skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course. But the baseline stack of hardware and software for RS232 is (or at least can be) significantly simpler. USB and Ethernet are nightmares by comparison, and that's before considering the additional protocols that invariably sit between those low-level transports and your application.

For a project idea I've been considering how to attach a sensitive (but powerful) machine to the network with the smallest possible interface (in terms of code exposure). RS232 is probably the simplest yet still functional without getting into niche hardware standards.

On balance I think USB might be worse than Ethernet[2] or even Ethernet+TCP/IP just because typical network stacks have probably seen more scrutiny than USB stacks. But at the end of the day I know I'm going to want to use something like seL4 to protect the application from the transport stack(s). And even then you still have to worry about the hardware. There's a real dilemma in choosing the simplest hardware that is still viable in terms of performance, support (including ease of porting or writing drivers), and long-term availability.

[1] Assuming a simple ethernet controller with all the fancy features disabled or, ideally, not even present.
I also think bootcamps are not very selective once you get in. In my experience it's very hard to fail out of them and there's a huge amount of hand-holding. Compare this to a CS101 course based on SICP and it's easy to see how CS degrees select for people who are able to thrive when thrown into the deep end.
I imagine the first step is to get them running on manually vetted routes.
Sure.

My Perspective on the OS:

MacOS philosophy is to hide/remove all or most settings and hope that the default ones will work for you out of the box. I love to tweak everything and MacOS feels too packaged for me. There is not enough freedom for the advanced user to change things. Also, The OS feels so commercial and made for the masses. this is a personal feeling but I cannot help it.

They do a very good job for the normal user that only wants to use a couple well defined apps though.

As a developper:

I mostly develop Linux infrastructure code (backend and low level). As such, using MacOS means that I'm constantly into a VirtualBox VM (which sucks compared to KVM or anything else) or trying to build stuff over SSH. I spend hours opening SSH tunnels, or mangling with port forwarding inside my VMs.

Then, I like to run containers. Docker support for Mac is pretty much basic (or I should call it horrible).

So at the end of the day I am using MacOS as a glorified web browser and SSH terminal. I never took the time to learn the low level working of MacOS, and I also hate that every standard linux tool has been slightly altered to make it almost unusable if you are used to the Linux version. (netstat, lsof, ... are a couple examples)

Basically I want to get control back on My OS.
Lately I've been noticing this with Facebook. It is interesting that in its early stages, my perception of Facebook was that it was a very well built site. It seemed simple, clean, loaded fast, etc. It seemed particularly lean when compared to Myspace. Without really delving into the details of exactly what is happening today, I definitely perceive the web app as being slower. Obviously it is delivering a ton more images and video but nonetheless the experience seems slow. The ios app on the other hand still feels very performant to me. I think their handling of video is really impressive.
I have a thinkpad T470(Fedora 28) and T470p(QubesOS) that runs Linux just fine. Without any driver issues. The battery life is excellent once you install the tlp packages.
Play Kerbal Space Program and try to build a plane. Once you understand the forces operating on an aircraft during flight, you'll be considerably more relaxed. In short, you learn that while it's real hard to get a plane to fly, it's equally hard to get a (structurally sound) plane to stop flying.
Reading without cookies or JavaScript enables seems to fix every problem the NYT has.
Ah Similar to I learnt to read at 4 or 5 but look me 3 extra years to pass the basic English language O level (normal taken at 16 or 15 )
> Maybe businesses have tried the plaintext approach, and their business was improved by adding fonts, stylesheets, API calls, spinners, scripts, high-res images, and god knows what else.

All i can say is that I work at a small-ish multi-million dollar business that got bought by a very large multi-billion dollar business. Our site has become very, very bloated due to everything that our parent corp wants in the name of 'making things better'. I'm not saying we are stagnant, but those changes really haven't increased our bottom line in any significant way. We now spend more time and dev resources supporting a site with much more 'bullshit'. Real business decisions, ones that benefited the customer, are where real increases in value were seen.

This of course is anecdotal, but I've never really heard the opposite.
What do you mean by "bloat is on the mobile side"?.
How time affects learning
Can't speak for QC35 but my QC35 II do ANC without anything playing.

Construction earmuffs plus ear plugs usually are effective enough to kill almost all normal sounds.
I cannot buy any argument along the lines of "maybe it's just bad UX." Amazon has the resources to study and hire the best UX people in the business. There is no excuse for them having a UX problem except that they don't want good UX.
I’d love to know if anyone here has done a deep eval of Citus vs CockroachDB. They seem to be the two most promising solutions for horizontal scale-out Postgres and both are under very active development.
There's nothing embarrassing about it; I'm yet to see a WordPress based site which was able to withstand the Hug of ackerNews, though SuperCache should have helped.

For a WordPress site, yours is slim and very fast.
Your snake game doesn't even have food for the snake to eat? The snake just grows without eating, until the head collides with the tail somewhere? Pssh, amateur hour...

/s (Just kidding this is actually super cool.)
NBA first league with betting sponsor, has deal with MGM
Yeah, but they’re delivering something so far from what was promised to get funding, and from the bulk of their patents that DNF is a better comparison. They promised the world, photonics magic, and they’re delivering a strikingly sub-par HoloLens.
> That, plus the fact that China will just pull the plug on any American business gaining too much traction.

So did they? We all know why Google and Facebook isn't in China, but as far as I can tell I don't find similar conflicts regarding companies like Amazon and eBay. The consensus online seems to be that they have been failing in the Chinese market by their own hand. Which does sound pretty plausible considering they aren't even that good in Europe.
I don't get it, I though the whole purpose of typescript is to prevent things like that?
Wait they published an entire blog post and held a press call to announce they "removed 32 Pages and accounts"? Seriously? 32? It's a start (and I'm glad to see they're laying down some precedent) but who needs fancy algorithms and machine learning to find 32 bad accounts? You could find that many by hand by spending a few hours on Facebook.
I disagree that the AMP cache is the main benefit of AMP. There are plenty of CDNs that give performance similar to, or better than the AMP cache.

The only benefit of AMP is that the pages are promoted higher in results.

Back to the main topic of the article, the same could be said for the desktop and the mobile phone. Developers and framework builders are constantly adding bloat as cpu/memory increase. Since most people aren't writing their own frameworks and many are importing large parts of their apps from npm/gems/etc, everyone gets hit with the bloat. It's a vicious cycle for sure.

It's a shame that so many open source authors add bloat into their packages in exchange for popularity. They want all the users so you get tons of code that's never used in 90% of projects.

The big example of the above is express. It's a terrible cycle as the vast majority of people learning JavaScript have hopped on the express bandwagon and are now creating APIs with mediocre performance by importing a massive webserver they often do not need.

Overall though, it seems to show that most people prefer convenience over accuracy and performance (passive aggressive stab at mongo?)
Get professional help.

A specialist in EMDR [1] told me that typical traumas (and, I believe, phobias) go away after 8 weeks of treatment.

The key difficulty is getting the patient to show up for treatment - many will fight tooth and claw, and many others will find themselves too drained of energy to make the move.

[1] http://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/
Sure, but first let me have you talk to my PM who got this request for an obtrusive popup from our lawyers.

Designers don't want stupid popups all over the screen. Designers don't want half the bullshit that's put into sites these days. Our hands are tied. It's rarely our decision.
Brain game doesn't offer brain gain
BTW, there's an interesting backstory on how MCP ended up being Tron's villain: Bonnie MacBird, who co-authored the story with Steven Lisberger, is Alan Kay's wife and Alan Kay was working at Unisys (or Burroughs) at the time she wrote it, as well as being an advisor to Lisberger and his partner and producer Donald Kushner.
Steven Johnson on “Spacewar” [video]
Your math does not add up.
It is
1 * (6.6 + 3 * 5.9) + 3 * (5 + 3 * 5.9) == 92.4. Unless you are speaking about approximations obviously.
'Propaganda campaigns' is a bright-red handle that the same propagandists you're trying to excise from your platform can use to jerk you around in the court of public opinion. I have no trouble understanding why they would not want to use it.
Everyone selfishly optimizing their bottomline ("let's earn a bit more by including extra JS analytics bullshit", "let's save some time on our end by making a million people waste a little bit of electricity every pageview") - each initially reaping some short-term benefits, but together ultimately turning the web into the shitshow it is today.

That's textbook tragedy of the commons.
It's a (fairly) standardized, robust, and trusted way of peer-reviewing data and results. Without some mechanism like that, there's no easy way to tell if Dr. X's results are as well peer-reviewed as Dr. Y's, at least as it currently stands.
You may be interested in an app called HyperSwitch. It lets you tab between individual windows of each app! There’s also opt-tab which will cycle through individual app windows.
> The tone of your phrasing suggestions specifically that capitalism is directly correlated with fraud. If you didn't intend to make this suggestion, I can understand your consternation to my rebuttal.

But not enough to not be defensive about your reading, it seems.

> To my point in that article, the 'evidence is everywhere' as illustrated by the broad availability of information to support my claim.

Oh. That's not a metric I find compelling.
Is there anything specific you are looking for?
What's your definition of "as fast"? We can't separate BQP from P right now. That is, we don't know any problems that run in polynomial time on a quantum computer, but provably have no polynomial time classical algorithms.
I guess-estimated the numbers from several angles.

What I came up with is that a single occupancy (i.e. one person per car) cost will be less than $10/hour, which is competitive with public transport ($2.50 (subsidized) bus ticket in San Francisco, assume an average 15 min ride).

And it would drop significantly when sharing (2 to 4 people per car) or when deploying mini buses (they cost more to build and operate but can carry 12 to 16 people, like Chariot buses).

And in the longer term (10+ years) they'll be even cheaper thanks to mass production of cars, transitioning to electric cars, continuously improving reliability of cars based on analyzing what breaks most frequently, contracting own solar plants for cheapest charging etc.)

The obvious conclusion is that not only traditional taxis and uber and lyft are done but also buses because it makes no sense to subsidize them with hundreds of millions per year (for San Francisco) when private alternative is cheaper and better.

You can see my full reasoning at https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/ac23f6cdd3b543b3b89d9f68... and https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/e79db1cb2fcf4329ac37591b...
Museum of ZZT
OK, so, a monopoly on social media. But so what? You don't HAVE to use social media. It's not like having a monopoly on energy, banking or telecommunications, for example, where you can really put people over a barrel.
Any closed back headphones with music. (I use the beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro)

Without music get construction or gun range safe ear pro (if you can still hear anything through that it’s quite likely that it’s coming trough your desk or floor, and no I’m not kidding).

I wouldn’t recommend ANC headphones for day long usage at least from my personal experience I did find them to cause some issues with my hearing over a long period of time.

I’ve been using Bose QC for 10+ years they work well but I limit their use to the tube and flights only these days after about a year of permanent 8h a day use I’ve noticed some hearing loss most of it returned after a few months of not using them but ANC isn’t magic it does put quite a bit of sound pressure on your ears.
They most probably know about the keyboard shortcut to paste.

Linux' "Select to copy + middle-click to paste" just saves a lot of time, and has the extra bonus of being a clipboard parallel to the one accessible via traditional copy-paste shortcuts and GUI menus.....
Did you consider blogging or writing a guide about it?

There is a mismatch on information about the 9570 with chunk of informations here and there if you Google a lot, but nothing definitely well written yet.
I’ve become terrified of flying over the last year or so. I know planes are over engineered and essentially never crash from even the most severe turbulence. My fear is specifically around placing my life in the hands of a random pilot who may either be suicidal or “zone out” at a critical moment. The GermanWings flight and (very likely) MH370 were brought down by suicidal pilots. There have been other incidents as well. The AirFrance flight a few years ago was brought down by the flight crew spiraling into a panic. Plane designs are already crazy safe and get safer all the time. Pilots scare me. I can’t wait until we have some kind of pilot less plane.
Apple earnings will be all about the forecast: Live blog
In my field (computational biophysics), it's pretty common practice to post published code on a git repository. Code used to produce published results absolutely should be accessible.
My goodness, why would you want to work anywhere that has employees who are making suggestions like this.

'The smokers take too much time on their break, you should take that away from them.'

Talk about a busybody who should mind their own business and focus on their own issues. Taking breaks is very important, it prevents burn out and stress. What you do on that time (ie: smoking) is your own damn business. Anti-smokers (and ex-smokers) are the worst kind of fascists, always trying to pry away your rights and freedoms.

Note: author is not a smoker
In my (sub)field, this is not generally true. It's not generally the case that final conference papers are the same as the ones put on arXiv six months before.
FYI from the VMware Workstation Player FAQ <https://www.vmware.com/products/player/faqs.html> they state:

> VMware Workstation Player is free for personal non-commercial use (business and non profit use is considered commercial use). If you would like to learn about virtual machines or use them at home you are welcome to use VMware Workstation Player for free. Students and faculty of accredited educational institutions can use VMware Workstation Player for free if they are members of the VMware Academic Program <http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1033638>.
Tricks I use:

1. Think about how many takeoffs and landings happen every minute around the world, and how little you hear about plane crashes. Similar to your random trick.

2. Investigate all plane crashes in the last 20 years and understand if they can happen again today.

3. Understand that everything on a plane has a backup. EVERYTHING.

4. Understand that you WILL die from other things at a 99.999% probability and that you should spend your CPU cycles avoiding them instead. More people died of sickness caused from flights than from actually flying.

5. Understand that turbulence is COMPLETELY natural and has nothing to do with crashing. It is almost impossible to crash from turbulence. (see here: https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-plane-crashes-due-to-tur...). You are more likely to crash from turbulence due to pilot error who doesn't know what to do in the case of turbulence, compared to the turbulence itself causing the crash.

6. Choose the best airlines, those that you know they will do whatever they can to increase maintenance of airplane parts (which can incur material fatigue over time).

7. Think about the fact that people who fly for a living (e.g. flight attendants and commercial pilots) don't live less than you. Well, minus the sickness stuff.
> NYT needs to know how long you spent, on which articles, etc. They need data to produce the product and you can only achieve that with javascript tracking pixels (Server logs aren't good enough).

Nonsense. I subscribe to the NYT so that I can read the news. Nothing about that necessitates tracking which users read which articles.

If the NYT uses page view data for anything other than statistics for their advertising partners, it's a shame. I don't want the NYT to tailor write their articles to maximize page views, time spent, or any other vanity statistic; if I felt like reading rage bait fed to me by an algorithm personally customized for all my rage buttons, there is plenty of that elsewhere.

NYT's differentiating factor is that they are one of the few businesses left that pays people to conduct actual journalism. If they give up on that, then I imagine their customers will just go to buzzfeed or wherever.
In fact there's been several news stories about extraterrestrial planets over the past few years, since we're finding more of them now. But the ones we hear about focus on things like "can they support life". There is nothing per se wrong with playing with the math and playing with models and trying to get a sense of the space of possibilities.

Where I get crabby is when the whole process is condensed down to the level the title is at: "Plate tectonics not needed to sustain life". No. The level of confidence expressed in those words is utterly unjustified. We have perhaps a trace more than absolutely no idea. That trace is scientifically valid and I do not begrudge some planetary scientists fiddling around. But we must not place excessive confidence in the results.

The inability to practically proof the correctness of a computer model does not mean it is scientifically valid to then just assume they are correct!

To put it in local terms, that's exactly as valid as expecting a programmer to just type a few thousand lines of code into an editor, compile, and deploy to production with no further testing required. Because, in a fairly real way, this isn't even a metaphor, this is precisely what making such concrete predictions off of an unproofed computer model is doing. Being unable to test the correctness of the code does not therefore render it correct. I am reminded of the classic quote "On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." by Babbage. I am not able to apprehend the confusion of ideas that produces this concept that if we can't test the model, we are justified in assuming it is correct. To my understanding of science, exactly and precisely the opposite is true.

(Incidentally, I also consider the phrase "Plate tectonics are necessary to support life" to be completely unjustified! Our one sample of life-supporting planet has plate tectonics. Our own solar system is at least suggestive of the possibility that plate tectonics across a long time period may be rare, but no more than "suggestive" without a lot more data. Given the very-slowly-increasing evidence that life may be rare in the cosmos, it is suggestive that rare characteristics of our planet and the rare characteristic of "life" may be connected. We have some plausible-sounding theories as to why plate tectonics may be helpful. But we can not say absolutely "they are necessary for life" by any means.)
It's the zeitgeist. HN aggressively self-moderates, the actual moderators have a light but objective touch. With exception to a few characters, I've chatted with people here who have not only changed my beliefs but also changed theirs. The community believes in scientific rigor, but also share illuminating anecdotes.

You can't distill HN into a formula. It is the sum of the participants.
They should have some of the all electric 20k Jaguar Ipaces they've ordered operational by then.
But nobody can figure out anything useful that those algorithms would be good for.
I use a pair of Sony MDR7506 headphones. They’re meant to be used in a studio setting, but they block out enough noise if I have music or white noise going and they are relatively comfortable. Plus they sound pretty good music-wise. They’re also relatively cheap (normally around $100 but I got mine for around $80 on sale).
Personally, when I fear things (like every time I fly) I have this very simple mechanic for dealing with it: welcome what's coming.

In the case of flying, I accept that these could very well be the last moments of my life and it's too late to get off/turn back now and I'll be damned if I'm going to sit there and spend my final moments suffering and wincing in fear. I relax my body, take a deep breath and try to suck in every bit of life within me - I enjoy myself and everything around me in the moments before (in my head) the plane crumples into a smouldering wreck. Hell, what an experience - to die! You only get to do that once. Twice if you're lucky! You might as well embrace it with open arms! I turn my excitement into curiosity. I rationalise that I'm here now, and I've trusted this pilot with my life, and if it was a mistake, so be it. What will be, will be. Que sera, sera!

Once I put myself in this mindset everything becomes a breeze.
> Moby Dick is a book, written by 1 guy and maybe an editor or two. NYT employs 1,300 people.

Totally irrelevant. Why should the number of employees in the company have any bearing on the size or cost of the product? Ford has 5x as many employees as Tesla. Should their cars be 5x as big or 5x more expensive?

> NYT needs to know how long you spent, on which articles, etc. They need data to produce the product

They may want this but they don’t need it. They successfully produced their product in the past without it.

> If Moby Dick was being rewritten and optimized every single day it would be a few mb.

Irrelevant and likely false. If anything, books and other text media tend to get smaller after subsequent editing and revising.

> A better comparison would by Moby Dick to the physical NYT newspaper.

Comparing a digital text product (Moby Dick) with a digital text product (a NYT article) is as close as it gets.