skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But then, Canon's the company that was still pushing interlaced video well into the 2000s and launched the SLR video revolution... with a camera that could shoot 25 and 30 but not 24 FPS.

It wasn't just Canon. There were still a lot of tape based cameras. Non tape based formats were still expensive (P2s etc). It wasn't until the 4K spec came out that interlacing was finally dropped. You have to remember that waaaay back in 1996 when HD first started broadcasting, the signal was still analog and flat panels were not common at all. HD CRTs were a thing, and required interlacing. Just like color TV had to remain backwards compatible with B&W, they chose to make HD backwards compatible with SD.

One myth/legend says a Canon engineer not in the DSLR department realized the ability of the camera's chip, and mentioned that he could make it record MP4 video sort of as a fluke. It wasn't something they set out to do. It worked, so they rolled it out. I don't know the validity of that story, but it sounds like Canon didn't expect the feature to be that popular. As all v1 products, somethings just weren't there like 24fps. I can't remember if any video cameras at that time were full framed sensors. I'm thinking 2/3" or 1" sensors were the norm. The shallow depth of field that the full frame sensor brought to the ~$2500 market is what did it, as well as a readily available large selection of lenses. No more ENG look for video without shooting film.
K80s are 2014 and people still use them at scale. So 3 years isn't unreasonable, right?

A major drawback of having this sort of hardware on-prem (and this unit in particular) is that it doesn't include local storage for a 100TB+ scale dataset. There's not just the admin cost of hard drives and RAID, but there's the infra cost of synchronizing data to the machine. An average, reasonable, product-oriented Engineering Manager could easily choose cloud over a $100k savings if it means less headaches. Especially since GCloud will give big discounts if they're trying to outbid Amazon. On the other hand, if Lambda offered some sort of NAS solution plus caching software (Alluxio! :), that would make the offering a lot more competitive. Oh and maybe throw in a network engineer to set up peering and such.. ;)

What might make the comparison more compelling is to take anonymized workloads from your customers, examine how often the workload results in idle (wasted) time, and to factor that into the figures. If a user's workload is elastic (many are, especially in R&D), then the user would be drawn towards ML Engine, Sagemaker, Floydhub, Snark, etc... The downside to these services is that they almost always involve expensive copying of data from NAS to worker machines. But if user utilization is high, and the dataset is static, the on-prem machine is a prime investment.

While the savings is a big and noteworthy number, iteration speed is of principle concern to readers here and likely a good segment of your customers. I love the Lambda offerings, but there are a lot of deep learning hackers who can't make the most of bare metal.

The 1080TI server is probably the killer solution at 1/10th the cost. But NVidia legal blah blah blah :(
Wrong link. Use:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/17/we-take-your-privacy-and-s...
IP and Data Time Stamp Co. iDefendo Launches Public API to Increase Uptake
No such problem on an i5 7th gen with 8 GB ram. I use both Windows 10 and Ubuntu on it. Sometimes I have 20-25 tabs on my firefox. Maybe you should check your browser addons.
We used to do this with incandescent bulbs. I was never quite sure if it was safe (is it?!), but the microwave itself always seemed to survive ok.

Generally the bulb would explode, we presumed due to the heat causing internal pressure. Though at one point a bulb got really hot and melted a sort of bubble on the side. It seemed to provide enough space for the heated air so it never exploded and we could use it again and again.
Facebook Phishing Scam Can Fool “Even the Most Vigilant Users”
What happens when most of your data has been generated by machine learning algorithms ? Where do you learn from then ?
Ikr! It has zig but not nim :<
My first reaction was also the same: "That's a nice reader, but I use Calibre, and can read my eBooks from it too". If I didn't have an eReader and didn't manage it with Calibre, I'd build and it use it happily.

While Calibre has a full management, editing and authoring suite, it also has a nice internal reader with reading features.

It's not like the Photoshop, but rather the ACDSee suite, which comes with a full fledged image browser and viewer.
Are you implying that people who dont really get fat, who dont manage their diet consciously, are more prone to diabetes? I never heard of this...
I went skiing with my family recently. As a gimmick we went to a nearby barn where they had a carpenter’s shop. At first I was reluctant to go. But then I got into kind of a flow when I was working on the woods, grinding. I started sweating. There I felt for the first time: we are not made to sit in front of a screen for 8 hrs. At least for some days in the week I’d love to do some physical labor.
I'm Watching and Reviewing an Episode of Anime Every Single Day
Consumers. (i.e. casual computer users who aren't terribly demanding in any particular dimension) Unfortunately they've been flocking in for the 'just works' Apple reputation as it is being un-earned by Apple. But for many in this group, it's probably good enough vs. what they were using before.
In Spain there was a case of a missing woman, and the authorities tracked phones which moved in the same direction of the victims one to get a reduced list. The attacker disposed of the phone from a bridge after 5 or 10 minutes, but even with that the police have already an small list of suspects and have an start point to investigate. Anyway, they have to wait and they didn't get to trap the attacker until a year later when he tried to attack other victim.
The article is confused about the position it's writing about. That's either a director, vp of engineering, or even the CTO itself and at that point, no longer a developer or individual contributor.
Instead of unlimited leave, I think companies should have mandatory leave. If you require every employee to take a few weeks off in a year, it removes any sort of pressure to avoid taking a day off, while unlimited leave does the opposite, in my opinion. And it benefits the company too - it makes sure that there isn't a single person who is so critical to operations that they can't take a day off (reducing the "bus factor").
The opposite seems to be true right now. China's relations with the West are a bit strained at the moment.
RE 2:

iTunes is the only way to get a local iPhone backup.

For those who don’t care how their phone is backed up, iTunes is the only way to fully backup their phone at all without paying for iCloud.

iTunes is the only way I can listen to Apple Music on my Mac.

iTunes is the only way I can create smart music playlists for my phone (Which is ridiculous, but I digress)

I can’t wait until I’m not forced to use iTunes.
I wouldn't call it solid. On first glance it seems like someone trying to backwards-rationalize an emotional decision.
What is an average medication? Its an extremely broad generalization that doesnt make much sense. It includes everything from chemotherapeutic agents over Fentanyl over Aspirin to coal tablets. There are quite a few medications that are a lot more dangerous than the drugs on your list. And they are more dangerous for a reason, as they still have fewer side effects then the illness they are trying to combat.

Unless you are talking about the purity of the product, i dont see a sensible case for the comparison of street drugs with pharmaceuticals.
No, because people leave their phone at home all the time, but phones rarely go on trips without the owner.
I've been to lesswrong a few times and I just never really got it.

But that article was amazing, thanks for the link.
Lots of salt in this thread. I have a Mac because I enjoy it the most for software development. It's not a status symbol because, well, almost everyone here has a Mac. The alternatives are Windows-based laptops - who often lag behind software development support (e.g. ports), or Linux which is still just not good enough for desktop use. I use Windows at home for not-development and have used both Windows and Linux for software development so this isn't a biased opinion.

The hardware budget from my employer also helps.
Hmm. I feel that. I’m sensing a dichotomy here between understandings of ”library as a place of study” and ”library as a communal place of sharing cultural artefacts”. Since the latter involves a lot of other things besides books and the silence required for deep study thereof, maybe a new word not derived from books (liber->library for English, kirja->kirjasto for Finnish) would indeed be appropriate?

Disclaimer: been to Oodi and think it’s great. I’m not a regular user of libraries in any sense, though. I used to be, 20 years ago, and appreciate the current trend exemplified by Oodi as something perfectly befitting Finnish societal values and ethos as I understand them. Ymmv, of course.
This looks really really interesting. Thank you for posting this!

Right now I am trying to build a quadruped robot and still a bit scared of that mathematics, but its awesome and I'll fight my way through it.
Not all parts of a system can be independent of changes to how time is interpreted or displayed. E.g. in a calendar: what happens to the time of a recurring meeting after a DST transition? What if participants are in different time zones with different DST rules?

But as long as you only need to track time for dealing with time intervals in an abstract fashion, you can get away with a nice continuous and monotonous scalar representation of timestamps.
One of the most valuable skills for any engineer is to be able to frankly admit the need to look something up.
>If they work

That is a big "if". Stability is a principle which has been tried time and again in fiat money and failed. Too many times to count. See GBP peg etc. for examples.

If something is unstable, it is because the market deems it to be. Adding an artificial support goes against that same market.

Cryptocurrency circles like to talk about government control being a bad thing. But in the same vein cheer stablcoins which exert near similar control - by algos or by adding coin supply. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
I'm not sure how that's relevant to the calculation here.
This is a well-written article, much more even-handed than the usual garbage takes that touch on the tension between the different factors in the employer-employee relationship. I feel like the author couldn't make up his mind though:

> Kotick could have cut his own salary (a small piece of his overall compensation package) or waved off some of the stock incentives he earned, but it would have been performative. It wouldn’t have saved jobs. The gesture would have been symbolic, as 800 people likely still would have found themselves out of work.

And

> All of this amounts to more people on hand than work to give them. Activision Blizzard has been building staff for years. The company suddenly finds itself without the product to back up that need

vs

> It’s nigh impossible to rationalize or justify 800 people being shown the door as a company reports record sales.

And

> executive pay is broken and now hundreds of people are out of work.

He makes the case that the layoffs were due to not having any work for those employees, not a financial resources squeeze, but then falls back onto seemingly-contradictory platitudes when he needs to sum up the article.

As he says, activison is bad at planning, but the decisions that led to the labor/tasks mismatch were made earlier. Obviously they should do better there (particularly as he claims they have a pattern of doing this), but what should they have done differently in this case?

This is actually a serious question, and one I'm open-minded about: people like to imply things about labor markers without seeing them through. Are there proponents of paying people to not work, keeping them on your books like zombie employees until your headcount needs catch up over several years? Is this an arrangement that an employee would even want, given how his skills would atrophy in the meanwhile? (Bear in mind that I'm taking for granted, as the author does, the idea that Activison doesn't have the ability to just conjure up productive work/projects based solely on having extra headcount).

None of this is rhetorical, as I'm actually genuinely curious what people think about this.
> The software Coq is pronounced like the French word "coq",

Yes, but...

> which has a short o like the English "cock"

No, it doesn't. The sound it has isn't a common English vowel sound at all; it is closer to the vowel sounds in “cuck” and “cook” than the one in “cock”, but not exactly either of those, either. In fact of the four (those two, plus coke and cock), the “o” in “cock” is the one most Americans would find it most distinct from, I would think.

> https://forvo.com/word/coq/#fr

Yeah, none of those pronounce it with the vowel sound in English “cock”.

> I know from rare comments like yours that some prudish Americans pronounce it "coke",

It's not prudish, its a common way Americans that haven't mastered French pronunciation approximate the unaccented French “o” irrespective of context.
Screen reader user here. Please don't do this. There are blind developers out there. Don't make their life hell. Often those diagrams are a good excuse not to write a good description of what the system really does. If you absolutely must, please ensure there's a text description that provides exactly as much info as the diagram (or more). If you can, use formats like graphvis and include the text the graphs were generated from, it's at least somewhat readable. The way sourcegraph[0] used to do this was IMO acceptable. They had a graph but if you wanted to, you could sort of figure out what the grah looks like by reading it's text. They also had a good description of what the system does directly below. sadly, They're a bit worse now, though the source is still available if you dig deep enough. [1]

[0] https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/blob/2.13.0/doc/d...
[1] https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/blob/master/doc/d...
I've tried the flash port with rear curtain syncing, but still didn't do what I needed it to do. Mainly, I had difficulty with the timing of the signal. It's not like the shutter release where there's voltage and then there's not. It's an obvious thing to test for. The flash was just a quick blip. Maybe it was the low cost meter that I have, but when the flash triggered, it barely even registered on my meter.
For some definition of work, yes. Generating hype is very real and valuable.
Or use Rust to get all 3!
If all the interviews were similar, how would you distinguish between good and bad company?
It seems remarkable to me that anyone can honestly hold the opinion that Google do not do anything other than serve adverts or send marketing emails.

They have a search engine. Does that really need actually pointing out?
good enough without bugs makes you a lot of money and also lets you build something with a much smaller team.

I don't think Coq is the way forward (I don't think "code that makes money" has many interesting provable properties in itself along those axes) but being able to ship stuff that's pretty close to bug-free will get you far
I'd love to have something like ML for my Sony Alpha :(
I am the unveiling of this plan signals an imminent US-CN deal.
The problem I have with that view is that the information that get reported from current left-wing political parties and politicians do not match books like those. It could be that:

1) The journalist reporting is wrong.

2) the current left-wing political parties are not left-wing.

3) the books are not about current left-wing politics, which has changed compared to when those books were written.

For example, Debt: the First 5,000 Years has quite a lot to say about bridge gifts and gender roles which do not blame white men or use some "Patriarchy" theory where women are slaves to men. It does not make women to victim and men to conquers, but rather looking at the issue from a tribal/family resource perspective from an age when those practices were more common. That would be right-wing political view for a lot of people.
Yes, I know the feeling. My guess is that it’s lack of agency (if I’m using the word correctly.)

Basically as an engineer you put some creative effort - or at least try to - in what you do thinking it’s some sort of one-of-a-kind artifact, and therefore touch your aesthetic sense.

Management doesn’t give 2 f*cks, they’re just into producing output (not necessarily profit) and CYA, and they’re hell bent into turning you into a predictable blue-collar. It’s not because they’re evil, in a corporate org eventually everyone’s purpose gets optimized away.

We’re lucky the software factory model crashed and burned in the ‘00 but we’re still craftsmen (and women), so we need to think like one.

Become a contractor, do what you’re asked for with the best of your skill but that’s it. Don’t let that “mission”, “purpose”, “we’re a family” rhetoric fool you. Build a wall between yourself and them . Be a carpenter, make it flat and level, invoice and bye.
I find that truly bizarre. Would people seriously prefer to run a commercial studio and Pro Tools on a windows machine? I've run Logic across a number of versions on various Mac Pros and they're rock solid. I could almost guarantee a very different experience on a PC ....
Please add support for plain HTML (sounds easy, doesn't it? you probably use something like WebKitGtk as a renderer front-end already), FB2 and MarkDown (both are easy to render into HTML) and DJVU (much better than PDF for scanned books). Then add BeeLine-like text colouring and Spritz-like RSVP and I'm buying (donating).
I am afraid that even that would not work, in my opinion the best solution is be aware of it and try to always have prototype that you are confident enough you could release and keep working on.
awesome !! now give it to me on a bigass(10'+) eink display under $200. Nice project though :)
Im sorry, but this very much feels like a fluff piece. Yes we _may_ need a new programming language, or we may not.

Half of this article is about hardware, while only a small part of it is about programming languages.

> There are several projects at Google, Facebook, and other places to kind of design such a compiled language that can be efficient for deep learning, but it’s not clear at all that the community will follow, because people just want to use Python

Are the libraries not implemented in native code? The brief mention that python gets does not really detail what is wrong with it, aside from not beeing compiled I guess. But that is no issue if the libraries are native, so I dont see a reason to move away from python, let alone create a new programming language for it
It's weird though, why would I want to read on laptop?
I can use a kindle, phone, ipad!
How often does someone carrying out a planned crime carry a phone with them that is switched on, these days? Use of mobile phone data by the police has been standard practice since 2001, at least, and widely publicised.
When it comes to (smart)phones, you don't really have much choice. You either consent to being exploited by Google, or you pay a pound of flesh to Apple.

As for the pricing of the phones, nobody is forcing you to upgrade every year. I've done that ever since the original iPhone came out, but when i bought the X, i also decided to only upgrade every 2-3 years to justify the cost.

MacBooks are a sad story though. I'm "stuck" with my 13" retina with the last functional keyboard Apple made. I've tried the keyboard on the newer models (in store), and i'm not a fan.
The mass market casual camera today is a smartphone, which comes with what you describe.

Canon, Nikon, and others have long decided they can’t and won’t compete with smartphone makers and are increasingly moving up-market to the prosumer and professional markets who want “big chunky SLR body styles”, and they use specialized software like Capture One and Photo Mechanic to view/edit/organize photos anyway.
Is there still any advantage to having a registered oyster card?
> it's valid HTML with attributes that tell Vue how to bind to it. It's really not that difficult.

You mean it has at least three JS-like DSLs (which are not JS, and have different rules depending on which context they are in). In addition it has a very weird binding system which I described at length in the linked comment.

Yup. "Not that difficult".

Meanwhile JSX is a single consistent DSL that directly maps to function calls:

<Tag prop=(string or valid Javascript expression)>
other tags, strings, or valid Javascript expressions
</Tag>

That's it. Even "html-like" attributes that people seem to not like... are exactly what HTML attributes are in actual Javascript DOM APIs [1] [2]

The amount of custom attributes, custom DSLs and gotchas just in the "HTML" part of Vue is staggering in comparison: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbVEoKOX0AEEen6?format=jpg&name=...

And funnily enough it ends up being compiled to what React is in the first place (here's the output of a Hello World app in Vue):

var render = function() {
var _vm = this
var _h = _vm.$createElement
var _c = _vm._self._c || _h
return _c(
"div",
{ attrs: { id: "app" } },
[
_c("img", {
attrs: { alt: "Vue logo", src: require("./assets/logo.png") }
}),
_c("HelloWorld", { attrs: { msg: "Welcome to Your Vue.js App" } })
],
1
)
}

Look, it's exactly what React without JSX is [3]. Only in React you don't need to invent a custom scripting language and binding rules.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/att...

[2] And I'm really sad to see React team seriously discuss caving in to mob and considering replacing className with class etc.

[3] https://reactjs.org/docs/react-without-jsx.html
I feel the same about breakfast cereal, I used to eat a couple bowls without blinking, now it just seems inedibly sweet to me...
Do you have data to support that claim?
I've also thought about this many times. By coincidence, my closest friends all told about similar thoughts at a gathering recently. It was interesting to hear what people wanted to do, if they wanted to change from their, now established careers.

I myself would take on metalworking and/or blacksmithing. I like the idea of working with milling, threading and cutting metals as well as welding.

I also think that it is very easy to be romantic about these things. It is probably better to understand how you could turn some of these things into hobbies and then get a bit of both worlds.
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Yet Calibre is full of quirks, seemingly lacks some reasonable features (like importing metadata from book files themselves) and stuck with Python 2. I wish there were alternatives...
They are so far ahead of Microsoft when it comes to not annoying of frustrating regular users that they can probably fall for a decade before people start abandoning the platform in any significant numbers.

I just tried switching from my MBP to a Surface Laptop, and the bullshit that win 10 makes you deal with is just insane O_O
Thanks, I’d not heard of it before. I guess EPUB’s got a while to go to cover all niches.
If it gets brought up by them during trial then they need to submit it during discovery

IANAL TINLA etc