skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a non-sequitur. You're comparing a religion with a continent or a nation-state, depending on what you mean by American. If you mean Christian values, then no, they seem about the same. But I'm not a theologian and my opinion is uninformed and irrelevant.

Either way, it's clearly not because of Islamic values.
To further the aside, there are many Olin buildings on college campuses, all due to Franklin W. Olin (the founder of the Olin corporation). There is also now an entirely standalone Olin College, which is the biggest shared name with this project in my opinion.
How is email 'effectively' centralized? There are tons of providers, you can even host it yourself. The only thing that might be somewhat centralized are spam filtering algorithmns that are shared, but many aren't.
The MB Pro the OP is asking about doesn’t even have crazy long battery life though. Its battery stores less energy than the MB Air IIRC.
My 2016 MBP ‘Escape’ gives up after about 4 hours with not much more than Safari browser and an editor running.
The company I work for builds machines like that for film post production. I’ve been writing software for one with 8 Titan Xp GPUs, and with its disks arrays and GPU expansion chassis its about the size of an Onyx, and draws considerably more power :-)

Unfortunately I wouldn’t say it feels like the future, more like a normal CentOS Linux desktop.

You’ll struggle to get a PC whose BIOS can handle much more than that too.

We used to build clusters for the same thing in the past, but that was largely standard supercomputing stuff but very similar to how the InfiniteReality machines were used. I believe our software once ran on Onyx machines in the dim & distant past.

So in short I wouldn’t say having loads of GPUs is enough to make it feel futuristic.
That makes it a lot worse, since the high costs mean companies that don't go vertical instantly die.
No. "Most of how 5uwy got where they are"...come on.
This day has already come, at least in China:

There are already 100 million (!) electro scooters in use in China: https://www.accessmagazine.org/fall-2010/electric-two-wheele... . This mega trend went pretty unnoticed in the West.

"Having lived in China for the last year it’s pretty much 99.8% ebikes. Petrol motorbikes don’t make an appearance except in very poor areas."
I'm not disputing that there's prior art for their design like C++ concepts (although C++ doesn't do run-time generics and CLU didn't do compile time). I'm just disputing the view designing and implementing it will be easy, like they could have just thrown it in there without taking substantial time away from other priorities and/or delaying the language, so anything short of providing generics day 1 is disingenuous or maybe ignorant.

Take this interview with Chris Lattner (of Swift) for comparison:

http://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript/.

Some of the things they want in the future but just haven't had time for (more reflection, core networking libraries, etc) are things Go provided day one. If you look at the recommended way of dealing with JSON in Swift for example, it's full of boilerplate. Go also provided green threads and GC which probably adds some implementation work compared to languages that don't have them. They've also prioritized language stability to a much greater degree than Swift.

I don't know to what degree Go has succeeded with its mission inside Google/Youtube (for new projects, obviously they aren't going to re-write everything), but it seems like the Go team has more resources than it did before, which might be part of why they're more comfortable tackling major changes like this now.

If language designers didn't want to make nuanced trade offs in the design space between compile time, performance, code size, ease of use/complexity etc and sweat all the implementation details I'm sure they could operate a lot faster. Javascript might have already cornered that niche though.
Another side to this, I myself have a feeling that software industry in developed counties is becoming more and more dependent on overseas "captive RnD centres" (yes, that's how they are called in pro manager lingo,) and more and more work in places like the Valley is about assembling code from knockdown kits made to spec by mule workforce abroad.

The few people from SV crowd I can speak frankly with, said "saying that will certainly not make you more popular here."

Do people realise that these "mules" are the real heroes here who do all the hard work on algorithmics. In a decade or so, USA based companies will certainly begin to scratch their heads.
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Look, I know there's a recency bias to life, but the 00's were nothing compared to the 90's, and that was probably nothing compared to the 70's.

I doubt we know what the next technology cycle that's going to spur the next boom in SV is, but it's going to happen. Otherwise, it's impolite and barely relevant to bring politics into it.
Sounds like a case for Bookhunter:

http://www.shigabooks.com/bookhunter.php
> Companies can ultimately fail even after going public. Later investors pay earlier investors, founders, or other shareholders by definition. There is nothing smart or dumb about either.

Smart Money = compensation via shares. It's "smart" because it generally grows quickly in value based on the companies pefformance, versus the dollar which only grows in value when the overall economy (standard of living) improves.

Dumb Money = compensation in cash.

Executive/early investor compensation via smart money really only became the norm when the government started to crack down on massive corporate salaries (1). i.e. massive "dumb money" payouts.

> Employees have options for liquidating there shares as well in the secondary markets.

Not all companies pay employees (especially those in lower tier roles/hired after a companies founding) in smart money. For instance, my company currently only pays in dumb money (no stock) below the VP level. About 7 years ago, we used to be employee owned, and we recieved/could purchase shares (technically smart money). They matched our 401K's with these shares. However, these shares were VERY different from the shares issued to corporate leadership. We were not allowed to liquidate until 5 years after leaving the company. When the company started to tank, the share dropped from $20 to virtually zero and corporate officers liquidated their shares quickly. Ultimately, the employee stock was dissolved completely when the company was sold. I personally lost $100K. The ex-CEO committed suicide this year - I'm assuming from guilt.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2017/11...
tcpdump is massively useful, I use it on a frequent basis with "-nn -T rtp", and some perl, to analyze missing/out of order RTP packets
Please give some examples. I don’t know what you’re referring to.
Give him a break, he only uses 10% of his brain, you know.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-us...
You're completely correct! There are lots of email providers, and you can run a server yourself. Having previously done so myself, it's possible I might be keenly aware of this fact.

I found the fine article we are discussing to contain a great link explaining emergent centralization, including of email. Perhaps you had a different experience.
Holy carp.

The link from the user below you, which I am reposting, as his link is [dead] is quite amazing...
Lenovo's Yoga Book... I want this device:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17788476/lenovo-yoga-book...
I am equally disappointed as well but I realized that my disappointment should be directed towards the people upvoting such lists and not towards whomever's creating them, because, on a personal level, such lists are useful. For the entire field however, I agree with you.
Frackers haven’t proven that they can make money
That's fair. But; employees at Google who weren't even remotely near the company's work on Drone AI programs were still disgusted and ashamed by it, enough to threaten quitting. Despite being separate firewalled departments, its about Identity and a compatibility of ethics with that identity.
> Nullified by the fact that charging stations are scarce

No, a related disadvantage doesn't nullify the fact of an advantage. Yes, charging stations are scarce and it takes longer to charge. It still costs less to fuel the car.

> I don't think this is a given. Even though more complex, I think ICE cars of today are quite reliable enough.

Well, good, I guess? Your opinion on how reliable cars ought to be isn't the subject of discussion. For what it's worth, I agree that you think ICE cars are reliable enough.

> Are there any studies that compare both and say Electric cars are indeed more reliable than an average ICE car?

Probably not; in general a (far) less complex mechanism is going to be more reliable. Electric cars are new and doubtless suffer from the growing pains of a new technology. Teslas in particular are full of little fit and finish issues that result in a lot of warranty work. But hey, I'll give you this one. Improved electric car reliability is not a proven fact at this point. I can't see any way a mechanism with orders of magnitude fewer moving parts won't be more reliable once it matures, but maybe there's some sort of terrible unforeseen issue. Who knows?

> Oh I am perfectly fine with the torque curve of an ICE. I am not racing on the roads, you know. With automatic transmissions, this is even less of an issue.

I agree that you hold this opinion. Others do not. Doesn't change the fact that this is an advantage.

I'm not really interested in discussing this further; I suspect you're going to keep moving the goalposts. You should purchase the type of car that most closely fits your needs and wants.
> The brilliant engineers of SGI soon moved on to become founding members of Nvidia, ATI, Imagination and other graphics tech companies.

It’s called “the University of Silicon Graphics.”
Very interesting. I think you may be right.

But, how can this argument be made more compelling? I mean, for example, is there an example of a knockdown kit from abroad you might point to?
This is great, how can I find more of these thought experiments?
Ahh, the line up at the turn of the century -- Windows Cement.
Really the question is not if or even why other places are rising up to compete with Silicon Valley.

The question is why has SV been so uniquely successful for so long.

I know we have our favorite theories — perhaps the density theory in the article is correct — but the debate rages on. And till we know why SV dominated we won’t know why it stops dominating.
HTTP/2 virtually eliminates the limit on concurrent requests. For example Firefox allows 100 concurrent requests by default with H2.
Right, but that's not what this article (and several others I've seen) are doing - they are measuring the performance of some AI by putting on some unnecessary (and quite likely impossible) constraints on what it is supposed to be outputting.

All I'm pointing out is that measuring any stock trading algo by treating it as a regression problem for the exact next time step is a naive approach - that's not the same thing as what human traders are doing.

Anyway, if you are trading then I wish you lots of success.
And takes up 3-5 times as much room.
The power of “I don’t know” in product design – UX Collective
There are some shortcuts like ctrl+O and ctrl+P that are easier with one hand on Dvorak. I personally have ctrl c, z and v in two places on my Dvorak keyboard. The Dvorak locations and qwerty locations. It's not particularly difficult to make a keyboard like this in Microsoft keyboard creator or Mac Ukulele.

Alternatively many people use Dvorak with QWERTY keyboard shortcut locations.
Do you have a specific example?

For example, I don't think they used the term "volunteer" in their funding drives. Maybe that's for obvious reasons, but I also don't remember seeing "volunteer" when reading about their approaches to page vandalism, editors abusing power, etc.
Because saying "relevant username" is frowned upon I'll just point out that R A Fisher is "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science"[0]

0.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fisher
Kotlin looks promising. Sure, you can use the whole JVM ecosystem with Kotlin/JS or Kotlin Native. But it looks like JetBrains is trying to bootstrap a JVM-independent Kotlin ecosystem.

So why Kotlin instead of TypeScript?

1. Potentially more static optimization, because Kotlin is designed from the start for static typing.
2. Ability to target other platforms (Android, iOS, desktop) without adding the overhead of a JS runtime.

Why not Scala?

1. Scala's standard library is heavier. For instance, Scala has its own collection classes, whereas Kotlin merely has its own collection interfaces. I assume this is why Scala.js advertises a starting size of 45 KB gzipped for an optimized build. That's not actually very small.
2. On the JVM, Scala fundamentally gets interop wrong in at least one way: Java getters and setters don't automatically become Scala properties, as they do in Kotlin. So idiomatic real-world Scala requires more wrappers.

The one thing that worries me about Kotlin is that it has reflection instead of compile-time metaprogramming (e.g. macros). Wherever reflection is used, it impedes static optimization (e.g. ProGuard, other tree-shaking). Sure, real-world JVM work has to use reflection sometimes, but at least JetBrains should have refrained from providing an API for doing Kotlin-specific reflection, and provided something like macros instead. (Edit: And yes, the Kotlin reflection API is implemented in the JS back-end. That was a mistake.)
I’m starting a new job, my cycle commute will increase from just 6 km to 18 km (and a few more as we’re going to buy a home). This is on the edge of my fatigue anxiety so I’m considering an e-bike.

Not only is it considerably cheaper than a beater car due to tax and insurance costs it’s faster overall even with the European 25 km/h speed limit. The bus of course takes twice as long and costs around €1500 per year.

Talking to various dealers and reading online it’s crazy how many new models there are this year. Giant alone have 38 new models.
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An obvious criticism about the implementation of this museum deserves to be mentioned--the postcard size of these screen shots misrepresents the websites visual impact. Page load time was a limitation, and a significant tradeoff in any design. Shrinking the page doesn't communicate the impact of sites like K10K to the visual landscape of website design.
"Mexico and canada specifically said NAFTA was perfect the way it was and that they would never renegotiate."

LOL. No, Mexico and Canada didn't "specifically" say that, and such is a ridiculous claim. Canada had a huge list of proposed NAFTA modernizations at the ready. Canada has been a very willing partner in renegotiation until it turned out that the US side was entirely in bad faith.

Out of which bullshit-hole did you pull that ridiculous claim?

"No. It was also anti-canada. Especially with the midwest states"

Given that most midwestern states rely heavily on Canadian trade, no, it wasn't. Wisconsin dairy farmers were swayed into thinking Canada was their problem, but that is a tiny, tiny proportion.

Just to be clear -- Trump has threatened congress, and overwhelmingly US congressional and senate reps have stated that they will not accept a NAFTA without Canada, to the point that Trump has petulantly said that he will just cancel the whole thing (which he can't do, but he has illusions that he is king). How does this indicate this anti-Canada sentiment you imagine?

"I guess, but goods trade deficit is still a goods trade deficit. Isn't that what trump was complaining about?"

If he is an imbecile, sure? I mean, he is, but aside from that it's like saying that there's a soybean imbalance so throw it all away. It is profoundly stupid.

"If trump's president is unraveling, don't you think mexico and south korea would have just waited it out?"

Absolutely not -- they got what they wanted. Trump is desperately trying to get a Pyrrhic win out of Canada before what is poised to be a devastating mid-term for him, and some serious legal troubles. Canada's best bet is to just walk away, which effectively they've done (note that Canada didn't meet Trump's Friday deadline, and there is effectively zero chance of a deal because Canada will not change dairy, and will not change the ITC process).
Who pays to educate developers?
Game producer/Game developer
- Be able to design MOBA game
- High proficiency in Unity/Unreal
- Can program the the game with C++, C#
- High proficiency in JavaScript
- Love MOBA games
- Has enthusiasm on educational game
Aren't all of those non-e-ink?
Yeah I might follow along too, I need some motivation ...
In the day I collected screen shots of K10K promoted websites in FileMaker Pro. I suppose these images are screenshots sitting in someone's CDROM collection. :)
I don't disagree that the cost of living and FAANG brain drain will likely challenge the hegemony of Silicon Valley in the short term. What interests me is whether software engineering companies will continue to focus on geographical centers, or if the future is perhaps more distributed.

Obviously this doesn't work in other industries like hardware, biotech, etc., where physical presence is baked in to doing business.
That's amazing considering that pangea was created 270 million years ago and broke apart 200 million years ago.
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> Perhaps your experience is different.

Very much so. For example, earlier this year I sent email to a company inquiring about an opening. Their response went straight to spam.
Charge at home if you live in a house. Sadly, for people with apartments, electric cars are super impractical, until most residential streets include charging stations.
As others have said, the whole point of these machines is that they were NOT simply creative combinations of current high-end commodity products. The whole system architecture, from the CPU, memory, I/O, to the graphics hardware, was custom designed. That's something you really don't see very much of these days.
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Because then everyone will use Lyft instead.
Is try..catch really useful?
Not a huge reason why you couldn't. There's some differences in current and voltage resolution; PD does 20mV increments of the voltage and similar for current, depending on the mode you ask for; and QC 3.0 does it in 50mV and 100mA steps IIRC. So you'd have to round up for the current and hope for the best with the voltage which would likely fine, cable losses would be more than the differences in steps. But that could result in less accurate regulation and such on the other end if it jumps too much and causes it to then request a lower voltage until it drops the next step.
Dvorak is preinstalled on every modern computer. For that reason I agree it only takes a minute to enable.
I think what you're really looking for is some curation and webdesign criticism. A scattershot site like this is a resource. Maybe this is your opportunity to do some writing (nudge, nudge). I look forward to reading your Medium article. ehehe.
BlendSDK: Our mvp version of the Router component is done
:-) I have a fully working O2 setup somwehere in the attic. Could not get myself to get rid of it. Also have an Indy that won't boot up.
You can just write the types, annotate them with github.com/clipperhouse/gen, and get pre-tested, reliable implementations around your type.

Generators are a legitimate solution and I wish they'd get more love.
https://stepsandleaps.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/feynmans-brea...
"There is currently no Android application for Zim available." from the github page https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Android-ap.... An Android app would be great. What I do is start up the zim server and look at my notes over LAN. A poor substitute.
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I'd still check out the TS-80, given a good USB battery pack it can be more easily portable than the TS-100 and some of the design changes are really nice improvements on the TS-100. I kind of hope they take them (most the tip design) and spin them into a new rev of the TS-100 for an updated setup.

The EEVBlog does a good review of things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z9es-D9_8g [TS-80 Review]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEYt2jTTVdE [TS-100 vs TS-80 comparison]
You should update the URL when a user searches for specific words. In this way the users will be able to share the search. It will help the website SEO and will be better indexed.

You should automate the job posting, because now it opens the chat. You should integrate paypal or another payment gateway.
>There are many examples of system programming languages, used to implement OSes

Yeah, but are there any examples of "system programming languages, used to implement OSes with GC at kernel level" where said OSes are fast, practical, and used by way more people and businesses than 100 researchers and hard core fans?
Let's please stop doing that to interesting vintage computers. Well, at least to working (or fixable) ones.
I cringe every time someone shows off that sort of project.
Nice weather. At a personal level, every other place trades off the year round nice weather for something worse, and I’d bet that that factors into most individual calculations even if the company doesn’t explicitly consider it.
True.

On the other hand, the "more ignorant CS approach" has produced impressive achievements in language tasks (e.g., translation), visual tasks (e.g., image generation), game playing tasks (e.g., Go), agent-in-virtual-world tasks (e.g., DOTA), and robot-in-real-world tasks (e.g., self-driving cars).

Academic statistics departments often seem to be "20 years behind" on all those fronts...
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In terms of pure Ruby performance, there's a semi-official non-trivial benchmark called optcarrot. Ruby 2.4 is 14.3x faster than Ruby 1.8.7 here: https://github.com/mame/optcarrot/blob/master/doc/benchmark....

Rails performance relative to JVM+Scala+Play is tricky to measure but the closest thing to a decent benchmark I know of is this: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r16&hw=...

My own experience at ChartMogul with building production services in Ruby, Go and Rust is that the overall throughput of REST API type services increases a disappointing amount.

With JRuby you get to retain all the benefits of the Rails ecosystem. Most of the Go and Scala community is driven by much larger companies who do open source libraries but they don't really build frameworks to help developers build software quickly.
Primary discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17875409 (148 comments)

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17887272

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17885364

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17885093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17881504 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17875429
I agree with your sentiments, but there is a contribution that the CS departments made that the statistics, math, Econ (as in econometrics departments) seemed to have overlooked. I remember going to each of these departments in 2002 and asking them why don’t we split the data sets to train and update the coefficients and automate the process. The answer was always the same “that’s trivial and adds nothing to the field”.
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Matthias is also a pretty great woodworker. You can absolutely get stuck in a youtube hole watching his videos.
The small old planes - typically hobbyist classic planes.
They copy some parts of design from each others, that's different culture of innovations in China. Bunnie has some explanations of that phenomena tagged 'gongkai' https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?cat=20