skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that was always how it was sold to me too. But then the Dark Times came.

It still works a bit that way, but the parts you can really see are all of the metric dysfunction. And I blame Schwaber for setting this avalanche off. Of all of the Agile processes, Scrum seems to have the most surface area for attack by metric dysfunction.

I didn't think I'd end up missing Jeff de Luca so much. He banished story size estimates a long time ago, making Scrum feel like a step back to me. I've only recently heard of people rediscovering that you only have to split up stories that are 'too big' and you can still do fairly accurate estimates and projections based on the aggregate behavior of 100's of stories.

What I see missing or unstated in virtually every discussion is that time isn't the constrained resource. It's energy. There are lots of tasks I could complete in half an hour, but the strain of doing so would still mean I'd only get 2 things done that day. There are also things I can do in 4 hours that still leave me spent for the day. And plenty of managers who will try to make you question your self worth for not volunteering to do 2 of those things in one day because 4+4=8.

Think about that the next time you catch yourself on Hacker News and you scold yourself for wasting time. I'd lay even odds you're either recuperating from something you just finished, or frustrated by something (or being blocked by something) and taking a break.

Think about it when you're trying to articulate why you accepted 60 hours of work this week because they're trivial stories with a lot of wait time built in. They're trivial because they're intellectually and emotionally 'cheap' tasks. There are boring tasks that take every fiber of your attention and you will refuse to double up on those.

Because it's energy, not hours. Always has been.

And you know what else takes a ton of energy and social capital? Arguing with some fucknut about whether a story is 3 points or 4.
I wanted to write something about Julia/Swift, but I had a bit of a hard time writing a cohesive narrative about them and ran out of time.

You can take a look at https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-does-julia-provide-t... for some of my questions.

Essentially, the biggest advantage imo is that Julia offers a single cohesive language, where compilers can do anything at the language level. I don't think this will allow for a single killer application - almost anything Julia can do ca n be simulated by some combination of Python/C++.

However, what might be true is that using a single language allows for much faster development and iteration than a combination of Python/C++. I think the way that'll manifest is in more and more high quality libraries coming out for Julia that are higher quality than the Python ones.

Maybe wait 5 years, and we'll see what happens :)
That’s a double edged lever. If apple can’t make iPhones in china it can’t employ Chinese citizens, and these jobs move out of the country. So does the investment in training. Though it might clear up the market for local brands.
This feels like it was written by GPT2-Small.
>I've used Linux several times over the years and the hardware never totally works

> Does the hardware actually work?

Yes, flawlessly. Desktop with a GeForce GTX 970 (prop. driver) & AMD Ryzen 5 2600 & MSI B450M PRO-M2 V2 (MS-7B84). Laptop (Lenovo Yoga 730) works just as fine.
I'm admittedly in the Amazon/Kindle ecosystem, but the fact that they allow you to upload your own documents and eBooks to your Kindle circumvents any feeling of being locked in, personally. You aren't required to obtain your eBooks from Amazon, and Calibre[1] almost totally automates the transfer process.

[1] https://calibre-ebook.com/
White list is good. Miss immutable has covered the money lost by the player who expressed his view. Cheer!
Just wanted to add that the FSF lists "Free phone operating system" at the top of their "priority projects" list as of January 2017: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/
This is something I'd pursue once I hit my retirement targets.
That will be Microsoft ...
what formulae for concrete absorbs sulfur dioxide?
Site just loads really slowly.
I think this is pretty common. For tabular data, lightgbm/xgboost/catboost usually give better results and require a lot less work (less pre-processing, for example) than neural nets.

One area where I wonder if neural nets would be a more useful option is using something like an LSTM to predict defaults based on a sequence of data? I've tried this a handful of times and doing a bit of feature engineering to aggregate data in a handful of fixed buckets has usually been better and easier, but I'm far from an expert in that area.

I know Jeremy Howard has shown decent results with fastai/pytorch for tabular data and I've seen some Kaggle teams do well with neural nets for tabular data. I've also had decent results with gbdt/nn ensembles. But I think in most situations where you just have tabular data, you'll get better results with less effort if you use lightgbm or the like.
I think that could be a valid choice for Apple to make, and I think reasonable people could disagree about which choice Apple ended up making.

But it seems very plausible to me that Apple was presented with credible information that this app was being used to organize violent attacks and that Apple made a reasonable choice to ban the app according to Apple's policies about following local laws as well as Apple's internal policies about apps causing harm. I think that can be the case regardless of anyone at Apple's views about the merits of the Hong Kong protests as a whole.
I didn't say politicians generally, I'm talking about the qualified set of politicians who have not attended a public school. Barack Obama for example, who has responded authoritatively to questions on the matter despite clearly never having read the relevant literature (or maybe he was just lying, or maybe it was some combination of ignorance and deceit).
I have nothing wrong with Muslims Jews womever, but I do have a problem with “government” in general
Source about the BIOS part? I own many thinkpads and use them at work too and never had to do anything with BIOS settings.
Cool. The question still stands, how does that make AOSP useless? For the vast majority of applications, I can find reasonable FOSS equivalents in F-Droid.
Apple lied about being in bed with the NSA, too... I don't know why anyone consider Apple much better then Google when it comes to privacy...
I prefer low DPI monitors, i just like the pixels :-P.

(writing this from a 23" 1366x768 desktop monitor)

And honestly a lot of things are so broken in hidpi anyway that i do not see a reason to bother.
Are there any good laptops other thinkpads for this os?
It's hard to decide what we need to define and what we don't. In this case, I kind of opted for assuming that the readers know what BPF is, given that a fairly high percentage of our articles seem to be about BPF these days. Still, I'll try to include a link next time, sorry.

Meanwhile, the LWN kernel index (https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Berkeley_Packet_Filter) will lead you to more information about BPF than you ever wanted.
When I was looking for a new editor, out and out excluded anything that didn't use either Qt or WxWidgets. What I saw was both frameworks allow you to at least support Linux, BSD, OSX, and Windows without too much hassle. It's been a while but my impression was Qt applications look like Qt applications and WxWidgets look more like native-ish applications. (But could probably am wrong).
There is no official way to manage Apple iPhone and iPad backups - iCloud only seems to keep 1 backup at a time, and iTunes on a PC also doesn’t give you any controls - you need to manually manage the files yourself and may end up with a corrupted or unrestorable backup.

Now, I disregard Apple’s backups (if there’s no point-in-time recovery or named backups, then it isn’t a backup system!) and use my own self-hosted (Synology) or third-party (Office OneDrive for Business) means for storing files on my phone. As for app-specific data, and PIM, thats all either inconsequential if lost (e.g. save games) or synced anyway (Office 365 Exchange).
Amazon took the 1984 incident very seriously, so I think it's exceptionally unlikely to recur.
Can We Eliminate Depression? A New Project Aims to Do Just That
The size of developer dependencies on their machine is not an interesting metric, as most developers will have a decent internet connection. 1Mbps would be OK you could download this overnight then you are all good.

More interesting is:

* Build time

* Minified Production Bundle Size

* Developer Productivity

* Cross Browser / Old Browser Support

* + what romanovcode said :-)
Wow that must have taken so much courage.
No, it sounds like any large multinational. In the end, all commercial entities turn into the same thing where they only differ in branding, segment and origins.
I think Apple culture is to treat employees like customers. That is to say, like they’re 4 years old and need to accept what they’re told.
These cameras will be connected to the internet to drive profit. They will be used for mass surveillance and they will be mass hacked.
What distro? I have a T495s and I haven't had any issues with it running Arch.
‘South Park’ Episode Banned in China Screened on Hong Kong Street
Until at will employment is undermined it will be hard to enforce. An employer just wont hire/retain <40 hrs & 5 day employees?
ESPN is owned by Disney, and Disney has no problem collaborating with the CCP by spreading their propaganda.
Manjaro has become really good indeed. Good defaults too and the install process was fairly well done.
Politics Podcast: How Impeachment Is Supposed to Work
Pretty sure that just Chromium+ASOP represents more LOC than the closed source apps (gmail, yT, google maps, etc...).
I've read a reasonable amount about this and listened to a bit of the podcasts they've done.

It feels a bit too early to tell. I don't believe many researchers will switch to Swift though.
"Normally" simply means majority of humanity is lactose intolerant.
> ...sending it...

Gross.
I get your point now. Thanks for clarifying.
"Satellite data projections" that isn't a thing.

"People on here regularly confound weather" no they don't.

"The reason stuff like the ozone worked out reasonably well from a political point of view, and was eventually more or less mitigated is there weren't crazy people exaggerating things" There were, but they were the industry lobbyists against CFC regulation (https://www.wunderground.com/resources/climate/ozone_skeptic...)
> Would you do it if it also meant you made 80% of your current comp? Why or why not?

That would not be a fair discount because the number you see on your paycheck is not the full amount the company is paying to employ you. They also pay for benefits, payroll taxes, equipment, office space, management overhead, etc.

The all-in cost of an employee is closer to 150% of the number on your W2. So assuming your output goes down 20% you should be giving up 30% of your W2 salary to compensate your employer for that loss, not 20%.
Well, google cannot make their product with MS stack. But you can! So everyone using MS office online can use your product.

Even though Google docs is free, Notion is making enough money to keep it sustainable. You can do something similar.
yeah and tlp - although my guess is i think the nvidia graphics are hurting you here
Not sure about any "tribal civilization" like that, but there was a commune where this was tried, and IIRC almost everyone was depressed and jealous, and it was really horrible.
Is CoreML open source ?
China isn't going to shutdown Apple's supply chain, that's revenue to Chinese companies. The threat is that they would make it more difficult for Chinese buyers of the iPhone or put regulatory hurdles in front of Apple to make it difficult to sell iPhones in China. China is one of Apple's largest markets.
Well Facebook is just a user of compute, not a seller of it. Google and Amazon sell compute as a business. The incentives are different. Facebook, despite its size, will never be a large fraction of Linux usage, so they are much wiser to benefit from the improvements of the community and give and take from the master. Amazon sells compute so their contributions would be shared by only the three major cloud vendors.
As I was reading this wonderful thread on mobile, I got a hilarious popup asking me to rate my experience and scrolling my page all the way to the top. Hilarious!

On the plus side, their metrics will show them I now visited the web site two times as I intend to go back and continue reading. That’s engagement for ya!

Edit: there was only one reply left :(
MxNet is fantastic though. It's usually faster than tensorflow, has a pytorch like "eager" API that doesn't suck, and can still use symbolic graphs. Amazing documentation too (for the Gluon API).
Except Arch, which is miles better in hardware support because it is uses the very latest kernels
Fish is meat.

You're not sacrificing anything by eating just fish.

Maybe there's some sort of religious distinction for you, but meat is any muscle tissue from a living creature.
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What parts of gRPC are fixed by using it over QUIC vs. TCP (presuming intra-DC traffic and equally long-lived flows)?
Positive Tinfoil hat on:
The police would have used / were starting to use presence of the app as evidence that users were participant in the protest and arrested them. Or the police would have been able compromise the users, the app or the data (but then why not keep it as a honeypot?)
Keep in mind most of us don’t use our @fb.com addresses. LWN keeps track of companies by keeping track of who works where so our numbers are much higher than this list shows.
These will be the best places to live in America in 2100 A.D (emoji map)
> The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

This illustrates my pointer perfectly. This quote is just a fancy way of saying "It's great if you can get what you want without fighting."

While true, pretty much every leader since the dawn of time has known that. Darius I, sent a mission to Sparta demanding earth and water for this very reason. The advice is nicely stated, but it isn't all that practically helpful.
So, if you want to make a competitor to Google, you would need to have your own index, but it would be prohibitively expensive to make one on Google's scale. So, you would need to make a search engine wherein most websites you can simply not index, because they are clearly not what you're looking for. That way, you can "only" index the 1% or so of the internet that is in your niche. Some ideas:

- indie websites only (no news, no medium, no ecommerce, etc.), for those who want to find individuals who still maintain their own website, and say something interesting on it
- low-size websites only, for people with very low bandwidth; anything above a certain size (e.g. 1Mb) and it doesn't get indexed
- recipes (but there are some niche websites for this already)
- websites with no ads on them (but this may conflict with your business model, if you have one)
- websites focused on a certain geographic area (e.g. websites with information by, for, and about Texas, or Slovakia, or Buenos Aires)
- websites with no javascript on them (for people who want to be able to turn off javascript, but don't have a good way of finding out which websites they can still use to get a particular piece of info)
Ah yes, I remember that happening on windows xp a lot when it was waking up or between screensaver and login timeout (when they overlap), you'd even get the transition-to-welcome-screen sound so you know it only just triggered the locking just then. I suspect if you are fast you can run something before it actually locks.
Which is meaningless unless you believe that energy efficiency has only happened in the 2008-2018 period, which is not true. I happened to be working in the coal industry for most of that time and the decline isn't because people are using 40% less energy. It has nothing to do with increased efficiency. It has to do with:

1) Political action.

2) Alternative energy sources getting more competitive. Particularly natural gas, renewables and US shale oil.

You're arguing that use-of-energy efficiency can cause a decline in coal production. That is wrong; if you use energy more efficiently I'll mine more coal - I've met the people who make that sort of decision. Coal is declining for other reasons - mainly that alternative sources are getting cheaper (which is not using energy more efficiently).
I don't know if you just skimmed the article or deliberately misrepresenting its arguments to make your point. Either way, this behavior deserves a downvote in my book.

> Guy installed beta software and it was buggy. STOP THE PRESSES!!!!

The author is describing the experience on the stable point-zero release of the OS. He only mentions beta to set up the context.

> "I'm a pro user, I've functionally given escalated privs to apps that steal my data, every Electron container POS ever written, and 100 open standards only Chrome supports. How DARE Apple ask desktop users for permissions on upgrade!?!?!? Keep that security stuff for smartphone users – filthy casuals."

That's pretty much the opposite of what the author is actually saying in the article. You're misrepresenting quite agressively.

> Forgot Password

Sure, that's possible. It's also entirely possible, given poor overall quality of the release, that it's an OS' fault.

> Somehow my hostname changed during a system update.

Are you saying it's not an issue worth mentioning? I disagree.
I'd be surprised if sites had permission to read a chrome-extension:// URL. That'd be a sizable privacy leak.
Gaming became the next front in the war over Hong Kong
Julia is a fantastic language. If I did original research I would use it, but I'm in industry and focus on productionalizing things.
> Permanent removal from China would probably be worse for freedom in China over 20 years,

I'm curious about how you came to this conclusion.
I did try with Plasma on both Kubuntu and Arch at 1.2 and in both cases some controls had very ugly and/or blurry fonts and some were fine. The inconsistencies were too annoying.
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GeohashPhrase looks quite brilliant. Will there be an open source implementation? I hope so -- it's hard to see it gaining traction against w3w without it, and it is undeniably better.
Why haven't they banned other police tracking apps like waze?
Thank you all for the recommendations!
Give yourself some credit, you might not use it productively initially, but once that was out of your system...
It's not mature of him. Bullying is not a valid filtering process; it's childish violence. He's clearly still dealing with the lies he was told by the people around him. If you have this sort of self-hating perspective, you should seek therapy, because you don't have to live that way.
Wait for a kickstarter for a phone-gun hybrid with a "shoot" button available to the phone.
Using a device that gets regular security updates.
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The company sells a license for the use of the software into perpetuity as opposed to selling a subscription which limits the window of time the software may be used. A perpetual license would mean that the company could not legally withdraw your ability to use the software and could be held civilly liable.

Think Steam.
What do you mean when you say "organize"?
the genius of w3w is that address phrases are really short and easy to read and remember and input into any kind of device, over voice or via text. And 40k dictionary never seemed a problem with w3w, cause it is easier to remember 3 words, even the ones which meaning you don't even know than to remember a 8-char long string filled with random characters.

GeohashPhrase is an improvement, but still, the phrases in sample docs are just 3-4 words too long.
Because they would be replaced by local Chinese companies.

Are you saying that would have no effect on freedom for the users?
No, you can't. Brain serotonin regulating according to social dominance heirarchies is as old and natural as time itself.
All of the sources mentioned in the article describe the Romavisaya as a "legend". It's unclear whether or not it has a real connection with any ancient device, although some of the sources suggest that the legend was inspired by ancient technology (which would have been much more limited than the devices in the story).

This article refers to the account as a "story", "legend", or "tale" deriving from "oral traditions". Since all of the actual robot content is repeatedly said to come from a "legend", I don't think the article's author is trying to convince you that this actually happened historically!
>Permanent removal from China would probably be worse for freedom in China over 20 years

How does Apple advance freedom in China?
I agree but like you said it's a real issue.

Another issue is that not all USB-C cables to HDMI work either because I think I read somewhere that Nintendo didn't follow the HDMI specs.

It's not USB-C's fault of course but I've never seen so many issues with USB1, 2, or 3.
This is a common question but particularly unfair on a post about Macs.

Buy hardware that ships with Linux, such as a Dell XPS that ships with Ubuntu pre-installed, and it'll work fine.

Try to install on some random hardware, and of course you may have issues depending on who has volunteered what quality of drivers for that hardware.

The same applies to all Apple hardware. Nobody expects to install macOS on some random hardware, so why in a comparison to Macs is this a concern?
How would permanent removal be worse? iMessage is not magically more free than other messaging apps available in China.
You are probably segregated away from where the real work is happening. This is by design, because you haven't proven yourself yet or they don't trust you yet. Good work is being done in Apple every day. You're just not a part of it and are not seeing it.
I would recommend reading again what i wrote, its not that i view anyone as undeserving but that a German crashcouse doesnt benefit you if you are back in Afghanistan in a year. German is not a valuable skill. Speaking English or you know, Pashto, is.

The system simply assumes people will be staying, reality looks different. If entering the German school system is something you want to do, the current system is still nonsense. It assumes people will be able to learn a second language overnight and comprehend the course material in a language they dont speak in the same time as people whos first language this is. For that more time is simply needed.
Recently, a guy I know who is a chiropractor has been telling me how much he loves PEMF devices. He got one to use on his patients and said that a lot of pro athletes are using PEMF devices to speed up recovery from injury or just regular exertion. There are other benefits as well, according to him.

What I found really interesting was not the stated usage about increased bloodflow and other things from these electromagnetic pulses, but when he told me that being the curious individual he was the first thing he did with it was to wrap it around his head to see what would happen. He said he mind was racing and he felt like his brain was running at twice the normal pace. He said there was so much going through his head he couldn't stop talking. The effects wear off but it got me wondering if that's a sort of body hack one could do to maximize their work performance, albeit on a lower pulse strength so you're not pissing everyone off yapping all day.
I guess you never used React Native then，talk about a hotmess that was broken with each release.