight eating 1800 calories of twinkies a day. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/chewing-on-the-...

I think this is a much more interesting experiment as twinkies are roughly uniform. There may be some caloric variation, but none so great as to be relevant. Plus, the overs and unders should average out.

So watching the caloric content of your food is always a good idea if you're looking solely to lose weight. But instead of trying to figure out how many twinkies you can eat in a day, we should be trying to find out which foods we can eat a lot of and still maintain a caloric deficit.
Maybe he should skip one of his 6000 hour workweeks, or stop reading ten books a day, or stop taking bailouts from taxpayers and cloistered billionaires for all his unprofitable dreamscape startups. You know, just chill.
Do you think you experience emotions differently than other human beings? It seems really presumptuous to say you love somthing more than others ever have. Presumptuous and insulting.

Furthermore, i think alot of people would say sacrifice is the greatest display of love, and I would bet a whole lot more parents have sacrificed a whole lot more for their children then anything you have sacrificed for for dog.
No, I'm not. Both are business health indicators, with revenue being the more important one, since you can be sustainable without being profitable. However, when you operation on a _loss_ your revenue is not sufficient, and Github has been running a loss right up to when MS bought them.

While having no profit does not imply you have insufficient revenue, running your business at a loss absolutely does. So: wanting another company in the same space to have the same kind of revenue profile is extremely questionable; you want them to have a sustainable revenue model, and the ideally on top of that, be profitable.
Documentation, for anyone wanting to get started: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/bigqueryml-intro.

(Disclosure: I'm on the BigQuery team)
GitHub Pull request reminder with highly configurable hooks and templating
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Have the hard copy, fantastic book.
Thanks for the link. That looks interesting; I'll have to give that a try. When I started reading the link my first thought was Pex from Twitter. I don't know how comparable XAR is to Pex but it's worth a look to compare the two.
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What I can advise against is repo partitioning prematurely. I have been on multiple teams that have thought "Oh this will be a common library for all our projects" or "this is a sample project" or "this is the android version and this is the iOS version" and split projects up into different repos, only to wind up with crazy dependencies between repos which have fallen out of sync or require another repo to be on a specific branch/hash to work correctly, causing all kinds of chaos. Split your repos by dependencies, and once your system architecture is kind of fleshed out. Just use branches on the same repo until then.
I've had a cat sleep on my chest, and my son sleep on my chest. They are both very grounding and calming experiences.

I suddenly wonder if imagining a cat sleeping on my chest would help me sleep.
>both goals are valid and possible within reasonable means.

I thought that was the point zimablue was trying to make.
I found fast.ai the best resource for learning ML/DL out there. So, while I'm not associated with them in any way, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it as a course for anyone interested in learning more about ML/DL. Not sure that would count as marketing if I were to do so...
> The practice of securing government grants and not creating much wealth from them has a long history.

This is true, it does -- in Congress. (Pork barrel spending, logrolling, etc.) However, in the executive branch, this is unquestionably a new phenomenon.
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I work with Nathan and he showed me this the other day. Nice to see it here. Make sure to to check out the code and write-up if you're interested.
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I have been really happy with ReadCube. It's kinda clunky and awkward in some places, at least compared to Papers, but it works very well. I'm a happy paying customer.
So are planetary risks. They give the name to "astronomically unlikely". But while cancer might not kill everyone at once, it's going to kill billions of us.
The name of that ship gives me the impression that Elon (or someone in SpaceX) wanted to name it RTFM but had to compromise.
This is an extremely approximate answer, so I won't follow up.

> Yeah, just 4K at 200mbps (GH5 and co) and 10bit color, 6MP snapshots from video, 5 axis image stabilisation that's rock solid, sensor-shift 40+ MP images, much better low light, and so on.

None of them has nothing to do with the sensor quality in a strict sense (dynamic range/color resolution/low light sensitivity).

I've personally done real-world tests with old and new sensors (difference of more or less 5 years), and the generational advantage has been significantly lower than the previous 5 years.

In particular, the "low light" is far from being "significantly better". On paper, in best cases, the best sensors from each mirrorless, including Fuji, have gained more or less one stop.

In real world, less, and I've tried it.

> Analog cameras image quality didn't have ANY difference in a 5 or even 20 years timeframe, so there's that...

Irrelevant.

> Err, Panasonic for one has several cheap models with essentially the same sensor as GH5.

They're not the same. With the vague term "essentially" one can make any argument.

> MFT does not exhaust mirroless (which is what the parent spoke about).

This is a fair point, but the slowdown applied to all the other mirrorless as well. Probably the most interesting/significant improvements have been the X-Trans sensor, and the A7S; the former probably made, in the respective segment, the largest difference.
Don't forget about the whole "include what you use" problem. There's a static analysis tool for that but of course it's a hopeless proposition for something as powerful as headers (despite no one ever needing that power).
according to wikipedia, zotero was first released around a year before mendeley
If you look at it on a map, it's pretty ambiguous where to draw the lines to make islands. I think in a geographical sense, Sea Island could very well be considered part of St Simons.
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I specifically said comfortable buses. I most certainly have taken long distance buses that were not comfortable.

Train focused people need to get over themselves on the highway system. That is what path dependency is. Of course, as a train loving person, I wish the automobile industry hadn’t played so many dirty tricks to get us to an investment posture that makes passenger rail irrelevant, but pretending it’s not so doesn’t help.

Pretending that Americans aren’t happy to pay (whether through gas taxes or the occasional new-construction-over-maintenance boondoggle) for highways and local roads is a fantasy.

Americans, on average, don’t like trains. My wife, specifically, refuses to let us travel by train anymore, she hates them. It’s very sad for me, but my wife’s perspective is shared by the vast majority of Americans. They like cars. They like airplanes. They don’t like trains.
The US spends a disproportionate amount on healthcare because its system is privatized. Healthcare is cheaper relative to the degree of nationalization, as your own data shows. Switzerland and Germany are closed to the American model (although not as bad) and cost more. You specifically said “tax and spend,” not just spend, because you reduce costs with societal-level economies of scale. Of course you spend more in a privatized system - you have a bunch of vultures trying to profit off people at their weakest and most vulnerable.

Education in the US suffers from a similar problem because of its patchwork and variable system of state and federal funding, much of which was specifically designed to disadvantage the poor and minorities.

All your data points show is that privatizing and applying inconsistent distribution regimes to what should be public goods makes them more costly, less efficient, and produce worse outcomes in aggregate.
The article is like it's headline copied and pasted twice. Does "tech jobs" mean jobs at "tech" companies or does it also include tech jobs in finance, telco and government? Most of those are also in Toronto.
> Not in absolute terms

Well no-one is saying that Toronto is better than SV "in absolute terms" either. Just that more tech jobs were added.
Does this imply that the driver's license becomes invalid and must be replaced with one in the new date system?

Real question
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Probably the same effect that a heavy blanket that increase the production of serotonin and has a calming effect.
Nobody heard of Savannah?
These pictures from home are great to see on a California morning! It really is a special landscape and I'm glad to see it getting some attention.

I was extra excited to see the pictures of the Satilla River since it's a blackwater, something I feel like a lot of folks are unfamiliar with [0]. It's a really interesting feeling to swim or float down a blackwater that is clean and pure and full of fish and turtles pecking against your legs but whose tea-colored waters don't admit even a yard of visibility through.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_river
I'm pretty sure it's a Banks reference
> Most applications can usually handle a maximum of 8 threads efficiently

I just wonder if I'm in the minority running more than one app at a time. Specifically, a dozen apps that are never closed and just stay in the background until I need them. Even more specifically, listening to music on YouTube while working in the IDE, wherein the browser pops up regularly on the CPU usage chart.

For the same reason, the norm of 4 or 8 gb RAM is baffling to me.
> The writer must be 12.

Not a useful insight. Compare to me starting a comment with something like "The parent commenter must be an octogenarian." It doesn't actually add anything to your thesis.

> The last transition, in 1989, is squarely in the middle of the information age.

I, and others I'm sure, would argue that 80s were in the earlier half of the information age, especially if we mark it not by time but by number of systems built.
It looks to be more of an "island" than an island. I mean, the piece of water barely separating it from the rest of Georgia is called a "creek", for pete's sake.
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Some suddenly become accomplished artists or musicians with no previous training
Unfortunately, they compete for the same funding.

We have a much more pressing issue than either: lack of working antibiotics...
Cancer unsolved does not cause too many issues (it is a terrible disease nonetheless), while solving third world medical problems is mostly matter of goodwill and logistics (and comparatively cheap).

But if we hit a new resistant superbug... That will decimate everywhere, everyone. Think plague combined with malaria.
Talking about multidrug resistant strains of bacteria. If just one becomes reasonably virulent we are really out of luck.

We need something new to have in reserve.

Basic research as done in cancer research may or may not help.
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Cancer isn't one disease, it's dozens, each with different causes.

For example, almost all cases of cervical cancer are traced to HPV infections...so the research into the HPV vaccine arguably did more to reduce future cancer cases than research into cancer has. Further research showed that HPV can also cause a number of cancers in men (though at lower rates), which is part of the justification for offering the HPV vaccine to boys.
Interesting read, thanks! The deflection about xoshiro is not particularly convincing, though. It's much more likely that you'll want to multiply your random stream by a multiple of 57 than you'll want to xor it with a 43-bit-shifted version of itself. He also doesn't appear to counter the complaint about the generator getting stuck around 0: http://www.pcg-random.org/posts/xoshiro-repeat-flaws.html

The other parts of the post definitely concern me about using the PCG's described, though. Also, it's interesting to see how PCG can be predicted. I would not have known how to attack it.
> 1) Somebody creates script that activates and runs django and commits it.

You can call the python bin inside the virtualenv and it will run as if the virtualenv was active:

venv/bin/python -m foo.bar

Obviously it doesn't work if devs used different names for their virtualenvs. Work has a convention to always use the same name so this works pretty well.
These are all under powered computers, nothing to do with being google product installed on them(you can just wipe the OS if you want). In India, you can buy higher spec windows computers cheaper than chromebooks.
The ageist comment seems unnecessary. I've been on the 'internet' since the 80s as well, but I don't think of the internet really taking off until the 90s, so I understand what the author's comment was conveying.
I didn't mention XML for a couple of reasons:

1. As others mentioned it can be pretty verbose (especially with doctypes and namespaces)
2. Potential security concerns (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Pr...) although that doesn't matter so much if the configuration is trusted (not always the case though) and can be mitigated if you know what you are doing.
AFAIK no, HT siblings do not get a lower priority. The core's resources are shared equally between the SMT threads. Operating systems that are SMT aware try to avoid this sharing when possible (a non-SMT-aware OS could schedule a pair of runnable threads on one core while another core is idle; a SMT-aware OS would use the idle core instead, so both threads get a full core for themselves).
"What gives you so much faith in charities?"

What gives you so much faith in a random person who happens to have money?

"What do charities know about being efficient that other people don't?"

Most of those people have been working with the problem that the charity is tackling a lot longer than some random rich person. Seriously, this statement sounds so much like the, "What makes you think that people who have actually studied the issues know about those issues" sentiment that is going around in the political sphere, and not in a good way.

"Having that status doesn't inherently make you a force for good."

Neither does being a billionaire.
This may be outdated now, but I read a lot of canine behavioral research when I got my (late) dog about 16 years ago. She was a white German Shepherd Dog named Stella, and I miss the hell out of her. One recurring theme was a dog's role in their "pack" (in the case of pets, the humans and other pets they live with).

A dog who understands that their owner is the "alpha" will bark as a warning to them. Example: It was recommended that, if a dog barked at the door when someone knocked/rang owners praised their dog—"Good warning, thank you!" (and maybe a treat)—and then re-engage them quickly with another command ("sit!") if you choose not to investigate. They'd ostensibly come to learn that their single bark was their job.

I did this with Stella, and whenever someone came to the door, she barked once, ran to me, and sat down, because she learned I may or may not answer it, and her job was done. If someone was lurking, she'd bark, run to me, go back to where she saw the person, and if they were still there, this would repeat, regardless of praise. It stood out as unusual, and research suggested that that's what she wanted me to know. "This is different, boss! Come look!"

I used this concept in all her training and interactions; humans were her betters, and I was her alpha. Pack animals (it was said) got anxiety when the pecking order wasn't clear to them. That anxiety causes all sorts of what we call "problem behavior" (barking excessively, chewing/scratching at the door when their human leaves the house, rushing through open doors, etc.).

She was the most loving, fun, hard-working, peaceful, well-behaved dog I ever owned, and I believe it was coming to view our family as (from her canine perspective) her pack that made her training and integration into our lives such a success.
> For reference, Opportunity Rover has only traveled 45 km/28 mi in 14 years.

That's actually much further than I expected - Curiosity has traveled 11 miles in 6 years, it's surprising to me that Opportunity has a faster average pace (not that it's necessarily a hugely useful metric).
CBRE is an unreliable source for tech talent market news.
Made this with one pen stroke.
https://imgur.com/BbK2AG3
So now we've seen a few Steve Jobs stores like this, including the one from John Carmack. A recurring theme is that Steve is such a bonehead that his underlings have to do things to "manage him." Whether that be doing things behind his back, withholding information from him, controlling who he meets and talks to. You also read about people working insane hours to complete things which probably didn't merit it, just to please steve's whims.

Since there's a cult-of-personality around the guy, I think it's important to remind everyone that these behaviors are actually signs of poor leadership. If you work for someone like this, don't! You're better than that.

Not saying Steve Jobs didn't do great things. But let's all agree he accomplished them in spite of these flaws, not because of them.
It's only surprising to those who do not know ASCII codes off by heart, from using the VDU statement. (-:

The BBC Micro had what is called a "bit-paired" keyboard.

It also had copy cursor keys and a reset key.
Yep. I have no doubts than in such a situation my golden retriever would dive behind me...I love that little derpy bundle of love. Not that anyone expects a Golden to be a guard dog.
Meanwhile in Europe the Asian hornet spreads like wildfire...
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Well, unless we outlaw reproduction without government approval we will hit the limit of what the planet can support as far as human life.

Unless we start recylcing 100% of our materials we will run out of various elements we use for production of effectively everything.

Commercially available sea salt has been found contaminated with microplastics, that means are oceans are already screwed so envetually it would be nice to have a new world to do things right on.

Opening up space opens up more physical space for humans and other life, it opens up more resources for construction (asteroids contain unfathomable amounts of rare and common elements that will be easy to exploit once the appropriate technologies are developed).

Space exploration will continue to add more and more technological and general scientific breakthroughs as it has been now for several decades. Look how GPS has changed the world, it's used in everything from tracking wildlife to your watch to moving goods around the world. Literally impossible if we'd not developed a space program.
The original article [1] is, in many ways, clearer than the economist's take on it and avoids political diversion.

They summarize Baumol's theory for entrepreneurship as assuming that the total amount of entrepreneurial spirit remains fixed, but, for structural reasons, some of it can get channeled into unproductive rent-seeking behavior (like getting favorable regulation).

They then say that their empirical work (three decades of data so more than one recession in there) shows that there is a decline in new firm formation, "in each state and nearly all metropolitan areas, and in each broad industrial sector, including high tech."

According to Baumol, this should be offset by an increase in "unproductive" behavior. This appears to be harder to measure, but they point to [2], which argues that both labor and capital (i.e., returns to shareholders) have been in decline.

This is all very complicated from the perspective of innovation and entrepreneurial endeavors in tech, where money is often lost despite the fact that the product is useful.

[1] https://hbr.org/2017/06/is-america-encouraging-the-wrong-kin...
[2]https://home.uchicago.edu/~barkai/doc/BarkaiDecliningLaborCa...
I never worked for the guy but sure seems like he had a knack for hiring and inspiring world class talent. I'd work for anyone with that ability.
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