skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Once we find out for certain it's almost certainly too late to avoid it."

I don't understand why is that. What I do understand is that somehow, for so many like you, change is too often pictured as a bad thing. And I am glad that on the large scale we are inclined to be skeptical in our nature. And if some change happen to have something undesirable, I won't rush to blame the change, I would rather take a look at what change brought, good and bad, and only do something about the bad. So far, observing the general attitude, most of us seem to think like me.

Humans can (and will) get through climatic change events well enough. Even if today we could have only 20% of our current arable land, that would be enough to feed more than our current population level, providing that the necessary diet adjustments are made (e.g. less beef). The past mass extinctions could not be mitigated by coordinated reactive actions that are possible today and it's simply wrong to attempt to project something similar with equal level of destruction into our future. We have the power to preserve almost everything we deem worth preserving and we do exactly that. Actually, if nothing else, thanks to us, the life on our planet has the highest chance of survival in the future "mass extinction events".
These are independent contractors. The doctors doing the work are the principals, and they get all the payout from the contract.
> But fine, I'll play. Abolition of mobile roaming charges across the EU.

So, ignoring your attempt at preventing the obvious answer with your introductory rhetoric, you honestly believe that roaming charges were a significant issue for the EU? Why didn't you mention banning curved cucumbers instead?
We're talking about an alternative to a car that is already designed to carry an extra motor around all the time on the existing axles.
There is a huge gulf between "Facebook clone, but for
Babies." And "my idea is based off of research I did in my graduate program plus a lightweight non-prod quality library I wrote in Python"
It's more likely to be the other way around. People will still try to migrate from the EU to the UK - as they are already doing in huge numbers and are still doing years after the Brexit vote. If there was going to be a major drop in immigration numbers it'd have happened already and it hasn't. In fact immigration from outside the EU has gone up not down.

The amount of fearmongering going on around this topic is quite eye opening and can only mean opportunities for people who keep their head. The top voted comment in this thread is saying that euro clearing moving out of London will "kill the market" and "be a shot in the head".

That person clearly has no idea of the size of the euro clearing market (small), or the fact that it will hurt the EU significantly more - that activity not only takes place in London for good reasons, but it exposes the UK to significant risks in case of clearing house failure ... not an entirely unthinkable problem given the eurozone's dire economic straits (stalling despite negative rates). I'm OK with it though: short term loss of relatively minor profits for banks is probably worth the insulation from the threat of government-backed bailouts in case of eurozone problems.

Also note the article: that money is leaving the UK because the EU is forcing it to leave via regulation. That's not a good sign for the strength of the EU economy - they can't win their own banking business on their own merits and have to literally ban Europeans from using British services to stop them doing it.

My view is simple - the EU is heading in the wrong direction, fast, and not even attempting to turn around. There's a train wreck coming for sure but it's not coming to the UK, as long as we get out in time.
Github allows Microsoft to grab the attention of every software developer on the planet. And, as we know, most software developers are early adopters and enjoy sharing technology with others.

With AWS’s quality of service going downhill, and Google’s apparent inability to execute, this gives MS a huge advantage. Remember, AWS is pretty much how Amazon stays profitable.
Happiness is not a choice. If you think it is, try learning more about clinical depression.
A lot of people are concerned about the “what if they make me the product since I’m no longer paying.”

A few reasons I don’t think that will happen:

- private, single contributor repos tend to be pretty small. it costs Github very little to service a single account.

- Github is a growing social network for developers. Getting young engineers on the platform for free will pay off handsomely when they join a team and automatically assume Github is their code storage tool of choice.

- Microsoft gets the reputation points for running the de facto developer social network (other than Stack Overflow).

GitHub is in the strange position of being both a successful enterprise product AND a social network. What other product exists with that kind of crossover? Microsoft will continue to optimize their enterprise revenue from GH and I think this is a tremendous step forward toward building the network long term.
Ask HN: How's Chattanooga's Software scene with their investment in Gig internet
Considering moving that way, and read quite a bit of what looks to be marketing on their investment in Gigabit internet. Has it turned the area into a decent tech hub? Has gigabit helped other cities grow?
I'll concede on how that came across - I meant to say what you described in your last sentence, and I agree it was a truism
Of course there's a difference between just raising a family bceause it's the next logical step and because it's what you really feel is important to you at that point in life.
It's pretty funny that capitalism is effectively trying to do a Kantorovich style planned economy now.
Who Wants a Market Downturn? These Investors Actually Do
Yes, I forgot to mention that in my other comment about bamboo in this thread. In India, bamboo scaffolding is or used to be (not checked lately) very commonly used on the outsides of buildings when they were being constructed. Tied together with ropes, in vertical and horizontal directions. The building workers stand / climb on them and do the building work.
I have been a vocal critic of Microsoft acquiring GitHub, but gotta give credit where credit is due - this might be enough for me to move my private repos back to GitHub.
They haven't proven to be ducks for modern missile systems yet, though. And we've used our carrier strike forces to devastating effect in many countries since WWII. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan didn't see any major naval losses, and would have been impossible without the ability to project power and air supremacy clear across the globe that our Navy affords us. Sure, most countries don't need to be able to wage those kinds of wars and thus don't need such naval capabilities, but you're also not a first rate power if you can't do that.
to name a few others:

standardization of pallet sizes

classification of fruits and vegetables in classes so they can be more easily traded between member states.]

standardization of higher education between member states, so education is actually compatible between member states.
Not sure I could call this "well made" which is a disappointment for me with regards to Anker. The HV and LV sides don't appear to be well, or even at all isolated.

I suppose the big yellow-wrapped thing is the voltage transformation stage, but the connector should feed directly into it. Looks like it is actually be a transformer rather than a switching supply, which I suppose could cut costs.
Wow, I guess I should not be surprised. The acquisitions continue - in the last year or two we've seen the identity space really start to consolidate.

- Okta bought Stormpath .. and killed it.
- SAP bought Gigya
- Thoma Bravo acquires majority interest in Centrify
- Google Cloud acquires Bitium
- Akamai bought Janrain
- LoginRadius - Series A from M12 (Microsoft Venture Capital)
- OneLogin - parternship with Microsoft

I think there are others as well, I'm surprised IBM didn't buy Janrain. Waiting to see who picks up ForgeRock, FusionAuth and Auth0. Most of these companies have taken so much in VC that they will be pricey to buy.

My guess is that Google, Amazon, and maybe IBM want to have a market position in this space, so it will be interesting to see what they do. Amazon already has a decent position with Cognito, Google offers some of this if you're on Firebase. IBM seems to be absent - but they have a lot of catching up to do in general, so perhaps this isn't priority.
Tesla batteries are only ~2% lithium. The vast majority of the battery is nickel, followed by cobalt and aluminum.

Better mining practices are obviously still a good thing, but the environmental impact of lithium mining is pretty small when it comes to Tesla batteries.
Ultra brief summary of findings: teaching Protestant values to ultra-poor Filipinos raises their income by 9%!
Yeah, I've just been using bitbucket for this purpose for years.
The Anatomy of Charisma – Pocket
Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue
Considering how long you would have to stay to get anything from an equity event (4-8 yrs?) you realistically can't work for 10 startups. If you luck out and work for one that does have some success, you will probably find that, unlike a VC, you don't have "2X preferences" or an anti-dilution arrangement so you get nothing or next to nothing.

In the meantime you may have traded your youth for magic beans - putting off things like getting a house, a girlfriend, etc because you are working long hours for sub-market pay. That is the real tragedy.
A Layman's Guide to Moving from Keras to Pytorch
Git LFS can take care of that.
Can the US, China, and India agree on a design then create an economy of scale to build a few hundred reactors?

The AP1000 was supposed to be such a next generation plant?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000
Deary me! I don't think anyone serious in the satellite business would argue that SSTL are anything but a world leader in some aspects. Apart from that there's also Inmarsat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmarsat

The UK also has world leading Geomatics capabilities. I work in this sector.

I think one of the positive factors for the UK as regards Galileo is that technology has advanced hugely since Galileo's inception, thus a new UK system can be superior and far cheaper, hence the confidence behind the idea.
> Generally when previously paid stuff becomes free, it's because the paid service is no longer a product - it's now a tool to attract users. How will users be monetised now?

Does anyone remember how Microsoft purchased GitHub in 2018? This is part of Microsoft's strategy now. Microsoft cares about developers using their platforms. Getting people hooked early on their ecosystem is part of that strategy. GitHub is now a part of that ecosystem. My prediction is that Visual Studio is going to get tied closer and closer to GitHub, that a lot of people are going to learn how pull requests work because of Visual Studio integration with GitHub.

Microsoft then turns around and sells GitHub + Visual Studio to software development firms, along with Windows Server and SQL Server licenses, MSDN subscriptions, etc. Managers won't hesitate to buy it because all of their employees already know how to use GitHub and love it.
> Second, atheists went to Church? Well was that because if they didn't, they were ostracized -- and, well, lonely?

American distrust for religion began in the sixties and seventies. Before, it was a normal and accepted part of life. People wanted to go to church. Even if you didn't believe in it you still wanted to go. It's hard to believe but that's how all of the world's societies were up until very recently. Religion aided life, not hindered it.

The Enlightenment was a comparatively small movement that really only took root in the intelligentsia. You would have had to pry religion out of the cold dead fingers of the common folks.

Now, even religious folks often stay home on Sunday.
That would be cool. Microsoft has already made a plugin for Visual Studio that trains on your code to improve IntelliSense code completion.
How are they not literally already a commodity?

I get that you said that they each have their own chemistry, but are the owners of all of the chemistries choosing their customers?
I'm sure they apologized to Github, even if they didn't apologize to you for reading it.
It'd be possible but it's a non-trivial amount of work: think about things like linting or debuggers where line numbers might vary substantially, sequencing things in tools around merges and code review, etc.

The option you can do right now is to use something like Prettier where everyone's experience is entirely consistent and you have no cognitive load switching styles or dealing with inconsistency. This is basically free and means that there's a whole slew of high-emotion discussions which you can stop having for the rest of your career, in favor of working on things which actually matter. The older I get, the more that looks like pure win.
>The word "celebrity" has negative connotations but Elon is famous for very good reasons: he gets results and he helps other people get results.

I didn't want to deny that Elon is an exceptionally hard working individual as well, but I honestly think it would help both Elon and people like Tom Mueller if the attention was more evenly distributed.

We have seen the downsides of the media attention, drama and inflated egos that are produced by the focus on founders or CEOs.
There is a cultural fiction in SV that gets repeated that “ideas are worthless”.

Folks also love to say “execution is everything.”

Keep in mind, this idea tends to favor capital and insitutionalized power.

Executing a bad idea isn’t valuable and can cost you lots of money, time and opportunity.

Since most companies fail to make a profit, I suppose we could argue that most execution is worthless too.

So ideas can be seen as an exponent of sorts. An idea with a greater than 0 value will be useful for a team that can execute. Execution being equal, ideas are everything.

But not only that, the people and contexts that create great ideas are even more valueable.

Creativity is a resource that is always needed.

Uncreative people don’t like this at all, so they often try to devalue the power of ideas.

Of course they are also the ones who will try to execute on them.

Smart people understand the value of both. They also understand their own worth. They don’t need to devalue or belittle others in order to create partnerships.

There are plenty of brilliant idea generators who are paid handsomely simply for generating ideas and licensing them to existing companies.
STEM education.
DevOps is about removing a secondary team that you throw something over the wall to for deployment. Instead the build pipeline (be it Circle, GitabCI, Jenk, Go, etc...) can control ALL environments and things have been optimized, in such a way, that a single click updates an environment. (including prod). The pipeline "code" and all its related scripts are the actual devops work products. They CAN be done by a single team that supports multiple other teams, but truthfully it should be a shared responsibility. Perhaps one team provides base scripts and answers the questions about where logs and monitoring data go (and of course those questions are answered with scripts essentially). So "ops" can still exist if your organization is large enough, but I definitely say there's no "thing" you throw over the wall anymore.
Usually, you'd be talking dampers (often called shock absorbers in the UK), and often the springs will have broken.

Having said that, I remember that 20 years ago, those kinds of parts would need to be replaced after maybe 60-80k miles. However, everything seems to be better built now - my van has 214k on it, and no sign of needing replacements - same goes for all the cars I've bought and sold (20 or so) in the last 3 years.
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Agreed but I hesitate conclude that Microsoft wouldn't care about making some extra buck by placing ads. The amount of crap I've seen with windows 8 and 10 was disgusting
He is not talking specifics in his letter.

It is not just a political problem but a technical one.

Back in the 1970s coal was the "least cost" power source and it had the advantage over nuclear that the steam turbine operated at higher temperatures and was much more cost effective.

Nuclear tried to deal with that by "making it up in volume" which led to giantism, unconstructability, and failure.

Today the "least cost" competitor is a Brayton cycle turbine fired with natural gas. A gas turbine is at least an order of magnitude smaller than a nuclear steam turbine; a gas turbine could be about the same size as the crane, employee break rooms, bathrooms and such of a nuclear steam turbine.

Nuclear can only be competitive if we can raise the outlet temperature and couple it to a gas turbine. Otherwise you're looking at something that would be uneconomical if everything went right -- and things don't go right, particularly when you try to cover up bad economics with false promises.
They don't support every LTS as far as I know. Also, they don't really make any effort to keep up with getting ready for the next LTS release.
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I don't think the peak stock price is indicative of anything. It's been all over the place with bitcoin and retail investors causing havoc and pumping up the price.
I've heard hardware guys complain about saving pennies. When you're manufacturing millions of units then saving 20 cents on each of them absolutely does matter. Obviously saving 20 cents now doesn't offset all the other issues with RISC-V but saying it's meaningless to cut out 20 cents is not correct.
Feels like the cloud providers are staying safely in the "do the minimal feature set to make it work" category with Firebase and Cognito. I don't even consider those really anything more than authentication APIs.
They announced that OBS "just works" with NVENC.
Deployments are a significant amount of magic, moreso than with other languages. You're deploying a whole beam ecosystem not just a single app. If you want to do anything remotely dynamic (e.g. using environment variables as knobs a la 12-factor) you'll have to rely on distillery and voodoo.

Meanwhile distillery has been broken on FreeBSD for months with no fix in sight and no actual community understanding of how things fit together. Dockyard also has a good blog post explaining how complex Elixir deployments get:

https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/02/28/elixir-deployment-tools...

No bueno. Generating a WAR or JAR to deploy is typically trivial in comparison. Capistrano? Easy peasy AND reliable. Distillery? I'm just glad I don't have any production Elixir apps.
YES!
* runs off to finally push that Hello World app into a private repo :D
You think with all the telemetry MS put in Windows 10, there is not going to be any sort of customer reconnaissance going on in free GitHub? There will be a lot of data mining going on.
I suppose it could be a difference in personality types or maybe I'm just not there yet. I can only do the whole live-in-the-moment thing for so long before I start getting this nagging feeling like I should be working on something. And the best feeling is always when I feel like I've made progress. Of course it has to be something I feel is important and not just something imposed from the outside, like job/school/etc.
Same. I appreciate when a product can last 5+ years of daily use.

I hope Apple will use it's hoard of cash to become like Toyota - long-term reliability promoting trust and in turn promoting long-term cash flow.
Considering the amount of money poured into all things war-related, I can't really imagine a shortage of resources for R&D
I might compare qt3 to Silverlight or ActiveX.
It's not 'boilerplate', and rust is remarkably good at removing boilerplate. It's that in this case, what you've described as "the actual algorithms" is only a small part of the semantics that are provided by a safe, generic data structure under Rust. If you want to ignore all of that and only want the C++ level of semantics, writing the code in unsafe blocks is all you need to do.
Yeah the SE doesn't have the updated reader, the haptic system or 3D touch. Having gone back and forth between my SE and a 7 for work, I really only miss the 3D touch.
It sounds like it was the right call at the time. You can't time corporate strategy shifts any more than you can time the market, so just make the best calls you can with what you know.
Robotgo v0.70.0 is released, Go desktop automation. Enhanced keyboard and mouse
It's also pretty hard to use statistical arguments when someone watched their kid go into convolutions a couple hours after a vaccination.
I'm not rationalizing China's censorship program; I'm pointing out that the US has a more effective one.
Personally I think the price explosion had two groups of people driving it:
The first group, which I am in, believes nvidia with its proprietary CUDA will continue to grow its datacenter presence rapidly, and get some big contracts for field ML hardware.
The second was looking for crypto exposure.
The etherium bubble has mostly burst and it isn’t profitable (probably hasn’t been for a long time in most places) to buy nvidia cards for crypto mining. That and the trade war with China have taking half of the stock’s overheated value off. It’s still up quite a bit from ~$30 in 2016, and I think that reflects its real edge in ML hardware as well as some modest healthy growth in consumer gaming. I think, previously I assumed all the growth was from investors thinking like I was about their AI prospects and missed that I had picked a winner based on the crypto craze. I think a lot of smart money realized that and got out.

Disclaimer: was very long nvidia, sold a lot in the 200s and hold a lot less these days.
I vastly prefer the SE over any other current-ish options. I'll be really annoyed when my one dies, I suspect, and I wish I'd bought another one before they discontinued.

This is pretty much all about pockets though - I typically wear a 3XL glove so it's not being driven by reach. I can accept needing to carry a bag if I need a laptop. For a phone it's insane.
Studies have shown a small increased risk for febrile seizures during the 5 to 12 days after a child has received their first vaccination with the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine. The risk is slightly higher with the measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (MMRV) combination vaccine, but the risk is still small

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/febrile-seizures....
Blaming the people is never productive; instead engage with the people. Don't forget to throw out the bums in office (see, mid-term elections).
Democracy didn't fail - the process of legislation failed. The UK didn't vote on how they would leave the EU or what was wrong with the current arrangements, they just strung together a poorly-worded promise and played chicken with the constituency.
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I think the right way to think about this problem is treating picking the winner at an early stage as a probability. Even though the value of the probability is small, you'd still want to maximize it when you're picking a startup to join, and you can do much better than picking randomly. You can continue to evaluate the probability after joining a startup.
See also: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/57257/3808