skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a laptop, an external GPU is indeed a big issue in terms of form factor. However in your case, your big 4K monitors are comparatively large as well so having an eGpu that you can also use as docking station is not necessarily the end of the world. Likewise, with a mac mini this should be less of an issue. I'm also guessing this market will develop over the next few years with more attractively priced options aimed at people who just want a middle of the road setup that works reasonably well for games and vr. Right now all the available options are targeted at people who in any case spend too much money on HW.

Besides, with Apple you are paying a premium for a dedicated GPU in a macbook, which makes the price of an external eGPU less of an issue. Because if the choice becomes paying 500 euro extra for a mac mini with a last generation laptop grade GPU or spending the same on a eGPU with modest specs (or a bit more on something fancier), that's a lot easier to defend. Especially if you can swap it out once every other year for a new one.

I'm guessing that with the mac pro they may offer some options for a dedicated, non upgradable GPU as well as eGPU options. Most professionals would probably prefer investing in the latter because it provides them performance without much compromise and an easy way to upgrade. E.g. I'm still waiting for Apple to make a move with AR/VR, which they sort of support but which they don't really actively promote currently.

Anyway, the mac mini is not necessarily that interesting for people looking for cheap options. The start configurations are nice if you don't need much but most more serious users are going to want bigger ssds, more cpu, and more memory. That creeps into the mac pro use case already. I'm guessing that in terms of price segment this thing is designed to fill the gap with the mac pro, which will likely have a starting price of around 5K, just like the last one.
The only clause I've seen which is similar was from a crowd-funding firm who had some administration fees around the collection and transfer of the funds to the company. It was rather nominal and was fair given the work they'd done and the number of investors they worked with on our behalf.
> Computers are about making life easier in much the same way that the Republican party is about fiscal responsibility and a culture of life.

that quote aged well
For something like rust or haskell it's not outrageous. But yeah...
Anyone remember "The Grid"? I wrote a post about it a few years ago.[0] Essentially it was a scam where "AI will replace web developers!" and raised a few million in VC. Be very careful of buzz words and companies claiming to replace engineers with AI.

[0] https://medium.com/@seibelj/the-grid-over-promise-under-deli...
>> What usually happens is a bundling of issues until you get an overall package that's net positive for everyone.

That sounds too good to be true, can you give examples?
Yeah, and that's one of the best consumer models available! I believe the WD Black 1TB is in the same league for performance and price as well.
Pls Discuss the Perl 6 'Raku' alias announcement squabble
> You think Amazon is looking to increase their SWE head count by 50% or more in a short period of time?

Every article about the HQ2 project says it's an effort to recruit tech talent. Amazon is hiring 50K new employees for these offices. Assuming a very conservative 25% of them are going to be engineers, that's already over 10,000 engineers.

> Assuming your statement is correct, I would classify them as choosing beggars.

If FAANGs thought their recruiting practices are broken, they would fix them.

Also, while we're all aware of how much bargaining power top software engineers have in this market, it doesn't seem right to call a bunch of companies worth the better part of a trillion dollar each "beggars".
I guess the reason for applying the tax this way is that tech giants (and non-tech corporations) use creative accounting tricks to avoid making a profit and thus paying taxes to the countries they operate in.

It's either disguised as loan interest repayment or licensing fees, but the goal is tax avoidance.
I wouldn't say that's correct - diagnostic imaging is entirely computerized these days and that's made life a lot more productive and efficient, but is also the source of huge frustration when these incredibly expensive machines have software glitches or network connectivity problems.
We deliberately chose a design that could be implemented with a very small team. In fact there has never been more than about one person working full time on rr, usually less. That's one reason we bet on not using code instrumentation, for example.

But yes, Mozilla deserves major credit for supporting us building this crazy thing --- and of course, releasing it.
Being a medical professional or a doctor does not per se make you an honest person. It also doesn't necessarily prevent you from doing incalculable harm for your own fun and profit.

Example?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
Not saying it and not thinking it are two different things. If he didn’t have an opinion on the matter, I just cannot see why he would even bring it up.

In the best case, I feel like he intents to say that even though people claim to be in pain, there’s nothing medically wrong with them, and it’s fine to send them back to work.
And this already exists to a certain extent - people selling Windows UI widgets, people selling React components...most of this stuff has gone away and been replaced by open SDKs or services.

This just seems like gig-economy + 90s Windows Widget business
I'm so happy the people of Sweden are sane, my biggest problem with these taxes is that they are on revenue which essentially makes all low margin internet businesses unprofitable. How does that benefit consumers?
Yeah unless there is a traffic jam on the way, then you're fucked in your Uber.
This reads like a pump-and-dump article.
I missed that! So not only is 'not any less useful or versatile than the outgoing Mac Mini, including the generous assortment of ports' a shockingly low bar, it's also what might charitably be termed 'rather a bit of a fib'.
Anyone actually used their builder product ? I signed up but apparently I have to 'invite' 5 or more 'friends' to get early access. Feels like a vapor-ware.
They look like the ones that are commonly in use (mandated by Law) for dogs and (I believe optional) for cats here in Italy since years.

Besides the moral and psychological implications of being "marked" for life (not entirely unlike the numbers tatooed on forearms of concentration camp prisoners) and the (obvious) privacy and security concerns, I am failing to see the actual advantages (no risk of losing your card or keys)?

So, let's say, instead of having to give your money and keys to someone holding a knife to your throat, you will be given a small sample of on the field micro surgery.

In any case having them inserted just over the (left) thumb doesn't seem to me such a good idea.
Study results in an increase of roughly 1000 deaths a year due to extra traffic on road but $7B in utility gained. Easy trade.
Obviously not. But it's like the old twitter egg profile accounts. It was so easy to create a fake egg account that I'm not going to take my investment advice from them, especially if they don't have information about who they are readily available. It's deserving of an extra level of skepticism is all I'm saying.

If you don't agree with that very basic idea, then I don't know what to tell you.
Performance of various open source Gradient Boosting Machine implementations
Did you do any verification to show the effective accuracy/spatial resolution?
Who Killed Prolog? (2010)
Are you asserting that union activists are related to a short short seller conspiracy, or are you just suggestively placing those next to each other and hoping that people draw a sinister conclusion?

Union activists join tons of companies to try and unionize them, because get this, they’re union activists. They think unionizing labor is a moral imperative, and so they act as such. You might not like it, but it’s hardly unique to Tesla or a big dark conspiracy.
It's an evolutionary thing. Having children, adolescents, adults and the elderly on different sleep schedules affords a family unit with nearly round the clock protection (as there's nearly always someone awake).
Just like in 1953. https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/past-announcements/

Fear mongering at its best.
it could very well that what you did to replace that screen time was what affected your sleep and not the actual lack of screen time: more excercise, more reading, etc. I think screen time on its own is not the issue, it's what other things you do/do not. Everything in excess is (very likely) going to produce a negative effect.
> I noticed that you haven't refuted any of my points

But I did. I showed that free trade makes importing and exporting countries both better off.

> so I'll assume that you are aware that global trade is worse for the environment

Actually, no. I'm not "aware" of that because it's not true.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

As I've said elsewhere, the solution to pollution is more economic development, not less. This becomes even truer once demographic transition effects (like declining birth rates) start to kick in.

> and bad for the working class in the countries exporting their labor pool

Can you not read? The poor in exporting countries benefit the most from free trade. That was the main point I addressed in my comments, and the fact that you pretend it never happened makes it clear you're not arguing in good faith.

> We will clearly choose to look for different policies from our leadership.

You'll be making the whole world poorer with your harmful policy. And it's all due to an ignorance of the subject, an unwillingness to examine the evidence, and a resistance to changing your mind in the face of it. Shame.
Which is why they should be using medical transportation services.
The Edinburgh Fringe introduced a tap-to-tip system this year, based on iZettle readers in nice-looking Plexiglass stands. The readers are preconfigured to debit £5 from your card on a tap. That's a bit more than your average street show tip of a pound or two, but really good if you're wandering around without any change - you don't have to feel guilty about watching a street show but not being able to pay at the end.
May I ask the degree field?
They really are, I know I may have exaggerated mildly perhaps as I know a couple of these features aren’t without a jetbrains plugin however I’d say 27 of them are for sure.
Precisely. OpenJDK is not only one of the most popular software environments around, it is also one of the biggest (in terms of features, size of standard libray etc., and certainly in terms of total continuous R&D investment) Companies like Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Google, Linked in and Twitter are either entirely or significantly built on top of it (some of them even have internal forks), and even Facebook and GitHub increasingly use it, yet contribute little back (SAP and RedHat do make some significant contributions), while Oracle spends tens of millions of dollars every year on the several hundreds of full-time OpenJDK engineers it employs. We must support that somehow by getting more companies to contribute either directly in code or financially through support subscriptions.

As of JDK 11, Oracle open sourced (or discontinued) all of the remaining commercial features in the Oracle JDK and contributed them to OpenJDK.

(I work on OpenJDK at Oracle, but speak only for myself)
Are you sure it's not simply because not having access to computers and phones you slept more. Also on a camp you might do more physical exercise during the day which helps sleeping better.
I pay $100/hour and give them a week (but time boxed to 8 hours). They can do it in their off time.

Much cheaper than the alternative which is to waste 2-4 hours per candidate.
It's not outrageous to hear from a Rust or Haskell fanatic, in any case.

Given that a subtraction will easily compile where an addition should have been coded, so the content of the remark is outrageous.
U.S. domestic Internet traffic misrouted through China Telecom
It's an intriguing concept.

What effect would a tax purely on size (income rather than profit) have on the world economy, if everyone were to adopt such policies? It would discourage large companies and encourage small ones.

It seems like employees do better when there is a bigger and more diverse marketplace for work, ie, many smaller companies. So they would win out, hopefully.

Customers may or may not do better. It would encourage companies to keep prices low to reduce gross income, and give an advantage to incumbents in the same marketplace. But one Amazon with it's fulfillment centers, delivery networks, etc, is more efficient than two overlapping half-sized Amazons. Twice the delivery trucks means twice the delivery costs and pollution.

Overall I'd be for such a system, provided it were not too onerous and didn't target specific companies.
The worst the Republicans have to offer are Christian extremists, militarists who openly call for civilians being murdered, literal nazis, people who send mail bombs to politicians, conspiracy theorists concerned about soy who pester grieving parents, people who run cars into counter-protestors, people who beat up people who look different, the Alt Right and people who want to suppress others for their gender, sexuality, ethnicity or religion.

The worst the Democrats have to offer are a bunch of Socialists who want public healthcare and free tuition. Oh, and I guess the specter that is Antifa, the loosely defined group of people who occasionally set cars on fire, smash storefronts and punch nazis.

Yes, both sides are totally comparable. I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would think there's a moral difference between the side with people who are planning a literal ethnic cleansing and the side that punches those people to make them stop.

EDIT: Oh, and if the "liberals" prefer siding with the side that has nazis over siding with the evil socialists, that tells you a lot more about the actual values of "liberals" than it does about the Democrats.
What kind of automated sales can you run? Like, fire a discount at nth day after sign up?
Can you support your claim with some logic? If I worked hard for a decade and saved a million dollars and it gets reallocated this year, what is the motivation for me to work anymore? On the other end, if I spent a decade playing video games/sleeping and suddenly find myself with a bunch of money, what is the motivation for me to work?
I think you can probably replace the name of the company in this article with anything and people would still be outraged.
Yea, they need to be a bit more sophisticated to ensure the right person is using the device, and that they are still alive. Perhaps dozens of these need to be placed all over the body.
Given the use of the word "donglage" I suspect it was a somewhat snarky reference to the iphone and the disappearing head phone jack.
There are times to discuss facts and times to discuss moral preferences.

There's something wrong when you can't discuss facts necessarily bringing in a moral side. And you seem reluctant to even acknowledge the facts to begin with.

I, of course, have my own opinions around voting and Democracy. I just chose not to share them in this venue, as it's beside the point.
I'm in the US also and I rarely use cash.
Years ago in a pinch, I used this library to isolate data in OCR results. Looking for phone numbers or tax IDs, it would return values with a B in it and you could correct to an 8 or other similar transforms. Probably much better tools for this now, but at the time it was extremely useful.
It's probably the same as me having to deal with our enterprise systems for documents and requirements. They are a major pain in the a.. and just add more burden instead of making my work easier. I hate them every second I have to use them and avoid as much as I can.

I bet most medical record systems are built for administrators (who make the purchasing decisions) and not for doctors.
Facebook, Amazon and co. are "low margin internet businesses"?
Instant runoff voting is the system we need
Any ‘entire classes’ other than the corporate apps?
Use italics for that by surrounding them with *.
This is person to person. I buy stuff from the bodega a few times a week. I use my card because that's my preferred payment method. I never carry cash around. I wish they, "made" the same off me either way but it's not really my fault that it costs them something for me to pay in a convenient way.
Yes. The part of your brain responsible for your sleep-wake cycle can “see” daylight
TypeScript Cheat Sheet
I have large doubts about zayners scientific judgement, but I would be surprised if zayner were pumping and dumping anything.
Good journalism costs money.
It's always interesting and odd to me when a journalistic source doesn't actually link to what they reference about themselves, that they are sharing about in their profile; without myself spending a fair amount of time looking into it I can't find out who specifically got the award: was it him, the partner, or CNN that got the award? What was the award specifically if it was the author? With research papers we expect references to be cited, linked to - yet, journalists trying to prove their integrity make links? It's a big problem too if people just assume what text someone writes about as true, so why not make it easy for people to follow the cookie trail through links?
You should read https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05937 so you don't need to speculate. rr absolutely does guarantee that threads are scheduled the same way during replay as during recording, otherwise it wouldn't work at all on applications like Firefox which use a lot of threads.

Also, rr definitely is very useful for debugging race conditions. For example Mozilla developers have debugged lots of race conditions using it. One thing that really helps is rr's "chaos mode", which randomizes thread scheduling in an intelligent way to discover possible races. See https://robert.ocallahan.org/2016/02/introducing-rr-chaos-mo... and https://robert.ocallahan.org/2016/02/deeper-into-chaos.html and https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/05/rr-chaos-mode-improveme....
Short of compulsory voting, there just a handful of ways to boost turnout (participation). In order:

Universal, automative voter registration. Like very other mature democracy. Vox's "Why America needs automatic voter registration" segment is a good primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd5Qs0fc_I0

Competitive races. Because then people feel their vote matters. This means fair redistricting, probably based on measure of wasted votes.

Threatening people's right to vote sometimes motivates participation. I don't recommend such exteme measures.

Early evidence is that free postage on mail ballots boost turnout ~4.5%. We'll see.

Mail balloting weakened the culture of voting. Seeing your neighbors and family vote increases the peer pressure. Like the top OC, there have been a few weak efforts to use social media as a substitute.

Put motivating cultural wedge issues on the ballot. Homophobia, corporate welfare, war on drugs for the right. Anything pro human or fact based for the left.
> NYC's economy isn't doing too well? It grew by 2.7% for the second consecutive quarter in 2018.

The economy has been growing at 3.5-4% during this time nationally, so a 2.7% is actually training the national growth by a significant margin.

I don't have have the article handy, but hiring in NYC has been down this year by 3% or so. My unscientific observation is that finance employment in NYC has been in a slow but steady decline since 2008, and unlikely to recover.
That's a very interesting hypothesis! I've never heard it before.
Is that any different than

Microsoft - PowerPoint, Hotmail, FrontPage, Windows Live Messenger, Visio, Bungie, Rare, Lionhead, Mojang, Dynamics (Great Plains, NAV), Skype, Defender, Perceptive Pixel (Surface Hubs), Yammer, LinkedIn, Acompli (Outlook Mobile), GitHub, Xamarin, Beam (Mixer)

Facebook - Beluga (Messenger app), Snaptu (Facebook for Every Phone, Facebook Lite), Instagram, Atlas, Parse, WhatsApp, Occulus, LiveRail (video monitization)

Adobe - PageMaker, After Effects, Photoshop, FrameMaker, GoLive, Audition, Echosign (Adobe Sign), Macromedia (who itself acquired Freehand, Dreamweaver, Flash, ColdFusion), Fireworks, plus its entire Marketing Cloud: Omniture, Day, Auditude, Neolane, Livefyre, TubeMogul, Magento, Marketo etc

Oracle - ...

the list goes on and on. A lot of these products would not be where they are today (nor shuttered necessarily) without the resources (or lackthereof) poured into them after acquisition. Yahoo tried and failed miserably in its end.

Facebook may be the best example on that list. They get beat to mobile messenging, they buy Beluga. They lose screen time to mobile devices, they buy Snaptu. They get beat again to mobile (camera/photo album), they buy Instagram. The get beat by in messenging AGAIN, and they buy WhatsApp. They get beat to video by youtube, they buy LiveRail. In a panic to not be beat again they buy Occulus.

Plus, in this case they are mostly buying the Reputation and Service Contracts, not as much the product. IBM is already mostly a Service, not product, company now.
Maybe you realize this, but you just described score voting. Check the links I posted above. Welcome to the fan club!

(If you're not familiar, approval voting is a special case of score voting where you are giving either a 0 or 1 to each candidate; in other words the range is binary. It's not quite as expressive for voters as score voting, but still a huge improvement over what we use now and pretty low on "voter regret" since it avoids having to vote strategically. And it's arguably easier to use and understand than score voting. I would be so happy with either score or approval.)
As a doctor, I agree with `clueless123. The imaging software is not what makes us frustrated: it's the EHR that is optimized for billing, not patients or doctors.
AI won't replace doctors, but it's not because of lack of API access to medical records. Medical records don't contain all of the data that an AI would need to make an accurate diagnosis and come up with an optimal treatment plan. In order for an AI to do that it would need to be able to see, touch, and converse with the patient. We're a long way from that capability.
The first HT processors had smaller caches and that was before operating systems had SMT-aware schedulers.

The place where SMT really seems to benefit is in particular applications that can use arbitrarily many threads. This also points to a solution to the security issue, because you get most of the benefit even if you only schedule threads from the same process group together on the same core and it would be possible for programs to specify whether it's safe to do that (e.g. yes for a render, no for a web browser).

That would also improve SMT performance in general since SMT makes the performance of some programs worse, and they could use the same mechanism to opt out of it.
Until recently (I just checked and noticed it was gone), the web version of Slack had a several-second scroll delay if you had loaded a few pages of history. The power in our machines, yet we still have trouble scrolling text.
Honest question: why should I as a person be taxed on income (the closest I guess I can get to the concept of revenue) but a business should be taxed on profit? Can anyone explain to me the basis for such a distinction?
"medical transportation" has a specific meaning. It's perfectly legal to take an Uber to see your doctor. However, there are anti-kickback regulations in place for medical transportation providers for people who need things like emergency care.
Nearsighted apparently relates to lack of UV exposure. It’s time spend inside often in school that’s the issue.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5233810/