skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could also keep a counter of the number of non-zero entries and update on zero/non-zero transitions.
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Yup, I found my current job via HN who's hiring.
It seems that Anaconda is under-appreciated outside of pydata circles. Before using it I had no idea that it could manage virtual environments, dependencies and different versions of python.

The fact that it's not a community-driven project might be one of the reasons.

Meanwhile, in a galaxy far away, people are also using buildout.
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I’ve been using the Sleep Cycle app for iPhone. I got the recommendation here on hacker news.

Still not certain whether it works or not. Sometimes it tells me I’ve slept with a 90% quality but I still wake up feeling a little bit tired..
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I think that people working close to the steam weaver could have been thinking the same about the eggs and the omelette. And yet here we are.

Software is a tool. A really diverse tool. And you can have it written in may different ways; you can have Wordpress or any other buggy system or you can have the software on board of the Voyager probes. There are standards that can be enforced and new 'unknown unknowns' to solve but the technology is here to stay, Luddite.
I have frustrations with Mac and really what I want is a good Unix laptop for my work stuff. Any games that can run are a bonus.

I’ve tried Linux for 20 years and still have hope.

Windows 10 is my org’s basic workstation deployment so I have something that sits on my desk for email and hr forms and stuff. It’s a horrible experience as it’s slow, needs admin rights for basic user functions (install apps, change screen saver, set notifications, etc).

Using windows vms for a few projects showed me that most of these annoyances are actually my org’s configuration, not really flaws of Windows.

So now I try windows for my main laptop every year or so and give up because Microsoft’s consumer distributors is too much of a pain to pare down. And some of the configurations I want, I can only get through a business account (office365 planner, excel forms- stuff I use macOS and google forms for).

It’s possible to set up what I want, but I have to be a Microsoft admin for myself (time to renew my MCSE cert).

Comically, I can get a pirate iso that’s pretty nice, but it’s a hobby to keep it cracked.

I hope Microsoft makes their own “pro” line that have a stripped down distro targeted to developers or local root users with their own hardware.

Until then, I just bought a Mac book pro this Jan because it’s the best available for me (sadly with only 16GB memory).
I tried a few of the package management in Python recently (https://www.vincentprouillet.com/blog/overview-package-manag...) and had the same conclusion with Pipenv. It is way too slow and frankly the UX is not that great either.
They don't. Stuff like "This bad boy runs so much better now." and "For when you can't even alt-tab fast enough to abandon ship." (taken from changelog). This is just additional shit you need to parse with no additional information received. Similar to Microsoft and their Windows Installer "We'll setup a few things for you", which is equally stupid.

People™ usually include much more swear words and other non political correct terms (or memes). When a company does that, it always feels forced.
This is going to put the brakes on crappy drop shippers. Good riddance.
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It will probably happen, if not enough money is coming in from this. My feeling is that Nitro is not enough currently. Maybe the shop will help.
I sometimes wonder what is the evolutionary advantage of being as sure about ourselves and dismissive of others like a lot of us humans are.
The one I have here is from '69-'74, and note that it's still certified "U", it simply starts with a verbal notice that "these early Sesame Street episodes are intended for grownups and may not suit the needs of today's preschool child," so it's a pretty mild warning. Milder than I remembered actually.

I found an article talking about it. It's pretty mild stuff, but an interesting illustration of how what we consider appropriate changes in all kinds of small ways:

> What parent today would want their child to see kids running through a construction site or jumping on an old box spring? Scenes like the ones included on the new DVD would probably not make it into today's program now.

> "We wouldn't have children on the set riding without a bicycle helmet," Rollins Westin says.

> And what's that little girl doing with that man?

> "In the very first episode, Gordon takes a little girl's hand who he's just met on the street, befriends her and takes her into his home to give her ice cream," Rollins Westin said. "That's something we wouldn't do on the show today."

(From https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sesame-street-for-adults-only/ )
> It also works on your MacBook. [4]

It did absolutely nothing on my 2015 MacBook (tried Safari, Chrome and Firefox).

It does work on 2012 MacBook model on Google Chrome. I guess it only works on MacBook models that supported a mechanical disk — I think the sensor exists in the first place to protect spinning rust disks by parking the heads just before impact.
It takes about 2 minutes (feels like 5!) on my 2016 MBP to install 102 dependencies. Doing that in Docker takes about 1.5x the time. I haven't seen it take 20-30 minutes, but 2-3 minutes is still obscenely slow in my view.
> anybody have a mirror? site's down...

http://archive.is/hldpY

I wonder did Gates ever manage to get the shares back?

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/10/15/business/15reuter...
I did the same and found pip_venv to be much superior
So you're artificially building something that's gives you some of the benefit of using a generator expression in a list expression, instead of just using a generator expression?
Yep. All of my first computers were made in the USA. Astounding quality.
I wanted to buy this on kindle immediately - and can’t. Argh!

What an amazing passage. Thanks for sharing.
> If you do not believe that people should profit from increasing the lethality of the military, then you do not believe in the utility of having a military.

That doesn't follow. One can believe in the utility of the military while at the same time holding that it must operate purely as a public service, so that no incentives are created for a state of permanent war. Famously, an American president expressed this very concern. I doubt that Dwight Eisenhower did not believe in the utility of the military, given that he was a general.
I've migrated to pipenv in most of my projects, it's simple and great for application development but I still write everything to work with pure pip as well so the Pipfile basically lists my application as a dependency and I mainly use it for the lock files.

For library development I target pure pip/setuptools but still use pipenv during development phase. There have been a few cases where pipenv had problems and I had to either remove my virtualenv and reinitialize it or even remove my pip-file/lockfile, but since I still have my setup.py it's not a big deal for me.

As for uploading etc I use twine but I wrap everything in a makefile to make handling easier.

A problem I noticed recently was a case where one of my developers used a tool which was implicitly installed in the testing environment since it was a subdependency of a testing tool but it was not installed into the production image. This resulted in "faulty" code passing the CI/CD and got automatically deployed to the live development environment where it broke (so it never reached staging). Caused a little bit of a headache before I found the cause.
Another one is the Push Notifications in browsers.
I always block them. Once you open up such APIs websites will abuse it no matter what.
For pure-python library projects, I found Poetry the best option these days (haven't tried Hatch). But it is still heavily under development, so it's not necessarily a black-box solution.

The biggest pain point of Pipenv for me is that it cannot as yet selectively update a single dependency without updating the whole environment.
People who don't think that the NSA already has technology that even casinos use have their heads in the sand.
Ah, yes, the AccuWeather Protection Act. I do recall that.
I mean, it can work but not perfectly. For face recognition tech, accuracy matters and my hypothesis is that Amazon could do better vs. IBM. And Amazon doing it could be much cheaper and better. The taxpayers money will be spent regardless and in one case it would be more efficient.
Well if you watch him play he isn't playing a simple chord that is controlling two pianos. He actually has them randomly produce different sequences periodically. He plays a chord and the two pianos have two different arpeggiations going. If you look a little closer you will see the sequences coming and going.

> The Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and composer's fourth solo LP finds him working with Stratus, a piece of computer software he programmed over two years in collaboration with Halldór Eldjárn. It uses MIDI values triggered by what Arnalds plays on his primary piano (equipped with a Moog Piano Bar) to generate different sequences on two player pianos. The process can create randomized feedback and lead to progressions that might be unplayable by conventional methods. Arnalds has described it as a way to change up his creative thinking: "You get ideas that you would never get otherwise, just because this inspired those ideas." https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/41922

> The MIDI interfaces on the pianos aren't at all novel, either: any piano can be retrofitted with a PianoDisc system. Just about every pipe organ nowadays also has MIDI capabilities.

Well if you listen the pianos they have a totally different sound and it is due to the mechanical way they were designed. He has stated that he had spent tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours to get the two pianos to sound this particular way. This isn't some simple little trick that anyone could pull off.
Then some other airline create a huge competitive advantage by not using it.
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Oops, I guess I missed that comment. Thanks!
> Over the years I upgraded to a MacBook Pro, then the MacBook Pro touchbar and in the middle of that I bought a 27inch iMac.

Frankly, the sudden price sensitivity seems odd. Is there something else going on?

> With the work I do on photo/video editing and my love for flight simulators...

Aye, there’s the rub.

> Another reason to bail is the expense in repairs, particularly living in a country where there is no official Apple store. Apple has these machines made so that if something breaks you are basically fucked and the only choice is to take it to get repaired.

Probably the strongest objective statement in the whole post. Until…

> If things break on the custom build I am working on then I can easily fix without it costing me a fortune.

Except the total cost (price+time) of replacements in a custom build can go UP after just 2–4 years if you didn’t buy into the latest spec for a given component, undercutting the value argument.

> Apple once catered to creatives and when I first used a Mac I was amazed by the creative tool suite they had.

Additionally, the rest of that paragraph is, contextually, a strawman.
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I’ve worked on both OSes for 20+ years (graphic design, photo editing, video editing, web development.) Microsoft has closed the gap. So, unfortunately, has Apple. But the view that Windows 10 has changed the game is myopic. Bottom line, the whole Mac vs. PC thing has been tired for well over a decade.

The way I think of it is similar to the idea in photography that a great photographer doesn’t require expensive equipment to produce great photographs.

Choose the best tools for your craft that you can afford and be deliberate in making the best possible use of them.
Polyglots might also be interested in asdf (https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf). It's like Pyenv but supports various languages via a plugin system (eg. https://github.com/danhper/asdf-python).
One point: Coase did not write the theorem you're attributing to him -- Stigler did, by cherry-picking the anti-regulatory pieces of Coase's 1960 paper while importantly ignoring Coase's own warnings about the conditions Coase lays out for the case against regulation. These are, and I quote from Coase: "very unrealistic assumptions". The U of C crew nonetheless elevated Coase's conjecture to the rank of a general theory, and a tsunami of right-wing economics quackery has followed this parlor trick.

I suspect there is no honest reading of Coase that supports the notion that the public benefit of the spectrum must be thrown to the market. Readings of the market-fundamentalist Chicago Boys who ran with the favored pieces of his work, sure, but not of him.
~6 years ago I hired someone from the HN hiring thread. A little over a year ago I found a new position myself from an HN hiring thread (and my aforementioned friend/colleague joined me soon after).
No, they won't. These terms just aren't used any more. That's partly because of the euphemism treadmill, and on the colonial history of these terms.

More importantly: the real world does not conform to any such arbitrary differentiation into a single binary variable.

There just isn't any need for such a classification anyway. If you want to index something to a country's wealth, just use any per-capita economic measure and be done with it. GNP is fine, I'm sure it wouldn't make much of a difference if you used iPhones/per million or the Big Mac Index, instead.
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Unless the staff operating the public service receive no compensation at all, then there is profit involved.
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As a personal investor I hold a few Amazon stocks (yes, not much, but I have a small bet on Amazon).

Nevertheless, I see a huge risk to doing this kind of business. Short term there might be profit, but long term it hurts your brand with consumers and erodes trust.

A consumer dependent company like Amazon should avoid getting into ethical issues. Because it limits long term growth.

At least that's my two cents.
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Are you claiming that Bluetooth can never be useful for anyone because you don't find it useful?
>, but I have friends who had quite old macs that were still performant enough after 8 years for running recent software.

That is the norm in windows land too now. Computers haven't gotten much faster in 8 years.
Thermal stress on a coil of copper wire must have less of an effect than on a piston engine where wear occurs dramatically faster when cold. Obviously the rest of the airframe would be more-or-less the same but electric motors (especially when running off VSDs) don't really suffer per start the way ICUs do.
I'd have to see it in action in my own team before passing judgment.

On the other hand, I can totally understand people associating Jira with everything that is awful with "Agile", and as you mentioned, micromanagement.
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> “Seriously Apple, what is going on with the QA department there?”

Oh boy, he is in for a surprise on the Microsoft side of the fence...
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Meditation is great when retiring and reaching old age and being in peace. How does one suggest an elder (preferably a parent) without forcing? Is it morally wrong to even think about this ?
Maybe pricing arbitrage? Every gamer I know has like 20-30 titles in their queue they want to try out. To purchase all of them only for a few moments play would be prohibitive. Pay per use makes more sense if it falls below current gpu cloud cost (~$1/hr).

What's amazing is that if you can deliver video games at 4K 60fps. You can deliver all but the most intensive any application this way.
I definitely see the potential for harm in this, but I'm excited to program arduinos from a web ide with a statically-served text editor + toolchain. Personally I switched to Firefox. The ideology is only minimally better, but I'd sooner trust Mozilla to ask my permission to use a new web api.
Who curates the packages to prevent security issues?
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Wizard privilege, eh?
Roadmap is exactly what I've been wanting in Jira for years, and have either convinced devs to build for me at internal hackathons, or hacked together myself, or bastardized in Google sheets. Can't wait to try this!
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All of these are about the monthly "Who is hiring" thread. None of these are about the Hacker News "jobs" listing that you get to by clicking the link in the top bar.
Pairing your phone with your pc for realtime inputs w/o going through internet.

For example https://www.airconsole.com/ turns your phone into a gamepad for multiplayer browser games. But I think they are using web sockets or webrtc right now which is kind of silly when everyone is in the same room looking at the same browser.
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Well, but that is not what the title presents, just the dual (what to do if you want to help).
Being able to use Bluetooth REPL for microcontrollers running MicroPython is somewhat cool, but also rises serious security concerns, if such a device is used for IoT.
I just noticed that [4] doesn't work on Safari or Firefox either (but does on Chrome) on my MacBook 2010. Maybe it wasn't the best demo of that feature ...

The API is pretty well supported on tablets and phones though, which is where the main use case is.
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The web app in question depends on PANDAS + numpy so that's definitely part of the toolchain. It wasn't 20-30 minutes from day one. The lock time started fast and then ballooned. Other comments here saying 2-3 minutes per lock are consistent with my general experience.

This wasn't for complex pipenv operations either. A simple command: pipenv run python main.py took progressively longer to execute.
Without that courage humans wouldn't have made most of the discoveries we have.
Hey, at least you can tell that the person can program and is down for automating things and not doing everything manually.
>Google is 90's Microsoft with better PR. Well actually it's worse than that because MS didn't usually have access to my private data while google knows almost everything about their users if they have an Android phone and use gmail

This is the statement that I have known for years but never put into words. And it rings terrifyingly true.
Personally, I feel like if I calculate an exact 15% to the penny, I'm being petty. So I'll typically calculate the exact tip, then round up.
And given enough thrust pigs will fly. I'm sure it would be magical when it actually happens but it has not happened so far.
You're not legally required to, so you don't have to.

My government actively engages in different military operations around the world, even if I may disagree. For "ethical" reason the bank managing my pension fund refuse to invest in companies supplying the military my government use for missions I disagree with. So I have mixed feelings about mixing ethics and business.
If given the choice between (1) increasing their personal wealth by 1% + tech that will violate billions of people's rights and result in the death of millions, or (2) no increase in wealth + no surveillance tech, then I'm afraid a disheartening large percentage will pick option 1 and find a naive and shortsighted way to justify their decision.
> I'm in the UK and my recent trips with Uber have cost around the same as a standard taxi ...

My experience is that they're about 10-20% more expensive on short local trips, but about 20-30% cheaper on medium distance trips, where Uber drivers have the benefit of not having to return to the area where their company operates from.
>but long term it hurts your brand with consumers and erodes trust

In crazy circles maybe. I'm not seeing any sort of backlash against the military as Americans generally have a very positive view of it.
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Note that you can pick up a pretty well equipped pc for $1K and can upgrade/cannibalize that total (PC/display) investment for many years.
I predict they'll be a regime change in Venezuela real soon .
I'm not a programmer by trade, but I dabble, and these issues make it much less fun.

In my limited experience, Clojure's Leinengen is a far more pleasant way to solve these problems. I'm sure there are many other examples in other languages, but in the few I've used, nothing comes close. Each project has versioned dependencies, and they stay in their own little playground. A REPL started from within the project finds everything. Switch directories to a different project, and that all works as expected, too. It's a dream.

[https://leiningen.org/]
I’m disappointed your post did not cover using conda. As the pipenv drama has rolled on, I’ve moved from viewing conda merely as the best user experience in Python environment & package management to instead viewing it as the only serious option for professional scientific computuing work (and quite possibly any professional Python work at all).
https://blog.givewell.org/2018/06/29/givewells-money-moved-a...

I feel like that pretty comprehensively answers your question. Givewell is a[n ea affiliated] charity which empirically evaluates the effectiveness of other charities, and aims to convince charitable givers to give to those they deem most effective. They've had a lot of success in this goal. Their top charities are listed and in depth reasoning for their evaluations are available.
First we have to address our ridiculously outdated structure and actually government sanctioned class system.

Having a queen and a ridiculously nationalist political parties has to be the most embarrassing parts of being British.

God (lol) divinely gives power to the queen (lol) through birthrite (lol) and we are her subjects (lol).

It is so deeply offensive that I am meant to he her slave, and its shocking how much idiots dont think it matters.
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For those wondering (like I did): it doesn't seem like this has any relation to Common Lisp's ASDF.
This was supposed to be a weekend challenge
Every once in awhile I take a break from my main projects just to challenge myself with some new technology that I haven't use before. This time I was aiming at learning React and Firebase and while this was only supposed to be a weekend challenge, now I might just continue building it :P

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Strangely on my 6 month old Lenovo X1 Carbon Thinkpad I have better battery on Fedora 28 than on Windows 10. I think maybe Windows updates are part of the reason, the fans go mad when there's a WU process running, I don't think i've ever heard the fan going off under Linux.

Workloads aren't massive - on both platforms i've probably 50% Firefox, 30% VSCode, 20% SSH.

I rarely need to boot into Windows bar 2 apps. However the update process is so unbearable I make sure to login once a week just to make sure major updates are done as i've been stuck before trying to login but WU spends 15 minutes finalising some update. Can't believe they made update management worse under W10, it's easiest the best bit about Linux when I show newbies.