skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The benefits of some of those advances are questionable at best. Spending the last decade of your life commuting to doctor's offices (or bedridden) ain't no picnic, nor is rotting away in a forgotten corner of a human warehouse.
To me, it's absolutely not "questionable at best": it's a tremendous step for humanity on a path to a fully enjoyable long life."

1. Lance Armstrong, whom knew he had the best insurance, talked about driving from doctors office to doctors office when he had cancer.

I would love to see doctors offices strictly zoned in easy to get to locations.

We are at our worst, and just getting to the doctor is stressful.

I'm getting older, and thinking about Kaiser. At least you have all the primadonnas under one roof?

(Not a fan of most doctors these days.)
An isochronic map of the Roman Empire: http://orbis.stanford.edu/ (path: "About" popup > "Gallery") Sigh.
> Exciting, but not so ethical. We owe society to put our knowledge towards making it better for all people, not just "our team".

Our team promoted liberty and democracy worldwide (see below). The other promoted totalitarian dictatorship, labor camps, etc. If your team is liberty and democracy - self-determination for all - then it's not 'our team', it's everyone's team.

To address the elephant: Yes, there were many, many exceptions to the West's support of democracy, and many of them were awful (Indonesia, the Mideast, Zaire/Congo, and many others come to mind) but beyond a doubt, during the Cold War and after democracy and liberty exploded - stop and compare it to any other time in human history. Lots of bad things happened, but compare that with Soviet-dominated areas such as the USSR itself and Eastern Europe.
Nice but you missed a terrific chance to name said library "gOGame". ;)
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Ok, so finally time to move on to Gitlab, my weekend is gone! While from what I read GH issues are not going away, I won't be surprised if GH finally becomes a pure enterprisey product.

My only concern is what happens when Gitlab is acquired? If someone from GL can confirm that they have serious checks and balances in place to not let the users who make Gitlab succeed be left to fend for themselves, can be a killing blow to Github in retaining even the left overs!
> This trope is getting old. Variations include "Go is only popular because Google spends millions marketing it!".

I chose Angular.js because of google actually. And then Google did me dirty with Angular 2.

Corporate sponsorship is actually a huge driving for my decision and many company too.

Having a big company is a good indicator of success and it says that that programming language will have a stable contributors. Google also are using Go so they also have a stable programmers within the ecosystem.

Getting developers to adopt a tech and be in it is hard. Google have bunch of their dev in it and which increase the chances of these dev will present and talk in meetup to evangelicalize others.
This is a common refrain. Passive indexing is killing the market. ETFs are killing the market.

I take a very cyclical approach on everything. The rise of passive actually creates huge opportunities for active managers. We see this already in the ETF landscape: you can invest in any product today for very cheap. This creates a new challenge to manage the portfolio of the future. 60/40 allocations are the exposures of yesterday.
I feel like Jira is like democracy: it's the worst bug tracking tool there is, except for all the other ones.
Nah don’t feel that way! We all have different goals or reasons for doing things. I had a specific reason to learn. You had one too. They were just different.

Yup my bottleneck was before hitting the database server so I used the GPU to take care of it.
I get an email if someone enters my personal waiting room. I would notice if someone I didn't know was logged in during a meeting.
I see a lot of people complaining about JIRA in this thread, so here's my take:

- I've used Trello, GitHub Projects/Issues, and other Project Management software;

- While JIRA has a steep learning curve and is generally unpleasant to use, it is far and away the most customizable and powerful PM software I have used;

- Despite JIRA's poor design choices and UX clunkiness, it is so powerful that I wouldn't use anything else. I'm hoping their design, etc. will ultimately catch up, but even it doesn't, it's still probably the net best option available.
What do you tell your small human about the current behavior of many prominent adults, or if the small one is too young to see what's happening, what will you tell them?
on our zoom, you can schedule a meeting, and it gets a one-time number
No?

> Are Index Funds Communist?

> But when those thoughtful active analysts are replaced with passive index funds, the market stops serving that function.

> Indexing is cheaper, yes, but that's because active management has positive externalities, and if no one will pay for it, those benefits will disappear.

> But more fundamentally, there is an alternative view that the rise of passive investing will improve capital allocation

> The passive investors can't influence relative prices

> Their worry is that the growth in passive and quasi-passive products

> Or I guess pure indexing -- everyone passively throws money at everything that there is, with no judgment at all -- is an imaginable fourth answer, and is strictly worse than the others.
A pet theory of mine: if everybody starts investing in passive funds replicating indexes, then the creativity will go into increasingly more sophisticated indexes.

You might for instance want to make the bet that the market at large is systematically underestimating the risks related to global warming in particular, and the environment in general. Said differently, it is entirely possible that governments will start to tax the hell out of various externalities, like CO2 emissions, or plastic garbage generation. Or maybe courts will ask companies to pay to clean up after their own mess.

If you believe that this is true, then indexes (existing or being created) weighting in those risks will over-perform the S&P 500 in the medium term, until a couple of companies are wiped out and analysts start to correctly price in these risks...

That's just one example of the kind of creative index that could be created.
I think it depends on how it's configured and on the team's workflow. It really sucked at my second to last job, but at my most recent job it was reasonably usable, in that about half the time it was better than a comparable tool like Pivotal Tracker or Asana, and about half the time it was worse. A good and bad thing about it is that it isn't a typical single page app - good because it has fewer glitches and bad because it is more tedious in some places than Asana or Pivotal.
If you're getting feedback about not enough experience in the same thing from multiple interviews? It means you may want to study it more or deemphasize it on your resume.

If you're getting that feedback on multiple areas, you might try reporting less experience -- only showing your bay area jobs and saying recent experience instead of experience. (The downside here is for many companies years of experience = level = pay)
One of the problems with this claim is that the claimed effects of wind farms are local, while the effects of reducing the amount of C02 being put into the atmosphere are global.
It is not a trade-off.

Apple is instead purposely trying to make it more difficult to repair their devices.

This is evidenced because they ate lobbying against right to repair laws.

What possible, non bad faith reason could apple have for opposing people's right to repair their own property?
To be honest, the most amazing part of your story is everything that happened at the gas station. Not so much that you were caught on camera pumping the gas, but that they went after you for it, and that it wasn't pursued in a civil context. Not even a mailing you a bill, or sending a collections agency after you.

Okay, sure, there was no reason not to go inside and pay cash, and ask what's up with the pump, and maybe tell them to put a sign up, when it's all of maybe $20, maybe $40 at stake for a single tank. But I really want to know the background story from the perspective of the gas station. Like, how bad was the hit on that malfunction for them?

I really have to wonder, like was it a Mom & Pop station, or was it some huge multinational chain? And how long did the incident last? Did they lose an entire underground tank's worth of gas in less than a week, or even one day, with no transactions posted? I see "out of order" signs all the time. How did station employees not notice, and disable the pump in time? How many people got scooped up in the drag net?

They must have lost at least six figures worth of gas, and if it wasn't an independent station, I can only imagine that multiple station attendants lost their job for not disabling the pump. For a gas station to open a criminal investigation, to the tune of police reviewing possibly more than 24 hours of footage, running plates for every car that skipped out on a pump's error message, and making phone calls to track down individuals to dispense a warning under penalty of criminal charges, it must have been a real mess, and a total fiasco for the station owner.

Considering the insurance required for handling hazardous materials in a motor vehicle context, where a sleepy trucker could send an entire 18 wheeler plowing into the pumps, destroying an entire station, or a rusty leaking tank having the same effect, it's surprising that they wanted heads to roll over a malfunctioning credit terminal.
You may like Jira or dislike Jira, but having to click fewer controls, and likely wait fewer times for a Jira page to load, will be a plus. Especially if your company is heavily invested in Jira, and switching to your more favored issue tracker is infeasible.
Yeah, headset resolution is limited but that's why it's important to make the most of what you have. As I understand it the SDK quad and cylinder layers bypass the lens distortion pass and effectively analytically ray trace the optimal sample point for direct display. Carmack is always telling people to use them for anything text heavy. I haven't done a side by side comparison but this is probably why Dash text is a bit more legible than yours. Future headsets will have higher resolution but we're years away from high enough for this stuff not to matter.

As an experienced VR user my expectation at this point is that I can move panels around with my hands and ideally scale them too. Doing that well and in a way that doesn't trip up novice users isn't trivial though, Dash still has some work to do there.

I don't mean to be overly critical, my first VR app (for the DK2!) was written from scratch in C++ so I know how much work goes into developing something like this without an engine. I want this type of app to succeed so I can use it though so the feedback is intended to be constructive!
Name collision is unfortunate, thought this was related to Google Daydream at first, since it uses Google Chrome to access VR.

How is this different than BigScreen? It allows people to view computer screens (video games, browsers, movies) in VR with other people.

Edit: saw that you answered the bigscreen question earlier.
JIRA is the top project management platform for good reason. I know a lot of people complain that it's complicated, but every time I've something simpler we end up hitting a wall. JIRA just needs a sensible workflow configured for your project and it's great.

All that being said, I don't get this move. Atlassian has a very capable git product. GitHub should have attempted to anoint a new tool.
I’m not “blinded by [my] unwavering loyalty to the brand” but the suggestion that this sort of thing is going to send me over to Windows or Linux is ridiculous.

I’m a normal guy who works in IT and does pretty much everything with my MBP. Work (Citrix, email, Office), play (Logic, Lightroom), development (Sublime, Chrome, the Terminal) ... I mean come on.

For my “loyalty” to be considered “unwavering” there would have to be a legitimate alternative that does just what Apple does, but lets me repair my own [incredibly powerful, thin, built-like-a-slab-of-rock, trivial to keep up-to-date] laptop. That laptop would have to seamlessly sync my phone and watch, there would have to be superb Bluetooth in-ear wireless headphones available for this ecosystem ... it goes on and on. I’m all-in on the Apple ecosystem for a damned good reason and, while I may not love this approach to repairs, that does not make me an unwavering loyalist.

Don’t tell me that I can get this all with Linux and a Dell. You know I can’t.
Wow this was a great watch. Thanks!
What does "manually compiled to assembler" even mean? How is that different from "rewriting it in assembler"?
New Macbooks/iMacs will brick if they're repaired by independent technicians
Isn't Jira from one of its major competitor? This is interesting.
In my experience, REST APIs devolve into thin wrappers over SQL statements anyway. Might as well embrace it.
From that repo: http://postgrest.org/en/stable/api.html
Empirical data in individual studies are supposed to have statistical controls that mitigate incorrect conclusions, that's why p values are even a thing. To claim that on the one hand individual papers can be wrong, but the additive nature of a field somehow removes the possibility of error in the field, is misguided, to say it gently.

Could it be perhaps that this individual paper, which you claim undermines the "entire methodological framework" of these fields, could be one of those individual studies that comes to incorrect conclusions, not because of any statistical flaw, but because of the inbuilt fallibility and political biases of the authors?
Have you tried HP’s Quality Center (QC)?
Things are either fallible or they aren't, and since it seems you're willing to accept that all fields are fallible "to some degree" aka are fallible, we shouldn't edify any of them uncritically. Are you saying that you can claim things can be fallible without being equivalent? Because that's what I'm saying, and I'm glad we agree.

The replication crisis is a perfect example of the problem faced by all fields, of papers of questionable veracity being accepted by peer-reviewed journals. Convenient for you to say it is not up for discussion. However, I am casting a critical eye on your seemingly infallible nature, and I choose to consider it relevant.
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Sociopath brain?
See also: John Deere and tractor repair.
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That was true for some time, but they're making me miss Bugzilla now. I spend increasing amounts of time just watching Jira load it's ever more bloated UI.
The impact of this will be much bigger outside of the US, as most countries outside of North America do not have a single Apple Store.

In those countries, usually there is a licensed repair provider, but the customer experience can be drastically different. In Bulgaria, I've had to wait of over 3 weeks for a simple in-warranty repair of a MacBook, like a keyboard replacement.

Using unlicensed repair stores has been the only choice.

Now that this option is gone, it will surely be harder to justify owning a MacBook as a business device.
Erlang works just fine for that many connections (depending on how much CPU you spend doing real work per connection). Socket buffers are tunable. 32GB isn't that much ram for a server, Android phones are shipping with 6gb, you can get 6TB into a server without getting too exotic.
Maybe it's worth talking about how we can better secure the chain of custody in shipping? I asked about this a year or two ago and it got squelched.
Deciding to move to Gitlab because there is now a separate Jira integration makes no sense to me. Github has built a completely separate integration with Jira - it's not like anything in Github forces you to use Jira, but if you do use it (like a ton of companies do), you would want a better integration story.
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Your profile says you're in WA. How close are you to Portland? We should have a beer and swap stories. I'm in a similar situation.
Maybe it's worth talking about how we can better secure the chain of custody in shipping? I asked about this a year or two ago, here, and it got squelched.
I've started using a rails model backed by a SQL view anytime I need to do something more complicated than book.author.name with active record.

Then I can treat it just like any other rails model. If you add a controller and a route you can expose it just like you would any other read restful resource with the caveat that it's read only.

As an added bonus for analytics that don't need to be real-time I can turn the view into a materialized view that updates periodically for easy caching.

I'm using the Scenic gem to handle view versioning, which all let's me write all of my complicated queries in a dedicated SQL file instead of an embedded string without syntax highlighting.
It’s true for Tesla. Especially for body work. Takes many weeks due to backlog.

But anecdotally, after many many years of disappointing experiences with independent repair shops, when I could finally afford repairs at the dealer, I was no longer disappointed.
Big machines are cool. Now I want to Google to find what the insides of a big diesel locomotive looks like...

Anybody know where one could find cool pictures of powerful electric motors?
Maybe it's worth talking about how we can better secure the chain of custody in shipping? I asked about this a year or two ago and my question got the thumbs-down.
This....this makes no sense. An integration doesn't mean something else is going away. That's not how platforms work.

FWIW, gitlab is going to get acquired...it has to. Probably by google, or oracle, or salesforce, or ibm, or hp (or whatever name they have these days), or redhat. And depending on which one it is, will be how ruined gitlab becomes, because all of those seem like terrible options, but I digress now.
A mistake I used to make: not preparing for the onsite interview.

Things like...

* Researching your interviewers beforehand. I start with LinkedIn. It can be useful to know if they have just joined the company, or have been there for years.

* Making sure you have some good stories to tell about your most recent role, what things _you_ did/influenced/changed. Practicing them with a friend or spouse.

* Being physically prepared for the interview, getting a good night's sleep beforehand, arriving at the office in plenty of time so you're not flustered. I aim for >30 minutes early. Don't actually go into the office until 5-10 minutes before the interview is scheduled to start though.

* Finding out about the dress code at the company, and dressing accordingly or, if in doubt, slightly (but not too much!) smarter than the dress code you expect.

* Being ready to give a good handshake - warm, dry, and politely firm. If you notice your hand is cold and clammy beforehand, sit on it for a bit!

* Making sure you are polite and courteous to everyone you meet in the office. Maintain your posture. If you normally chew gum, don't. Assume that the interview starts the moment you set food inside the building.

* Be ready to appear fascinated and interested in the job role. Have some smart questions to ask at the end when they say "any questions?"
to be fair, I've never seen a good bug tracking tool
What about solving QUBOs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_unconstrained_binary... ) using Quantum Annealing?
That PC being compared to is way more capable than the $5000 iMac Pro. 1080 Ti vs Vega64, that $650 motherboard has better expansion options etc.
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Well yeah sorry to see the mac go. I love their products but will be my last macbook.
My understanding is that libuv creates a threadpool that it uses for IO operations and these inform the main thread when an IO event is ready. Is there something wrong with my understanding?
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The increase in energy-to-services efficiency of lighting has been stupendous. If you go all the way back to brands or torches (the burning sort), candles, oil lamps, gas mantles, incandescent, fluorescent, and now LED.

I have to keep reminding older concerned family members that a light might consume a dollar's worth of electricity per year, or that the bright overhead floods actually consume half the power of the 'low-energy' under-cabinet system (incandescent).
I will not be buying another mac after this.
Any chance you can suggest a good alternative?

For me its important that it is separate from GitHub for a few reasons:

- having a Jira project means we can easily move issues between projects. This is especially useful for when our support team notices an issue, submits a ticket to our "support ingest" project, and then it can get routed to the correct actual project on the backend. Or when an issue gets misdiagnosed we can move it between projects while keeping a single issue and all the history of it.

- having more complex workflows that allow you to force issues to go through specific steps, trigger webhooks, good fun stuff like that

I really would love a good alternative. Jira has just gotten slower and slower, their UX has gotten worse, and I really would like a good alternative.

However Jira has solid integrations into a lot of places and does a lot of complicated things.

Suggestions?
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Because he's already paying his lawyers to write it.