skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a lot of them don’t. Debt is not a strategic play for most householders. Maybe when one is young, but most people seek stability when they have kids and as they get older.

You are generalizing. I know more people who are only single home owners. Perhaps you know wealthier or younger people than I do.

Also: you can’t penalize people for the benefit to get into more debt with more taxes. Then it no longer is a benefit.
You do have the right kind of brain for science. Even healthy brains are desired.

https://braindonorproject.org/

https://www.brainsupportnetwork.org/brain-donation/

https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/research_progress/br...

https://hbtrc.mclean.harvard.edu/donate/

I love how the NIH explains things: "As an organ donor, you agree to give your organs to other people to help keep them alive. As a brain donor, your brain will be used for research purposes only—it will not be given to another person." That's good to know.
We've actually just built what you're using at work: Slack, but async. It's an extension of the message board idea, using Reddit-like threads within a Slack context in place of live chat. The free version is live (it's used as a P2P message boards): https://getaether.net.

I think you guys solved it pretty well, but in the case you want a dedicated tool for your workflow, we're currently piloting the private version, happy to give you access if interesting. (email in profile)
> Heck, even a pure electric Tesla Model X is MASSIVE: its gross vehicle weight is 6,500 lbs, and can go up to 130 mph! Good for climate change, not so good for commuting on crowded roads.

Weight does not take up space. The Model X may be heavy, but it is only about 6 inches longer and 7 inches wider than a Toyota Camry. I'm not going to mention height because it does not matter within a reasonable range. The Camry can carry 5 people and the Model X can carry 7, plus a lot more stuff, for only a small increase in total size. It also uses no gas. How is that not a net positive?
9th gen Intel processors perform significantly better in benchmarks than 4th gen Intels that were available in 2013. Not to mention, benchmarks are half the story - modern Intel mobile processors are significantly more efficient.

As to what Apple could do with the hardware, the 2019 MBP outperforms 2018 MBPs in real world benchmarks due to its better cooling and some under the hood stuff in Mojave that is unclear. There was a good review posted today on Linus Tech Tips.
I'm probably not a good target, but my wishlist for a laptop (that I cannot buy anywhere right now) is:

- Great touchpad (Apple are the only ones ticking that box)

- Good keyboard (Old apple and thinkpads are fine. New apples are terrible, just like the Asus UX430 I got at work).

- Great thermals (I want to be able to use my laptop as a laptop. Most of them nowadays burn during summer in hot areas).

- Good battery life (replaceable without power tools / health risks).

- Good-enough screen (so I can use it outdoors)

- Good connectivity (USB-C is good, but a couple regular USBs wouldn't hurt). Ethernet without dongle, please?

- Repairable / expandable (no soldered shit please, easy to open and clean).

- Affordable (as in <1500€)

- Either MacOS or Linux support (sorry but I quit Windows a long long time ago and I'm not coming back with all the telemetry and forced-update stuff).

I couldn't care less for 20% more/less cpu power, it being 5mm thicker than most laptops today, or it weighting even an extra pound more than usual.
This was incorporated into the chain restaurant "Dicks last resort"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick's_Last_Resort
I’ve been using my 2013 MBP every day since it came out, through my previous startup, an acquisition, and now my new startup. It’s been perfect, except for the fact that it only has 8GB of ram, and cannot be upgraded.
I wouldn’t put much emphasis on the storage. Most places that are doing video editing at this level are using all flash based SAN networking over 10/100GB Ethernet/fibre.

As for the CPU, I agree. However I’m not 100% sure on how much can be offloaded to the GPU these days, 5-ish years ago when I was working with video editors a lot, it wasn’t much that could be offloaded.

Maybe it’s improved a lot.
I use soy protein isolate, virgin coconut oil and virgin olive as my staples. I also eat 3 eggs a day. I'm around 10% calories from fruit but zero starch. You can play around with what works best for you but the first question I wild ask is why do you want to do keto? I do it due to an idiosyncrasy between my diet and my genetics which causes unbearable inflammation if I eat lots of carbs and sugar like a normal western diet. If I didn't have ankylosing spondylitis there is no way I would be doing this.
Singapore Accelerator Offers Training Data to Legal AI Startups
Do you have your production software for Windows/Linux or is it only for MacOS? If you do, then you can very likely get the same specs for much lower cost from Taiwan based ODM builders like AIC, Gigabyte etc. They have these server-class motherboards in datacenter class mechanical/thermal chassis. After that, you can ask them to slap on whatever Intel CPU with how much ever RAM and how much ever PCI-E cards (GPUs, NVMe SSDs, custom ASIC accelerators, 50Gbps NIC etc) you want.
The point of the article is that hype of most of these technologies doesn't nearly compare to the hype of 7 years ago. We've had smart phones, AWS, deep learning, promises of AR, crypto, etc. for at least that long, and nearly all of those feel like they're in stagnation compared to how exciting they were then.

It's not that they're not getting better, but they're in the transition period where they move from new frontier to commonplace technology taken for granted.

For example, it seems crypto might never be successful as a replacement for consumer direct spending due to bandwidth issues. However, as a backend currency for a front-facing financial institution it has untapped potential. The growth in interest from here will be gradual, but will probably elevate.
just upzone where the jobs are and let the capital markets solve the problem. people would rather walk to work anyway.

100% of this money will be wasted on:

a) rebuilding few dozen graded crossing of rail

b) acquiring land at insane values (same land thats inflated by restrictive zoning)

c) backfilling unfunded pension liabilities of 9 different agencies
And there are so many stories about science donations disrespecting the donors intentions.

Reuters did a series on it:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodi...

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-body...
> they'll become faster through specialization

Do you have any evidences of that? Because from my naive understanding, simple processors are easier to optimize: you could have hierarchical memory, pipelines, speculative execution, branch prediction, additional instructions, like vectors and so on.

Doesn't the specialization make such things harder to implement due to higher complexity. Do you have an example of specialized hardware that beats the contemporary highly optimized CPUs like ARM?

>Secondly, if you have an operation you'll be performing a great deal of, such as bounds checking, list manipulation, or abitrary-length arithmetic, it's worthwhile to have it supported in the hardware

Why would you like to have bounds checking or list manipulation in hardware? It's a waste of transistors.

A code like

x := array[1]

should have one bounds check, yet

for x in 0..n:
sum := sum + array[x]

should also have one bounds check, not many. Thus you have to either use an inefficient instruction or implement a hardware iterator bloating your CPU beyond reasonable limits.

And why lists? Why not trees, hashtables, ephemerons?
This is blogspam from over a month ago.

Here's the official release from Boeing that this is just reiterating (from May 5): https://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-releases-statements?item=1...

NYTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/business/boeing-737-max-w...

HN discussion of that article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19835608
I wonder how many people share your opinion of searchable history, given that it’s the number one selling point for many people for slack over other IM systems. Or, at least it’s the one I hear most often.
Here in Germany, thanks to the agreements with the works council, there is no forced overtime without proper agreement and the respective compensation.

Naturally not every company has such agreements in place, but even then, you are free to search for help on work law.

Same applies to several other countries.

Of course, the extent that people seek for help, depends on how much they can afford for support, or the consequences at the current employer if they eventually win. But all in all, most European law tends to be on employees side.
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Carrying capacity is immaterial, if only one person uses it to commute to office (normal traffic pattern).

Maybe, freeway should add tolls, with discount for no. of passengers.
Scheme Web Framework GNU-Artanis-0.3.2 Released
> I don't think having proxied Google search results will solve the reCAPTCHA menace since you presumably won't get the Google cookie(s)? If Google still cookie you when using startpage then that kinda defeats the point surely?

Let me be clear. I'm not taking about SOCKS proxies. In this context I'm saying that both DDG and StartPage are acting as anonymizing proxies for Bing and Google.
> pauses are uncomfortable and most people will start speaking again within a few seconds just to fill it.

Unless they’re Finnish.

The Finns are fully comfortable with silence, I envy that trait.
On the other hand, gyms seem like such a similar model: the equipment is expensive, but not individually out of reach for most people who can afford to pay membership fees. And maintenance costs / wear and tear are quite high for gym equipment that's shared by many people.

Why does that model work so well for fitness equipment and not well at all for maker equipment?
Tricky, I would say it's not worth it to gamble with winner takes it all type of things. You'll never notice that you made it and actually will probably fail.

On the other hand I would not have much respect for young person who would actually follow this advice.
I didn’t find the REPL that great, because it takes forever to jit anything. My laptop is not that old and creating an array with 5 elements takes over a second. If I type a syntax error, it takes tens of seconds to produce an error. This yields a very frustrating experience and doesn’t lend itself to an effective prototyping environment. For now at least I’ll be sticking with matlab.
On the surface. This sounds like how Microsoft teams is designed. (More of a message board with comment threads)

Do you know how Aether aims to be different?
Being the manager of a Target is like being the CEO of a small company...

Like the other comment pointed out, they are doing $60M/year in sales per store and have staff upwards of 50 people per store.
Re Rosling: I have a feeling that we are improving immensely at the base of maslows pyramid but there is plenty of sabotage occurring further up. The march towards authoritarianism in much of the world is one that jumps out.
> Jobs

And when it turns out that you've employed a convict for 2 years? Who also happens to pass your "jurisdiction info" check.
Are there analogs to Simulink or some of MATLAB's toolboxes in Julia? I know of a few shops that use Octave because developer pricing for MATLAB isn't enough when we have an alternative, but there's still a need for a roving license or two because there are a few things lacking in the ecosystem.
Complete MySQL Dashboard with Grafana and Prometheus
>doesn't work crazy hours without getting paid overtime

That's not a problem with software, that's a problem with the crazy idea of "unpaid overtime". I'm from Europe, and honestly the first time I heard about it I thought that it must just mean it's legal in US not to pay extra for overtime.
It is a distinct possibility that I am unable to find work for the x% for organizations that use the microservice model correctly.
Interesting choice of example, given that the African swine fever epidemic, which is also occurring in Europe, is in part being driven by climate change, as it has changed the ranges of the vectors - wild boar and warthogs.
Undocumented immigrants to get health care in Gavin Newsom’s California budget
Climate Change Solutions
I'm curious about all the companies, individuals, organizations working on climate change solutions. It can be based on products, policy, or education. Thank you!
> actually, it appears that Lion didn't spring for the "optional" warning indicator feature in the first place.

AIUI, there was no "optional warning indicator feature" at all. The AOA disagree warning should have been a standard feature. Only the indicator of the current AOA was the optional feature.
Talking about hardware. Though even based on the software products mentioned here, why Israel a startup nation? There are other countries other than USA, that had success with more products and far less hype.

Again, from usability and design perspective, internal market, Israel’s infrastructure is very backward. Universities, banks, governments ... everything was developed by one company, a contractor of Microsoft Israel called Matrix, and it looks as bad as it sounds.
Others have mentioned Flux.jl which aims to be idiomatic/native, but there are also MXNet bindings: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/tree/master/julia
Many people who go to Harvard aren't great at math. After all, there are so many other fields of study outside of STEM.
Curios! I have the same problem. My wife has the theory that I cannot filter all the other distractions well enough. Good to know I'm not alone ;)
There is bias against tech workers who haven’t learned anything in the last 10+ years. I’m less certain that there’s bias against workers over a particular age per-se.
If you want none of the fun, a rooted dual SIM smartphone does all that. I've not had trouble finding prepaid SIMs that would not work via Hotspot.
Writing is re-writing, nobody was arguing against that. It's pretty common to go through twelve or more drafts, with the exception of King, whose wild ass gets it done in two drafts.

It's the scale of GoT that's remarkable, and the reason it's taking so long. It's not just some stupid epic wizard quest - it's 150 character weaving into eachother, and it's well done.

Since Source was released, GRRM actually released like 16 books, three of those were GoT, and he also did a bunch of TV stuff. And now a game, too.

Nobody was arguing that half-life wasn't cool, I was arguing that the source guys can't ship games. They acquired everything post orangebox.
This seems like a trick problem in an exam paper..can someone explain how this math works?

(Also: why can’t we all just have universal health care in Ca and be done with it?)

[..]The budget includes a fine on people who don’t buy health insurance known as an individual mandate. The fines were initially implemented as part of the federal Affordable Care Act law known as Obamacare, but Republicans acted in 2017 to roll them back. Newsom and legislative leaders say re-imposing the penalty at the state level will shore up the state’s health insurance marketplace and keep premiums from rising dramatically.

Revenue from the mandate will fund insurance premium subsidies for middle income people. The budget agreement also includes an additional $450 million over three years to fund insurance subsidies after some lawmakers argued mandate revenue alone wouldn’t make health insurance affordable.

[..]
>> Celixir invents and develops cell and gene therapies for hard to treat life-threatening / life-changing diseases.

Are you interested in developing a TDP-43 gene therapy for ALS, that would work as well for one third of Alzheimer cases?

https://padiracinnovation.org/News/2019/05/a-plea-for-a-gene...
I think it’s a good question! For me personally I feel that urandom is the right thing to do. Perhaps I’m overly cautious but I don’t think it’s prudent to include an external dependency when there is a good local alternative included in most systems. urandom is very solid. If one’s network connection goes down or random.org goes down, one can still generate randomness without problems.
I run bcachefs on all my personal machines and it's been quite a joy. As fast as ext4 with most of the features of btrfs. I can't wait until it's mainlined.
That would be the 87.5th percentile figure.
r/programminglanguages - This is a small community of people who have an interest in programming language design and implementation.

r/ocaml - Subreddit for the OCaml language

r/programming - The general programming sub. I find that this covers a wide range of topics such that I'm not personally interested in most submissions. However, I occasionally see interesting submissions.

r/programmingcirclejerk - A subreddit that makes fun of the hivemind in programming communities.

r/k_on - The subreddit for my favorite anime.
On the iMac pro 32 to 128 costs 2k, there is no 96. Then there is storage, display, gpu and the fact that the referenced machine was purchased months or years in the past vs months in the future.

Assuming the user can do basic numeric comparison I'm assuming that his 10k includes substantial extras beyond ram that would also have to be added to the equivalent Mac.
AIUI, you don't need to "compute" sqrt5 to high precision in order to use that closed form! Just "adjoin" it to Q and compute symbolically over Q(sqrt5).
Internet speeds never seem to get better faster or more reliable

Sure they do. The problem is that tracking/adware consumes bandwidth and resources at the same increasing rate... or worse.
Firefox Premium Coming This Fall
I'm having the exact same experience. It took me about 10 years to figure it out.

I'm still kind of a workaholic, but I could do way less and it'd be fine. It's also super nice to have a safety net of more and more remote jobs now. Even if the whole economy melts down, people somewhere in the world will still need software built and maintained remotely.

Remote work is so much closer to feeling like it's not a job than office work, which is a huge deal for me.

And you can move to a lower cost of living area, avoid state income taxes, and still have a competitive salary to your city-dwelling peers.

I honestly don't know why everyone isn't remote.
People can try giving similar advise to their younger nephews, nieces, etc and see the effect. The effect would be about the same of any advise given to their younger selves. Younger selves are excellent at ignoring advise from older ones.
Actually, I think Microsoft's effort is putting much needed pressure on Apple. My wife about a year ago got a Microsoft Surface 6, the tablet with keyboard + trackpad. It was about the same price as a MacBook and with a bundle, the Microsoft Office suite came included. It works well for my wife's use case and she's able to stay with her preferred interface.

Hardware has been trouble free, Windows 10 with One Drive makes it straight forward to change machines, apps run well as a normal user account, and to my knowledge it hasn't been hit with any malware. The screen being capable of touch interface, can actually be cleaned!

In comparison, my last of the "good" MBPr from 2015 has a partially fouled screen because the slightly greasy keys touched the screen. I am so annoyed when the screen is dark but I'm in a well lit room.
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Mapping where such systems actually work well would produce the best "quality of life" guide for me. It just takes a few bad apples to break these forever and communities in their naivety often don't notice until it's too late.
> Yeah, they said that in 2017 -- four years after it was introduced in 2013 and left to languish.

To add insult to injury, what I dislike about Apple is not reducing prices while component prices have fallen and it’s (generally) cheaper to make devices after volume sales. I’ve said this before, that Apple should be deeply ashamed on its pricing of old and outdated hardware.
I think that many skilled blue collar jobs will be very late to never automated. I think a lot of white collar jobs will be automated, possibly within the career lifespan of today’s 17-year olds choosing a path.
Meh, I think this sentiment is quite boring.

Integrating new technology into society is always painful. It's supposed to be. I'm sure we'll figure out our relationship with smartphones and social media. People made the same arguments about Radio and TV. There was a period where we overdid it, but now the trend seems to be that we're pulling back and reassessing. It's a normal part of society's evolution.

In the long run, I'm always an optimist.
> Did you not eat chocolate?

No. I don’t eat chocolate, don’t drink soda and don’t have sugar in my coffee.

You may find that crazy, but what’s really crazy is having no vices at all.

Trying to ban them all is sure to make us all unhappy.
For dotfiles, a good workflow seem to have a git/hg repo and combine it with GNU stow.

http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to...
The computation over Q(sqrt(5)) is essentially identical to the matrix form.
I love myself some pessimism but tech is not slowing, instead its HN being obsessed with things that don't matter.

- VR was a niche from the start, a lot of people were doubtful, and the people that weren't know that it 's not going to work and are already moving on.

- javascript frontends are great for programmer fights, but thankfully most of the public-facing web doesnt use them, they 're irrelevant to tech's progress

- Uber has nothing critical to offer to technology except an also-ran in self driving cars

- kubernetes is relevant to like 100 people on earth, and doomed to be obsolete in 1 year. not critical to tech progress

- AWS isn't critical to tech progress either, its bubbled because of easy startup money and lazyness. will be a good thing to see it fade away. Meanwhile , check googles TPU offerings for some progress.

- Who needs a 3rd browser engine when every website looks like bootstrap?

Those said, crypto is entering the plateau of productivity. It 's being held back by hostile regulation , governments and banks and AI hasn't even started , its going to be a wild ride. The web is slowly decentralizing which will be huge too
I'm glad you pointed this out, I was ready to write this off as an illusion that just doesn't work for me. Provided your render scale is 100%, it's a very cool trick. Naturally easier to see on a lower DPI screen too.
They're not, because of the inflated amount of money US college now requires.
China Adds Washington Post, Guardian to ‘Great Firewall’ Blacklist
"VR is struggling" - linking to Linus Tech Tips video from January nonetheless. Right...

Meanwhile Oculus Quest came out, and PCVR has or is about to enter the second gen.
One month in Penang as a remote developer
Seems more like double the average
Yup, and advices are rarely intemporal. Some things work better in certain contexts than others.
There are other mediums of digital communication than IM and video chat. Old school forums are one, more modern things like Twist are another. I really liked the latter for corporate talk - good balance between organization of information but more presence than email.
How Google Shifts Votes: A ‘Go Vote’ Reminder Is Not Always What You Think It Is
The "source available" movement was already a thing back in old days, before the rise of GPL.

I bought plenty of commercial software, specially developer tools, that had source available on the installation floppies.

If anything we are turning back to those days, after many are starting to realize how hard it is to keep a business living from donations and occasional consulting gigs.
"javascript frontends are the great for programmer fights, but thankfully most of the web doesnt use them"

Wait what? Have you like, been on the web at all? How the hell are javascript frontends not used everywhere?!