skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lisp is largely obsolete. Clojure is the truly modern Lisp. It integrates seamleasly with the world's most widely used runtime, its data structures are immutable and persistent by default, vectors and maps are first-class objects alongside lists, and its list data structure is really a tree of vectors. Every C++ developer knows that you should always prefer vectors to linked lists because of how poorly linked lists perform under modern CPU caching hierarchies. Clojure lists are much more suited to modern CPUs than traditional Lisp lists are. Clojure also provides the abstraction of the "conjable", which allows transducers to be abstracted over many different collection types.
> Despite any measurable economic benefits to having a stadium, the cities fall for it every time

Yes, just like they "fall for" municipal operas, art museums, Shakespeare in the Park, and any number of other cultural amenities that don't have obvious and immediate economic impact.

Perhaps your complaint is less about public investment in cultural benefits than it is an issue with one particular kind of culture?
I don't have the data of course but it does seem better. Those alternative are pretty expensive to build and maintain, have to be tested regularly and are prone to failure. For a situation that has a very low probability of happening, whiteboards do seem more reasonable, that's a very lean approach!
Sedentary office work also causes permanent damage.
> It both helps and hurts his companies, but on balance i think it got him where he is.

Everything gets people to where they are until it doesn't. My question is, what next?
It's not just about people making the same trip from A->B now using the toll or not. Local roads backup when highways backup. So, the difference can end up very significant even for trips that don't go near the toll roads.
This would require the bot to learn to point the screen to the right place
NY already did the losing their teams to other markets thing, they just did it 60 years ago.
A significant potion of this is an end run around immigration law.

Is it? A friend of mine works in documents at an old-school whiteshoe law firm and they converted all of their administrative staff to a 3rd party a couple years ago. He didn't get fired or laid off, he just works for the other company now.
car ownership is the thing we're aggressively enabling/optimizing in 2018? Really?

On the contrary: making taxis cheaper (which self-driving can do, by eliminating the biggest cost - the driver) makes it much easier to live without owning a car.

If there was no Uber and such, I'd probably have to own a car for the exceptions not covered by public transport. And after paying for the fixed costs anyway, the marginal cost per trip is low, making me more likely to use it over PT.

autonomous cars will drive around aimlessly anytime the cost of fuel is less than the cost of parking

Per the above, cheaper taxis → fewer owned cars → more free parking spaces.
In all US states you are required to fill out an I-9 form if you are hired. That form requires that you "prove" to your employer that you have a legal right to work in the United States and you are required to provide a valid Social Security number or Tax ID number.

If you fail to do that, you violate the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) which was passed in 1986 and subjects the business to fines, penalties, potentially the loss of business licenses and prosecution under the RICO act.
As a preface, I started writing this quite a long time ago, and it was much more strident then, during the height of the initial Deep Learning surge. I've tried to temper it a bit, and some of the ideas are perhaps a bit past their prime at this point.

Anyway, these are some ideas that have been roiling around in my head for some time now. Would appreciate any criticism or insight there is to be had!
There was an episode of Planet Money in the last few years where they bought a commodity and then tried to go collect it. Can’t remeber if it was oil or corn or what.
How would you compare .NET core and the JavaScript ecosystem (node + frontend frameworks)?
In my opinion, movies, youtube and HN are probably not good things to help you sleep. They provide endorphin / dopamine response and that will keep your brain active and wanting more. A starting point in my opinion, would be dim light and something non exciting, but this varies wildly with each person.
1070 was very popular for ETH last year, even beating some AMD cards in performance/watt.
It looks like the major API players (Vulcan and DirectX) are going to be implementing ray tracing extensions:

https://developer.nvidia.com/rtx/raytracing
High-Dimensional Probability – An Introduction with Applications in Data Science
> with any sort of company with more than a few million in annual gross receipts.

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/12/19/big-name-businesses-... Target is a ~45 billion dollar company.

It's all tiny local cleaning companies. So, sure it's not corporate policy to do X or Y nationally. But, they are not going to object to saving some money.
What do you mean by “Event-Driven”? (2017)
Which is where public policy comes in, and it can come in at a very refined level.

For example: sulphur dioxide emissions. You can't just pump unlimited sulphur dioxide into the air, because that's a burden to society, but there's some level of emissions that's considered "safe", so you just issue permits to create those emissions and let those permits be traded on the open market. If your business requires pumping sulphur dioxide into the air, fine, but you have to pay the costs of doing that.

A similar approach can be made for anything, ranging from non-renewable resource consumption to CO2 emissions to the public costs of maintaining infrastructure. The beauty of this is that we don't have to act like commissars arguing about whether to restrict the availability of meat or single-family homes or pickup trucks or anything else. If it's more expensive for society to support a single-family home, the tax structures should reflect that fact, so if someone still really really wants a single-family home and they can afford it, at least we can rest assured that they're paying their fair share for all the resources and externalities involved.
Back in the mid-90's I had an HP 486 PC and printer (can't remember the model number) that both worked pretty well, all things considered.

Now we have an all-in-one HP printer/fax/scanner/copier that gets me closer to that scene in Office Space than any device I've ever owned. The obscenely overpriced cartridges don't last. It takes forever to warm up. The list goes on and I'll never own another HP product again.
In what way is that clever? This thing isn't satire, the allusion, such as it is, might not even be intentional. Nobody thinks putting 'considered harmful' in a title is clever and those things are usually about something the author considers harmful, like the original.
It also touts the ability to facilitate going backwards from code to model, not just model to code. But I haven't ever read anything about how well it works in practice.

There is also a book, "Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture", that introduced the method and is supposed to be quite good.
There was maybe one active assassination market and it didn't even have that much interest. The world cup and the current cryptocurrency markets were where most of the bets happened.
It would require the bot to learn a lot of things. Perhaps a curriculum learning method would be appropriate. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be possible though, given several orders of magnitude more compute power.
For those confused, these are about what the 10 series Founder's Editions were priced at originally. When the 10 series was released, the 9XX series was around the same price as the 10 series is now compared to 20. The price isn't going up by 70-90%. It's that the previous series (10) is going down.

Does that mean the 10 series isn't worth it? By all means, no. The 9 series was still an excellent series when 10 was released, and people did pick the up.
Multiple ways to short ETH, as mentioned by another user. Including on augur itself!

See: https://augur-cfd.com
Those prices are Nvidia's OC Founder's Editions. The non-OC versions are actually:

RTX 2080 Ti: $999

RTX 2080: $699

RTX 2079: $499

Source: https://i.imgur.com/LrUitua.png
> Isn't this true about life in general? Even when you go interview at bigco they are lying to you about your position and how great the work/life balance is etc.

No, it's not. Because if they tell you their work-life balance is great, and you join and realize everyone works 12 hour days, then they have a disgruntled employee who's probably going to leave ASAP. That deception is affecting your life right now, probably in ways that threaten your life or lifestyle, things you counted on.

Also, you're not going to hear about the workplace only from "the employer". You're going to get input from a bunch of employees like yourself. They're not going to orchestrate a lie, typically. Definitely not a lie about something you're likely to discover immediately.

"Hey guys, how was your weekend? Oh, and thanks for totally lying about the great work life balance... You totally got me, haha... My kids don't even remember me anymore, hilarious!!"

Compare that to options, which worth is hypothetical and up for debate. None of your fellow employees know more than what the founders told them. It's some glowing future promise that will only be broken a few years down the road... When they typically won't need you anymore...

That's what the threads here are about, by the way. I don't see a ton of people complaining their hyped-up worthless equity was illegal. It's just that all these people assumed it would be worth a lot, because that's what they were told, and ended up with nothing.

All these bubbles take years to burst, and then folks find out after 4-5 years that their equity is worth nothing, so they come to complain here in HN threads.
If we want better roads, another space shuttle, the next wave beyond the integrated circuit, etc... most prudent course of action would be to reinstate the internal revenue act of 1954.
I used to give a "data science" (read: data munging) training at a large accounting firm, and this article seems to track my recommendations almost exactly. The crazy things people do with spreadsheets never ceases to amaze me.
I've been a pretty consistent pot smoker since 2014-15, which was when Oregon legalized it. Prices have dropped considerably so it's not uncommon to get a pre-roll of pretty strong stuff (20+ % THC) for $5. I have not noticed any health effects although I have built up a slight tolerance. Using a vape pen got me the biggest high but I decided to get rid of it.

I find that when I'm high I can really think deeply about things, smoking once in a while kinds of recharges my mental state. More than once I've realized "Damn, I'm human, I can do whatever I want.. that's kind of crazy". Seems kind of loosey goosey but its a cool feeling.
Microsoft DXR
Can you fill me in on what you mean by coattails of Musk in relation to Iridium? Iridium and their original satellites have been around for a long time (much longer than SpaceX) and while they now use some of the services of SpaceX, "riding on the coattails of Musk" seems a bit harsh?
Absolutely false. The subprime crisis was not caused by 'government mandated' lending to traditionally undeserved parts of the population.

Anyone pushing that narrative is trying to pushing a implicitly racist 'reason' for the financial crisis: "it was all them loans to the black people that did it" .
or typescript?
There was a great episode of Planet Money a few weeks ago about the unofficial exchange market and how the government came after them and threaten their lives.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/03/635521893/epis...
So, what you’re telling me, is that the stock market, and indeed most of the underpinnings of modern economics is really a form of gambling?
These will make a good card to experiment with. I am going to purchase one when I can. More RAM which is nice for larger models, but you can do a lot with 8GB of ram, especially if you are just getting going. Do not let worrying about having the latest and greatest hardware keep you from getting started. Time is the most important resource to have, not spec sheets.

These cards look like they will have Tensor Cores, which should give a significant boost (e.g. ~50% of P100/V100 performance for certain operations at ~10% of the cost) over the 1080 series.

The Quadro's have a higher spec ram (think ECC vs. DDR) which is important for a workstation GPU, but the price difference goes up in a hurry. My suggestion would be to learn on a RTX and then you can rent a Quadro if you need more power to play with.
> Traveling to and from provides a moment of context switching between being a parent and being a colleague.

This.
Yeah, I've been thinking about replacing my 970, but for these kind of prices I don't know if it makes much sense.
Caffeine overdose is extremely rare but its LD50 is a lot lower than the THC/cannabinoids in cannabis.

From this page:

https://www.westword.com/news/dear-stoner-how-much-thc-equal...

> For THC, there are varying figures, ranging from 1,260 milligrams of THC per kilogram of body weight down to 666 mg/kg. Even going with the lowest figure, a 175-pound man would have to consume more than 53 whole grams of pure THC all at once. [...] Need more perspective? Caffeine has an LD50 of 192 mg/kg, and nicotine is around 60 mg/kg.
just switch to. net core. "* core" is pretty googlable
Well, a simple average is a pretty reasonable ways to make predictions when you have no better information... like a regression model with 0 predictors.

But really the idea is more about a feedback mechanism in which successful predictors those who are successful at making predictions end up with more money to invest back into the market making more predictions. So its a weighted average of the masses, in which those who are successful predictors get weighted more heavily in virtue of their having more financial capital with which to invest. For that to work well, you really need a reasonable level of participation. Also, if the inputs from new participants continually outweighs those from experienced quality participants, you are not going to get good predictions. Also, you have to have a rock-solid mechanism to decide the market, or it will be gamed.
You can control for this through diet and exercise. You can't control herniated disks and nerve damage. Sitting is unhealthy but not as bad as manual labor
As I've said in another post, I smoke about everyday, but I don't have any problem pursuing my goals, producing creative works, or excelling in my career.

The fine line you're talking about does exist, but it doesn't have anything to do with the frequency of usage. Responsibility can be achieved with or without pot.
I am assuming that's sarcasm when it comes to Win10, but 'exclusively using the app store' comes closer to the truth for non-dev macOS users, at least that's my impression.
Apple Is Planning a New Low-Cost MacBook, Pro-Focused Mac Mini
I wonder if any updates have been made since the last match to remove more restrictions. The most common complaint from users was the courier changes.
I went through his Instagram and YouTube channel just now --- he is a 99.9999% level chef of Thai cuisine.

As an enthusiast of Thai cuisine, I am grateful for the link.
> Caffeine pills & powder are far more dangerous. It is very easy to overdose on them, and death is not out of the question. It still isn't common.

Caffeine pills usually come in 200mg. Caffeine has an LD50 of about 200mg/kg of body mass. In US units a 150lb person would have to consume 68 caffeine pills to reach LD50 levels.
And I mean, it's not very surprising, if you haven't made it big at 40+, that means you worked on a lot of failed projects, that makes it harder to believe you can change that.

Here's a harsh fact to put in your smoking pipe: few of us are going to "make it big". Whether it's FU money, founding and selling a successful startup, working on a blockbuster game, speaking at PDC, or writing a book even as remotely popular as Gang of Four or _Mythical Man Month_. Nope, the best the vast majority of us can hope for is to claw our way to VP of Engineering at Company You've Never Heard Of, LLC. Because a lot of making it big is sheer luck (granted, hard work can earn you more Sheer Luck Dollars, but it's still luck.)

So? Failed projects? Not my responsibility, I did my part; not my problem that management can't manage a project. But I still got to do the work, which was fun, and they still paid me. I don't need other people to use what I wrote to validate my existence. The experience can be used for next time.

build something really significant

Yeah, then you look back and realize what "significant" really means. The next Twitter? Facebook? Really? You know what I work on these days? Stuff that talks to programmable logic controllers on assembly lines. And having worked at several startups that were working on something "significant", I think what I'm working on now is more significant than any of it (obviously, because those startups are gone, and this place has been around 30 years). Because it's real stuff that people use everyday to make actual widgets, instead of building something the world is not a whole lot poorer without, that we'll figure out how to monetize later, probably with ads.

In summary, I kept the fire by changing my attitude about what is important in a macro sense as well as to me personally.
Learn how to use the "From Text" wizard importer...
> This can make it difficult for others to read your code

Actually I found that one can write very nice code with macro heavy code. Reading the code is not the real problem - the problem is debugging/extending. There are some macros, which are difficult to use - but Lisp has all the mechanisms to write very clean code with excellent error handling.

> but it's overall easier for an outsider to come in and read it.

That's not different from a large layered object-oriented architecture - like in Java. There are enough stories of Java teams where the architect went fully generic and reimplemented all kinds of layers in his/her own style. That's no less difficult to understand than a layered language in Lisp - with the added advantage that the layered languages can be made much more problem specific and thus is easy to read - because the code is actually shorter.

> Second is that nested lists are the wrong base structure for humans.

That would be surprising, since people are used to work with lists.

Actually lists in Lisp are only a carrier for things. A property list or an assoc list is a map.

The really first object-systems were based on property lists hanging of from symbols:

CL-USER 1 > (setf (symbol-plist 'hans)
'(:class :computer
:machine-type :lispm
:vendor :symbolics
:model :3600
:memory-size 20
:site (:city hamburg :project :hamans)))
(:CLASS :COMPUTER :MACHINE-TYPE :LISPM
:VENDOR :SYMBOLICS :MODEL :|3600|
:MEMORY-SIZE 20 :SITE (:CITY HAMBURG :PROJECT :HAMANS))

CL-USER 2 > (get 'hans :model)
:|3600|
Note that this has been rumored for awhile, but since this post is by Mark Gurman, it has much more weight.
org-mode, with this snippet:

(defun open-new-journal ()
(interactive)
(find-file (concat "~/notes/journal/" (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d") ".journal.org")))

(defun open-things-todo ()
(interactive)
(find-file "~/notes/dashboard.org"))
The problem with tolls, and gas taxes and vehicle registrations for that matter, is that they disproportionally affect the poor. I, and many on HN might not give the marginal cost second thought, but for many it adds up.
Windows 10 is using it in the start menu. Every time somebody types something into it, Bing gets a request for autocomplete.
That's why usually there are multiple lines that converge on a central station.
> Elon Musk crashing and burning is not a good outcome for the world. He's right on the cusp of sustainable success but there's a chance he won't get over it.

I'm not convinced that more cars (even electric cars) or tunnels will ever be sustainable for the planet.
It's not as clever, but RayCoin would market better. Fiat Lux could be its tagline?

I hope I'm joking.
A couple of sites have said 384 TC's, which would be approximately ~50% of the v100/new high-end Quadro card. Would like to see a confirmed source as well.
"Lifting" is also a common term for disassembling from assembly code back to a workable IR, though probably not an intended use here of course.
Ask: What Are You Experiences as a Manager at Small, Medium, and Large Companies
I’ve seen a number of threads on HN discussing the positives and negatives of being an IC at different sized companies. Could people who have had experiences being engineering or data science managers talk about your experience and the pro/cons of different sized companies? What are the types of of orgs where you actually can help employees grow, be a part of the decision making process, and actually be more than just a direct conduit for the stuff that comes from above?

My contribution: I've worked as technical data science team manager at two very large companies. It's the usual big company stuff like politics, bureaucracy, dotted-line reporting, an endless number of “working” groups, etc, and spending 20+ hours/week in meetings to try and keep up with everything that affects your life/team as a manager. One of the places I worked as a manager was not a software company and one was a software company. From a sanity perceptive, the software company was better because more people understood that solving a business problem isn't just clicking a few buttons.

Are things better at medium or smaller companies? Can a manager actually do things like mentor, help set realistic deadlines, be a part of developing useful engineering strategy/execution, not have 50%+ of meetings be useless? What are your managerial experiences at different sized companies?
Thank you! Updated.
NVIDIA's OptiX "AI-Accelerated" de-noiser has been available for some time https://developer.nvidia.com/optix-denoiser

(I don't know if it's what they're referring to, though)
I have bad news for you. I don't know what bank you use, but I know this: your bank has huge exploits that increase your chance for identity theft.
The board in Utrecht Centraal (the Netherlands) was taken down a few years ago, but you can still enjoy it in all its clackety goodness as https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/blauwe-bord/id474162209 -- developed by the railroad company itself and showing real data off their open API.
I suspect it's meant to refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp....
How to Find and Grow the Best Traffic Sources from Your Analytics Data
Which 10x0 FE did cost $1200? Did I miss something?
It's a Brave New World (by Aldous Huxley) reference. It's worth reading if you haven't.

EDIT:
In the book Huxley imagines a new society. One of the hallmarks of the society is there is no pain or suffering. This is accomplished in part by Soma, a fictional drug perhaps best described as a no negative side effect tranquilizer or opiate.

EDIT EDIT:
The society also removes almost all major sources of pain. A person is chemically engineered (was written before the discovery of DNA) to be happy with their job and position in life since conception. There are no parents. There is sex but no romantic love. In avoiding pain almost all the happiness in the society is superficial, coming from sex, drugs and movies. They might be happy, in the most shallow meaning of the word, but there is clearly no joy.
Still they would get low odds and the risk/reward ratio makes that a terrible bet since it would only take one accident to lose all your money. For like a 1% return.
Don't like their notebooks, but workstations are excellent. Had z420, 620, 3x 440, all no issues. The active cooling on RAM is a bit weird though :)