skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since it is apparently multi-factoral it will remove one of the factors. Hopefully the bees will be able to cope better with the remaining factors.
Great experiences are dependent on funding? Going back to IRC, many of us had great experiences on there. USENET was a fountain of great experiences. All text mode. Or do you mean "great experiences" as in the kind of thing depicted in Subaru commercials where they are selling the car as a gateway to beautiful mountaintop sunsets and beach picnics?

Great experiences come from true utility and functionality. Not putting lipstick on a pig and calling it The Next Best Thing That Will Make You Happy And Productive.
> Use my sign info to automatically finish setting up my device after an update or restart.

Oh, great, so not only can choose to not resume where you left off when you intentionally shut down, but that choice will force you to completely lose your place after an unintentional restart due to an update. Genius!
I hope you start making enough money before next YC round that you don't need to sacrifice a percentage of your company to investors - remember vc funding should be a last resort, not a goal.
This is really cool, and I'm heartened that you've formed a business around this. What kind of projection do you use? DO you select the displayed stars from the zillions in that azimuth by their distance to Earth, or brightness on earth?
I would love to read a book from you. That was beautiful, touching, and imminently relatable.
Or it's just inertia. The Mac Pro (and every Mac computer) have always had Intel processors.

It's true that quite a few have had AMD GPUs, and they made the more difficult PowerPC to Intel switch back in 2006 with OS X 10.4. But it would be a significant effort to change a processor partnership more than a decade old. No Apple developers have anything but Intel in their machines; it's not just an item on a BOM.
>>How much more premium than that can you go?

Hmmm; From my limited time in Japan / Tokyo, almost all the cars were Toyota Comforts [1]. I have not entered in a more basic and rudimentary vehicle in 25 years.

I mean, it's _fine_. Whatever. Gets you from point A to point B. You get a feeling it'll likely do so reliably, and if not, virtually everything might be fixable with a hammer.
But I wouldn't have called it premium...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Comfort

P.S. The "Automatic rear doors", at least in the versions I've been in, is basically a string/lever that goes from driver to the rear door. Again, it _works_, but when I hear "Japan" and "Automatic", my mind conjures a rather different picture. However, that was true of much of my personal experience in Japan - pragmatic and reliable automation, over fancy image. And cassette tapes everywhere... :P
It's also quite an expensive joke that consumers pay for. Hundreds of dollars equivalent extra in price for this "feature."
Ask HN: Positioning your startup for an investment / an exit?
I work for a small startup and recently we've been contacted by investment firms. It got me thinking about the best ways to put yourself in a better position should you need investment or want to exit so I'm hoping for great resources on what you guys recommend. We've heard the business needs to be systematized but it's unclear what that means for us and the particular industry makes it truly complex. TIA
> U.S. beekeepers lost nearly 40% of their honeybee colonies last winter — the greatest reported winter hive loss since the partnership started its surveys 13 years ago. The total annual loss was slightly above average.

So, was this really bad news? Or is just slightly bad? 40% is the most of 13 data points, but what's the average? 39%? 20%? It's completely absent from this article.
Wave Function Collapse Algorithm Explained
But if you mostly spend Libras... The dollar will start to seem unstable and useless.

For people who do business and fill tax returns there's a big incentive to use whatever currency you have to fill out the return in to prevent it getting awful complicated.
With More Storms and Rising Seas, Which U.S. Cities Should Be Saved First?
Is the big advantage of these is that they accelerate to these speeds quickly? Classic ICBM's are still faster on re-entry so these speeds aren't new but are slow and obvious on launch; if these things don't take a half-hour accelerating than they could prove revolutionary; however what I'm reading so far these still need to be accelerated by a conventional ICBM or aircraft, which means they are vulnerable to anything that can detect their launch vehicle meandering to launch speeds
"Beleidigt" is quite negative, implying a sense of hurt feelings where none is expected. I don't think this is an adequate general translation for "hurt feelings". Just "verletzt" might work, depending on context.
What you call 'a little drama' is actually just holding people accountable. It's not unusual to have the same expectations of others that you have for yourself.
I think they may have left off the "s" from developers, based on context it seems like there must have been multiple people who liked it enough to build plugins. Sounds more like a "developers vs. management" kind of thing rather than "our one IT guy tried to sell the whole company on IRC".
Open-sourcing PyRobot to accelerate AI robotics research
I'm genuinely curious, for a Nas does ECC RAM provide any benefit? I've always just used old desktop hardware, typically from about 4 generations prior (when I upgrade the desktop, the old hardware goes into the lab PC, and the lab PC goes into the NAS). I know there are power consumption benefits to the specialized NAS boards, but would I see any benefit from ECC? Considering the NAS is a RAID array of spinning rust drives, a flipped bit in RAM really shouldn't affect anything seriously. Or am I grossly mistaken?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#US_co...
Genuinely thank you for that link.
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I hope developers allocate some money of their annual salary and use it to buy tools. We need to create financial incentives for people to build good tools.
> It’s not a global `print` function that’s called but `window.print`, right? `print` is sugar for `this.print` and `this` is the window object if it’s not explicitly bound to something else.

This is a common point of confusion because in a browser the global object is traditionally the same as window (or “self” or “frames”) so there wasn't a difference for many years until ES5 introduced strict mode, which left the default as undefined instead of silently using the global object, and things further fractured with Node (where it's “global”) and Web Workers (where only “self” works). (In browsers this is also complicated by the Window/WindowProxy distinction — see https://blog.whatwg.org/windowproxy-window-and-location and especially https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/globalthis#terminology)

A couple years back, “globalThis” was added to make it easier to write portable code across different environments without having to check various names: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-global

I don't think is not a particularly JavaScript-specific issue because any language which inherits scope can have the problem of a symbol not matching what you expected, which is why the ones which don't have compile-time checking tend to use linters which will report use of things which haven't been explicitly declared (not mention shadowing built-in names). If you want to blame JavaScript, the feature which would have made this more obvious would have been not ignoring extra arguments – print("foo") triggering an error at that point in the source would make it more obvious.
I wish they didn't use the word "horns" because this is probably going to cause some Christians to freak out.
I'm not convinced that "memory vulnerabilities" are more than a small part of correctness. Nothing says that you followed the details of a complex spec properly, for example. Or that memory use is bounded. Or that allocated memory isn't spread over disparate cache lines, with different results each run. Or that the architecture isn't open to DDoS opportunities.

It's "safe" at the lowest level. No information after that.
Ask for consent before touching! The first time gets a warning, the second gets a gentle slap of the hand and a final warning, while the third attempt, well, after that, I will find places to work that aren't around you.
Yeah, instead of `20190530` we were getting `['bert', 'time', 1559, 238096, 0]`. My understanding is a race condition put the code into a situation where it couldn't determine how to format that field, and we just got a default string representation of the underlying value.
The web is such a trashfire

931 requests
113.17 MB / 38.24 MB transferred
Finish: 1.68 min
DOMContentLoaded: 1.48 s
load: 6.54 s

After 50 sec, still loading at more than 1 request per sec... I dont even know what I did to break it. Works fine in incognito mode though
I'm not sure its about energy used as much as feedback and finesse.

I prefer mechanical keyboards for the same reason I would prefer weighted keys on a keyboard: kinesthetic feedback. A weighted key gives you more direct feel of the balance of the key as it moves, which allows you to worry less about the complex muscle movements, and more about the actual music.
Launching a taxi-hailing app in Tokyo: How Sony does it with S.Ride?
This why I try to speak out on this issue when I can.

We can change the social perception by speaking out about it. If we don't speak out about it, its basically giving a pass to a bad social norm.

If marketing still was pushing the issue, but all your friends were like "fuck getting in to deb" and treated debt like the black death far fewer people would find them self's chained to institutional debt.

90% of the things people are buying today did not even exist 100 yeas ago and people got along fine.

So I urge people, when your friends are considering debt, have a serous talk to them about the consequences. And let them know, that new gadget, event, fancy dohikie they will use 3 times before they get board of it is just not needed.
How we sped up random forest processing, getting the lay of the land
>> You are just attaching prestige to some variants of the language over others.

Yes. This is about people wanting to improve their english. They have identified that their english is less than they deem acceptable. If you want to improve, you need something to aim for. So that does indeed mean putting one version over another.
Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers (Clojure Book WIP, GPU, CPU)
This is, unlike most plugs, actually not bad; the tool looks neat. But I am not your audience. I already have a strong grasp of AWS offerings and tools and know exactly what I want; what I don't have is the inclination to do it for development. If I did, I have Pulumi when I need to build cloud infrastructure and I'm allergic to visual tools at pretty much every level that isn't literally making a GUI.

The problem that I have, and it is probably intractable is 1) I don't want to manage developers YOLOing dev stuff around at work and having a gigantic bill show up because a developer randomed something expensive and didn't know/didn't care to monitor it, and 2) I don't want to deal with the expense or the slowness (of deploys and redeploys, and that includes the AWS resources--ever gone "ugh, I need to burn this down and start fresh" on a dev environment in AWS? it takes forever) of using AWS for development on personal projects.
Two years ago, those 50 customers weren't using Slack at all. It will be just as easy for them to leave.
This is not the kind of thing I want to see on HN
There are a lot of reasons for Apple to choose Intel.

Apple has a lot of optimizations for Intel at the moment from the instruction set down to the motherboards and chipsets. A great example is all the work they do in undervolting mobile chips so they perform better (when the latest MBPs shipped with this disabled, everyone really complained). Re-writing all that software definitely has non-trivial R&D costs.

When making a new motherboard design, a ton of stuff simply gets reused and moved around. Switch to a different chipset and you start all over for a lot of stuff. Even if AMD were 10-20% faster overall, their current "fast enough" Intel chips would still win out.

AMD's zen+ 3000 mobile chips don't compete with Intel in single-clock performance, clockspeeds, or total power draw. With the exception of the mac pro, Apple's entire lineup uses mobile processors. In addition, Intel probably gives amazing discounts to Apple. Zen serves them best as a way to squeeze out an even better deal.

A final consideration is ARM. Given the performance characteristics of A12, Apple most certainly has their sights set on using some variant in their laptops in the not-too-distant future. They already run their phone chips in their macbooks as the T2 chip. They are probably working on the timing to allow those chips to run more than the touchbar and IO.
They are also the people that keep crypto going. Without the promise if getting rich Bitcoin would have been a little curiosity and not more.
> Twitter seems like it's a place where people shout into the void about how far to the left or right they are.

There's a lot more to Twitter than that. Just don't follow anyone who posts that junk (even if they're real-life friends/acquaintances) and it's actually a pretty nice place to be. If you post interesting stuff and interact with others, you'll gain some followers and be able to have a real conversation, which you will then want to take elsewhere because of the fucking character limit.
> https://www.defmacro.org/2014/10/03/engman.html

Great article, I can see why you revisit this frequently :)
It suggests a lack of focus, and gives users a reason to not trust their products. Why should I adopt service n when it's probably going to be shut down in 12-18 months, after the launch of service n+1?
They are 8 core dies of a higher bin that would have been clocked the same (or possibly lower) in an equivalent 4 die Epyc part. Given the fact that it is a higher bin, they are rare.

What part of that illustrates they're defective, or that it legitimately costs more than if it was sold separately?
US dialects have a big impact on the second "r". I'm not a linguist, and I'm terrible with the terminology. The proper pronunciation is to sound both /r/ in the same manner. Southern dialects probably won't, but it would be to different degree. Some Southerners would "slur" the second /r/ for something akin to /roo'-rəl/: two syllables, schwa in 2nd syllable, but the second /r/ is barely there. I don't know if there's a way to specify that in a pronunciation key. This is how I'd say it in casual conversation. I imagine that native speakers of languages without /r/ would probably miss the 2nd /r/ with this pronunciation.

Other Southerners with thicker accents would run it together like /roo'-əl/: two syllaables, schwa in the 2nd, no perceivable 2nd /r/.

There may even be a 3rd way: /rulr/ rhymes with earl.
You guys are using Form3 for FPS, is this correct?
Because the poster said they took out a $150,000 loan for a wedding.

If they borrowed it against an asset, fine...but no bank is going to approve a loan for that amount for “a wedding”.

The main point I was getting at was that the scenario isn’t likely to be a pattern among people.
Core infrastructure software like database kernels and protocol stacks should be implemented at least in part to high assurance standards. I've verified parts of database engines and other critical code many times with good effect, finding subtle bugs we never would have discovered in the wild and with (as expected) no defects discovered later.

Most systems programming languages don't make it simple and many people don't do it but it is definitely valuable and worth doing when the economics make sense.
The return to PCIe convinced me Apple gets some response to feedback.

I have a mbp 13" 2018 and as most. The touchbar is the most unused feature (vs sdcard slot they've ditched for example).

However since the conversation here is about this app. It's the best dock on touchbar I've seen so far and it's open source. So it might not be that hard allowing some drag and drop.

With that said, I've installed pock this morning but with auto-hidden dock it feels that I don't waste so much screen real estate for the dock.

The main problem of the touchbar and any screen with touch is the fact you must engage your sight to it. Physical "static" devices avoids that (keyboard...) So the touchbar at least for me, breaks productivity vs engaging to it.
One of the harder things with English pronunciation I found was to be able to correctly vocalise "warm" and "worm", "crap" and "crepe" and similar. Think a resource like this would have helped.
As a person who was a manager in the situation you describe, I disagree. My obligations are as follows: (1) to my co-workers/reports as fellow human beings; (2) to my work as a professional; (3) to the company that pays me for my professional services.

When a company has bad leadership, it makes everybody miserable and often ends in failure—you are screwed twice, first by being exploited/overworked and second by it all being for naught. I will tell my reports when upper management is garbage. I will even encourage them to consider their options. Why? Because they aren’t children. They are adults with lives and families. And I’d be a hypocrite otherwise, because I’d also be considering my options.

Edit: I actually now feel pretty strongly that “I have to hide the truth about the company from my reports” is unjustifiable, self-serving nonsense bordering on the unethical.
It's the same old bureaucrats who just changed in the "agile" clothes.
Because "agile" is whatever form the bureaucrats want to call "agile".
If you read the literature about carbon taxes, virtually everybody recommends a scheme where the carbon tax is paid out again, so there is no effective price increase for the consumer if they have an average carbon consumption, but everybody still has an incentive to switch to less carbon intensive alternatives.
Again, I'm not sure why you're citing these sources, which appear to directly contradict your apparent argument.

First link: "Reconstructions using numerous observational sources show a 65% decline in annual mean sea ice thickness in the central Arctic since the 1970s."

Second link shows a single year's datapoint being higher than the trend line.

Given this, I'm not inclined to just accept your assertion that the Cryosat-2 data continues to climb. I did some Googling to find the more recent data from ESA and http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/csopr/seaice.html?show_cell_thk_ts... indicates it hasn't.

edit: Sorry, the above chart is sea ice thickness. Your chart shows sea ice volume. ESA makes volume available, too. Same issue - the ongoing data doesn't show the 2014/2015 spike continuing. 2016-present appears to return to the recent average.

http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/csopr/seaice.html?show_cell_thk_ts...
The obvious 'disruption' is to simply not invite 200-300 people. Maybe it's just me, but I'm pretty certain I can't even name 200 people that I've met.
Source on that <800 dollar figure? Is it all just leaks?
I’m self employed so my manager is me. He’s not a very good one.
Uses open source libraries

https://github.com/uncomplicate/neanderthal

https://github.com/uncomplicate/clojurecuda

https://github.com/uncomplicate/clojurecl
> You cannot decide what other people's legal duty or responsibility is if they hadn't entered a voluntarily agreement with you.

You appear to be one of those who worship at the altar of inviolable individual self-determination.

That concept is antithetical to a functioning society.

I understand its allure—it seems to be a logical and empowering thing. But it's fatally flawed, because humans are not individual creatures, evolved to live out solitary lives creating our own path. We are social creatures. Thus, any philosophy that puts the will of the individual above all else will inevitably fail.

In my experience in practice, people espousing such a philosophy generally either are or believe they will be in a position to impose their will on others, and want a philosophical basis for claiming that as moral and just.

Note, please, that I'm not saying that individual self-determination must always bow to the will of the majority. That's also deeply problematic. Instead, I'm saying that no absolutist philosophy will provide you with the tools you need to create a world that's worth living in for everyone.
I don't think binning chips is anything new.

If it performs well and lasts, I don't care if it's nothing but goats blood and binder twine holding it together.
I think a lot of it came down to their "invite-only" launch. I remember a lot of my friends were excited to try it. Some of us were able to get invites, some weren't. Eventually the people who couldn't get on right away just said "screw it" and went back to Facebook. The rest of us followed because that's where we could interact with everyone and not just the people who happened to get on Google+.

By the time it opened up to everyone, nobody cared anymore. I can't believe somebody thought it would be a good idea to restrict access to a product that depends on network effects to succeed.
Commercial closed-source software that periodically OCRs my screen? I don't even like the idea of free open source software doing that.
Don’t forget... security ;)
FWIW I agree with you--going into unnecessary debt needs not to be treated like it's inevitable, or else people will continue to do so because they'll buy into the belief that "I never had a choice, debt was the only way I could have my wedding because I only had $10k saved" rather than "I can only spend $10k on my wedding because that's all I can afford".

This article doesn't really read like sob stories though. It seems like the opposite with they way they put (arguably) scare quotes around "Instagram-worthy" and have quotes from couples wondering if they should have done things differently. Also:

> “The problem is, you don’t want to rely on a personal loan for something that isn’t necessary — and there is nothing necessary about an expensive wedding,” said Stefanie O’Connell

> “You have to put it in context,” she said. “You could spend $30,000 on a one-day celebration, or you could use it to put a down payment on a house. These loans sound great when you’re planning your wedding, but afterward, I hear a lot of regret.”
"Typescript adds 0 value" to taking user input. Sure. I mean, it's kinda missing a lot of nuance--especially given that it's kind of smart to let-it-crash universe where bad-actor input making your handler crash or fail, so long as it does so safely, is not the end of the world--but yes, you do in fact have to validate user input. You have to do that in every other language too, of course, and stuff like `class-transformer` or `runtypes` or `io-ts` exists to make it easier and safer, but yes. You do.

What about module boundaries between code? What about even the basics of knowing what you're passing into a function is correct?

Me, I write a lot of TypeScript. I've never written code on top of the Node virtual machine as quickly or good or as correct because I'm not stuck resorting to nonsense tests around "well, what do you do if you pass the wrong type to this function?" and I'm not validating internal arguments because TypeScript told you if it was wrong, this is not my bug. Instead I validate user input at the edges (less because of "bad actors" and more to provide helpful messages to the consumers of my libraries and APIs) and then I have a snappy and reasonably correct compiler yelling at me when I do something wrong, immediately after doing so. And because my entire ecosystem, past that scary user-input edge, is also in TypeScript, I am much more sure of the code I'm writing. And, as mentioned, I write it way, way faster.

So if you care about correctness and code quality, why is "well, input validation on the edge is harder" so much more important to you than that sort of thing?