skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on how much stock you put into the Steam Hardware Survey, it's worth noting that Nvidia still controls 74% of the market relative to AMD's 15%: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

I also feel like graphics cards are one of those weird things that command a lot of brand loyalty, so it's probably going to take more than near-performance-parity to move the needle.
I guess in a way, these big valley companies are indeed turning themselves into superintelligent entities that do exactly what folks in the valley worry about.
I used that for small internal LOB apps at a huge bank when it was still called HTMLDB. It saved a huge amount of time, despite its architecture making experienced developers wince.

I wish I had the time to spare to build a PostgreSQL/Python clone of it.

Though SQL is certainly a form of code; it's just nice restricted domain-specific code that people without the title "engineer" or "developer" often know.
> The only frustrator is that once too often when I search something the top results are all W3C school tutorials from 2004.

There is no such thing as "W3C School".

There is the W3C, which is a standards body that publishes various web technology specifications such as HTML, CSS, and DOM specifications.

Then there is W3 Schools, who are entirely unrelated to the W3C. They publish low quality tutorials and sell worthless certificates. They chose a name which confuses people into thinking that they are somehow "official"; this couldn't be further from the truth.
I would be more interested in seeing this applied to the NYSE or anything less volatile.
I think it's currently a losing battle in America, where much of the populace thinks "being a criminal" is a binary toggle that means you deserve anything that happens to you in prison, and doesn't put enough thought into it to realize how crazy that idea is.

I'm fairly sure if you took anyone with this view and forced them to have a conversation with you where you presented various scenarios (such as some low-harm and impact crime prisoner ending up getting repeatedly raped), they might change their mind, but actually getting people to listen with an open mind to alternative points of view is amazingly hard in the current charged climate where every issue is a political one.
U.S. bill seeks to give Americans more control over online data
`git add -p` is also very, very useful. I use it all the time, to the point that I've aliased it to `a`.

If you're interested, here's my .gitconfig, including all of my aliases: https://gitlab.com/lyndsysimon/dotfiles/blob/master/git/gitc...
When I see an Apple Watch, I don't think "Cool, that person has a smart watch.", I think "That's an ugly watch.". Round watch faces at least return to the classic shape.

I think you're onto something there.

My ideal smart watch would be round with mechanical arms and a mechanical crown, but with a color eInk dial/face with a high refresh rate (I'm not sure if there is current eInk tech which meets these specs yet). I do not want to look like I'm wearing a compass on my arm, though.

One of my coworkers has a rather large, round, positively can-like Android smart watch. I look at it, and think, That's way too thick for a watch. It has a flatter back, which I think is a plus.

Another thing I just realized: Traditional watches often attach to the wristband much closer to the wrist than many smart watches. This helps them "disappear" when being worn.
Not to pile on, but I also managed to buy a house at 22 after paying off my student loans, and I'm not alone in it by any stretch where I am.

Pet theory with zero evidence attempted : Geography really does affect one's filter bubble / worldview more than we've explored.

Edit: with no down payment or student loan assistance from guardians.
Automated renewal with letsencrypt is a thing. Blaming this on the shutdown rather than on not taking appropriate care to do this more robustly? Meh.
Nitpick: Apple still sells the Series 3 which goes down to 38mm
The future looks more and more bleak as more and more authoritarianism is applied to technology which is supposed to be, to many, as a frontier of freedom.
Does that not correlate with other wearable exits
I thought it was conventional to call most of Stephenson's work, including Snow Crash, "post-Cyberpunk", taking the ideas and aesthetic of cyberpunk, and dialing back the pessimism to bring it into something more closely resembling plausibility. IE, similar amounts of "cyber", significantly less "punk".
I'm reading all the time about how fake news on Facebook supposedly influenced the elections, but I haven't heard of any factual confirmation of that. Did it really happen? Did somebody research that? How much influence did they find? I have seen research that says convincing people campaigning is pretty much hopeless - they'd nod to ads they agree with and ignore ones they disagree with, but won't change their minds : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3042867

Maybe this research is wrong - but I'd like to see any research if Facebook fake news did really have any influence at all.
Or refurbishing and upgrading old iPod classics:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3daq4n/music-geek...

I've done this myself (listening to 5.5 gen iPod, I'd forgotten how good mp3 sounds vs Spotify), but for personal use not flipping for profit. Some refurbished iPods sell for quite a lot though.
At some point I'm hoping to see AVX completely emulated in microcode and replaced with an embedded GPU core that can write to an L3 or L4 cache.

This slow scaling of 128->256->512 bits in the instruction set is more or less a solved problem in the GPU space with shader compilers and AVX would mostly be redundant with GPUs if it weren't for the memory bandwidth constraint.

ie: When it comes to vector processing, go big or go home.

AVX/SSE are a compromise from back when CPU die space and bandwidth was more precious. Now that we have 8-32 cores on a die with a good bus between them, it seems like duplicating those AVX units 8-32 times is less optimal.
I am a developer on HP/Nonstop. Can someone please explain what automation means with respect to software. Is it bash scripts? I can see bash scripts doing routine tasks but not complicated business logic which I think can only be done by writing programs. I lost my job due to outsourcing not automation.
Square watches do exist e.g. Cartier Santos and they do have ergonomic advantages.

Lots of square watches sort of disappear into their bands. They are flatter, and far less cantilever-y than the current Apple watches.
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And then the whole bar erupted in applause
It's worth pondering that the overwhelming majority of police deaths are injuries when an inattentive driver runs over an officer during a traffic stop. Only a suicidal maniac would stand for an extended time on the drivers side of a stopped car on the highway. It would be a boon to public health if the police could just photograph a traffic offender and send him the ticket in the mail! The police unions would be disappointed, though, because then they can't use the statistics to argue for their members, because felony homicides of police officers are around 40/year in the US. That includes Greater Methville.
My wife still thinks those things are huge.
Only renewing and building up economically depressed places is a huge issue of gentrification and inequity. Why should it be so that only the poor should be radically impacted by necessary city changes? A really prime example of this is NYC construction post-war where robert moses demolished many homes of people of color to build various highways or in the bay area where the construction of above ground bart majorly impacted the overwhelmingly black section of west oakland. I'm not saying that we shouldn't build transit, or new construction but to only build it in economically depressed areas - which are often ghettoized places for ethnic minorities - seems fairly wrong.

This seems to be a major part about why many people who are advocates for the poor have an issue with new construction - because it results in displacement of people who can't afford it
>This is a very poor example; Bionicle sets have skyrocketed in value.

Comic con/promotional exclusives, yes. Everything else, no. The biggest increase I'm seeing is a 14$ set going for staring around 42$ sealed (and only 7 new have sold in the past 6 months on Bricklink and 0 since November with only 16 new available), a 300% return that is not impressive - especially considering this is one of the 3-year old reboot sets which means the bulk of that value is likely from speculators and not actual collectors and will probably go down considerably over the next few years. You can see this clearly on Bricklink:

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=bionicle&brand=10...
What's "public interest"? Why do you think everybody among the public has the same interest and this interest is easily identified and not subject to gaming and corruption by whoever is selected to identify it?
The concerns you raise are true in corner cases, but the general use case should be good enough. Your solution also seems to require mounting one of your devices at the entryway of every room for which you wish to monitor occupancy. Seems like it could be costly, especially if doing so requires wiring power up to it.
>Google Maps does that. Search for a popular cafe on your area and you should see the "Popular times" graph with live data.

Google also sends local businesses a Bluetooth Beacon to install on the ceiling inside their business to help with with getting the "popular times".

It's called Project Beacon and any local US business can request one.

http://g.co/beaconhelp

"Project Beacon is designed to improve the performance of location-related features in Google products for your venue, such as popular times, reviews etc. The beacon itself is configured for just this purpose, and isn't re-configurable by the user. If you would like to obtain a beacon to use with our developer platform, you can find a list of manufacturers at g.co/beacons"
You have to have a very firm grounding in science to write that. The sort of person who has that is not often the kind of person who also masters the skills needed to write a good book.
The "statically typed" part is not a big issue (there are many statically-typed languages with REPLs, after all), but "compiled" could be. For example, while you can stick a read-eval-print-loop anywhere in your code when using Racket, you can't see any non-top-level bindings there, because they may or may not be there during runtime. The compiler is free to inline or fold or remove any such binding at will (as long as the behavior of the program remains the same). There's a debugger for Racket, and it's also possible to use it programmatically, but you cannot just call it like `debugger;` in JavaScript: you need to recompile a module so that it uses (a lot of) heavy instrumentation and only then you can set a breakpoint, also from the inside.

I'd expect something like this: https://github.com/krixano/Lydrige to have it easy in this regard - it's a statically-typed but interpreted language.
> It’s a moral panic, not dissimilar to the moral panic when television came out and everyone thought it would make children stupid.

Hmmm - are you sure we dodged that bullet? We now have a situation in which the major political parties literally cannot agree on FACTS.

I'd say whether TV makes you stupid or not is still up for debate...
My strategy is to be a screen addicted zombie to the point that my children will hate phones so much they run away from them. Seems to be working so far.
If they expand your search beyond your "exact" "keywords" it very clearly states at the top of the serp that they're showing you related results.
Don’t forget the classic 80’s Casio digital watches.
The only example crate used is `jemallocator`, which still has an entry in Cargo.toml, and still has `jemallocator` in the source code.
We’d have more quantum computers if it weren’t so hard to find cables
Part of the charm of this market comes from high volatility - go big or go broke. But yes, agreed, results on more stable asset would be more statistically significant and better representation of what returns could be expected.
Techcrunch doesn't load for me after I started blocking cookies, but is it about the renewal or paying for it?

Automation doesn't matter if the spending isn't approved.
A portfolio of shipped code, preferably open source. No different than how an artist might have to jump through a lot of shit to get hired if they don't have a substantial show of work, but if they do, you are often fast tracked into employment.

That doesn't preclude spending some time to insure your candidate isn't plagiarizing their cited works, but that is a problem other industries have solved well for years without turning the process into an adversarial circus.
It boggles my mind how the new normal consists of re-living the 'best' part of the collapse of the Soviet Union - the part where people had to go to work, but weren't getting paid for it.

Of course, in the Soviet Union, you didn't have rent and mortgage payments to make, bread and vodka was provided through rations, and during the collapse, nobody cared too much if you looted your workplace of anything that wasn't nailed down, or couldn't be pried off, so society kind of stumbled along, despite the lack of wages.

What I really don't understand is why this isn't being treated like the recurring, front-page, every-headline, national emergency that this is.

For bonus points: These employees are forbidden, by law, to do a strike, or perform a work stoppage, or a work slowdown. If CBP actually carried one out, though, this 'crisis' would be resolved in under 24 hours, as every single company in the United States that had an international supply chain would be screaming at the White House to get this problem fixed.
Let us all be grateful that you were never asked for one then.
Another example is the UK Conservative Party holding power for 18 years from 1979 to 1997 by winning every election during that period. It would not have been reasonable to say the UK was not a democracy in that period -- it was just the case that the voters preferred one party the entire time.
You're asking the wrong question.

For all software businesses there is only one question to ask candidates: "Can you help us ship working software that solves the problem of our customer"

What I can tell you is that there are a number of books written on this subject if you need help identifying the correct interview questions to ask.
"I can see bash scripts doing routine tasks but not complicated business logic which I think can only be done by writing programs."

Bash scripts are programs.
The naming is far worse than that. For example, from_ne_bytes seems to imply that bytes could have an endianness. That would require bitwise addressing.
But you can see it from Cargo.toml, isn't it? I found extern crate statements unnecessary verbosity. I am happy it is now optional.
Well for "regular" code if you want a breakpoint it makes more sense to use the debugger anyway. If you generate machine code however (for a JIT for instance) it's definitely a useful trick since adding debugger support for generated code, while possible, is often pretty tricky and non-portable.
She's 8.
It'll be interesting to see the political situation evolve in China. There's a popular perception in American mythology that liberal democracy causes prosperity, but if you look at economic history across many different cultures, the reverse seems to be more true: economic prosperity causes liberal democracy. As a growing middle class gains more economic power, they inevitably try to push for more political power, and because the country ceases to operate without them, they tend to get it.

I suspect that the political situation for Xi Jinping and the CCP is actually a lot more tenuous than is publicized outside of China, and that they're investing so heavily in surveillance & control technologies because they're insecure. It wouldn't surprise me if we see a democratic revolution in China within a decade.
Non-sequitur?
I would imagine faster, but certainly more reliable depending on your skill set.
The article sort of implies both.

> because so many federal workers have been sent home on unpaid leave — or worse, working without pay but trying to fill in for most of their furloughed department — expired certificates aren’t getting renewed. Renewing certificates doesn’t take much time or effort — sometimes just a click of a mouse. But some do cost money, and during a government shutdown there isn’t any.

My personal guess is that the author of the article doesn't know which it is.
Pls can be go to war with Russia to stop this?
Also Max Headroom, Neuromancer, Robocop, and a host of others.

The first science fiction that I saw that deliberately bucked this trend was Earth by David Brin. There's a line something like "Can you believe that back in the late 20th century everybody thought Nihon was going to control the world's economy?"
Extending Drupal Translations for Custom Entity in Drupal 7
Modern PHP is light years ahead of the procedural spaghetti-fest of yesteryear.

Craft CMS is fantastic, built atop Yii 2:

https://craftcms.com/

https://www.yiiframework.com/
I wanted a Band so badly, but it was clear Microsoft had abandoned it by the time I got around to it, so I passed. :(

I ended up picking up a Fitbit Ionic (though the newer Versa is now a clear improvement in almost every way) in part because it was one of the few truly cross-platform smartwatches that wouldn't tie me to a phone ecosystem. Windows Mobile support on it is still great, since they use a UWP app on desktop as well.

I actually flip my Ionic around my wrist when in the movie theater in particular (I see a lot of movies), so that it won't blind everyone if I move and my watch decides to light up.
Looks cool!
I’m wondering how you would deal with cumulative errors. Lets say you have a meeting room with one door with one sensor, and the sensors has a 99% accuracy. If 100+ people walk through the door, the sensor could still report 1 or 2 persona in meeting room, while nobody is there.
Do you have work arounds for this problem?
Are there any other activities she does for enjoyment that are solitary?

I ask because you're primarily contrasting the solitary video watching that appears to be very important to your daughter with activities that involve others. You then emphasize the solitary nature of the activity with phrases like "hole herself off". It sounds like, in part, she might be seeking solitude.

I certainly won't deny that Youtube and others encourage habitual, compulsive, or addictive behaviors in the name of "engagement", but that may not be the only thing going on.
Sure. Open source Linux drivers is exactly why I'm using AMD and not Nvidia.
>>changing both the culture and the machinery of government before we left

If we invaded then for a 100 years, maybe.
Not when you have a proper IDE setup where building + running it in debugging session are all done with a single action. I've done print debugging for a long time, and here and there it still makes sense, but I've found that it's honestly worth putting in the effort once per (decently sized) project to just set up the IDE properly. And honestly once you have done it once, it's mostly just copy pasting the same config from project to project.
The employees tasked with clicking the "Renew Certificate" button every X months probably have no idea how they'd go about that.

As a contracting project, I imagine it would be pretty expensive to upgrade every single website of the US federal government to use Let's Encrypt. How many different operating systems and web server setups there must be?
Wee bit misleading - this is about cert expiration, not domain expiration.
Thank you for spurring a search engine trip to this interesting article about Sematech https://www.technologyreview.com/s/424786/lessons-from-semat...
Yeah, happens sometimes. Way back in the carefree days, we could spend days in bed. Smoking marijuana, eating, having sex, sleeping, having sex half asleep, reading to each other, maybe doing some cocaine, or even some shrooms or LSD, etc, etc, etc. And "we" sometimes meant a drop-in party.
Well, at least you knew upfront there was a high chance of it being a waste of time.
I think a lot of Rust people are on HN
Searching by filetype seems to still work fine, e.g.: https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+filetype:pdf
Laravel does have a lot of magic, however you can be aware of what's going on. https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

Framework continues to evolve, for the better of course. With the introduction of PHP 7, I believe Laravel will get rid of magic eventually. Meanwhile, we've got tools to help ourselves.
I really like TablePlus too and bought the premium version a couple of weeks ago. The native UI is very nice. It's a very nice and cheaper alternative to Navicat.

I still experience bugs from time to time. But it's improving.
The Hollywood version of this is fairly fun: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_Ho_(film)
When was the last time Google did something that was worth promoting that wasn't just an attempt to acquire and exploit more personal data?
~800M emails and passwords posted online for anyone to download
If I went to prison, I'd stay in my cell 24/7 and read books and math papers. Up to the point of refusing to eat unless guards brought food to my cell. I'd actually prefer to go into solitary confinement and completely stay away from all human contact for the duration, and I'd do what I could to arrange that.
I'd be curious to know if anyone who is posting about buying a house without parental assistance in their 20's did so in the bay area.

It would have been useful if the parent comment had specified his/her age and location, since otherwise we get a smattering of data points that can neither confirm no reject the original anecdotal observation.
I am wearing one right now :)
A little bit before that, everyone thought "the Arabs" would buy everything -- see the movie Network. (No, I mean it, see it, it's brilliant).
I don't really agree about the manslaughter charge - if a doctor has been awake longer than 18 hours and there is no other doctor available, should they not attempt to treat the patient?

Personally, I don't think it's a doctor issue, I think it's a Medical Practice and Hospital Group issue. MD's don't really want to take call, but if they can take call for the entirety of one weekend and then have the next 3-5 off, they'd rather do that than take call for 12 hours 2 weekends in 4.
What drives me a little nuts is all the people on this thread saying BFS is simple, as simple as counting, as if that somehow strengthened their argument. It does the opposite: BFS is indeed simple, so simple that you can simply explain it to a candidate and ask them to implement it, just like you would do with an actual developer (or, more likely, that they'd just do for themselves based solely on the Wikipedia page).

I'll go a little further and say that if you've qualified a candidate as capable of busting out the routine Javascript required to wire up typical front-end code, if you can't teach that developer how to implement BFS within the confines of a single interview, you the interviewer share some of the incompetence. Certainly that would be the case for a manager or team lead!

The reality is that BFS is for most jobs (frontend AND backend) a trivia question, and a status-seeking mechanism for interviewers.
Check out Will Larson's post on time management.

https://lethain.com/time-management/

He has a lot of great posts on leadership and management; here's a collection of some of them- https://lethain.com/rails-for-engineering-leadership/
Go Ahead, Post the Stupid Photo of Yourself from 10 Years Ago
It's one of the best free apps I've used when I was still developing on Windows, and it's one of the few tools I miss for development when on other platforms. If you haven't yet, give it a try!