skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are nicely discounting the model that actually exists between the Mac mini and Mac Pro.
Full Throttle!!
MBA's gone wild.
Pro & screen is a great machine. I think that because people are talking about it it is already a success. They will sell a lot, because Ferrari sell a lot, Red cameras sell a lot.
They won't sell one to me, because even though I am a successful indie dev I am clearly not the market they seek. The machines they make for me are - Mac mini, iMac Pro and hopefully the upcoming Macbook Pro, because my barely alive, coating missing from the screen, doesn't hold any charge late 2013 Macbook Pro is still far better than the current brand new one.
It's common nowadays. The new edition of IEC 61508 that's being worked on is supposed to incorporate agile workflows.
Not enough information to say that's the reason for the assumption, though.
I don't even know why I said that. I think I was hungover. Apologies.
I thought you needed to wash the carriage? That was a bit obscure for me as a kid.
That huge market of hollywood film editors as opposed to programmers.
The end 70s and then the 80s brought personal computing to the masses. I wouldn’t call that quiet.
The mainstream college culture needs to die, no question. It's my opinion, however, that "hippie wilderness getaway for upper middle class kids to find themselves" is just profiteering from disenchantment.

>They will take on 15 to 20 hours a week of manual labor in Sitka
>all at an affordable price
>found the program in order to give young people a taste of the education he received at an older countercultural experiment, Deep Springs College
>Deep Springs — a tuition-free, highly selective two-year liberal arts college
>Our goal is to make our credits transferable to four-year institutions upon accreditation

So in order to further the spirit of a tuition-free liberal arts college, is charging "students" an as-yet unrevealed fee, working them for four hours a day covering almost every single non-management job at the Sheldon Jackson Campus, with absolutely no set curriculum or accreditation or transferable credits.

This is by the far the most transparent scam I've ever seen make it to HN.
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The issue with censorship is that it becomes a slippery slope to the bottom.

Additionally, whether by mistake or design, what constitutes that which is to be censored is subjective to the viewer.

Blanket, government or platform enforced censorship is not the answer. Instead, it lays the foundations for a dystopian future where government and platform controls the narrative.
Smoking has second hand smoke, but I think sugar is internal to your body rather than all everywhere like smoking is. So, it is not same kind of thing and should not be treat like same kind of thing, due to that.
People choose to live based on where they can afford to live. Traffic is a secondary concern, and plenty of people commute from 60 miles away because that's the closest they can afford to rent/buy a place to live, despite the horrible commute that comes with it.
You know why Sun engineers are all that? They made all these technologies they invented wildly popular in professional, elite IT circles. There are still many people who have no clue who Bryan Cantrill or Jeff Bonwick or Matt Ahrens or Nicholas Droux are because they're not in that elite or enthusiast circle of IT professionals dealing with those technologies, but for us who understand what they do and their importance to the overall computer industry, yes, we appreciate them for inventing them. Those people came forward, blogged and documented their work over the span of ten years, did you? I didn't read anything from you until yesterday, and it's not for the lack of trying, let me assure you. They made videos, presented at conferences, a lot. So yes they're popular, as they should be and they get credited, as they should.

It's like watching an Amiga demo: one has to understand how hard it was to code the effect to appreciate it -- a normal person off of the street just sees some graphics and hears some music. Sun engineers not only did great things well, but they popularized them too because they wrote intimate diaries in the open about their work over the span of ten years. They raised an entire generation of IT professionals and taught them what it takes and what it means to be an engineer.

I wish I knew who the engineer(s) behind SGI inst(1M) is(were), but unfortunately I don't because they never put names and faces on their products.
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> they dropped the ball by not having two displays, though

As you said, they’re going for a specific market with this product. They can always release a general-market display down the road. Focusing on a specific set of power users first is how Apple built its renowned culture, and it’s nice to see it returning to those roots.
There are a few things to note. First, graph algorithms are basically the same thing as sparse matrix algorithms, in that the sort of optimization techniques you use for one class carries over nicely to the other class. The second thing is that graph and sparse matrix algorithms are unavoidably heavy on indirect memory accesses. BFS in particular has the property that there's essentially no computation that you can use to hide the memory latency. Which means that GPUs in particular do a bad job on BFS, and that gives you ample room to post 10× speedups over state-of-the-art GPUs.
But,

> only 10% of people with hypercholesterolemia received lipid-lowering therapy

Wouldn't this be much higher in the UK cohort? Also,

> The sex- and age- specific levels of TC in the current study of Koreans were lower than those reported in other high-income countries, including Japan, England, and the US

Which would reduce the effect (relative to what was found in the analysis of UK data) even further.

I don't think it adds a whole lot to talk about the confounding variables of this nature - it's an observational study, so of course it will have all sorts of confounding variables. If you are going to make a strong case that controlling for a specific confounding variable would reverse the relationship though, you should quantify the impact. It's unclear to me that statin usage would make a large difference, given that the study notes it wasn't a popular treatment.

My general feeling is that these types of studies tend to end up measuring overall health - given that most of the factors that lead to high cholesterol level were controlled for (BMI, physical activity, smoking status, drinking, etc) - and the average person in any population is relatively healthy and well-adjusted to the common diet, any large deviation from the norm in any direction statically makes it likely that the subject has some health issues.

What would be interesting to see in a meta-study is whether the optimal level of cholesterol either was consistent across populations that had very different averages or it tends to be near the median in each population. The former would be evidence that it's an independently meaningful biomarker; the latter would be evidence that it's just measuring how normal you are.
What an incredible story. These two men are such heroes for the way they have sought to make peace and take ownership for such a sad event in their pasts.
Oh you mean the era in which the personal computer was invented?
I video-mute for the same reason. My face adds nothing to the conversation, except to make me feel self-conscious. So I video-mute so I can give the conversation my focus, rather than my appearance. I don't want to take meetings in a panopticon.
The troublemaker who grew up to commit one of Australia's worst mass murders
I don't think trade school is a four letter word anymore. I hear much more respect these days, often from those with much student debt.
I think there's a lot of room for a faceted identity model in which the user is in control of what attributes get shared.

Think about shopping at Amazon where they get a payment authorization from your bank and a shipment authorization from your shipper and never know your name, your bank account number or even your home address. It's technically very doable...the problem is that there isn't much incentive for Amazon to let go of all of that metadata.
> Surely the guy not paying is the unprofessional one?

Surely, both people in the relationship can behave unprofessionally.

> How is cutting your losses and walking away (but outsourcing the code you wrote) unprofessional?

That's not why people are suggesting the developer is unprofessional. It's because he's complaining about a client publicly.
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Who was your customer? Seems like that would be the hardest problem to solve.
There is a significant section of the population that relies on broadcast media to get information about their community. The fact that you do not does not mean that locally-owned, locally-focused broadcasters are a waste.

I never said they were a waste, I just pointed out that they (like newspapers) are much less relevant to most people than they used to be, which is why they are dying and getting bought up.

The low-income people that can't afford a cell phone or home internet, are not the kind of listeners than can support an advertising supported radio station.

One solution could be for the government to subsidize local broadcast stations, though I think a better solution would be to subsidize internet access (or even smart phones) because those without internet connectivity miss out on a lot more than the highschool football scores, and no subsidized radio station will improve that.
Oh yes washing the carriage did trigger the storm you are right. But to get a lightning you needed the whole rig
Xbox One S is still spinning rust.
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Speaking of vi and the touchbar, it took me an inappropriate amount of time to figure out why my terminal was sometimes changing colors while occasionally using vi..
The design decision that almost ruined the Moon landing
Same reason for notches and glass backs and removing headphone jacks and curved screens: fashion. Smartphone sales are all about being trendy no matter how stupid the trend is.
My company is a windows shop and around 2013 we wee looking at Macs to replace Windows. Back then Macs were quite competitively priced compared to Windows machines. But that seems over now.
These things are not mutually exclusive. The study [1] showed that the data indicated that IQs between brothers reduced far less rapidly than the IQ for the population as a whole: "Between the 1975 and 1991 cohorts, the average annual decline estimated using within-family variation is attenuated by almost two-thirds relative to the across-family trend: −0.08 IQ point per year versus −0.23 point per year (SI Appendix, Table S3, columns 1 and 3)."

They then extensively massaged the data to make this difference disappear, which is what yields the headline. They did provide perfectly valid justifications for such, including the fact that IQ testing data was missing disproportionately often from brothers where the brother who had data available was of a low IQ. They thus proposed that the high heritability of IQ would then suggest that the missing data is probably disproportionately weighted against IQ, so that's what they did.

Nonetheless this massaging of the data opens the door to methodological problems. It enables researchers to choose the factors that they consider most relevant and to determine effective weighting for such. You will tend to find in this scenario that individuals who have the preconceived notion of 'x' end up choosing factors that show 'x'. And vice versa for those who assume 'y.' This isn't necessarily even malfeasance, but simply the fact that trying to control for a practically infinite number of possible confounding issues is as much an art as a science, and preconceived notions are going to end up being reflected in what one chooses.

For instance my bias is self evident and if I were going to pursue this sort of balancing I would certainly be sure to try to control for factors such as increasing paternal age, fertility assistance, and other things which can have negative effects on IQ. Some studies have even connected higher IQ parents to various disorders including autism which may mitigate against the missing IQ data bias. Controlling for these things is important. The reason that these researchers neglected them is not out of malfeasance, but because you can come up with a practically infinite number of things you need to control for. And so peoples biases end up reflecting the issues they find important.

The ultimate point is that I think the most impartial idea is to look at the data alone, so much as possible. This study made some fairly extreme changes to the data. Of course if my biases were different, I'd probably be singing a different tune. Isn't social "science" fun?

[1] - https://www.pnas.org/content/115/26/6674
You'd think so, but this is where we hit problems: zoning, real estate transaction cost, 2-income households, property tax rates that reset if you move...

Fixing those problems would fix the traffic problems.
Yes. The fiction that sugar is somehow equivalent to hard drugs has continuously been pedaled without any basis in reality. Opioids have measurable and easily observable psychoactive effects and cause physical dependence. They limit one's ability to function as a normal human if consumed on a regular basis and an overdose of opioids can result in instant death. Even if you claim that eating sugar is "as addictive as cocaine" as the catch phrase goes, sugar lacks the power to cause you to nod off for hours, wake up with withdrawal symptoms like diarrhea/vomiting/flu-like symptoms, and kill you on the spot from an accidental overdose. Sugar also isn't regularly consumed in ways that destroy your arteries or nasal cavity. And when is the last time you've seen somebody crash a car because they were inebriated from eating too much sugar? The comparison between the two is complete non-sense and I believe that you can see just as clear as me why that is the case.
You need decentralized apps for centralized identity to work I think. Ironic I guess.

But if you can have decentralized apps where the app writer is decoupled from the app hosts (miners on Ethereum or similar), then there is a market for basically a identity+locker service sold directly to consumers.

You need a cadre of great already written decentralized apps for that market to make sense, and we are possibly still 10 years away from that day.

PhD students smarter than either of us are scratching their heads literally right now to even describe that first wave of apps. Five years til they defend their dissertations. Then the race is on.
I am in sympathy with the author's goals but the major problem with publishing everything on arXiv like forums is that: (i) it becomes impossible to sort out the good stuff from the nonsense produced by cranks, and (ii) it unfairly advantages "high profile" groups.

Today, if I have a grad student interested in security who wants some ideas for things to work on, I could ask them to go look up papers in Oakland, CCS and NDSS over the last couple of years and see if anything catches their fancy. This works because there's a reasonable number of papers that I could reasonably expect a PhD student to look through. Asking them to look up all the stuff that ends up on arXiv or the IACR's ePrints is not reasonable. There's just too much stuff there and most of it is not worth looking at that.

So, you might say the endorsements will take care of this. CCS et al. could just endorse some limited subset of the IACR ePrints. But this leads to problem (ii) above. Right now, we have a bunch of high-profile researchers (who are mostly at places like MIT and Stanford) who just put up stuff on arXiv without any peer review and they start picking-up citations right away because of their "elite" status. Some of this is deserved, because these people have done good work. But some of this is also just a publication cartel where everybody cites their friends' work and make it impossible for others to break into a field.

The larger point is that in a scenario where there are so many papers that nobody could possibly look at all of them will lead to a few groups accumulating all the citations and all the awards. This will especially be unfair to researchers in the developing world -- people at places like Bilikent, Tsinghua, and the IITs -- where researchers don't have the PR muscle power to highlight unpublished stuff.
> You know no one is forcing you to buy the Apple display right?

What a sales pitch.
>top 25% electricians... median salary of $71k.

Hold on. I’m not even sure what percentile this is referring to. It sounds like it has to be at least an 80th percentile salary among all electricians. If that’s the case, then 80% aren’t making $71k, so this sounds a lot worse than you make it out to be.
That hasn’t worked since the 2013 iMacs.
I have never seen a highly populous city be affordable. It becomes a pressure cooker of market forces with the initial subsidized affordable housing ending up costing more and resources being redistributed to the point of infrastructure failing leading to more taxes leading to more unaffordability. It’s a vicious cycle.

Affordable houses pay less taxes than market rate. High density still absorb more infrastructure.

Where one house used stand, if there are 10 apartments..it’s that many x 2 cars on the street. It’s almost that many more children in public schools. It’s that many more households consuming water, power and need for general services. But schools don’t multiply..fire stations and police stations don’t increase to cater to the increase in population. Roads are not built to take care of the traffic nor is public transport improved.

More housing = more taxes. That’s why the govt encourages. Affordable housing actually fatten up the funds for the care and feeding of big Gov more because what they don’t offer in high per household tax, they make up in volume.

Net net, govt gets more $$ and the public gets less services. These 20 and 5@ year old multi billion projects never translate because they never see the light of day as they get obsolete quickly. That’s why the Bay Area looks so run down and unaffordable housing and traffic woes only keep increasing and never finds solutions.
we are switching to a six-day working week, in china...
Have you tried mapping Caps Lock to Esc?
have you done backbreaking outdoor work?
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Combining Tobii eye-tracker with some software (machine learning) based correction system might be interesting project to try.

You could collect training data by setting up webcam through teleprompter, regular webcam and Tobii on a machine. Just record normal usage and then learn a model using eye-tracker data and regular webcam data as input and data captured through teleprompter as target.

With Tobii the system would also know who you are looking at on the screen. With custom conferencing software, you could deliver the software modified eye-contact stream only to that person.

https://gaming.tobii.com/product/tobii-eye-tracker-4c/
No, I think that Maryland pretty much proves that public transit doesn't work. You better tell London and Hong Kong and Tokyo and Paris and Beijing and New Delhi to shut down their systems.
Unfortunately for those of us living in the Anthropocene, it's hot.
Great for you, but I'm sitting around waiting for you to finish chatting with somebody else. I'd rather just call you and get your 100% attention, or if its not important, email you, and let you respond in your own time.
i suspect eye contact is like most things in our complicated world, which is to say it exists among multitudes of culture, accessibility and familiarity: if you grew up sighted and in a culture in which eye contact was meaningful, you will likely think eye contact is a meaningful part of communication, even if the person you are speaking with has a completely different take.

that's just how things work. the same way folks without smell don't have any particular need for it, while for others smell creates intense emotional connection. just because something is not important to you doesn't mean it is not important to others, and vice versa.

is the article taking a fairly narrow view of communication? sure. it's video conferencing - the whole point is that people are looking at each other... but not quite. it's an uncanny valley! (a metaphor which probably works in multiple if not all senses)

i wonder how/if parallax eye contact impacts people using sign language?!
I really don’t get articles like this. You can rent a fleet of computers for an hour for a few dollars. Your cellular phone is more powerful than the time-sharing systems of 25 years ago. There is pervasive wireless broadband internet available in much of the world. Single computers can be bought with dozens of cores and a lake of RAM. You can look up nearly any piece of human knowledge in a few seconds. The labor of millions of engineers can be accessed via APIs which you can use to assemble a stunningly capable application with a minimal team.
APR of >20% is criminal. And from Sallie Mae.. my mind boggles. You're in a major in a state school with good grades that provides solid employment options, I'm sure there's an opportunity here for someone browsing this thread to compete in student loans.

Get it paid off as quickly as you can (sure, you know this). Best wishes.
That's not true at all. They're fighting to stop stores from repairing items claiming that they're using original Apple parts when they're actually refurbished.

This is the kind of misrepresentation that I'm talking about and it hurts both the "right to repair" movement and the tech industry.
>The only thing I can think of is that all my laptops (thinkpads & Apple MBP) are now rocking USB-C PSUs.

Personally I think type-C might be the best example of moving the problem behind a layer of obfuscation rather than fixing it. If you look at a random device with a type-C port you have no idea what that port is capable of. Maybe it'll charge your Macbook but it won't charge your Asus. Maybe it'll support USB 3.1 or maybe it'll only be USB 2.0 like OnePlus. Counterintuitively, chances are if it's a phone and it does USB 3.1 then it won't support USB to HDMI or DisplayPort although some do, but if it's only USB 2.0 over type-C it'll probably support HDMI-out with a DisplayLink adapter. Maybe it'll break half the specifications just for the hell of it like the Nintendo Switch.

It's a bloody nightmare.
NYC's median household income is $51k. Half get by on less.
This is already the case. TouchID will disable on a device with a screen that is not re-keyed. Your solution isn't simple at all because it doesn't actually address the problem.
Beautiful bike? It looks like any other e-bike over here. And why would such a subjective thing be put front and center?

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I can't imagine working at a place where my manager feels it is necessary to interrupt a developer 100 times a day. When do you expect them to be able and concentrate for more than a few minutes and actually get something done?
Not really. Some parts are harder to reason about than others, especially interactions between components of a distributed system.