skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know how things are in DC, but here in NYC school bus drivers are some of the worst pricks on the road. They ignore all rules, they drive like a horde of zombies is gnawing at their hams, and they habitually scare the living daylights out of the kids they’re supposed to keep safe.

That the anti-Zionist degenerate ended up in this job does not surprise me one bit.
It’s not. You just described an inconsistent timeline, but this has nothing to do with whether time travel creates such inconsistent timelines.

To be more explicit, the grandfather paradox is not an argument against time travel [1], precisely because the past cannot be changed (as you assumed in your example).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox#Philosophi...
I'd agree with this. I don't recall backlash against Apple products to the extent I've seen in places like this over the last two years, ever. I don't think anyone can argue against the notion that the quality of hardware and software is much lower than previous models of basically anything in their range and I don't think I'll buy another Apple product outside of a replacement iPad, so presumably there's some sort of change afoot. It'll be fascinating to see how this plays out; so called 'techies' are often the people family and friends consult for advice on new purchases, and if we're not recommending Apple products, will that make a difference? I don't think they care - they're rich enough not to worry, perhaps, but it's still odd to alienate a demographic this way. I'm sure they know something I don't!
i wonder about the definition of "easy" vs. "hard" questions. it seems to me that this is problematic. i mean, is there a well accepted mapping of all computer science related questions to a numerical difficulty rank?

i mean what if we did that for math? some people would be good at geometry questions, others at algebra, others at topology, real analysis, etc.

what if some great geometer interviews with a fanatical algebraist and then fails to make the cut? this candidate is a great geometer! were the questions "too hard"?
the worst tldr i've read in a while.
I do, regularly. I read books on my phone on the go, then pick it up at a computer (and I do this across multiple computers) when I'm at a computer, and vice-versa.
> you try to argue that they’re a good expenditure of energy?

I think his argument is that it shouldn't matter whether it is a good expenditure of energy or not. Environmental costs should be priced in the energy costs. Then it wouldn't matter for the society and for the environment how much energy you use or waste.
"All European market production is being consolidated to Japan, where the company is based"

Doesn't seem to be related to brexit.
Did you know that some governments subsidize energy prices to make it easier for their populace to pay the bills and to encourage businesses to come to their country?

If cryptocurrency mining goes to countries with subsidized energy and they become part of maxing out that country's energy output, the country may be forced to create new energy sources to provide to the population (aka, higher environmental impact + cost). This push may be partially blamed by the cryptocurrency servers.

In other words, not all cryptocurrency mining servers as utilizing just the extra capacity casually created by a city/state.
It is not a bug. It is the default behavior. If you don't want to have sound after unplugging headphone, just set the volume of the speakers to mute.
I have bad news for you, which may or may not be fake: in the future, we all live inside. Our houses aren't self-sufficient bio-domes at first, we pipe in fresh air and water from centralised facilities; then we use it, and pipe it back. At the centralised facilities where air and water is recycled and power is generated, waste just goes outside. Some modicum of theatrical effort is put into loading the particularly radioactive stuff in steel drums and telling the concrete trucks cover it over, but nobody really cares. As we approach the limit of a dead planet, the externalities of energy production cease to be negative -- there's no harm in beating a dead horse. This is when the cost of energy will accurately reflect all externalities, not before then. A society which slows down energy production will be outcompeted, and then they won't be in charge of the inside. The outside is already a lost cause.
this is badass, thanks
To save time from anyone else curious, BlazingSQL requires a Nvidia GPU and Linux. (https://blazingdb.com/#/documentation)
Don't think it can run .MOBI, do you have any alternatives for that?
I generate dot files (graphviz) based on code. It's an amazing tool, both for understanding how the code behaves and as a communication tool others.

The clear advantage is that the documentation is always up to date. Spend time once to develop your tool, generate your doc at any time you want with almost zero cost.

For a simple state machine sed/grep/awk magic is sufficient to generate a dot file.

For a more complex data processing graph, I use boost graph.
Take a look at VSL #3, a heavy duty probiotic.

Also, check out partially hydrolyzed guar gum which has some promise for IBS. It is a prebiotic fiber (feeds your beneficial bacteria) and also like psyllium husk does not produce a lot of gas which is bad for IBS.

Hope you feel better! :)
Your experiences closely reflect mine for GCP. Some of the tools, although amazing in and of itself, often have some minor flaw that makes the user experience extremely inconvenient when you encounter it many times. The simplicity of the inconvenience only exaggerates the frustration.
It means "we're going to send a professional negotiator to squeeze as much as we can out of you."
I wonder if the mainland will ever force either of the 2 ex-colonies to convert into using the "right hand road" orientation? That would be an interesting experiment.
It's worth noting that a lot of major car manufacturers have raised concerns about this:

- Nissan cited Brexit as a reason for not building one of its latest models in England

- Jaguar/Land Rover is cutting jobs citing 'geopolitical reasons'

- Toyota has warned against Brexit

All taken from: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47225787

As an expat, I'm fascinated to see how Brexit will play out.
Separating the stuff after it gets dumped in a truck in one big mix?? ABSURD.

Nope. Routine.[1] There are shakers, screens, magnets, blowers, crushers, and optical sorters. It's not that complicated. Mixed recycling goes in, and aluminum, ferrous metal, glass cullet sorted by color, paper, and trash come out. Separation is working fine. The problem is that the markets for waste paper, glass cullet, and plastic are weak, even when fully sorted.

Waste paper, especially. Paper mills in North America have been closing for years.

Plastic bottle recycling is coming along well. CarbonLite has a huge plant near LA, and plants in Denver and Pennsylvania. Recycled plastic bottles go in, and plastic pellets ready for injection molding into new bottles come out. This is the area where things are getting better.

Glass cullet is in trouble. Fewer manufacturers are using glass containers and there's a cullet glut.

All this is at best marginally profitable and tends to need subsidies. Aluminum is the only real moneymaker.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIVKmwzWSuc

[2] https://www.kcet.org/shows/socal-connected/carbonlite-inside...
Sort of. Primarily it's because of the EU-JP FTA.

But even if they didn't happen they would've had to leave since both UK parties want to leave the single market. And without the single market it's very difficult to run a frictionless supply chain across the channel.

It's why you are seeing lots of manufacturing companies preparing to leave UK.
I'd really like some c/c++ code that nicely prints trees in ascii... never found a good one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Honda_facilities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_UK_Manufacturing

The heavy lifting of Honda is in the UK for the EU region.
As mentioned in the comments on the link, it doesn't work. It just lowers the amount of "clicks". I noticed the bug the same day the Mac mini 2018 came out and have found no solution.
Not sure if it's present in OS X, but I know at least iOS has impedance memory, so it'll recognize specific headphones and set the volume to what it was last at when they were plugged in. It's a really nice feature.
> Every other currency is either backed by men with guns?

So what? Men with guns are also the foundation of property rights, law and order, and national sovereignty; they are not an extra cost of fiat currency, they underpin the government's ability to maintain order and structure within society. I shouldn't have to explicitly point this out.

> transactions are reversible (fiat)

Cash payments are not reversible. Reversible payments are also a feature that nearly everyone wants.

> spend a roughly proportional amount of resources securing it (e.g. gold).

Gold is not a currency.

> that's only because it can operate with less assumptions (no identities), which I see as a feature

Untrue. A centralized anonymous payment system is technically possible, the limitations are strictly legal.
AU: Another good example where it'd pay off to use the 'FQDN', transport category aircraft.
Mac only... no Linux... wtf
It may be useful to note that most deep learning workloads for training are pretty latency insensitive and are pretty flat throughout the day.
The ETTR ability is also priceless for chasing sunsets/rises. >>> Do you mind explaining how you use this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_airspace
There is only one Honda plant in the EU. Also because of the new trade deal between the EU and Japan it’s possible cheaper for them to export from Japan than a UK because of the brexit (regardless if there is a deal)
I take a fibre powder I make myself, but there are premixed versions:

Rice bran, oat bran, psyllium husk, ground linseed, and slippery elm powder.

Typically equal proportions, but it varies depending on how much of what I’ve got left when it goes in to the mixing bowl.

I also regularly buy not continuously take a priobiotic and / or Greek style unsweetened yogurt.

Lots of Vitamin D. I also need to supplement essential fatty acids or my skin tears at the edges of my nails.

Plus running and lifting heavy things. Also dogs. My dogs are well trained, they know our routines, and they make me laugh out load a lot!
Venezuela is an interesting case in the sense that it is an otherwise well-off, decently well educated country going through a crisis.

My country - India - has the world's largest number of poor. Even if these people were to get smartphones, there are already deeply entrenched players (PayTM, Google Pay) who offer free and instant transactions.

This is true for a lot of African countries as well. No reason for anyone to use a new currency when there's already M-Pesa and UPI and PayTM that use the currency they already know and trust.
This might sound crazy but if u are able to fast for 2-14 days straight it will help so much . It seems to have had a very long term effects .

First try doing OMAD and see how u react . Basically fast for 23 hours and eat for one hour . If u think you can handle doing that for a week. do it a few days straight
> A libertarian-style republican who wants to legalize weed, get the troops home, and roll back mass surveillance could clean up in 2020, but I doubt that's who the Rs will run.

I don't think so. If it were, the Libertarian party would do much better than it does.

I don't think conservative/libertarian economics is a big winner, and only has done as well as it has because it's been hitched to social conservatism. Drop the latter, and a big chunk of the Republican base will be pushed into the Democratic camp, and the Democrats will win.

I think a genuine populist who can deliver liberal economic policies while respecting conservative social values would clean up in 2020. Trump pretended to be one, which I think was crucial to his success, but he's been too weak and too dishonest to really deliver.
> you end up with financial system run by politicians

At least, in case of pos, it is run by politicians with skin in the game...
"Like Nissan, Honda stands to benefit from a new trade deal between the European Union and Japan, which will make it easier to produce cars in Japan for export to the bloc. "

Due to Brexit they no longer have access to the EU internal market from the UK. Add to that a new trade deal between the EU and Japan and there is little reason for them to stay in the UK.
Science of Public Pool Waterfalls (Thread)
I might be the exception here but the 2018 Macbook Pro keyboard is the best I've typed on. It is accurate, quiet, requires very little effort to push the buttons. I don't feel muscle fatigue typing on it.

> and people also complain about how loud the keyboard is when Im typing.

We must not be using the same keyboard. The mbp is quietest I've even used to date. Everything else doesn't even come close.

> The battery life barely lasts more than 2 hours while the MBA lasted 5 hours for exactly the same use case.

That's weird. Mine lasts 8-10 hours. It lasts a good 6-7 hours of daily work, watching videos, compiling C code, playing an intensive game and extensive Chrome browsing.

> - If someone trips over the power cable then the whole laptop moves, on the MBA the magsafe just disconnected and no harm done. - Having to use adaptors for USB devices is now getting really tedious.

The mbp is supposed to be a desktop replacement computer. Get a usb-c hub. You'll be able to charge the device, connect all your devices (and screens!) from one single usb-c. Put the hub close to the Mac. But yes, I do miss the magsafe.

I've lots of complaints about the new MBP but none of the points you mentioned above. I suggest you take it to an Apple shop for some diagnosis.
If you're not deploying in a datacenter, you can save even more money by building a workstation with a few 2080 Ti cards, which cost $1200 and give 90% of the speed of the $3000 Titan V: https://lambdalabs.com/blog/best-gpu-tensorflow-2080-ti-vs-v...
Apple appears to be coming to some sort of head at this point.
This is speaking as someone heavily invested in Apple products and shares.

Their iPhones have reached a peak, where it appears people are no longer willing to pay so much for them. They are too damn expensive, with nothing to justify their costs. I am one of the morons who upgraded to the XS, but only because I needed the 512GB storage. If not for the increased storage needs, I wouldn't have upgraded and I know for a fact there is really no difference after using it for several months. I have no plans on updating to the next one, the first time since iPhone 3.

MacBooks are worse now than they were since 2015. I won't upgrade until they get rid of the TouchBar. I would rather go back to Windows than use that stupid TouchBar.

Apple software is terrible. iTunes is still the worst piece of software that I'm forced to use. The bugs they've had are inexcusable.

Apple is the richest company in the world, and instead of paying their engineers top wages, they are wasting it on stock buybacks. Until their revenues decrease year-over-year they won't change their ways.

To put it bluntly, Apple is extremely, extremely arrogant and I hope they will pay their price in the next few years. It feels like all product lines are either too expensive and/or worse quality than even a few years previous. Many people unhappy or unimpressed with their products, but they don't give a damn.
They're being reused, and reuse is typically better than recycling as it's more energy efficient. (That's where "reduce → reuse → recycle" comes from.) Better to put the bottles on top of the landfill rather than in the landfill and have to truck something else in to cover it.

Also, bottle recycling, where there's a bottle bill, has the further desirable externality of reducing bottle litter.
Who Is in Charge of Fasttext on Pypi?
Why do we talk about this every week on HN?

I'm pretty sure it's either once a week or once every two weeks.
The strength of JavaScript is also the problem: it's really easy to create and distribute really flexible and dynamic code. This encourages a massive, vibrant ecosystem of packages which are extremely modular and flexible, and often tiny. So you end up building sandcastles out of thousands of grains of sand instead of LEGO houses.

What we probably need to do is walk that back a bit at a cultural level, and make our libraries just a bit more cohesive and self-contained. There are a few libraries like Lodash and Ramada that aim to be general-purpose toolkits, and Vue and Angular are good examples of reactive libraries that come with their own state management, plus some other stuff. Of course, the latter probably (I'm not actually positive) carry their own big lists of npm dependencies.
I remember working in telecommunications in "high-cost" sites. Even when there wasn't a portfolio consolidation due to some merger, people were constantly living with the fear of heaving their jobs moved to "lower-cost" countries.

When I read such news, I automatically wonder how much of this is because the company wanted the option to move some other place anyway and now Brexit gives them that excuse. I'm not saying that's always the case (especially with smaller companies or what is referred to as the "Mittelstand" in Germany). But in a climate where an employer can simply open a new site in a more forward looking region/climate (and be welcomed with state funding promises by that country), it would make sense.

EDIT: this guy on twitter has been tracking the companies that plan to downsize or leave UK due to brexit: https://twitter.com/uk_domain_names/status/10669721715185582...

for the automotive specifically: https://twitter.com/uk_domain_names/status/10539482087984168...
Hi, Lambda engineer here (I'm one of the authors). You bring up some good points, I'd like to address some of them:

Admin:

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

These tasks aren't made unnecessary by cloud. Yes, with cloud, once you've done the work, it can be forever encoded into an image or container. However, the same applies to on-prem using container solutions like Docker.

Maintenance / Capitalization / Finances:

3-year? What is the useful life of this? When does it seemingly become obsolete?

With GPUs of recent history, obsolescence is not a concern in a 3-year time frame. On AWS, people are still using K80s (released in 2014!). The GTX 1080 Ti, which was released 2.5 years ago, is selling for substantially above MSRP. This may change if competition in the GPU space increases and NVIDIA loses its monopoly.

AWS will continually upgrade their hardware and you keep paying the same

True, but this concern is mitigated by slow rate of GPU obsolescence.

Hardware can be capitalized, which means you can push it to the balance sheet (for tax or valuation purposes)

Can you say a little more about this? Not sure what you're getting at.

Spending $90k instead of $184k in year 1 with the option to turn it off if you want (no longer need). This could be very valuable for a startup who wants elastic spending patterns.

This needs to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. A poorly-capitalized start-up with an unpredictable compute workload is not a good candidate for buying on-prem. A well-capitalized start-up that consistently uses GPUs is a better candidate.

Returns, breakage, warranty in case of a hardware failure

Any reasonable hardware provider will include an option for 3-year warranty.
You can normally enable classic sleep in Windows by setting the CsEnabled key in registry to zero. That's how I'm doing it on my XPS 15 9570. Still trash of a laptop, but now it sleeps proprly :)
Neat! As a long time calibre user I'm always up for new options.
Yes: there’s a guy who comes to the office once a week to water the plants. I regard him enviously as I’m knee-deep in a stack trace or combing logs related to a bug report.
If you don't need to be a US citizen, does that mean I can come as a tourist, and (even though it's convoluted) I can get the card using my passport?
And for a tooling example, VSCode is basically a much more cohesive and holistically-designed version of Atom.
If it's really on-prem (i.e. not in the "datacenter" as per NVIDIA EULA), you could spend a lot less than $100K+ for a lot more throughput by purchasing consumer-grade cards and HEDT gaming hardware.

Sure you'll have 4 GPUs per box and not 8, and sure, each GPU will have 11GB and not 32, but the whole machine (_with_ the GPUs) will cost just a tad more than a single V100. So if you don't really need 32GB of VRAM per GPU (and you most likely don't), it'd be insane to pay literally 5x as much as you have to.
I’m confused. How is it regressive? Inflation is essentially a tax on idle wealth.
Interesting, thank you. I didn't know radon was created that quickly.

The article mentions that the ore was discovered by chance by a young man with a geiger counter. Maybe it was the actually the radon he detected?
It’s interesting how every company that suddenly leaves the UK as the deadline approaches says it’s due to some other reason and factors.

Even if it were true, it does bring up that when you destabilize an economy by adding uncertainty it puts you at more risk when weathering the other normal economic bumps. So what breaks the camel’s back may not be Brexit, but you’ve added a lot of burden to make a straw a bigger concern now.
I would think that, regardless of the math, the token prices might remain stable just because people think the algorithms are doing their work. Kind of like an "invisible hand" situation.

Circulating supply fluctuations don't seem to have much of an influence on crypto prices (as seen with quarterly Binance Coin burns for instance)
the injected DLL has to be written specifically with Detours in mind

Does it? I've almost (ie: haven't :P) used Detours but https://github.com/Microsoft/Detours/wiki/OverviewIntercepti... reads like it can rewrite standard function prologues.
1) 5 days (according to the author)
2) Obviusly the cloud is better in that case
3) You can’t always upgrade on aws eigher if you have paid for a reserved instance: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ri-modif...
Scary from an investment perspective. Imagine having property rights under Hong Kong law transitioned to the lawlessness of Beijing.
Having EPUB support in the base OS install, effectively, is a game changer, so I am thrilled Edge has this and I do use it occasionally. Though I've generally been of the opinion Edge is still mostly a poor/underfeatured document reader.
Speaking of UX, Windows 10 has (IMO) the best touch-screen UX ever invented, and as a bonus, you get an OS that's not a toy. I'm saddened that MS didn't break through into the mobile market (too little released too late; since they didn't have a competitively-sized app store, they should have included more functionality in the OS itself), and I hope they'll keep the touchscreen-friendly mode in Windows for years to come - I'm not touching another Android tablet if I can avoid it.
For me evil is not what I consider. Its pure business, if other party don't need for my skillset, I aint gonna put my time to change my skillset to suit theirs.
Free Software for CT Segmentation (2019)
> ugh I need to install that update. My X1 doesn’t even sleep right in Windows

So, it is even Thinkpad guys who can't write proper bioses these days?

Is there a single laptop out there where you can say the bios is truly flawless?
Yes, although the transmission being in plaintext makes it even more vulnerable, because if you get to listen to the network where the call center nurses operate, no one needs to crack anything to find out the location of data, its structure and anything else you need to exploit it.