skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you ever used a non-technical person's computer for a few minutes? It's like a warzone.

I have used non-technical people's Windows machines, and they were not a warzone. I've looked over the shoulder of plenty of other people using Windows & Mac computers, and generally not seen any obvious signs of malware infestation. There could be unseen malware lurking, but we can't assume that with no evidence.

Maybe this depends on the non-technical people you know, but it's definitely possible for people to use Windows/Mac computers and not be dropped in a pit of malware.
Yes but the drivers they have don't work on current MacOS. Mac OS X (Tiger) v10.4 is the latest.
>some think passing a linter test will make your code good.

Who thinks this?
Frankly I think commuter rail for suburban riders is great and I think there should be more of it too. Who the hell likes driving to work during rush hour?
> but they expect knowledge of data structures/algorithms and programming languages that I don't have (I'm not a CS major)

What about not being a CS major prevents you from picking up Sedgewick or a programming language reference?
Art direction has more influence on realism than hardware capability. Good visual artists can get much closer to "real" than poor artists simply by choosing what to depict.
AFAIK basically all new rail installations, even freight, are continuous rail. At least in the US. Been that way for quite a while now.
You can't do disruptive changes with the baggage of current stack.

System.web itself is over 2 mb and you don't need everything from it, all the time. Cross platform was another feature which was hard to do w\o starting over
Oh thanks! Was looking at the wrong SequenceEqual
> just because people are assuming that the usual tool for something is restricted

To be fair, sometimes it's just because the usual tool is unfriendly. I've just spent 30 mins to extend my manpath as parent suggested (on osx), and it's not working. I have my variables, I have my directories, I have my text files, and still man can't find them. For a tool as old as man, there is precious little debugging information available. It shouldn't be this hard.
> Refined oils have nothing to do with being rancid it’s an extraction technique that uses heat instead of pressing.

The petroleum distillate hexane is used to extract the oil from seed meal, then is boiled off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_oil#Solvent_extracti...

The specific step I'm referring to is "steam deodorization": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_oil#Deodorization
It's doubly ironic that his apparent intention (or mere desire) to take Tesla private has now only made the share price even more volatile. SpaceX aside, he's really having an anti-Midas touch this year.

Can things possibly get any worse? (Is this a safe question to contemplate...?)
I'm gaming at 4k60fps ultra everything modern games on a single 1080ti right now.
1. I did say sometimes that single letter variable are okay not always. The example you mentions are good cases. Especially lambda functions. If its not mentioned some will interpret that single letter variables are always bad.

2. My experience says that is too static way of thinking. Maybe I work in too fast paced place, but usually we learn that previous written software is not good today and we need to rewrite the code to make it better. Rarely have I seen that interfaces stays the same forever.

3. Whats the difference here? Squashing on a development branch vs on merge? Btw I do commits daily with good messages, but I am just wondering what I get from this if I loose it later anyway.
Explanation != excuse.
Same, but I went with a Razer Blade 15 which also replaces my gaming desktop machine. Ubuntu has been surprisingly usable for development work.
Thanks. I just installed it and, yes, it feels much smoother than OsmAnd which is what I've been using so far. Unfortunately GPS doesn't seem to work.
What do you plug in that means you need dongles?

Your screen can go into the USB-C, so can power. What else are you plugging into a laptop that can't be done over WiFi or Bluetooth?
I'm not sure one way or the other about the schizophrenia link, but it is interesting.

As far as IQ goes I completely agree. If anything I'd say that most of the people I've known who are into conspiracy theories have above average IQs.

It's one of many reasons I'm not a believer in the IQ cult. There are so many other factors that lead to success in any area. Some are biological and some are intellectual and cultural. Someone with a high IQ but insane beliefs is at a large disadvantage vs. someone with a more average IQ and more rational beliefs. If anything a high IQ person with irrational beliefs will more effectively delude themselves and others.
Yup, state of the art doesn't require GPU farms, just a couple in a consumer desktop will do.
Anyone know if the raytracing cores on these things can be used to accelerate Shadertoy style raymarching stuff? This technique has been threatening to break through into the mainstream for a while now.
Back in around 2012, when I was working at at consultancy, they had slowly started replacing MacBook Pros for Mac Minis.

The case was simple: greatly reduced cost for IT and the same, if not better, performance than the MacBook Pros.

I think Apple saw this pattern. If they'd carried on matching the laptop chips in core counts and with eGPUs on the horizon, you would have been able to build a desktop computer, with a faster graphics card than the Mac Pro with and a great monitor with spare change left over.

On benchmarks it would beat the Mac Pro in single core performance and have a better GPU.

It makes sense they crippled it until now.

They've realigned it into their line up with an expected very powerful Mac Pro, which if this is anything to go by may indicate they are not worried about GPU performance being close to the Mac Pro. Expect it to be priced similar to a MacBook Pro, minus screen, with similar performance.
A 2009 article? Seriously?
n00b webdev here.

React's component-ish nature and such actually makes things easier for me to digest / manage. No painful planning needed and I can move stuff around at will.

I put React on everything (even if only for practice).

It was a bit intimidating at first (like a couple weeks...) but it doesn't take long for for the fundamental React-isms to become second nature / my preferred way of doing the front end.
My first thought was also fictional tech - the mapping drones in Prometheus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO-eduvo904
A friend of mine got hooked on heroin and ended up on methadone maintence. He’s since managed to get off that and is clean, but he had horror stories of people on methadone abusing benzodiazepines like crazy. Apparently mixing methadone and high doses of drugs like Xanax produce effects similar to heroin, but benzos are really hard to get off. He talked about a woman who couldn’t get her Xanax fix, and she started having seizures. Benzodiazepines take months to titrate off safely, and higher doses associated with abuse do unpleasant things to your seizure threshold and memory.

Bad stuff unless you must have it.
Now that would be a new coke!
So, the order matters. Chavez simply just took it and redistributed whereas Norways started as state owned?

Chavez took it because the oil execs were messing with the economy as a form of protest against taxes. A move that was highly controversial.
Yeah laptops I understand, I travel for work and the thinner and lighter is all the better for my specific use case. For desktops, I've never even understood the case for the Intel NUC. Isn't it just a headless laptop? And they don't seem to be substantially cheaper than a laptop, and a laptop is easy to just tuck away on/under your desk if you want it out of sight, so what's the point?

I'm sure someone is using them for something, but I've never fretted how big a stationary computer is.
Nothing is missing, it's just a bit of an upfront cost if you want soda that doesn't taste terrible. All of the consumer products are cheaply made, weak, and ridiculously overpriced even for the terrible quality you get.

If you want something that tastes as good as a restaurant then you pretty much need to buy the same equipment and it'll set you back at least $1k^, a weekend projects worth of installation time, and the cost of a CO2 tank and bulk syrup.

^ You can probably get under $1k if all you want is a soda-gun without the fancy dispenser.
Best quote in the story: "Nine percent of anybody will do something stupid."
Seriously? Complete non-sense? React projects are frequently broken down into lots of small components with custom model/controller architectures depending on what third party tools you throw in with it. There are many areas where bloat and technical debt can add up if you do not properly plan before hand. Particularly in scenarios where you may be getting into front-end development for the first time i.e. when creating a MVP for your start-up. In this scenario and others like it React may not pay back plenty.

While these issues exist in other libraries/frameworks they are somewhat mitigated by clearer first-party conventions or front-runners in the third party ecosystem which dictate specific architectures.
Yeah, it's a pain. Zip Codes that begin with zero, FedEx tracking numbers, as you mentioned any long numbers. All of these gotchas have a work-around but they can be very tedious to look for and address. The worst part is that when you think you've fixed whatever needed fixing, save the CSV file and then remember something you missed and reopen it all of your first round changes are lost.

I've gotten in the habit of saving a copy to Excel first, then to CSV again. If I realize I still have a bug in my CSV copy I reopen the Excel version so any earlier formatting edits I've made are still intact.
Yes, I personally like this style.

Its not a lack of thinking or laziness. Its just easier to read.
You dont need an office in every EU market, thats the thing about the EU, thats it one big singular (or connected) market, and if you can sell your stuff in one EU country, you can sell it in all of them. (very few restricstions apply)
Data science. In that field, your background of statistics and math will be used much more frequently. In SWE, quite honestly, it won't. In SWE, you'll be placed into some field comprising of either: front end/back end/web programming, infrastructure, DevOps, etc. Plus, currently there is less good competition in the field of DataScience. There is a long career runaway, and a few data leaders looking to grow the next batch of careers. The competition is much higher in SWE, as the field is well developed, and often well trodden. SWE is now in the "era of efficiency" where well developed best practices, processes, etc are developing/ in place. Data Science has much less of that already in place, and exciting ares around future of data, privacy, volume of data, etc.
Using single char variables is fine and IMHO leads to more concise code without sacrificing readability. When you are looping over a set, it's very common to think about it like `for all x in Xylophones do {...}`. For example in a nested loop, I would much rather prefer `i` and `j` over `iterativeAuxiliaryVariable1` and `iterativeAuxiliaryVariable2`. Never using single character variables as a "best practice" is just bad advice. As with pretty much everything in programming, the real answer is "it depends".
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>"Double-blinding a trial isn't as big a deal when what you are measuring is not impact by observer bias (tumor size)."

Have you ever tried to measure something like this and analyze the data? There are so many ways to skew the results...

EDIT:

That's not even to mention basic stuff like handling the treated rats more carefully so they are less stressed, etc.
WASM (Blazor) uses the Mono runtime.

> I guess the more interesting question is, do you think Mono will remain important for the places you've mentioned, or will be replaced more and more by .NET Core? Especially given the UI goals with .NET Core 3 (and my own biased belief that .NET Core is the clear unabashed future of .NET).

I don't know what the future is for Mono. Mono currently has support for platforms that .NET Core doesn't specifically target - iOS, Android, native code through Unity, WASM, etc. It'll probably start to move toward specifically supporting those platforms while continuing to support newer versions of the .NET Standard.

.NET Core/.NET Standard is the future of mainstream .NET. .NET Framework is dead. I've heard it from Microsoft people directly. There probably will never be a 4.9, and there will definitely never be a 5.0.
Exactly. A lot of the issues with public transportation are because we underfund the systems and they end up seeming worse than they could be. The complaints that users have are not with the concept of trains or busses but with the failures, which can be minimized with adequate investment.
Bootstrapped entrepreneur? start and grow with this simple strategy
> because if you wanted to build a complex web app you'd need to start using outside libraries or writing a great deal of code yourself.

This is false. The ambiguity in this comment (“outside libraries”) speaks for itself. Yeah you probably want to use something for routing, but you really don’t have to at all. Otherwise nothing else comes to mind in terms of “libraries”. Just weird that people spread FUD/misinformation like this. so weird.
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.

Check out this study, where they fed mice water, water+fructose, or water+fructose+BPA. At the end of the experiment, only the BPA containing solutions had elevated liver fat

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300483X1...
Can't agree more with your disagreement. Also, in regards to documentation - Xcode's new(ish) support for Markdown makes adding code documentation almost an enjoyable experience.
Why would it not get smaller? Intel makes their NUCs the size that they are because that's the size of the components these days.

It's not like Apple's going to make the new Mac Mini three times the size it needs to be and stuff a bunch of 3.5" HDD bays in for people who want to use it as a file server.

Smaller with fewer components and everything soldered/glued together is a cheap way to build smaller and cheaper at the cost or repairability, and Apple clearly doesn't care about repairability. They've said that the Mac Pro redesign will be more modular, but I don't see them doing that here.
As an admittedly lower-mid level player, when it comes to the ranged barracks at least, I suspect there's actually some value in attacking them over the melee racks simply because the ranged ones do not regenerate their HP, unlike the melee racks.

Whenever my team is pushing high-ground and we're not certain we have the time and strength to completely 100-0 the melee racks, we always try to hit the ranged one first, otherwise we'll just get pushed back off the high ground and all the damage we did will just be regenerated, negating the value of all the resources we expended in the push.

Ideally, we prefer to take the melee if we know we can, since there's more melee creeps in a wave, the buff is worth more, but if we're not sure we'd rather do damage we know won't evaporate in a few minutes.
To state "It's off limits to ask the people involved why they continue to put themselves in such a horrible situation" is unscientific. Nobody is blaming anyone by asking a question.
Minnesota Company Offers ‘Fur-Ternity Leave’ for New Pet Owners
Exactly that. I strongly believe that those who /do/ use drugs like this are self-medicating to escape the seemingly/maybe actually intractable social issues for which there is no single easy answer or method of escape.

Compared to /trying/ to get a good job somewhere and trying to find housing that isn't outrageously over-priced and trying to more or less win the lottery game that is presently life in western society... it's so much easier to "treat" the issue with a "magic pill"/bottle (or other form of ingesting the drugs).

I strongly feel that if this particular drug weren't an option they'd drink alcohol or smoke...
Or just use https://www.emailprivacytester.com
If I were you I would certainly take the local job. I strongly hate commuting.
Bastion of sisu[1], it seems, given the perseverance of the people in the mobile division and their success at resurrecting the brand at HMD Global.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu
Probably

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21602599
The problem is, criminalization of pot does far more harm to society than decriminalization.

So, while there might be downsides of decriminalization, the downsides of criminalization far outweight the former.
This article is talking about "real-time" ray-tracing which is a jump for today's tech.
And using real names and real photographs ironically makes most of us less genuine.
For the WebAssembly client side Blazor it uses the Mono WebAssembly (though .NET Core on server) as the Mono compile chain for WebAssembly as it is the most mature implementation (also produces smallest output from their work on watchOS).

If you are using Blazor as a full desktop app (e.g. Electron) then you can use .NET Core on the client and that can talk to the javascript as a local server; but for running in the browser directly as WebAssembly it uses the Mono (WebAssembly) runtime.

XboxOne can run UWP and for that you can use .NET Core (via UWP) in a "shared" mode; however it also has a dedicated "game OS" mode (which most boxed/AAA games use) which takes priority over everything and has full hardware access, but that doesn't allow Jitting so you can't use .NET Core in that mode.

Mono and Unity have mature AoT compilers so can run in this mode (Xamarin also need AoT for iOS and Android which also don't allow Jitting, and Unity needs it for a lot of the platforms they support. Mono and Unity use different approaches to AoT though)

Mono is now sharing C# source code with .NET Core (and it goes both ways); but as far as I'm aware .NET Core doesn't seem to be rushing to fill any of the gaps that Mono serves well (iOS, Android, etc)

Though they are working on an AoT version of .NET Core for Windows/Linux/macOS https://github.com/dotnet/corert but that seems to be more focused on competing with golang and rust's AoT single exe offerings.

For desktop UIs; we'll have to see what's next :)
Have there been any double blind tests of the difference between Sativa and Indica?

As someone who doesn't smoke, it sure sounds like sommelier's talk.

Even though it's almost legal now, the world of cannabis is full of so much mystical mumbo jumbo and outright fabrication. Take the whole CBD thing, for example. The only consensus seems to be that people who sell it say it does whatever the customer wants.

And how much CBD oil is actually being produced? Enough to stock every vape shop and every head shop in every strip mall in the entire USA with a few liters? Seems hard to imagine an industry that size.
We built a proprietary system which listens to the market using technical analysis, fundamentals, and news gathering. It looks for stocks which are trading with a higher than usual volume pattern, or fast price movement depending on our scanning. Also, eliminates a lot of stocks which don't fit the system requirements, in order to increase the rate of return using rules that we have been adding. Does that make sense?

There are lots of ways to beat the market, many people are doing it, you can look in /r/algotrading on reddit as there some good discussions there if you are interested in getting started. The easy part is the implementing the strategy, the hard part is coming up with one. You can look into the Wheel Strategy as well if you own stocks.

You can look at our Discord, it's open until Wednesday. There are a few historical entries/plans/exits [1].

[1] https://discord.gg/n3dqVk4
Kaby Lake G (I7 + Radeon Vega) seems like the perfect processor for a Mini "Pro".

That and adding their hi-speed SSD controller (T2 chip?) would be great.
Keurig and DPSG already did this. There isn't any reason to block this...
There is a pretty large community on Reddit just dedicated to recovery just from Benzo's.

https://www.reddit.com/r/benzorecovery/
The goal of the recruiting company is to get candidates hired. That may or may not conflict with the ultimate goal of the client doing the hiring, which is to get the job done.

I have this problem internally at my company. Recruiting have crazy goals (hire 30 developers per month) so they push us to accept whatever they can get.

Sure, we can keep refusing the candidates but at some point you have to accept someone to get the job done. Even if you need to double check everything they do.

The reasons for that are too complex for a small post but believe me, there are many.
Triangles and fragments per second for rasterization grew exponentially because of growth in circuit performance . Ray tracing needs to grow say 3 orders of magnitude in performance now (at least) but do so without (that) massive advances in semiconductors. That will be a challenge.
I wonder if your neighbours think the same about your grilling habits? ;-)
It's called survivorship bias. With hundreds of millions of people making investments in the stock market, almost any strategy has many examples of people who "won" with it.
Beej's Guide to Network Programming

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
I dunno. We know Intel's roadmap: Icelake next year at 10nm (with AVX Instructions), Tiger Lake (10nm optimization), Sapphire Rapids (7nm) in 2021, etc. etc.

It seems like if you want people to buy your products, letting them know about them and the features they'll support (ex: AVX512) so the hype can build is a good thing.
Completely impractical is correct. From an ABC 4 Corners interview with one of the expert cave divers involved:

TRANSCRIPT EXCERPT:

> JASON MALLINSON, BRITISH CAVE DIVER: "They had a full-face mask on.

So, it was basically that one thing that if the mask that they were using became dislodged and water entered that mask and it- couldn't get it out, that was the one thing that would kill them.

You got to a section, you know, th-the vertical section we was talking about, and by that time you've been in the system for five hours.

You don't remember where the vertical section is and the only time you find about it is when your head bangs against the wall there.

And you, you're trying to get yourself through this vertical section, but you can't remember exactly how it's laid out

So, I'm trying to get myself through it, but I'm also trying to get a kid through it, who's vert- sort of horizontally in the water.

Trying to post him through - no, that doesn't work; pull him back.

Trying to post myself through - that doesn't work.

And you could spend several minutes at one, just one obstacle to try and find your way through.

And you know, eventually we did it, but it's a very slow process and quiet, quite daunting."

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/out-of-the-dark/10000580
Eh, "have to" is way too strong. If anything, simply stopping fucking things up more would allow for a lot of economic growth in a way that isn't nearly as heavy a lift as reversing everything that's happened in the past decade.
The answer to that question is the same as, what do you like spending much more time on, machine learning and statistics or software engineering. Good career trajectories often start with answering that question. Talk to the hiring manager about your skills and why you want that data science position. It will be difficult but you will find a data science team, which will not make a decision based on the fact whether you have a PhD are not. PhDs are just an extreme oversimplification of data science skills, and there is hardly any other possible degree example that would qualify, CS undergrad is already taken for SWE positions like you are stating. Don't let these oversimplication of role requirements bog you down, it is made for HR people not you.