skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a good KPI is:

What’s the share of people living that work for you?
Not being used actively maybe?
Interesting fact, Mellanox is an employer of Palestinian programmers in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Sort of a mixed blessing, cheap labor without other options because of the occupation, but real opportunities and a more educated and well off population will be more effective at advocating for its rights:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/palestinian-hig...
Thanks for the suggestion! Just reserved at my library to read after skimming a few pages online.

Somewhat related, there's a great article in Mental Floss on the scientist who helped get rid of leaded fuel despite the industry's "scientific" pushback. Wonderful read. http://mentalfloss.com/article/94569/clair-patterson-scienti...
Intel CPU Shortages to Worsen in 2Q19, Says Digitimes Research
Their ability to iterate fast for one thing. The fact that their structures are built around an all EV company. Toyota will have pressure from other departments to build and fund ICE research at the same time. Tesla is 100% focused on one thing. Plus they have the lowest cost batteries which plays a huge role. I think what the other car manufacturers are waiting for is to jump straight into solid state batteries once that train is going. That should at least reduce the advantage Tesla has right now.
Honest question... is there a difference between the Chinese government and the Chinese airlines? I know they're not literally led by the government, but I was under the impression the government still wielded disproportionate control over industry in Chine (relative to what we expect in the West).
Yes I read that. But what about the plastic that are already in the world ? I think that a way getting ride of that would be a much more exciting discovery.
The question is do you wanna fly in one? I am not a fan of either and I would like to avoid it.
You can use R packages from Python and viceversa with rpy2 or reticulate.
My solution for my own private intranet at home is to use nginx's built in ip filtering and a vpn so that only browsers that are behind my wan ip can view my internal sites. Another interesting thing is that you can have the non approved ip addresses "see" a totally different site on a url than those 'in the know' do. I'm not aware of any downsides to this method. If there is one, would be good to know.
not necessarily -- client pays for 1 week of your time, you could set that week to this week or next, perhaps you're finishing a week for client A, and then going to work 1 week for client B. -- the benefit is you also save a lot of time (and mind fuckery) having to make detailed hourly estimates that almost never are that accurate, it's much easier to estimate a week's worth of time than it is 5-10 hours worth and be super accurate. Also bigger clients don't really throw up much fuss one way or the other, they just want good developers/freelancers.
One thing I’ve consistently noticed is that a “network” can tell the tale of natural or man-made disasters in terms of how it first manifests in alarms and breakage in various systems, the human response manifested to respond to it (sometimes across many national boundaries), culminating with the sometimes peculiar “hacks” and temporary solutions conjured up to restore connectivity. The network sees everything and no one ever tells these stories in any meaningful detail.
I always sample a few least-significant bits from an floating ADC input. That universal background noise should be pretty random, right?
The 10g NICs are toys. ;-) Mellanox provides high speed (40/56/100/200 gigabit) switches and adapters. If you think 10g fiber is big, just wait...

I’ve worked on several projects with them, and found they generally do a good job of feeding the beast when the OS and driver’s are properly tuned.

I’m not informed enough to call good or bad, but will instead say it’s interesting, especially in the HPC space (and the emerging AI space).
> This already caused two major crashes with zero survivors.

Has that been confirmed or are you just assuming it was the cause of the second crash?
If Intel had one, they would have further consolidated their hold on the HPC/Supercomputer market. Summit is an interesting supercomputer because it's NVidia/Mellanox/IBM instead of the Intel hegemony that Cori II was, iirc the interconnect for Cori was from Cray.

Now NVidia only needs to buy Xilinx...
Living in the world with other people means respect to others as much as tolerance.

If they waited until 8 on weekdays and 10 on weekends they did their part in waiting until most people were awake.

Dogs bark, lawn mowers cut grass, motorcycles or trucks have engines that are a cut above the rest in noise. People throw the odd celebration.

Get over it. You're not the only person in this world.
> I fully expect a developer to be able to follow the instructions given in the post then. It's not more complicated than your average framework or build system.

And I never suggested a developer would be incapable of following these. Seems like you got so sidetracked in arguing that you forgot what the discussion was actually about. See my original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19357672
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Doesn't Tesla's batteries really mean Panasonic's batteries? Gigafactory 1 is a joint venture with Panasonic.

What's stopping any of the other vehicle manufacturers from entering a joint venture agreement with any of the other large battery manufacturers?
The person using the leaf blower isn't the selfish one here.
I lost any respect I had for WA after I-1639. The ballot initiative that never actually got enough signatures, but Michael Bloomberg's money ensured it got on the ballot anyways. You're making felons out of everyday people now. Who cares how great your voting is when you can't even follow the US Constitution? It's a joke, it's all just a sick joke now.
And [1] explains why this is the case. In short: patents.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...
Maybe the link could be updated to point to this instead?
Keybase adds cryptographic coin flips (live on iOS and Android)
> ...but shouldnt people be allowed to use it regardless if they decide to do so?

No, they shouldn't. Next question, please.
I went to SD and my impression:
Expected pros: weather, beach, landscape, ocean, Asian and Mexican influence

Expected cons: prices and homeless, artificial buildings, landscapes and often face/bodies

Unexpected pros:every one was super nice, Julio’s, cool airplanes

Unexpected cons: as a person who has always biked and walked. So cal is made for cars. To get from one part of town to another it seemed like in some cases it was just a hw cutting through a valley. Strip malls everywhere - the price you pay for so many options (consumer wise) seems to be paving over some of the most beautiful land on earth - additionally - the juxtaposition of all the luxury stores, boutique hipster shops w army of homeless is just depressing to look at. Not really California’s fault, but SD kind of just made me get down on humanity
I mean, this is just an unnecessarily mean comment.

Not everyone has the luxury of going to high school in an English speaking country. Not everyone is strong in English but still need to write properly.

Thanks though.
Speaking for myself (I don't necessarily agree with everything that has been said in opposition to this article), I think you are missing my point about memory.

The author is saying our brains do not function like our digital computers, something I think we do all agree on. It is not so clear how the author thinks our brains do work, but he apparently wants us to stop using computer metaphors when discussing their function.

He would have this prohibition extend to the notion that our brains store and retrieve information, which is absurd; one might as well argue that a computer is not a Turing-equivalent device because RAM is not a tape. The author says that scientists will never find copies of words or grammatical rules in the brain, and if, by copies, he means coded in something like UTF-8, then that is, of course, true, but beside the point: if his brain did not have some mechanism that supports the storage and retrieval of this information in some manner, how was he able to write the article in the first place? He claims you won't find copies of Beethoven's 5th. symphony in a brain, but I suspect that at least Beethoven himself, and many conductors of the piece, have had just that - and the soloists who play his piano concertos are not reading from a score, so where does that come from?

I think the author may have ended up making these absurd claims because he is trying to use the trivial brain-does-not-function-like-a-computer argument to prove something that is just an unargued-for intuition: he doesn't seem to think RAM (or perhaps any form of physical information store) could possibly be the foundation for something that works like human memory. He is apparently unaware of the extent that software such as neural networks (or even relational databases) have already extended the concept of information storage and retrieval beyond the simple model of randomly-addressable bytes (which does not, of course, make the point that human memory is like a computer's; what it does show is that the author's low-level comparisons are insufficient to make the larger point he is trying to squeeze out of them.)
The unconscionable marketing of e-cigarettes to minors should alert us to parallels with marijuana. The same concerns apply to marijuana legalization if we are not careful.
> it's not at all clear to me how traditional manufacturers like Toyota will survive the transition.

Toyota will do it by being the world's largest car company. Toyota and Volkswagen each delivered over 10 million cars in 2018 alone:

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/01/11/vw-group-2018-total-sale...

Tesla meanwhile has sold somewhere in the order of 532,000 cars total since 2008:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Sales
We've heard this since 2009! Nothing has changed expect that Tesla's lead is even greater. Other auto-manufacturer are all talk – except VW, these days (surprisingly).

If you think one company is finally getting serious about actually making EV "en masse", look for their plans to build battery gigafactories: if there's none, then they will not have the production capacity to make the EV they're talking about (but they'll certainly green-wash consumers with big time ads)... unless we start to hear about gargantuan plans from LG, Samsung and the like. But we're still waiting.
It's a little annoying that it is so impossible to argue that maybe we should consider an issue more deeply without being pegged to an extreme opposite of the consensus.
Neither is young, urba, stuck up progressives with good guy badges and pseudo morals
I do the same thing. We only have two brands of dealerships, and being a small town they refuse to discount, have low seelctions, etc

So I go to a larger dealership 45-60 minutes away, get a better deal, have mor e brands and cars to chose from...
The death will be quick - why worry so much?
You're better off that way. The mental stress of actively not wanting to die is unimaginably high.
I probably fit under the 'newbie just wanting to trim some footage' category. I had to put a presentation together using Kdenlive. Nothing special or fancy, just put together a bunch of 'day-out' clips into something nice.

Not once did I have to resort to Google or documentation for help -- it was all fairly intuitive. I want to reiterate that I wasn't doing anything fancy, just trimming bits and pieces off clips here and there.
The physical cells themselves aren't that far ahead of the game (although they are definitely a little bit ahead on the cells), but the whole battery module is leagues ahead of anyone else.

The performance and degradation of the battery packs is absolutely unparalleled at this time and it remains to be seen when any other company will catch up to them.
Yes because FAA understands well the maintenance and training standards of US airlines. These are factors that depend on airline, not airframe, and affect the likelihood of crashes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nokia#Loss_of_smart...
Ofcourse it needs specific promotion channels created based on what the product is about. Firstly a lnading page is to be created explaining why should an user even would invest time to taste the product. Once a landing page is created it has to be shared across forums and communities the prospective users are expected to frequently visit.
> Prohibition doesn't in general work

Wow, good point, I guess we should legalize rape then!

(Or do the weasel-words "with any substance" mean that you will only make ad-hoc exceptions when your personal vice of choice is impacted? Should rape addicts get a free pass then, because feelings and stuff?)
It feels like you didn't interview any real-world users here. I think the end product might have turned out quite a bit differently had you done the leg work required for such an undertaking.
So these are all hand-summarized? Are there any guidelines or standards for summarization (what kind of information would be most useful, what wouldn't normally be included, how are articles found?), and if so, would you consider putting them on an "about us" page?

Also, who are the summarizers? Hand picked? Volunteers?

I'm not assuming any kind of ill-will or mal-intent, but how do I know that the bullet points will be any more useful that the title in terms of bias, other than goodwill?

I really really like the idea, and even the execution, so these are definitely just kind of nit-picks.
Who currently occupies the West Bank and Gaza Strip?

But I think it's a good thing. People working together is one of the best ways to get a better understanding of people you would normally never meet. I've met a ton of different people through tech and it's one of the best parts about it. Meritocracy.
Those are some pretty optimistic view points. The worst world views start with the universe being generated on birth and disappearing after death and quickly get worse and worse after that...
I understand the cost appeal of such a voting system but it's pretty low security for an election. I wouldn't even worry about foreign actors as much as I would worry about domestic actors controlling the digital ballot box by fucking with the online voting system.
I doubt it was a mistake. Missing ballots, found ballots, all part of the games the operatives play. We don't live in a democratic society, with live in an illusion where we believe any comfortable lies we prefer to believe. That is America in the 21st century.

I can't imagine how Trump won Wisconsin and Michigan except that maybe Voter ID laws made it harder to commit the necessary fraud. Even still, the recounts were only stopped when massive fraud was detected and had to be quietly swept under the rug lest the entire populace find out what a sham our elections truly are.

Also, the whole Russia thing is a lie. It's easy to see that it's a lie--no actual evidence has ever been presented, just innuendo repeated over and over again. That's how propaganda works, you repeat it over and over until people stop questioning where the "facts" came from. The US badly needs to break the backs of the propagandists. We need real journalism again, not this 24/7 Pravda bullshit.
+1 for the channel. Very high signal to noise ratio channels among: Brady channel collection (numberphile, cphile etc..)
Nicotine certainly isn't anywhere near as harmful as other compounds in tobacco, but it is known to promote cell proliferation and angiogenesis, both of which contribute to the growth and spread of malignant cells.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Cancer
I would probably try this if the price point is reasonable.

Years ago I had a machine aluminum frame that held a wireless mac desktop keyboard and associated mouse together as a single unit and allowed typing and touchpading on the desktop just like a laptop. I found this to be much better than a touchpad to either side of the keyboard and especially much better than a touchpad to the right of a 104-key sized keyboard. Would love to have that again.
You're confusing battery packs with battery cells.
Ask HN: Would you fly on a Boeing 737-MAX 8 today?
I have a few flights coming up and checked that none of them, according to [1] are on a 737-MAX 8. I'm not sure what I'd do, if that was the case. What's your take? Are the MAX 9 and 10 safer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_737_operators
I‘ve used it a few years ago to edit a video* and it was great. It uses the same UI paradigm as most non-linear video editing software, a timeline with tracks on which you can place, drag and trim clips. I used Final Cut Pro 7 before and had no problems to get up to speed. It was also stable. The only reason I don‘t use it at the moment is because I‘m on OS X for now.

* https://vimeo.com/107907361
I actually implemented something on an embedded linux product once: a busybox initramfs that you could boot into "recovery mode," then along with dropbear, SSH into a completely in-memory system and re-flash the entire system image without having to pop out an SD card or connect a cable for DFU.

The recovery mode could even be initiated remotely, so you could re-flash a device without ever touching it. Of course you have to be careful, if the re-flash failed you could be SOL :) Apparently I need to go back and improve it so we can re-flash without rebooting!

These days you can use things like containers (Balena also looks very cool) to achieve a similar goal in possibly a "safer" way. But the idea of being able to re-flash the entire system while running it felt sort of like changing the engine of a car while driving it down the freeway!
> .. NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 ..

Well.. "almost every important company in the 3D area filed lawsuits against NVIDIA" :)

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia,87.html
It's unusual for airlines to announce that they are grounding planes, but countries do it once in a while.

It would be a very suspect thing.
Um. "I don't keep a calendar" means "I consider my time more important than yours, so we'll meet at my sole convenience." I would love to do that, but everyone else in the world would rightly understand it that way and would treat it as a refusal to do core elements of my job.

A: "Let's schedule a committee meeting."

B: "I don't keep a calendar."

A: "So what you're saying is everyone else on the committee has to find time just for you? Fuck you, do your job."

Arnold Schwarzenegger could get away with that crap because he's a fabulously wealthy A-list movie star. The rest of us, not so much.
That's what I was thinking as well. I think I prefer to have those features and workflows one universal shortcut away in a launcher like Alfred: https://www.alfredapp.com/
Hey, that's my website! I'm tickled pink to see it linked in a comment here.

That device ran for literally ages, mostly to produce massive input files for DIEHARDER to attempt to prove its worth as a RNG.
I am sure it did that more often than it was used to seed the Linux /dev/random.

The project was also fun because of the "every last cycle" optimization of AVR assembler code to achieve the 2Mb/s generation rate of whitened bits.
If you want to see how well privatized water infrastructure works, go to south america: bad water quality and ridiculously high prices. Please enlighten me in what way privatization helps in that area.
A lot of the war of Christmas is actually fake news made up by very socially conservative bad actors or newspapers trying to sell papers - the Daily Mail is one UK example

Ironically some of the Ultra hard-line puritan sects that colonised America where violently against Christmas
Then why Tesla are far more efficient than all other EVs on the market in 2019: e-Tron, Jaguar I-PACE, Mercedes EQC, all-electric XC40...?
It's the only non-commercial, non-toy video editor for Linux.

I'm actually not aware of another one that uses proxy files on Linux, and with even cell phones shooting at 4K any video editor that doesn't is unusable in most cases.

DaVinci Resolve is also extremely good (probably even better than Kdenlive), but it's a commercial software although they do have a free unlimited version.
Germany and neighbors still do some deposit bottles and jars, and at least in Germany, are better at the re-intake than they were 15 years ago.

Unfortunately, we've also lied to ourselves about our Gelbesacks (packaging recycling bags) to the extent that there are a lot more things in single-use containers and a lot of fruit and veggies are in pre-weighed, plastic-wrapped packages.
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> A C person doesn't want layers.

Really? So why are C persons then using formatted output libraries (printf, part of the standard library), libraries for regular expressions (PCRE), GUI toolkits (Gtk+, sitting ontop of Glib)?

I absolutely second that in the C/C++ world, we see shallow layers of abstraction, but nevertheless they are there. In my experience, the seperation happens frequently because people seperate basics from their code, such as in the given Glib/Gtk+ example.
Definitely, it crossed my mind, I just have not had enough time to write an minimal bug example unfortunately :/

In this case I think the problem is `setState` is inside my `useEffect` and I'm using its dependencies array as a sort of substitute to `componentWillUpdate` + compare `props` to `prevProps` (hence the async state update).

In class-based react I would just atomically `setState` both states and there would be no problem, but since hooks allow you to modularize behavior a new type of data dependency appears (there are multiple states in a single component) making it harder to reason.

Thanks for chiming in, will file an issue ASAP.
> Wearing the dressings of smart people, we do nothing, while telling others to do nothing, because the something they would do would be a "blip."

Talk is cheap. If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself. The only way to effect change is to work towards it yourself and gently encourage others to do so. Be prepared to make sacrifices and/or compromises (this is what stops most people, humans are selfish and lazy).

Don't like plastic waste? Make an effort to reduce it. Take reusable cloth bags with you when shopping. A big trend among young people today is takeout food. It seems that fewer and fewer people cook for themselves. This is a massive source of plastic waste. Don't buy new gizmos just because they are new or for status. Use things until they break. Then fix them until they cant be fixed.

Just imagine if everyone stopped talking a good game and started taking small steps to making the world a better place.
Vaping itself is not the issue, it is better than combusting the product and inhaling the result into your lungs, it's the next step to quitting for addicts. The numerous e-liquid products and vaping devices where quality may vary is where the focus of public attention needs to be on. The additives and potency of e-liquids needs to be advertised clearly and regulated so we can properly see the effects.