skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s crazy the number of really smart people who are steadfast in their belief that fruit is good

Is probably because we, humans, had seen before what scurvy can do to the body when you stop eating oranges, fruits and vegetables for just one or two months.
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Quality talent that might have gone elsewhere.
Just curious, how would you imagine it being gamed? I could certainly imagine advertisers or competitors gaming it one way or another (which is true today), but what about regular people? Do you think there is a rational reason someone would not want to express what they really think?
> I'm referring to the graph

Graph makes sense if you analyze the context. It's as I said above - increasing number of users are switching to AMD. Just check any thread in Linux gaming forums on the topic of "what should be my next GPU".

> I don't see Wayland as being as a particularly massive reason. <...> don't run into any issues,

It's one of the reasons. There are many issues with Nvidia. Abysmal integration due to lack of upstream driver such as broken vsync, no standard hardware sensors, no PRIME support and so and so forth are all well known Nvidia problems. To address them, Nvidia should either open up their driver, or to support Nouveau to begin with. So far they showed no interest in either of those cases.

> It's a conscious and intentional decision by the developers of those libraries to start with CUDA and stick to it.

That's too bad. Avoid libraries which proliferate lock-in. If their developers don't know any better, find those who do and support their efforts instead. It should be in the interest of actual developers who use said libraries, not to be locked into single hardware vendor.
The problem is it's not even known whether the engineering problems can be attacked at all, unlike the Apollo program where even though a large amount of work (Breadth rather than depth this time) it was an iterative evolution of past programs.
Yes, they are.

Many/some Mac users regret their switch.

Personally I tried it the opposite way. I love Linux, windows is okay - but OsX was the reason I gladly took a 1000 USD loss after three months for getting rid of a fully specced PowerBook. All longtime Mac Users tell me that 10.4 was near the high point...
Managerial principles also state that your value to a company is also partially based on the relationships and good will you’ve built that enable you to be more affective when you need something from another team or department and even the relationships you’ve built with vendors and customers.
Given that Wayland still doesn't properly support remote desktop, a feature that has been working continuously in Windows for decades through tons of graphics model changes, I'm not sure I'd play the "users who know better" card.
If ML / AI works out The Matrix will be soon to follow. It's going to be a lot easier to keep the masses happy (and passive) is they're immersed in VR.
I did a test and converted one of my libraries to async/await and it was not that hard. There are easy converters between the future versions for the transition period.

https://github.com/pimeys/a2/pull/30/files
Xanthomonas axonopodis, a bacteria that defoliate orange trees.
I understand this a popular opinion for IOT naysayers, but HVAC is one of the few features where IOT seems to make sense. It can cause a noticeable change in the cost of your utilities and general comfort.
This guy complains, but he is the one who bought a Internet connecting thermostat. Darwin effect at work here.
Indeed, I'm quite happy at my job right now, but stuff happens, and companies large and small have evaporated overnight.
cool that this worked out for you but I think you're an outlier here.

edit: wait don't you still have to actually buy the game if you use parsec?
Fuck Your 90 Day Exercise Window (2016)
I hate to tell you this, but every browser has the ability to run experiments.
Dr Dale Bredesen has a treatment protocol that improves the conditions of all patients from moderately (late Alzheimer) to significantly (early Alzheimer). His treatment protocol recognizes 3 different types/causes of Alzheimer with an additional 2 subtypes. In December 2018 Dr Bredesen published an article where he shows the results of treatment of 100 patients in various health centers: https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/reversal-of-cognitiv...
It is a shame that Scientific American does not know of Dr Bredesen since he is publishing about his treatment a long time. In 2014 he published an article where he reversed Alzheimer in 9 out of 10 patients (which are still well in December 2018!).
I suspect no less serious than the various other projects that had concept artwork. Seemed like the 70s and 80s TV news regularly had plans, including an aspirational artist's impression, for a NASA moonbase, orbital ring space station, or Mars mission etc. Couldn't say how serious or not, but serious enough to have made it to UK media back then, fairly regularly. The obvious question after 1972's Apollo 17, was "what's next?".

We got Skylab, the Space Shuttle, lots of fascinating probes to other planets, and satellites themselves of course, but those were rather less "grand" in scope. No doubt budget driven.

To be fair though, if NASA can't dream big, who can? :)
> So why would we talk as though our specific roles were ‘special’?

Because you’re selling yourself. Interviews are sales. You are the product. Not your team, not your boss, not your company. You.
That is true of basically any definition of juice.
This person writes like cranks write: self-aggrandizing for the most part. I don’t know enough about HEP that I’m going to just treat it as a crank text.
Julia doesn't tick the "compile to .o/.h" box. As far as I can tell, the use case for AOT Julia is avoiding package compilation overhead, not delivery of standalone code objects.

_edit_ seems JuliaC does support this sort of thing:

https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2016/02/09/static-julia.html
Didn’t load for me either, and frankly I find their offering to be maddening, not joy-inducing. Under 2k recipients: free. Over 2k: $780/yr (at least when I was looking at it). This is way too big a jump from free.
You dismissed my comment as “nonsense” but then didn’t refute anything I said.

You implied it doesn’t matter if Google has less competition, and conveyed an unexamined assumption that the GDPR is the most reasonable and optimal way of assuring user privacy.
These read like rhetorical questions, but for anyone else who didn't know the answer to the second one:

- apple juice has ~10g of sugar per 100ml; that's ~35g per 12 US fluid ounces.

- Google tells me that apples (variety is unspecified) have 10g of sugar per 100g. 100g is a plausible weight for a single apple, so that's ~10g per apple.
Two of these in a day (other one under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19129309)? Seems peeps are digging through the source all of a sudden :D.

I do have to wonder if this is as egregious as some of the comments between the two threads would make it seem given that this is an open-source project.
Yeah, I don't buy the justification versus Julia because of community size either, given most of Swift's community has little to do with data science. The document even says as much, contradicting that rationale, later on.

As someone who uses TF heavily, I would be much more excited about this project if they'd chosen Julia. Swift's tooling isn't great, and I already have a foot in one language with an immature data science ecosystem (Rust).
Three of my former managers “self demoted” to an IC because they didn’t really enjoy management. Including one of my former managers who is in his late 50s who self demoted after his kids graduated. Now he’s a full stack React/C#/Azure developer and said he threatened to quit his job when they tried to promote him.
You can call out to matplotlib (or any other python libraries installed on your system), using the python interop feature (https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/PythonI...)!

https://github.com/google/swift-jupyter#rich-output has an example with screenshots.
Simple - you can only approach SJC airport from the north, not the south.

SJC, while super convenient (I live in the South Bay) isn't a premier airport and will never be. Half of it is old and needs remodeling.

We need housing and density so much more than we need more flights out of SJC.
The problem with that theory is that they get diagnosed at a higher rate than other types of surgeons. This would indicate that their direct exposure to something related to the neuro part of their job title is involved.
Not surprising. I gave up a number of bevreges that I enjoyed after reading of a very interesting study.

They were testing the effects of calories as liquid or solid. The subjects could eat whatever they wanted in the study, the calories of which were carefully recorded. Then they added 1750 calories/day of either liquid as soda or juice, or solid, as jellybeans. They then measured how much the subjects adjusted their other calorie intake (the groups all rotated through solid, liquid, control).

When each group was on added solids reduced their intake of other foods by an average 1500 calories/day, negating all but 250 kcal/day of the extra intake (still a non-trivial addition, but...).

When each group was on liquids, their change in intake of other foods was negligible -- essentially all 1750 extra calories per day was added to their 'bottom line'.

The milkshakes & juices are missed a bit at the beginning, but it's definitely much easier to maintain weight than it used to be, and I've seen friends get even more spectacular results by merely cutting caloric beverages (one who used to have a case of Gatorade in his truck all the time lost so much so fast his wife thought something must be wrong and made him go to the doctor to get checked).

I thought it was quite interesting, and hope some others do too...
I've seen a lot of believable (and true) stuff coming from law enforcement lately about fentanyl.
i held out a small hope, before clicking the article, that for some stupid reason it would actually be the cows using the app and not the farmers. of course i was always going to be disappointed.
From their website
'A sensor is installed under an awning or on a street pole to form a counting zone on the footpath below. It records multi-directional pedestrian movements through the zone, 24 hours, every day.'
Whenever I get an email like this I dream of contacting the VP of Marketing, reminding her / him it's 2019 (not 1999), and adding "It's about me, not you."

I don't understand how so many (read: too many) brands still haven't figured out the obvious yet.
If you have done apt update and apt upgrade recently followed by a reboot then it will show .2 on login. I have just confirmed this on a VM.
Double shipping (2018)
I apologize if this is a silly question but given that this "democratizes" satellites, is anybody allowed to launch satellites into orbit? Or is there some formal application or protocol that people and companies need to adhere to in doing so?
I second this when it comes to APIs. If you're exposing them to third parties it's especially useful, as you can draft how the endpoint should look and behave using something like Swagger, and then work from the top down. At my job we have close communication with third parties who use our api endpoints, so we are constantly sending drafts of JSON requests / URLs back and forth.
If people don’t find value they will eventually cancel. And Netflix isn’t like gym memberships, it’s very easy to cancel
Thanks! Regarding 2, could you give an example?

Also, can I combine DVC with a pipeline tool like Apache Airflow?
> Do these 3 functions belong in this class, or should they be a helper?

That's very basic design. System architecture goes up to: "how do we deploy 2 million hosts across 40 datacenters?"
Also consider https://spacevim.org/ (inspired by Spacemacs)
What is the benefit of Brave?

A lot of people on the internet seem to be advocating it but reading the Wikipedia article they seem to have a business model of replacing website adverts with their own. Which doesn't seem all that ethical.
O’Neill cylinders were the template for space colonies in the Mobile Suit Gundam anime, going all the way back to the series premiere in 1979. One of many details which lent the show an air of gritty realism, despite its colorful giant robot fights.
This applies at both small and large companies alike
This is explicitly addressed in the article. Thanks for taking the time to read it before leaving your comment!
We had a family member have all their teeth pulled and go with dentures/implants and it seems to have triggered aggressive Alzheimers as well.
Changing Behavior by Finding Metronomes
The question in my mind is, I suppose, are Linux desktop users ever going to be a enough of a critical mass for Nvidia to care if they lose a few sales to AMD here and there.

My gut feeling says no.
> Whole fruits are healthy because of the fibers and nutrients in the pulp+skin.

In that case, shouldn't we distinguish between juice stripped of those vs. unfiltered juice?
That should have been part of GDPR.
This is one of the areas I think is fascinating about prosthesis - once we get to the point where they're essentially connected in to the brain, and can be used as though they were a natural limb, what would happen if say, you raised a child with the ability to control four arms as naturally as two? Or raised them with non-humanoid limbs?
I fail to see how a category theory perspective is going to help with "grinding out" any interesting theorems about commutative rings, such as:

- Every commutative ring has a maximal ideal.

- The quotient of a commutative ring by a maximal ideal is a field.

- The quotient of a commutative ring by a prime ideal is an integral domain.

- The classification of finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain.

There are some universal properties which define what it means to be a quotient, which can help you work with them. But for example, the only "categorical" definition of prime ideals that I know is based on that third theorem.

I think it is easy to forget just how much underlying theory you need to know before you can check that the categorical analogues of definitions are even the same as the original ones.
When I was a dev lead, you better believe I pulled in my former coworkers as well paid contractors because I trusted them. There was nothing underhanded about this. I let my manager and his manager know that they were friends and I had them go through extra interviews with my manager even though I usually had the final say about the contractors we brought in. I needed someone I could trust.
QEMU with HAX Acceleration on NetBSD
General Purpose Computing is ending for another reason: Apple controlling its entire supply chain, and dictating what computing can be used for. If market developments continue along this line and competitors follow suit, then soon buying a PC for your research will cost you a lot more.
> "a Lie group is a group object in the category of manifolds"

The point is of course to motivate the definition of a Lie group. Whether such strong motivation counts as "a better understanding of Lie groups" is largely a matter of semantics that there's some room to disagree over. Same goes for the categorical definition of a ring that's been mentioned at the start of this thread, or indeed the definition that OP talks about.
How should I interpret this json file?
> But Navels have a lackluster flavor compared to the Valencia

I disagree with that. Valencia was a good old variety from the 'blancas' group of oranges, but is not the best variety. There are even better Valencia oranges (the newer "Valencia seedless " delta and midnight varieties for example). And many navels score higher for taste also than Valencia.
Maybe in the US. But I've never heard about abusing fruit juice before moving here.
Your memory involves a sticker on the box with the information you needed. You could draw an analogy if there were a "compatible with linux" sticker on some hardware.

People generally don't understand what linux is, or what a distribution is, or what versions of any of the above are new or upcoming. None of these problems apply to Microsoft, since there are many fewer versions, less fragmentation, and a marketing budget.
That's just the thing. Category theory isn't really a part of their standard curriculum -- it's something that a lone instructor decided to put into his syllabus.

My one-line description of the business doesn't really do it justice -- it's programming school with a focus on web & app development, and they have fairly good (dev-)community engagement. They also teach some business skills along the way, and students often end up with startups, or founding their own. Also many of their instructors currently work at startups.
I'm in the same boat. Funny how many people here are on the same boat. So many smart people but they feel like they can't prove themselves to land a job at another company. I feel that is one thing that stinks about our industry. I think option 1 and 2 are difficult..it takes a talented leader to pull off, but it may not be appreciated by people who haven't been there.

Meaning, it's easier to create a new project using x,y,z new tech. But to transform a company and bring business value from old tech, is more difficult.
I just thought, maybe light/noise and they choose not to breed... and just as I was writing this
I thought, well, the ticks, etc maybe eaten by the declining numbers insects will from now on
begin to thrive... and then a similar scenario in the oceans. And.
Blue text in a blank + blue background... What's not to like?

At least it's readability-mode friendly.
I asked Jonathan Sampson about this and it's a developing conversation. [1]

> For some partners, Brave will set a custom header to identify the browser. We use the Chrome user-agent string, so accounting for traffic coming from Brave is otherwise hard. [...] As an example, if you navigate to https://www.marketwatch.com/ you will notice a custom header. [image of header listing containing X-Brave-Partner: dowjones]

[1] https://twitter.com/BraveSampson/status/1094713424452505601
Strange to see a requirement for choosing one language over another is supposed ease of adoption and then they choose the one not easily adopted across every platform. That easy to write syntax takes precedence over general easy to write/run is unfortunate.
I like how they have helicopters on the moon. I guess it might make sense if you're in a dome filled with air.
It's just that I looked for curiosity in the source-code and found the whitelist (and separated
the threads to not create confusion) but I'm sure people with more time would find more.
Kubernetes installation on baremetal
and fwiw, I knew exactly how bad our security was... I kept my boss informed, but he had different priorities until Alexa "hacked" our mainpage :p
> They want you to buy the one that makes them the most profit.

Which is quite different than the one that's best solution for your problem given the money you want to pay. This is the fundamental immorality of most ads; the place they disturb the voluntary exchange of value the free market should be all about.
I used to have halved grapefruit piled with sugar as a kid, as I was taught, I suppose. Later I discovered that the sugar just made it seem a lot more bitter, like a flavour that had to be combatted. They taste much better if you go with the taste instead of fighting it! Now it's my favourite fruit, eaten whole like oranges.

As a kid, I was a fruit maniac, my favourites were Granny Smith green apples, grapefruit, and really strong, sour oranges (we knew someone who sold them in huge bags from their house, I've never tasted anything like them since, my mother made incredible juice from them too). I never realized they're all on the not-so-sweet side until reading the "Fruit is evil"-type comments here. Also I loved grapes from the vine outside my window, passionfruit, mangoes, strawberries, (all home-grown), and peaches, pears, rockmelon, honeydew, nectarines...gee I'm making myself hungry.
Would love an answer to this question too. I effectively find myself in the role of a “principle engineer”. That’s exactly the reason why I was hired - with the expectations to be a “force multiplier” in the organization, which means I end up getting involved in many non-technical activities.

My actual job title is just “software engineer”, but title’s don’t mean too much where I work (a mid-size bank in Europe).

If I had my choice I would be spending 80% of my time writing and reviewing code, not just because I enjoy it but I feel like my coding skills are below what they should be and I want to spend more time improving them.

I struggle in programming tests. I find them pretty daunting. The value I can bring to a company is well known within the circle of people who have previously worked with me. From job to job, as long as I am touching that circle I can charge a premium. But the skills and experience I have are ones that rarely appear in a job description, and if they do they are usually under valued or the interviewers have no idea how to interview for such a position.

It’s a continual dilemma for me in my career now as I hit the big four-oh this year, and trying to figure if there is some way to be just a regular “software engineer” without taking a big pay-cut.

Even though I still have plenty of interests and drive to learn, the normal situation 10 minutes into any discussion with a recruiter is “here is a technical/programming test...” at which point I get defensive and say “I’ll only do it if I think your test is interesting.” But I’m half covering up for my terrible ability for performing tests like what you see on hackerrank.
CRuby needs a full C compiler and linker for JIT to be able to inline things like object allocation.

The alternative proposal which Evan Phoenix explored was to compile the VM and standard library into LLVM IR and keep it for use when JIT compiling Ruby methods.

If you look at the JIT compiler in Racket which is maintained by a small team like CRuby but does use a custom backend, then it has some big limitations like a maximum of 3 function args.

Implementing something like C1 would be an enormous amount of work.
Unlikely. Blood letting and balancing out the body’s humors don’t work. At all. We are quite certain that today’s medical technology works. It could work better, but we can indeed cure ailments that were once considered incurable. Medical professionals of the future will look back on today’s medicine the way we look back on pioneers of science who helped us get where we are today. To say otherwise is a complete insult of the medical professionals who have dedicated their lives to developing better medical technology.
Ask HN: How you ever quit because the engineering culture is too messed up?
I work with nice people but my technical ideas are constantly shot down because either 1) "that's not how we do things there", 2) "there are more important things to worry about", or 3) "I'm not sure I like it".

I realize different organizations need different people/experiences but I see some obvious errors in management infrastructure and I'm trying to be not-pushy as much as possible while fully realizing there are good reasons for everything.

To my eyes, the things I'm proposing are simple and work almost everywhere else but they are still controversial, it seems.

How much should you be swimming against the current before calling it quits because we can't change anything? It's a general question, thus why I haven't given concrete examples for my situation.