skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect that once we get generics we are going to get a host of differently implemented variations of the error monad none of which is used by the standard library.

Which I think is worse then try.

In a broader sense I am deeply irritated by the part of the go community's culture that seemingly sees any effort to make go more "don't repeat yourself" to be making it more complex. With no acknowledgment that avoiding complexity in the language isn't a free lunch, it comes at the cost of complexity in the code written, the ecosystem and libraries.
3 is incorrect for encrypted email: you cannot email someone unaware without their consent and expect them to willingly and ably participate in decrypting.
Related: should I also be including my Twitter and Google+ followers in my CV?
> And he frequently gives credit to his team (and doesn't sit there patting himself on the back).

Yes, the list of authors on the whitepaper they released is "Elon Musk & Neuralink". I guess his team should be thankful.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6204648-Neuralink-Wh...
Yup. The damning thing is, when questioned about the issue, Dell representatives have always declared that the HW is working within specs.

I don't recall the exact wording, something like "noise emissions level is under some required threshold" (I don't have the link at hand but I think I can rescue at least one from Dell support forum). The thing is, to me the fan noise when it turns on is less annoying than the high pitched whine.

I have an old XPS 13 model (9333 I think, the battery is still going strong tho) and with the keyboard backlight turned off (I won't use it anyway) and no USB peripherals attached is dead silent. Otherwise, If I plug a mouse or an USB hub/network adapter there is the continuous whine.

To be honest, I can only hear it in silent rooms in my home with window closed, in an office environment it's droned out.

The whine is the only gripe I have with the HW as Debian has worked flawlessly with it.
imagine doing that without needing to sit in front or near your computer though
I've been reading "Carbide Tipped Pens" which is a collection of 17 Hard sci-fi short stories. One of them has a very similar idea. Can't remember which one but I'll post the author if I remember later.
You're right, this is a vertical approach. Some of our customers are companies like this, having a focused model for a very specific subject.
Drones can fly above and to the side, providing excellent viewing angle. The path can even be precomputed. What’s the issue?
I don't understand why you are taking this personally. It's pretty established that video games can be addictive and when someone is addicted to something they usually neglect other parts of their life. It's a big enough problem that the WHO have defined "Gaming disorder" in the ICD https://www.who.int/features/qa/gaming-disorder/en/
Even in the early 90's people would imagine the vast intellectual expansion that the Internet would bring once electronic access to libraries would become ubiquitous. I'm afraid we'll descend even more into a Huxleyan 'Ow my balls' intellectual sinkhole, but I hope you are right.
reminds me of the movie Brainstorm (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
it seems they are targeting motor and sensory cortex. Those do get activated by imagining the task . but it will be a very fuzzy process and require a lot of training. It remains to be seen if 1024 electrodes provide sufficient readings to be useful
> I seem to suffer from aphantasia

I'm interested for the same reasons - I can't hold much of an image in my head for very long, and being able to persist what I can imagine so I can examine it in detail with my actual eyes would be extremely useful.
The 2015s are great, but be careful — the high-end models used to have a fast, discrete AMD Radeon graphics card, but they quietly stopped producing these, in around 2017-2018 [1].

These newer models have an Intel Iris Pro integrated GPU. It's a big step down in performance, especially noticeable if you connect an external 4K dispay or use the Retina display at non-uniform scale factors. The Radeons supported resolutions up to 5K, Iris maxes out at 4K, apparently.

I discovered this when I spilled coffee on my 2015 MBP and had to get a new one, and I nearly spilled my coffee all over again when I saw that the discrete GPU was missing.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204349
Toilet Sanitizers – Review
Women are so prone to Urine Track Infections & specially if you tend to use public washrooms day in, day out. She personally have been on UTI medications so many times in the past years because you can’t logically avoid washrooms while at work or client meetings or even travelling.
> Is there a code example where Cobol shines in comparison to, say, Python?

Yes, processing (like tabulating) fixed-size records (like punch cards) with hierarchical structure. You can do that with Python's struct module but it might be more readable in COBOL.

Other than that somewhat domain specific task, no. Python has a lot more features and is a lot more general language.
You missed the point. You don't need to live a long life to be happy. That's you trying to impose your worldview on other people.

A lot of people confuse things that are correlated with being happy with things that make you happy. Being fit does not make everyone happy, it makes some people happy. Eating cheesecake makes some people happy, but not everyone.

What if the things that are correlated with happiness change over time? What if instead of idolizing pro athletes the next generation idolizes pro esports players? Will physical fitness start to see less of a correlation with happiness, playing second fiddle to something else?

I agree that you do need unblocked arteries to stay alive. So increasing obesity may lead to more hospitalizations (and unhappy people that way). But could it be offset by increased well-being in other areas of life?
I've actually found the opposite. Even when I was consistently evaluated to have above-average technical skills (for the company I work at), what kept my career growth from advancing was a lack of personal skills. What's more, ever since I started improving those my personal life started seeing a big improvement as well.

I recognise that for most, being at least moderately skilled at people comes as a given. For those of us where this is not the case it really helps to consciously work at those limitations.
Heard a theory that it was part of an attempt to get to Epstein to do him in, because of all the people he could implicate.
This is one of the most profoundly sad--as in, generates genuine pathos--posts I've ever read on the internet. Planting "egoless" square next to "your ideology is a mess" and clearly flagging that you'd rather have the chance to bully beginners than come to an accord with fellow professionals who might not lick your boots the second you walk through the door. While assuming--with no grounds, but you already know that--that somehow those poor benighted "1x programmers" don't have the patience to understand and fix bugs.

This attitude is gross and demeans you and those around you. Worse, even by the standards you spout off about: in my experience it is also and without exception the attitude of someone who is not a "10x programmer" but somewhere in the negatives, causing needless and constant churn for the sake of looking smart.

I truly hope, a few years down the line, you have cause to remember that post with regret because you've grown out of that phase of your development as a professional and as an empathic person.
How about Dask - which is fairly production grade and has experimental Arrow integration.

https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/integration/dask...

Dask deploys pretty well on k8s - https://kubernetes.dask.org/en/latest/
First off, my first real job was designing the flight critical stab trim system for the 757. I have an enduring interest in airplane flight control systems, and follow airliner crashes and the resulting fixes. The hydraulic changes preventing leak propagation resulted from the Sioux City crash where the compressor disk in the tail engine came off and sawed through each of the triply redundant hydraulic lines, resulting in total loss of the hydraulics. The 737MAX troubles have nothing to with the hydraulic system.

The Titanic disaster did popularize the notion of watertight compartments, but these are well known and used in warships. Warships are very hard to sink because of it. The Bismarck is suspected to have sunk only because the captain flooded it to prevent its capture.

Submarines use compartmentalization to minimize flooding risk, and surely the space station must, too.
> It's a language intended to have few primitives with an emphasis on code being transparent and errors being values, requiring you to think about what they might be at each point as you're forced to carry them up the chain.

Along these lines, I would have much preferred to see the opposite of this proposal: the total removal of named returns. They add magic and confusion, and they are redundant with normal returns. Except in the absolute simplest and shortest functions, I always reject named returns during code review. They are currently the only example of C++ style policy declaring we-don’t-use-that-feature-in-our-org I’ve run into with Go. Try/check would’ve been the second.
Why not? I mean, that's what publicly listing your public key is for, right?
> STARTTLS is vulnerable to downgrade attacks by mitm.

Not only that, but intentionally downgrading STARTTLS commands has as times been the default configuration for some Cisco routing gear.

(Buy me a beer one day and I might tell you about the time I charged one of Australia's big four banks about $70k to debug that in a router on their internal network that nobody there knew existed...)
I thought it could lead to doing method chaining for a fluent like API which I find cleaner than how things work now.
If you're rethrowing the exception, what happens in the VM if that exception is not caught?

IIRC, the VM exits, so, it's not at all identical. There are potentially severe nonlocal effects and you're already coding defensively by putting a catch/rethrow.
Yeah. In such a sense we could just imagine this potentially being one of the largest paradigm shifts we've ever experienced as a species.

I guess my bias is that I feel like my own personal mind-map or world lens is my own personal competitive advantage against the rest of the world and that's what I use to differentiate and make money. Taking that advantage away seems like a life-deranging experience as it defines who I am.

But that's how incumbents always feel when they get disrupted. I suppose victors always have defined themselves by their ability to adapt to change.
> Finally, the Web of Trust was a bright, shiny idea — and wrong

Yeah, this whole part is some 90s cypherpunk way of modeling human relations, which has never mapped onto any real world relationships. As soon as people had real world digital identities outside of their gokukillerwolfninja666 logins, this didn't help.

CA ecosystem might be fundamentally flawed, but WoT was a complete failure. So PGP users end up trusting some key server which is probably sitting under someone's desk and has been owned by every serious intelligence service since forever.
I agree. The idea is we all be extremely selective about who we choose to give ourselves to.

Your comment raises the question, what is a bad partner? How do incompatible relationships arise? I'd say most often the dominating force behind bad relationships is strong physical attraction. To give a personal example, I married a very beautiful woman who turned out to be immensely destructive to myself and everyone I loved, including her and her family. She had a serious personality disorder. I was immediately blinded by how attractive she was, how good the sex was, and how intimately we engaged with each other in general (though often this had dark sources like codependency and fear of abandonment). There were warning signs I could have chosen to pay attention to, but I thought at the time this is an incredible woman I've met and if things don't work out, that's O.K., there's nothing to lose.

But I lost a lot. I fell in love deeply enough to tolerate all sorts of madness and it ended tragically. I won't even allude to the details here.

If I really forced myself in the beginning to think about whether I could in fact devote my life to this woman and our future family (which is the calling of sacramental marriage) before choosing to date her, my life would be unrecognizably different and certainly contain less tragedy.

Sex allows unstable relationships to develop into failed serious relationships. Failed relationships harden the heart, reducing one's ability to love, trust, and enjoy other people. It's terrible but it's true, and anybody who's had at least one bad relationship will tell you. If you're lucky you can mostly recover but the damage is still done and it shows in the numbers.
Came to mention Notion.so too.

My email is a mess for I should switch between several work/home mailboxes — and from time to time I just have to wait for an email too.

This is one of the reasons I avoid launching Notion.so.
> you can eliminate pipe leaks easily

Famous last words. A better design is to assume leaks occur, and design to minimize the damage. (This is how airliners are designed.)

> with automatic block valves

That's compartmentalization, not elimination.

Another method is to use two smaller pipes instead of one larger one - it reduces the scale of any leak.
My initial confusion when encountering functions whose names begin with Co
I have ADHD and I do this. I don't want to. I just do it without thinking about it. It's because if I have a thought worth sharing, I want to do it NOW... there's always the possibility I might forget it before I've had the chance to share it.

Also when I talk to someone who has ADHD it might sound strange to neurotypical people. The discussions are much faster and also less - well, I don't want to call it less boring. They are more exciting, but it does not mean that discussions with neurotypical people are boring.
Quick take on this evening's Elon Musk Neuralink reveal
Originally on my FB timeline, with pics, and more than 2000 characters:
https://www.facebook.com/Elokane/posts/10157349453763622

* Neuralink isn't anywhere close to a working product most people should care about. :)

* The purpose of this event is to allow Neuralink researchers to start publishing papers and for the company to attract new talent.

* In true Elon Musk fashion, this is about taking existing technology and the edge of scientific knowledge, assembling a crack team of experts, pushing the limits in industry - rather than academic - speed, and combining the results into a neat package.

* While my knowledge of electrophysiology is quite outdated, my understanding is that multiple breakthroughs in electrode design, embedded electronics, and on-chip signal processing & analysis have been made. MEANING: extract and broadcast more information to the brain; faster I/O into and out of us than ever before.

* Coupled with robotics and algorithms developed specifically for this purpose, the new package makes embedding electrodes directly into the brain a significantly simpler, safer and available endeavor that what exists today.

* Still, the immediate application is clinical; making the lives of people suffering from various brain malfunctions better.

* The team does discuss their vision being directly related to day-to-day use, brain-computer interfaces, brain-to-brain communications, and a new world of Neuralink apps. They talk about the clinical application as the necessary first step as they aim for every design decision to bring us closer to commercial use by healthy people.

* Elon's lack of a deep understanding of neurosci/the brain shows when he attempts to answer questions or go deeper, but at this point it's impossible to deny that he has enough clarity and insight, coupled with a wide, systemic view, to be able to get this up and running from scratch and achieve something remarkable.
"mostly cold" email to a security email address listed on a website is probably the only use I've ever had to PGP encrypting email to someone I hadn't already been communicating with... (But I can imagine other scenarios. I bet Snowden's cold email to Greenwald was encrypted...)
I think the comment you’re replying to meant “we” as in society not as in specifically-you.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink looks to begin outfitting human with faster I/O next year
I would love to hear how you have managed to cultivate this belief in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
> Then I took this information to my CEO, who shot me down on the basis that all their customers used floating point for their internal models, and so I'd be needlessly introducing friction.

Sounds like all there customers had already worked around the bugs and they didn't want to backtrack. Floating point can be horrible because not only do both sides have to use it but they have to process their calculations in the exact same way with the same order, with decimal types you will get consistent results.

Throw in some other complexities like different clients using different value precisions, different currencies having different fractional values (japan has no decimal places, a Kuwait cent is a thousandth of a dollar) combinations of those two and more, then using decimals/money types are just easier.
No Apple don’t! Just keep the iTunes aggregator of podcasts open and free. Doing so has kept podcasts vibrant and Apple the defacto curator of the canonical list of podcasts — a huge moat
I sure hope it's not even remotely comparable. Tesla owners say Tesla's customer service is bad:

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/non-existent-custome...
Or, imagine the vast 'opportunity' a 'voluntary' accepted neural pathway for advertising directly into the brain will have ...
Totally agree it can be a dark pattern but also sometimes folks just don’t realize their behaviors consequences on those around them. To clarify, pushing the org in the direction of fostering “physiological safety” allows folks to bring things like this up without fear of reprisal. (Google for studies on the term) When issues are surfaced they are more likely to be addressed and the company or team can become more effective since more folks have an opportunity to contribute fully rather than shutting down to protect themselves as the original post describes. Turns out effective human interaction is good for business.
> It's not like I can read your emails unless I break into Google's servers, no?

Well, first of all, "breaking in" isn't the only way someone might get access to data on Google's servers. There are such thing's as subpoenas, not to mention that it is possible a Google employee might abuse access to servers. And then I would be _very_ surprised if google doesn't use the content of your emails for advertisement and tracking purposes.

Furthermore, unless both parties are using gmail, the email will be stored at least temporarily on other mail servers, which may be less secure (and you might not even know who controls them).
I know exactly what kind of frustration you mean. I think this frustration often comes about, because writing code up is a first quality control and it might seem unnecessary for straight forward stuff to be quality controlled.
While spending less work on trivial stuff seems reasonable, if I do introduce a bug in trivial code it will be harder to track it down, because I will always first check whether or not all the tricky parts work. On top of that you indirectly incentivize yourself for thinking something is trivial, because it would mean less work and somehow my brain is very good at tricking me into doing less work in situations where obviously more work is required.
So, even if it was possible to paste code from the brain I would recommend reading it again carefully and then the speed advantages are gone. The only situation where you wouldn’t need it are really repetitive tasks, but in these situations you can have macros/snippets.
KDE Connect also works quite well paired with Gnome using the GSConnect extension: https://github.com/andyholmes/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnec...
You should be gripping your bike mostly with your knees. Also, I think that sense of mechanical coordination is something most motorcyclists actually enjoy.
Challenging common assumptions in the unsupervised learning of disentangled
Nope. I have at least three public never-expiring keys that I am unable revoke and that remain listed as valid because the keyservers don’t occasionally revalidate proof of ability to decrypt.
It is not difficult to accidently not check them. Like:

result, err := doThing()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}

result1, err := doSecondThing(result)
return result1, nil

Will not trigger a compile time error.
I'm surprised geopandas is all under development. A couple years ago it seemed dead in the water.
> He explicitly credited Musk for having the right vision and the long term planning, and that's why he left his position after 16 years to come work with Neuralink.

How do we know that's why, vs his estimation of Musk being the right kind of showman to get a lot of investment.
Look at that drawing and think about your life
2. Is a must have skill for consultants as well, a career path common for software developers.
Even in the very old days it was more of a balancing act: It's not super difficult to make it undetectable, but it will be slower. Slower means that you will always lose to the more detectable variants that somehow still manage to evade the technical filter (but not the people filter). The second segment will of course eventually get banned, but in the meantime you will keep losing to them.
How does one list a public PGP key, is there a verified central listing service?
The author seems quite spun up on this topic. I believe Elon is stating that the liability may land on the car owner’s insurance. During the presentation, Elon didn’t seem locked down on the specifics. Just as my own automobile insurance doesn’t apply when I’m driving for Uber or Lyft, I expect Tesla will need to provide insurance directly during the robotaxi usage. When I’m the occupant of the vehicle, I expect my own insurance will cover.
OK, I'll say it plainly: Ancient Aliens theories are quite racist, as they implicitly assume that brown people can't build big monuments without external help.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/01/02/close-encount...

https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-r...

> It is notable that many (though not all) extraterrestrial theories focus on archaeological structures at sites within Egypt, Africa, South America, and North America — a fact that has led some academics to see beliefs in ancient alien engineers as a stalking horse for racism. In a piece for the online journal The Conversation rather frankly titled “Racism is Behind Outlandish Theories about Africa’s Ancient Architecture,” Julien Benoit, a postdoctoral researcher in vertebrate paleontology at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), addressed the continued harm of these theories:

>> Firstly, these people try to prove their theories by travelling the world and desecrating ancient artefacts. Secondly, they perpetuate and give air to the racist notion that only Europeans – white people – ever were and ever will be capable of such architectural feats.
Well, in the mainframe world, people don't typically measure in MIPS or FLOPS for day-to-day work. It's all about efficiency and throughput. We care about actual elapsed time, and resource consumption rather than some abstract benchmarking metric. Part of this is because a batch job will NEVER get 100% of the CPU, because it is sharing the system with so many other processes.

----TIMINGS (MINUTES)----- -----PAGING COUNTS----
STEPNAME PROCSTEP RC EXCP CONN TCB SRB CLOCK SERV WORKLOAD PAGE SWAP VIO SWAPS
ENDES000 00 15522 2105 0.019965 0.000636 0.1 116946 BATCH 0 0 0 0