skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you feel about that?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=SECu1fR0dWE&t...
I second this. I had an ifixit set and then got this wiha set: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JQ753W8/. I ended up giving away the ifixit ones because the wiha quality was notably superior.
They have flashing lights that go off if your vehicle is too tall.
I think it's still worthwhile to make it as expensive for them as possible. Sure, they have supercomputers that can break any crypto a normal citizen is using. But can they break every piece of encrypted data that everyone is using? Maybe not. And if so, they're going to spend a lot of money on hardware and electricity to do so (especially as Moore's Law putters out). Now, that doesn't apply to cases when they can get their hands on a centralized key through back-room court orders. But we do also have the ability to avoid using at least some of those products in the first place.
This is because in English it's not always that you speak what you write. Pronunciation is different for the same letter in different cases. In some languages (mainly Indian) like Hindi, we speak what we write and we write what we speak i.e. Our letters have a definite and unique sounds.
I’ve read a lot of the comments here.

I don’t see many people mentioning the amazing reliability of this laptop.

I’ve had a similar experience with MacBook Pro (7 years, only problem was some keys started going bad).

There was a time you could not keep a laptop 7 years without significant component replacement or just having to replace it because it was no longer able to run modern software due to slower cpu, not enough ram (and not upgradable enough)... basically hardware obsolescence.

Now the components last AND the hardware is still fast enough to be useful after 7 years.

What a wonderful world we live in!
Not having access to credit is really hindering to a modern life.

No mortgages, can't rent from a lot of landlords, can't ever borrow money at decent rates if you need to. Some employers even check your credit.

Even if you don't think you will ever want any of those things, you might change your mind in the future.
You're too quick to make assumptions about people who speak with you. English grammar, for example, does not have any facilities to create gender-neutral pronouns for every single noun (only for some). It's just a fact whether we like it or not. German, for instance, is more flexible in this regard. But languages evolve over centuries, and changes to grammar cannot be organically introduced to suit a new thinking on social life (however reasonable it is).
one of my only major gripes with my 2015 MBP is the usb performance, constantly dropping connection or being generally unreliable with harddrives etc. a shame to see this hasn't improved with the new models....
This problem is already solved. The steel beam rakes off any overheight bits allowing the trucks to pass through.
For all the parents of curious young hackers, a minor hurdle preventing easy access to internals has likely saved an untold number of laptops from unauthorized disassembly. It’s good to learn at a young age to have permission beforehand, instead of exceeding authorized access. A little help from the manufacturer goes a long way in that regard.
I have always been able to remove my MacBookPro screws with a small slotted driver.
Indeed, there were several projects that can replace the generator (really, you can come up with something completely else). One of the latest I've seen is https://perfetto.dev/docs/design-docs/protozero
As a fellow type 1, I understand the frustration.
Please refrain from overly aggressive responses like this. Hint: if you believe in something, it doesn’t automatically make it right.
First. I’d say read the blog post I linked to above. To answer your question on the “well-known” differences; they definitely are real and genetic. It’s just that IQ and most measures of intelligence look nothing like those traits. The common variants that are tagged in GWAS for IQ are also not different from a variant distribution standpoint. Again, the blog lays this out. There are thousands of papers on this topic. Good books to read are David Reich’s book (which does enter this more touchy territory) and ‘She has her mothers laugh’ for a more general reading. Ewan’s blog in general is also really good as well. In terms of papers, there are a bunch of recent ones that are quite good. Will need more time to post but they tend to be covered by Ewan.
Cheap buildings are cheap, but when they have money I think architects just try to be unique, which just ends up being uniquely ugly in most cases.

I don't think this is entirely true. A lot of the most hideous (in my opinion) modern buildings look like they actually spent money looking horrible. They have contorted structures that seem to be screaming out "I could fall over at any moment" which must rely heavily on load-bearing frames. Their "brutally honest" concrete often looks like it does nothing more than providing an ugly facade, and creating more work for a hidden steel skeleton.

I think there's two separate complaints - first that cheap modern buildings are cheap, functional (as long as they hold up), and ugly. Think Stalinist city blocks. Second, the modern showpieces are even worse, actively going out of their way to look horrible, like some Stalinist government buildings.

It's not the fault of architects if private companies want to build cheap square feet for cubicles or cheap apartments. Maybe the public could regulate against it, but that's only going to happen if they trust architects to do a better job with more money.

But when architects do have a bit of money to waste on making a building look good, I think they're often pressured to make something original. Previous designs had evolved over maybe thousands of years, of course they are much better, just try drawing a totally original concept for a car that other people won't think is cringey. There's also more time pressure - presumably older designers had far more time for planning (a king can wait a little before a new cathedral is built, a mayor can't wait till the next election). And while new materials and techniques can make new things possible, those things are not always attractive to people who spent their early childhood stacking bricks (so anything relying too heavily on tension just instinctively feels like a disaster waiting to happen).
Typically wine rooms and walk-in closets (of any type) are found in the much newer and very expensive (or moderately expensive, but very far away) suburban neighborhoods.

I live on the outskirts of a midwestern city and only know a couple people who live in such homes.

Though I'm not from a wealthy background, so most of my family and friends (even in the suburbs) are in 1000-2000 sq ft houses where sometimes a 2nd bathroom is a nice amenity.

But we do have (usually unfinished) basements here which add at least a few hundred square feet of utility space to a house. I couldn't imagine life without one!
More of such intriguing facts can be found in the book by Martin Jurafsky, Computational linguistics.
Which part of Andromeda, it has a 110,000 light year radius
Wirecard, Once Germany's Pride, Turns to National Embarrassment
> Seems like the rising cost of housing is one of the causes of homelessness in the first place.

There seems to be another side to that equation

There are a lot of very cheap places all over the US

(You can buy a house in Jackson, MS for 50k right now)

So it’s not like the rent went up and people decided to stay on the streets for 10 years
California actually has a law about this now... if you are able to sign up online, you have to be able to cancel online. I know some people who will set their locations to California, and the website will suddenly give them the option to cancel.
The energy requirements to accelerate go up as you reach relativistic speeds, and you need to be able to decelerate as you reach the target.
Thinkpads are the rare exception. Most of (all of?) the screws are simple Phillips, and the manual provides good instructions on how to disassemble. I've worked on other laptops from other manufacturers; IIRC, I had a Toshiba with Torx screws. No manual, and it also took me forever to find the last two screws as one had a rubber stopper glued over it (that you had to half destroy to get out) and the other had a sticker placed over it.

MBPs have the weird "pentalobe" screws, AIUI.
Intel's 10nm strategy was basically to do everything they could to advance their fabrication process without having to use EUV. Some of those changes turned out to be bigger risks than EUV. TSMC was a bit less aggressive with their last non-EUV nodes, but it actually worked and now they have EUV in mass production (though few if any end-user products have switched over to the EUV process at this point).
File a dispute with your credit card issuer. Chargebacks are a perfectly valid and accepted way to cancel recurring subscriptions (albeit perhaps a forceful option).
It is normal aging progression of a battery that is not compressed inside a rigid container. In electric vehicles, a constant and firm compression over the entire face of the cell, stops this from occurring [1]. It does not look like a compression plate was incorporated into the design.

Source: design engineer for EV company.

1: The compression is most commonly about 70kPa, but varies by manufacturer recommendations. Some manufacturers lately have started to recommend not to compress their cells because they have solved the swelling in other ways.
Well done! That was a good pitch, I'll bookmark it in case I need to use these arguments in the future. ;)
There is no such thing as universal advice. All advice is useful in some context, but no advice is useful in all contexts. Coaches and mentors can be so effective because they consistently deliver the right advice in the right context. Advice from the internet, on the other hand, is almost always mismatched to the context of the reader.
I never understood the high-tech approach to this problem. Where i am from they have large metal tubes dangling down a ways in front of the bridge. Makes it sound like you have already hit it.

Another more insistent approach I have seen elsewhere is to mount a large steel bar across the road, which takes the top of the truck off before they hit the bridge.

(edit:not very simple problem, obviously..)
Great predictions with a very thorough explanation and high degree of accuracy. All except for 4 and 10 are correct for a prediction that was from 2010.

I'd like to get hold of this guy's forecast on 2030 given that it looks like this guy has a functioning crystal ball.
I’m English, there was no English cuisine before Indian food. The closest thing we had to a national dish was fish and chips, which frankly, is fucking awful. About all you can say for English food is that we make nice beer.
They would have recourse; it’s called a chargeback. If you pay with a credit card and a merchant rips you off or does something devious with your payments, you dispute the charge with your bank. It’s a huge pain for a merchant to deal with chargebacks, so this really wouldn’t be a real problem.

That overhead costs the business and the consumer about 2% in fees compared to Apple’s 30%.

I honestly don’t understand how or why anybody is defending Apple’s 30% cut for all cases. Businesses will just mark up the price of their product and pass the costs on to the consumer. The only party that wins is Apple, so I guess if you own $AAPL you’d defend the cut.
How is there more control for government? Just that it cannot be printed into currency?

Because even now, most wealth is in banks and government can freeze them when they want to.
> a $10-$20 set

Which renders the whole notion of a "security screw" a joke. So why do companies persist in using them?
You must be talking about the Surface laptop first and second generation only.

The latest generation is actually quite repairable as far as laptops go:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+3++...

Microsoft are improving in this regard, unlike Apple.
Ha! If you think Figma is bad for, check out Axure at some point.

I got sucked into using Axure a few years ago and had a blast making interactive, data driven mockups that utilized custom JavaScript to build components.

It was awesome to get some key concepts across but then one day I realized I spent more time fighting the mockup software than if I had just coded it up.

Oops!
Are you in Australia? LGAs aren't something many U.S. residents refer to.
I'm tempted to agree with you, but at the same time, I think the appropriate value for a sensible DPI depends on screen size. Because smaller screens are typically held closer to the user, it's kinda fair to say a 4k TV and a 4k phone screen have the same resolution, in the sense that if both are at a distance so the screen takes a reasonable fraction of your vision, they will have the same level of visible detail. Within a device category that may be less true, but between categories resolution seems like a reasonable measure.
Not what I expected from the title at all. This is actually using the per-thread utilization visualization as a grid of pixels to render a very blocky movie within task manager.

I honestly interpreted this as "watch us load 128 threads while rendering a video in another program." I only clicked for confusion.
This is just another article that covers far too many topics all at once.

It says a lot while saying nothing.

And all the articles about COVID-19 will look silly in 3-5 years when it’s entirely not a concern. Predicting which aspects of life will stick as “the new normal” is a fools errand.

All the benefits of suburbia in the article are essentially negated by the drawbacks that the article mentions: suburbia sucks wealth away because the infrastructure costs too much to sustain. There really isn’t any way to get around that huge flaw.
Edit: I reported the issue below, and the author has fixed it.

Note: that will fail on Unix/Linux to get one book, "Systems Programming in Unix/Linux" [1].

The script wants to put the book in a directory named with the book's title, and wants to include the title in the name of the PDF and/or EPUB files. The title includes a "/", which is the directory separator on Unix/Linux, so this does not work out well.

You'll end up with a "Systems Programming in Unix" directory, containing a "Linux" subdirectory, and no PDF or EPUB files.

As far as I can tell, it gets everything else fine.

If you only want PDF files, make this change before running it:

42c42
< links = [x for x in p.links if 'content/pdf' in x or 'download/epub' in x]
---
> links = [x for x in p.links if 'content/pdf' in x]

A PDF only download of everything is 4.5 GB. There are 383 books.

[1] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-92429-8
I don't see anything in the parent comment that's even remotely controversial. Almost everyone across the political spectrum agrees that we should spend more on education, at least in the abstract. There's plenty of disagreement on the details, but I don't see anything in the comment that stakes out a strong position on any of the major issues. Perhaps I'm missing something.
what was interesting was this one:

I thought the boox was interesting

But what about this one? https://amzn.com/B07XG9T898

it's a lenovo laptop with an e-ink screen
Tell HN: Coinbase is stealing my money from me
Many years ago I created an account and bought crypto from https://coinbase.com and have since sat on it.

Lately I've been receiving emails from them that their terms of service has changed and I need to upload a US drivers license and a "selfie" in order to access my now locked account.

I will not be doing that - I don't trust third parties with my government ID, and "upload selfies for security" is the definition of security theater as well as being invasive and dehumanizing. I would not have opened the account with those requirements.

I understand that it is their prerogative to change their TOS, but in response I've asked them to close my account and either send me the crypto or the current value in USD. I don't think that's an unreasonable solution.

They are refusing to honoring that request after several months and several requests to escalate. But they are continuing to send me "we're going to confiscate your account if you don't comply" form emails.

What now? Yikes.
But that's just it.

1800: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause...

2000: lol tech lets us read it all

2025: Oh no, crypto is good now? They want us to get a warrant and use non-dragnet surveillance to pursue leads? THE HORROR!
Two thoughts. Fire the ones that refuse to comply. The unemployment rate is 15% right now. Second you have a law enforcement agency that is separate from the one with the problem enforce the rules. That could be a state police agency that polices the local police or a special investigative part of the government that ensures compliance.
Does that mean the crypto used to authenticate the updates is compromised, or that the providers (app stores?) are? In either case, why is it safer in Israel?
0 competition and regulatory capture so nobody new can come in
Very true. I had a Toshiba laptop that was simply on for the better part of its 8-10 year lifespan, with the result that it overheated a few times due to clogged fans and it was never the same since. Even after I thoroughly blew out the vents, the thermal paste probably spread a bit, and the ambient temperature was always still way above what it should be.

I finally let it die over Christmas. Or rather, I planned to power it up one last time, get fully updated on Windows 7, and then power it down forever and yank the HDD out to put in an enclosure. Of course, it chose to die in the middle of updates. Feh.
This is incorrect -- it is not possible to implement Protobuf in a way that achieves the notion of "zero-copy" that Cap'n Proto and FlatBuffers achieve.

This probably comes down to a disagreement on what "zero-copy" means.

Some people use the term "zero-copy" to mean only that when the message contains a string or byte array, the parsed representation of those specific fields will point back into the original message buffer, rather than having to allocate a copy of the bytes at parse time.

Cap'n Proto and FlatBuffers implement a much stronger form of zero-copy. With them, it's not just strings and byte buffers that are zero-copy, it's the entire data structure. With these systems, once you have the bytes of a message mapped into memory, you do not need to do any "parse" step at all before you start using the message.

For example, if you have a multi-gigabyte file formatted with one of these, you can mmap() it, and then you can traverse the message tree to read any bytes of the message except the chain of pointers (parent to child) leading to that one datum. Aside from the mmap() call, you can do all this without even allocating any memory at all.

That is absolutely not possible with Protobuf, because Protobuf encoding is a list of tag-value pairs each of which has variable width. In order to read any particular value, you must, at the very least, linearly scan through the tag-values until you find the one you want. But in practice, you usually want to read more than one value, at which point the only way to avoid O(n^2) time complexity while keeping things sane is to parse the entire message tree into a different set of in-memory data structures allocated on the heap.

That is not "zero-copy" by Cap'n Proto's definition.

(Disclosure: I am the author of Cap'n Proto and Protobuf v2.)
I know of at least a few just from my office that are not on that site. Could it be that they are hidden through a contracting company and not hired directly?
https://twitter.com/paultoo/status/1263941612876394496

> I actually spent some time thinking about it last year and then decided against. This decade is crazier than the previous. Creating the future is more important than predicting it, especially in times like this.
Mini rant only tangentially related. I have a 6 year old MacBook Pro (Mid 2014 NVidia). It mostly works fine.

Except, the GPU drivers are crap and Apple has no intention of fixing them. This shows up as bugs in Firefox and Chrome, the apps that hit the most GPU edge cases, and when I've filed bugs I've basically been told "too old, get a new machine"

Which isn't an unreasonable POV. I'm sure there just are not that many 2014 NVidia MBPs in the world. Apple doesn't care to fix the bugs. Why should the browser teams waste time working around GPU driver bugs for so few users?

And yet, it's really hard to justify spending $3400 for a new MBP when nothing will actually change in my day to day usage.

I also have a 3yr old 1060 Razer gaming laptop. That actually enabled something, VR, to justify spending $$$$ on it. But, getting a current dual GPU MBP gets me nothing that my 2014 MBP doesn't already get me except fixing a few annoying bug livable browser bugs.

Note I have a similar issue with the Razer. Windows won't update to the most reason version and says their are issues with the hardware and maybe some day in the future once the issues are worked around Windows will update. Unfortunately that means I can't use WSL 2 so again, I can spent $3000+ for a 2020 Razer but when I'm done all that will happen is some software bugs will be fixed, my actual day to day usage won't change.

Tech can be really annoying and it's frustrating to be told the solution is spend $7000

Just Kvetching
> Everything I develop on it screams on anything modern.

This is a very good point. I think the user experience, on average, would be quite a bit better if developers weren’t so prone to chasing glitzy new hardware that can “mask” performance problems.

On the other hand, developer’s productivity matters, so I’m not really sure what the right balance is here...
Our brains have mirror neurons[1] that allow us to learn by watching.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
hah, this is true

I only instruct part-time, I'm a full-time software engineer, so I'm in it for the love of flying
Then you'll be impressed: http://www.3m.com/us/office/advisory/DusterFAQs-fromInhalant... ; http://www.3m.com/us/office/advisory/3MDustRemoverAv152aMSDS...

My understanding is that this is because a typical compressed air can could not actually withstand the pressured required to hold normal air, compressed.
> First they said "health and safety", they can't get a man to bring the cable up to 2nd floor.

I suspect this depends a lot on the installer. When my grandparents had it installed, they ran it up the drive, straight over the top of the house, then down the back wall and into the house there without an issue.

Contrast this with when my parents had it installed (after my grandparents, so we assumed it would be fine) - we had about four weeks of back and forth saying "Hey, you've buried the cable on someone else's land and they're about to dig it up" (instead of following the edge of the property, they just cut diagonally across, and the neighbours had planning permission to build there). They eventually sorted it, but it must have taken a double digit number of calls and threats not to pay. IIRC, they were the only option for >38Mbps service, so we didn't have a great deal of choice.
https://github.com/caprover/caprover/issues/533
SFNet – Coffee House Network
How is Element AI (Montreal) as a company to work at?
I work as a software dev in a decent company in Montreal and get some RRSP (4%), healthcare benefits, and free snacks. But I'm looking for companies with higher compensation that are the in the "amazing places to work at" category in Montreal. What's Element AI like? How is the work culture? Are you micromanaged or have freedom? Do you need to log your time? What benefits do you get apart from salary? What do machine learning research scientists do on a daily basis?