skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"brand value", "online reputation", bah! Those are meaningless words for a customer who cares about the actual quality of something.

New owners not having the same standards and ethics is more common than not. (Can go both ways of course but nevertheless, the ratings should not pass over, it makes zero sense.)
> the problem is that there isn't much incentive for Amazon to let go of all of that metadata

I think there's some ideas going around that might work here.

Make companies responsible for securing that data, and make it _expensive_ if/when they get breached. Make storage of personal data "toxic", so companies will _only_ keep it for the minimum amount of time required for whatever use it was gathered (where only companies like FB & Google, and to a lesser extent Amazon would admit to themselves that it was collected for the express purpose of creating a historical record of individually identified PII).

Here (in .au) we have "mandatory breach disclosure laws", which while having fewer teeth that I'd personally prefer, and a reasonably useful "first start", they're quite useful in the context of discussions around "So why are we asking for cusomer's date of birth? Is that something you'd want to explain in a mandatory breach report if our database gets hacked?" and "So what's our retention policy on this data we're collecting? Forever? Really? What's our plan around reporting data breaches, and do you want to ever have to explain why we've got 5 years worth of records breached when we only needed to store that data for 90 days after which most of the details were never needed again?"

I'm _hoping_ sometime soon the GDPR is going to quite publicly go through it's due process, giving some company every chance to become compliant, be continually ignored, and then eventually hit them with an eye-wateringly big existentially threatening fine that the offending company has absolutely no grounds to claim it didn't know about, didn't have several appropriately escalated warnings, and were just blatantly abusing their users personal data without any regard for personal privacy or European Law - and have zero public support for their complaints about the fine.

(Personally and perhaps somewhat pettily, I hope this happens to Uber or Facebook, but pragmatically I'd settle for anything matching that description, to "pour encourager les autres" and for use in meetings and documents when clients or cow orkers suggest doing shady things with other people's personal data...)
You know, maybe it’s not a bad thing if everyone takes a break from growing and changing. There’s plenty of ways where we would benefit from stability and refinement right now.
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To give people a bit of perspective, the Macintosh IIfx was released in 1990 for US$8,969 which in inflation-adjusted dollars is ~$17,500 today. The PowerMacintosh 8100 released in 1994 for ~$4,250 which in today's prices is ~$7,300. The original 128kb Macintosh would be ~$6,100 in today's dollars. Those are all the bottom-end models. By contrast, a Chevy S-10 pickup truck was about $7,000 in 1990 (if my googling was accurate).
Deploying apps across a fleet is far more complex than most of its practitioners need.
Have you taken a look at the display? It's very good. Calling it a "6K monitor" is doing it an injustice.
Welcome to the age of distraction. Where projects that should take a week take about 3 months bc of this crap.

I hate IM for work. Email or other ways for people to think first.
I did some work on a MIPS platform relatively recently (2014), for a payment processing application. I don't know if the last 5 years has finally killed it, but there still seemed to be enough of it about back then that it wasn't massively exotic.

With the appropriate RAM (which we didn't have) it was even capable of running linux. It had various features that were useful to us in keeping our code compact (we had 256K of flash memory to play with, and 128k of RAM). Mixed-mode 16 and 32 bit instructions was one of the neater ones I remember.

MIPS new owner as of last year appear to have announced an Open and Royalty-free model, which is pretty cool.
> statistically has strong correlation to better performance

Not this class.
> the Lisp hacker is more likely to ask the irrelevant question: how can I reduce these two functions down to one function?

Except... mathematicians are very frequently going to be doing the same thing: asking if there is some generalization that covers two seemingly independent cases. Otherwise, the author should/would probably be talking about Stirling's approximation instead of the log gamma function in that piece.

More knowledge of mathematics relevant to a given domain an application is written for might often be a good thing -- I think that's an overarching point worth examining.

But if you're going really to look to mathematics as a guiding light, it's not going to be super useful in criticizing the drive for abstraction.
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That's why I would tell myself to umm... lean in. I believed my love should be constantly high and less of a fight. I never believed relationships can survive lows. I thought study and programming should be effortless, so I was hard on myself when I was not smooth like an olympic gymnast. I could have excercised harder through some aches, hangovers, insomnia etc.
Nice. Any clue if other games are also available like Monkey Islands, Maniac Mansion, etc?
https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/00224545.2019.1609401
5 year Oxford Ûni study concludes not supporting the meat & dairy industry is the single best thing an individual can do

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
Heh. The "buy with 8GB and add 16GB third-party" is what I actually did, although I have a Late 2015 iMac bought in early 2016. A bit over three years in and it's still feeling quite fast to me.
>Where are the hardware implementations of abstract machines that aren't the JVM?

Why would anyone like to have such a CPU? CPUs should be generic, being able to run any language and any runtime, being easy target for compilation, giving the way for various optimizations (pipelines, branch prediction).

RISC is the best here. Abstract high level machines are slow, clumsy, useless in real world applications.
It's not necessary to have played Maniac Mansion beforehand? I'll admit this has been my main hesitation. I remember when Monkey Island III was big in the late 90s, I was hesitant because I hadn't played the two games that came before it.

I ended up doing it anyway at the time, but later I would play all three, and the third one really benefits - in my view anyway - from having played the first two ones, even though they can all stand on their own. So I wonder whether Day of the Tentacle is similar?
Also one of my favorite games. Such interesting characters and puzzles.

Another gem from this era is Grim Fandango, which also has a recently remastered version.
It is sad that open source has been hijacked by the likes of Amazon. However, open hardware is an exciting option with desktop fabrication, electronics and low energy wireless creating new opportunities for small entrepreneurs
The cooling.
I played DotT without ever having played MM and really enjoyed it.
The article addresses this

>To be fair, this story hasn’t ended yet. [... T]hey still need to resolve the problematic MacBook Pro with its next generation (rumors are promising)
> It's a fast moving field.

Obviously it is moving fast at the bleeding edge. But the basics of backprop have not changed for a while, and somehow I would think that a toolchain that I would expect to be a serious tool for practical purposes and not just a display of the bleeding edge would at least be backwards compatible with previous versions.

(I hope I am not writing this in too harsh way. I actually liked your videos so much that I am seriously considering applying for your on site course if I one day just get all the other issues sorted out in my life so that I can relocate to SF for a couple of months)
> But if I really had to choose between the mental tedium of labeling data (which I end up doing quite a bit of myself) vs. backbreaking outdoor work, or something like repetitive food service prep... I’d pick the latter every single time.

In developing countries, status is an important element which people in developed nations may not think about. For example, how many derogative terms can you rattle off for people who labor in the heat of the sun all day? In the U.S. we have "redneck." There are worse terms for people of other races and nationalities in the region. In the U.S. these terms are a bad joke, in the Philippines, this is life. In the Philippines, skin whitening products are a big seller because dark skin is associated with the poor and laborers (the "Mestizo" has light skin which traces back to relatively well off Spanish heritage.)

You might choose outdoor work, but you have to understand the culture to understand why their choices might be different than yours.
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Some of us were asking for this machine.

As a developer who builds large, complex projects (it's not uncommon for a build to take 40 minutes on a 16-core Xeon workstation), the Mac Pro is exactly the type of workstation I'd be interested in.

(The display is another story. That's definitely targeting the media production vertical.)
I’d reckon this is part of the long term plan for the T2 chip, they just need a few years before they can stop supporting the “normal” computers.
They don’t benefit until after they sell the property. They pay capital gains on that windfall. The people who buy the high value property also pay taxes.

No property owner benefits from land value increasing until after they have sold said property.
I'm aware of that one, but there are folks who'd prefer to buy an Apple-branded monitor as long as there wasn't anything dreadful about it, for both aesthetic reasons and because there's usually a couple nice touches that aren't on the third-party one. I said $1500 instead of $1300 because I assume any Apple product will cost at least 20% higher than it should. :)

More to the point, it's unclear if Apple is still actually selling that LG display, though:

https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/09/apple-no-longer-selling-...

That headline is phrased as if it's definitive, but of course Apple hasn't said anything. But it's over a month later than that article was published, and the display is still listed as "Delivery: Sold Out" for online ordering, and it appears to be catch-as-catch-can at physical Apple stores: the ones that don't have it just list it as "unavailable for pickup."
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How is that? You create an object with some metadata and that's it. Don't know how that can be done any easier. I honestly get the feeling only people who have never used K8s deem it complex.

Running a cluster yourself is another topic, although there are way more complex orchestrators on the market than K8s.
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For some reason I can easily understand people on video chat even if they have strong accent whereas I can't grok anything on a phone call. I have had my hearing tested, it's not it.

Also I feel that on video chat it is way easier to interject (if the camera is set up properly) than on a audio call with multiple people.
Lying for Money makes the case that the optimal amount of fraud in any real world system is non-zero. Fraud prevention has direct and indirect costs. At some point the costs of fraud prevention will exceed the cost of fraud itself.
Since Keto is mostly fat that is pretty easy for vegetarians to source, no added sugar X nut butter and avocados sort out your fats.

For protein which in proper Keto should be kept at very moderate levels you can use any source of vegetarian protein you like, if you are willing to eat eggs it’s even better since you have a carb free source of protein.
I'm not saying it happens a lot. Or that it ever happened in a sustainable way for CPU's. I'm saying it's a valid business strategy that can happen and does happen for many many products. The CPU was just an analogy I thought would be working for this particular site. It may be that the best actually occurring example is tooth brushes or bicycles, I don't know.
Stackkup – Don't let tabs slow the browser down
Hi, I'm Jonathan. The idea to create Stackkup stems from information overload.

These days, we receive too much info and it is costing us time to sift and extract the useful bits. Moreover, due to a fear-of-missing-out (FOMO) we would end up with dozens of tabs open.

To put an end to this, we need to automate the process of collecting links and create value by supporting collaborative features and sharing.
From last years my personal favorite will remain ingesting sql into hadoop data lakes and query big data as sql
What makes Coding Bootcamps so appealing? Are there any drawbacks?
How would that be different from waiting for them to finish their 4th consecutive audio call?
I don't think the gimmicky travel to Alaska, take a gap year, or having "a way to talk about one’s higher purpose in the world" is important at all. What is important is having cheap tuition and solid courses.
As much as people bash on college, it's still important. I don't have a college degree and it's been impossible for me to find a 'real job', though some of that may be due to my age. This is despite having a decent amount of programming and freelance experience. Overall college is important if you want to go down the traditional job path smoothly, I think these people are focusing on the wrong thing.
Not the OP, but was in an essentially identical situation. I married my high school sweetheart. I met her when I was a HS junior. We had a long-distance relationship for four years, lived together for another three, then married, so we didn't rush into it. I was head over heels in love with her. We had a lot in common, and a lot of good times.

It broke down because we just grew apart. I decided I was tired of being a geek so I stopped doing geeky things and started acting more like a normal person. She didn't. The breakup was amicable. We had both met other people whom we both married after the breakup and are both still married to (at least AFAIK -- I'm not in contact with her any more). Despite the fact that we probably had the easiest divorce in history, it was still one of the most stressful experiences of my life. I don't recommend it.

My second wife and I just celebrated our 23rd anniversary. She is completely different from me, not at all the sort of person I would ever have imagined myself being with. And yet, somehow it has worked out this time.

FWIW.
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I don't know, #cryptowinter makes me feel warm inside, and for Uber I only wish it happened sooner :). What also warms my spirit is that it seems GDPR had a side-effect in that many other places are now considering implementing similar data protection regulation. So it's not all bad news.

That said, I sort of agree with the sentiment. Where's the technological innovation on the web these days? Where are the tools and technologies that allow me to work better than 10 years ago, and not just worse but with JavaScript, or worse but with high-resolution and shiny (yet bloaty and unergonomic) UI? What's there currently beyond WebAssembly (i.e. "all the old stuff, but in web browser", which has a few benefits)?
http://archive.is/C6DN5
https://grrm.livejournal.com/465247.html

>Chapters still to write, of course... but also rewriting. I always do a lot of rewriting, sometimes just polishing, sometimes pretty major restructures.

You can compare various games, but even with low quality graphics, Half Life has a visceral presentation that simply beats the others.
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Top voting machine maker reverses security position, promises paper ballots
What is Service Mesh and why we need it?
I don't work in Hollywood, but I work heavily in production engineering for television productions that work on A LOT of 8K RAW video and multicam where time is critical, we have days to edit where hollywood has months and multicam is pretty damn taxing vs how a lot of movies operate.

Our budgets are a fraction of a hollywood production though.

The base model Mac Pro isn't going to be doing much at all. The higher end model with a lot of upgrades is going to be the sweet spot. You really need to push up to a 12-16 core, with 64-128gb RAM, 11+gb GPUs and then add the afterburner card (cause Apple won't play nice with Nvidia) if you want to be doing anything with 8K RAW on a high resolution display.

Yes, the Mac Pro is essentially an infinitely upgradable machine. That's awesome. But third party support is questionable and without Nvidia that leaves a lot of speculation as to what the afterburner card will truly be able to do.

I'd kill for that motherboard in a smaller CPU buildout. In a high budget post-facility environment, it may be an ideal candidate. Currently there isn't a Mac in our reach that doesn't overheat or choke on big media projects (we refuse to look at the iMac Pro seriously).

We've been holding off buying new gear for several years. Most of the editors I work with would prefer to stay on macOS, but the base model should have been $3500 8-Core with a lot more GPU horses. Apple delivered a $6000 box without anything to back it up. At a minimum we'd have to upgrade to a bigger GPU and add the afterburner cards and a little RAM, probably pushing us close to $10k mark.

AMD Ryzen 3000 and Threadripper builds are going to be increasingly more common for normal budget media work. The Intel i9 is our current sweet spot for budget to power ratio.

If I was in an unlimited budget post-facility, yeah, I'd get one cause it looks pretty damn cool and I love macOS. But I don't expect it to solve a lot of real world problems if upgrades are bottlenecked to proprietary offerings from Apple. We're going to have to wait and see if they can keep up with the rest of the industry.
And yet, they haven’t...
There are only a few places in the Bay Area as dense as the European and Japanese cities that have mass transit.

I've been to a number of cities in Europe and Japan with the population density of the Bay Area. They don't have subways. They have a couple of train stations that link them to major cities. Most people who live in these places drive cars, ride bicycles, or take the bus.

The kind of public transit you want is only sustainable in very dense cities. Outside of downtown San Francisco and Oakland, the Bay Area is a suburb. The amount of money it would take to subsidize a reasonable subway system would bankrupt the state.
I wonder how much of that is phone line quality, or visual clues like lip reading.
Well, I just remember I didn't see another person besides me with an MP3 player on public transportation for quite some time in the NYC area.
Have you tried Zulip? I feel like it fixes most of the critiques you have towards IM as it's designed to be primarily used asynchronously.
"Buy Microsoft at the IPO." :-)

Seriously: be nicer to people. Everyone around you just as insecure and unsure of themselves as your are. You don't need to show you're better or cleverer than everyone else. Just smile, be friendly, and chill. And offer to help out with the grunt work more often.
I have been saying for a while that Hong Kong is doomed. It is only a matter of time before the SAR is swallowed up and renamed "Shenzhen East."

The Beijing communists truly hate that Hong Kong people have human rights and rule of law. They assert repeatedly how democracy isn't for Chinese people.

Democracy works fine for Hong Kong and Taiwan, so QED. Mainland China doesn't need the dystopia it has, and Hong Kong people refuse to accept it.
I used to hate Philosophy and think it's something people who can't do anything do. My vision changed lately and I think Philosophy and theoretical thinking is important.

However, abstract theoretical thinking without an adjacent skill (like software development), is probably useless in the market today. This is probably why the OP didn't find financial success.

Suggesting a philosophy career is then a bad idea. Suggesting a CS + Philosophy career might be a decent one though.
What about traffic? The more prosperous Bay Area becomes, more traffic woes, more homelessness, more demand for affordable homes and otoh, no infrastructure improvements, no new public transport system, no new schools, congestion everywhere and higher cost of living.

Everything declines with high density. Medium density is better than low density. Networked public transport systems is better with medium density. More housing stock is good to reduce sprawl but the answer isn’t always high density housing and not subsidized housing. Example: senior affordable housing is good..shared housing is good..affordable micro homes is good for single working people. But affordable housing that crams a lot of working adults and children that go to public schools is not really good. Etc.
Do you have an online source backing this up? Because people report Apple does't care, at least in some cases:

> Apple support have refused to provide any assistance, simply stating that the MacBookAir is out of warranty. They just said this behaviour (rapid expansion of a battery) "can be expected" in some cases.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3681221
DOTT is a totally free-standing game -- and amazing.

They address this in the linked article (also from personal experience) -- you really don't need any context from Maniac Mansion to thoroughly enjoy DOTT and they are really totally different games in style and substance.
This kind of stuff is atrociously common in our evolutionary history. Every single one of us has innumerable rapists and rape victims among our ancestors.
Me too. I have a 2017 13in and a 2018 15in. My wife has a 2018 13in as well. We’ve had some minor issues that AppleCare resolved but other than that I love how crazy fast the SSD are and how cool and quiet they generally will run.
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<The company said that a Boeing-convened safety review board affirmed in December that the absence of the AOA disagree alert from flight displays would not have presented a safety issue.

The FAA confirmed the discussion and that it deemed the issue "low risk" at the time.>

So the FAA is culpable as well as Boeing
Sorry, but anti-science bias, anti-intellectualism, and post-factualism is just as abhorrent from the left as from the right.
It's a pity they ditched Kinnect, that killed it for me.
> No property owner benefits from land value increasing until after they have sold said property.

People take loans against their assets all the time and having valuable houses makes that a lot easier. Such loans can be used as leverage to buy more property.
> Now, I agree in theory that bank accounts for example may be regarded as “identities”, and it follows that banks could be regarded as “identity providers” (IdPs). But these conceptual models have proved sterile. How many banks in fact see themselves as “identity providers”?

In Poland if you want anything from your government online you need to prove who you are. Easiest way to do that is to get redirected from government website to your bank website and login there then be bounced back to gov website.

Not sure how the system came to be but I'm very glad it's in place.
"Senior company leadership was not involved in the review and first became aware of this issue in the aftermath of the Lion Air accident."

i.e. the buck stops somewhere else!