skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does everyone, especially within crypto, seem to believe a One Coin theory?

Plurality is the name of the game. History has endless examples. Yes nothing would last but...the better monies would move to a better monies. It's called competition. There is very little competition when it comes to monetary policies. Crypto will foster more of it. It can get messy but hopefully it won't get deadly.
There's a "stronger" version of Thums Up called "Charged" which is fizzier and even less sweet than the regular one.
JavaScript Loading Priorities in Chrome
I'm probably responding more to this thread than I should, but I'm an a chatty mood today :-) I think there are a lot of factors and this is almost certainly one of them. Having worked in a couple big, wealthy and famous companies before, one of the biggest problems is that they are always making acquisitions. One day you're building X and then upper management thinks, "Woah... X + Y would be awesome. But we don't want to spend time to build the Y part. Let's acquire a company and glue it onto X." Usually that happens with great grumbling from the programmers who complain that X and Y were never meant to work together and it would actually take more time to get them to work well than it would have to build Y in the first place. Upper management doesn't believe this and says, "Stop grumbling". And, well, the programmers do what they have to do. So it ends up being super hacky... because it is super hacky :-)

But I think it's more than that. You know how certain things are obviously built by committees? You can see it because everything is consistent, but it's often got a lot of compromises. On the other hand some things are obviously built by individual contributors. It's got some things that are really great, but other things that are horrible because the developer just has blinders on. Many Google apps give me the latter experience. Also, when they have a suite of tools, although they are tied in together, they have wildly different UI, naming conventions, placement and layout of information, etc. Usually there are some really cool bits, but these bits are often not the point of the project and look a bit out of place.

I think teams in Google often have people who are confident and smart and the tools reflect that. It's a kind of "This is the way to do X", shouted 500 different ways. One of the biggest things I find frustrating is the mountain of trivia that I have to commit to memory in order to use their tools fluently. I really do think it reflects the type of people that Google chooses when they hire people. While they may be good at the things that Google screens them for, they may not be the best people overall when it comes to building finished products.
Calibre is fantastic for converting between eBook formats, but it’s a mediocre reader at best. (ITunes for eBooks is an apt description in this regard!)
Yasheng Huang: Does democracy stifle economic growth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR-uWwvpn5c
The Finger on the Button
Not sure about funny looks in Africa, but I'm European myself.

In Europe contracts tends to be more on a "fair" side of equation (less opportunistic sneaky clauses but more in-your-face bummers).

In North America the initial paperwork scale quality greatly depends on absurdity levels of lawyers at the other side (lawsuit-prone enterprises, large corps with unlimited budgets "just because they can" and heavily regulated industries claiming "this is industry-standard contract" BS).

In my past - after prolonged, fruitless battle with IBM lawyers - I accepted all [ridiculous] IBM terms and was rewarded with 5 yrs of doing well-paid, WFH, interesting, creative, cool stuff.

So there is no hard and fast rules - go with your gut sometimes is a best advice.
That system has slots for 16 2.5" drives in the back. I'd guess they can buy whatever commodity drive/SSD they want, and store the data there. Even throwing some cycles and memory at ZFS, the cost is small compared to the rest of the box.

You'll need additional off-site backup, but that's starting to get out of the scope of the article.
How Would the Lambda Calculus Add Numbers?
I was really interested after this comment if only because Calibre really is an iTunes for ebooks:

1. It has updates ALL THE TIME

2. It has a billion features and I only need one (moving books to/from the device)

Unfortunately, after looking over the feature list and realizing that it's for Linux, I realized that this is more of a replacement for Books on OS X -- a local ebook reader.
Google.com is Down
We'd hate to leave you unprotected over Christmas, so we're going to pass these crazy laws to secretly hack all your machines, for security! You can have complete trust in us, we're the government!

Ooops, our pants fell down again!
Bit of a lmgtfy question, but here you go:

https://github.com/rapidsai

https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/blob/branch-0.6/LICENSE
And what was wrong with dict?
Well, I've been around a long time and worked at a lot of places. Still far from a scientific sample, of course.

Do you have any statistics to show? Honest question!

You're of course right that the industry is predominately male. 80/20 is about what I've seen.

As for white, maybe, but the proportion is definitely lower than the ~75% white proportion of the US population, which I suppose makes whites underrepresented, unless I've misunderstood that concept? And many of those whites are, like myself, immigrants.
Thumps up has been owned by Coca Cola for 25+ years . The quality of manufacturing is no different for Coke or thumps up , they come from the same plants.

The brand and flavour has what is survived not the original company which is really the article's point .

Globalisation is not inherently bad but local culture/Identity/flavours is lost if your KFC, McDonald's and Coke are exactly the same everywhere
The bigger issue is less about weight (most of that doesn't end up in the final bundle anyway) and more about the fact that each of those dependencies is a point of possible a) breakage and b) security compromise. The latter in particular has been a rising issue with NPM's micro-packages trend.
Ooh, nice. I’ve used Calibre for years, it’s fully featured but god help me it is ugly as sin.
looks cool! so far I've been using FBreader and Mcomix without fiddling too much into settings

going through the features for bookworm, I didn't know I wanted some of those (ex: annotations, metadata/tags mainly to make it easier to search later on, etc)
Don't SQL engines typically run on servers which lack GPU's? That pretty much kills the entire hardware demographic of enterprise SQL users.
Show HN: Simpler HN
As long as it's run within its thermal limits (i.e. not being severely overclocked and has adequate cooling/ventilation) 3 years or even 5 years isn't an unrealistic lifespan. The analysis makes this, and a lot of other, implicit assumptions which in general seem reasonable.
I don't know what you are replying to the parent poster at all. If you don't want to interview for a job in a new location, or for more money... then the advice to study isn't meant for you. Like, sure some people find studying fun for it's own sake, but the purpose of studying is for the interview which you just said you don't even want to do.
Chrome's password manager suggests unique passwords when creating new accounts.
L.A. Has Great Weather, yet More Homeless Die of the Cold Than in NYC
The last time I read ebooks on an x86 device was before Pocket PCs got color displays. Are there people who really want to do that?
There are a couple of other common church carvings: the green man, and the imp (or devil ) - the meaning of the former is obscured in the mists of time, some claim it to be a pre-Christian fertility symbol but it doesn't appear to be pre-Christian.

It's certainly true that masons had their fun: though, unlike some 'green men' the images of Sheela-na-gigs seem quite rough and amateurish suggesting to me they were not necessarily authorised adornments.

In addition to the normal grotesques and gargoyles. Any other common forms?
I read an article last year about ball lightning which suggested that it is caused by spherical resonance microwave cavity. Something analogous to the grape?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning#Microwave_cavit...
I bought a second hand Xeon E3-1246 v3 (8 VCPU), 16GB memory for $250 on ebay. That's less than it costs to rent an a1.xlarge for 6 months. Hardware is so cheap now, esp with SSDs and memory getting cheaper. Don't automatically rent!
The “only” refers to the hosts of ATP, not to clattner. It is the only interview in the history of ATP.
> - Time (and cost) it takes to install software, drivers, etc

I'd imagine this is part of having a system administrator.
I wonder if there are people who have been coding LISP for 60 years? A few names might come to mind.
momentum maps pretty strangely to automata, since to move more slowly you need a more complicated spaceship
Thought this was regarding Macbook Pro speakers being blown out due to audio glitches that was reported last week:

https://www.dpreview.com/news/2610969677/some-macbook-pro-ow...

(RIP my 2018 Macbook Pro speakers, they sounded great when they worked)
When Rivers Were Trails
Renting the American Dream: Homeownership Shouldn’t Mean “Financial Security”
> - Cost associated with finding an admin who understands how this thing works

Managing AWS resources is not "free" either, or the market for people to handle devops work on AWS related to ongoing operations would be non-existent. My experience is when I've done consulting, clients on AWS used to end up paying more per instance than on-prem clients ended up paying per physical server.

> - Time (and cost) it takes to install software, drivers, etc

This is largely an initial cost of a day or two of setup when you start setting up an on-prem setup + for the first server of a totally new model. If you're buying one, then sure, you need to factor in a bit of time. If you're buying more, then if you use a competent admin the second one should be a matter of inserting boot media or (preferrably) configuring PXE booting, and picking an IP.
Generally, Apple MacBook Pro suck since 2017!
you test different things.
you could go with breadth first and then depth.

however, i would not skip depth, since depth indicates how deep this guy/girl can go if necessary to solve problems.
It's pronounced closer to "coke".
Wow, that video seems to be showing even realistic turbulence. Impressive.
If a "bad hire" means fired before 3 months...

Then I really have to question exactly how they did this analysis. I can't imagine most companies would have the same objective function.
An availability zone or two wouldn't hurt either.
That presumes the existence of an arbitrarily precise simulator, that you can run efficiently enough to generate the large datasets required for deep learning. That's a tall ask for not a lot of gain. We've understood rigid-body dynamics for hundreds of years. Finding the equations of motion for a system is just running an algorithm at this point. Why not use what we know?

That said, deep learning is great for when we can't model things well. For example, there are a number of mathematical issues with how we model object grasping even before visual data is introduced. Since the setting is so difficult to work with analytically, there have been a number of exciting data-driven solutions proposed in this space.
I can't wait until this latest probiotics health fad blows over. The previous gluten bogeyman must have been getting old.
Even if correlation doesn’t imply causation maybe there’s that link in this case as they have done a controlled experiment. They seem to just have stopped short of claiming that schizophrenia is caused by a bacterial gut infection. I wonder why they didn’t claim that?
I read almost exclusively on a x86 device: A Windows Tablet.

This is almost entirely because Windows 8 has the best touch-screen browser available on any platform: Internet Explorer Metro Edition (from a UX perspective, the actual browser internals are horrible). I've also written all my own server-side componentry[1].

1: https://github.com/fake-name/ReadableWebProxy
5yrs of Pair Programming
I'm sorry but I think we cannot call a country with no paper money democratic
I had a different glitch but this reminded me. I have a 2017 Macbook Pro. About a week ago, the left speaker randomly started blasting odd rhythmic white noise. It stopped after a few seconds, but it appears to have blown the left speaker. I've no idea if this is common, or how to prove it and get a new one, or if I even care to go through the hassle.
In my mind, the reason to use something like AWS is to a) get your servers in minutes instead of weeks and b) easily right-size your service

Once your service is somewhat stable in terms of size and you can afford longer lead times, then you should return to on-prem to save money
Some would argue that it fixes the economic system so that we won't have booms and busts anymore and can start seeing capitalism in action proper. That seems to be a worthwhile investment, and may even help prevent wars (which are often financed by currency debasement).
I think I got bit by that last night - working with sound in Mathematica, a simple MIDI tune was playing and then my MBP made a horrendously loud noise. Didn't damage the speakers, which surprised me given how loud it was. Probably the fastest I've mashed CMD-Q to quit a program though.
Or if you're going to rent, consider dedicated hosting providers too. Providers like Hetzner often work out far cheaper (especially if you're doing anything requiring a lot of outbound bandwidth).

AWS is great for convenience when you can afford it, but it is a really expensive solution, even when factoring in the extra things you have to deal with to rent, lease or buy dedicated servers.
SELECT colA + colB * 10, sin(colA) — cos(colD) FROM tableA

GPUs excel at parallel trigonometry computation.
As far as I can tell, all the complexity comes about from the Haversine formula, which maps a circle to a spherical surface. If you were to treat that as a flat plane, I don't see why you couldn't just generate a radial angle and radial distance, then convert to an offset from your centre. That's trivial to perform.

rand(0,2*pi) for angle, rand(d1,d2) for distance, and then convert from polar coordinates to Cartesian.

Maybe I'm missing something fundamental but it seems more complex than need be, especially for small areas where the distortion of showing a sphere on a Mercator projection is minimal.

edit: Never mind, another comment answered why: This generates a random but not uniform (in area) distribution, because there's a larger circumference (and thus more swept area for a given radial angle) the larger the radius moves out.
Org Mode in Spacemacs. Though I use agenda which is the passive form of reminders but works for my use case, if you need your org system to remind you; then this SO post [1] has some useful options, one among which is, on Emacs > 24, there is notifications!

[1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/3844/good-methods-...
I tried the whole grape thing. Very sticky. Very little "plasma" evident. All I got was the thin bridge of skin acting like a filament in a lamp (briefly).
Not completely, but there are patches and forks for this.
I'm curious... since it seems like a number of high-profile bugs often tend to be with clock- or date-related things... is there a set of best practices somewhere around creating time-related tests? A complete list of situations to test under?

I'll confess that testing that my software works while a user (or daemon) changes the system clock is something that I don't think has ever occurred to me, and now I'm wondering what other edge cases also haven't occurred to me.
I Failed. Again. (Zula to Slack, ZCast to Anchor)
>I'm pretty sure that the major difference between a pro and a consumer camera is the amount of easily accessible buttons and knobs.

Precisely this. After 10K shots on a Canon 1200D, I upgraded to an 80D specifically to have access to the top controls to quickly change settings while shooting. You can remap a lot of the 1200D's controls in the "Expert Feature"/customizations section, but the 80D's extra ergonomics are a true joy. The camera is molded to my hands and comfortable to wield for hours at a time.

I can't say the same for the smartphones I shoot with. My Blackberry KeyOne's camera has fully manual controls (even the focus distance can be manually set!), but the "slide your finger to control settings" UI sometimes feels like the "Reddit designs volume control" experiment from a few years ago. I empathize with the Java programmers, but it's extremely frustrating to tell the smartphone what kind of picture I want. It should go without saying that it's equally frustrating to be unable to hold the slab phone adequately still.

Reading people's passionate hatred for real cameras makes it quite clear that they aren't the target audience for a simple mid-range DSLR, let alone monsters like the 1D or Nikon D5.
Agreed.

I wish a development team in a "better" jurisdiction would fork ML and continue on with it.

Sigh
I read a fair deal on breaks at work, and split between Calibre and read.amazon.com depending on where I bought the ebook.
Apple’s Executive Shake-Up Readies Company for Life After iPhone
It also doesn't use as much energy as the country of Iceland (living in Iceland here). You what we use the MOST electricity for here? Aluminum smelting. No one seems to care a lot about that waste, it seems.
Before I got an SSD, I'd rather have the OOM handle it than risk swapping to disk. Now that I have an SSD, swapping isn't a big deal, but I also don't bother hibernating, so I just make sure I have a fair amount of swap (up to 8GB).
That's a weird glitch, and generally I'm not a fan of apple hardware (I think it's overpriced, that their keyboards suck, that they don't have enough ports, and I don't enjoy working in osx), but this article comes off as almost biblically haughty. Apple should have tests around clock updates affecting external audio quality? I mean, maybe after this bug being discovered, sure, but before, was that a connection that could have been made in a QA engineers mind? Maybe it is, maybe it's fair? I don't know anything about manufacturing hardware, but I just find it surprising.

Like, off the top of my head, the x1 carbon is still loved by most Linux users (that I have encountered) despite the fact that out of the box, sleep literally does not work on it for Linux systems. You have to install a BIOS update. Yet Lenovo doesn't seem to get nearly the attention that apple does for this and the myriad of other mistakes I have discovered with them.
>As someone with ... anxiety, this is slightly scary

I hope this is satire.
22° Halo
The fact that larger transactions require more power to transmit securely only demonstrates my point further.

> Allowing for higher value transactions is good thing imo

PoW systems are the only ones where "higher value transactions" need security proportional to their size.
I hope that fix mentioned works! I just changed the time setting now.

I use an iMac pro, I’ve definitely noticed it over the last few weeks, typically when several chrome tabs are open or heavy use it seems. I also noticed it pretty bad when using a Universal Audio Arrow device, and web midi also.

Currently I close chrome and reopen to fix. Happens every 1-2 days.
That’s a great way to have even more competing libraries.

https://xkcd.com/927/
What is the problem you are facing?
I have suspected IBS and suspected Borderline (diagnosed MDD and Anxiety) and I swear to god my stomach health is related to my mental health. Correlated, perhaps, but there's definitely some sort of relation based on my experience.

ps; probiotic yogurt makes me very happy
Ah, excellent point, a warranty is something I completely overlooked. Probably some value "lost" doing it yourself due to downtime if something goes wrong, but likely negligible.
But you're using that example as a straw man to attack the article's concept.

>Why should a referral from some random acquaintance count so highly, anyway? I'd much sooner trust an interview loop than "Oh, I went to school with them a decade ago; beyond that I couldn't tell you much of anything about them."

That's an intentionally weak example. You shouldn't trust that referral, and no one would argue that you should.
>"But the amount of energy being used to mine bitcoin is a real problem - it's not just a technical challenge (like the problems above). This is something that literally affects every human being ... But we need to talk about the environment."

Great, put it in context then:

A. What is the total energy content of the resources consumed each year?

B. What percent of A is lost to "waste" such as powerplant and grid inefficiencies?

C. What percent of the remaining is spent on crypto?

D. What other things are consuming the same order of magnitude or higher than crypto?

E. Which energy use described in D is easiest to make more efficient without harming the purpose/quality?

Then improve #1 discovered in E until it is below #2, then start work on #2, etc.

I think you will find stuff like getting everyone to use i.reddit.com instead of reddit.com and netflix to stop their annoying auto-playing previews should come before anything to do with crypto.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/images/80d/810_9029-top.jpg

https://www.ephotozine.com/articles/canon-eos-1d-x-mark-ii-v...

This might blow your mind, but professionally-oriented cameras all have dedicated buttons to toggle metering modes without looking away from the viewfinder.
That's not a new position. "Inflation is a regressive tax" has been around for a while.
Probably because it's only a comorbidity. We seem to want easy answers to all these question but the reality is that humans are complex organisms. Having one issue (i.e. an infection) without another (i.e. some specific genetic corruption) will not result in the individual developing a disease however the combination of 2 or more factors results in the development of a disease.
With tens of thousands of training images, and hundreds of dimensions in the latent space, I don't think I would assume this is true. You may be thinking one feature is "eyes", but the eyes may instead be built out of 10 sub-features. Those sub-features may be inextricably linked to other, identifiable, macro-features.
The point is that GPU instances are different. The usecases like ML training or general HPC are sufficiently isolated from the rest of your stuff that you don't really need all the bells and whistles that aws has. If you want to host a niche gpu database like production system, you may get more out of aws's ecosystem, but even then, the cost difference is huge.
> My experience is when I've done consulting, clients on AWS used to end up paying more per instance than on-prem clients ended up paying per physical server.

This has been my experience, as well. Clients who switch to AWS for cost-saving reasons will be disappointed.
This false dichotomy between colo and AWS is just making me exhausted 'cos I have been repeating this for so long: just rent a dedicated server. There surely are some cases where colo is the best choice but as the years, now a decade pass since I have tried to spread this, it makes less and less sense every year -- and it never did much in the first place. Maybe if you have several racks worth of equipment? I am not familiar with that size.
Eat more yogurt and relax. You're going to be okay.
Using spot instances on AWS is a good way to save money on infrequent tasks, as well.
Yes especially if you are willing to broaden your definition to include multi-armed or contextual bandits (of which Markov decision processes that RL algorithms solve are a generalization). Lot of internet ad companies etc. use those successfully.
Is that any less true for completely unrelated pieces of software on the same machine? If you have a nice secure monolithic .NET project on your machine, and you also ran a create-react-app project on the same machine, shouldn’t you be just as worried?