skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to put a toll gate and slow everyone down to 15mph to collect a toll. Open-road tolling, such as in the Chicago region, can easily read a transponder (or a license plate) at 70mph. Some places have gone so far as to move to all-electronic tolling, with no toll booths (e.g., Mass turnpike).
Same old recommendations.

Some things to consider imo:

1. Using x as variable name can sometimes increase readability. For generic functions that are close to mathematics it is not a sin to use such variable names. Though way to often I get pointed out to rename it to something more descriptive. Longer variable names can also leads to worse readability since a linter will now make 1-liner split into a 4-liner.

2. Tests: "With increasing complexity your codebase will become much harder to maintain and control — tests will do it for you." Good intentions here but be careful. Tests can cause people not wanting to refactor/fix because now they have to fix the structure of the tests. Refactor means more than changing the implementation of functions.

3. "Commit daily,... . Give meaningful commit messages." I am starting to see a trend where PRs get squashed into one commit. Thus making such advice not very useful.
I have been there myself, thanks to some of my ex-wife's unexpectedly potent brownies, and it was miserable indeed - but I would call it a "bad trip" and not an "overdose". "Overdose" implies that one has ingested a quantity of the drug in question sufficient to create physical danger, and no such danger exists with marijuana.
Can it play Crysis?
I use RDF and standard open schemas like schema.org or VIVO-ISF, with local schema extensions as needed. The datasets I need to standardize tend to be things like scholarly research networking data or data about healthcare clinics and providers, which tend to be highly connected with some sparsely populated fields, both of which lend themselves well to a graph-based model.

Right now I use the Karma Data Integration tool (http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/karma/) to transform my source data to RDF triples. It can handle data in a variety of shapes, not just tabular, though it does struggle with say, highly-nested XML data. I want to try LinkedPipes ETL (https://etl.linkedpipes.com/) on my next project, whatever it might be.
Isn't it still a problem if people identify as users with a problem, users who would like to quit but struggle to do so? I believe it's the same with video games or porn or other "non-toxic" addictions. Even if it's healthy and useful for some, and not dangerous to anyone, if it's a negative habit that's hard to shake, public health should pay attention and study, and perhaps employ a policy nudge.
FTA:

> MessageBird sends a couple of extra parameters with each request, including a callID. When a new request comes in, we’ll make an API call to MessageBird, to verify whether this voice call actually happened and if it happened within the last 2 minutes. We also used the query parameters destination and source from the incoming webhook call and matched these against the data from MessageBird. This would make sure that only “real” doorbell calls would trigger Slack notifications.

This approach seems to be reinventing the wheel of validating MessageBird webhook calls. From their docs (https://developers.messagebird.com/docs/voice-calling#handle...):

> Each callback HTTP request is signed with a signature, a base64 encoded HMAC found in the X-MessageBird-Signature HTTP header. To ensure the callback is coming from the MessageBird platform, we strongly advise to validate its signature by calculating the HMAC of the callback and base64 encoding it. Using HMAC-SHA256, the HTTP body is the message and the token of the related webhook resource is the secret. Only handle the webhook if the computed value matches the signature in the HTTP header.
Love the idea of using ConvNets for spatial and temporal resolution interpolation.
If you know anyone that use https://duckduckgo.com/ or https://www.searx.me/, then you know some people who use Bing (at least indirectly). Also, some people use Bing (directly) to find porn, apparently...
The problem is that it's the UK and mobile coverage isn't exactly world class here. You can get more consistent and reliable coverage towards the Russian border than you can around London.
Yes, Debian is stricter in how they handle everything, including binary blobs. No, they do not refuse to distribute 'any not under a free software license' (there are contrib and non-free repos which allow for this) Where other distros often say 'whatever, we'll include it', Debian acts as a very useful canary when things like this occur.

I don't agree that it's unmentioned context: Debian is currently distributing prior releases of the firmware, Intel released new firmware and changed something in the terms, and the Debian packagers have a problem with the new terms. If anything the unmentioned context is that all too often distros/people just blindly accept changes in license terms where the Debian packagers actually read and evaluate license terms and don't just rubber stamp them. It's useful to everyone that someone is paying attention, even if one disagrees with the Debian position on a given issue.
The author wasn't suggesting JavaScript being an "adventure" was a good thing. If you build web applications JavaScript is pretty much a fact of life. This article provides pretty reasonable advise on how to make it manageable.
> now the whole world has to suffer

Bad example, since tar still works with a dash:

tar -ztvf foo.tar.gz

> Make is another famous victim of this:

Now that is a much better example.
You'd be in the know about one random thing, but there will be dozens of others, many of them also known to different subsets of people.

I'm not making an argument about the public policy of disclosure. My view is: if you come about the information lawfully, publish whenever you're ready.
Microsoft is fooling us. Where is the information about concurrency?
I tested Net Core the last year and I compared with .net framework. The performance was horrible (concurrent test).
Economically, that's pretty much what a gas tax does.
I've been lucky to find companies where I could honestly say, "look, I have managed (up to CTO level) and I don't like it, I know myself well enough to know that I will just try to find excuses to write code. I want to be a technical leader, not a manager." I think most sane managers can understand that. If they can't... NEXT!

I live in NYC and in the startup scene here (in my experience) young superstars get (demand!) a lot of attention but hiring managers are always stoked to find someone with some seasoning who is not averse to working in a startup environment. I try to be very upfront that I place a high priority on my family and I will not be spending 60-hour weeks in the office. As long as expectations are set properly nobody has had a problem with that.
People are complaining about price controls being relaxed (a bit) on fuel, too. Look at this[1]:

> Mr. Maduro hasn’t specified when gasoline prices may start rising. Some of his detractors have started to call his plan a “neoliberal” austerity package that undermines the socialist ideology long espoused by his ruling party.

I'm not sure the people would stand for what's needed to fix the problem -- they know they don't want the country in the destroyed state it's in, but I'm not sure they're all on the same page on what's needed to fix it aside from "less corruption please".

For the suggestions in the top-level comments that might just apply to subsidies, though. I'm sure allowing imports, exports (and international aid...) would be broadly popular.

1: https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuela-devalues-currency-and...
Prozac causes liver damage?
It's likely mostly for denoising, I highly doubt it can have enough power to perform both denoising and antialiasing. The ray tracing presented would be sampling and then use the model to fill the gaps.
I do smoke weed every day. I don't necessarily wake up in the morning and look forward to only that. Ya if I finish work after a hard stressful day sometimes I do look forward to it. But, I look forward to getting home, showering and eating dinner too. If I'm busy doing things where I can't I don't really mind and I don't really think about it or anything.

I would say my usage would qualify as habitual but in the end if I can't get some weed or smoke or whatever in a day or for a bit it's all good. Ya I know I rely on it for stress relief, helping with sleep and I honestly just find it enjoyable. I mean I also rely on coffee to wake me up in the morning, food and water to survive and generally many other things that either make my life better or act as a crutch.

But in the end, compared to other crutches people rely on, the impact of weed in my life is fairly minimal.

I know a guy last year who was addicted to coke who's mom ended up dying in the night because instead of taking her to the hospital when she asked him he wanted to get high and jerk off.

I've got a 25 year old cousin with pancreatitis because of his alcohol problem.

My brother's just finished rehab for his drinking.

I have a friend who came close to death last year.because.of her coke and crack addiction and basically fucked her life. She lost her job, her home for a while, didn't see her kid for months and it basically took ending up in the hospital for close to the tenth time last year, near death with the threat of permanently losing custody of her kid to finally quit after years.

I've got another friend who was recently prescribed seroquil and a couple anti-depressants for his anxiety over maybe one day having thoughts about walking into traffic. Last time I seen him he was bragging about the thousands of dollars he was making by double or triple depositing his disability cheques into multiple banks, both his short and long term memory seemed totally messed up he couldn't keep the flow of a conversation, had no idea what had happened only 10-15 minutes previous and he stayed at my house and spent all night awake staring at a wall hallucinating that he'd been watching tron 2 all night. When I got up the TV was off, the internet had been unplugged sometime hours before and he didn't have the TV remote. He had a job interview that day he did not make it to.

I dunno i've seen a lot of people abuse substances or even just need something to get by. In the course of my life, pot is pretty much the most harmless thing i've seen. I've watched people going crazy over lack of coffee, cigarettes and booze plenty. Never once seen someone doing that over weed.
NVidia doesn't make many cards. They mostly make chips. The "Founders edition" are an exception, but the mass market products are made by EVGA, MSI, and other such companies.

The fire-sales on EVGA 1080 Ti chips make it darn clear that there's too many 1080Ti and 1080 cards out there.

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/939592-nvidia-have-a-hu...

https://camelcamelcamel.com/EVGA-GeForce-GAMING-GDDR5X-Techn...

Second: these RTX 2080 chips have been in the rumor mill since June, maybe earlier. The fact that NVidia delayed until now is proof enough. NVidia has been stalling on the release of the RTX series.
FYI - I had to turn off UBlock for this site to load.
Not 2 million barrels / day[0].

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/venezuela/crude-oil-production
Oh I love it

[Gatwick has launched an app] for internal staff at the airport, such as shop assistants, baggage handlers and train station employees.
...
He says the need for the app stems from some passengers entering “panic mode” and expecting to get flight information from anyone who appears to work at the airport. They may approach an employee in a non-passenger-facing department who has no more information than they do.
...
“Passengers sometimes get more information from Twitter and Facebook feeds than from staff on the ground,” says Chacko.

“This is an attempt to bridge that communication gap and make everyone look smarter and more up to date.”

I wonder how well it worked today

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500269843/Gatwicks-Airp...
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/939592-nvidia-have-a-hu...

EDIT: Seems to be a citation from: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4182662-nvidia-appears-gpu-...

Alternative:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nvidia-results/nvidia-for...

>> Nvidia previously had forecast sales for cryptocurrency chips for the fiscal second quarter ended July 29 of about $100 million. On Thursday it reported actual revenue of only $18 million.

That suggests that NVidia has $82+ million worth of 10xx series GPUs laying around somewhere.
One folk wisdom is that pot (and alcohol too) unblock some inner mental states that the rest of your brain inhibits. So some people get high and forget their troubles, but some people get high and forget their coping mechanisms.
2080 Ti FE, 1259 Euros. All US companies follow this simple formula: $ to Euro 1:1, add 25% and then add 50-60 Euros for Free Shipping.
None of those countries have stable politics and economies, and certainly none of them have vast amounts of Oil Sands that require investment.

If they were like Japan, or Germany, or Sweden - they would get tons of investment.

Canada is the 'other country' that has vast Oil Sands and we get billions invested to extract it. The volatility is only in the market demand side, not the geopolitics side.
It's a good overall plan C.

But why does the data link itself have no fallback? An important data link should have multiple dissimilar backups.
What’s the license for this code? Looks cool! I’d be interested in creating a web interface for it.
No crypto currency that I know of has succeeded based on the utility of their proof of work algorithm producing something useful. Only proof of work algorithms in service of the currency itself have made an impact.
something available for firefox?
I know snap makes it hard if I want to modify something inside the package even as root (so it's close to the UWP nightmare). Is flatpack any different?
It uses 100% CPU, true but when the duration of the lock is extremely small (i.e. nanoseconds->microseconds) the total CPU usage is less than arranging for an OS level context-switch.
In other words, you use it when synchronising with hardware or when implementing test-and-set primitives for higher level mechanisms. Crucially, the time that the lock is held for must be very short.

Given those restrictions and use cases you get a very efficient low latency locking mechanism.
You can always decrease a batch size to fit in smaller RAM.
.NET core has several compatibility packages you can use.

However, once you have Web Forms in your project there is no way forward but to rewrite the Web Forms pages.
> I have been a highly successful software developer, approaching my later days of my career.

Somewhat unrelated question, if I may: why? I'm not much younger than you, and I've been doing technology (primarily what people today call 'devops') since the early 1990s, and honestly I enjoy it more now than ever before.
If the array structure itself were being modified, the "i < a.length" check would have to be done every iteration, but in this case there's no mutation of the array itself, so it's OK to move "a.length" to a constant outside the loop... and from there it's trivial to move bounds checks outside the loop (and from there: eliminate them entirely)
Emacs Org-Mode (4 years & counting) for daily work-related notes, design documents, conference talk notes, TODOs -- I'm happy with the default structure it offers (and I use checkboxes and related built-in features). And a plain white notebook and pen for ad-hoc design, diagrams, and other unstructured notes. My handwriting is pretty decent, if I may say so myself, and I appreciate the rotary motion from writing with a pen. I find myself writing on the paper more and more.
It has ddr6 - it will be quite decent albeit overly expensive/inefficient.
Your TDP figures are off

* 2080 TI FE is 260W

* 2080 TI is 250W

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080...
I feel like there is a hard limit on rendering tech right now. We saw 4k upgrades to the PS4/xbox and next gen consoles might be a way off.

I thought the gaming industry was waiting for hardware that would let you render Marvel movie style graphics. Things that just barely hit that uncanny divide; that would give the player comic book film style immersions.

The demo video they posted does look pretty impressive. Is this the generation of video cards that will take us there, or if not, what is the next big innovation in gaming/graphics going to be?
There's a dedicated core for it, called RTCore.
Contracts and assertions are definitely not "just like UML".
Yeah, it seems at the moment that there's no confirmation on to what degree they're actually enabled either. It may well be that NVidia will make them available for inference via DirectX so they can do AI based denoising and anti aliasing in games but artificially limit support in frameworks for training so as not to eat into the Quadro / Tesla markets. I'm holding off on ordering one until I see more info on that.
1v1 me
Lisp, Jazz, Aikido – Three Expressions of a Single Essence (2018) [pdf]
Hasselblad X1D review: 50M astonishing pixels
The effects on memory are related to the time since you smoked and are most noticeable after 1-3 hours. Basically, you get stimulated at first (during which time you may actually have increased creative problem solving) and eventually you get tired or "burned out". It feels a lot like low blood sugar which is why some people over eat. If you smoke a lot these effects can linger as a sort of hang over. If you smoke every day for years, it might last a few days.
> The version of AbiWord on Ubuntu was out of date and unsupported for a while

You can't blame distribution maintainers for not wanting to expose their users to a constant stream of the newest exciting quirky features the authors have decided to cram into the current release just to be able to keep on top of all of the bugfixes. New releases all also tend to implicitly have new or different sets of dependencies, and distributors have a duty to make sure these various dependencies that exist in their distribution can coexist and interoperate

Authors declaring whatever versions they no longer care about as "unsupported" is a rather unhelpful trait that ignores where their users are (distributions) and what a lot of their users actually want (stability).

I'm sure developers would ideally like to have users suckling at the teat of their latest tagged changeset and perpetually excited about the latest enhancements in each and every release. But really I'd wager that most people, of the ~20-30 applications and desktop components they use every day, by and large... they'd just like most of them to behave like they did yesterday - or last week - or last month - as long as it's reliable.
> Another nice benefit of minimizing daily THC intake is I have started dreaming and remembering dreams again. THC tends to suppress dreaming activity.

I had the same experience with increased dreams but they were just all anxiety dreams for a month or so, it was very unpleasant.
Amazon removes sitewide ad-free watching from Twitch Prime
For server on Windows, Linux and MacOS you'd probably sway .NET Core.

For client on Windows, UWP is .NET Core, and WinForms or WPF currently .NET Framework. Though .NET Core 3.0 is meant to bring the full set of Windows UI stacks to .NET Core https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/08/08/are-your-...

For Tizen you'd also use .NET Core

For client on macOS or Linux you use Mono

For games you'd probably use Unity (Mono based)

For iOS, tvOS, watchOS, Solaris, Android, Solaris, IBM AIX and i, BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD), PlayStation 4, XboxOne, WebAssembly you'd use Mono

Can still use Mono for client on Windows and the ASP.NET Core stack is quite happy running on Mono on the server; but they have different focuses.

If you were building a library you'd target the .NET Standard 2.0 "contract" and it would cover all the runtimes.
No, from INT4 to FP16. Inferencing can get nice boost.
Yes, but Cepheids are calibrated, fundamentally, by parallax. (I believe that no Cepheids were actually close enough to be calibrated directly by parallax, at least until Gaia, so they had to be calibrated by other techniques which were, in turn, calibrated by parallax.)
"The gnawing feeling of discomfort is not a bug, but a feature designed to force you to act."

We all have a lot of feelings. Very few of them are unambiguously helpful and I would hesitate anyone from assuming certain impulses are purely good and should always be obeyed.

For many people, there is a need to "turn off" certain persistent feelings because they can't be sated otherwise. Some of us would simply like to be able to relax without those "gnawing" feelings bothering us, because we know our lives are successful and fulfilled beyond the point where we should be experiencing frequent discomfort for not taking constant action to improve our situation.
Uber here is going from being cell phone app developers to making automotive hardware

But why would they do that, instead of hiring other developers? Surely Levandowski would have an idea of who to hire.
For me, it's around ~45-50fps@4k for a good set of games, and often ~100-120fps@144hz for me.

1000$ is a steep price for the 2080TI, although depending on the 2080 performance it might be the only card which can and will continue to reliably hit 60fps@4k.

Not upping ram with such a huge price increase is absolutely absurd.
> My library lets you do parallelism in a unique way

That's a big claim which you don't really back up as much as you need to. Unique is an extremely high bar in this very busy field.

There are several other similar red flags on the linked GitHub; I think your enthusiasm is running away from you a little. You might want to dial the ten-dollar language back a bit – it made me immediately suspicious ("utterly perfect", for example is another danger phrase).

It's the combination of grandiose language + solution-in-search-of-a-problem which leads to that.

If you're going to sell hard, what I would want to see is a large, complex, high-traffic system which makes extensive use of this; if you compare and contrast with Ray, which I've also only just encountered in this thread, there's a real problem (distributed hyperparameter optimization) which they've built a solution for with the library, and that immediately lends it credibility; I know the system can be used for something because it has been.
>I wish OpenAI would be completely transparent as to what's emergent behavior and what's not.

Totally agree with you here. This would also help actual DOTA players to analyze what is truly emergent behavior that might open new doors to high level play styles, and what is just weird coaching/niche optimization choices by the OpenAI team.
Startup School 2018
When should we expect to be notified as to whether we've been accepted into the Startup School program? The course begins in a week, but applications were due last week.
That's opposite of what I've heard.

The phrase I've always heard is "Time in the market beats timing the market".

Of course, it depends on who you listen to.
Will the new Mini have a T2 processor for secure boot and disk encryption?