skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to disagree on this one. Even if PC hardware has caught up to a certain extent, software has not. Windows is a nightmare from my perspective (usability, privacy, developer tools, lack of good shell, package management, etc.) and Linux is not a viable alternative when you need certain commercial software.

A commercial Linux alternative focussed at desktops with appropriate support for commercial software and an easy transition path for users coming from the Mac would be great.

Speaking of hardware: I recently got a Lenovo for Linux testing. Multi-touch trackpad frequently stops working after standby. Boot time and wake-up time is a lot worse than on my MacBooks. Sometimes it doesn't wake up and needs a cold reboot when I open up the lid. I never experienced any of those issues on my Macs. Not even in 2006.
I have a mini atx build for Linux(I'm just a 100% linux guy), but I was considering a used mac mini or something for music stuff. I currently have to use a windows vm for a couple of instruments. But the state of music software on Linux isn't the best.
Exactly. The Macbook feels out of place now. It has one less USB-C port, less battery power, and is $100 more expensive with lesser specs.

And it has a different name. Before this new Air came out, I figured they were just going to kill the Air line and release a 13" Macbook at a cheaper price. (Which is essentially what this is)
The new MBA has touch ID though, whereas the entry level MBP doesn't. The convenience IS a lot of value for some people.
Thanks for the sentiment. The post is meant as a "living document" and will be updated with links and footnotes from now until I die (even if it kills me).
I'm trying to imagine what the benefit would be. Could you explain?
The road to hell is paved with well-meaning licenses though. I'm not sure if the licensure route is a good thing for the general software industry at large, but I think it should definitely exist at least as a signal for companies that make life-critical software to know you're not just a wide-eyed padawan.

Leave the wiz-kids to Facebook/Pinterest/Snapchat/Instagram, I think few people have an interest in having some young ego moving fast and killing people. This SW Engineering license may be a way to filter them out. But if a company ends up making the license a requirement, then that's a difficult road to be on for the next decade, since the license has only existed for 5 years.
I had to go and see what all the scrolling fuss was about.

That sideways scroll is so irritating, and just when you (hopefully) start getting used to it, it starts scrolling down. :facepalm:
Coinbase is now valued at $8B after closing new $300M round
There’s currently no VAT in the US, there used to be a VAT in Michigan but currently there are only sales and use taxes, which aren’t universal. Buying a MacBoox Air for $1,199 in Oregon will cost $1,199 out of pocket.
While standard histories tend to correctly describe the long term changes in overall positions, and the insights which contributed to those changes, they are more often wrong about which people and arguments caused such changes.

Such histories tend to be especially wrong when they claim that a prominent figure was the first to take a position or make an argument.

One can usually find lower status people who said basically the same things before. And high status accomplishments tend to be given more credit than they deserve in causing opinion change.
In a year or 2 when you are getting refreshers/compensation adjustments.

Netflix doesn't give stock so the stock price does not really effect them. All the rest will give you extra stocks if the stock price drops enough that it brings you below your target compensation.
Every year I consider spending some time to get familiar with btrfs and every year I read horror stories like this one and I stop right there.
Both ports are on the same side though...
>Actually, he's 100% correct.

No. You agree with their end point. How they got there is not factual.

I don't understand your second paragraph. Why should I care about proprietary software competition? And how are they building these free software moats that stop other people?

>Also, public roads are a bad metaphor for software: there isn't a market for public roads, and software can always be innovated upon

My use was very narrow, the ability for bad actors to use infrastructure doesn't put the infrastructure at fault. That said, roads have a market and allow innovation.
Apple executives are probably telling themselves these people are just trading in their old laptops for iPads hence why they have been doubling down on iOS for the last 5 years. Milking the entire ecosystem for 30% compared to 0% on a laptop sure hasn't hurt, either.
I have little faith people will change behavior unless they are pushed to. About 50% of my office would rather throw plastic bottles and utensils in the trash bins under their desks than walk 20ft to the recycling bin in the center of the office (yes, each desk could have recycling but that's not the point). Altruism is not enough of an incentive. Really, the only person people are accountable to in a moment such as throwing something away vs. recycling is their self. Without incentive, compulsion, or accountability it's hard to naturally get people to direct themselves towards a change in behavior.
It was a managed industrial switch from a 2nd tier manufacturer that am not going to name. Was found out because it was breaking the fiber ring on site. My colleague opened it, hooked to a UART, accessed the system and found it's running a Node application for Web UI. On (self-refreshing) status page it was accessing exposed to userspace PHY registers to read out the stats and not in a clever way, blocking up the switch.
I can get you a couple:

eBPF is a new kernel "tool": https://qmonnet.github.io/whirl-offload/2016/09/01/dive-into...

BCC is built on eBPF: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc

It's really cool new debugging and analysis stuff for the Linux Kernel. I'm asking my team to learn it ASAP.
What about going to a more specialized shop?

I'd rather trek a little further to B&H than receive a box with an ersatz version punched out after a factory officially closes for the night.
There's also a difference between entertainment and mere engagement. Superbowl ads are entertaining. They may be trying to influence your decisions, but they ultimately leave you with the feeling that you have your own free will intact.

The mere engagement of internet ads is often just a crude attempt to program peoples decisions by pressing all the right psychological buttons.

Of course, Superbowl ads arguably press those same buttons, but I tend to think that typical online ads are optimized to press those buttons as hard as possible all the time. Being subjected to that is exhausting and frustrating.

Incidentally, that's why I decided to quit playing MMO's (and most video games) 10 years ago.
Hashbrown: A faster HashMap for Rust
If you check his LinkedIn profile, you'll see he's connected to Drs. Thighbone and Anklebone.
You measure up front and plan. Doing a weight and balance calculation is a standard (and critically important) part of flight planning. For light aircraft in particular it is _really_ important because there is very little margin for error. With light private aircraft you're weighing yourself, your passengers, your bags, and the fuel load and you're only taking off if you're within a safe envelope.

I'm not familiar with airline operations because I've never flown anything bigger than a Cessna 172, but from what I gather the airlines assume an average per-passenger weight, and account for number of bags and the ground crew will distribute in the holds accordingly. Ever seen flight crew moving passengers on little regional jets? It's to make the weight distribution safer. The smaller the plane, the bigger the effect of a few passengers.
I think it's important to figure out what you want to use the Wolfram Language for. As a reference, I have about a year of experience with it, using Mathematica to do theoretical Solid Mechanics calculations with their phenomenal symbolic toolbox.

Here are two notebooks a friend of mine put together covering a few basic concepts that may help you:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YGM-xswFTjfwZ5MhFqpL...
So it looks nice when people browse the website on high-resolution screens?
There is a social cost to the long game, particularly in institutions (including educational ones, ironically) - you can end up in a tiny minority, without support, once you have something to show.
Would they at one point reach equilibrium though?
You need something much less humble: A convincingly-looking instagram photo creator that fakes the city of your choice in the background. A ton of tourism is driven mainly by the lifestyle factor, and much less so from historian's curiosity
Replying to your other comments (about how QNNPACK integrates and implementations of the Android NN API):

I'm not entirely sure what they're aiming for there. Usually when you see talk about "kernels" it's more of how particular filters/convolutions/low-level operations are optimized, and it is implied that kernels run on GPU (most of the time). They do talk a lot about microarchitectural details, size of caches and ARM/NEON operations, so it seems to be all implemented on CPU, but I don't really grasp how it ties with the vendor-specific implementations that you mention.

It could be that these are some new algorithms/implementations that focus on the strength of the systems (not particularly the CPU or the microarchitecture) and try to "go easy" on the memory bandwidth, for example, to get a better performance out of equivalent (maybe?) code.

This reminds me a bit of the numexpr[0] project, that accelerates numpy computations on python by rearranging data on memory to be more cache-friendly.

[0] https://github.com/pydata/numexpr
The machine being used is completely incidental to programming. Dijkstra used a fountain pen.

Which is more fundamental, the machine, or its mathematical abstraction? Why should people learn C, and not Lisp?
Then make something that's worth 4-10x the standard app.

For me, Scrivener was worth the $20. Omnifocus was worth the $40. They added enough value and ability above what other apps in their category had (or paired well, in my case, with apps that I already had on my computer).

It is precisely entitlement that causes people to think that software isn't worth anything ("Code is just typing after all.") or is only worth $5 at most. Good software is worth it's cost if it adds value to your device and workflow or entertains you for a sufficient amount of time.
Periphery now provides 100% of results for free
I want to say there's a new revision of the MFI controller spec, but nobody's put out hardware under it as of yet.
I thought it was a play on the rule that any headline ending in a question can be answered with "no".
Typic
These are things that are processed better by a smaller number of more powerful cores than a larger quantity of cores.

Multiple cores are really good at handling a lot of smaller processes. Photoshop just has a couple really heavy individual processes.
Out of curiosity, why is it ever a good idea to add a command to execute arbitrary strings in the same space as the user? eval() has been the same source of headaches in javascript over the years.

I believe WoW uses it primarily to let the player make macros, which is a legit use, but using something like RunScript to do it seems lazy.
It's sad because we really don't appreciate these small things in our lives until they are gone.

I think humans are naturally receptive to nature, but we take nature for granted when it's always there, until one day it isn't.
I'm at a US MD school and we have plenty of time to do needlecraft and the like. Most of us aren't Albet Einstein, at least I know I'm not. My favorite thing to do is volunteer for Habitat for Humanity (we do roofing, wood work, dry wall, etc), and I have plenty of classmates that are involved in the arts. Not trying to discredit how hard we've all worked to have the opportunity to be in a US MD school. Tens of thousands of people would give up everything to have our spots.

In relation to the article, we have plenty of opportunities to do suture clinics as a second year and even practice with box trainers. Perhaps training is different outside the United States.
Dell doesn't call it edge-to-edge or all-screen in their marketing.

Anyway looking at the dimensions of the iPad Pro 12.9" model it's 11.04 inches wide with a 12.9" 4:3 screen. The screen itself is going to be 10.32" wide as a result, putting the bezel at .36" or around 9mm. By comparison the XPS 13's bezel is 5.2mm.
mIRC by default would not auto-accept .INI files, there was a blacklist on certain file types that would be rejected, with INIs as one of them.
I recently wrote on how to build/grow clean software out of Jupyter notebooks and on pitfalls to avoid when coding like that: https://github.com/guillaume-chevalier/How-to-Grow-Neat-Soft...
> Maybe Bhutan provides a glimpse of what tourism can be. Put a cap on the numbers and charge a significant fee for a tourist visa. I’m sure this might seem extreme,

That doesn't sound extreme at all. In fact, charging for entrances is a basic technique to moderate demand. The question is what would be the economic impact of such a measure, because the tradeoff between charging admission and restricting access, thus restricting other sources of income and therefore jobs, might not be positive for an economy.
Ah, I just re-read my post and I was unclear in that portion because I edited it too much.

I meant to say there was no A11X. I'll edit that in shortly.
This is a major problem with the education system. Doctors/professionals are being selected for their memorization skills, not for critical thinking or for their mind-body connection/self-awareness. The best humans for memorization aren't humans at all, it is AI - and so schools are selecting people who's positions will become most obsolete in the near future. This will be a problem for society as the status quo, doctors et al trained for positions their education and loans went towards, will no longer be the best option for people - and there will be resistance by the status quo, by these doctors et al.
Of course, those who can't afford the premium experience will be subjected to either "virtual queues" behind ill-behaved NPCs or in front of conveniently located bill-boards / advertising screens, or the "virtual tout" taking mere product placement to a whole new level.
Apparently those students skipped Arts and Crafts in school.
That's precisely the problem: I don't know how big of a problem it is, and I'm not keen to find out. I know it's enough of a problem that it's easier to simply shop elsewhere.

I personally know a few people who have gotten counterfeit items, even including consumables like protein powder. I don't have to buy from Amazon so it's just a chance I'm not going to take until such a time I can be convinced it's not a problem. It's not any more difficult or even expensive for me to shop elsewhere so I don't have to be particularly rational or thorough about it (I don't have time for that!).
Since you're a CS student, i recommend incorporating Mathematica into your studies as much as possible. Especially for your more math-oriented courses. That's how I learned Mathematica as a math major. Anything from checking the prime factors of a number, to visualizing a parametric function, so much more.

Couple caveats: Matlab will be more useful for graduate studies and industry (different tool, however). Also, with such a powerful CAS, there's a risk on using it too much and becoming overly reliant on it. Just like any calculator. Use it to check your answers and explore an idea, but don't lose your mathematical intuition by doing all of your thinking with it.
I can buy that -- but wouldn't they still at some point want to make the main chat window for the game into some kind of safer wrapper around the bash prompt?

This is coming from someone who doesn't play WoW; is it common for a mod to expose custom commands in chat or something? Or are mods maybe using it as a buffer to send commands?

I guess if they're detecting and popping up a warning prompt, but they're not willing to get rid of the prompt and just always escape the input, there must be some stuff out there that utterly depends on players clicking "allow". That's baffling to me, but I am often baffled.
I didn't really learn web development seriously until the age of SPAs, so I find SPAs much easier to reason about than multi-page. That said, I'm not really sure that a UI which is mostly fields and forms really warrants a front-end framework unless its an extremely complex, stateful flow.
The 3 year old Mac Mini, now for significantly less than a new model!
By butterFS do you mean btrfs? I know the former only as a pronunciation of the latter.
Oh man, being old enough to remember those times I do not miss it. I do not miss dial up speeds as well.
I don't see any objective measure of this assertion, such as students taking longer to stitch with practice materials. This whole thing seems like a "kids these days" lamentation.
You could instead have a lottery like for Olympic Games tickets, so that only the luckiest are able to visit such places.

But I don't see why the locals living there would want to. They get to set the rules, and for them the money from rich tourists is certainly more attractive than being able to "show their culture" to a balanced sample of the world population.
Eve Online is still kicking with its frequent updates (they shifted from an expansion every 6 months to a release every 6 weeks about 2 years ago)
When you see weird syntax I suggest doing FullForm[Hold[whatever]] which is kind of like doing quote and macroexpand in a Lisp.

f[#u, #v, #u] &[<|"u" -> x, "v" -> y|>] // Hold // FullForm =>
Hold[Function[f[Slot["u"],Slot["v"],Slot["u"]]][Association[Rule["u",x],Rule["v",y]]]]

FullForm[Hold[f[#u, #v, #u] &[<|"u" -> x, "v" -> y|>] // Hold // FullForm]] =>
Hold[FullForm[Hold[Function[f[Slot["u"], Slot["v"], Slot["u"]]][Association[Rule["u", x], Rule["v", y]]]]]]
How do you convict this?

I assume you've had to take sexual harassment training before? It's usually explained there. In the United States, the EEOC files lawsuits on behalf of the victims.

Pretty sure there is a lot of legal liability in asking for a massage or hitting on someone during an interview but I’m not a lawyer

Yup, there is, and it comes from the EEOC suing you.
I just built a 32GB, 8 core/16 thread, NVidia 1050ti discrete GPU, 480GB m.2 NVME machine with a premium power supply and case for exactly $800.

I always expect 80-100% markup on a Mac, and I've accepted it, given the integration and beautiful design; but this time they went way over the top, especially with the upgrade prices. To get an equivalent Mac Mini (ignoring that it's impossible to get 8 cores and discrete GPU), I would have to spend about $2100. That's about 160% markup on comparable components. That's a first in Apple history, as far as I can tell.
Show HN: Graphqlgen – Generate type-safe resolvers based on your GraphQL schema
I was deeply disappointed to find out that Tom Burr is actually an artist.
How to Grow Neat Software Architecture Out of Jupyter Notebooks
Threema had decentralized, user-controllable (yep/whitelist/nope) avatars for longer than Signal had their server-stored avatars :) And without the requirement of linking your identity to a phone number.
I'm a huge fan of databricks, its got github sync built into it
I think I learned more about windows and chrome (and internal google politiks) from this one blog post than really everything I've read over the past year.
This seems to be were we're heading at currently [0].

[0] https://www.gapminder.org/topics/fertility-child-mortality/
That's why I'm thinking you'd naturally involve a simple permissions model [let script access chat?], just to avoid surprising behavior. Or more specifically, in-game I/O operations (eg trading, sending, etc). The latter would really protect you from everything malicious I can think of, outside of deleting your inventory kind of attacks
This! Many Shenzhen China street bbq 'hawkers?' will offer you a plate that is covered with disposable plastic bag, so they don't need to clean the plates (cost more than bag?), only throw away the bag (throwing meaning recycling by someone else). Its purely about making a living....NOW...all down to the smallest bit of margin and plastic it seems. It also seems plastic in Asia is a lot more recyclable than in Europe, where it's seen as a threat. In China you put your banana peel in the 'non recyclable' bin and your plastic in the 'recyclable' bin... This sorta hints at the human cost behind recycling this stuff it seems...beyond being someones retirement fund, can we really get rid of this plastic? What are the costs of this? Are there more energy efficient alternatives?
This sounds like a valid concern until you realize that it is just transfer of responsibility.

What the surgeon wants is for lower level schools to provide him with students that are pre-trained for his specific needs.

If the Imperial College of London needs people who can cut-and-sew, then the Imperial College of London should teach them to cut-and-sew.

Or even better, the Imperial College of London can just institute a “cut-and-sew” entrance exam. Given the status and pay of a surgeon, it is likely that the exam prep industry will do the training job for them.

If they don’t, then some Youtubers surely will. Problem solved, no robots harmed and everyone got some extra plushies.
Also, free software updates that you don’t pay for with your privacy.
Welcome to the world where shareholders are valued more than customers. Honest, we consumers used to reap the benefits of tech advancing. Now the shareholders do.
I submitted it to HN too, why not! Here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18339703
What's your bar for "verified"?
At least we agree on one thing :-)
Dead as in, has no future.
You know what they call the worst medical student in their graduating class?

"Doctor"
I get RAID 01 and 10 mixed up all the time. These names are too similar. Please understand that I meant the better of the 2.
The same forces that are causing these students to lose the dexterity to stitch are bringing the advent of surgical robots that will do this for them.
People go where other tourists go. Very few tourists actually care to have awkward interactions with locals or feel that they are intruding. People on holidays want to spend a pleasant time and not think a lot (despite what many travel guides say). In a massively tourist city, they feel comfortable and they dont stick out
I think that's just how things are. I'm 23 and haven't found a better way yet!
For drive-managed SMR drives, yes, but these seem to be host-managed ones. So the filesystem has to be aware of the zones.
Forgive the humor in a HN comment, but because of you I shall add "upfalse" to my working lexicon.