skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of see the point. To an extent.

The name adds some cache when hiring. Some of our top talent came to our company solely to work on my team. It also gets you exposure at conferences and events. A good enough recognized name will sometimes even allow you to raise more money even if they are not in management.
It’s so tiny it’s practically the size of an iPad. If you travel a lot this can be a huge deal. I did a ton of development on one and it was great, but I had a beefier machine for visualizations and big compiles. Still, the tiny 12” is my go-to computer, small disk notwithstanding.

It also appears anecdotally that the smaller screen is more popular in Asia than in US/EU (for both Mac and Windows).
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Doesn't appear to be the case anymore.
"There is a reason that under current law using/selling drugs is punished: society as a whole might suffer."

Hate to break it to you, but the "war on drugs" was and is really a war on minorities, and a war against alternatives to prescription drugs (among about a half dozen other nefarious reasons).

When I was 12 I would have believed that "drugs are bad and what's why they're illegal" - I'm no longer 12.
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No. Irony implies expectation.

Do you expect people are all going to come online, visit HN or other forums, and then discuss politics willingly with potential candidates?
Yup, it depends what you're building I suppose. For an Elixir/Phoenix web application or api I've found the performance to be very impressive.
That doesn’t change the fundamental problem. Regulating advertising for political content is a slippery slope that lets some people decide what is “political” and what is not.
Do you know offhand how MQL compares to the Apache Calcite [0] extension of SQL that some big data platforms are using for streaming SQL?

[0] https://calcite.apache.org/docs/stream.html
Why is this getting downvoted? It sounds very reasonable to me. It wouldn't even be the first time C breaks compatibility (I'm thinking of strict aliasing).
Relevant note here is that Elon actually smokes it himself
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> This is amongst the things stacked against people trying to do business in the UK

And yet the UK is generally thought to be far friendlier to business than say, France or Germany, isn't it? I know that when I set up a business in the UK it took a few days and cost a couple of hundred quid, which compares pretty well to many other countries, as I understand it.
That's because we can be reasonably sure that no sperm whale is going to fly by from outer space, for obvious reasons.

On the other hand, we have essentially no knowledge about what can possibly be flying around out there and thus your claim that it is extremely unlikely to be an artificial object is not based on anything but your own conviction that this is the case.

Probability allows you to say something with confidence if you have information to work out the probability. If you have no information then you have no probability.
nit-pick ... Noble Gas, not "Nobel Gas"
I took a couple textbooks to my local copy shop – Kinkos back then – and had them cut off the spine and hole punch the pages. Placed them into a 3-ring binder.

Only for books you're keeping I suppose. Or maybe you could re-sell directly.
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TL;DR Migration was easy an we should have migrated earlier.
Try to grok REPL-driven development before dynamic typing. You won't like the latter until you love the former.
That's such a proud and confident thing to say. No need for a throwaway account.

I would argue that striving for success is often the best way to actually not reach one's fullest potential.
That is indeed very grim, given the number of angry straw men that moderator came out with.

Has Trump ever supported "ethnic cleansing"? No. Has he even supported racism? As far as I know, no, despite attempts to cast his criticism of illegal immigrants as generalised racism.

Those claims are absurd and extreme. This person appears to believe any sort of functioning immigration system at all is the same thing as mass murder.

It looks to me from my vantage point abroad like a section of American society has become so totally swamped in righteous anger, that they have concluded - but are unwilling to explicitly say - that US immigration controls and borders should be entirely abolished. The Democrats are not campaigning on that platform though. So what happens next?
This is simultaneously quite cool - a tweakable image generation pipeline, like shaders; and a good demonstration of why visual programming languages remain extremely niche (Scratch, Labview): the instant descent into sphagetti.
You might want to reconsider this... if you are trying to outsourcing your initial cold emails you'll regret that decision later. Your first customers are the foundation for everything in the future, and you want to have a solid relationship with them... starting with your first communication.
Is sleep a banal activity?
According to Steam, I did my best to give it a chance for just over an hour. This was with DSFix mind you. I purchased the game in 2013, but the changelog mentions nothing about having fixed any input and DSFix is still front and center on its PCGaming wiki page [0]. Honestly I'm having a hard time believing anything you say, since it seems to be backed up by liking the game enough to overlook the port's obvious flaws.

[0] https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dark_Souls:_Prepare_to_Die_Edi...

> Yeah, I sorta don't

If they have indeed fixed it (despite all evidence to the contrary), then good for them and I can forgive them. But if they haven't, and you don't think that's bullshit, then your judgement is highly suspect.
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I'm not so sure. Many people get drunk every Friday or Saturday night for decades without developing alcoholism or ill effects on the rest of their life.
> who would give up London to go to Cardiff to get the same salary but a culturally and socially moribund (by comparison) experience?

Me. But then I'd much prefer to have lots of open space around and orders of magnitude fewer people.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693
Or this is the same kind on insanity that you see with the Bay Area? Or hell, even Vancouver.

Everyone's rushing there for the same reason, with all the cultural things that's suppose to be going on in the big city, only to find that the high CoL make life actually quite a bit more difficult to enjoy.

It gentrifies the area quickly, the commute is either long (in the case of the bay area) or being one of the sardine in the Tube.

The disposable income ends up being lower, so there's less money to actually enjoy the things that actually attracted people to the cities.
> FWIW irssi has this feature today.

Irssi's default behaviour is categorically not to auto-download any file someone DCC's to you.

Plus even if those who do enable it, you can still set whitelists up for trusted nicks:

/SET dcc_autoget ON
/SET dcc_autoget_masks nick

It's the default behaviour that matters and Irssi is secure by default. Plus the aforementioned support of a whitelist offers you additional assurances should you wish to enable that risky feature.

> It’s not on by default, just like it wasn’t in mIRC 20 years ago.

I'm pretty sure it was in the early days but I might be wrong there. mIRC did have some crazy defaults initially but those were quickly changed.

> I don’t think you’re making a very convincing case that mIRC was particularly bad.

I beg to differ. You haven't given a single piece of accurate evidence to prove that any other client suffered from the same issues as mIRC. The closest comparison you could come up with was fuzzing against BitchX - which isn't even remotely as embarrassing as the mIRC flaws - and exactly nothing to prove any of the other "all of irc clients" (as you put it) were also equally insecure.

I used a lot of clients in the 90s. I wrote a couple too. mIRC was undoubtably the most user friendly (excluding my second client but I never got around to releasing that) but it was also the worst for security in the early days. Of course that did change. So it might have been the later years when you started using it so you didn't experience some of the problems it had?
Most of those used to be combined bible/hymnals, but the most recent (2013) hymnal of the mainstream protestant churches is so large that it is also printed on thin paper (maybe not the thinnest?).

Those combined bible/hymnals are usually personal, not for multiple people, and they're most common among denominations that only use the 150 psalms and a small number of hymns on texts directly from the bible, although I do have one with the bible and the entire Liedboek voor de Kerken (from 1973). Normal hymnals usually used to be printed on normal paper here.
I would like to know the words spoken for this slide:

https://speakerdeck.com/daveray/clojure-at-netflix?slide=29
I'm not FAANG, but I am in SV, and my salary is currently around $200k/year (give or take). That's low compared to FAANG, but it's much higher, even adjusting for COL, than most of the "perfectly normal" lower salaries in these comments. That's not good: those lower salaries should be considered abnormally low; mine should be considered on the high end of average, maybe. Most software development (where software is the product, or a critical component of the product) is a high margin endeavor. These companies can (and should) pay their development staff more.
ADHD is, to my knowledge, caused by a too low reward mechanism in the brain. Ie, the brain constantly attempts to find something to get a dopamine release, constantly flicking to a new channel on the TV, so to speak, because it's incapable of finding a particular program interesting.

The stimulants generally used allow the brain to get a reward for the current activity, pushing it over the threshold and allowing it to focus on an activity and pay attention to a situation.

On the inverse, simply making the brain slower would yield similar results, IMO. It likely wouldn't fix it overall, you would still suffer from an attention deficit but the overall condition would slow down a bit. That might help a lot.
I don't think it's hard to read, I think it's extremely difficult to analyze and almost impossible to debug.

Lazyness is one of those "cool" features, IMO, that have more cons than pros. Yes, certain algorithms look more "elegant", but it's also harder to reason about/debug.

Most of the time, you can ignore the fact that this awesome language runs on the JVM, until you see a barely-comprehensible stack trace containing nothing but `org.clojure.Iseq` something-or-other and no user code in sight.

Looking at how a "real" LISP displays errors and allows you to debug it and comparing it to Clojure makes me feel really sad inside.

Sadly, these are the reasons I tend to favor Go for work-related projects. It's less "fun" to write than a LISP, but makes pinpointing and fixing errors a breeze in comparison. And when my job is on the line, that's the killer language feature for me.
Judging from the Wikipedia, Cardiff metro area has about the same population as Tel Aviv, which still manages to host one of the world's hottest start up scenes.
I would never use ntfs or apple's filesystem for linux though.
In fairness, it'd actually be:

(my-method my-object x y z)

But yes, the Lisp version is so much clearer to me. I just don't get why it's not more popular.
If "hydrogen would be better", I guarantee companies that make highly-sensitive cryostats (like companies that manufacture MRIs) would do it.

They don't - even knowing He is more expensive that H, because helium is better at leak testing than hydrogen is
Anecdata, but I've heard of people with the 3rd-gen keyboards with the membranes having the same problems.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2018/10/16/the-2018-macbook-keyboard...

https://twitter.com/arno_app/status/1056943680249061383
> Nothing anecdotal about that. This type of thing is pervasive in all major organizations in the US (and many other Western countries).

I think it is entirely anecdotal unless you can point to a treasure trove of evidence. For what it's worth, I think there is actually a lot of merit to what you're saying, despite it being unconventional. But to talk about it as though it's just a given without concrete data seems like a poor approach for a meaningful conversation.
Red Hat got $34B and you got $0.  why
"It's very natural" is utterly irrelevant to the question of whether (or to what degree) it may be harmful. Belladonna salad, anyone? Mushroom & pepperoni pizza made with Amanita phalloides?
@jimmaswell: "Relevant note here is that Elon actually smokes it himself"

Also Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Richard Feynman etc. (of course that doesn't prove anything - but it helps keeping things in proportion)
You're largely ignoring the primary differentiator in these machines, the power class of the CPU/GPU.

If you use the base model in each category, set all the machines at 256GB disk and 16GB of ram and use geekbench cpu numbers as a performance metric, you get the table below. Also geekebench is a pretty short test, I would guess that the core-m / y-series models will fall further behind under sustained loads. I don't think this is a particularly bad spread of options.

2017 Macbook - 1.2Ghz dual, 3.0Ghz T - $1499 GBS:3740 GBM:6835

2018 Macbook Air* - 1.6Ghz dual, 3.6Ghz T - $1599 GBS:4189 GBM:7896

2017 Macbook Pro 13 (non-TB) - 2.3Ghz dual, 3.6Ghz T - $1699 GBS:4333 GBM:9440

2018 Macbook Pro 13 (TB-quad) - 2.3Ghz quad, 3.6Ghz T - $1999 GBS:4643 GBM:16540

[*] For the 2018 Macbook Air I'm using geekbench numbers for the higher end 7th gen Y-series CPU as I can't find any benchmarks for the i5-8210Y so this should be considered an estimate.
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You've posted that talking point several times in this thread, I don't think that means what you think it means.

A web host's right to exercise their speech by moderating the forum they pay for has absolutely nothing to do with the safe harbor laws you're alluding you. Just the same as kicking someone out of your house party for being an ass, you can be removed from internet spaces in the same way. Just because the interaction is digital doesn't grant you some higher set of ~rights~.
just my 2cts on smoking pot:
people always say pot is not addictive, and not fundamentally dangerous. but it's something that influences your state of mind, so it's totally dependent on your state of mind and your ability to control it. for me personally most drugs are not addictive, but i'm struggling already for YEARS to get off pot. first time i took time off it i actually got physically sick.
i've always smoked with pleasure, but i'd never ever recommend it to anyone, and i hope soon i will be free of it.

for me personally the effect is this:
when i am stoned, i can focus and learn easily. sometimes it feels more easy than when i'm sober.
HOWEVER
when i am stoned, i have trouble to APPLY what i learnt. when i am sober, it's easy to APPLY what i learnt. so it's very important to me to be sober, so i can finally apply more effectivly all that i learnt.

the key that led me to this is that one day in my early smoking days my brother told me, each year take a month or 2 off it, to show your mind and body you can do without. in these periods i started noticing these changes and differences between states of mind i was in, eventually taking me to the point of realization it was affecting me in a bad way compared to what i wanted out of life.

that being said i have a lot of stoner friends who are also aware of this, but it doesnt bother them and they live happy lives. that's the personal part. if it prevents you from being you or not, and if it stops you from acheiving your goals or not.

i am from the netherlands, it's super easy to get pot fairly ok pot to smoke, maybe for a person like me, too easy.

when i don't smoke even for a few days now after smoking pretty much constantly for around 10 years (5/6 joints a day generally) my cognition shoots up and because i can apply what i have learnt, my life's frustration drops and happiness increases. this is actually what i felt from being stoned when i first started, so that's also something which might be dynamic in nature, and personal to each individual.

last piece of information:
i think most people, smoke, drink and smoke pot etc. due to stress, knowingly or unknowingly. because these all reduce the impact of the stress. like instead of getting intense stress, you get less stress spread out over a longer period of time. this might seem nice for some very stressful singular event, but if you do it consistently , it means that you will be lagging behind on dealing with your stress, and these longer less stressful periods start to overlap, causing actually stress levels to be MUCH HIGHER than what you would expect.

be careful, self-reflect, and look critically at your life and how these substances affect your path. it's fun to do drugs or take substances w/e you want to call it. but there is a fine line between use and misuse. if you feel depressed or something like that, seek help from a PERSON and not a SUBSTANCE
This looks a lot like the Jupyter extension [0], which is made by a Microsoft employee and was last updated before the summer. I really like the cell format of Jupyter (inspired by Matlab I presume), I don't really want to select the code before I run it. Will Microsoft support both extensions? I would like support for actual notebooks as well, for when I want to mix text, code, and figures but without having to work in a browser.

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayam...
Reading technical literature (think mathmatics etc.) is painful on a 2 dimensional medium like an e-book reader or computer screen. You'll often go back and forth between non-continous pages in your book using your left hand as you're writing stuff down with your right. Can't do that comfortably or fast using a laptop or e-book reader.

Being able to show a lot of dense information on a small area also really helps comprehensibility. Computer screens can't do that while still being comfortably readable and e-book reader screen resolution just isn't there yet.

That's my thoughts on digital books as a student of mathematics. When reading fiction in my spare time, my Kobo Aura HD/H2O can't be beaten by conventional books though.
I don't think there was. It's not like people figured out today that bad quantities of helium can be bad, and that big tanks have big quantities of helium, so MRI rooms are routinely equipped with oxygen sensors (see e.g. https://www.pureairemonitoring.com/oxygen-o2-monitor-for-mri... -- not affiliated, it's just the first result on Google). If the spill had been significant, these would have definitely caught it.

Besides, an MRI's liquid helium tanks are big, but not that big to cause trouble if they leak over a period of a couple of hours in a ventilated room.
I have a GPD pocket I carry around, so Macs aren't the only one.
> there are countless examples of prosecution that would be summarily dismissed here in the States.

Care to provide let's say 2 such examples ?
Are there? For python? People like python.
I have diagnosed ADD/ADHD. Would hardly consider myself a "victim." It has pros and cons just like everything else in life. Personally I don't take medication and am totally sober. Mindfulness meditation helps tremendously
It's why companies that do stuff with ultra-low-temperature pressure vessels typically dramatically overengineer the devices.
ZERO mention of cancer on that page.

Smoking WHILE on cancer therapy: "A number of small studies of smoked marijuana found that it can be helpful in treating nausea and vomiting from cancer chemotherapy."

Anti-cancer benefits: "More recently, scientists reported that THC and other cannabinoids such as CBD slow growth and/or cause death in certain types of cancer cells growing in lab dishes. Some animal studies also suggest certain cannabinoids may slow growth and reduce spread of some forms of cancer."

Source: https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects...

Note: The American Cancer Society page on "marijuana and cancer" doesn't mention lung cancer at all.
That source file you're referencing is a fairly low-level library doing lots of interop with Java. That's not really what most Clojure code looks like.

And furthermore: it's just a library, but this library is adding the concept of go blocks (as seen in Go) to the Clojure language. Are you even able to add a new control structure like go blocks to the C# langauge by including a library?
Montevideo, Uruguay (most expensive country in South America):

2004-2008 - Programmer at Software Factory - U$ 10.000 / year
2008-2016 - Functional Analyst (developer really) at non-software company - U$ 30.000
2016-2018 - Programmer Analyst (still developer + pm) at U.S. company's outsourcing center - U$ 55.000

Mis-spent a lot of money on an MBA (30k) which didn't bring me any additional income, and didn't save anything after 15 years' career :(

Also, over half my salary goes to taxes as I'm on the 2nd highest income bracket.

I'm hoping to get way more as a remote worker (and there are ways to get tax breaks that way).
>KW: It seems what we are dealing with here is the systematization of the possible: the target is something unknown that, by way of systematization, becomes a circumscribed and definite possibility – or rather an array of definite possibilities. The deployment of algorithms is thus ‘mobile’ and ‘flexible’ but, because it is oriented towards definite possibilities, not as much as it may seem; in fact there is only a definite and therefore limited spectrum of possibilities that algorithmic modelling can address. Does this situation change in the face of self-learning algorithms, given their inductive capacities to create semi-autonomous associations in an ever-growing range of possibilities?

When I read this, I get the strong sense that machine learning is being misconstrued, and most likely profoundly overestimated in its capabilities.