skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really weird to me how I was listening to the Joe Rogan podcast interview of Ben Shapiro and he made that same comment and I found myself agreeing with.. Ben Shapiro. But if the social media magnates are going to try and become publishers and not platforms, which they are by curating what is printed on their sites as much as any editor of any newspaper, then I don't think they realize what they have coming.

Or possibly worse, we don't realize that it's exactly what the government wants.
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“Lying without malice” is called “tact.”
I know, it's the burden of text.
NVidia still equals NoVideo in my book, for a time it seemed like every other driver release would brick your card, and Linux support is abysmal. Wayland still isn't supported, despite AMD, Intel and even no-name HDMI Phy manufacturers fully supporting it.
I thought the whole justification for the U.S.' ridiculous health care costs was that it provided a "better quality of care"? The last couple of times I've encountered hospital food (in Australia, a knee reconstruction which cost $500 and having a baby which cost $2k or so) it was a very well balanced meal.
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Knock 5% off my insurance premium for every trip to the gym and you better believe I'm going to the gym every day...
It was only a couple years ago when Boeing was slashing their engineering workforce in Seattle, in a good economy no less, to boost dividends.
Tesla's report does not include the damage it does to the world by selling carbon credits it earns to polluters, cheaply—thereby enabling them to pollute more and defer cleaning up their own acts. I wonder if Tesla's sum contribution is net negative when viewed from this perspective.
What a coincidence that intel released this after Apple issued the press release about Qualcomm. Seems like Intel had some weight lifted up off their shoulders.
I don't think wellness program alone won't be able to make people change their lifestyle. To me, thing that made big difference was access and motivation; particularly for me, easy access to on-site gym (especially with a group class)

I transitioned from hating-to-workout to doing 5 days a week in gym, engaging in activities ranging from Yoga to HIIT.

I don't know how typical I am, though...
Do you run Unix on the HP Envy?
HN has a good (partial) solution to the "twitter problem".

Don't show "likes" to anyone but the person who made the comment.
To be fair (or clear, or whatever), I don't think Unity even supports Blender 2.8 yet. It's a bother because the 2.8 UI is a significant improvement over 2.79.

Maybe it's possible to author files in 2.8 as long as 2.79 is on your PATH to be used by the game engine for importing? I don't know, haven't tried that yet.
Also note that LTE and cable modems both came to Intel as a result of acquisition (LTE from Infineon and cable+DSL from Infineon via their Lantiq spinoff).

Both times they have tried to put an x86 core around the modem part with varying success.
Not really. Once he had VCs attention he could do what he wanted as he wasn't exactly starting from zero.
that's not opting out of the feature, that's trying to train the feature to be better.
That doesn’t really matter. In these cases you often have information akin to ‘we want a webshop’, so you estimate something more or less reasonable, then a few weeks later you find out they actually meant ‘we want a duplicate of Amazon’.
I thought this too. What about dreamweaver?
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Unfortunately when talking about physics, sloppy human languages and our tendency to anthropomorphize when describing very non-human-like things cause a lot of communication/learning problems. Concepts like "experiencing an environment" and "time" don't make sense for the photon, which is sort of equivalent to "moving at c" because experiencing something like "time" requires interactions (events) at different places in spacetime.

Saying "neutrino has a very small mass" is roughly equivalent to saying "neutrinos very rarely experience an oscillation event (changing into a different flavor)". The distance between the rare events is the "time" it experiences. These are so far apart in spacetime for the neutrino it's experience of time (the way it evolves over spacetime) is extremely slow. More massive particles are "more massive" because they frequently interact with the Higgs field. More interaction events means their experience of time happens faster.

The photon (and anything else with 0 mass) only experiences two events: it's creation and destruction. It moves at c because it's never being slowed down by experiencing interactions.

For a very good explanation of this (with helpful animations) this[1] short playlist (6 ep) of PBS Spacetime episodes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNCLrXgf8e6n...

edit: TL;DR - When speed-of-light particles pause to interact with things (thus moving < c)slowing it down), we say that particle "has mass". Mass is a measure of how frequently those interactions occur (aka how much "time" it experiences).
Apparently one of the major challenges in replacing the roof in the old style is that the typical oak used to construct it would have been ~300-400 years old and they just don't have a lot of those around anymore.
Another echo chamber pivoting to be another echo chamber.
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On Ethernet, Intel is known for their little frills, stable line of NICs. That said, they have not been a leader since the jump to 10Gbps. Their 10Gbps line eventually came along and is solid, but it was a few years behind everyone else. That same story seems to be repeating itself at every new ethernet standard over the past decade.

Come to think of it, the last decade has been really bad for Intel. They no longer have a node advantage. They no longer have a performance advantage in any market space that I can think of outside of frequency hungry low-thread applications (games).

Their WiFi chips are good, but second tier.
Their Modem chips are third tier.
Their node is mostly on par with the competition, for now.
Their CPUs are trading blows with AMD.
Their ethernet chips are a generation behind.
Optane is is a bright spot, but we'll see how they squander that.

The next big diversification play by Intel is GPUs, I have no idea how that will pan out.
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That is fair. I was living in Turkey when I went to Ukraine so spending 3 months learning a third language at the time was all I could commit.

I understand others wanting to practice with a native English speaker, and them getting the chance was probably more beneficial than me speaking Russian. Though the stereotype of Americans not attempting to learn a 2nd language gives me a slight annoyance, though nothing I lose much sleep over :)

The only language I could not grasp when traveling was Nepalese. Though all Asian languages based on tones has given me trouble.
Wow, I didn’t expect that to be so literal.
Abuse and misinformation are certainly the big issues but even more bigger and rather meta-issue is the strong hub-and-spoke model that Twitter promotes. Here's an example: You could tweet some of the most informative and useful tweets relevant to, say, robotics enthusiasts for day after day and years after year, and you might still end up with absymal engagement in terms of likes, retweets and followers. Meanwhile, folks who happened to become celebrity by pure random exposure can tweet how they sneezed that morning and they might end up with dozens of likes on their sneeze tweet. The bottom line is that Twitter's ranking algorithms are strongly dependent on existing social engagement creating virtuous cycle of virality of irrelevant content as well as chicken-and-egg problem for not popular people. The end result is that Twitter is mostly a medium for information broadcast, as opposed to information exchange. This has fundamentally limited the participation as well as usefulness of Twitter and is the one thing they should strive to change.
I will definitely be refreshing my iPhone in 2020 to get back on a Qualcomm modem. In my area the difference was very apparent when I replaced a damaged same generation phone and the radio changed to Intel.
Love the syntax highlighting theme in the screenshot. Anybody know what it is called?
Big companies dont fail due to external forces, they fail because of internal dynamics. Everything apart from x86 is a hobby at Intel. Also think they are addicted to high margins and expect that a substantial portion of cost of a device goes to Intel components.
Doesn't the backstop apply only to Northern Ireland, though? It's even why the DUP rejects the agreement — because different rules would apply to NY.

The EU is actually not that interested in keeping the backstop indefinitely because it sees the risk that NY will be used by UK companies as a backdoor to the single market.
Sure. I’m not asking for magical intervention here :)

It’s a thought experiment to see how our lawmaking might change under such a regime. California’s constitution can be amended by ballot propositions, and it's not too crazy to think that such a prop might pass.

I can see a scenario where a city, state, or other political division sees volatility on the horizon, and enacts just a change as a kind of defense against future laws being ossified
To clarify, this isn't my service. I'm an early adopter, but it's created by Manton Reece. (Long ago he created a web service called "Tweet Marker" that a lot of third-party Twitter clients used to sync reading positions.)

So I have no idea if it's going to go out of business in two years, although I guess I wouldn't really know that even if it was mine. :) Those are always the big questions -- is the service viable, and are you going to use it enough to make it worth it? (And those two questions are connected, since enough people have to say "yes" to the second question to make a "yes" to the first question possible.)

I still use Twitter, and I use Mastodon, too, although I'm less sanguine about Mastodon than most of its proponents seem to be.
> the reason he was punished may very well because his opponents wanted him down, instead of some independent judge

Sérgio Moro, one of the judges who pushed his case forwards to jail him before the elections is now the Justice Minister under Bolsonaro. It's not even hidden.
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They're all shocking.

And OK, I take it back. Nothing is "too shocking" to be all that unlikely.

But still, wouldn't you think that a terrorist attack on Notre Dame would involve something more like a hijacked gasoline tanker than a fire that perhaps started in the attic?
If you run EIN (Emacs Ipython Notebook module) in emacs with vim keybindings (via spacemacs or evil mode, or some other distribution/mode) you can get some pretty great results. Would definitely look into it if you're either already using emacs or willing to try it out.
Two very influential editors come to mind, both developed by a single person AFAIK: TextMate and Sublime Text.

It may be hard to sustain it in the long run, but they both changed the landscape at the time.
Did Dreamweaver support all stages of web development, including uploading to your server? I think that's what Panic is talking about here, how Coda was your one-stop shop for everything, including deploying your site.
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Something something history something something repeat it.
Apple was Intel's only LTE modem client, Apple did everything they could for years to give Intel the secrets that made Qualcomm's modems so performant, yet Intel was still a half decade behind in modem sensitivity, leaving a huge gap betwewn Intel and Qualcomm/Samsung.
And he is also Lord British, ruler of Britannia.
Personally, I think a lot of the current Zeitgeist is rooted in what Alvin Toffler called Future Shock[1]. Given that he wrote his book in the late 60's / early 70's, and considering how much technological change in particular has accelerated since then, I do believe that most of us are walking about in a "future shock" state.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock
It's fair to compare Tesla's new cars with others' new cars. That's the benchmark. If someone didn't buy a Tesla, they would have bought another type of new car (though probably a new hybrid or plug in hybrid, which have even higher average MPG). Tesla is disingenuous here.
I've heard some people justify it that way, but I keep seeing report after report about the US ratio of dollars to positive outcomes being very bad and getting worse.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

https://interactives.commonwealthfund.org/2017/july/mirror-m...

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/u-s-pays-more...

etc
It's crazy. I read the post because I love Panic, but It made me nauseous!
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What about pictorial languages like Mandarin and Japanese?
`Sound' does not mean `complete'. Don't forget that no false positive or negative isn't all, the solver might just give up.
When I last used it (early 2000s) it had built-in FTP support
Programmers are usually very vocal leftists. I've always assumed that those who don't speak openly about politics don't care or are right wingers, but who knows.
I've had similar experiences with Airbus when we conducted technical feasibility on one of their maintenance mobility products. Couldn't get any technical documentation for the life of us, and once the product was presented, the design assumptions were so clearly flawed it was laughable. Authentication was implemented using iPad name. Yes, that name anyone can edit to be anything. No password. The assumption was just that everyone on the corporate network could be trusted.
But why have that mechanism when HTTP already has a caching mechanism? Is it really "skip that HTTP request"?
I'd be mildly interested to see a list of these failed democracies. My other question is, did they fail because Twitter allowed unfettered tweeting of all kinds of unsavory thoughts and ideas? Or are they places where most people don't know what Twitter is?

Edit: It also begs the question of whether democracy is the best form of government for every country, but I leave that aside, since I'm not sure we've reached agreement on whether Twitter is really that important or influential in the lives of governments and societies.
Dreamweaver definitely had upload-on-save (not sure if that functionality predated Coda, but it was there the last time I used it in 2008 or so)
Haha, it's a little skewed.

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I think it is: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/16/18411332/intel-exiting-5g...
Consider the example of Julius Streicher:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Streicher
HE can start by suspending Trump's account who's spent the last 2-4 years continually violating their ToS.
How did they fret away options with Meltdown?
Until these whistleblowers expose EU beauracrats.

Everybody claims to love whistleblowers and truth until they are the target of the expose.

Take Assange and Manning. He was loved and praised by the left when he exposed war crimes primarily of the bush era ( iraq, afghanistan ). The right hated him as a foreign spy and hacker. A few years later, Assange exposed the left and now the left hates him for being a foreign spy and hacker and the right ( at least some of them ) loves him.

These "high-level" protections is meaningless if the whistleblowers target the truly powerful. Then all kinds of accusations and charges will be used to take down the whisteblower.
My goal would primarily be to avoid having to make sure there's an active python installation with all the right dependencies set up on a client's computer. That's been a huge problem for me in the past during deployment (esp. older windows OS's).

A nice side benefit I foresee would be easier coordination of state between a JS front end and a Python process running specialized computations. The current best approach I'm aware of now involves sending data back and forth as JSON and trying to mirror what's going in Python with JS state management. The system described in this article where JS and Python can reference the same objects (and somewhat the same typing?) sounds like it could be an improvement.
"swear"

you have failed the Leisure Suit Larry Age Verification.

also, Toshiba is not a car.
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This is actually kinda what the person you’re replying to is talking about. You have a piece of software that replaces some knowledge workers’ task. At first it seems like you are saving money, but the specifics of the task require an adaptable workforce over the course of years, and the RPA requires an adaptable collection of workers to learn from. Now, instead of just having a job that processes those inputs and outputs, you have the same thing but made more baroque by being connected to RPA, plus software developers to maintain the RPA software itself.

Short term, it seems to eliminate workers. Shortly after those workers are eliminated, truth on the ground has changed, and now there’s an ADDITIONAL cost to updating the software, which is harder and more expensive to do without the workers that have been eliminated.
I don't see how the status quo of adjunct professors can meaningfully change so long as a lot of other status quos stay intacts. We're shoving objectively stupid people through higher ed courses which are not designed to teach kids skills that could finance the cost of said education. There is a NEED for schools to shovel out low-cost low-quality brick and mortar education to meet the demand for degrees that can allow you to have an actual careers. Universites have long stopped being primarily about education or teaching you practical skills and they're now primarily about certification. Thus adjunct professors.

So long as the brick and mortar university remains a sacred cow I cannot see the needle moving more than slightly. The current education system is so batshit yet so entrenched into society it will take decades to resolve the issues. You can't just moralize about how adjunct professors DESERVE more and expect the situation to resolve itself when universities deliver less value every year. Its literally not possible to take the status quo, replace the adjunct professors with full paid ones and have the system be fiscally viable. University provides too little value for the students or greater society to tolerate such costs.

Adjunct professors are a symptom of a greater sickness.
> That's not to say psi investigators deserve personal attack for their efforts, it's a harmless belief.

I'd say they might be offended, because as scientists they have accumulated a public body of work. Why can't it speak for itself, like all scientific work?

> But i think it's also NOT ok to dismiss unsupported ideas without engaging with them.

I inserted the NOT, because I think you forgot to.

> if there is a real phenomenon there, somebody will use it to do something

People do commonly use it, it is a part of everyone's daily life, the normally invisible undiscussed part of the why and the how. But that's not the point.

Scientists, and by extension society itself, favor hard science, first and foremost because it allows them to function culturally. So now we have a culture, and cultures tend, to establish themselves, to harass those that are not a part of them. They attract those that do the harassment, and puts them in power.

Power means the cultural bullies win in a court of law, regardless of evidence, and that the court will tell the other side to shut the f*ck up.

The undesirable traits in the above are cultural side-effects. We live a culture which trumps science, as it wages a war. In a war we all lose, yet the one-eyed, those that trump the culture, somehow account a win. They feel they win by exempting themselves.

The point is, ESP is under attack, not because it is guilty of being unscientific, but because of the existence of cultural power, and because the exploit of this power provides sociopaths with a habitat, to power abuse, cultural abuse.

We are immersed in this culture, by nature it is intolerant: violent in and of itself.
It’s standard practice for big corp to auto-erase emails after N months for this reason (well officially they dress it as cost saving measure).
I feel like they answered their own question, entertainment does count.
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> Twitter is a prime example of A/B testing gone wrong.

A better way to express this is that if what you're trying to OPTIMIZE is wrong you're going to make an optimally poor product.

They're starting with really poor initial assumptions that things like more pageviews is always a good thing
Optane will be squandered by limited CPU support and slim software support :c

Optane is a neat idea, but the severe change in software architecture combined with only select CPUs even supporting it will limit uptake outside FAANGs or organizations with really specialized needs.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bufferbloat
Or Frontpage.
Thank you for posting this - I took this quiz a few years ago in a team exercise and all of my answers were off. Since then I wanted to find a copy of this test, but didn't know where to look.

I think out of 15 people nobody got more than 1 or 2 right, except for my manager, who somehow got about 8 right. I'm curious how the HN crowd does on this - care to post your scores?
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I think grub might fit on that, but you would probably have to swap floppies 4 times to load the kernel.
That only sounds bad because of how used we are to a steady paycheck.

Working a paid 40 hour week, 48 weeks a year, for 60$ an hour for even 10 years in a row is extremely unusual for a carpenter. Owning your own company can result in more stability at the cost of non billable hours. Working for someone else means being at the whims of the economy and or weather etc. Injuries or heath issues present longer term issues.

PS: Granted you need some flexibility as highly specialized work is always less stable over the long term.
And on the fab area, they are being beaten by TSMC. It looks like they are falling behind across fronts.
ITT, people who think

- economic free lunches exist

- any capital after their capital came to an area is illegitimate

- markets don't price in risk or volatility

- policy doesn't affect the agent on the margin, decreases costs to his marginal 'neighbors': before a 3% vacancy tax, low consumer surplus buyers could barely afford a house, after the vacancy tax there are some low-consumer-surplus buyers who can no longer afford housing, the two groups who can absorb that depressed purchasing are high-consumer-surplus buyers (read premium buyers) and buyers who had negative consumer surplus who are now low surplus buyers. The majority of that supply gets absorbed by high-consumer-surplus buyers. This is the result of pretty much every economic interventionist policy in so called progressive cities. It's the reason why those cities gentrify: only high-consumer-surplus buyers can survive the policy changes.

Play a game: a casino offers you entry but only returns 97% of your original capital. The only people who can profitably play games in the casino are the most intense and wealthy speculators (in the non pejorative).
There is a good chance the top talent at both jumped ship either before the acquisition, or immediately after, leaving the dregs and predictable results.
Well, it is a document from 2010.

Machines are faster now,
we have seen the hassle with Python 2 to 3 adoption (or non-adoption) and how hard it is to change a language,
generally the model to use a slow but comfortable language for model specification and execute it via C lib is more accepted now,
and last but not least: The Tidyverse really has momentum now.

Sure, Julia and Python are coming after R, but the ecosystem itself is far from done..