skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it does not work that way.

Tactile dexterity depends greatly on developing a 'feel' for what you are doing.

It means developing:

1) heightened sensitivity to the inputs of all the nerves, joints, and muscles,

2) delicate and highly tuned muscle activation, coordination among muscles, and hand-eye-object coordination,

3) refined expectations about the behavior of your materials,

4) deep and subtle integration of all those skills.

Neuroscience studies show that experts in a field can develop 10x the sensitivity of ordinary healthy people in relevant perceptual disciplines. E.g., if the ordinary person can distinguish a pressure difference of 1g on his fingertip, a pianist or surgeon would be able to distinguish 0.1g pressure.

This kind of tuned neuromuscular system does not develop from simply taking a set of courses. It takes years or decades of training. It may even be the case that if not developed during the more plastic stages of brain/neuromuscular development, it will be close to impossible, or at least substantially more difficult.

To obtain real professional-level dexterity takes decades of learning, understanding, & integrating many subtleties and sub-skills before fluency is achieved.

A closer analogy would be literacy. The professors certainly have a specific need that their students be literate. Yet I wouldn't expect anyone, even a highly intelligent person, who had not learned to read and developed extensive and solid note-taking skills to arrive at Med school and expect that the professors teach him/her to read, write, and take notes. This is because it takes decades of learning, understanding, & integrating many subtleties and sub-skills before fluency is achieved.

edit:clarity & #4
The average household has 3 set-top boxes? That sounds like a lot. Even median would be a lot. Who needs to be able to watch basic cable in 3 rooms in a house?
Ad buyers say Facebook Ads Manager is the most inconsistent of the platforms
Red Dead Redemption 2 has biggest opening weekend in entertainment history
If you are interested in spreadsheets but with Python, try http://datalore.io/ It tracks dependencies automatically and recalculates them when needed (this behavior can also be made less automatic).
Screenflow or Quicktime.
I wouldn't say that playing WoW costs your dearly or is detrimental or toxic to people. I will say that all of the people I've known who played games to their own detriment or in a way that was toxic to their lives were playing WoW. It is attractive to people who want to escape from their problems and not solve them. Because of this, it has somehow come to be seen as a cause of that escapism. It definitely becomes part of a vicious circle -- I play too much WoW because I'm stressed -- I'm not more stressed because I play too much WoW -- but that's the fault of the player, not the game.
I'm worried they won't transition MacBooks to these CPUs, but they'll just let the entire Mac lineup gradually fade to black with intermittent refresh cycles and dead end features like touch bar.

I can well imagine Apple expecting people to plug in a keyboard and monitor to their iPad Pro, while it gets thinner and thinner.
The operative word here is "could".
Already now you can run a Jupyter notebook on an http server and serve it to Safari in an iPad.
Ask HN: Which time saving non-software products do you use?
Which time saving, life changing or premium products have you found very useful? It doesn't have to be software related.

For me it's something as simple as labelled socks. I like dark colored socks but finding pairs after doing laundry was painful. Ever since finding them I've completely switched to using socks labelled with days of week.
From the abstract[1], the only input is selecting a few of the repeating elements, and drawing motion lines. Depth and background are detected automatically.

[1] https://pixl.cs.princeton.edu/pubs/Willett_2018_AMI/
Anyone can be replaced.

Even if it takes two or three people, they can be replaced.
Your brother in law’s wish is granted. Blockpad is specifically targeted towards such reports

https://blockpad.net
Also GalaXQL http://sol.gfxile.net/g3/
We have an example of AdaNet on GitHub that uses several complex CNN layers (conv2d, pooling, linearly-separable layers) as part of the NASNet-A architecture (presented in https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07012): https://github.com/tensorflow/adanet/blob/master/adanet/exam...

AdaNet supports high level APIs (e.g tf.layers, tf.losses), so it can support RNN cells as well.
Our school did not have that kind of arts and crafts. A year or two before I gained access, they removed cooking and "Home Economics" from the middle school curriculum. I missed out on basic "how to live life" education which, while I was able to access that knowledge at home, I'm sure other children were less fortunate, and in fact I still have never taken it upon myself to learn to sew, though I plan to soon.

Taking those classes in high school instead would have required me to give up AP classes, or my independent study of Computer Networking class.
When I did ultra-marathons, never hit the 100 miler maker, my body could tolerate less meat, filling it up with carbs. Switching to powerlifting 4 - 5 years ago, my body demands more meat. Demanding in the sense that I can feel a difference when I go without meat i.e., it is stronger when I consume meat. Granted I also went from 160lbs ultra-running to 230lbs powerlifting, so I am sure there is difference in caloric intake due to weight and muscle mass.

Do I need to do either? No, but I feel better eating meat and lifting compared to when I don't.

-- When I did run ultras, I picked up Scott's book with recipes and tried following it, I felt quite hungry.
> Is a USB-C enclosure actually faster than USB 3.1 was with the old conenctors?

As I understand it, USB-C-to-USB-C (with USB 3.2) is the only connector combination supporting Gen 2×2, 20Gb/s mode (since it leverages the pins included to support flipping the connector; it's also the only combination to support Gen 1×2, but that's the same speed as Gen 2×1, so it's unclear why you'd do that.)

USB A (w/USB 3.1+) can support Gen 2×1 (SuperSpeed+) at 10Gb/s. USB B (w/USB 3.0+), AFAIK, only supports Gen 1 (SuperSpeed) (5Gb/s).
For usb-c, this depends hugely.

I've had phones were the plug felt very weak in the socket, and devices with a very satisfying snap and a very strong connection.

This is to say that usb-c is not inherently bad, it depends a lot on the hardware (and I'm sure Apple will get it right)
you probably should have used digikey for your LED strips
10 years ago or more, I read an article saying that telepresence surgery was the wave of the future and doctors who grew up playing video games were much better at it.

But you'd expect that to be increasing on average, given how video games keep getting more popular. It seems like, perhaps, operating buttons and joysticks doesn't train the same sort of dexterity as sewing does.
> where you can get better specs after a few years without moving the price point.

Yeah you can do that...on an OS that isn't locked to one hardware vendor i.e. Windows and Linux.
VR can only ever satisfy the visual and auditory experience, which I would argue is much less than 99% of an experience of visiting a different place. Even if VR came along that could reliably emulate our other senses, you would still be missing out on a vital part of most experiences - interacting with others.
anyone who uses eGPUs (w/ Nvidia): whenever I setup my MBP shortly after buying (middle of this year), one of the steps required disabling Secure Boot and another security item via terminal. Is that still the case? Pretty sure my T2 chip is disabled due to this. Not a major loss if it must remain that way, but wasn't sure if it was just mitigating something that is no longer an issue.
What is an example of when you would want a promise to represent the key of a component? Wouldn’t you be more interested in identifying the component by the result of the promise?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace#^H
Hm, re: "ads are everywhere" - is it just me, or are two of the three sample posts in the screenshot content-based ads?

First for the novel Cibola Burn, and third for the app Halide.. the middle post seemingly is a reply to an ad of some book series as well :) Or "influencer" paid content != ads?
Not the person you replied to, but look at a Dell XPS 13 or a Lenovo X1 Carbon. I have been recommending the XPS 13 to our customers and they love it.
Right, exactly, which is to trivialize original reporting beyond the dictates of fairness. An original piece of reporting and the blog post that summarizes it are not equivalent content.
I don't think you do, it's just an additional security feature that they put in the T2 PDF for some reason.
If you can checkout this book "Interactive Programming Environments" do so

https://books.google.com/books/about/Interactive_Programming...
Satellite television has been an option for decades, and serves these markets better than cable anyway.
Some of this too is learning how to say no, especially regarding time frames.

This of course works best when you "can" say no (i.e. multiple clients and other sources of revenue)

I have clients right now that I won't be able to attend to for a few weeks or so. If that doesn't work for them, I'll help transition them to a situation that works for them. But likely they'll stay around since good help can be hard to find.
This is funny. I just realized that I never talk to anyone under 30 on the phone. The few kids I do talk to (my nieces) use FaceTime exclusively. Your explanation makes sense.

Meanwhile, all the phones at my office have attached cameras and displays. We can see each other on the phone. Except most of use keep the camera turned off because we want to retain our private eye rolling.
I looked up the specs - the 2011 1.8GHz was an i7-2677M. It did have a Turbo Boost up to 2.9Ghz.
Thanks for the note; this looks good.
I'm thinking about using a NN I made a while back to play it. =)
I have an iPhone and a MacBook with USB-C ports, and my experience has been the exact opposite. The lightning port on my iPhone is really weak, all cords can way too easily lose a connection so my music stops or it stops charging. The USB-C on my laptop snaps in really nicely, I'm never worried about the cable not being fully connected.
5 changes I made to my site to get perfect scores in WebPageTest and Lighthouse
I'm not convinced. My mother can thread a needle just fine, but the keyboard on an iPhone is very tiny, and she often produces incorrect keystrokes.

Next time I am intoxicated, I should (unscientifically) test this by comparing the difficulty of threading a needle with that of sending an accurate and correct text message
I took that sentence idiomatically, to mean something like "the obstacles have been reduced by at least an order of magnitude", since it's never literally true that literally anyone can write some software.
totally agree. i still have a 2011 macbook pro upgraded with an ssd and a 2013 macbook pro. both almost indistinguishable performance wise from a brand new macbook I use at work. there's nothing it can do that these can't really, except touch ID, but then my apple watch unlocks my laptop now anyway.

i would add that the faster upgrade cycle, and therefore money worth spending on developing smartphones is also because people are used to carrier subsidy and spreading out the cost. so it's kind of a virtuous circle of investment that the pc market doesn't have.

makes you realise what a perfect storm iphone was - a massive and growing market of people paying through the nose, annually, for a crap product, just waiting for someone to take that money and invest it in something good.
I think how you were (or weren't) taught to write has a lot to do with that. I wasn't really taught the proper way for a left-hander to write, and my handwriting has always been slow, cramped, and painful.
I agree with this for the most part.

I suppose the main thrust of what I wanted to get at was that the concept of reducing inequality is problematic, there's a hard limit somewhere and we're starting to see the first signs of that.

Raising the baseline is certainly possible and a good aim.

But as you say, there will always be some 'thing' that some can do and others can't. Maybe there's a state in which the more damaging things aren't desirable and most people can do most things they want. I hope so.

I have the sense that a _lot_ of things that people want are basically status markers. And if that's true, then we can't really make everyone happy, because it's inherently hierarchical.
No one needs to watch basic cable at all, but having a living room with a TV, a rec room with a TV, and a bedroom with a TV seems fairly common amongst my travels to different homes. Anecdotally less common in big city homes, presumably because space is at a greater premium.
I’m not surprised. Look at how widespread chiropractors (and chiropractic coverage under insurance) are, for example.
>Because without it we all pay much higher prices than we normally would, and we get sub-par quality/innovation. Unless you're somehow intimating that proprietary software can be completely eliminated, but I don't think that's the case. I don't think that such views are grounded in reality.

There has been no shortage of quality and innovative free software. I see no reason that restrictions on a users rights would encourage innovation or a quality product.

Reading the rest of your post, you also seem to view free software as primarily about price. The picture you paint sounds more like what Internet Explorer did to browsers than any free software I can think of.

> So, instead of a company being a developer tools company, they're now something else that also happens to give away developer tools

Or you can take the existing developer tools and improve and extend them. Having access to a large amount of your competitors resources allows you to more easily compete on an even field.
Most of the people living in the US between the coasts still live in urban areas. Only a few states have a minority of urban dwellers: Maine, West Virginia, Mississippi, Vermont. Many large interior states have overwhelmingly urban populations: Arizona (90%), Colorado (86%), Illinois (89%), Michigan (75%), Ohio (78%), Nevada (94%), Texas (85%), Utah (90%).

https://www.icip.iastate.edu/tables/population/urban-pct-sta...
Like they do now with tourist taxes, perhaps? All the cities you mention won't have 10x as many tourists if they're 20x more expensive (in real and comparative terms).
Sierra uses Slurm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurm_Workload_Manager
Going to googles official webpage will tell you how to get chrome for Debian/Ubuntu/Opensuse/Fedora. This is about as good as it can be because chrome is closed source.

Chromium is available in the repos.
Also, since the mic would be covered by the lid, you probably wouldn't want to use it anyway under this scenario.
I've always figured it had most to do with keeping responsiveness high and predictable.
I recently visited Carcassonne, France, and this is how it basically works. The old city is dedicated solely to tourism, and the new city is where all the actual residents live. The old city was abandoned before it was restored, so this situation ended up occurring naturally.

My girlfriend and I stayed at a bead & breakfast in the new city. Most of the tourists are locals from France, but enough people speak English that communication is not a problem.
'proposed alien technology always approximately tracks human technological development'

Or to put it another way, humans conceptualize, observe and measure based on what they currently know and the tools they have.

My point again is we all to often fill the vacuum of what we don't know with 'the extent of our knowledge and experience is the extent of the entire universe'.

We have no idea about what we don't know...
But do you agree that if they don't move, they will the ones easier to shoot? So, unless you are sparing them, they won't go very far and will have less chance of reproduction.
Silly, but putting up a no-fog mirror in the shower for shaving has been amazing for me. I used to shave after the shower, but now I can take care of it while still in the shower which means it takes less time and there's less cleanup (plus I can stay warm in the shower too!). Not a huge time savings, but definitely asked myself why I hadn't done so sooner.
Sure. Cool story. How are you getting that guy from the CAR to Venice using one of the methods you mentioned in a reasonable way?

I'll wait while you address the actual line of conversation I was involved in instead of making up sci fi stories about how cool 2050 is going to be.
Is running an Ethernet cable not an option?
Ironically I buy from stores in New York or New Jersey over the internet and pay no tax in my home state. Adorama or B&H Photo
No, a judge cannot "absolutely" reduce a fine for an administrative violation or infraction at their discretion. It depends on the jurisdiction. With some rulebreaking, the punishment is all-or-nothing.
Well, I said it's vastly superior from my perspective and my perspective seems to be a bit different than yours.

I didn't intend to start a platform flame war here. I just wanted to say, it's sad that people lose access to that quality software (in my opinion) platform because of being priced out. If it were for today's prices, I doubt I would have been able to buy a Mac as a student in 2006.

If you enjoy Windows, then I am absolutely happy with that. For me personally, I have trouble getting past the forced Windows Update screen each time I boot it.
Do you use raid with BTRFS?
> butterFS = btrfs, the filesystem. People often call it butterFS in conversation, even though the btr stands for b-tree.

This isn't a common spelling for Btrfs, and just added confusion for me since I didn't immediately follow the reference in your original comment (I assumed it was something new). It may be a common spoken pronunciation but writing 'butterFS' in a forum comment is more characters/keystrokes than 'btrfs', so I'd consider it a typo/error to be corrected rather than a technical abbreviation to be defined.
A common theme in several of his novels and a number of short stories were simulations (simulacra, automatons) being integrated into our cultural concepts. Even to the point that people believe that their leaders are real, while really they're just simulated characters putting on a show.

So, yes?
The limitations of low level debugging are often just that: hardware limitations. The scenario of debugging Android applications is really bending the limit of what I would consider "embedded development", it's very high level.

ARM does provide debugging tool that can get to very low level (you can even step through bootloader code if you want) but they generally require specific hardware support and the license is pretty expensive.

I agree that documentation is often terrible though, although obviously that's pretty vendor-dependent. For instance regarding FPGA development Xilinx tends to have pretty decent docs while Altera (or IntelFPGA as it's now called) is pretty bad at it. Same goes for SoC vendors, Ti is pretty good but I've been a lot less lucky with other vendors.
Looks like there were some concerns with mid-90s and earlier airbags only having a 15 year life, but modern bags are designed to last the life of the vehicle: https://www.edmunds.com/car-safety/do-car-airbags-expire.htm...

The good news about the Takata recall is that 50 million airbags out there either have already been replaced (including mine) or are able to be replaced under the recall.
>>NegativeLatency 4 hours ago
You could take another method of transport instead of a plane. Bus, train, bike, boat

>>InitialLastName 4 hours ago |
Pretty much none of those things will make it reasonable for someone from, say, Central African Republic to visit Venice.

>>onanbatt 2 hours ago
Why?

No I wasn't. I was answering "why" in this response chain. That's a whole other conversation going on elsewhere.
Mac mini – Technical Specs
Most people coding in C don't hang out on HN or SO. They are typically electrical engineers working for companies selling hardware. They tend to be less web savvy than the average CS/programmer types, but they're the ones building the guts of the infrastructure that runs the world.

C isn't going anywhere, even in 10 years. People keep floating Rust and the like, but most targets for C have 16KB program space, and about that much in RAM budget. The C standard library itself is opportunistically linked on these platforms.

The dependencies required for Rust, or even C++, are larger than the code space of 90% of the microcontrollers in your car
I wonder how many times "Zuckerberg" is in the code verbatim
Private companies have had citizens before [1], it's not unreasonable to suggest they might have citizens again. (It's a common Cyberpunk trope to have corporate-controlled principalities replace nation-states. It's a common sci-fi trope in general to have places like space colonies run under corporate rule of the company that built them.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
I really like the approach Perl 6 takes with FatRat[1]. You basically have an object which holds a numerator and denominator, so all arithmetic calculations do not loose precision.

[1] https://docs.perl6.org/type/FatRat
I used to use Excel extensively. I've started using Jupyter as a replacement. Some things are great like python modules that can do anything, and visualizations. But if there are less than 100k rows, its still much easier to just use Excel. I'm kinda disappointed. IF you have more than 100k rows then Excel starts to be cumbersome. That is the sweet spot for me.
Switching to powerlifting 4 - 5 years ago

Aha, as I suspected! ("Eh? Plenty of runners get by on a vegan diet. Now, power lifters or some such...") I can't speak to that, I'm still a scrawny runner. I mean, I suspect one could still get results with a proper (read: PITA) diet, but then I'd be talking out my arse. Enjoy your steak.
I think the average number of TVs used per household is something like 2.x a month. But many households probably have a set top box hooked up to a lesser-used TV (guest room, rec room, etc.) that they're paying for even when it sits unused.

My parents are middle-class empty nesters, and IIRC, they have boxes in the kitchen, living room, home office, and maybe another in the master bedroom?

Clearly they do not 'need' that many, yet they have them. This is just another way in which the rigid, inflexible model of legacy television generates excessive revenue: one cannot carry a TV and cable box around the house as easily as they can a tablet PC or iPad.
I wish they'd make the iPad more development-friendly. I don't know exactly what that looks like… but if they did that, I'd use it as a daily driver in a heartbeat.

So so so done with Apple laptops, though. It seems like the butterfly keyboards are here to stay, and they're just plain awful.
what is the max resolution of the external display?

also in the video editing app shown in the keynote the external display hides the control elements, which is very nice. exposed api, or internal apple magic?
I did it because I think it's funny.
Logistic regression is almost interpretable. It certainly looks interpretable, and it certainly good enough if you’re just trying to make PM feel better or hang some explanatory chrome in a UI, but it’s not truly interpretable.

They maybe directionally interpretable, but that’s about it.
Are there still places with cable TV but not cable internet?
I'd like to see more of this type of 'stress testing' of adtech networks, conducted by third parties, with the methodology and results made available to the public.

Programmatic advertising is a black box as far as ad buyers and ad viewers are concerned. And it is exactly for this reason that companies can claim to have "machine learning based fraud detection systems" or whatever and have those claims go unchallenged.
>seems like it won't work

Are you speculating here or do you have some kind of insight?