skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a lot of hardware, so I have spent a lot of time doing precisely that.

Cutting off twist ties, removing those pointless little white HDPE condoms they put on the blades of the AC plug, plastic bags, more plastic bags, the sticky superthin protection plastic film that almost every china manufacturing plant puts on any shiny plastic flat surface, peeling keyboard stickers, carefully applying goo gone to remove the glue, then glass cleaner to remove the goo gone, cutting the stupid labels off of AC cords (being careful not to damage the cord in the process), et c.

You also have to be careful not to scratch the case with the metallic wrist rest stickers when removing them, as well, because the corners are sharp and the glue is serious so you have to pry them up with a tool. The large, ugly stickers on the bottom have important things like serial on them, so you can't remove those if you ever want your warranty to work (Apple, of course, laser etches the serial into the aluminum case in small type).

Why was any of that useless shit shipped to me in the first place, on a high end computer?

It's not about the hang tag, it's about a fundamental lack of empathy for the customer and their experience. That's the root cause, and it manifests itself as everything from building relatively decent computers and then shipping them with ugly accessories, to using plastic trackpads, to not pushing back against Intel's ugly marketing case sticker demands, et c et c et c ad nauseam.

It's like buying an $80k car and on delivery suddenly finding out it doesn't have keyless entry, or that the brand new key fob is shipped in one of those hand-slicingly-difficult wraparound plastic blister containers.

Come to think of it, the key fobs on high end cars shouldn't be made out of cheap plastic, either. A replacement one for my car cost me over $400 which I'm sure is all margin. Step up, hardware makers.
Just wanted to add that I strongly suggest thinking about the correct allocator for your applications and never using "the system allocator". In production context there should never be "a system allocator" anyway. Uninstall libc in prod. Force yourself to make a rational choice of memory allcoator.
If everything about God is beyond human understanding, then a belief in that god doesn't leave you with any more beliefs than you started with, which makes it atheism by a different name. I would argue that you would have to have at least one religious belief to be counted as religious (and no, "the belief that I have a religious belief" doesn't count.)
I still prefer the physical buttons, I've found mac trackpads inflame RSI
Aphex Twin figured out how to program his:

https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/aphex-twin-midimutant
are the chromeOS touchpad drivers open source?
Yeah the headline isn't really that good, it confused me at first
You shouldn't try to market time or hedge unless you know when to do it.

I find that I usually don't know when to, so I usually don't want to.

But there are exceptions to that. There are times when market timing and/or hedging make sense if you know enough.

> The greatest investor of all time, Warren Buffett, has never used hedging. That’s proof how unnecessary it is.

I'm not claiming hedging is necessary. I'm claiming hedging can be a rational thing to do. That Buffett doesn't use it, doesn't mean it can't be a rational thing to do. Not everyone has the same knowledge and circumstances as Buffett. Buffett's strategy is undoubtedly not the best strategy for everyone, though it's almost certainly the best strategy for him.
Also, and probably the direct mechanism of action, sun exposure doesn’t just produce vitamin d. It also increases nitric oxide levels which should reduce BP
I was more referring to the pinch points between plates and general wear. I.e. you trip and fall onto your side and it punches through
Were you implementing a client in all of these OAuth integrations?

I thought the point of OAuth was to make it easy to build clients and push the complexity to the authorization servers :) ?
>"He doesn't mention why biased notation is used (i.e. why the exponent is stored as 127+E): it's used so that if you sort positive numbers as if they were integers, they'll still end up in the right order."

Could you elaborate on this? Maybe an example? This sounds interesting but I'm failing to grasp it.
I wonder if Plex could be in hot waters though. I guess they've been working hard trying to pivot to providing content themselves with a subscription but I'm sure 90% of the Plex use is still for hosting pirated content.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5593895/

sun exposure increases nitric oxide which decreases bp
Case Study: Blinkist’s Annual Subscription Incentive
> This whole "don't have your salt master exposed to the internet" thing has me annoyed.
The whole point of salt is to manage boxes all over the place.
I manage around 500 machines. Most of them are behind the firewalls of incompetent admins who have spent hours in the past trying to set up port forwards when salt-minion crashed so I could access the box again.
I'm about to test binding salt-master to localhost and salt-minion to localhost and then setting up spiped to wrap the traffic...

Some companies need better DevOps apparently
Notice that veterans affairs and a lot of the DOE is filed under 'not military'.
Please write a blog post detailing this full setup! I have been trying to do some form of this between macos and a linux host for some time now (to try and move as much compute off my MBP as possible) but it has never really worked well.
On the Hardware Wheel of Reincarnation [1] we are definitely swinging back into the realm of special-purpose processors and processor extensions all over the place. The gigahertz scaling free lunch has been dead for over a decade. We're still adding more transistors, but finding it harder to speed up day-to-day serial code. So, instead we're adding dedicated hardware for the common, hard stuff and throwing special-purpose chips into every nook and cranny of everything around the periphery of the main thread on the main CPU.

[1] https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/wor.htm
It may not be a coincidence, but in a different way.

It's possible that they spoke up because they thought that 'no company would be stupid enough' to fire them but miscalculated.

At the same time white males kept their mouth shut because they knew that 'no company would be stupid enough' doesn't apply to them.

Need more data.
They seem to have beaten Nomad & Aira to market.

https://nomadgoods.com/pages/base-station-pro
anybody know of a good Python API for options prices? I don't think Alpaca has them
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PHP has excellent development experience. After updating your code, you can just reload the page. That's it. It's seamless. This is something that I sorely miss now that I'm a .NET developer.

Also, the PHP ecosystem is friendly to beginners. Compare these authentication docs for a PHP project vs a .NET project:

Laravel (PHP): https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/authentication
ASP.NET Core (.NET): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authen...
Thanks for providing the links. Despite the impressive cameras and processing capabilities to go with them, I believe that it would be simple to counter. Adding any of baseball caps or other hats, sunglasses, jackets, face mask, or gloves should make it far more difficult to identify a person. Carry a backpack of accessories and change them to further confuse. A person can make their movements harder to track by traveling non-direct routes, back-tracking, and moving in and out of buildings.

The bigger problem is that ordinary citizens shouldn't be under that kind of surveillance EVER. It's good to have these things brought to light and discussed (especially the downsides and all potential for abuse).
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Apple hasn't put tickets up for sale, and they mention in the article that WWDC will be "free for all developers". I'm assuming there will be some answer to one-on-one reviews, though. Perhaps if you've got a paid Apple developer account, you might be able to put in a request to connect with someone?
A couple of years ago I bought a Lenovo X1 6th gen as my personal laptop.

Although I am generally happy with the overall HW quality, I must also say that I really miss very much the mac book touchpad (that I use on the daily basis at work) and also the overall macOS stability and great UX experience (vs Ubuntu)

I really force myself to want to like the X1 + Ubuntu combination. But as others already pointed out, it is hard / impossible to compete with a company like Apple that invests billions of dollars in r&d.
That is such a horrible user experience though, it's no different than having to hack apart your X11 config file to get the proper modeline support for your monitor, or to map your keyboard so your Super key works.

Thankfully we've moved past those problems for now, until you want to use multiple screens or use a touchpad.

Desktop Linux still has a long way to go if there is ever going to be any appreciable market share.
> I don't see anyone in the links you provided saying they want ISPs to decide what sites they can visit or not. I only see them saying that they believe government regulation of the Internet in the name of net neutrality would be worse than having to bargain with ISPs about access to content as private entities bargaining with other private entities.

A distinction without a practical difference. They do want ISPs to decide what sites they can and cannot visit because that is the defacto state of affairs in a world without net neutrality, it is only that they are satisfied with the decisions the ISPs have made thus far.
It's a logical conclusion that many people pointed out. Why would you sell equity to random people instead of VCs? Because you're doing something that VCs won't touch. We should expect all Reg Crowdfunding/A+ deals to be either scams, low quality, or small opportunities.
This hit RamNode too.

> This message is to customers with VPSs on our legacy SolusVM system.

> At approximately 20:34 eastern (GMT -4) on May 2, recently published SaltStack vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652) were used to launch cryptocurrency miners on our SolusVM host nodes. The attack disrupted various services in order to allocate as much CPU as possible to the miners. SSH and QEMU processes were killed on some of our CentOS 6 KVM hosts, causing extended downtime in certain cases.

> Upon detecting the disruption, we quickly began to re-enable SSH, disable and remove Salt, kill related processes, and boot shutdown KVM guests. After careful analysis of the exploit used, we do not believe any data was compromised.

> RamNode was not specifically targeted, but rather anyone running SaltStack versions prior to the one released a few days ago (April 29).
I hate the lack of function keys. I hate the lack of touch typing support. It's a huge, glaring issue.
this is false. Long term economic problems were there for years and it could have continued to hobble along with those problems for many more years. But cleaning up Chernobyl specifically cost so much money, that dealing with those problems became practically impossible. Soviet Union couldn't just print dollars like US can.
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This constitutes the "proof" that Kaczynski was somehow lastingly affected by the study? A writers theory in a book? The problem with that is that I can just as well present evidence that the book is completely inaccurate:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/09/letters...

Why would an intelligence agency do what I'm doing? What would they have to gain by posting this?? I'm trying to understand the humor, please help me.
Everyone who reads Hacker News should also consider if there is a political component to this. The guidelines for Hacker News encourage us to keep politics out of the comments, and most of the time that is an advantage, but there are cases where politics might be a contributing factor that needs to be considered. I see some comments here that say "This is such a USA experience, it is different in my country." Well, why is that? If it's true that there is something in the USA that contributes to burnout, would it be useful to consider the political situation in the country? Surely there are cases where the macro circumstances impact people's personal lives?
Yep, not diverse enough without white men.
Am I the only one scratching their head at this argument in 2020? 15 years ago when shared hosting was more common I would buy it, but I just don't find myself wasting time on figuring deployments out in other languages/frameworks. By far the biggest time sink in that area is setting up continuous integration and monitoring/alerting systems, and those problems are exactly the same regardless of language.
People are taking more walks and runs in my neighborhood than ever before. Social distancing != hiding indoors.
Language speed becomes mostly irrelevant compared to the strategy, framework, toolset, and dataset design for parallelization.

If you have a use case where a program in C runs in a reasonable time on your laptop but one in Python doesn't, that solution is only going to take you so far before you'll want to graduate from your laptop and take advantage of the Python ecosystem again in real big data contexts.
Yeah mine comes unplugged constantly, barely fits in the wall on a power strip at the office we can barely fit two or three plugged in at once

I didn't know people actually liked them at least it pleases some people I guess
Are you familiar with SwiftOnSecurity on twitter?

Do you have any hobbies that would be out of character for Intel's Andy Grove? I think the world has room for a ficttionalized Andy Grove talking about how to cook french pastries, train bonsai, intermittent fasting, or preparing for a marathon.
I always found the wikipedia examples for 16bit floating point helpful since the numbers are smaller. You can really see how the exponent and fraction affect each other in a very simple way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_...
An XPS 13 isn't a high end laptop? What are you doing that requires that kind of power?

It sounds like an amazing build, but definitely not needed for most tasks. The XPS 13 seems a little wasteful in the setup. You could practically do it with a chromebook.
That could be helpful, text files are often tiny though.
It'd take dozens of VR-only hits like Alyx for VR to go mass market
Rust: No_std async/await – soon on stable
Yes, and it's a glaring issue with management that they "chose" to do that. New shiny thing that compromises on fundamentals like touch typing support.
First, please support this statement with some forecasts or well established documentation that would quantify the problem:

> In particular, shutting down our medical system (ex COVID-19) means that large numbers of people will die of other diseases/conditions. Shutting down the economy means that large numbers of people will die of suicide and other syndromes associated with economic deprivation. This isn't just a guess--it's clear and well-documented.

Second, and I see this often in "conservative" postings - this ignores the fact that "the other team gets to bat too". In other words, the virus gets a vote.

There is no evidence that the economy will recover without containing the virus. The economy had already cratered - OpenTable had documented a 74% drop in reservations before the first closure order occured - without public confidence that they won't be acquiring and spreading the disease.

The way to contain the virus is to 1) lock down to reduce the epidemic to a size that is manageable by other means than shutdown, and 2) put in place the necessary staff, technology, and infrastructure to contain it by less onerous means.

"2" means: widespread, no-charge testing with results in hours, not days; very rapid contact tracing, which means large staff doing so; and quarantine of contacts outside the home when appropriate, so that inter-dwelling infection does not occur. This is working in several countries. The US, being somehow exceptional, seems to believe it can't work here.

The problem with the conservative-led "let 'er rip, they're going to die anyway" approach is that it doesn't get the economy back. It just inflames the epidemic, which continues to crater the economy for the next several years.

I don't understand why conservatives can't see these things. I suspect it is some form of motivated reasoning that makes them reject reality in this form.
Actually I think the points you're making in this comment here are good ones, so I'm glad you did post it. "Let's not have a third thread" really just means a major thread on the front page. HN has quite a lot of non-frontpage slots :)
It's an interesting article. Show HN is intended when people make something other people can play with or try out like interactive web sites, products, code etc. Blogs and such are better as regular submissions. But again, the article is interesting. Thanks for sharing it.
They tagged people they knew.
Coronavirus: UK death toll passes Italy to be highest in Europe
Specto | [https://jobs.specto.dev/](https://jobs.specto.dev/) | jobs@specto.dev | North America & Europe (remote) | Full-time | Backend (Python)

We're building the next generation app performance monitoring platform (APM) for the mobile era.

For the backend position we're looking for engineers passionate about performance that have experience building complex systems that can handle large quantities of data. We're using mainly Python and we deploy to Google Cloud.

We're a team of ex. Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Airbnb and Mozilla engineers that have extensive experience in mobile platforms and tooling. We have also managed infrastructure teams at Facebook.

We're very well funded by a few infrastructure-focused investors. We're looking for remote engineers out of North America or Europe only to keep time zones in check. For Europe based engineers we will strongly favor candidates who can overlap with the PST timezone for a few hours every day.
I don't think this is different in OOP literature, where you may read something like "abstract factory pattern", you just need to get familiar with the terminology. I would start reading Pierce's Types and Programming Languages and then any book on Haskell (you may also want to reinforce your abstract algebra :)
Is this something one needs to enable?

And from what version of Gnome/GTK is this available?
Ah yeah, that makes sense. I didn't even think about the fact that I take six flights every time I fly to India & back. I was thinking 20 separate trips per year when I read your comment.
> Hearing oral arguments is going to be interesting. I don't know that it's ever been available to the general public.

You're in luck. The audio has been recorded since 1955 and can be viewed along with transcript on Oyez [1]! Oral arguments are complex and fascinating. SCOTUS is my favorite higher-branch of government; the justices are humble, intelligent, and for the most part bipartisan. They are institutionalists above all else. More often than not SCOTUS makes me proud.

[1] https://www.oyez.org/cases/2019
14 day isolation was a policy choice. There is no reason that other municipalities do the same. We can discover a balance that keeps local r < 1.0
I'm all about IT automation and like the tech a lot, but after running SaltStack for 5 years, I decided to transition to plain old written documentation. When you consider everything that underlies the "infrastructure as code" tech stack, it ends up being an extremely steep learning curve. I was very productive with SaltStack but turned into the only person who could write or edit our deployment scripts. It was a bad situation.

Now, nine months after dropping SaltStack, my colleagues are editing the docs I've created, and more importantly, they're also writing their own. That's a huge win. What I've lost in terms of personal productivity, I've regained in terms of wider participation in our standardization and documentation efforts.

I might slowly re-introduce IT automation technologies, maybe something more popular like Ansible or Docker, but only after making sure the rest of my team has a solid understanding of general IT automation concepts. I think we're on the right track. I had a colleague today ask me about what Python programming certification they should get, so I pointed them toward Google's Python-based IT automation course on Coursera. I supported another colleague's efforts to create a library of standard server images based on our internal deployment standards for one of our private clouds, and I'm encouraging them to expand that work to our other data centers. And so on. The team as a whole works better together, so that's where I'm staying focused.
I have no pity for people committing violent crimes, sorry.
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hn@ycombinator.com is the way.
What are you worried about? A debate about facts on a controversial topic with someone who is interested in it?

Why does everyone here seem so timid and silly? Is it really necessary to get your panties in a bundle about someone interested in this controversy? Do you find it....disturbing? lol.
> They've started hiring a lot of kubernetes engineers

Isn't that for their internal systems? This is how most companies use K8s anyway.
In a similar boat. Would like historical bid/ask if possible and live bid/ask (not 15 min delay). Willing to pay if it's not hundreds per month.
> Are tensor cores idle during 3D gaming?

Nv is making a use for them via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Learning_Super_Sampling

> How do they differ from the regular Shader Units? Why are they more efficient?

They basically implement a special-purpose, single-instruction 4x4 matrix multiply operation with 16-bit floats. https://www.anandtech.com/show/12673/titan-v-deep-learning-d...
I didn't see much scraping on that site. It just looked like regular calls. Maybe the API is not as clean or consistent as it could be. But anyway I did a quick search for Alpaca. This the one you meant: https://alpaca.markets/?
How does one get started? I feel like I have a lot of the math background, but approaching putting this toward an actual market feels opaque.
Nitpick:

> -$700M

should be

> ~$700M

:)
> increased government intervention is not

Seems like a weird, pedantic half-truth. It's like "I'm not a racist, but ..." except for government. "I don't want increased government intervention... except for the areas of healthcare, housing, education, guns, the economy, free speech, religion, banking, labor, technology and a few dozen other areas, those I do want increased government intervention in".

I get that it doesn't come from "I love authoritarianism and want more of it" but the practical end is the same when the solution to every problem is "More government regulations or interventions"
I don't blame Roberts specifically for the outcome, but I was not impressed. "Doing nothing" is often doing something in absentia. I writing in haste and have already been too political in this thread (hopefully in a respectful manner).

We could dissect the flaws (which I would enjoy in the proper forum with time to carve out for it), but as an independent (but "progressive") voter I found both trials to be shams.

My original comment was snarky (but true), but in the end I'm not interested in arguing for the sake of "my team" or "being right", but to pursue truth wherever it may lead me.
Unit tests would have caught this, if you wrote them.
I don't think it's mutating. I think it's just very novel, and also came with its own red herring in the form of the respiratory symptoms. Doctors treated the problem in front of them and assumed it was like other things they'd seen, when in reality that was just the tip of the iceberg. But it's reassuring to me to see discoveries being made and treatment evolving. I think the disease will become much less deadly long before we have a vaccine, just due to new discoveries in how to treat it.