skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This argument doesn't make any sense. If there are profits to be made from building new housing and renting it out, some one is going to do that. The higher those profits are, the higher the incentive to do so. People aren't going to respond to artificially suppressed profit margins by doubling down.

This article is also full of other strange arguments. Consider:

"The fact that real estate developers have funded an anti-Proposition 10 campaign to the tune of $45 million suggests that they are eager to defend their market power. If California were a truly competitive housing market where home builders operated with slim margins, they’d load up their cranes and build in some other state. But it’s clear these developers benefit from the status quo and are fighting hard to keep it."

Selling retail gasoline is a low margin business. But you can bet that if there was legislation to impose a price cap, gas stations and oil companies would be opposed. In other words, everyone everywhere is always going to be opposed to legislation that reduces how much they can charge for their product. You don't need to posit other factors such as the existence of market power or lack of competitiveness to explain the opposition.
Why not approval voting? It's much easier to explain to people and is way more compatible with the current system. You simply approve of any number of candidates, and the candidate with the highest number of approvals wins. Maybe in practice people would only ever approve one candidate and the situation wouldn't change, but I think it's a least a good small step forward.
Isn’t AMD well positioned to make a hybrid unit which works well as a CPU and GPU?

> Do you think the 9th Gen Intel chips would be octocore without Ryzen?

Recently got a new work laptop, a 12” with a 4C/8T i5. I definitely wouldn’t have expected that without Ryzen on the market, which also is available in business laptops from Dell in a 4C/8T config.
A nanometer is the same everywhere, but what you’re measuring isn’t. When they say 7nm, are they talking about the smallest feature they can produce, the minimum wire size, the minimum transistor size, the average transistor size, or...?

For an analogy, a GHz is a GHz everywhere but that doesn’t mean a 3GHz CPU is always faster than a 2GHz CPU.
I went through this when I built a Win7 HTPC perhaps 5 or 6 years ago. I was so happy to no longer have to use Connect360 on my xbox 360 to stream transcoded video from my Mac Pro (that I had to power on to run the whole thing). Finally I'd be able to just play files directly from my NAS into the endless world of Windows media support. No more transcoding from whatever stupid codec/container/disaster the 'scene' is using these days. It will Just Work because all of these people use Windows and it plays everything, right?

Nope. Unmitigated disaster. Same thing, navigating endless spy/mal/adware laden sites to download CCCP codec packages and plug things together, every time I installed one thing I found another thing that didn't work right. I have some weird Jockersoft thing to force some other application to keep running and restart if it fails, and even though I no longer use whatever that thing was, I can't uninstall the goddamned jockersoft thing to save my life.

Windows Media Center itself was actually a joy, though, I really enjoyed how well it worked for the things it could do out of the box which were far fewer than I had been led to believe.

I also realized that a decade+ of using OS X had left me unprepared to navigate the latest online threats in the world of not-entirely-legitimate download sites for Windows utilities. It got really bad while I was away.
A lot of hard won negativity from painful experience.
a) You assume that at least some GPU power in SFF wouldn't

- be possible (while SFF devices like Hades Canyon et al. with e.g. Kaby Lake-G manage to do just fine without breaking thermals and noise)

- still be immensely useful for many/at least better than current integrated Intel (which is a significant step backwards with the dropping of Iris)

b) You assume to have USB-C/TB3 instead, when there's no argument against having both.

And for anyone really not needing it and arguing about the unneccessary cost - just restrict it to the more expensive SKU, done.
how would compare that to something like YouCompleteMe?
What we need is STAR voting or 3-2-1 voting.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-single-winner-voting-... lays it out clearly.

STAR is on the ballot in Lane County, OR. We just might find out tonight or tomorrow that we'll see the first ever implementation of a more equal voting system.

IRV is not an equal system, it counts some people's preferences and discards others. https://www.equal.vote/star-vs-irv
Pretty much, yep.
This is really, really cool and I thank you for this!

I'm seriously hyped, I just hope it works as well as it claims.

edit: Can you provide some help/FAQ on using it from the CLI? I'd like to add support for my own editor, but I'm not yet sure if that's possible.

Thanks!
He's just saying that C# can be dangerous for beginners if they don't have a proper foundation in programming.

However, the C# tooling does reduce the workload for experienced programmers.

It's all about how the tooling is used.
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If you think the hardware and cost is overkill for "most use cases" perhaps the problem is your assumption of what "most use cases" are.
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Can't agree with you more! Not sure why you're getting downvoted.

Interviews are subjective, and what I've seen recently is the expectation is that you solve Leetcode questions within 10-15 mins with the optimum solution (yes, this was told to me my several recruiters). Sure, so basically you're asking me to memorize as many Leetcode optimum solutions as I can.

No thanks, if you want to hire Leetcode monkeys go ahead and see how that works out. On top of this, when you add concious and unconcious bias what are your chances of being hired?
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Yeah, but that's not a good one, since they have been using the same process for 4 years if I'm not mistaken.

Whatever metrics are used, they are stuck on it for way longer than they should.
Yes, obviously anyone who doesn’t like Java is a moron, and couldn’t possibly have used Java, because it’s so perfect.
I agree with what you are saying but I think performance reviews can be extremely valuable. The issue is that at all big companies they are used for promotions, raises and bonuses. They aren't designed to accurately measure or predict these things.

To me, the right kind of review (and done every six months) is something that takes an employee only an hour and the same for the manager. Its only purpose is to set and review goals specific to the function and success of the team(s) the employee is/was on. The scores are more like pass/fail or exceeds/meets/doesn't meet expectations. It gives a regular structured time for employee growth review and can help with correcting communication and other soft skills.
> under it with no perceptible solution

It’s to vote, convince and then copy the model from every other 1st world country... super hard sure but perceptible
Cool technology.
Yet, no Emacs support yet... oops :(
Comparing processes between fabs might not make sense, but the real question is — does it still make sense within a single fab? If so, then it's still very much the case that Intel, for whatever reason, has been stagnant while AMD has been moving forward at a fair pace, which still lends credibility to the narrative that AMD is closing the gap and Intel is losing some of its lead. Of course, as has been the case for decades, it still remains to be seen whether this will translate into AMD taking more of the market.
It depends on the injury. I would trust the medical professional here.
It makes me really sad to hear all of this. I've suffered from back pains myself in the past and stretching should NOT be the only option.
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> not sure if that's the same as bare metal

Hetzner Cloud is more like AWS EC2, if you choose dedicated vCPU, and more like VPS, if you don't.
IRV is more complex in every way than STAR voting.

STAR is just score with a single automatic runoff. It gets everything you are talking about in terms of intuition, explanation… everything you like about IRV is present in STAR and basically everything wrong with IRV is fixed by STAR.
No, they really should be since (1) it gives more guarantees about your program in compile-time and (2) lets you express more assumptions about your program to your compiler (3) for free.
Wouldn't we be able to add Emacs support? That's my hope, as my editor isn't on that list either. I'm checking out the install now.
This is one of the reasons EU is never gonna fly. Countries like Ireland are allowed to offer lower corporate taxation but still benefiting of the EU common market. No wonder why most companies have/move their tax domicile in these countries (like Nederland). This is unfair competition and EU should stop this s*t show. Businesses should be taxed based on where the revenue is generated and not where their tax domicile is placed.
Why is there a premium version ?
Nitpick: "Steve" in Minecraft is actually 1.7 meters tall.
Not as weird :)
> I always wondered why tools like Doom (other better FPSs are available) aren't used to familiarise people with building layouts.

Because Columbine, that's why. In the 90s, kids used to recreate their college campuses, etc. in Doom. Then Columbine happened, and such things were viewed as possible mass-murder prep.

Doom is primitive by today's standards anyway. I hear tell Unreal Engine is sometimes used for architectural visualizations, etc.

> I'm sure there are Doom levels that I haven't played in years that I could walk round confidently [1] if they suddenly became real.

Given that Doomguy moves at approximately 50 mph, it'd take real-world you quite a bit longer to explore those real-world levels.
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I fully agree with this. As an interviewer, though, I have no doubt that someone that has practiced interviews would do a better job with me than someone that hasn't.

So, as is normal in life, I expect it is complicated.
Philly has it. I assume New York, Chicago, and other big cities do too.
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You have to be very careful using a shooter game to layout your office space. That brings up some pretty negative connotations and thoughts
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"The performance appraisal nourishes short-term performance, annihilates long-term planning, builds fear, demolishes teamwork, nourishes rivalry and politics… it leaves people bitter, crushed, bruised, battered, desolate, despondent, dejected, feeling inferior, some even depressed, unfit for work for weeks after receipt of rating, unable to comprehend why they are inferior. It is unfair, as it ascribes to the people in a group differences that may be caused totally by the system that they work in."
I say that Russia is smart enough to weigh both options. Either access to data they already had, or putting a wedge between their enemies by amassive anti USA pr campaign. Or even a mix of both.

And yes, also that the theft isn't as big a deal as it seems.
I was hoping for something a little rigorous on the data provenance. :(
Mass market, talk about being out of touch. Considering Apple has about 12% of the cell phone market they were already a luxury item. They are becoming an ultra luxury item.

My wife ditched the iphone for a lower end Samsung, even my status symbol focused teenage daughters can't justify the cost of an iphone, their old iphones are being replaced by much cheaper Android phones.
There is a great article on the fact that everybody hires only the top 1% : https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/27/news-58/
There is a compound effect in building memory optimized features and being a distributed database that can put a lot more cores at work and cache a lot more data in a cluster:

- In-memory row stores. Super fast for updates and point lookups

- Memory optimized hash joins that minimized cash misses. Great for analytical/reporting use cases

- Vectorization for columnstore query processing. Super fast aggregations that work best when data is cached in memory
Why you can't upgrade i3?
I'm perplexed by why you think the SV elite voted in donald trump to keep the dirty masses down. Perhaps you should look at a county-by-county electoral map some day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
Nanometers is a marketing term now, just like frequency used to be a marketing term when talking about CPUs.

In reality, size of various features in a CPU differ widely. Intel 10nm could have a transistor gate pitch of 50nm, while TSMC 7nm could have a pitch of 60nm. All the meaningful parts you care about, like size of the transistor components and interconnects, are _not_ small, and it every company designs their own tweaks on these building blocks for reliability/manufacturability/performance/power/etc.
Wow, this team just continues to eat DataStax' lunch.
Imagining coming up with an answer to something cool that has happened in my life makes me feel anxious. I have lived a pretty happy and fulfilling life up until this point but I can't think of one thing that I've done that would be super cool to talk about. I hope I never have to answer that question.
I highly recommend the audio book version read by Rosario Dawson.
>Making and keeping deals was 15-dimensional chess to them

I've supported sales cycles at small and big companies. I think this is one of the best one line descriptions of what really happens when big companies want to "sell to the CIO" or retain a large existing customer. Sometimes actually solving customer problems is not even 1 of those 15 dimensions.
If your complaint about the Blackmagic eGPU being “subpar” was the power of the Radeon Pro 580, you’ll be happy to hear that one with a Vega 56 is now available:

https://store.apple.com/xc/product/HMQT2VC/A
I can certainly imagine situations when I would choose waiting another 30 minutes over paying an extra $10k... Can't you?
Have you tried swapping it between machines? Could I use an eGPU with say a NUC and the Mac Mini?
I mean it's clearly obvious that today, "AI" on computers != human. Unsupervised learning is making leaps & bounds. Even supervised learning isn't able to solve all problems better than humans even if it can do so on a staggeringly large amount of problems.

I don't think anyone is positing that that's true forever and all time. It seems reasonable to bet on AI at some point becoming sophisticated enough to outperform AI+human. I think it'll happen shortly after the point where AI can identify a new problem (or class of problems) by itself that it hasn't been taught about & then build new tools to help itself tackle that problem. After that it's the singularity because that process repeats ad infinitum. The only value-add of humans after that is if our creativity is somehow better/different than & can explore problems in ways the AI can't (& even that feels like a very short-lived advantage unless there's some crucial physical/mathematical impossibility standing in the way).
I'd love to see numbers to show how many this is a good guideline for.

That is, I think this somewhat describes me too. However, I don't know as that I can give the advice of "ignore practicing interviews."
That's an entirely different point. If you're out in the middle of nowhere or even the middle of downtown SF, and you cut your foot off, you can decide to do whatever you want about it. You could call an ambulance, have your wife drive you, or just lay there and bleed because you don't want to be an inconvenience. Freedom of choice, all legal options.

If you went to a licensed medical professional with your foot cut off, they're not allowed to call you a cab. They have to call an ambulance. You can tell them, to hell with your fancy EMT's and expensive rides, I'll just have my wife take me over to the ER to get this foot sewn back on, but they have to call an ambulance if you need transport. This is a liability and safety issue. It's also a kickback issue.

TL;dr- No, it shouldn't, and nobody wants to make that illegal.
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The article OP linked is about the systemic effect of rent control, which is claimed to be negative for low income renters overall even if it benefits a small group of lucky low income renters in particular.

I would love to see a well argued opposing position, which is why I read your link, but I don't think it really engages with the point about the systemic effect of rent control.
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I was hoping there was a version that worked with Webstorm or Phpstorm. I can't wait to try this out.
But is Ryzen really on the laptop market? There are just few low-end models, nothing that I would consider buying, so for laptops I'm kind of stuck with Intel.
If we made “better decisions” from the beginning, would New York be New York, or farmland?
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Hmm... Possibly poor example, then. My understanding was he was relatable, but was also a bit tough to first deal with.

That said, I've probably got a bit of hero worship for him. So... there is that.
Right? Sunrise today was 7:21 AM, sunset is 5:38 PM. So in Indiana in the winter school should be from what? 9 AM to 3 PM so kids have time to have an early dinner, do their homework and hit the rack by 6 PM?

Then what about on June 1st? Sunrise is at 6:20 AM and sunset is at 9:07 PM.
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You are getting it wrong.

There is only one claim, ie. "Ambulance when required". The point of contention is who decides what required means.

Tesla has a perverse cost saving incentive to recommend the cheaper option. The person in shock is no position to make a rational decision. It is medical practitioner's responsibility to put his practice before his employer and decide what is a medically appropriate response. The emergency service has an incentive to be deployed regardless of severity.

The comments section in general, agrees that a severed finger and crushed hand are sufficiently severe injuries to warrant an ambulance.

It seems pretty.obvious to me that lay-managers and CEOs should not be the ones deciding emergency policy. That is what trained practitioners are for and the expectation is that they will hold the org to a certain regulatory safety standard.
To allow the person(s) who implemented it to get paid for their efforts and hard work?
The only people who want to change voting systems are the ones whose preferred candidates don't win.
Thanks man! I appreciate it
If AMD can suggest that they are on smaller process size because they are measuring a smaller feature, why wouldn't Intel just start measuring the same feature on their chips? I have trouble believing they would stick to some principle about what is the right feature to measure at the cost losing out on marketing themselves.
Thanks for the kind words! I'll write a guide within the next couple of days on how to write a client.
I wouldn't say AMD is closing the gap in CPUs. They're ahead of Intel and are widening that lead.

For whatever reason, Nvidia hasn't stagnated the way Intel has. Nvidia has continued rapid progress in GPUs even though they have a dominant position (and a near monopoly in the datacenter).

Perhaps because they don't have as much of a lead as Intel used to? Intel was a monopoly, plain and simple, but AMD has always been a contender when it comes to GPUs.
If you have an example of the query you thought was returning inconsistent results, feel free to make a post over at https://www.memsql.com/forum/ with a repro.
Got bitten by this when I had to give a 32-character alphanumeric answer over the phone. I groaned and asked, "Can I just give you the beginning and the end?" The rep laughed and accepted my compromise. Since then, I use a collection of random words (in the style of correct-horse-battery-staple) for security questions.
Like others wrote, there's no longer a standard for what the measurement actually means. Most structures aren't actually 7nm in a 7nm process.

For example, a typical metal pitch on the low metal layers is 40nm, meaning you get one wire every 40nm, or 25 wires in parallel in a 1um channel.

What Intel is calling 10nm does indeed appear to be close to the others' 7nm. Then again, Intel is seriously behind on 10nm, so the bottom line remains the same: they seem to have essentially lost their process advantage.
YouCompleteMe will know the specifics of the language you are in so it will be much better at simple syntax, this will be able to learn how you generally do things and repeated patterns, which usually also will get a good bit of the syntax down.
If I'm about to die from shock, I'll take the ambulance responding to an emergency over a random coworker untrained in transporting a dying person driving me to the hospital in their regular car without any lights or sirens.
Sorry :( Emacs support is coming within a couple months. You can sign up at https://tabnine.com/install to be notified when it's released.
There is also Tarantool which is another in-memory/SQL DB and is Open Source.

https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool
I guess it isn't updated. I was looking for pricing of the new t3 instances but it says pricing not available (which kinda defeats the whole purpose of sorting by price)
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If it is state law - and I suspect it is - then the answer is probably even more nuanced.
I've been part of 6 separate buy-out/merger/acquisitions (from both angles). In year 3 of current one.

The event, whether you are acquired or acquiree, presents significant and unique opportunities to move vertically and/or horizontally to improve your situation. If you're sitting there wondering about job security then you (a) didn't have job security in the first place; (b) are wasting everyone's time, including yours.
I wouldn't rely on Uber of all companies (esp. a few years ago) to let you know when they did something illegal…
I understand that, but from a pragmatic point of view, you have little chance of achieving that. As long as Congressional districts are winner-take-all. And Senate seats are winner-take-all (there's only one seat up for each state at a time, usually). Nothing will change at the Federal level. And as for the Presidency, each state gets to decide how they allocate their electoral votes. Game theory currently suggests it's in a state's best interests to allocate all of their votes to the winner of the popular vote in that state.

And in the meantime, you're going to hit roadblock upon roadblock in trying to get a major disruptive system installed at the Federal election level.

You would have a much easier time getting the system to change from within the Democrat and Republican parties for the primary system, since those rules are set by the parties themselves and not by the states.

So long as the parties are open and accessible to anyone, I don't see a big problem. The parties themselves are composed of many smaller factions (greens, libertarians, evangelicals, etc, etc).
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