skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI/ML can be used to analyse the current state of things, and in that regard I think your statement is correct.

It can also be used to make predictions and decisions.

The question "Is this person likely to be a programmer?" would probably accurately identify a man as more likely to be a programmer, revealing the bias in the data and our society.

But "Is this person suited to be a programmer?" sounds similar but is a very different question and we shouldn't confuse the two, especially when letting a machine decide.
I'm constantly shocked by how any mention of blockchains is enough make masses of HNers look like absolute luddites. It's just another datastructure that happens to have an above-average level of hype surrounding it.
I would pay a premium for NOT having a touch bar. I want physical keys for brightness/volume etc.
The Linux desktop is still a clusterfuck today. Bill Gates doing bad stuff 20 years ago has nothing to do with it.
You've weakened the claim a lot. Do you mean competitive with the New York Times, or competitive with The Register?
> Docker is the single best thing to happen to software deployment in 20 years

Something like Docker may eventually hold this title, but Docker itself? Certainly not. It was simply too poorly executed, both strategically but especially technically.

Running production workloads in Docker containers was, is, and will be remembered as nothing short of professional negligence. Often expedient, sometimes worth the risk, but always a liability.
I hope so too. Let's check out the definition of discrimination.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discrimination

>1. prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment

Hm. Let's check out the definition of sexism again.

>1. prejudice or discrimination based on sex

Prejudice or discrimination. And discrimination also means prejudiced or prejudicial...since I'm not a tech person like yourself I wouldn't know what 'or' means, it's too complicated for me, but I think I do know what 'and' means: for example, you are wrong about your definition of sexism, and about your definition of discrimination, and about your use of 'or'.

This is great, I love learning new tech concepts on tech forums from tech experts.
> I'd concluded that Apple didn't really think much of laptops anymore, and had simply moved on to caring more about other form factors: it seemed a logical conclusion if one assumed that people at Apple were in fact competent.

Counterpoint, I love the new keyboards and hate using anything else. Amazing how far people go in assuming their opinion is correct, and then just keep going from there.
It would take years for most software engineers to write material up to the questionable standards of journalism, but you could have them writing functional articles in a weekend. You won't have most journalists writing functional code in a weekend, even if you don't hold them to the questionable standards of software development. Practically every field is deeper than a single human can delve in their lifetime, but that doesn't mean that every field has an equally high barrier of entry.
Wearables identify sleep-associated markers of disease risk and biological aging
"Humans color-correct image using color-correction assistant tool".
I believe the point is who pays if it breaks.
Every state has adopted K-12 CS policy
Rotation matrices are hermitian. It's a popular science article, but the author is alluding to the fact that Hermitian matrices have real eignenvalues. In quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, all _physically observable quantities_ of a system can be expressed as the eigenvalues of a set of a (matrix) operator associated with that quantity acting on basis states in the Hilbert space of the system. This makes sense a posteriori since we have no idea how we would interpret e.g. complex-valued energy or momentum.

Edit: electricslpnsld correctly points out that the first sentence is false, see below.
Have to ask: for all you jj / jk mappers, don’t you end up triggering this by accident when you’re just cruising around your code?
Except the adjective in this case is sufficient as a noun on its own. Unless you want to bring capitalism in for ulterior motives.
I've bought from both, IIRC when I bought from Amazon it was cheaper because Zappos was only selling the current year's model but someone on Amazon was selling the previous year's for less. I don't think I got counterfits, if I did I never noticed.

I've also noticed Zappos is also frequently out of stock in a lot of sizes, it seems very plausible they could be out of stock on a color or size that's in stock on amazon.com.
The point is not that you can't do those things, the point is that it's been made more difficult for little to no discernible benefit.

Apple has been going down this path of making thinness such a high priority that utility has become a second class citizen. So yeah I can carry around dongles for everything, but why? So the side of my MacBook Pro can have pleasing congruity in it's ports?

It is good that Apple has moved towards a standard port rather than just slapping 4 Thunderbolts on there. But the loss of HDMI, USB a, and sd card slots makes for more hassle with little upside, not to mention they did away with magsafe.

At least they fixed the keyboard and upgraded memory in a bug way, so maybe things are headed in the right direction now.
Seems like an opportunity to make an platform with an app for notifications as service.
https://xkcd.com/1364/
yes, sorry for being terse.
Okay, how do you implement efficient ML with terrible quality data?
If anything, I'd remap capslock to be escape.
Then there is this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn9nw2OIeZU
You can run FireWire over usb-c form factor.
A privacy-focused browser that took money from the Palantir guy. Hard pass. That's before considering the CEO's past, unexplained donation to a hate campaign spearheaded by the Mormon church.
I meant Bali the island, sorry
You shouldn't be happy that they added that back, you should be pissed that they took it out in the first place, well knowing how many developers use Mac.
Purely client-side. The data never leaves your device so I believe your concern here is misplaced.
but why when scrolling instead of when the app is initialized?
See the Wikipedia article - it mentions several further purposes both separate from and contained in the notion of a militia.
>Diamonds cannot be resold, the money may as well have been burned

I wonder how much money you'd have to actually burn to extract enough carbon to create a decently sized diamond from it
Maybe they should add a notch?
For the house I recently purchased, it's a little over 1% of the house value every year, based on reconstruction cost and flood zone classification. Is it artificially low? I don't think so, at leaat for my circumstances.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows
and
https://www.cnet.com/news/microsofts-1994-consent-decree-boo...

Till 1994, Microsoft charged OEMs based on the total number of computers they sold, not based on how many of them had Windows.

Now, whether Linux's low desktop market share in 2019 is because of a practice that happened from 1983-1994 is a different question.
Glad to see this here. Really a good and funny listen, but it’s not just comedy, it’s also top quality satire — you laugh, but it also makes you think.
You live with what you have.
Tourists are both invading and bringing money, both a curse and a blessing.

Some cultures seem more fit than others to deal with it.

Some are overwhelmed, others learn to manage.
The data migration connector will not help much in cases where your laptop and your local backup disk are destroyed.

My setup backs up to both local and networked disks (both disks listed in Time Machine, so backups alternate between them). The networked disk is actually a folder in a Debian VM that, from time to time, sends the backup to AWS.

A bit paranoid, but little added effort (figuring out and setting everything up took about an afternoon).
Sir Rod Stewart donates to Market Deeping Model Railway Club https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-48332649

Vandals damaged model railway exhibition, Rod made a donation to help restore it.
FEMA sent us the NFIP claim history when we bought the house, and based on the amount paid out and risk of recurrence, versus the premium we pay, I think our premium is fair. Interestingly, despite being inland in New Jersey the two claims correlate with two hurricane strikes (Floyd and Sandy). The river we are on is pretty small and only rises when there is heavy rain (and starts falling almost as soon as the rain stops).
Mobile slack is a terrible UX for short term engagement.
To me, the strange thing about this concept is the emphasis on textual code. There is still a screen and a keyboard, they are just projected or on paper. I think I would enjoy more something like a cable-patch interface. I would draw an integrator on a piece of paper, draw a line to a plot window, also just a rectangle on that paper, draw and an incoming signal from a generator to the integrator, then play with that. Something more like Bret Victors previous demos on dynamic exploration and simulation.
100% show stopper and most people are glossing right over it.
I'm glad Bill Gates won on desktop. Clearly he knew what was best for the world given that his operating system simply works, while all Linux distros do an extremely poor job at simply working and therefore haven't managed to reach normal non-technical people at all, and likely never will because the community seems filled with people who have a similar "it's not our fault" mentality. I've seen this post upvoted in multiple Linux communities now and it's just sad to see that the community mostly seems to agree with this kind of trash.

>However, what it is about, is the question: why is Bill Gates not in jail for life with all his wealth stripped off? He’s a criminal, and his crime has directly harmed us, the people working on free software, on the Linux Desktop.

How about this, under the Capitalist Manifesto I hereby declare that all open source developers be jailed for their crimes against humanity. If you sell your labor for free you're a menace to society as you're distorting labor markets and you should be stopped for causing all this harm.
> the marketing team is honestly stupid if they don't do this. If a customer has purchased something, companies do everything they can to encourage a repeat purchase. Part of that is offering newsletters on updates for new products or sales.

Everyone unchecks those boxes anyway. The ones that don't and actually want that crap are engaged enough in the product/company that they'd gladly sign up for the spam if you asked right on the front page or anywhere else but the checkout screen. Why annoy the crap out of 99% of your customers so that you can catch that 1%?
I think a big part of the lack of Linux (desktop) adoption is the DIY/ hobbyist vibe that it continues to put off. The consensus among the Linux community is that for the regular non-techie consumer, all they need is a web browser and an office suite. That’s missing a key part of the equation: Linux desktops simply aren’t available in regular stores for people to see.

Sony has a similar issue with their smartphone division. For whatever reason, they are no longer displaying their products in cell phone carrier stores in the US. The consumer doesn’t even have the chance to think about a Sony product before making the commitment to a competitor, forming a good relationship with that manufacturer, and repeating the cycle to avoid change.

Why aren’t Linux laptops in best buy or the military department stores?
It looks like the trial dataset in this case is simply a truncated subset of the full dataset (only San Francisco zip code boundaries). It would likely remain free forever under this model of "trial".
They have been describing this as shipping (in the Dell systems mentioned) for a while, I would guess 2 years. It isn't clear to me where the hardware is going or why the company hasn't made more of a splash if performance is so good.
Worth considering: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07474938.2013.80...
FWIW I successfully did some work on a United 787 in cattle class (economy) with my 15" macbook pro in a middle seat. It was tight, but it helped that the guy in the window seat fell asleep leaning to the wall... But yeah, I might resurrect my old trusty 2011 macbook air for situations like this...
Time and effort? ML already finds lung cancer better than human radiologists, so it’s clear there are datasets that are of sufficient quality. We continue to improve datasets wherever possible.
Similar experience - I was recently at a neighborhood get-together and discussion came up around how everyone was benefiting from property price rises and considering second homes (rentals, batches/holiday homes).

It weirded me out but for a different reason: I couldn't avoid thinking about income inequality and dropping home ownership among younger generations in our country. Having a discussion about acquiring additional properties to seek rental income or to sit vacant for the majority of the year, and not factoring in that big issue, just didn't sit right with me. Not wanting to derail the mood or upset my neighbors, I just didn't actively participate. But I've been stewing on it for days since.

Back on the topic of waterfront real estate, there have been some really interesting articles linked on HN recently about Miami's situation - seemingly irrational activity happening in a city facing straight into the threat of rising ocean levels: https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/
DoorDash raises 100M at 13B Valuation
> It really doesn't need a source.

If the claim is that it is the main problem, I think it does need a source, and by reading the abstract it doesn't seem like yours is one.
diff on mobile? you mean adapting a UI based on 80ish monospace characters to a screen that fits in your pocket?

I don't think anything is impossible but it almost seems we would have to code differently for that to be viable.

Out of curiosity I've checked out terminal apps for both Android and IOS (Termux and ISH) and I like them quite a bit but would never use them for anything serious. Try them out and how you feel about using them for real stuff - for me, the enthusiasm dwindled and I felt like waiting until I had access to a desktop.

There's lots of room for improvement but they should focus on the more social aspects of Github like Issues and pull request discussion.
> Upgradability is good if you intend to make a lower initial investment and increase capacity at a later point. This laptop is not a toy and, if you are buying one, it's reasonable to expect a return on your investment.

Not clear on your meaning here. Are you saying that upgradability increases ROI, and that it is something one should expect in a professional laptop? If so, I agree.
Nothing there says or indicates anything about preventing takeovers. Preventing is a strict subset of defending against.
It's a bit different. To have real eigenvalues (ie all observables) you need to have hermetian operators. They were working on the hamiltonian operator, which is hermetian since its eigenvalues are energies (ie are observable and are thus real numbers)
I wholeheartedly agree. I don't answer the phone for unknown numbers unless I'm expecting a call from an unknown number; the expectation will have been set up via prior correspondence.

Unfortunately, not everyone can do that. Some people are legally required to answer the phone, even if they don't recognize the number. And unfortunately many businesses only communicate via the phone system.

So, unfortunately, our entire country is built upon a system in which we're told to implicitly trust but doesn't have any capability for us to verify.
Will this affect Bloomberg's business?
Contracts. You, as Microsoft, tell Dell and HP they can either pay for a license for Windows for every computer they sell regardless of whether or not they install Windows, or they cannot have a single license for Windows. Dell and HP then choose: Hope people accept linux/BSD/Other and stop selling windows, or sell windows and pay some extra.

Nothing illegal about it unless you are exploiting a monopoly (which Microsoft did according to the author of the post).
Anyone who think Venice shouldn't have been built on islands in the first place is ignorant of history. Since it was built on islands in the centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, it had protection that other cities didn't have. People migrated to those islands to be able to live in peace and not be bothered. People criticizing that decision don't understand the circumstances under which it happened.

Those islands protected Venice from roaming armies looking to sack something and its separation from the mainland and reliance on a trading network also eventually led to it becoming a maritime trading power.

Even if they had somehow been able to foresee that the city would slowly be sinking a thousand or more years in the future, they still would have chosen the protection and eventual trade wealth that the location of Venice brought. They wouldn't have lived to see the sinking of the city anyway.

It makes me sad that such a city is slowly dying and I hope to visit before it is too late.
It's probably because these are the best hand picked results they could come up with (and also, crucially, _worst_ for the competition), and mlperf has a fixed set of tasks and you don't get to do that. I've done this shit professionally: if you're given full freedom wrt the choice of the task and configuration, you can easily make it seem like your competition sucks beyond belief. You can "prove" that a CPU is faster than a GPU without much trouble. :-) And yet NVIDIA still dominates most rankings, mostly, even though in absolute terms it's nowhere near the fastest or the most efficient option (that'd be the TPU, on some tasks, at the moment). With so many performance cliffs in the hardware tooling is super important, and NVIDIA is the only viable acceleration option that has any meaningful tooling at all.

Caveat emptor: the published numbers (_any_ numbers, not just Graphcore's) are mostly bullshit unless code is also published and hardware is available for independent measurement. There's no way you're getting the claimed 13TFLOPs out of your shiny new NVIDIA GPU. Take an off the shelf resnet50 (4GFLOPS) and witness it run at about 700 samples per second, which pencils out to 2.8TFLOPs not 13. Still amazing (and still easily 10x the high end CPU throughput), but perf claims are often exaggerated by as much as 10x even by big names, let alone startups.
Option 0 is no longer an option because ads are no longer just ads. They are malicious trackers that collect as much data about you as possible and sell it all over the place. It's unethical for a site to even host such "ads" as a method of monetization.
I'm astonished by the sheer ignorance and under-appreciation of journalism.

First, good journalism is extraordinarily important. (In case that's not obvious in times of Brexit and Trump I can expand on this. Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg released their documents to journalists.) Sure, most stories are not that important, but they are still an important part of a community.

Second, journalism is not trivial. Good writing is hard. Understanding a subject that you're not necessarily an expert in enough to explain it to others is hard. (Have a look at most documentation!)

Third, many journalists are not only very well educated, but with an admirable idealism (well, initially) and a desire to make the world a better place (really better, not peddling ads). A friend of mine was science journalist, and he had studied physics, philosophy, and psychology (with a PhD in the philosophy of mind).

The decline of journalism is something to lament (and I don't how their coding ability has any bearing on the subject whatsoever).

To put it in economic terms: I submit that the good work of journalists has massive positive externalities, while the work of lots of techies has huge negative externalities.
Nobody said anything about efficient markets.

Let me simplify this. If you were to lease a car the only way it ends up better for you as the lessee is if you can negotiate a residual value that's lower than the price you can sell the car at at time of lease expiration. In many cases, with cars, you can do that. Computers, not so much. And with software under the subscription model you have nothing to recoup at the end.

If you have some example of this working in the consumers favor feel free to share. But I've worked for vendors. The subscription model has never been an advantage or positive for the buyer. Not once.
Yeah, they do. They might drop a few packets during a partial reconfiguration if a stream is still in progress, but that's bound to happen anyway on routing changes.
Does this yield a more parallelizable algorithm compared to what we had previously?
Right conclusion but wrong timeline and wrong OS! The big loser here was not Linux, it was Be, makers of BeOS.

BeOS was ahead of its time. It had a modern GUI, where each window had a dedicated thread. It had a fantastic filesystem, with journaling and database-like searching. Very advanced.

Be tried very hard to get OEMs to ship BeOS. But Microsoft's "per-processor" licensing meant that OEMs were charged for Windows on every computer they sold, even those without Windows.

At the end, Be was offering to license BeOS for free to any OEM that would ship it as the default OS (even allowing dual boot), and still had no takers. Then they tried to license BeOS to Apple, but they misplayed their hand and Apple went with NeXT. That was that.

By the time Linux became plausible on the desktop, the per-processor licenses were gone.
https://gist.github.com/cdleon/ae1542279598fe80f527400cc354a...

is a pretty good exlanation.
Indeed, but interestingly enough the book, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, only has 9 mentions of the word computer and zero for supercomputer.

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

https://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/14391...
Setting aside the rewards program, people can and will use ad-blockers. Even if those were illegal for some reason, there are lists available (such as hosts, https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts) where you can make known tracking/advertising/etc hostnames non-routable

Are you saying that site owners should feel violated by folks installing ad-blockers (or using host files)?
Is it Blueprint[0] you're talking about? It doesn't seem to be a reimplementation.

[0] https://github.com/square/Blueprint
Sure docker is not perfect but isn't running docker containers mainstream practice now? I think your response is a bit of exaggeration.
The Tax Office in Australia does the same thing and push it every time I call, I imagine it branches out to the other gov bodies too. It's fun listening to the whole spiel about 'Like a fingerprint your voice is unique to you'.
Every now and then a system with Ubuntu installed makes it to retail shelves. I dubt they sell well since you need something really special (like the very nice build quality on the old aluminium MacBook, with most consumers knowing or seeing someine able to use them) to consider the jump.
The Arctic World Archive description says: "The film technology relies on silver halides on polyester. This medium has a lifespan of 500 years as measured by the ISO; simulated aging tests indicate Piql’s film will last twice as long."

Why not use a much more accessible medium like M-DISC, which claims a lifespan of at least 1,000 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
Yes. Tech is probably developing faster than our ability to adapt.
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