skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not worried about GCP's quality or technical merits.

Google's management is what scares me. I'd never build a business around a company with so little follow-through, commitment to product longevity, or focus.
The bridge of my nose is shaped weird apparently and it makes most glasses not fit very well, they tend to slide down all the time. I've gone to different places and perplexed the people there trying to help me find something that fit properly. They said everything sits too far off my face. I dunno what to do but push my glasses up. I basically cant buy any of the cheap online options though because they never fit.
Sad to see the XPS 13 line going the same way as Apple and removing the USB A ports. On the plus side, it's at least possible to connect two monitors to the USB C ports now (the 2017 version I have has only one USB C port), but it's less overall ports now since the power jack is also replaced by USB C. The body seems the same size as previously, so the excuse of "more thinness" doesn't really apply.

That said, the XPS 13 has been the best experience I've had with Linux on a laptop. The bundled Ubuntu install works out of the box, but even on other distros it's not difficult to set up, and I've not encountered any driver issues, which have been common on every other laptop I've installed Linux on. It helps that it's a great quality laptop in general - anecdotally in my office, we see far more hardware issues with the latest Macbooks than with XPSs.So I'd recommend it for anyone who wants a Linux or Windows laptop, or is considering switching away from Mac without compromising on hardware quality.
Is this technique a real thing?

Can we get an expert's opinion?
> The lack of developers and thus slow pace of improvement [...] we are reliant on one or two volunteers to improve the product

I'm not sure why you have that impression. Zotero has amazing, invaluable volunteers, but there's a paid, full-time dev team working on Zotero every day. In the last year, we've added:

- Google Docs integration [1]

- Unpaywall integration [2]

- A new, greatly improved PDF recognition system [3]

- Faster citing in large documents [3]

- A much more powerful saving interface [4]

- Mendeley import...

- ZoteroBib, a free web service for generating bibliographies [5]

- A barcode scanner for iOS [6]

- Regular updates and bug fixes [7]

[1] https://www.zotero.org/blog/google-docs-integration/

[2] https://www.zotero.org/blog/improved-pdf-retrieval-with-unpa...

[3] https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-5-0-36/

[4] https://twitter.com/zotero/status/991052142717886464

[5] https://www.zotero.org/blog/introducing-zoterobib/

[6] https://www.zotero.org/blog/scan-books-into-zotero-from-your...

[7] https://www.zotero.org/support/changelog

(Disclosure: Zotero developer)
Greg Egan is my favorite, start perhaps with "Permutation City".
Few consumer level drones make any effort at noise reduction. Blade and shroud design can significantly impact noise production.
That's a cool website! Anyway, as a owner of an XPS, my question to you is what would you do with the 180 degree hinge on an airplane?
This seems more an addendum to socialism than an opposition to it. Specifically it calls for distributed ownership of the means of production (which most socialists advocate, as "state socialism" isn't really desirable).

Also, it talks of forming workers' guilds. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_socialism.

It seems to me the ideas are actually quite aligned in their ultimate goals, however it looks on the surface to be different to socialism because socialism tends to be synonymous with "state socialism" in people's minds.
To your point: They say a rich country isn't one where the poor drive cars, but where the rich ride buses.
Some people have a "normal" site with "normal" pricing and an "enterprise" site with different formatting, pricing, etc (for example it could have a search box, even if all the searching is just a google search anyway).

The corporate pricing could include a commitment to update some percentage of docs within 12 months of a relevant RFC being published or whatever.

Keeps purchasing happy, is a way for folks in the enterprise to get their employer to fund some resource and still gets it to mostly remain a labor of love.

I attend a conference that works that way. Essentially there are two conferences at the same time, with identical badges (no conference name on the badge itself), one of which costs about $800 and one of which costs about $3000 IIRC, if you buy all the special upgrades. Any company that pays the for the "corporate" conference gets listed as a sponsor as well :-).
With public sector unions nothing will be able to change.
In addition to 180 I would add Thinkpad as a separate option to Lenovo. The security issues have been separate between the 2 systems and frankly I would never consider another lenovo but certainly a Thinkpad.
What "pretty decent" physical resources does making software consume? (Beyond energy, which is renewable.)

The internet and other tech doesn't create new wealth? Why has the size of the economy grown exponentially since the industrial revolution?

If wealth were fixed, as population in increased we'd be getting vastly poorer worldwide (1.6 billion in 1900 -> 7 billion people today). Have we gotten 5x poorer on average?

(These facts are easily googleable.)
Molecular machines of the future – Hendrik Dietz
> The author's point is that you wouldn't expect to see quantum gravity at any scale we could feasibly probe for the next few centuries.

However the next-gen gravitational wave observatories should be able to start poking at quantum gravity, from what I understand.
I definitely wonder if Twitter's management considered this. Any price for Twitter goes down by at least a few million if no major cloud migration is necessary.

That said, a few million is a rounding error on a price Google would pay for Twitter.
'Guy with investment firm that profits from buying low and selling high wants asset to go to zero' - In other news, water wet.
But unlike rooting and using Adaway, all the other options on Android act as a VPN, and prevent you from using any other VPN, which makes them less handy.
The solar system is already close to a vacuum. Makes me wonder if a new solar system sized accelerator could just be a series of nodes orbiting far out to aim and accelerate the particles around.

Still way too hard for us but also way easier than building a tube going around the solar system.
class methods provides namespace and scope
> Amazon dropped Google Home products in favor of their Alexa

There was also Google breaking the ability for Amazon products to receive Chromecast streams.
On a plane is pretty much the only time for me. I've been on planes where my intention to get work done on the trip was shot because with the keyboard on the tray I wasn't able to open the screen far enough to get a good view.

But typing on a vertical keyboard is probably not awesome.
those are really good ideas!

a vague additional idea:

can we improve rough assessment of code quality?

1) suppose we have pseudonym reputation ("error notice probability"): anyone can create a pseudonym, and start auditing code, and you mark the parts of code that you have inspected. those marks are publicly associated with your pseudonym (after enough operation and eventual finding of bugs by others, the "noticing probability" can be computed+).

2) consider the birthday paradox, i.e. drawing samples from the uniform distribution will result in uncoordinated attention, while with coordinated attention we can spread attention more uniformly...

+ of course theres different kinds of issues, i.e. new features, arguments about wheiter something is an improvement or if it was an oversighted issue etc... but the future patch types don't necessarily correlate to the individuals who inspected it...

ALSO: I still believe formal verification is actually counterintuitively cheaper (money and time) and less effort per achieved certainty. But as long as most people refuse to believe this, I encourage strategies like these...
Popular usage has made them synonymous but the original definition of car that is being used here is not synonymous. Note there are elevator cars, train cars, etc. None of them are road vehicles with four wheels. A car is basically just a cart. Examples of this are words like decimate and awful where there is semantic drift.
Great idea for your site. Though im disappointed by how many laptops you're missing
That varies by state. My NJ prescription lasts for 6 years IIRC.
I'm the CTO of an online eye test for the European market (https://easee.online). We work together with online retailers that want to offer prescription glasses at much lower costs and they need us to go fully online.

The industry has had pretty absurd margins for years, and that's fine for the fashion aspect of course, but I believe there should be affordable options for everyone, especially as the plastic only costs a couple of $ to produce.

I've been working in this space for one year and still have lots to learn, but I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have!
Sarri orders Chelsea to complete late deal for £40M Napoli star?
There are actually some decent alternatives avaliable on alibaba and other Chinese outlets. I helped my father with getting a pair, they were 125 and have been performing well for 1.5 years now. Sure, I wouldn't trust alibaba for most medical devices, but something like hearing aids should be safe enough. His insurance wouldn't kick in anything, and while he could afford the price he would never spend it. Since he so badly needed them, I suggested he try a pair of the cheaper ones, and the difference in quality of life was staggering.
State of the art on most NLP tasks is now provided by deep learning, thanks to a host of techniques for dealing with both categorical and structurally complex data, such as LSTMs. Here's a great resource for keeping up with development in that area: https://github.com/sebastianruder/NLP-progress
There's a huge difference between "doesn't work very well" and "works perfectly except for one really sneaky ad company, sometimes". How does ublock origin cover scripts and ads for my entire network? Did you even look at what I'm talking about before making such general statements? My router blocks hundreds of thousands of incidents per week, and there are only two people in my household. One can't use a browser plugin on android tv, Apple TV, smart tv, and a million other devices. By your own logic, ublock origin doesn't work very well. See what I mean?
If you've written out the full name of a prime minister you've already uniquely determined which country you are talking about.
I think the current critique of Deep Learning as a technique is a dead end. Now I'm only a semi-professional in a sea of recent development and research, but if you ask me, the technique itself can take us all the way to General Intelligence and more.

What's missing from this discussion is how we humans don't just use a single, vision based "deep net" in order to identify the banana, we use lots of very different deep nets that run in parallel and cross-validate each other.

We have a vision net like computers that can be fooled with the same tricks (just google "optical illusion").

But a second net does three-dimensional inference of the banana shape from stereo vision and cross-validates that with a toaster. If in doubt, unnoticed parallax movement will be commanded to our body in order to get a better shape estimation.

Another net parses the content. A banana in a jungle or on a table would be highly plausible. A banana in an operating room or on a roller coaster would be implausible.

Another net parses context and timeline. If no banana was there and no banana has been incoming through our continuous estimated 3d space, there is probably no banana there.

There's smell, taste, all kinds of things running in parallel that continuously cross-validate our perception of this being a banana, probably a lot of different models just from vision alone that feed back into the main classification thread.

We'll even happily do looped cross validation if our eyes rest on a scene. Our memory will fetch reference data for all first order predictions and start subconciously processing this into the main prediction. It will predict how a banana feels, how soft it is, how warm. If we see a banana on lava that is not burning, our logic and reasoning will challenge the prediction. All of this happens subconciously, and there's no magic behind.

If you ask me, there are no limits of deep learning. There's just still a limit of imagination in feature extraction and processing.
Does point 1. imply there’s a way to control the weak force via electromagnetism? (In theory at least)

Kind of like how we create magnetic force with electric.
I'm with Them
I haven't done web development lately. Why do unit tests mean higher requirements on the hardware?
C#’s discards don’t need var
Flutter Vision – Flutter and Firebase ML Vision and Firebase Cloud Firestore
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It might be their use of LPDDR3 memory. I haven't seen anyone with a 16GB LPDDR3 memory stick.

Edit: Looking at the specs it looks like whiskey lake did not add support for LPDDR4. [1] [2]

[1] https://ark.intel.com/products/149091/Intel-Core-i7-8565U-Pr...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/13275/intel-launches-whiskey-...
I would also add that if you had a pension and pensions are a cultural norm, you not only have an incentive to spend everything, you also have no incentive to teach your children to save and invest in anything except maybe education (so they can get a job with a good pension), since you expect pensions to still be a thing when they hit retirement age. Pensions were a form a corporate welfare that essentially wiped out the cultural norm/practice of investing in your own future and made people dependent on the firm. No one foresaw a time when pensions would end up being a massive corporate expense that would lead bigger companies with them to fall behind nimbler upstarts without them.
I bet she's counting on being a W2 employee in 5 years after finishing nursing school and refinancing into a fixed-rate. Not a terrible gamble, especially with her likely LTV of 66%.
Why doesn't the absolute share matter? If I give everyone an iPhone and a few people get an iPhone + Macbook, is that "bad"? Isn't everyone better off? (Yes, humans can be petty and jealous, but they are objectively better off.)

Uber created a lot of wealth. Some got more than others. Is that objectively bad if the wealth didn't exist before?
Back in 2012 I got a maxed out macbook air w/ 8gb of ram, and waking from sleep was noticeably slower than the other machines I've had. Never did any testing to see if that was actually the cause, but I'm curious if large amounts of memory can be hard for quick sleep/wake actions.
It's available on the (still current but older) XPS 15, so I guess it's some sort of space limitation?
That does, thanks for sharing.
> But yes, also 60000 us boys died. The only real tragedy here.

I never said that. I never made any moral judgement about any entire war or country. Since you're clearly inventing your own strawman to argue with I won't get in your way. Other than to say I was making a very specific analogy to make a point. An analogy about the evolving tolerances of nation states towards evil... using two related historical examples (keyword: related). No where did I say that was the "only real tragedy" of any war or time period, nor make any grand statements about the Vietnam war in general.

I know 'progressives' think every phrase and paragraph has to be prefaced with a 100x conditionals as to not offend every party and cover all bases. I'm also aware people feel the need in a self-interested way to add in these conditionals - as to not be misconstrued by social media outrage culture - who are more than happy to take your words out of context. But I'd rather not go down that road in life. It's anti-intellectual and anti-rational.
Videostream is great.
It's not inaccurate at all. A tunnel is strictly bound on surface traffic--because traffic has to enter and exit it--when it doesn't involve slow, failure-prone, low-capacity access points at either end.

While we're at it, optimizing for number of vehicles rather than number of passengers is a very...how do I put it...rich way of thinking about things. Which jibes very well with Elon Musk's whole thing: "mass transit is great so long as I don't have to see the poors."
Thank for writing it! I use catt and I love it!
give me a nipple any day.

I can use a macbook trackpad, it's OK for consuming, but the pc manufacturers saw macs, and copied them. Poorly.
Machine learning is a sweet way to tell if your honey is fake
I believe in The Netherlands glasses are also very expensive (unless prices have changed in the last 5 years or so, which I very much doubt). Usually my glasses and frames had costs a total of around ~400 EUR in The Netherlands.

Recently I bought new glasses in Thailand and there (to my surprise) they weren't much differently prices compared to The Netherlands, which didn't make sense to me, because that would make glasses too expensive for most people here (it's about a monthly wage upcountry). Or perhaps the government provides citizens through health insurance over here, I am not sure.
It would be tricky to anchor them in place so they don't wander out of alignment.
> 10 minutes of lost productivity a day due to inadequate hardware means you are paying at least $4k per year per dev for that shit pile of a laptop.

This only holds true if your developers are 100% efficient programming every second the machine is running. But let's face it. The first hour of the day is most certainly not the most productive (10 minute boot? fine, I'll make coffee meanwhile). You could easily schedule a meeting, like a stand-up, while the machines fire up, if those 10 minutes really would be necessary.
A lot of that falls flat. Part of what he's saying is in regard to signed updates, but the microcode on at least some pretty new chips isn't signed, as the fail0verflow guys were able to patch it.
i've been using bose qc20 for a few years for the noise cancelling. I'm curious about the 'hearphones' - to know if the effect is similar to the qc20 'pass through' mode - which still muffles some background noise but opens up to allow voice frequencies through. can't get any clarification if the effect is similar or something radically new, and don't want to spend that much $ to find out. :)
Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime
As someone whose worked with multiple cloud providers (at very large scales), I would not recommend google cloud simply because of support issues I've had and clearly misrepresented service capabilities and limits.

I will agree that GCP has some nice quality of life features, and is certainly favorable for a small project compared to some other providers, but I find it hard to trust google's ability to keep up with the demands of a large organization.
That is certainly true. My point is that this is a drawback to the implementation of one set of visual programming languages, not necessarily a drawback of visual programming languages.

I can't remember the name of it, but there's a Pd-based compiler that can take patches and compile them down to a binary that performs perhaps an order of magnitude faster. I can't remember if it was JIT or not. Regardless, there's no conceptual blocker to such a JIT-compiled design. In fact there's a version of [expr] that has such a JIT-compiler backing it-- the user takes a small latency hit at instantiation time, but after that there's a big performance increase.

The main blocker as you probably know is time and money. :)
You think glasses are expensive try hearing aids.
I did web design sales from Silicon Valley but used a remote team (US-based) to develop the projects. Everyone was happy. Clients got a great project, I had great margins and the team got paid at or above going rates in their local area.

I would never try to build an in person team in the bay area unless you need the absolute 1% of engineers on your team.
It's a reasonable criticism of RT, but it's amusing how thoroughly it cuts both ways: we now know what the Russian government wants us to think about NewsGuard, and also what a team of former US government officials want us to think about RT.

That's not to say RT is a usable source, I'm not particularly interested in their coverage here. But I'm also not very interested in hearing what news Michael Hayden wants me to listen to.
The issue I seen is problems like this

I need to make a thumbnail from a video

What a regular backend developer would do is to call ffmpeg from his language

What a JS/node dev does is to find a random package on npm that does that for him, maybe has no idea what ffmpeg is, has no idea that he can change parame6ters and options, he just reads the package readme, installs it and it's 10 dependencies and job done.
I am a JavaScript developer fulltime for more than a decade.

> you have to stand on the shoulders of giants if you want to compete

Hold on there cowboy. We are what we are. Nobody starts out as a rockstar coding ninja. It takes practice. Just take it one step at a time. Solve for problems as you encounter them. The challenge you go through to provide that solution will open your eyes to other potential solutions to other ever challenging problems you never would have seen otherwise.

> Any code you re-invent is code you have to maintain.

If its code that has found its way into your code base you are maintaining it anyways. That is why dependencies are debt. If you have not reviewed the tests and/or validation of those dependencies you are introducing untested code into your application on blind faith.
Conversely, why does every job have to be dull and repetitive? Somebody has to do the brilliant stuff too. You'd think that you could spread out the brilliant stuff so that every worker gets a little bit of it, but that doesn't seem to happen. Instead, the fun work ends up concentrating itself among a tiny handful of workers.
At a previous gig in the financial world, we had 2013 vintage MB Airs with maxed specs cranking out Scala for a card processing platform.

This was right as the term microservice was becoming better known. We were building a very de-coupled, stateless design, passing messages among services.

The MB Air was fine. We did a lot in the cloud as far as testing. Write code -> push -> get test results

These days so much of the work is “fill out yml files”. I see little value in having this 2017 MacBook Pro 15 with maxed specs. Having anything more than Firefox and my editor on the laptop seems useless.

Others workflows may vary. But for devops, security, and a great many common roles, anything above a mid-spec MB Pro 13 feels like overkill
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Yeah I got the Oryx Pro 15". Default options, except 32G of ram.

I'm generally happy with it because I do data-intensive java development, and it handles that well (+ multitasking with chrome etc).

There are two cons you should be aware of: It's heavy, and the battery life isn't great at all. but if you use it like a desktop, or minimal carrying, it's good.
> Nobody is going to do the boring work first and leave the interesting stuff sitting around just waiting for a new hire!

I don't know about this... we usually give the exciting stuff to the more junior or co-op/intern hires. The boring work has usually been the most important work from my experience. There is an inherent risk with the exciting and unknown ending in a flop.