skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The XR is bigger, has a worse screen, and is generally uglier. I'm not saying those things don't matter; it's just that incremental improvement is no longer enough for me to buy a whole replacement device. I wouldn't retire the phone I have just because an even-sleeker one with an even-better screen came out.
Do you know what an echo chamber is? Both of those actions lead to the same result.
>...the position of "keep politics out of $X" is the purest expression of privilege, and in general is an attitude that embraces the status quo, no matter how horrifying it might be for the unprivileged.

Is there evidence that arguing politics over the internet is causing a net improvement in the world? I'm inclined to think political discussions on social media are causing political dysfunction, not fixing it.
Thanks for the quick feedback! I never thought of it that way. Have you personal experience with that? Btw, I now contacted a recruiter and really hope I get some additional information.
Not really. I'm not Betteridging here.

Epigenomics is exciting science but there is nothing here that indicates you would be able to take this and treat people with it and extend their lives without unpredictable and ambiguous side effects.

(I work in drug discovery and am very familiar with this field; my complaint is about the headlines that massively overstate the significance of results. This is a very common problem and I generally work to make people understand the reality behind the hype.)
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Does Racket support "real" multithreading yet? I remember looking at their documentation a few years ago and it only had support for a green-threading thing, which (along with the first-class hashmaps) steered me towards Clojure.
Does it? If US build that wall and stop trading with Mexico, it’ll suddenly become responsible to supply the needs of the Mexican people?

Israel supports Gaza because it’s an overwhelming consensus that leaving 1.8mm people, most of them innocent by any reasonable definition, to starve to death, is not a viable option. And no one thinks Egypt, a disfunctioning state by itself, will take any action.
Intel has always had their design and fabrication teams work much more closely together than their competitors. That's often been an advantage as it's allowed fab to sometimes impose unusually restrictive design rules, but only in ways that the design team could handle and thereby give the fabs scope to reach a node faster or improve its performance.
Working Scientist podcast: Career transitions from physics to data science
The funny thing is there are developers[1][2][3] out there who would like to turn JSON into XML.

[1] https://json-schema.org
[2] http://www.jsoniq.org
[3] https://www.p6r.com/articles/2008/05/06/xslt-and-xpath-for-j...
If I remember correctly, CUDA is pretty tightly tied to Nvidia’s GPU architecture, so it would be very difficult to get the same things to run on AMD chips without them making huge changes to conform to Nvidia’s way of doing things.

I think there have been a few projects that try to translate CUDA stuff into OpenCL or other AMD-compatible compute platforms.
Plain JS, yes. The modern JS ecosystem, however, has an enormous amount of churn. The hot way to do things in JS world five years ago is hopelessly obsolete now.
Their low-end Ryzen APUs can game better than low-end Intel chips with their IGP.
I have to disagree with the author's premise. The home run is boring in its current form. When it was a relatively rare sight it was more exciting and impactful. Because the home run is so much more prevalent (and other reasons of course) the truly exciting stuff is nearly gone. You don't see trick/special plays nearly as often anymore. When home run hitters are up every other batter, whats the point of risking stealing third base? There are less bunts, squeeze plays, pickles. Its the risks and the payoff (or lack thereof) that makes baseball games fun to watch (and to play, to be frank).

You end up with boring, high scoring games like 11-6, 10-2, etc depending on which team's home run hitters got streaky that game. The NHL had a similar problem in the past where scores were creeping way up and it wasn't uncommon to see things like 7-3, 6-1 kind of blowouts. Those are exciting if they are rare occurences but if they are regular it makes the game boring. A 2-1, 3-2 game is far more exciting in hockey. The NHL has made changes to curtail (and encourage) high scoring games and waffle back and forth on which they think is better, but its not really clear that baseball can really do the same without fundamentally changing the game itself or rebuilding stadiums to have a much larger minimum outfield wall distance.
While LCGs are great, they're only able to exist because of the money from CCGs. They're still super niche when compared to games like Pokemon, M:tG, or Yu-Gi-Oh. Those games get people in stores spending money.

Like you said, that's the elephant in the room. Magic is hugely profitable in its current form. There's no way they change that. They keep doing "known quantity" products like the Commander decks, or the other pre-cons, but we all know those aren't nearly as desirable.

As someone who works for a tabletop gaming company, and knows a little bit about how the sausage is made, you absolutely have to use things like blind boxes/boosters to pay the bills to make more "customer friendly" products that sell at 1/5th the rate.
It's funny how these things turn our expectations upside-down. I'm from the UK originally and they semi-recently (~10 years ago) upgraded the severity with which they treat cannabis so that it's now "Class B". This means that mere possession can result in "Up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both" (more @ https://www.gov.uk/penalties-drug-possession-dealing).

So yeah, your country might not be so backwards after all, and in this respect at least is pretty enlightened in the grand scheme of things :-)
Basically because:

1. Things are very different in China. If you can get away with not paying, it's not really wrong in the same way as in America. They have a different business culture based more around mutually assured destruction.

2. China has a massively leveraged internal economy, propped up by massive stimulus with the RMB. Only because of the two-currency BS they pull can they continue making this work. But because external nations don't actually use RMB, they could end up having a worse recession because of it. Or maybe better, because of the two currencies. Honestly, it's hard to know.

3. It's much harder to enforce these in China (unless you have the right connections, in which case you probably don't need to go through normal courts any way).

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, and I'm all for it in principle. I guess these are really more general issues with China and her economy which incidentally apply to this than issues with the concept.
I instantly understand what you're saying. I wouldn't want that in my build process either.
Read the 1966 cold war novel, Colossus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(novel)

Or watch the 1970 film based on the novel, Colossus: The Forbin Project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus%3A_The_Forbin_Project

TLDR: World peace enforced by computers and resisted by their creators.
Maybe that is because the scale is much larger nowadays?
I have a diverse array of interests. In terms of technology interests I would be at home in San Francisco it seems, but I also love off-roading and shooting guns and all of that.
BTW, I use a wonderful tool called goofys that lets you mount S3 buckets as local volumes. There are a number of constraints (can open for read, or write a file once) but it works well for a wide range of legacy applications.
Yes, there was this thing called HSA(Heterogeneous System Architecture). Does anyone remember that now?
For someone who has been learning Elixir off and on the past year or so, it can work on Windows but it's a lot easier to use the command line tooling with WSL. Given all the Remote tooling VS Code just released, these days I just use that to SSH into an EC2 box and use that as my dev environment.
16 out of the top 20 French communes by household incomes are in the Parisian suburbs [0]. Generally, the western suburbs are richer, as well as the ones directly next to Paris.

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenu_fiscal_par_m%C3%A9nage_...
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>There are people who build hospitals and there are people who stand around talking about who should build hospitals.

And the latter are even more important, especially if we don't use a contrived example of the hospital and naively assume "more is better", but extend it to other things people can build where building them is controversial and/or more is not necessarily better. (And even for hospitals, there's the question of how to build them, where to build them, and how to run them).

The people that just "charge ahead" and build are marginally useless. Given the funds, one can hire workers in almost any part of the world to build a hospital to spec. That's the easy part.

Getting the funds, knowing why, how, when, for whom, etc you want to build X, whether X is good, how close it should be to other Xes, whether we really need more Xes, and what's the opportunity cost of building an X, all those are the difficult and important questions.

And those are clarified in discussion.
Thanks for posting this! From the millions of air purifiers and filters that are sold, it is clear that people care about air quality in their homes. But there doesn't seem to be a good option for accurately measuring air quality.

I appreciate the option you linked and wish there was an English version of it. If you were to build a consumer product, which air quality sensors would you want in it?
All C-suite roles are meaningless outside of large companies.

In large companies, C-suite roles all mean “someone who comes up with company strategy given a particular set of incentives.” E.g.:

• A CEO is the voice of the Board of Directors within the company hierarchy, and—because they can be fired by the Board—is incentivized to strategize in the direction that will give shareholders value and address their demands.

• A COO is ultimately responsible for the company’s operations, both its operational expenses (e.g. product sitting in warehouses depreciating) and operational revenue (liabilities incurred for income unmatched by deliverables); and is on both sides incentivized to strategize in the direction of making the operations pipeline “leaner”—in est, getting other parts of the supply chain to “hold the bag.”

• A CTO (or CIO, depending on the type of company) is ultimately responsible for any IP assets on the balance sheet; and for any expenses that go into producing such IP. As such, they’re incentivized to create and fund R&D efforts (but also to make them lean), and to push to acquire companies with valuable IP (but to be a miser in the M&A negotiations.) They’re also incentivized to find new ways to exploit any technological resources on the balance sheet, in order to increase their liquid value.

• A CPO (Chief Product Officer—not that many stable, large companies have anyone by that name) is ultimately responsible for exploiting developed or acquired IP assets by building operational revenue sources “around” them, and is measured by the new revenue sources they create. This is what a startup’s “business founder” really is, most of the time, except when they’re raising (during which they’re more playing the CEO role.)

I would liken a company’s C-suite to a Congress: it’s a bunch of people with mostly equivalent responsibilities (define top-level strategy and delegate out the execution) but different constituencies driving their beliefs and preferences.

If you’re actually doing anything in your job that a “corporate Congressman” wouldn’t do, then you’re not really in a C-suite role; or, at least, you have multiple roles within the company, and your C-suite role is just a part-time gig.

(I would highly encourage the latter POV: if a technical cofounder is both a CTO and a Head of Engineering, then later they can give away or delegate one of those titles while retaining the other. I say “delegate” because, as a cofounder, they’re a shareholder on the Board, so ultimately they’re “above” whoever the CTO is, through the office of the CEO, even if they don’t personally end up holding any C-suite title in the end.)
XML and JSON are both examples of the problem actually. S-expressions have existed since the 50s, and they solve all the same problems with a much saner syntax. In fact, if Mozilla marketing execs didn't insist on Java style syntax for Js, and it kept Scheme style syntax we wouldn't even need HTML and CSS today. We'd have a single syntax that would cleanly express code, styling, and layout.
I think it would have been fine based on https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/racket-users/HiC7z3A...

> No matter how Racket evolves, the community is committed

> to preserving what we have achieved: today's `#lang racket`

> programs will run in the future, and today's

> `#lang racket` modules can be used in future Racket programs.
As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead Pile Up
It kind of amazes me that there can be a EULA for software that is absolutely required in order to use physical hardware that you’ve purchased. Guess that’s the world we live in now...
I think the way it describes discussions here could be described as "dripping fear and contempt", slightly poetic though that wording is.

Consider these quotes (I posted some above too):

A recent comment thread ... yielded a response likening journalism and propaganda

users combed through her code on GitHub in an effort to undermine the weight of her contributions

The site’s now characteristic tone ... masks a deeper recklessness

Ill-advised citations proliferate; thought experiments abound; humane arguments are dismissed as emotional or irrational.

Logic, applied narrowly, is used to justify broad moral positions. The most admired arguments are made with data, but the origins, veracity, and malleability of those data tend to be ancillary concerns.

(the last part of this quote seems to contradict the other accusations, but we can't check what she means by the veracity of data being an ancillary concern because ironically she provides no data)

Hacker News readers who visit the site to learn how engineers and entrepreneurs talk, and what they talk about, can find themselves immersed in conversations that resemble the output of duelling Markov bots trained on libertarian economics blogs

In the span of just one paragraph the journalist has:

- Dehumanized us (we sound like bots)

- Cast us as a weird outgroup (learn how they talk)

- Dismissed logic and thought experiments as legitimate

- Argued we aren't interested in "humane" arguments

- Accused the community of ignoring the truth of data

- Called us reckless

If you really think all that stuff is accurate, why post here at all?
integration with linkedin (ugh)
...and among households I know who have taken people out of the labour pool full time, 100% of them have chosen a stay-at-home parent before they've chosen a full time driver or housekeeper or nanny.

Making things even less optimistic for Uber, IMHO.
CMake has its own dependency scanner for C/C++. Look for a file 'depend.make' and you'll see the header dependencies that CMake has detected, minus the headers that CMake thinks are system headers.
On-Call Nightmares Podcast – Episode 34 – Xander Grzywinski – Microsoft AKS SRE
One change at Google hurt the third-party repair industry
Yes, documentation and just the syntax (to me at least) seems a hell of a lot simpler than erlang. You can always use erlang libraries in Elixir as well.
Binance Hacked? – Alleged KYC Leaked Files Posted on Telegram
Phillip Campbell (aka Boniface) of http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/ should be able to point you in the right direction, he is a medieval scholar.

Edit: Sorry I don't have any exact citations, he said it in an interview wit Ryan Grant, so I'm sure he has a source he read somewhere.
Yes but it does have a tone like the authour is treating HN as the ”other”, and trying to view it from outside with some bemusement.
After having dabbled a fair bit in Lisp, Haskell, Ocaml and, to a lesser extent, Elixir, I've found F# to strike a very nice middle ground when it comes to functional programming.

edit: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ is a very nice introduction to F# and all the things it can do.
Of course there are going to be posts which don't get upvoted enough. Everyone who frequently posts here has witnessed that some good posts don't get many upvotes, whilst other ones which you find less good do get them. The amount of upvotes does not tell us how good your post is; all it does is determine for the reader the order of the posts as it isn't chronological. Why? Because nobody has come up with a better solution.

My reasoning (solution) is a rule of thumb, not a law. Every group of people has a blind spot. There is no perfect solution; however I believe the solution as presented is the one with the least casualties. If you know a better one, I'm all ears.
For constructed format(where you don't open packs to build decks, and build from cards you already own), there are financial threshold you need to overcome to be competitive. Afterwards, you STILL need to be proficient of the game and aware of meta games shifts.
The problem with putting a monetary value on something is always that someone either needs to buy it or sell it.

Since calculus already exists and is in the public domain, nobody needs to buy it. No government needs to invest money in it. (Assuming that calculus is a finished work for the moment).

This is, of course, not to say that calculus is not valuable.
C# Action Delegate with 16 Parameters
Yes. There are many formats where competitive performance and cost of play are largely uncorrelated. However, because the most popular format of Magic has rotating card pools, this may be true some years and untrue in others. Recently there has also been a significant increase in popularity of an all-commons format known as Pauper.

For Limited gameplay, where you build a deck out of packs opened at the table, the cost of entry is essentially the cards. So paper MTG is pay-to-play, not pay-to-win.
Does anyone know of any benchmarks that go through the full impacts for all of Intel’s hardware-level security issues?

I remember seeing the Linux kernel devs discussing some massive 10+% performance hits back around Meltdown/Spectre patch time, and I’m now wondering what the final impact has been.
You can dissolve MDMA in water, making it a drink.

LSD is often liquid before being deposited on a stamp.

Molecules are what matters, not the structure or state, and alcohol (like tobacco) is effectively a drug.
Some personal questions that just popped in my mind.

What is the root cause of my emotions and what can I do about it?

What is it that I desire?

What is it that I'm grateful for?

How can I make myself feel happy and stay there?

What values do I hold dear?

Why did I get up from the bed today?

How can I become better?

Am I becoming better from this?

How does this person makes me feel?

How do I make that person feel?

How are my friends?

and the list goes on :)
Need to be marketed with a small battery powered light in the bottle to make it look "radioactive".
> In 1995, Netscape Communications recruited Brendan Eich with the goal of embedding the Scheme programming language into its Netscape Navigator.[16] Before he could get started, Netscape Communications collaborated with Sun Microsystems to include Sun's more static programming language, Java, in Netscape Navigator so as to compete with Microsoft for user adoption of Web technologies and platforms.[17] Netscape Communications then decided that the scripting language they wanted to create would complement Java and should have a similar syntax, which excluded adopting other languages such as Perl, Python, TCL, or Scheme. To defend the idea of JavaScript against competing proposals, the company needed a prototype. Eich wrote one in 10 days, in May 1995.
So there was an element of truth to Frank Cross's allegation after all. "No, no, you're not a ghost, you're a HALLUCINATION, brought on by alcohol! Russian vodka poisoned by Chernobyl!"
The Environmental Downside of Cannabis Cultivation
So interesting, I didn't know you could be forced to testify against someone else.
Honestly, I don't think you can make a fair case for Magic being really pay to win.

There's always a sort of buy in depending on which format you play, but once you've spent a bit of money on some cards it's usually more skill in deck building and playing than money spent.

Personally, I play mostly Modern in a casual way, but even when people bring competitive magic decks and we swap decks the same players usually win.
Back in the day, XML was almost universally hated by the people you describe as "greybeards", mostly because it was a convoluted "one size fits all" approach, hijacked by business, that ate bandwidth for overhead with none of it's promised benefits actually materializing (because everyone created their own, quasi-proprietary XML Scheme).
The Winix C535 from Costco for $100 is a great deal: https://www.costco.com/Winix-C535-Air-Cleaner-with-PlasmaWav...
Exactly. A ton of Toronto devs I know have left for the US. The base salaries are higher, and the exchange rate only adds more.
I've seen the CTO report to the VP of Eng and I think it was exactly this. They were essentially the chief architect. VP of Eng handled talent and strategy. It was essentially a transition for the CTO who just didn't like the people side of it but was a baller at the technical side of it so they went from reporting to CEO to VP. It seemed to work out very well.

I imagine it only works if you have a CTO who's doesn't let the change in reporting structure bother them (i.e. someone who isn't egotistical or vain).
It's probably best to ask servethehome since I've also understood it that way when first reading it but on a second read I'm not sure. The wording also reads to me as if they forgot a word or two (but maybe that's because I'm not a native speaker).

Here is the entire section:

> We are going to present a few data points in a min/ max. The minimum is system idle. Maximum is maximum observed through testing for the system. AMD specifically asked us not to use power consumption from the 2P test server with pre-production fan control firmware we used for our testing. We are also not allowed to name because Intel put pressure on the OEM who built it to have AMD not disclose this information, despite said OEM having their logo emblazoned all over the system. Yes, Intel is going to that level of competitive pressure on its industry partners ahead of AMD’s launch.
I don't think there's anything very special about the CTO role here. A lot of this applies to any executive role. As the company scales the role will change enormously and you might have to change the person doing it.

The one thing I would say though is don't hand out a title like CTO early. It's overly grand, reduces your flexibility to change and just isn't necessary. It's very tempting for a small team to give out grand titles but it's a mistake. Sure someone has to be CEO, but no one has to be CTO.
What did you use to do that?
I don't use one.

I like not paying directly for content and accept that ads and tracking are the price I "pay". I personally don't feel comfortable taking something without holding up my end of the bargain.

It's really not a big deal. Sometimes I see products I want to buy or things I looked at and forgot about and end up buying them.

It's also not the horrific and torturous experience I read about on here. I wonder if I'm just going to the wrong sites lol?
Signs of price truce push Lyft, Uber higher
It had never been true at all if you didn't care about gaining kudos from CSS purists and just used a table :-P.