skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say also that this type of crisis is not surprising (unfortunately) for math, or similar highly theoretical, loner fields. I can guess that the student asking the question is not being very open with his/her advisor, has worked and struggled for long hours alone, thinking they have to solve it on their own, and is not super communicative and checking in about important aspects of the thesis. Because he/she thinks it has to be a surprise "breakthrough" result -- a heavy obligation of the field's expectations.

No responsible advisor would let the work get to such a state, so late in the game. Major fault of the advisor too, here.
It’s like buying a 5k display and getting a subsidized computer. There’s ~1 5k monitor on the market today (LG)?

I wonder how expandable this is? Buy the bottom end machine with the CPU you want and upgrade SSD and RAM? I would imagine SSD is upgradeable but RAM soldered onto the mobo?
It sounds like you have a kind of impairment in this regard. Most of us don't need anyone else to define 'attractive' for us. It is something we all feel when we see a face that represents certain ideals of aesthetics. For me it is a small round flat doll-like face with large widely spaced and elongated and ideally slightly upturned eyes close to the edge of her face. When a girl has a face like that I feel a kind automatic love for her. I think that is what it really is: a kind of aesthetically based instant love. Every time you find someone attractive it is a variant of love at first sight differing only in degree.
Apple supports their hardware (both repairs and software updates) for much longer than anyone else ever. While I have no qualms about opening up my Dell desktop, I wouldn't dare touch a laptop. Laptops, even before Apple soldered the components in, were extremely fragile. My Sony Vaio for example had a broken key and the only option was to replace the entire keyboard.

In essence, I'd rather go with a company that will fix my hardware even if they charge me for it. Rather than a company (like HTC/Sony) where I have to wait many many weeks if at all and software upgrades cut off in under two years.
Thanks for this, I hadn't thought about securitizing tax benefits.

But in the SF case if you have 5 people living in 3 houses, say, as 2 / 2 / 1, and this are single-family houses, I don't think you have vacancies. "Occupants per square foot" isn't a measure of vacancy except when it's zero.
I used to build gaming PCs for myself and friends, salvage laptops from parts picked up at auction, etc. But I'm no longer interested in doing that. I'd much rather just buy the computer I need and not fuss with it. I think both of those "modes" are completely valid, and it's great that there are many options on the market for people in both groups.

Is it perhaps "annoying in theory" that I couldn't upgrade my Mac's hardware if I wanted to? I suppose so. But I'm never going to want to do that, so I don't experience any practical annoyance. I suspect my experience matches the overwhelming majority of Apple's customers and potential customers.
Game Developers Conference
Analysis – Netflix and the quest to win the world
> The less-restrictive definition would be that f is piece-wise continuous if there are a discrete set of points .. < x_0 < x_1 < ... with f continuous on each interval (x_i, x_{i+1}). The alternative definition is that, plus requiring that the restriction of f to those intervals have limits at the endpoint.

This sounds kind of surreal; putting them in shorter terms, we have two rival definitions for "piecewise continuous":

1. A function f is piecewise continuous if there exist one or more intervals over which f is continuous.

2. A function f is piecewise continuous if there exist one or more intervals over which f is (1) continuous, and (2) bounded.

I agree that it sounds obvious which of those is more appropriate as a definition of "piecewise continuous"...

(It also worries me that the definition you give requires the intervals to be adjacent, but doesn't require that more than one interval exist. A function that is continuous over (-2, -1) and also over (1, 2), but not anywhere else, would meet this definition, but you wouldn't be able to include both of those intervals of continuity in the set of endpoints.

I would prefer to either have two sets of endpoints, such that we end up saying f is continuous over (x_i, y_i), (x_{i+1}, y_{i+1}), etc. (if we want to allow for intervals of discontinuity), or to say that the intervals (-inf, x_0) and (x_n, +inf) also count (if we don't).

However, if we take that second approach, and we go with the definition of piecewise continuity that requires the function be bounded over every interval, we've just defined functions like f(x) = x as being not piecewise continuous despite the fact that they are continuous.)
Also, news article based on this at:

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/03/leaky_s3_buckets/

> "...automated search tools were able to stumble across some 4,000 open Amazon S3 buckets ..."

> "In some cases, more than 10 secrets were found in a single file. These included SQL Server passwords, Coinbase API keys, MongoDB credentials, and logins for other AWS buckets that actually were configured to ask for a password."

> "... the Truffle crew believes that the real danger is that the exposed 'secrets' would have a cascading effect where an attacker could use the exposed keys and credentials to get into other, more secure accounts and services."
> people still buy their machines

Sure, but more would buy at lower prices.

That said I don't doubt that Apple has researched this a zillion ways, and this price point is there for solid reasons.
This article is a waste of your time.

There's better things to read in life.
That isn't as nice to having a function inside the same file you can call over, IMHO.

Also lets say you define a block for rendering a button with a different color. Then use 20 different buttons on one page.

Does that mean that the block code would need to be loaded from a file 20 times and parsed each time. Seems like huge performance hit to do it that way.

Is there a technical reason why you can't have a function in the same file.

Am I misunderstanding how it works?
I’d rather have a “bicycle for the brain”, so it can go farther, function better and be healthy rather than a crutch or replacement for key functionalities.

Right now, I see a lot of tools and interfaces that make it lazy - mostly consumer level stuff. Perhaps Krug’s Classic “don’t make me think” was taken too far. Perhaps a new book, “make me think better” would be more useful in improving human critical thinking capacity and expanding the human experience.
> And there's a whole thing in GDPR about grandfathering consent. Which they might fall back on.

Wouldn't that apply, if at all, only to users who started before GDPR?
Probably tons of places in the rural West. Note this was only a 1/4 acre and off-grid.
I didn't, think of it this way:

In the first experiment I can choose if I'd rather have online (59$) or print version(125$). Either way I'm risking the disappointment of taking the wrong choice, or I can choose online for 59$ plus a 66$ hedge against choosing wrong.

In the second experiment you've eliminated the risk of choosing print and realizing later that I wanted online, so hedging makes less sense (i.e. I'm willing to pay less for hedging my choice).
You can easily get cheap empty land in the American West so long as it's farther from the nearest city than your average Javascript crapping baboon is willing to drive with his family in the car for a weekend getaway and the parcel is too small for any commercial use.

The east coast is similar but all the numbers are smaller and the baboons shit under-performing pharmaceuticals and financial products instead of Javascript and SaaS.

Once you make that land livable you will be stampeded by a horde of Californians (assuming west coast) or New Yorkers (assuming east coast) looking to throw their monopoly money at you so that they may acquire your property and exit the rat race.

I'm only slightly exaggerating here.
so not endless after all?
Did the invention of the car lead to larger living spaces? Perhaps people decided to trade time for space.
Presumably you cannot install Mojave on these, only Catalina. I sacrificed a Mac to Catalina, then wiped it back to Mojave. Hopefully Big Sur will fix the flaming dumpster fire that is Catalina, but I am not hopeful and working on my Linux migration plan.
Amazon unveils shopping cart that knows what you're buying
Mobile app idea #90: Interest-Based Ads
Dang, stole my thunder. I was just pondering doing a blog post series on these exact panels as I have finally started sorting my collection after 40 years and found at least 10 of these that I have.

I may still do a series based on the real-world tech that these were modeled after in their time periods. Some of them are super-fun retro.
Real Time JavaScript Object GUI Editor
I saw some snap reactions that boiled down to “he doesn’t want to deal with the potential antitrust firestorm”, but also, the guy is 60, and has worked at what I can imagine must be a frenetic pace for like 30 years, and maybe he just wants to slow down a bit.
The JVM is an excellent general purpose, multi-threaded runtime, with a large ecosystem of open source libraries, and its well suited to many types of "back-end" workloads, which is why it was the initial target for Clojure back in 2006/2007. Clojure's great interop with its host platform made it easy for people to get up and running while leveraging all the existing Java libraries they were used to.

The JVM is still a great choice for all those reasons, but its a little heavier than Node.js which specializes in IO bound use cases (i.e. the back-end-for-front-ends that sit between the browser and the heavyweight back-end systems). Node.js is also probably better suited for smaller services, lambdas, and other light-weight scenarios (IOT?).

I'm interested in promoting a full-stack approach to ClojureScript because the JavaScript/Node.js ecosystem is everything that the Java ecosystem was 15 years ago. It has lots of developers, lots of libraries, and a "bad" language. And by sticking with Node.js, its one less hurdle for JavaScript developers to clear when learning ClojureScript. They still get to use all the same libraries they did before (via ClojureScript's great interop), and the runtime characteristics they are used to. Plus, if they then decide to start looking at Clojure on the JVM in the future, they will have already learned the language.
As far as I can tell most new apps require a phone merely for registration. It's not even close to optional.

Twitter pretends it doesn't but it locks you out in ~5 minutes if you don't verify your phone number.
Facebook and Google properties (moreso than google.com) are among the slowest major sites.
I legitimately cannot tell from the way this is worded if this is a promotion or if he's stepping aside. I guess that's intentional and means it's the latter, right?
Hygiene in China is like in medieval Europe, nowadays in Europe only big cities are dirty which is in the most cases result of mismanagement of mayor/s.

In Southeast Europe where I live cities are clean af. The thing that bothers me personally is absurd amount of pets on the streets in my country. When I go for a walk I see like 30 dogs.
Can you write functions in Jinja?
Its terrible to buy MB. I want the best possible MB for my 3950x that supports 128ram at the highest possible clock etc regardless of pricr and i just get lost with all the possibilities.
They don't. I wouldn't call it user replaceable, since it's difficult, but no soldering required.[0]

Many vendors (including Apple premium resellers) offer replacing the drives for whatever you like.

[0] iFixIt https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+27-Inch+EMC+2546+Bla...
Largely reminiscent of my stack. Awesome
I think we can often get sucked into optimizing our life to limit the possibility of negative surprises - predictable reliable employment, reliable transportation, go-to meals, healthy habits that work for us - and then we can often end up in a reality where things are stable but potentially boring or soul-crushing. That's what the essay reminded me of - even if the city were ruthlessly efficient but with a nice park and bodega and deli in walking distance, it could still feel similarly soul-crushing. So I've been trying to think more about how to leave more room in life for "positive surprise" but that's kind of a difficult thing to optimize for. I'm open to ideas anyway!
Gaze-Controlled Robotic Arm for the Speech, Motor Impaired
Of course not. People remain convinced that the internet will cease to exist without advertisements all over the place. Web pages are now 10mb+ in size, making 20 different DNS calls, all of which ad latency. And for what? To serve up advertisements wrapped around (or laying themselves over) the content that we came to read in the first place.

Maybe i'm just old, but I fondly remember web pages that loaded reasonably fast over a 56k modem. these days, if I put anything on the web, I try to optimize it the best I can. Text only, minimal CSS, no javascript if at all possible.

I hope more people start doing that.
This is actually why I completely left the Apple ecosystem. I ditched the iPhone for a LineageOS device and, since I think the Mac will eventually end up fully locked down as well, decided to get ahead of that race and migrate to Linux.
Evaporation, oxygen and any number of other effects won't change the ratio of U235 and U238. Those isotopes are chemically identical. The only way they are different is by their different atomic mass, i.e. their gravitational effects. And since the atomic mass is different by only about 1%, even the gravitational effects are almost identical. So U235 constitutes between 0.71% and 0.72% of the Uranium everywhere in the world.
US DHS seized $2B from travelers between 2000-2016
Deepfakes Are Becoming the Hot New Corporate Training Tool
Most websites have blocked VoIP numbers so you won't be able to use them for 2fa.
Take a look at Redfin/Zillow, set it to a $1-$5000 range, and zoom out. You'll find various lots for sale, some less out in the boonies than you might think.
London hospital starts virtual ward rounds for medical students
I found this during research and thought I'd share. It could be better, but it's a one-person project labor of love, so I'm pretty forgiving.

For new-ish parts, PCPartPicker.com is still the single best resource for this info, but their info isn't always entirely accurate. For a given board I was researching with USB3.0, PCPartPicker listed it as having USB3.1Gen1 support. For compatibility its built-in checking is pretty good for what it does, but if your use case demands specific I/O ports/functionality, especially dicey things like Thunderbolt over USB-C, always discover the ground reality for yourself from first-party sources, such as the OEM/vendor.

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/

Here's some other motherboard research links I found:

https://acme.com/build_a_pc/boardfinder/

http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/stats.html
That's perfect! Most pages should load instantaneous, at least those serving text for the most part.

I did the same for my website [1], and I hope this becomes more of a standard for "boring old" personal pages and blogs.

[1] https://marvinblum.de/
maybe it IS good enough
> happy/content/at peace

Is that the same as immediate pleasure though?
> I legitimately cannot tell from the way this is worded if this is a promotion or if he's stepping aside.

CNBC uses a more "obvious" headline, "Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller steps down from role". [0]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/04/apple-replaces-longtime-mark...
I purchased land in the North Cascades area (Methow Valley, about 3 hours Northeast of Index where these guys built) in 2007 with the intention of building a weekend home myself. I prepped the property myself and ran the main power. It was a junk show and I quickly learned that the best approach was to continue writing software and pay pros to do the job. That was one of the best decisions I have ever made. My wife and I moved into the home full time in 2011 and have lived in the valley ever since.
This looks a bit like the Ive stepping aside. Which might be good in the end.
Banks are just abysmal pretty much across the board. From things they should know better about (2FA over SMS) to just inexcusable - BarclayCard in the UK has accounts protected by a 6 digit pin and a secret word that needs to be a minimum of 6 characters long. No 2FA options available.
Science fiction becomes fact to create live musical performance
Can't wait to see homeless people pushing these around and throwing them into creeks like normal carts
I do it the other way around because 1) I "only" have one GPU, 2) it entirely solves driver-caused instability or other pain in Linux, since Virtualbox Linux drivers are really stable, and 3) it lets me easily suspend-to-disk, resume, and point-backup my running work sessions, which is really nice.

I set out building this thing as a Linux workstation, but I guess 1-1.5 generations old hardware was still too cutting-edge. Drivers exist, but X & Wayland (tried both) crashing or permanently artifacting multiple times a day was no fun. Zero crashes since wrapping Linux in Win10 with Virtualbox. Frankly, I should have just paid double for a worse MacOS machine, given the time I've sunk into this. Win10 is spy/adware garbage but it's what I'm stuck with now to have a usable machine.

[EDIT] Oh and, surprisingly, RDP to Windows then fullscreening Virtualbox Linux is less painful, better performing, and easier to configure (as in, was no work) than similar on Linux, aside from X-forwarding.
Bonini’s Paradox: Why Simple Rules Triumph in a Complex World
Realistically, it’s because it was considered an acceptable tradeoff for replacing 480i analog video with 1080p digital video.
Whole MS 365 suite is free for schools, even the windows licenses are free, so... What are you talking about?
Having features like heated seats tied to a subscription crosses the line. It's one thing to install them in all cars as an additional feature that can be enabled, but charging a subscription for it is ludicrous.

I don't mind soft-locked features too much since it can be cheaper for the manufacturer to just install it on everything than to build two separate models; plus it can be nice as a consumer to still have those additional features available if you change your mind later.
mmmm wtf... I feel like twitter is not the place to put this in writing? Maybe it is common knowledge.
I agree with your overall idea, but not your sentiment. I think that plenty of computer nerds use Macs. It's still a popular platform for software developers and computer enthusiasts. There's no need for gatekeeping between "normies" and "computer nerds."
My country, Canada, has chip cards and tap-to-pay. Whenever we get interns/new hires that grew up in China they remind us that even this is behind the times.

Apparently they pay with their phone. They scan a QR code and get the bill on their phone... or something. I've never experienced it myself.
It's origin can be fake, but there are real people who believe in the fakery.
Index WA is meth central and incredibly dark and dank in the winter so that might explain the cost.
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They probably skipped classes to build their new app’s prototype. I wouldn’t even say it’s worse, most coder won’t need linear algebra.
Don't answer truthfully - you're looking for growth, period.
yeah, it supports macros
In my opinion broccoli does not go so well with bread (brötli = bread roll in swiss german), so some more matching name suggestions are: gipfeli (Croissant), weggli, pfünderli (500g bread), bürli, zöpfli

:-)
Some packages don't support ARM because there is little demand for that. People won't use RPis for heavy number crunching or any demanding application. Until recently, you could barely go beyond 2 GB of RAM on any ARM platform and still very few ARM boards will support more RAM than that. Another issue is that most ARM hardware is underpowered and it takes a long time to build and test software on it. Not everyone is willing to do that.

Apple is going to change the landscape with a mainstream ARM platform that can compete in specs with Intel desktops and laptops. Let's see what happens then.

The dynamics of proprietary software are somewhat different from open source - unless you make a steady revenue from an app you launched some time ago, there is little incentive to dedicate resources to port it to a new platform (even if it's from 32 to 64 bits) unless you expect it to drive new sales. There is no penalty apart from lost potential revenue and a huge incentive to focus on the next product.
MIT Dream Research Interacts Directly with Dreaming Brain to Manipulate Content
As I see it it's basically price discrimination.

Apple wants a certain profit margin for the model as a whole. Yet for customers who will never pay prices that will give Apple that full margin, they offer a model at a low price point with a compressed margin, but with a painful aspect that will encourage customers who can pay to go with a higher priced unit — here, the painful thing is the small SSD size.

So the idea that the minimal-SSD model is somehow the "real" price and Apple is selling SSD space at an exorbitant markup, isn't quite right.

You could almost think of it as Apple offering a discount if you'll go with the smallest SSD, so they can capture more of the market while still keeping their average profit margins high.

If Apple charged "competitive $/TB prices", the small-SSD option would likely be more expensive, rather than the larger-SSD options being cheaper.
On the 27" iMac, the memory upgrades are able to be done easily by the user. The 21" Models require taking it to an Apple Store to do so. I believe the iMac Pro also needs to be taken apart in order to upgrade the RAM.
Few if any laptops have decent cameras. This is partially because until recently most users didn't actually care that much, but also for practical reasons; modern laptops have very slim lids, so you can't really fit decent optics (a phone is a good bit deeper).
University of Florida, Nvidia to Build Fastest AI Supercomputer in Academia
Work in IT long enough and it's not hard to use a lot of hardware:)
I hate the fact that Google requires a phone number to set up 2FA. Only then does it show the Hardware/App options.

A phone number, or an Android phone logged into the account
No need for corporate PR. Via verge: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/4/21354367/apple-phil-schill...

>Apple’s longtime marketing chief, Phil Schiller, is stepping into a slightly smaller role after decades with the company. Schiller is dropping his role as senior vice president of worldwide marketing, but he’ll remain in charge of the App Store and Apple Events. Greg Joswiak, previously the head of product marketing, will take over Schiller’s former position as Apple’s overall marketing leader.
Big bezels are annoying on portable devices, because they make the devices bigger for a given screen size. They’re pretty irrelevant for a desktop.
Probably not, at least for the laptops. The phone is a lot thicker than a laptop lid.
This is the first I’ve ever heard of “Apple Fellows”. According to Wikipedia [0],

> To recognize the best of its employees, Apple created the Apple Fellows program which awards individuals who make extraordinary technical or leadership contributions to personal computing while at the company. The Apple Fellowship has so far been awarded to individuals including Bill Atkinson, Steve Capps, Rod Holt, Alan Kay, Guy Kawasaki, Al Alcorn, Don Norman, Rich Page, and Steve Wozniak.

I wonder what qualifies “extraordinary”. For example, Chris Lattner, creator of Swift and LLVM, seems to have fit that adjective as well as anyone and yet his name is absent from this list.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#Corporate_affairs