skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are lucky, the thing you will eventually learn about JavaScript is to use either TypeScript, Flow, Elm, Reason, or PureScript.

If you are unlucky, you might get attached too much to design decisions made by Brendan Eich because he didn't have enough time to design the language, and nobody knew how big the web was going to get. Also because statically typed functional programming was so far marred by lack of good learning material and bad tooling. That has changed. Now is the time to get back to start using scripting languages for scripting, and more sophisticated languages for building more sophisticated things, which rich front-end applications definitely are.

Many writings about programming that get popular are predicated on dynamic languages, and thus about coping with them rather than stretching the limits of what you can make the computer do. "Name your variables", "write comments", "use framework X over Y". These things stop being a worry once you let the compiler become your pair-programmer and tell it through types what you're trying to do, and it'll become your safety harness, and the types your tools of thought. Amazing stuff.
I'm kind of intrigued by what a pro-focused Mac Mini could be.

It would look a lot like the previous Mac Mini, quad core with upgradable memory and two drive bays. Before they crippled it to try and sell more Mac Pros.
OK, I just found the FE TDPs listed on the NVidia site (2080 FE: 225W).
Maybe it is because I'm on FF and not logged in, but other than the name 'omar.w.qureshi' (I think he submitted this on HN) I don't see any other info other than the 5 sentence privacy policy. I would be hesitant to install such black-box extension. Could OSS this, or is there a reason not to do so?
It's a spectrum. Not every professional wants and/or can afford the top end cards. Many professionals (i.e. those who make money doing a thing) have been using high-end gaming cards for work pretty much since they existed. There's also the long-running debate as to the actual value of the 'pro' line of video cards for non-mission critical purposes (enough of one that nVidia in their license prohibited the use of gaming cards in servers with the odd exception of crypto mining)
The New Nvidia Geforce RTX: A Gamer’s Dream
The carboniferous period lasted 60 million years. We probably have some time to work with.
I didn’t say it was rational, but who hasn’t complained at some point that the music their (kids/parents/neighbors) love is garbage?

(And to be clear, I value what Apple brings to the table, but I see too much of this sort of complaint not to recognize its origin.)
Probably bigger than you think. The AI has perfect information about everything in vision with few exceptions.

If they have to use the standard UI they lose a significant amount of information as they only view a very small percentage of the map per frame + the minimap. Just think about the implications for team fights. If all the agents have different information about a fight, then you aren't necessarily going to see the uncanny stun stacking and perfect long range nukes. The AI cannot assume that all the other agents share the same information, and so the other agents might not be as predictable. I imagine fragmented information would dramatically change behavior, for the worse. They will probably act more like human players - more cautiously and with more mistakes due to "miscommunication".
In the 90's and 2000s, Sun machines might have been a kind of default for deploying new software, but they certainly weren't the default for developing it. By 1998, you'd be getting a much better machine from Intel than you could get even in the same ballpark cost as from Sun. If you did work on a Sun workstation, you probably did it grudgingly (except that they had a really good C++ compiler for the time).
Those have been in UML for years. (Google it.) Actually, that's the problem: everything is in UML. I am sure someone pointed out that "X" had it but UML didn't, so they made sure to add it.

BTW, a 20 year old link is not going to present anyone with up to date tech info. You have to make allowances for the progress of rival technology.
I'm surprised PepsiCo would court this kind of controversy: SodaStream is a primary target of the BDS (boycott divest sanctions) movement[1] because of their Israeli origin and particularly their history of operating facilities in disputed territories.

[1] https://bdsmovement.net/tags/sodastream
"So that's $1.3. billion in tax dollars raised specifically to fund the museums and zoo in the largest park of one mid-sized U.S. city."

That's divided amongst 5 public organizations. Not all going to one billionaire.

"That tax raises 35 times the $5 million per year the city pays on the bond for the old Rams stadium"

Stadium for one purpose, for a team owned by a billionaire, who also left town.

The cost to the city was also far more than just $5 million a year; the total amount the city put behind the stadium was $280 million.

"Of course, HuffPo doesn't write any articles about the zoo tax, because literal rams in cages is a more noble use of money than figurative Rams throwing a football, one presumes."

Or maybe it's because NFL teams, with the exception of the Green Bay Packers, are owned by billionaires who could easily afford to build their own stadium.

And I've never seen a zoo threaten to leave town unless the city agreed to pay for a new elephant habitat.
It depends.

The original goal of the Mac Mini was meant to be an entry level Mac. Which was perfect at the time for getting your feet wet on iOS/MacOS development, or getting a taste for the OS. That wasn't a problem because there was the iMac and Power Mac to fulfil the Pro/Developer markets.

If Apple released another consumer grade Mac Mini to fulfil the same segment (i.e. entry level) I actually think people would be quite positive. But it won't take away from the fact that the Pro/Developer market remains largely neglected.

A "Pro" Mac Mini might be the worst of both worlds. No longer entry level price, and not powerful enough (due to cooling) for Pros/serious developers.
> some proxy that your check is good

That's why they had a cashier's check and not a personal check.
Well for one, bacteria already exists that eats plastic: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6278/1196

It's not too far fetched to assume this already-existent bacteria could continue to exist and possibly mutate into something more efficient or proliferate to encompass the entire ocean.
Nothing. What does prevent me is the timeline on which I'm applying and other things I have to do in that same stretch. I'm hoping to do exactly this sometime in the next two or three years, but I don't think it'll be an option for this application cycle.
This article is spot on. Using AI and ML in an enterprise setting is about changing behavior and helping people to understand why the AI/ML system is making the recommendations (or whatever the output is) that it is. I have seen this in dozens of companies now: even great AI requires cultural change to succeed. And good cultural change can make only mediocre AI models into game changers.
Actually, Apple does allow gambling apps in its U.S. app store. But the use is geolocated to places where gambling is legal.

Example: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/playmgm/id1083947754?mt=8
Agreed about repairability. What we don't know is whether Apple cares about noise. Powerful laptops and Intel's high-end NUCs suffer from fan noise under load[1]. One of the advantages of non-tiny desktop machines is that they can afford better cooling solutions.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/intelnuc/comments/7ga2q9/skull_cany...
Let's see your argument for it collapsing. It's been very volatile sure, but you'd still get insane gains if you invested just last year.

BTC has gone up 45% in the past year.
1015% in 2 years.

source: https://cryptowat.ch/

Collapsing.
The book "Silence on the Wire" is worth reading.
At least a lot of our roads, including city roads, got to be planned at all - still better than the mazes of very narrow, disorganized roads established hundreds of years ago you get in very old locations in Europe, particularly old cities. At least this is the impression I've gotten reading some accounts on the subject online - can't vouch for it 100%.
Even shared bus services can made into something desirable with the right marketing and investment. The large tech companies provide luxuary coach services with WiFi to their workers and the people riding them are seemingly very happy with the services.
As someone that did my internship in Data Science, if I were to go back and do it again, I would choose Software Engineering instead.

Don't get me wrong, I really liked my position and my team, and loved what I did everyday. Career-wise though, I would consider Software Engineering better, unless you plan on doing a Masters/PHD right after undergrad.

Data Science is a much younger field than Software Engineering. While there is a ton of room to grow, it also means there aren't good hiring practices in place. Companies are way more conservative about hiring Data Scientists than Software Engineers. There usually aren't the same kinds of "coding challenges" as for engineers. While that sounds like a good thing, it means that companies have to filter out candidates some other way. In most cases, (good) companies filter out candidates by looking only at applicants with a graduate degree or with >3 years of experience. This makes it a very tough field to break into without already having experience.
I was considering making a course or youtube video series on this. Are you looking to learn Networking as in Route/Switch/Firewall? Or more of a Network Programming? Or more of a Network Security(by that I mean pwn and pivot style, SOCKS)?
Some background:

http://www.arrl.org/news/nist-fy-2019-budget-would-eliminate...
> I found myself amazingly productive with Razor Pages

I'm curious, compared to what?
The defining factor of that state is a willingness to disenfranchise neighbors and obliterate communities for the sake of convenience. Politics are now far too sensitive to local constituents’ rights and opinions to permit the construction of infrastructure nearly as good as the interstate highway system. A system optimized for utility will be less useful than one balancing utility and social justice.
"Nobody is blaming anyone by asking a question."

That's not true. Many times people use the "asking questions" as a ruse to do just that, and erode support for these people by saying it's their own fault for being exploited.

And, quite frankly, I don't care one iota why they stay; there is exactly zero legitimate reason for them to be treated like that. Bezos should be so ashamed of himself that he would be unwilling to show his face in public.
I think what made those 'work' wasn't that 'good people turned bad' or 'a few bad apples abused the mechanism', but rather that everyone involved just went along with the prank to an irresponsible degree.

This is an important point. I guess this is kind of of a difficult thing to control for while still staying within the boundaries of experimental ethics.

As a side note, personally I think this idea of 'going along with a prank to an irresponsible degree' also goes quite a long way towards explaining the current political situation in the US...
Would an i9 be able to stay cool in such a small case?
> The most hilarious part was when OpenAI paused the game, then resumed it. This illustrates that there is still some unexplainable randomness.

I asked about this in a previous thread[1] and received a response that a network blip caused all the players to drop from the game, in which case OpenAI Five was programmed to pause.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17700001

EDIT: Fixed thread link.
Could the tracking pixels not be blocked via a uBlock Origin filter list?
Dirt cheap, "synergizes" with alcohol, street presses being incredibly overdosed, it is weird seeing the writing on the wall then watch it be inked into existence.
How Long Until a Robot Cries? (2013)
But they do? VSCode, Spotify, Chrome, etc are all custom repos just for their software.
The cheese grater mac was really incredibly designed. it's a shame they decided to limit things with the trashcan one. apple if you are listening please let people upgrade or at least replace parts when something goes bad in the desktop line. don't make the desktop a huge ipad.
Some packages are getting EoLed - eg Auth0 have discontinued their System.Web implementation in favour of .NET core.

If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be worried at all...
Making syrup is dead simple. Hell, a little lemon juice and sugar and you've got lemon soda. And the soda water by itself is fine when it's hot.

I make chocolate syrup so I can have egg creams in the summer. Also, mint syrup because it grows wild in my yard.
I have hopes for The Boring Company.
>No States allow broad gambling. Even Nevada only allows it in certain areas.

Gambling is allowed everywhere in Nevada except for Boulder City. You might be thinking about brothels, which face broad geographic restrictions imposed by the state.

The only reason it's not allowed in Boulder City is because Boulder City was founded as federal government work camp while building what is now Hoover Dam. People who live there have since repeatedly voted not to allow gambling in their town.
Sure, in the same way that a shooting murder requires someone to be in the path of the bullet, not just someone to pull the trigger.
The summaries of the case studies in Section 2 was disturbing, to say the least. I sometimes think about the NIPS consistency experiment from a few years ago, which I think also speaks very negatively of the current state of academic ML research. I agreed with all of the authors' suggestions to solve this mess and I think many of them need to be implemented urgently.
What is the thesis here? Benzodiazepines are commonly prescribed and have the potential for abuse; these things are both true; I hadn't heard the rate of prescription was rising, but I'd believe it. There doesn't seem to be any evidence presented for a trend or rise in benzodiazepine abuse, or evidence of general harm from the use of the drugs. It highlights parallels between the existence of this prescription drug class and another class that is associated with significant issues, and makes it sound as if there were an issue here... and then leaves it at that, the literary equivalent of a wink and a nudge. Are they arguing that prescription of drugs with abuse potential is inherently a problem? Because that would be a very extreme position, one which would challenge a sizable fraction of the medications available to modern psychiatry.

And this is a "journalist's resource," one associated with the Harvard Kennedy School? No wonder journalism is garbage these days.
I have the same issue with my neighbors and it is a drag. Doesn't even repel mosquitoes or anything useful, just cuts into my summer.
I think a lot of people just want the models they have to be kept up to date.

I’ve been on the market for a new Air and Mini for ages. But I am still waiting because they won’t refresh or drop prices on old products.
The three most helpful things for me as a dyslexic are;

1. Highlight the text I'm reading. That text is HORRIFIC when highlighted so I can follow what I'm reading
2. Make my window thinner so my eyes have less travel distance from left to right. It's harder for my eye to wander to other lines etc
3. Line spacing! For the same reason as above.

This site doesn't do 3, 1 has overlapping font with highlight making it harder to read and I think does a poor job of 2...

Like this honestly makes me feel like I'm a kid again and my mam is telling me something she read in some stupid magazine that's taking advantage of her desire to be a good mother. She wants to help me but the advice in the magazine about curing dyslexia with Angostura bitters isn't going to work and feels like a cruel joke played by whoever wrote that article... Just like that incident, there was ZERO evidence and the about section of the site has ZERO evidence as to whether any of this works
That thread seems to highlight a number of issues remaining.

There even seems to be restrictions on commercial use, so making it illegal to make and sell Debian install media with firmware blobs?
This isn't directed at you but all heavy decade-plus smokers I know say similar things. This makes me wonder, if you've smoked for 30+ years with minor breaks due to football/society how do you really know what your baseline is sober for a long period of time if you started as a young adult?
Searching is easy too: `flatpak search $foo`.
Of course, Trump wants people to buy oil with freedom dollars.
like we say in English: "Business is Business"
I am actually planning on doing a PhD right after my undergrad. My issue is with what to do before then.
Yes, ideally. Usually though you have to make changes because something is not working as it should or you found a better way. If you never change the interface the code often times rots. Most of the time we don’t make the correct design decisions from the start. We learn from previous understanding and that might require to do things over.
It was about time... The old series is, well, pretty old by now, but (to me) never really seemed worth the upgrade from my r9 290 (used for Vive/VR gaming).

Maybe mid-2019 will see me dropping some money on a new GPU, once prices settled.
Do any of these supposedly lazy employees have meaningful equity participation? Or is this just another self-entitled techbro whining that other people aren’t making him richer at the rate he’s accustomed to?
I agree with you. When I read articles like this:

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/5368243/coro...

I feel like we are repeating similar mistakes we made with the tobacco industry.

That company will be doing everything it can to try and increase cannabis use to make more money. Just like the alcohol and tobacco companies.
Stuff very rarely breaks in the second year. I'd bet the vast majority of warranty claims are within the first year, which is legally mandatory in every jurisdiction of note.
VR, for one, is going to (eventually) have insane resolution and performance requirements: a flat 90 to 120fps with perhaps 4K resolution for each eye.

Even my regular 1080 has trouble with a few current-gen games.
Did he start the shorter work week in 2006 or 2015?

The article quotes

> Back in 2015, Carson said he was motivated by those findings.

but if you go to the atlantic article (https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/396527/case-32-hour-...)

It says since 06. A 1 year experiment doesnt seem that long or if it was since 06, shouldnt he have noticed it was bad for him before a whole decade passed (ended in 2016)
Here is a free one I really enjoyed! Goes through the history of networks and a lot of the performance tradeoffs that we must make as engineers.

https://hpbn.co/
Why not FaceID? I'd appreciate that in a laptop.
Meanwhile, in China they can build an entire railway station in one night. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/chinese-worker...
So, the phone's autocorrect is smoking?
Dupe, plus a more informative article is linked in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17799490
It ain't so difficult to analyze the code of Chrome Extension [1]. I did (I quite often do this before installing extensions that do not have published source) and as much as you should trust random guy on HN there isn't anything malicious in the code.

On the other hand it is not very effective as the block list is quite limited. 33 entires if I have counted well.

[1] - Check for yourself - https://gist.github.com/chew-z/7b70da3724626ab04cfc9676bee18...
But they are the low-to-mid segment of professionals doing weddings and local business presentations with median income around $50k. The ones doing interesting work can't live without real 10-bit HDR on calibrated 4k screens for realistic printing/video projections, without proper 5k+ RAW cameras and top-end lens etc. and those are extremely expensive.
Not much of value at all in this article, but it’s worth pointing out the actual quote used for the head —

"It created this lack of work ethic in me that was fundamentally detrimental to the business and to our mission," Carson added. "It actually was a terrible thing."

In other words, all we know from the article is that this affected the CEO’s work ethic.

Edit: In fact, I think this is worth a flag for being both misleading and unsubstantive.
Augmented reality WebXR object recognition JavaScript library
"Fie!" declares a refinery manager in Galveston, throwing his mining rig in the dumpster.
Texas is an interesting case: it would benefit enormously from high speed rail connecting the major Metros (DFW, Austin, San Antonio and Houston) but the State Government is run by boneheads who keep suing the feds over DACA and working on inane bathroom bills.

Seriously this would transform the state. Make all the tech talent in Austin available to energy companies in Houston. Integrate the tech talent market for Austin and DFW. And the land over which the rail would be built is pretty flat as well.
I would love to see an API to make your own soda flavors at home
He said it made for a lack of work ethic in himself.
As long as you are also willing to do the same with alcohol, which I would absolutely argue is a much more damaging drug to both the individual and society at large.
Besides your level of interest in each field, it’s important to note that at the top tech companies, software engineers typically receive 2x the RSUs as data scientists / data engineers for a given level. This is non-negligible and can range from an extra $30k to $100k per year depending on your level (base and bonus are typically the same though). Add in the time opportunity cost of getting a PhD, and a top software engineer can save up considerably more money by age 30 than a data scientist.

Money certainly isn’t everything, but I’m considering switching to software engineering (from data science) because I would like to reach financial independence more quickly than my current trajectory allows.
Carlin did comedy his whole life though. And I don't personally hear Carlin references more than I do Murphy ones. Eddie quit pretty early as you know, so I can't help but suspect his time was over voluntarily. Not long ago, he had to give a speech for the Mark Twain award and his Bill Cosby bit still had people laughing.
You can buy USB-C enclosures off eBay for like $10.

And the MacBooks have a 3.5mm headphone/microphone adapter.
Ask HN: Who got on to Startup School?
Just got an email saying my company, [Dependabot](https://dependabot.com), was rejected. A little disappointed as we're growing at 25% month-on-month, have 2,000 active users and have $6k MRR after just 12 months.

Who got on, and what are you building?
A real challenge for prediction markets (with real-money stakes) will be to get sufficient liquidity on relatively small-ticket items outside of sports and politics.

For such items platforms like metaculus.com and Good Judgement seem more likely to provide more useful predictions, but without the ability to hedge against events that prediction markets have.

I discuss this in depth in this podcast:
http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-214-anthony-agu...
"We can keep running on the macronutrient treadmill, like we've been doing for 50 years, or we can find molecular evidence that jives with genetics."

Yes, let's ignore 50+ years of established science that is parsimonious with everything we know about the molecular biology of insulin resistance, and dump it in favor of a fringe theory, based on a single paper about a mouse study, where there's not even a plausible explanatory mechanism.

Folks, stop downvoting simply because someone provides a link. The parent is spouting pseudo-scientific nonsense.