skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wanted to quit tech, and recently resumed drawing, so I want to ask:

Do you want to quit tech because you don't enjoy the tech, or because of the people and culture in tech? If it's because of the people and culture, then do you believe the people and culture in an art career would be any better?

While investigating drawing recently, I learned that it can be approached in a very technical way, and that there are many different areas of study. I found it to be more similar to programming, in this way, than I would have expected.

I love programming and the tech, but I don't like the culture very often. I've been frustrated with the CEO at my company, who sells our amazing software and AI. What we really have is a basic CRUD app (which we've managed to make very buggy and unreliable) and our AI is humans who manually review things. Yet I believe the CEO is sincere in his delusions. I've been appreciating drawing because there can be no such delusions. What you see is what's there, and our brains are very good at detecting oddities and making them very apparent. It seems to leave much less room for self-deception.
Both, I think.

The language is fairly high level, and the borrow checker + RAII covers a lot of the ergonomic-gains of garbage collection. It's also appealing in that it moves towards functional, but not too much (beneficial for those who like the idea of functional programming, but can't be assed to pick it up properly -- eg me).

And the absurd hype cycle just keeps it permanently in mind.
Considering the lack of blow back this has generated it seems to be a successful operation on NK's part. Who knows, maybe there will be some future consequences, but everyone globally is so focused on their nukes this seems to get lost on the side. Plus the intel agencies care more about offensive operations and hiding their capabilities, so they don't seem to be making much noise about all this to the public either (not that law enforcement is their job).
Not sure if there's a specific name for the avatars, but there's two near similar resources here:

[1] https://undraw.co/illustrations

[2] https://www.humaaans.com/
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "allowed scripting that is for all intents impossible in Java"?
It seems reasonable to me that the transition to renewables will make energy even cheaper, and absolutely less dependent on international markets (like the little problem that 40% of internationally exchanged oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz). So it's almost certainly a good thing for poorer nations.

Contrast this with the ever-popular HN push for nuclear power. Many nations lack the infrastructure to support such a complex and expensive endeavor, and some frankly can't be trusted with it. So a nuclear future is far, far worse than a renewable future.

Oil won for good reasons a hundred years ago. And it's going to lose for good reasons over the next hundred years.
Sort of. Actual optical multitouch systems use multiple cameras, so fingers blocked by other fingers can be seen from other angles.
It depends on how many hops are between you and a supernode but 60-80mbit is typical. Check the map in a few months, I was in your situation then suddenly a node popped up a mile away.
>If I’m reading this correctly, he’s essentially advocating for a/b(/c/d ...) testing and feature flags?

Feature flags and A/B testing are used more for testing new features or functionality. This is directed at evaluating completely different implementations while trying to keep the same functionality. Particularly regarding performance, he touches on the fact that if not all features are implemented in the new version, you can’t trust the metrics.
It's a shame that in today's world we have to choose between platforms that are open-ended and platforms whose software respects its users. But given that choice, I support this outcome.
I could never get into her work, personally. I was forced to read 'Beloved' in high school, and found it dense, poorly written, and just unpleasant to read. I know she's won a ton of awards, so it's probably just me. Sorry to hear she passed though.
Dunno.
I am bootstrapping as single founder and the investment was basically

- 2 days to change the app code so only data necessary for the actual use case of the app is processed and stored
- 1 day to formulate a GDPR privacy policy in my own words (what data is captured, how is it used, how is it stored, etc)

Unless your business is somehow is fundamentally at odds with GDPR (flashlight app to grab IDFAs and sell those) it doesn't really seem terrible. Especially so as it is in my own interest even without GDPR to minimize my risk surface in case I get hacked and user data is leaked.
remember the dark ages when we had to actually care about codecs and which ones were installed at any given point in time?
Get your enemies to pay for your weapons. Neat trick, if you can pull it off. I'd be more impressed if they used the money to feed their people, though.
Before compilers, programmers spent a lot of time writing assembly language, but that doesn't mean a compiler is doing the job of a programmer.
S-expressions were the one thing that held me back from Racket. I like a lot that I've heard about the language, and I'm a believer in keeping syntax as simple and regular as possible, but in my book a language that doesn't allow infix expressions is not usable, while a "language" that requires users to implement text-based macros to work productively in it is incomplete.

The article doesn't link to the syntax proposal, so I don't yet know what it looks like. But for the first time I now hope that Racket might become a practical language that I could use. No S-expression language has ever gone beyond niche. I'm glad Racket is willing to step past them.
You, Bluegill, and pmiller make good points about the complexity of humans and surgery.
Maybe, I really like Lisp and especially Scheme. Don't get me wrong. I just think that a lot of projects suffer from being written in a language with a small community or even, at the time of conception, a thriving yet fleeting community (Perl, Ruby, etc).
I often reminisce about working in a warehouse and going home without any looming thoughts about work. I mean, you can't really take the sweeping and forklifts home with you.

These days it takes serious effort to put the work aside and not think about either current or future problems that I am being paid to solve. Sometimes this industry feels like a field of rabbit holes and it requires almost perfect balance not to fall into them.
Apple Books usually don’t have DRM so I buy those.

Also, iOS 13 is finally adding highlighting for PDFs, which I’ve found to be frustrating.

Now I can highlight and markup the page with Apple Pencil before I print something.
I wonder how soon we're going to see an uptick in torrenting now that the streaming landscape is fragmented.
> No, I'm not, and I don't think that. I'm saying you're intolerant of those people according to the definition you gave. That's it.

That is not intolerance.

> I'm sure it wouldn't, but that's irrelevant.

How is your example being flawed irrelevant?

> Refusing to share social, political, or professional rights with someone because they were born in the wrong place and don't meet your reasonable requirements means you are intolerant of them, according to that definition you gave.

No, it doesn't. There are all kinds of legitimate reasons to not allow a person into a country. If they are not vaccinated against certain diseases, for example. Or if they have outstanding warrants for their arrest in other countries (unless of course they're seeking asylum).

You're (I think deliberately) clouding the difference between legitimate reasons to deny entry and intolerance.

> Telling people they can't express genuinely held beliefs is, I think, a pre-cursor to real world violence. Avoiding real world violence is a totally reasonable objective to have in mind when crafting law.

Your right to express a belief ends in my mind where said belief intends harm, be it physical, economic, mental or whatever form of harm, on another person. And in turn, anyone who intends that harm and engages in such speech, either for actual beliefs or simply to make money off of those susceptible to that sort of manipulation, should be punished.

> I agree. So? Which ones are you willing to kill your fellow countrymen over?

Nobody is killing anyone. You and people who think like you will be outvoted, and dragged to a prosperous future whether you want it or not.
> This seems as good an opportunity as any to bring up another part of the "basic" concept which feels really unhealthy: the idea that "basic" is consuming commodity, mass-market goods, and that high status is distinguishing yourself through sophisticated taste in what you consume.

It's also a marketing tactic to be exotic and to add a strange element to the center of your product that no one has, because if you're incomparable, you'll never have to compete on quality.

Commodity products actually have to be better to command loyalty, not just something you can mention in conversation to make your tastes seem more exotic and you seem more knowledgeable and experienced.

I don't think conspicuous consumption is a thing that can be prevented, though, as long as there is a middle class (or any other form of aspiring courtier.)
Become a nurse or physicians assistant instead of a doctor (2012)
Interesting feedback. Our main goal is to ditch the human verification, we want to be confident enough to provide great code automatically. Not there yet.

Regarding the output, it's great to know your thoughts on the frameworks. We actually went for a framework to make it simple for our users. In the future we want to allow our users to chose what output they want. So, it makes total sense.
> This requires interviewing relatives, friends and acquaintances, collecting school and business records, drivers license records and any other public or private records.

We are talking about people born before 1910 here. Friends and acquaintances are all dead by definition. Drivers license won't come into play for decades. Other mid-life documents like marriage are also going to be decades later.

It's a hard problem. Especially when identity fraud for other reasons may be involved (a chield taking the identity of a parent to bypass inheritance taxes).

We need a biological test. Is there a biological marker that can attest of someone's age?
I've given up trying to talk to friends about how their privacy is being abused
The biggest use for me is turning from a static position, e.g. left from a cross-street, having started this after I made a left turn but was t-boned, mind you I've always been religious about seatbelts, checking turns (left-right-left), etc. When doing a static turn I will point-and-call left, "Clear Left," point-and-call right, "Clear Right," point-and-call left again "Clear Left," then with both hands on the wheel say "Go."

I will look-and-call for lane changes, pretty much as you would imagine look over the shoulder and "Clear Left," then "Turning." Same goes for right. For me it is more action oriented, to make sure I've assessed the area for issues. I haven't done anything like call outs for threats, but now I'm kicking myself for not thinking of that. I already do that religiously in FPS games, I could see how doing that would be good to get and stay in the habit of active scanning, "Pedestrian crossing, two o'clock." Might have to try that one out too, after all my friends will love that development :)
How misleading.
Many sites do that nowadays. The Information seems to be pretty nice, but it's super expensive. At least to me.
AARP? The American Association of Retired People? They're a "privacy group"? Did I miss something?
Tl;dr A group that litigated the case got all the settlement money, by design. Supreme Court is telling lower courts to curb stomp this practice.
To avoid extra chatter, see this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20629895
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The Information isn't that random (as the name implies).

It's an attempt to create a high-value, investigative tech magazine. The paywall is rather strict and it seems to be aimed at the investor class, so I'm not entirely sure how well it's going because I'm not a subscriber, but I believe I've seen a few important stories that originated with them.
It's pretty short-sighted to point to latest market trends and infer that the hydrocarbon fuels are on their way out and renewables are there to replace them.

Yes, fossil fuels are down. Commodities are down. Companies benefiting from government spending are up, and government spending is at record highs. Not only that, pretty much any asset that you would expect to outperform in a bull market is way up.

No surprises there, this is a decade-old bull market fueled by trillions of worldwide cheap debt and quantitative easing. Yet, despite a supposedly roaring economy, the money-machine that is supposed to be "for emergency use only" just keeps on running. It's been working so well that "more spending" is the only valid political platform for both parties.

What could possibly go wrong?
pee cameras are clocked externally(EMI made them include 25MHz clock gen on camera module itself), so in theory you could connect them all to a single clock distribution source with appropriately shifted phases
NYC Mesh survived on a gigabit uplink for a very long time. Go for it.
Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News into China
Ugh. Agree with caveats: I’m often put in the position of being the “slow” guy because I have to fix all the stuff the “fast” guy did, but I have to do it while everything is up and running with paying users.
You might enjoy https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/01/how-much-energy-do...

And on the subject of energy storage: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/12/keeping-some-of-the-...
"It is literally impossible to turn heat, by itself, into anything useful. That's the 2nd law of thermodynamics"

That's not quite true/relevant.

Matter can be turned into energy, energy can be turned into matter, theoretically at least. More practically a Stirling engine or peltier will turn heat into electricity, and filament bulbs did a good enough job of turning heat into light.

Plus you can still cheat the 2nd law locally. I can heat my house in winter for example, it isn't just a slow uniform slide to the heat death of the universe.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2016a/csl.nsf/fsbillco...

Nothing about wells or rural areas, just 1-4 family units max and 110 gallons

https://source.colostate.edu/extension-offers-fact-sheet-on-...

Previously they were only "technically" illegal because as written, you had to prove they injured the water rights of others.
What? You have literally written 0 arguments that relate to the text in any meaningful way.
It was good, I found this part very enlightening:

The same applies to the seas on which fossil fuels are shipped across the world. In June, Trump unleashed a tweeted torpedo at the Carter Doctrine when he questioned the U.S. Navy’s role in ensuring freedom of navigation, especially for oil tankers.

Followed by:

Absent the U.S. Navy policing sea lanes, it’s debatable whether oil-importing countries would have allowed themselves to rely on barrels shipped from the Middle East and other hot spots.

It does seem strategically questionable when posed this way.
Would any Yelpers here care to comment on the issue? I interviewed there in the past, and know friends that work there. When I asked what they thought about the "blackmail" rumors from a while back they just laughed it off, because they honestly thought they were just rumors. And they enjoyed their work, and their work-life balance, and all that. Sounded like a fun, positive place to work, if you ignored the headlines.

So there's a disconnect here. Is there a dark pattern and slimy business going on in Yelp, or is this simply a weird situation that got sensationalized by a news article? I'm hesitant to make any assumptions.
Most nations that treat their water also have the concept of grey water.
Great feedback! I guess we just need to find our best target market. We believe the decision makers will be managers and not technical people (engineers that relate more with the product page instead of the emotional illustrations). But I could be wrong...
What else would it support besides IP/TCP/UDP?
That's true, but as n_trackers increases, so does the chance of of some kind of GDPR violation (assuming independence of violations amongst trackers)
Love the project! Why does my intuition suggest big ISPs are going to try to regulate this out of existence in the US. It's depressing.
I'm not sure that the idea that the US is more benign than china is shared outside the US or the occidental world.
Well, you actually just need an Alexa there reciting the checklist and waiting from a yes before moving to the next item.

Since it is intended to be in a hospital, that's a $40K Alexa that must be created by somebody with the right connections. But all that you need is an Alexa.
Because when people are joking they aren't usually willing to get into arguments that span hundreds of posts about race and IQ, the so-called parasitic nature of Jews, race mixing and why every race other than whites (with the ocassional exception of asians) is subhuman.
An aspect of this that's really important:

Even if you try to reduce your own carbon impact, getting all those calculations right can be tricky. Taxing it makes more carbon-intensive things more expensive, and makes it easier to do something natural: just go with cheaper options.

Crucially, this also applies to all the people who wouldn't go to the effort of trying to lower their impact.
In the cited statistics, they may be conflating energy production/refining with consumption. In Europe, the Benelux region has much higher consumption then their neighbors. A bit surprising given similar weather, their love for bicycles and well developed train infrastructure. State side, Louisiana has a much higher consumption than rest of the deep South. Perhaps due to the small population and the oil & gas production off of the carcinogenic coast?
I applaud Brian Hall's dedication to NYC Mesh.
Let's not forget that the Islamic world was key (though not alone) in preserving our scientific and cultural knowledge.

At that time, Islamic society was quite modern and tolerant - and even often the destination for persecuted religious groups such as the Jews in Spain.

It is absolutely clear that modern Islam is, in fact, much more "conservative" than it used to be in the beginning. Indeed, the very beginning of Islam was a radically progressive movement in the region. It freed slaves, it gave rights to women, it treated with other religions and it abhorred hereditary and even defacto differences between humans. Many of the things that we now find so backwards were a) not as strict at the time and b) much more advanced than other societies in the region.
A good example is the difference between the initial Islamic state and the Persian empire. The Persians didn't even fully understand that they were dealing with a sort of grassroots movement, and were constantly trying to find the equivalent of a high status ruler to talk to. But early leaders in the Islamic world were completely different, living in normal or even poor circumstances and operating in a much more democratic manner than was the norm.

Later, these societal properties were the reason that the Arabic world was able to preserve and advance science and culture. Sadly, this did not last into this century, but the reasons for this are complex and almost surely political.

I say this is important to remember because we need to realize that religion and - further - ethnicity (and of course race) are not ingrained attributes determining who is conservative. We need to remember that there was a time when Islam was the paragon of reason and rationality, while Christianity was the embodiment of fanatic action.

In the end, it is all politics, not the people. We do well to remember these things, because it keeps us from condemning other cultures, as it so often happens!
Those "living under the poverty line of imagination", to stay within the article's elegant framing.
Because they are optimising for both Google and Facebook ads. You may not like that answer, but it's true.
What does secure the border mean? There's already 650 miles of fence, and net immigration from Mexico has been negative for years now.
Is this just a quick and short project or have you been working on this long term?
That's what the bodies are for
The Lisp community will feel the loss of Greg Hendershott.
It may be they're a quality site but I've never heard of them before. Not about to hand over personal contact information to an unknown party.

If it were the New York Times or some site I've heard of however, I'd happily login.
You don’t really need a better budget if you have vital records of sufficient quality — just a routine procedure to cross-reference them when issuing identity documents. Ex-soviet countries would be fine example for that.
Smartphones? Which ones?

iOS with its ageing OpenCL drivers, or the new Metal Shader drivers?

Or Android, which Google rather uses their own languages, Renderscript and Halide?

Yes some OEMs do happen to ship non standard Android drivers that also support OpenCL, which require vendor specific SDK to be actually usable, thus not an option versus Renderscript or Halide.

Do you happen to actually know CodePlay? They got their name creating compilers with vectorization optimization for the PS3 and other game consoles.

Their ComputeCpp is a pivot into the GPGPU world and their aren't doing the community edition just from the kindness of their hearts, rather as path into their products.

"If you want to do things with this release, be prepared to be a pioneer. This release is pre-conformance, which means that we do not implement 100% of the SYCL specification. We currently only support Linux and two OpenCL implementations, by Intel and AMD, but wider support is coming. You may find that some unsupported implementations of OpenCL work with ComputeCpp. That's great, but we don't officially support anything else (yet). Most of the open-source libraries being ported to SYCL are not completed yet. This means that you should only check out some of these projects if you want to do some development yourself. We are building a big vision here: large, complex software highly accelerated on a wide range of processors, entirely by open standards. So, please be patient, or work with us."

Feels like it still needs to mature a little bit.

Even Intel, despite their SYSCL contributions to clang (experimental release last 31st July), has been developing in parallel their own extensions, Data Parallel C++, that no one knows in what form will they contribute back to Khronos, if at all.

Meanwhile CUDA has been developed to be language agnostic from the get go, with out of the box support for C, C++, Fortran. Now with Julia, Haskell, Java, .NET support as well.

While Khronos kept banging the C is good enough message until it was too late for vendors to actually care about SPIR-V.
Democrats have been silent because its a positive thing, but if they come out and agree with Trump it looks bad
Without going into detail, our model outputs the coordinates of the html elements it recognize. We are taking a visual approach to the problem.