skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your response - I 100% agree with your assessment of the situation.

Ps. I wish I was able to write as well as yourself.
I've just been using the little squirt bottles of water flavoring (Mio, Dasani, and a number of other brands) with our SodaStream. Works like a charm for me. They tend to be fruit-flavored but that's what I prefer anyway. Just shoot them in your glass, not in the bottle.

I find it easier to get the variety that way - don't have to commit to a flavor for a whole bottle & no need for multiple bottles in the fridge.
Yeah, nearly 12MB for a single hero image is kinda silly.

Added: One trick I have used for large photographic cutouts is to use svg for the mask, and either embed or reference the lossy image (jpg) from there (gzip settings to undo the expansion factor of base64 are not too slow, so sometimes embedding is okay).
I really hope that the next generation of AMD Radeon have a good performance and their efforts to port TensorFlow and others works.

AMD need to put on NVIDIA on the same heat that Intel got with the Zen architecture.

NVIDIA is too comfortable, with a very high price and crazy demands ( you can´t use Customer cards on Data centers)
Why even bother? Mvc5 still works well, and will continue working well for the years to come. Is there a pressing need to migrate?

I’ve decided to wait it out.
I personally think that even if you want to be good at data science, you should do at least 2 to 5 years of software engineering first.
So many data science people are basically throttled to death in what they can achieve because of their subpar software skills. Software is a multiplier of your math knowledge.

Source, I have a math masters (statistics, ML).
>"a company that can produce a really great and well-proven drug is not going to make more money than a company that produces a shitty drug that is also approved for the same condition."

Yep, there is only a weak mapping between FDA approval and actual drug usefulness.
Stanford has a free online class Introduction to Computer Networking through their Lagunita site that you can take for free. I've worked through part of it and very much enjoyed it.

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Networking...
Lookup AmoebaNet-D if you think you don't need a GPU farm these days. Those were times when 1-2 GPUs were enough...
µBlock Origin did not factor in for me; I just had to temporarily trust `subtchallenge.com` in NoScript.
Trump actually signed an executive order banning American's from purchasing the cryptocurrency.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59jzyn/president-...
It didn't really, though. That's the marginal income rate, not capital gains -- it's a tax rate for an empty bracket. It was super effective wartime grandstanding which is still fooling everyone decades later.

Capital gains -- the rate the upper class actually pays -- has never risen above 35% at the federal level. And that's within a few points of 2018 marginal rates when we factor in state level taxes for places like California. The tax moved from federal to state (or to earmarked federal, like NIIT)

Capital gains:

1945: 35% federal + 6% state = 41%

2018: 25% federal + 3.8% NIIT + 13.1% state = 41.9%

Prior to losing SALT, wealthy Californians paid slightly lower marginal rates than in 1945. Trump's changes cause the current marginal tax rate for wealthy Californians to be higher than in 1945 -- the year you're calling out as a peak.

No one really paid 94%.
It could work, in democracy, if everyone is issued the same amount of "tokens". If it works with real wealth you have a recipe for disaster.
NYU and Facebook team up to supercharge MRI scans with AI
Thanks, it’s a great point and I think I just didn’t feel comfortable asking frankly. What are the typical arrangements? Hotels expensed?

do you think a series A/B firm would be open to this?
AutoML and automated architecture/hyperparameter search used by FAANG, producing things like AmoebaNet-D, that beat all previous state-of-art results.
>at the expense of outputting joyfully easy to follow code.

You're not really suggesting here that Objective C is easier to follow than Swift are you? ^*(retain, release, etc) [] ;. The language is filled with characters that make it a challenge to read imo.
You need not be worried about that, I'm not trolling. I am definitely being churlish. Yes it's associated with Johnathan Swift but nothing in the association is in the slightest similar to the style of Swift's essay. The names match? So what. It's still completely pedestrian. From the wikipedia page - "In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.". That's just not the case here.

You're right, it would be like that hypothetical article if you both made up a clever title involving perl and casting and the modest proposal thing was particularly clever. But it's not, so that hypothetical rather begs the question.
Intel has addressed the issue. It was a misunderstanding on Debian's part: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17801931
Starting the title of this article with the word "Beer" is misleading. A neat trick, caught my eye.
I recall last year, I spent every evening eating something like 10mg - 30mg. It was awesome at night to sit down, eat a little bit of cannabutter and finally sleep.

I've had constant insomnia since I was probably 8. I only sleep 4 - 5 hours a night. I feel rested typically and energetic mentally, but physically it would flair up my allergies, eczema, etc. When I moved to california, it was the first time in my life I consistently was getting 6 - 8 hours of sleep.

During that time, I held a full-time job, was promoted to tech lead, delivered a major project, and was working on a side business. I honestly think it helped me achieve those things to the extent it helped me sleep.

Then this year I moved to a new state (where it isn't legal). I stopped smoking without any side effects, had a kid, and now I am sleeping 4 - 6 hours again. Allergies are bad, eczema, etc. and I'd love to start smoking or eating it again; as it definitely helped. However, here we are where it's not legal, and I'm trying to abide by the societal rules (even if I disagree).

Often, society doesn't really know what's best.
Tracking is just one of the many reasons why it should be considered common courtesy to communicate in plain text (and attachments if necessary).

My email based workflow and toolchain has been plaintext only for years and I think I've been better off for it. The recent efail vulnerability just made me shrug. Plain text mail is all around more reliable, more accessible, less obfuscated, more to the point by the nature of the medium, easier to implement [...].
Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Autism in Offspring
Ask HN: Switching to embedded development
Switching to embedded development what are essential skills? Can one do it without C++ and with C and lets any other like Java. What is the market? I assume salaries are not as high as web?
Ok well I'm out to lunch then, I read that somewhere but can no longer remember where.
Lucky you! Head over to /r/nvidia and read which games just can't cut it on 4k@60 Ultra.
I went back and forth between a full Linux desktop/laptop, and in the end I moved my environment over to the existing Windows 10 gaming PC with WSL(Windows Subsystem for Linux). Its been awesome. Now I get two full usable environments on the same machine, without missing software that only runs on mac/windows. I just can't deal with my aging 2008 mac pro anymore, and whatever new Mac Pro that comes out will be something so ridiculously priced, that it's not worth it anyhow for most pros.
> need to have office in all major EU markets

So, one?
No high quality source of hydrocarbons goes unexploited for long.
> 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.

Isn't the entire point of tests that you can refactor the code under test without changing the tests themselves? Otherwise how do you ensure that you have not introduced bugs in the code by doing your refactor because you've changed the thing that tested the code in the first place.

A refactor of the tests should be done independently of the code under test.
> there is less good competition in the field of DataScience

In my experience, it is probably easier to differentiate yourself and proof your worth by producing great products in software engineering.

Data science is overrun at the moment by everyone chasing the hype. So it is kind of hard to proof your worth by producing great data science, you just will not be heard among all the shouting of people, sub-orgs and consultants trying to sell their latest deep learning model for a data-set that would fit on a floppy disk (okay, that was exagerated, a zip drive).
Text-only version: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=636845604
For what is worth, they have been very clear about that kind of stuff in their blogposts and interviews. It just happens that the information is a bit disjointed due to that format.
For a major sports team it can be as little as twenty years. For the Olympics, two weeks.
Was there some incentive from government then, was there some kind of deregulation or some other kind of regulatory change? Why would this subprime lending begin in the first place do we know?
He kind of has a point.

There are mutations in microbes all the time that allow plastic digestion, probably millions every day.

Only needs one that really punches through.
Depending on specs this might work for me. I'm on a 2013 iMac but I don't want to replace it with another iMac because I need (and already have) a second monitor to connect my work laptop to. I'd love something with the power of a current (non-pro) iMac. Don't know if that means a top of line mac mini or a bottom of line mac pro.
Amazon paid $361 million in income taxes in the last two quarters. They're now a profitable corporation and will pay taxes as every other profitable corporation does. And given the rate of increase in that profitability, they're going to start paying billions in taxes annually.
Having first child soon, and i'm thinking big picture about stuff like this. I remember growing up in the 90s , running around neighbor all day until the street lights came on. It's true, we had gameboys (not iphones) so there were some screens we looked at. But i didnt get a cell phone till i got a car. When we went out for dinner as a family you would play with the placemat and crayons. now you just shove an iphone in a kids face and let them use all your 4g data on youtube while the parents stare at their own iphones in silence.
Agreed. There should be a mitigation cost associated with all plastics. Nothing more frustrating than buying a container for some food that will last for millennia meanwhile the food was consumed in a couple minutes...

More generally, I hope more will push for taxes on all things we want to discourage as means of weening off. Oil, coal, plastic, high impact animal products. All of them have huge external costs, none of which are payed by the consumer or producer directly.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5576603/
What are the approximate gains from the last gen, i.e. 1080->2080 or 1070->2070, for a non RTX enabled game? Would be speculation at this point I assume, but just based on clock freqs, mem bandwidth and the number of units on the chip?
The solution is developer tools to conceptually split the target environment and their running environment. GNOME-Builder is an example of this.
Supporting AI in the Enterprise
Did you notice the '' quotes?
You know what would have made developers happy? Regular refreshes on the cheese grater tower. THAT IS ALL ANYONE HAS EVER WANTED. Nope, we get a trashcan that is over priced, can't be upgraded, and also still gets zero updates.
That's the trap. If they want to succeed they have to accommodate a wider range of use-cases but not without complicating the product line-up.

The problem is that phones are a way bigger deal than computers. If they made but one laptop model it'd be ridiculous. Having one or two phones isn't a big deal. Twenty or, like Samsung in its heyday, two hundred is a problem.
Its not, its only different than Snap which is centralized. Their comment implied that Flatpak was too.
Put an i9 in a shortened 2013 Mac Pro case and I think that would work well as a pro-focused Mac Mini.
I use marijuana every single day, either via a vape pen, a dab pen, or drinking it. I don't really count topical use but you can if you like.

Something I see many people fall into is expecting the high to be something, or, to do something for them. This expectation will lead to resentment and feeling let down by the high (possibly much worse when you go seeking a "stronger" high) when the user really went in with no intention in mind. With no intention in mind you will end up doing nothing, much like having no intention in mind and going into a social network only to emerge 2 hours later not feeling satisfied.

Unlike several of the comments here I found that I was more social, more active, and more willing to take risks in all aspects of life than I would when I was sober. It has led to a sustained and growing yoga practice, which also led to something of a "spiritual" side I had never noticed. Projects I had dropped over the years have been picked up and completed without the fear or failure or ridicule that comes from an incredibly high anxiety while sober.
Must we immediately jump to the dismissive portion of our comments section? Go watch that video. And you're telling me that if Nvidia can pull that shit off in real-time on a consumer card, your response is "meh, 1989 called..."?
Not over an actual network; but localhost or in-process it should be fine? Though the in-process IIS hosting is ASP.NET Core 2.2 as it got bumped from the 2.1 release https://github.com/aspnet/IISIntegration/issues/878
The apps are touch-and-go. Some are fairly reliable (assuming wherever you are you have decent data connection), others are abyssmal, and none of them seem to be consistent in either regard.

I have found, however, if you sign up for SMS updates through most airlines they appear to be quite reliable, and sometimes beat the in-airport departure boards by several minutes, particularly for gate changes.
Which ones though? Tbh I do have a 4k gsync so that does help when fps goes below 60. I find anything from 50-60fps to be smooth and below 50 it starts to get too choppy. It also helps with the input lag to run gsync @ 58fps. The most current game I run ultra is far cry 5, it's a pleasure @ 4k.
> Where are you learning machine learning without programming?

A math degree. You're confusing data engineering and data science. There are plenty of people who work on theory and do little to no programming.
One of the major challenges when trying to generate realistic, believable graphics is correctly modeling ambient light. Without that, adding higher resolution displays or finer polygon meshes won't get you there.

The most efficient and accurate methods of modeling ambient light are fundamentally based on ray tracing. Path tracing is probably the best known and most popular, photon mapping is another. They are both based on random sampling, so the more rays you can trace per frame, the more accurate the lighting calculations are. (Inaccuracies tend to manifest as graininess.)
>Many games are draft wins, i.e. a >90% chance of winning solely due to the heroes you've picked.

Can you explain?
I recently tried a soda stream. I was legitimately surprised how poor the official syrups were (Coke, Dr. Pepper, etc). The bubbles were rich but the taste was nothing like store purchased versions of the same.

Half tempted to buy a box of the real syrup from Sam's club and try that with a soda stream.
The 2080 TDP seems to be 215W rather than 285W (source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13249/nvidia-announces-geforc...).

Are you sure the FE TDPs are different from the reference spec? I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere else.
ah ok, so demand for MBS --> led to some kind of lobbying for deregulation---> which led to the deregulation actually happening ---> which led to unscrupulous individuals subprime lending so they could package it up as MBS and sell those off to make money
ok but then it is not much of a load balancer.
And with TouchId
I wonder how long it'll take to get these cards into a "Nano"/ITX/small form factor? Is it even going to be possible after a certain point? IMO, it's the ideal size for eGPU builds, but so far, you can only go as high as a 1080.

(Here's my hacky 1080 eGPU build over TB2: http://archagon.net/blog/2018/07/25/egpu-redux/ And just to assuage any fears, there are attractive, pre-built options of the same size for TB3! I had to go this route because TB3->TB2 adapters don't work with my model of laptop.)
But choosing a distro that doesn't update gives you other problems. Flatpak allows for a more hybrid approach where you get up to date software but a stable base. (Plus you can rollback software if those updates lead to problems)
If Apple added ports to the front of the new Mac mini, they would all have to be USB-C ports (either USB 3.2 or Thunderbolt 3).

I can't imagine Jony Ive would find a mix of USB A and C ports aesthetically pleasing.
I understand survivorship bias.

These firms make many thousands of trades per day, year after year. They have multi-year track records of exceptional returns.

If their edge was truly no better than random then they would have been bankrupted years ago. You can do some back of the envelope math to easily convince yourself of this.
Rather than thinking of Data Science and SWE as two different fields, think of Data Science on a spectrum, with "Advanced Data Analyst" on one side and "SWE/Machine Learning Algorithm Engineer" at the other.

Data Science is a weird field. A lot of the jobs descriptions have similar keywords, but there is just a huge amount of variance in what the job requires. There are definitely a large number of Data Science roles where solving a business problem requires you to write a good amount of code for integrating with other systems, data ET(maybe L), building UIs, etc that really is about making the core algorithm consumable by business owners.

When you interview ask what the day to day of somebody in that role is doing. You'll be able to figure out fairly quickly where they fall on this spectrum. Find the one that fits what you want.

IME, at smaller companies they don't have enough people to have 4 people (a Data Scientist, a Data Engineer, a SWE, and a Business Expert) just to get a data science project from conception to production. That's all done by one person with help from a business expert.
Sorry for the confusion - it's not that I'm learning machine learning without programming, but rather that most of the programming I know I learned in the context of machine learning. In particular, I'm only familiar with the small portion of the standard undergrad cs curriculum that's relevant to those things.
Give i3wm a shot, you'll be amazed on how your workflow improves.
In a couple of hours https://mobile.twitter.com/startupschool/status/103128998490...
Housing projects for everybody!
Maybe I'm not viewing this with the proper historical context, but I don't understand why you are saying the market for linseed oil has "dried up" for non-food uses. Boiled linseed oil, which contains linseed oil, is probably the most common oil based finish for woodworking.

I also looked at this website about "Linseed oil market analysis" [1], which shows that Paints & Varnishes is still the largest user of linseed oil. Then processed foods, then pharma, then cosmetic, then flooring (which is probably also as a finish).

I'm eye-balling the graphs because they don't have a table, but it looks like processed foods is only about 20% of the market. That might be a lot, I don't know, but it doesn't seem fair to say all this excess linseed oil is going into foods because there is no other use for it.

1: https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/linseed-...
> But it still permits message open detection just fine.

This is only true if you allow external images to be displayed by default.

If you set Gmail to ask before displaying external images, then message open detection does not work unless you explicitly tell Gmail to display images on an individual message.
techcrunch is pretty low on details here. The sources that wikipedia cites on the subject are:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/here-s-wh...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/20/venezuela-prep...

https://news.bitcoin.com/venezuelans-to-be-paid-at-least-hal...

Notable details:

They claim they will allow the price to fluctate. The minimum wage will be 0.5 Petros. The inital price for 1 Petro is 3.6k sovereign bolivars
Yes, a screen’s HDMI can go to USB-C… with a dongle. Am I guaranteed the upstairs conference room will have one? Nope, better pack the dongle.
USB drives, USB headphone/mic adapter, the list goes on and on. I’m not saying it has to bother you but it does me.
> Danger Hiptop

(wistful sigh)
The AI cannot pause the game. That's not one of its available actions.
What software do you run on it? I'm wondering about the browser in particular.
I'm currently running a 1070ti on a 1440p@144Hz monitor and I can maintain a solid 110-120 in AAA games that aren't pieces of shit (looking at you, PUBG) while on medium-high settings.

The 1080ti is still definitely more than you need for 1440p@144hz, as long as you're willing to mess with the settings. There are so many settings that eat performance for very little visual benefit, so if you're dead set on running every graphical setting at the highest, then you probably won't always hit 144hz at 1440p with a 1080ti.

IMHO you're correct, the new generation is right now only useful for 4k gaming. In a year or two after the full 20xx range is out, newer games with better graphics will be out and my 1070ti will probably no longer give the performance I want at 1440p.
Went volunteering at a speed skating event once. One task I was asked to help with was mark the order of the skaters at the end of the race. I asked why that is and they explained that if all systems fail (1. Device on the skater's ankle, 2. cameras recording the race), then this ordering we note is what they will fall back on.

It seems like a lot of work people do is individual and idle when other systems take responsibility of many issues in a process. I'm glad that people worked closer together as a result of this failure!

I'm glad people worked closer together here, not that there was a failure!
I was in the same situation up until a while ago. Then I realized that an US account is a pain if I want to do family sharing on that account with the rest of my family with Austrian accounts, or use local apps that are not available in the US store. My solution is (for work related things that need to be country specific) to use https://www.pcgamesupply.com/ - they sent codes within a few seconds and you can pay with credit card. Very convenient and not as annoying as eBay. There are a lot of these shops though so not sure what’s the problem for you.

I can only recommend a local account if you plan on staying there for longer though, the more things you buy the harder it is to convert it into another country later and take your purchases with you. I had to go through that and it was annoying, as afterwards (on your account after the switch) you don’t see your purchase before your switch, but if you buy them you get a message saying “You already bought this one, this will be free” - but you are never sure if you get charged or not as this message comes at the step where you usually get your payment confirmation.
Well, considering the original Mac Mini was about $500 and sat alongside a $3k+ Mac Pro, both of those complaints seem pretty reasonable...