skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the language choice does make a big difference.

Python has the GIL meaning parallelism comes at the cost of increased memory and CPU consumption because it's typically going to spin up multiple copies of the Python interpreter and your application. This is also true of Ruby, so it applies both to Gitlab and Quay.

Quay uses Gunicorn which uses pre-fork model which means spinning up multiple processes of Quay which can lead to increased CPU and memory requirements. Obviously you need multiple cores to take proper advantage of multiple processes, and multiple processes each result in multiple copies of the same application running, thus more memory.

This is kind of a fact of using something like Python or Ruby unless you design your application to use an event driven architecture with something like twisted, tulip, async, tornado, etc. Even then, unless you have async versions of the libraries your using (eg: your DB driver) that won't necessarily remove your need for multiple processes.
Ever been on one of those wee trains at an airport?
This is more nuanced. And StackOverflow as a website themselves are part to blame. They cannot seem to make up their mind if they are there to help the people who ask questions, or if their task is to construct a database of problem-answer pairs for future reference, like a type of programming encyclopedia.

For the longest time everyone on the site believed it to be the "database" model. And helping individual users with their questions is not part of it. Under this framework answerers who downvote are simply doing what they are expected to do - weeding out poor entries from the encyclopedia. And the person who asks a question has no right to expect an answer, as stated in their 2011 blog entry:

> We believe asking questions on our site is a privilege, not a right. [1]

However recently they seem to be moving away from that model and only time will tell what it morphs in to.

[1] https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-...
Wondering the same thing!
It appears so.

There is a possible argument that selling an ad that will use PII to target consumers to a 3rd party advertiser constitutes a “sale” however.
Why the "without"?

$10/mo (for 2TB) and the photos are promptly backed up, and transferred to your Mac. Full-res, backed up remotely, stored locally. Deliberate transfer becomes "already there".
After research labs big oil has always been the 2nd largest client for supercomputers for decades. It's even mentioned in 90s films Hackers[0] as "The Gibson."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)
Well, any history book should do.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing

Women were litterally employed as computers ca. WWII. When the transition was made to programmable machines, they were in majority the first ones to use, operate, program and design algorithms for them. The field was regarded as uninteresting, tedious, and not real engineering by their male counterparts.
This exactly.

So few people understand this. Even engineers who undervalue salespeople misunderstand this as well.

No matter what your job is, at a company you either cost money or you bring in money.

You want to be on the "bring in money" side of the business 99 times out of 100. The career path of being "obviously valuable" and a bottom-line employee is difficult. While I've been there and it's rewarding, one change in management where someone comes in who doesn't "get it" and you're screwed (and usually so is the company).
Slightly off topic, but what are some traditions that connect us to our ancestors in modern western society? I honestly can’t think of any as a Kiwi living in Australia with a Scottish ancestry and that makes me a bit sad now that I think about it
"Back in the day" we used to have physical machines places. A DC catching fire (or flooding, getting hit by lightning, or etc. etc.) meant "manual failover" and a day of restoring backups.

(And that was best case, if your infrastructure and deployment scripts were up-to-date. Most people's weren't; probably the ratio is only slightly better today.)
Given caller ID spoofing, they really shouldn't even accept calls from numbers they do recognize... especially with tech like this. Let it go to voice mail then return the call afterwards.
This question might be out of place, but why should I trust ML algorithms for my health? To be a doctor you need at least a decade of education and training, as well as licensing and adherence to a code of ethics. To be a tech bro you just need to get hired. You don't even need a degree. You could come to work stoned and as long as your boss doesn't notice, you're fine and can continue to write the code that my health could rely on.
if the function address is in l1 cache, and has no parameters, its about like an l1 cache I think.

if its in ram, then like ram.

then size/amount of parameters affects it, and its not continuous because at some threshold compilers may start doing it differently.
The angle in the facets of the point has to be right to keep the light bouncing back out through the face and not right out the bottom, and it's determined by the physical properties of the material. For silicon carbide the index of refraction is higher, so the light will be bent more sharply when it enters, resulting in greater separation of white light into color components ("fire") and necessitating shallower angles in the point to maximize internal reflection
It's really bad that the author propagates the idea that complex numbers are not real physical phenomena because maths uses the term 'imaginary'.
I think that's right.

My wife is a practical, pragmatic person. But she wanted a diamond ring. She felt sheepish about wanting one.

The expense wasn't the appeal, and she's never been interested in signaling consumer goods otherwise like clothes, purses, fashion, jewelry, cars etc. If I had gotten a rarer, more expensive stone that was not a diamond, she would not have liked it as much. The cultural element of the diamond ring was a big part of the appeal.
Many companies have adopted a one-size fits all approach, whereby the most restrictive legislation applies, regardless of jurisdiction where they do business. This reduces costs by minimizing duplication where possible. I suspect Microsoft's approach was likely driven in part by the additional costs needed to support two compliance regimes for their various products.
It depends on the conditions.

If it’s a painful process that requires I stay strapped to a machine forever, I’d pay nothing. If it’s a single pill with no harmful side-effects, you can have my firstborn if I ever change my mind about having children.

If you have the technology, you may be on your way to becoming the first trillionaire[0].

This was a curious question to come across, as I was just rereading about turritopsis dohrnii, the immortal jellyfish[1].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21509617

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii
I do wonder how the prices stalk up historically, adjusted for inflation. Flagship iPhones apparently are getting more expensive[1].

[1]: https://digg.com/2018/iphone-prices
I've been using a macbook with one USB C port happily for a few years. When I need more ports, I use the multiport dongle:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MUF82AM/A/usb-c-digital-a...

What more do you need?
I've seen this table many times and I'm always surprised it doesn't include register.
Lots of people competing for a small number of jobs does tend to put downward pressure on wages.
Finland has a law like this.
if you save 1 second in a program used 1000 times each by 1 millions people....
OMG I think you've just explained my wife's obsession with frequent-flyer points to me. (And she flies a lot, which is a desirable prerequisite.)
To be honest, I am also really surprised by the apologism and the creative possible reasons that people come up with (e.g. "Apple couldn't handle the traffic the increased resolution would cause"). But you're right, I didn't say it is a dealbreaker for me and it actually isn't. It is still very likely that I buy this machine - yet stuff like this bothers me, especially at the price point that Apple is commanding.

Imagine buying the top of the class Mercedes S-Class only to find out that the steering wheel is far worse than the ones that Mercedes uses in other models - you'd somehow feel cheated.
Would the doctors take fewer appointments per day and make less money? Or do doctors get paid by the hour?
In a similar vein, there's "This Sounds Serious," an investigation of a weatherman found drowned on his waterbed. https://www.thissoundsserious.com/season1

(Oooh, there's a season 2!)
And perhaps reconsider doing business with companies whose business practices you find objectionable
Reading between the lines, it's pretty obvious that the enterprise business did NOT generate enough revenue to keep the lights on.
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May want to value-prop it - Spend Money to Make Money.

Or, Spend Money to become someone who Makes Money.

No charge, hang onto the 10-99
Forget being forced to use it, I'd like to not be forced to pay for it. How much does the price of the MBP go up because of all of the parts required for the touch bar?
Please take this comment as intended to be helpful, not rude:

I wouldn't pay money to learn web or mobile technologies from a site that didn't display well on mobile.
Identity is much more than a name, a mail address or a credit card. Blockchain transparency means anyone can trace all your transactions.
E-mail newsletters announcing new features or options are not "coercing" you to do anything.

You clicked it, failed to know the ramifications of 2FA (which GitHub does spell out), and didn't secure your backup codes.

Take some responsibility instead of blame shifting.
I wonder if a Bayesian approach couldn't be taken to try to remain free of that bias, since it's basically designed for this (a system you can only observe part of).
so instead of spying on the level of websites, it is moving to the level of a browser? And not only aggregated clicks, but detailed statistics of browsing time per user?

Meh.
I have extreme doubts that anyone could take a room full of software engineers and start a functioning news organization the next day. We're not even good at estimating the amount of effort it takes to get things done in our own field (witness "I could have built Stack Overflow in a weekend"); I think we all need a lot more humility about what it takes to do other people's jobs.
Yes. Stripe Billing (https://stripe.com/billing) supports recurring invoicing (e.g. subscriptions) and non-recurring invoices.
I'd prefer if those people had some sort of income so they could do what they're doing full time. Do you have any sort of idea for how that would work or do you just dislike the current system without any prescription for a better one? (The patreon model still requires people to follow your content, and subscribers help with that)
I would prefer to have u2f devices but be able to trust some tokens from friends and family without having to have them present at every registration, kind of like having a spare key with someone for every lock. I guess I'm not really worried about my relatives socially engineering my GitHub password out of me.
Very intersting, thanks. This could make a great sci-fi story, btw.
Me too. I actually have been ordering online from Best Buy and either getting it same-day or getting it in 1-2 days when it ships from a warehouse. There's no reason to buy from Amazon anymore.
and... I'm feeling it because I just bought the 15" $2799 model 5 months ago, couldn't justify the extra $ on a 1TB model, and now it's built in. :/
I was referring to THC-laden flower, not pre-rolled ‘hemp’.
I bought a 1 TB Samsung T5 SSD for Time machine backups on a 512GB 15” MacBook Pro that I bought recently. With that and a Yubikey (with an off-site backup Yubikey of course), I’ve got everything I need if I ever have my laptop stolen or rendered inoperable. I’ve also got another older spinning rust external hard disk for backups, but that’s more of a backup of a backup thing.
Similarly covered at Coding Horror: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-infinite-space-between-wor...
DS9 also used models! CGI came with Voyager, notably using Amigas with Video Toaster.

They had been extremely reluctant to use CGI up to that point, despite many efforts to persuade.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/CGI
I’m fine with them. My issue with ads is the data/cpu use and the malware. I ignored ads for 15 years or so before getting my first ad blocker.

I’m not against ads that aren’t intrusive and don’t mine my data and try to target me.

I’m not against targeted ads because I think the ads are bad. I’m against the data necessary to target ads because it can be misused (law enforcement, politics, mental health, etc).
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How do you like your beef old-style cow or 3D-printed?
The specific change I would like to see is to really raise the bar on what is considered a duplicate.

I think a rule could be "if someone with a decent track record (for some definition of decent, maybe 100 points? 1000?) felt the need to ask it, it's not a duplicate." The bar could be raised in other ways as well, but this one I think would reward people who have done the work to be a positive part of the community.

We all have varying degrees of ability to generalize the principle of one answer to another. The other part of this is that you get better at asking questions through practice, which is hard to get early on. At this point, most problems I can't answer are good questions or too specific, but it took a while and I don't want SO to be the place where only those with 5-10 years in can get help.
Awesome, can I get this but 12" and without the touchbar? In fact can I just get a 12" powerbook with new guts?
This totally doesn't mean they're giving up on Libra!

Just effectively.
I'd expect the development of healthcare related machine intelligence/assistance technologies to be heavily regulated, in the same way medical devices are by the FDA.

50% of doctors graduate in the lower half of their class each year. Lots of low hanging fruit with ML if implemented properly (big if, I know).
>Yeah, alright, because marketing and the higher-ups will be totally a-ok with all of those missed opportunities...not?

I've definitely just aborted out of a purchase flow for pretty much all of these things. You're supposed to be making profits, not happiness for your marketing team.
Imagine they offered the same configuration with and without TouchBar, with the model with TouchBar costing $400 more - how many people would choose the model with? I bet less than 5%.

Is Apple afraid to offer this because it clearly would show that almost no one is ready to pay for it?

Even from this audience, who of you would be willing to pay the premium for the TouchBar?
I’ve never managed to like Python as a language, but I used to recommend it to beginners as a learning language. Mostly because you can do real things in it.

But I don’t much care for how the Python community has failed to produce a language, practice and tool chain that plays nice with users. It is a somewhat selfish and anti-social language environment that forces users to care about things they shouldn’t have to care about.
I feel old and decrepit when I read this. I could remember enough to mentally link eigenvalues with matrices, but that's all. It makes me sad to think of all the maths I have forgotten.
Computer science should have been called "Computer math".
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You implicitly did make an argument about income inequality when you said that other jobs are underpaid compared to software developers. You're now walking that argument back, which is fine, but you should just do that, rather than accusing people making the obvious rebuttal of attacking straw men.
I would pay more to a website that offers Apple Pay just for the convenience.
Target disk won't help you if one of the critical ICs on the mobo dies.
That site ranks laptops by tech support, not reliability.

You don't need to look far to see Apples failures

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/apple-apologizes-for...

Keep in mind that on something like a Lenovo, if a keyboard fails, it takes 2 days to order a new one from amazon for a very cheap price, and 10 minutes to swap it.
I suspect people who were around for the dotcom bubble, or who have worked on consumer software back when it had gold master dates, don't read it as an exaggeration. I did not, and know several people who worked non-stop 30-60 hour shifts for various reasons.

In my case one had genuine clinical manic episodes and was open about his mental illness; another seriously burnt out; older friends in the games industry spoke of multi-month post-launch vacations (back in the late 90s) to cool off.
The special port has been removed from the later models because it never worked.
That wasn't entirely my point, however. The training set was only a part of the problem, which in its totality was that the developers failed to consider that the functioning of their system could be affected by the biases they didn't even know they had, in this case of being more likely to see light-skinned faces as belonging to a human.

Their failure was not just in lacking diverse training sets, but diverse QA, or at least QA looking for those blindspots which eventually became evident.

So, correct, it's not as simple as having "sufficient" data.
> That would mean a significant portion of my monthly spending (much more than $200) would have to be directly driven by advertising. Is advertising really that effective?

That's why I believe a lot of value all these trackers provide to various companies is not so much the typical 'buy this product now' pop-up that you're thinking, but instead more nefarious value-adds.

Maybe that mortgage or car loan rate you applied for came back a little higher than others would have received on the same day. Perhaps that collection agency decided they wouldn't discount the medical bills because they know 'you can afford it'. I've seen several sites give me one price when I was logged in without an ad blocker, and then a lower price after clearing my cookies.

There is no way insurance companies aren't paying huge amounts of data to calculate rates offered to individuals based on thousands of data points. I imagine the government itself would be able to take advantage of user data in all sorts of clever ways - everything from solving crimes to catching tax cheats to provide better and cheaper background investigations for the millions who require it.

Companies interviewing candidates could save thousands on each potential hire if they could quickly have an algorithm avoid the 75% of candidates they wouldn't consider hiring anyway.

There are just so many ways companies can statistically make a few extra percent here or avoid an expensive loss there, it will be used until the government disallows it, which apparently isn't going to happen anytime soon in most countries.
Humans can recognize tyranny but never do anything about it. Bullying, abusive relationships, and slavery are some examples of this reality. Once you recognize the form of tyranny, you can put a name to it and act.

I don't know the exact reasons people put up with tyranny. I suspect every situation is somewhat unique. However, answering that question would allow many future harms to be prevented.

The American revolutionaries declared King George III a tyrant, but that couldn't be the end; open rebellion would mean certain harm or death. So, they acted. They made a case for taking up arms against the crown. They then resolved to become independent (found in the Lee Resolution/"Resolution of Independence"). Two days later, they declared independence. And they fought. Note, though, that the Revolution required the recognition of tyranny.
Well, maybe what I wrote was redundant then.
It is great to hear that Brave is indeed doing more than just proxy.

It has a great UX already and with VPN0 announced a month or so back, Brave is really pushing the envelope and do seem to have the right mindset.

Also, thanks a lot for responding.
Analogue Nt's consoles all rely on FGPAs to emulate the original systems on a hardware level.

https://www.analogue.co/nt-mini/

https://www.analogue.co/pocket/
AI is separating the talent from the looks across the board. As it is now, one has to both be able to act and look good, but now the AI will enable those who can act, to be re-skinned, literally, into whatever the client needs.
This is kind of a cloistered view. Many people work in environments where bandwidth is hard to come by. And, of course, on-site backups are always risky.
At work I've only used one.

At home I bought a 2 pack of USB-C to USB-A the size of a quarter and never had a problem... only because I don't want to buy a new SD-card reader. But now even my external harddrive is USB-C (and incredibly fast/tiny at that) I almost never use them.

https://www.amazon.com/Upgraded-Basesailor-Compatible-Charge...

I really don't get what the big deal is. A $9 purchase which I now use less and less as more products adopt USB-c...
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Build quality is not that great. Did everyone forget about the Fiasco with the keyboards? Apple messes up hardware design quite a bit.

Software is purely personal choice. Some people prefer windows, others mac, others linux. Modern Linux does everything you want, including support for a good portion of popular games through Proton under Steam

Apple support is a joke, they will upcharge quite a bit for replacing whole boards when its a matter of a simple repair. Watch any of Louis Rossmanns videos. Not to mention that for any of the other manufacturers, you can order and replace parts yourself with relative ease - all it takes is a screwdriver.
Commendable you found the strength to admit the double think. The questions of "innate ability" is ill posed. Let's agree that both males and females can achieve similar levels of skill, given similar level of effort applied in acquiring the skill. There is still a difference. Either:

A. The average male and the average female afford applying the same level of effort in becoming programmers, with no extraneous constraints.

B. Motherhood represents a non-trivial portion of the average female lifetime effort. Though not as large as in preindustrial times, where the norm was conceiving, feeding and raising ten children, most of them not making to adulthood, leaving little energy for anything else.

To the extent child rearing cost remains unequally distributed between males and females, we're going to see statistical disparities in occupations, especially in occupations with high skill acquisition cost. Or we banish motherhood, and go extinct.
This is their latest data: https://diversity.google/annual-report/

All roles:
Asian, 43.9%
Black, 4.8%
Latin, 6.8%
Native American, 1.1%
White 48.5%

Women: 33.2%
Men: 66.8%

Tech Roles:
Asian, 51.8%
Black, 2.8%
Latin, 5.3%
Native American, 0.8%
White, 43.5%

Women: 25.7%
Men: 74.3%
If people choose to buy BAT from exchanges rather than earn it by watching ads then content will be increasingly funded directly by payments from consumers rather than through advertising. If everyone did this then there would be a closed loop of BAT exchange between viewers and content creators (mediated by exchanges) without any ads in sight. This is an effective strategy to employ against the advertising industry if that's really your goal.