skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that this statement presupposes that no research has been done. Yes, if we were starting fresh we wouldn't want to assume that all populations evolved identically. But we aren't starting fresh. There has been decades of quality research on race both from a biological and social setting. What we observe through evidence rather than conjecture is that the hypothesis that people of certain races are genetically less intelligent than other people is not supported by evidence.

Justice and truth are aligned here.
I wish I had been able to convince the guys to use a relational DB from the beginning instead of Mongo. Turns out a social network is full of relational data - but my buddies were too excited by new tech, and made a decision based on “cool”ness that hurt themselves in the long run.

However, it’s still impressive what four guys at the end of their college careers were able to build with no professional experience whatsoever. (Though it took me a full week to convince them to use a framework, Rails, instead of hand-rolling everything around a custom EventMachine loop... The loop never even worked, but it was “cool”. Give me boring and powerful any day.)

I think the biggest missed opportunity here was that an advisor of my own suggested to me that they really should leverage SMTP and build a better experience on top of that. An advanced mail client with social network-style features and presentation, and an obfuscation of the “pod” concept (do users really care which one you’re on?) could have been a smash hit and could have had fallback design to allow non-network-members to still be included as leaf modes in the Diaspora social graph. I couldn’t wrap my head around any of this at the time, so they never heard even a whisper of the idea. My bad!
Here's an interesting article discussing it: http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/06/why-does-the-left-get-a-...
One Interesting Concept of the Sign in Page
No, you're basically right. But it's more like a grey area: There are ways to circumvent this. But of course this introduces a lot of unfairness because rookies usually will be out of the know.

Kind of reminiscent of a lot of tax-scandals that come along regularly: Usually nothing illegal but because of well meant intentions created a complicated system, gaming the system benefits only those that are able to do so.
Bluetooth in general is so shitty about this. How iOS/Apple gets it right and no one else does is beyond me.
OsWatcher: open database of operating systems – evolution of OS over time
[Google AI Blog] Curiosity and Procrastination in Reinforcement Learning
While we pay above average for top tier talent on Upwork, it still makes me wonder how Freelancers cover their healthcare costs (if at all?).

The Freelancer Union, mentioned in the article, seems like a good start. Could they collectively pool funds to get high-deductible coverage for ~$200 per month?
Same narrative since Jobs died. And yet, their stock keeps skyrocketing.
> "Trending" isn't an editorial strategy. It is the abdication of editorial strategy.

Not sure I understand your point. “Trending” is exactly what it says on the cover. On the other hand, calling topics picked by the editor trending would be a bit of a perversion of the meaning of the word, no?
Seems like you'd be better off by a PDF digitally signed by the university (with the public key hosted on their website, for verification).

I just saved with a few thousand dollars. Where should I send the bill? :D
Until some manager on Go team decides to try to read them on his/her mobile device.
I'd be fine with uMatrix as basic browser feature. Barely use anything else ever.
Ok, we can agree to disagree on morality it is more about a broken focus in essentially a scam system with the focus on employers and insurers not paying when time comes, rather than a focus on individuals/consumers and larger more sensible grouping of covered people to spread risk and not have insurance rates spike for entrepreneurs, small businesses or people with pre-existing conditions. Employers shouldn't have anything to do with providing healthcare or deciding/choosing for you, making people have to change insurance to change jobs and people losing insurance if they do need it as employers and insurers drop you if that happens.

At a macro level, everyone would be served better by healthcare where the consumer/individual is the customer focused on, not some deal with large employers where they are the customer. That current setup in healthcare purposefully tries to exclude people who are individuals, smaller businesses or other due to broken grouping that insurers use. We'd be better served by large groups across all ages, conditions and states, that would truly be insurance, more like auto insurance which is not bound to employers.

We don't get our auto or home insurance from employers. Why do we get the most private of insurance, healthcare, from employers? It is a legacy broken system that most of the world has moved on from. Benefits are one thing, pay is another, but healthcare should not be provided by employers as it leads to broken fixed pricing between large insurers, medical suppliers and the consumer is considered last if at all, leading to the worst pricing fixed market maybe in history. If you support entrepreneurs and small business growth, the engine of America, you'll come around.
Lots of what startups do is some kind of fraud. Whether you're defrauding investors like `resters idea or defrauding users like Reddit's early days (each employee had multiple accounts to make it seem more active than it was) the trick is just not to get caught.

Of course, defrauding investors has a far higher likelihood of getting you into serious legal trouble than defrauding users. And with this one, even if you don't get caught, if it doesn't work out properly you are fucked.

But hey, if it does work, it'll make a great story to tell at your IPO celebration party over a glass of champagne.
I think their biggest innovation is making devices where everything just works. Look no further than any two year old who has been exposed to an iPad to see that their interfaces are super-intuitive. Plus, unlike most manufactures, they control all the hardware plus the software, so they can make sure that the entire experience is seamless.
I think many were more concerned about .NET performance against tech in the same class, mainly the JVM, which previously blew .NET out of the water in the benchmarks for a number of years.
>It is definitely an issue of science where justice is more important than truth.

Justice is downstream from truth. Justice cannot be based on feelings or politics, or what Plato called 'the noble lie'. It has to be based on the dispassionate pursuit of truth.
At times they prevent some. You mention there is always oversight. You can both be right.
The Trending Topic is so bad sometimes. The other day I saw that #davies was trending and the article presented by Twitter was some marriage news of some unknown couple. It was really trending because of a soccer phenom playing his last game in Vancouver before heading to the big leagues.
But for some reason they don't.

Microsoft are adding headphones to the Surface range very soon, early reviews are very positive.
> How long till Apple start putting their A-series chips in Macs?

What most people call a Mac? I'm betting 2020.

If you expand your thought a bit, you could say they already have the A-series chips in a Mac with the new iPad Pros. It looks like before long Adobes creative suite will be on the iPad Pro. It has a keyboard, can hook up to external monitors, etc... And, while it still would not work for most people on HN, it is getting very close to a full computer replacement for many.
Saying a Hindu nationalist who would like to enforce a Hindu nation is a bit rich, methinks.

Would you kindly provide an example like you provided for a Christian nationalist?
Jobs era re-designed the boxes with chip generations, but there's always been sku complexity and naming consistency weirdness

iMac SE / iBook SE
iMac Aluminum - Core2/i3/i5/i7 20, 21, 24, 27
iTools/.Mac/MobileMe/iCloud
iPod Mini/Shuffle/Nano/Touch 3rd 4th 5th gen
USB1/USB2/FireWire400/800/30-pin/
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iPhone XS/XSMax/XR
lightning/usb-c
Apples product line is not understandable anymore, it used to be simple but now there are too many dubious options and weird branding.

Even Microsoft's Surface line (which is a similar mess) is easier to comprehend now.
Those reasons all revolve around the people who already have money wanting more of the money. And considering the HN community is organized around entrepreneurship and wealth generation, most of us are at least complicit in it if not actively fighting to keep it that way.
Does this new package management system mean that each package is deployed with it's own version of dependencies? Or are dependencies only installed once, in a central location, like they are with 'traditional' Linux package management systems?
At least in hard sciences, citations are more. The real reason fore citations is to a) show that you know the subject matter and, more importantly b) make use of established facts.

The problem is now that some of these facts are unique. While you, for example, could ignore measured data points if there are others around (not a good idea), you can not simply replace a theorem etc. by something else. You can not attribute it to someone else either. And you shouldn't use it without citations either, because the chain of proof has to be preserved.

The endorsement of a person's work is a consequence of this. If the findings are more relevant or important, they will be cited more. -> if you are cited more, you do important stuff.
> Even if the government subsidized all higher education and removed the lenders from the equation completely,

Which it mostly has; private student loans dropped off a cliff with the late 2000s financial crisis, and then private lenders were cut entirely out of the federally guaranteed student loan program, which is where most loans for study at fully accredited schools come from. For guaranteed loans, the only lender is the federal government, so everyone talking about the supposed effect of federal guarantees on lender behavior is missing a very important fact.

So, the federal guaranteed loans, with below market interest, various forgiveness options, income-based repayment, etc., are basically an erratic, bureaucratically complicated, inconsistent, method of federal subsidy which excludes private lenders.
You quote a target of 200ms per embedding, not sure if it's one type of embedding in particular. I am using Infersent (a sentence embedding from FAIR https://github.com/facebookresearch/InferSent) for filtering and they quote a number of 1000/sentences per second on generic GPU. That's 200 times faster than your number, but it is a local API so I am comparing apples to oranges. Yet it's hard to imagine you are spending 1ms embedding and 199 on API overhead. I am sure I have missed a 0 here or there, but I don't see where, other than theirs is a batch number (batch size 128) and maybe yours is a single embedding number. Can you please clarify? Thanks
Any way you could provide more information about this? I have some legacy projects on 4.7 that I would love to migrate over to core 2.1
Worst PR move Microsoft could ever take. Developers don't need another Python 2 vs 3 debacle.

There should not be .NET Framework. There should not be .NET Core. There should be .NET, a singular powerful platform that does it all.
> Sweden is second only to Silicon Valley when it comes to unicorns

This is like saying the Libertarian Party is the third largest political party in the United States. Yeah, it's true, but...
The thing that Diaspora and Mastodon get wrong is their insistence on putting the instance in the username.

If I'm jim1234@mastodon.org because somebody else gets my preferred username, that's fine. I don't have to worry about the @somehost.somewhere site shutting down because the host got bored or lost their job or moved. So jim1234@somehost.somewhere is the last thing I want.

Whatsapp started with the idea of $1/year for an account. If I'm paying $1/year to mastodon.org so I don't have to worry about reinventing the people I follow, etc. that seems like a good deal.

Then instances can compete on features and/or price. If my friend Bob is running a server for his friends for free, maybe I use him. Or if instance A has spam-filtering while instance B accepts absolutely all federations and instance C translates everything into pirate-speak, well, I can pick from those.

If Bob's system is down a lot or he doesn't do spam-filtering or whatever, it'd be nice to have the option to pay $10/year or $25/year or whatever to be on another instance where it's a business relationship. Or maybe the instance does fund-raising twice a year because the site owner wants it less businesslike.

Running the central registry becomes a big responsibility but it also lends itself well to being replicated. And at some point 100,000 or 1 million users becomes $100,000 or $1,000,000 in actual revenue. Minus credit card processing, colo fees, etc. But still, there's a business there.
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Shop accidentally deletes game built by 12-year-old boy
Sculley coined the term “PDA” in direct reference to Newton.
Hunter’s orange is pretty damn bright by design. I would also argue that hunter != hiker.

I’ve never noticed a correlation between photographers and clothing colors. I tend not to be in my own photos, so it’s not something I select gear based on.

Obviously not every bag is bright, although my wife’s bag is a nice metallic teal, but every hiking bag I’ve ever seen has reflector tabs built in. Ditto with our tent and rain flies, and quite a few of our tops. They help in a SAR situation, and improve safety if you ever need to come close to a road at night.

Taste is subjective, but outdoor gear trends towards the bright for safety reasons.

I have never seen a hiker wear camo, all of them have reflector tabs, and a large percentage have tops, bags, and hats in bright colors. And that’s not even getting into inclement weather gear, which trends towards the super garish. There’s a reason why Everest has a “rainbow valley”, and it’s not because heavy coats are designed to be subtle.
I would contend that MLS is the big leagues. :(
I find Face ID to be a vast improvement over Touch ID. It's much faster and less fiddly to unlock the phone than with the old Touch ID. I love that you can activate and unlock the phone just by looking at it. Apple Pay is much faster. And I like that it's smart enough to not dim the screen when you're looking at it, even if you haven't interacted with the device for a while.
>Why are you sending US Dollars between yourselves as Canadians? You can’t spend them in Canada, why not use a free and instant Interac e-Transfer?

Sorry I didn't see your message until 10 days later. Did you know that the internet is worldwide? I do use an e-Transfer to transfer cash in Canada but more than likely, a transfer on the web will need to be done internationally. A stablecoin is a way to make sure the value is secured, at least as much as what it's backed on and the company holding it, for the duration of the transaction.

Any Canadian Exchange (and not a specific provider) could hold that stablecoin and many people will do arbitrage over it which will make sure I will be able to buy it easily for a minimum of fee.

That's specifically for me as a Canadian in a first world country too. A stablecoin allow that in ANY country, no need to do a case by case.
You are correct, pretty much all spying at GCHQ is aimed at friendly competition in the business arena (and politics) and has nothing to do with 'hunt the bin Laden', 'kiddy porn' and all those things that they say they do. Even during the Cold War the bulk of operations were directed at allies and customers for the arms trade, not the Soviet Union.

There is some dangerous thinking going on with this assumption that 'we must let our spies bug everything and everyone, including our allies' that should not be glossed over.

There is the 'copying homework problem' that we all know from school. If you spend all of your efforts copying the efforts of others (whether it is a school assignment or a business proposal) then this really can be to your own detriment. It is far better to do your own work and then to compare with others to see if you have missed something. Starting with the work of others and changing a few details doesn't get you top grades or the contract. It is a risky strategy.

Another problem with over-reliance on spying is that this is actually being done by a defence contractor who may not have your best interests at heart. A large part of the GCHQ infrastructure is put in place by American companies and they are upstream. Imagine you are trying to sell bombs to Saudi Arabia, representing the interests of British companies and doing your best to secure jobs for people in your constituency.

If the defence contractor doing the spying services also have bomb factories in the USA then there is a conflict of interest going on, they have visibility on what deal is being proposed and can make sure their competing offer gouges the Saudis but does not appear to be based on insider information.

Spying also has a chilling effect and targets of spying efforts can go quiet if they know that too many walls have ears. If you were a European company would you prefer to deal with your European neighbours, getting bids from France, Germany or Spain (for example) or would you want to have known snitch-countries bidding too? The Five Eyes run the risk of just being left out of the running as untrustworthy, particularly in countries outside the Anglo-Saxon world.
From the Techempower blog post I linked to above:

"The degree of improvement is absolutely astonishing, going from 2,120 requests per second on Mono in Round 11 to 1,822,366 requests per second on ASP.NET Core in Round 13. That’s an approximately 85,900% improvement, and that doesn’t even account for Round 11’s hardware being faster than our new hardware.

That is not a typo, it's 859 times faster! We believe this to be the most significant performance improvement that this project has ever seen."
> 61% of full-time freelancers would consider moving to a different city for a tax break of less than $5,000

Imagine the number willing to move for more than $10,000 power year. Very doable overseas. Then there's the foreign earned income exclusion rule to help matters further.
Yes they do, although I'd be surprised if they fill it every day or even most days. J is notoriously choppy as it doesn't have the price discrimination carriers can use to smooth Y pax around to fill up the days. Simultaneously its strength and its weakness from an airline revenue perspective. Singapore has tried and failed in this product before; maybe this time the market is ready - still, it's probably not the license to print money one might imagine.

I think quite a few financial/corporate centre city pairs support a business-only flight, though even with this famously rich city pair, BA1 from london city to NY is flown on an a320! It's a difficult product to make work.

Upon further reflection I believe what the grandparent commenter was trying to say is that airlines, as a whole, get more revenue from economy pax, which is probably true for most airlines. On a route that supports a decent J component, though, they can rake in the cash.
Tight OS integration is their advantage. Airpods can do things in ways other manufacturers cannot. The OS has special case Airpod code. How would another manufacturer replicate this? I don't think they could without Apple's ecosystem. Try Airpods on Windows. They aren't as simple to setup.
If as the poster above says they were using MongoDB then losing all the data probably wasn’t in their control!
This comment is getting a lot of upvotes and downvotes. I wonder why? Every time I check, it's score has gone up or down a bit. Whoever is downvoting it, can you say which part made you decide to downvote this? I wasn't aware that I was saying anything controversial.
Agreed. "Early 2014" is not a good model description
At what point does the extra complexity and cost of including SMT in the design outweigh the gains is provides if you can only use it in specific situations, and if you don't err on the side of caution is may be a security problem?

If it was clearly outlined as 8 cores that support hyperthreads or 10 cores that don't for around the same price, what do we suppose most people would choose?

Part of the reason for the current status quo might be that hyperthreads are a big differentiator beteen AMD and Intel, and play towards Intel's strength (higher clock speeds at fewer cores).

We have something close to the proposed scenario starting to play out with AMD's offerings that support more cores and no hyperthreading, but it's not a perfect experiment because AMD's cores are also lower clock speed, and there's a lot of brand name loyalty currently.
I think it's coming very soon, perhaps in the next generation of Macbook Pros. The writing was on the wall when Apple released the new iPad Pros: https://bgr.com/2018/11/01/new-ipad-pros-speed-will-be-a-nig...

I know these are synthetic benchmarks, but it's incredible to see the A12X outperform the iMac 27" Retina... These chips have the potential to blow the doors off of Intel's Core i7/i9 while having 2x the battery life.
> OS fragmentation: doesn't apply if you're not a developer, just pick a phone that will have a reasonable amount of updates over its lifetime

Define reasonable. In order to get Android updates for any amount of time, you mostly have to pick higher end phones. Well, If I am expected to pay laptop prices for a phone, I should be able to keep it for as long as I keep a laptop. Two years of updates isn't cutting it anymore.
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Tailwind isn't a particularly new invention. I've worked with similar tools developed in-house years ago, and have no desire to do it again, no.
That's true, people could become more minimalist and work a lot less. Actually, minimalism seems to be a growing trend right now, but I think this has more to do with necessity than minimalism as a philosophy. For me, it's a little of both.
It's soon 2019, I never used any wireless earbuds/plugs and I'm doing well.