skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought about building a Hackintosh, but the issues around having to put up with non-working hardware (sometimes WiFi, sometimes Bluetooth, etc.) is off-putting to me.

I've reached the point where I think maybe the mid-2015 MacBook Pro Retina is the pinnacle of their development. While I could build something that functioned better in some areas, the overall package just wouldn't quite measure up.
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"Intervention in the economy was also a move employed by Chavez - who was, and still is, well loved by the country. Price control was implement so that the poor would not starve"

Chavez set into motion that which Maduro continued and is the primary problem creator.

Chavez is only beloved by some because he had massive Oil revenues to bribe the plebes with, and he left others holding the bag of the destruction he created.

'Price controls' are a very temporary and ultimately destructive way to do anything and certainly will only guarantee more economic destruction thereby making things much, much worse for everyone especially the poor.

Maduro is responsible because he resided over the continuance and embellishment of stupidity. He could have ushered in some responsible reforms, but he did the opposite.
The guidelines also say:

> please use the original title, unless it is misleading

The submitted title there was far closer to the data than the page title.
The number of users reporting regular use doesn't necessarily mean more people are using

I feel much more comfortable talking about useage now that it's legal & more socially accepted, but legality did not influence the frequency of useage for me or the friends i knew who smoke weed
I second that Dave's weekly email is great. And Matt is now back at NSHipster so we'll get some cool new shiz!
The contents of legal documents is authoritative in this situation. Not tweets by spokespeople.
No he couldn't. First, the temptation to escalate is there and real. Second, if there is a chance that the homeowner will be armed, the burglar might just as well arm themselves, too. It's a cycle of fear and violence which becomes so ingrained in population's psyche that they don't even consider the world with lesser stakes.
Are you sure your neighbor wasn't running a grow op? I've never had a strain that wasn't tamed by two Ziploc bags, and the packaging that comes from the legal recreational shops are effectively odor-proof.
Great idea for teaching in schools. I wonder if this works with Minecraft's Education edition? [0]

Its nice the readme goes into detail on some lesson plan ideas. Global warming is such an abstract problem and if you can tie it to individual's behaviors inside a (small) simulated world, it can be a very powerful teaching tool.

[0] https://education.minecraft.net
-self-harm glorification

-bad porn

-signal boosting for political rants

-faux moral intellectualism by social justice warriors

-cyber bullying

Let's not?
There is a little note in there re: the employees:

"Carson explained to GrowthLab Live recently that the four-day workweek he had for his employees was ultimately nixed in 2016."

And I generally agree that a CEO in particular may struggle with this, which is why I give his personal statement the benefit of the doubt. Beyond that I would expect some sort of actual data to support any other claim about the business as a whole. This article implies a lot and delivers essentially nothing.
This headline really needs an Oxford comma.
I had worked quite a bit with Angular 1 (first "real" front-end framework I learned), and some jQuery before that. I found the React/Redux/JSX stack to be really quick and easy to pick up. The simple component API and minimal use of magic helped avoid many of the headaches and quirks Angular 1 was riddled with. React/Redux is the most painless front-end stack I've ever used, makes writing web clients much faster.

My only real complaint against the modern React/Redux stack, is the crazy amount of boilerplate involved, even with a "minimal" project.
The Texas and Louisiana coast has most refineries in USA.

To my knowledge there are no refineries in Galveston which is a tourist spot (at least for people in texas). There are refineries in near by Texas City.
Not a book, but an overview of networking by Gary Bernhardt:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/compendium/network-protoc...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14468471
Whether it's substantially better for deep learning depends on whether they chose to neuter fp16 like they did in all other consumer GPUs. The main bottleneck is not actually the size of the model per se (sizes of the models have been mostly going _down_ as of late), it's the size of the batch during training. Both batch size and model size determine the size of the main memory hog: activations that you need to keep to do training. You don't need to keep activations to do inference: you can discard them after they're fed into the next layer. So it's not entirely accurate to say that this is useless for DL. What could make it totally kickass for AI would be a proper, non-neutered implementation of fp16, similar to what you'd find in P100, V100 and (surprisingly) Jetson TX2, which would effectively double the possible batch size, which in turn leads to quicker convergence. It could also halve the model size as an added bonus. This is NVIDIA, however, so I would bet good money fp16 is still neutered in "consumer" SKUs.
What if the subject of a prediction market is a matter that is subjective and/or politically charged? Suppose, for instance, the question asked is "Is the Trump presidency a net positive?", or something even more seemingly factual like "Did Hillary Clinton commit a criminal offense?" or "Is there a correlation between race/gender and $desirabletrait?". Not only will reporters' votes likely correlate with their political affiliation, but even the incentive structure is not aligned with producing the truth if we only grant that people assign nonzero monetary value to their tribe's status rising (as would happen if a prediction market agreed with it).
Yes, you are missing something.
But is it really?

Elevated blood glucose, as in Type 2 Diabetes, has LONG been known to be primarily driven by excessive production of glucose by the liver due to liver insulin resistance. In fact, the way that the drug metformin improves diabetes is by shutting that pathway down.

http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/50/8/1807.short

Thats not dietary, thats the hormone insulin being ignored by the liver. This is further complicated by the fact that peripheral tissues, like muscle, are themselves insulin resistant.

The TCF7L2 pathway has been shown to be down-regulated in all of these tissues in diabetics.
It still means more guns in the society and, correspondingly, more death. The externalities of arming yourself with a gun are just too high to justify it.
Cannabis in both cases works well for a great many people.
I've never even heard of the BDS movement until this comment, which is possibly a reason why PepsiCo didn't take this seriously.
Aa EOS is already leveraging WASM, do you know if they implement any hardening against these? I know they use wall clock measurements for some operations.
Was this challenge specifically made for the Boring Company? Not that I'm being all conspiracy theory.
Depends what you mean by 'needs'. The combination of dedicated ray tracing acceleration hardware and APIs to drive it with some remarkable advances in denoising, in part driven by deep learning plus associated dedicated hardware, means that we are at a threshold where hybrid techniques that mix rasterization with ray tracing are viable for games and can advance the state of the art in real time rendered image quality.

That certainly doesn't mean real time rendering is 'solved'. We could certainly use another 3 orders of magnitude compute performance (and more) if we had it to get better visuals. That's pretty much always been true for graphics though.
Would you really apply this to any deviation from people interacting with each other, for any length of time? Spending time alone in mediation hardly seems to qualify.
I definitely agree with your statement, however..

Solo - the guy that is the captain of Virtus Pro, was at 4k for the longest time. There's more to dota than just mmr.

There are players at 5.5-6k range that still do not understand the basics of team play, but are just extremely mechanically gifted and are in great gaming shape.
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> The US currency is backed by the US economy, due to it being legal tender (i.e., form of payment) for all debts governed by US laws.

This is true. The demand for US currency is driven by demand to access good and services (or even to exchange to other currencies) denominated in USD.

> the Fijian dollar is roughly half the value of the US Dollar, but Fiji has one of the smallest militaries in the world. It's value holds up because you have to spend FJD in Fiji for commercial transactions.

These comparisons aren't useful. A comparison of USD to another currency would need to fully account for quantity of currency in circulation, and the liquidity (transaction volume) in exchange markets. Generally speaking, comparing currency values in USD is not useful - it can be more useful to look at purchase parity (how much it costs to purchase the same basket of goods in another country), or size of economy (e.g. measured in USD).

Edit:
Another way to look at things is that it doesn't matter how much a currency is worth in USD. What matters more is the rate of change of that exchange with USD. The faster the currency devalues against USD, the less quickly market participants can adjust and effectively "price" good and services, leading to the currency's further collapse and potential abandonment for a more "stable" currency.
A radical idea, lets all go back to blogs, hosted and owned by ourselves, on our own sites, which will enrich only us, and where you can write as long and as short as you want, and link to whatever you want.
There's Marathon's Galveston Bay refinery but it's technically closer to Texas City than Galveston island itself.

Then there's Enjet on Pelican Island but they don't have a refinery on-site if I'm not mistaken.

It's a topic I'm well-versed in, hence why I asked about Galveston.
So, what, your initial comment had truthiness even though it made a complaint based on not reading or misreading the article?
CBD has been demonstrated to stop seizures, so it does have some use. That said its possibilities are likely way oversold.

Here's a very cool example, if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ybu-_tDXb8
> it is way too expensive for regular gamers

Gamers arent kids anymore. Amongst my friends that game, most are nearly 30 working excellent jobs in software.
Gmail and every other webmail vendor should block all of these by default. That would be a nice hit to all these "new" drip campaigns (aka personalized spam newsletters).
I have a 2013 NUC that I used as a desktop PC for a few years. What I found nice is that it came with its own VESA bracket, so I could mount it on the back side of my monitor to produce something that looks like an all-in-one PC or iMac.
The pot doesn't nag you, just sayin.
The only statistics I ever see cited are those of the American Society of Civil Engineers, an interest group with a vested interest in increased infrastructure funding. I'm not hostile to the idea that we should spend more on maintenance, but I agree that we need some data from a less obviously compromised source. And that is setting aside the problem that increased funding has self-evidently not resulted in better quality of infrastructure. Kickbacks and corruption are rampant in that sector, a fact made clear recently in my hometown and county, which has seen a raft of corruption indictments and convictions related to public works projects over the last few years.
For benzos: There really is no drug alternative to benzos other than maybe SSRIs but most people perscribed them probably tried SSRIs in the past to no effect. Your other alternative is extensive psychotherapy, which your insurance is unlikely to cover. Perhaps in the future marijuana, MDMA or ketamine might prove useful.

Benzos generally require you to taper off them, as I believe the withdrawal side-effects include seizures. You cannot safely "cold turkey" them.... so I hope they don't get all heavy-handed with them like they are for people who rely on opiods to treat chronic pain.
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You're imagining something akin to the autoland disconnect scenario for a jet liner, and you're correct that, in the absence of expert operators who are prepared to take over immediately this is often fatal. Which is why the jet liner has not one but two people specifically standing by to take over and try to land safely without the autoland. [ This is still scary because usually the autoland is trying to put the plane down in very poor visibility, and it is disconnecting because you're below decision height but something so bad went wrong that it's no longer able to land the plane - a human pilot may not be able to make whatever that bad thing was survivable either ]

The auto-land disconnect scenario isn't applicable to cars. It happens because jet liners are _flying_ and suddenly ceasing to fly in a jet liner is both very bad and perhaps unavoidable in the absence of enough information to operate the plane within parameters.

In contrast when a car becomes uncertain about what to do it's not flying so _stopping_ is almost always a good choice. It's not ideal, it may block traffic and be a nuisance, it might even cause a small accident of some sort - but it's very likely to end with everybody walking away, not with a burning wreck and dozens of dead.
Why You Can't Unlock a Car Door If Someone Is Trying to Open It at the Same Time
Software Engineering.

Data Science is a useful skillset for everyone to have, but the majority of the work in any practical data science role is in getting the data in the right place, in the right format to do the data science. This makes it such that most small companies can't actually support having a full time data scientist who can't also write code.

You have a good background in stats and ML - use that with practical experience in SWE to make your skillset more useful and broadly applicable.
Of course, for inferencing assuming >100 TFlops on float 16 and >400 TOPS in INT4 as demoed by Jenson would be awesome for already trained/pruned models. Though for training I am not so sure, even V100 have rough edges in doing that with TensorFlow. And for model size - I guess it all depends on area in which are you are focusing; I run out of memory all the time these days even with batches of size 1 :(
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I hope the result is to broaden distribution of SodaStream refill canisters, and lower the price due to economies of scale. I'm not holding my breath though.

I've never tried soda flavor packets, but I enjoy carbonating fruit-infused water (watermelon and strawberry are great) and white wine (for cheap but surprisingly good "champagne"). Just be sure not to fill the liquid all the way to the line when using anything other than water!
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The rig was in the basement of his summer house, secreted away from the prying eyes of the SEC, until such time as he had enough petros to get his hands on sweet Bolivarian crypto-crude.

(The point being, it's neither clear how the US government intends to enforce its ban, nor who in the US would be buying oil with petros anyway...)
`do_not_honor` is a code that's returned by the bank—it's super annoying because banks don't provide insight into why they're declining. The best way to find out is for the customer to ask their bank.

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> And of course, my Lorazepam was prescribed legally, by a responsible, well regarded psychiatrist, with very little warning regarding how quickly one builds both tolerance and physiological dependence on this chemical.

Sorry to hear that. Mine told me to take at most 1mg no more than once a week for that reason. Seeing what that quantity does to me, I can't imagine dosing at that quantity or frequency (obviously you acquire a tolerance, but still).
I'd bet on the cooling looking something like the Apple TV 4K's does:

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple+TV+4K+Teardown/97511#s...

At least since it's not a handheld touchscreen device, you can take it apart and replace stuff. It even uses Torx screws! But there's not a lot of discrete parts here, just the power supply,the motherboard, and the fan.

Once upon a time the Mac Minis would have let you replace the RAM or disk, but I'd expect it to look like a similar similar power supply + motherboard + fan in a box.
Schizophrenia incidence goes up with IQ from average, as does high functioning autism and bipolar disorder, the only health conditions that increase as you go up in IQ (all others decrease or aren't affected).
If we began taxing externalities to reflect actual total cost to society, consumer behavior would change real quick.

My only concern is that we are too far down to rabbit hole with cheap, ubiquitous, damaging materials that if the true cost was reflected in the price no one could afford anything.
Have you heard about the EU single market? "Single" here is marketing speak for "one".
Agree - Looks like Apple has listened and they are working on a new modular Mac Pro machine : https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/apples-2019-imac-pro-will-...
It did affect certain people, though, like movie actors like Ronald Reagan. His stated rationale for supply-side economics was that back during WW2, him and his peers would do 2 movies/year and then be done working, because doing a 3rd would put them in the top tax bracket and the government would get all the money.

https://toomuchonline.org/the-tax-that-turned-ronald-reagan-...
As someone who grew up outside the US, I sill find this attitude really bizarre. In Australia, if you can't afford to pay your employees a livable wage, then you are not a businessperson, you are a thief. You are taking money that your employees earned and putting it in your own pocket. If you can't afford to be profitable otherwise, then you shouldn't be in business. Why is it the general public's responsibility to pay your employees salaries? Saying it's not possible to stay competitive is a complete cop out. Zazie in SF has been around for more than 25 years if you need an example of a restaurant with sustainable business model that treats its employees fairly and doesn't expect their customers to tip.
> While a tax seems like an easy fix, it may also cause the government to come to rely on income from plastic acting as a deterrent to law-making which discourages the use of plastics.

I don't know how common such a thing is, but in Washington state if a tax is labeled as a "fee", it must be earmarked for a specific purpose. If we put a "plastic fee" on products packaged with single-use plastics, and then mandated the raised funds be used to clean up plastic waste, that could be a good way to avoid that very likely outcome.
We filled its need.

Edit: actually we can just lop off the problem instead.
The medical thing is an interesting cross-over though -- if a nurse walks into your hospital room because your name is on the outside and administers an injection that kills you because you were accidentally put in the wrong room, whose fault is that?

For the CS/programming side of it -- do you really know what you think you know? A smart form should let you put in house address and ZIP and look up the rest, but frequently developers think they know more than they actually do, and it's not a bad idea to have the user confirm or possibly override the information. Depends on the situation, really.

https://www.sharecare.com/health/managing-your-health-care/w...
Great info in here, pushed me to buy the book after I got through this version, definitely keep it on my desk!
No, same vein. I think I would waste much less time if I had no access to Internet at home, mostly because when I'm bored or tired, instead of turning to Netflix/Youtube/Reddit/etc I'd have to find something else to entertain myself. It could turn out I'd end up finding something equally mindless, but my suspicion is I'd read more books. As you said, for when I do the internet, I could simply find a library or cafe.

What's hard for me to anticipate though is how much harder it would be to do things like shopping, or the occasional video call into a meeting.
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Main takeaways, in my view:

- Longer form allows for less heated conversation

- Allowing randos to emplace their screeds immediately below your post encourages fighting

That second point I think bears more exploration. Maybe we shouldn't allow trolls to inject themselves into every conversation, eh?

My favorite format for post/discussion is still the blog format, where comments are moderated by the author of the post. You want to post something the author wouldn't allow on their post? Do it on your own blog. (Dreamwidth, main successor to Livejournal, has this property as well.)
Cannabis derived treatments do seem promising... someday.

Imagine that marijuana is (at a minimum) federally rescheduled to schedule 2 in the US. How long will it take to research canniboid-based painkillers once drug companies can legally do so? How pong for FDA approval?

It will be a long time until there is an alternative that is taken seriously by anyone other than the most progressive physicians in the realm of cannabis, unfortunately.
Yes, I'm only talking about "non-hybrid" GI - I.e. what is needed to play a game looking the same in terms of detail, sharpness etc. as a rasterized game does today, at 4k/60 or 2k/144, but using path tracing.

Hybrid (shadows, reflections only) already works today and looks pretty impressive. But just a rough guestimate of how many more rays/pixel we need to play a AAA game with PT only? I'm thinking 1000 times.
and yet, most everything came in glass until about 25 years ago..
Unfortunately it does not support Education Edition, but you make a good point in that this could be a great teaching tool. I have a good bit of Climate Change related content that I can try to integrate more into the game play itself.

I'll add education edition support to my roadmap. Thanks!
Opinion: Stop with the selfies, experience WONDER- especially at the observatory
I want to buy one of these devices but it seems risky and difficult to do so.
Benzodiazepines are a useful option for the short-term management of acute anxiety crises, but there's very little evidence that they're useful in the long-term. Clinical guidance in the UK says that they shouldn't be prescribed for more than two weeks, because the harms rapidly outweigh the benefits. There is good evidence for the efficacy of SSRIs and CBT in the treatment of anxiety disorders.

Opioids are a more difficult problem. Some patients do need opioids, but we're not sure which. There is some evidence to suggest that opioids may worsen the long-term prognosis for many chronic pain patients. We need more research and better availability of psychosocial interventions and physiotherapy.