skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all of this workflow advice: Favor EXPERIMENTATION over "reading threads like this and trying to analyze how they will work for you beforehand." E.g. If you've used one smallish monitor over your life and you're deciding between adding one more or one bigger one -- there is NO objective answer. To the best you can, try them both.
> So why do astronomy graduate students not know what color the Sun is?

Without any proof, I will offer a guess: Because it is the wrong question!

If you ask "What is the wavelengths of the light than the sun emits?", you are setting an expectation of an accurate answer. "What color is the sun?" seems a casual question that expects a casual answer.

> White is unambiguously the correct answer.

Obviously false without knowing at what relative speed and in which direction the Sun moves relative to the observer. There are always different degrees of accuracy and expectations need to be set to get the correct answer.
Apple likely won’t optimize their own chips for your use case at first (I expect the iMac Pro or Mac Pro will stay Intel for at least two years), but for cost, low heat and high battery. Imagine a slim MacBook with no fan.
List them here and I am sure you will get some idea feedback.
In the 90s it was quite normal for one person to understand everything from the hardware and networks up to how to make HTML look pretty.

The last time I looked, a good CS curriculum still teaches people how a half-adder circuit works, how to write code in assembly, the basics of UDP and TCP, how to build a web app, and fundamental algorithms and data structures.

Additionally, students might do a couple of the following: implement a primitive SQL engine, write a simple compiler, program a robot, add features to a kernel, or study introductory machine learning. These are all common undergraduate electives. You don't need to be polymath to switch from debugging packet dumps to writing CSS.

I'm actually a huge fan of good bootcamps, because some people out there will absolutely love coding, and bootcamps give them a chance. But it's perfectly possible to understand computer architecture and networking protocols and React, and a good university CS curriculum should cover many of those topics at an introductory level.
Yeah there's a lot of success using KVM for this, if you check out r/hackintosh and search for KVM or Proxmox.
Because its running at a much higher clock rate and its a much older process. The apple isn't running 4 big cores either.
> What consumers see is much higher data rates for the same price, which doesn’t seem that important.

I think this is in part due to data caps. Nobody takes advantage of the speed, because that could mean burning an entire month's worth of data in 10 minutes.
It would be great to have this info on the readme
2nd degree contacts in social network. You don't realise how many influential people you are weakly connected by 2nd or 3rd degree. Harnessing this network for mentors, benefactors, investors advisors is hardly done.

Secondly, breathing.. everybody breathes , very few people learn how to use breath control to direct attention, calmness, clarity of thought,

Lastly, mindfulness, when we eat, indulge in binge gaming sessions, basically when we give way to our immediate gratification instead of being in the present and doing the right thing.

Doing many small things right compounds.
Not GP, but my impression is a bit, that the better things are going, the more farcical stand ups can become. The status update aspect of it could be automatized from the task management tooling, people reach out for help/input as needed and don't wait for the next stand up, socialize outside of these allocated slots, etc.

With every recurring meeting no matter the frequency you have to be quite careful in my opinion and constantly re-evaluate and tweak to keep it useful most of the time, instead it being a dogmatic ritual that has to be done a specific way because somebody learned it as such from an "Agile" book, certificate, course, video.
Nest cameras are a completely different system than Echo, all Nest camera devices stream full motion video and audio back to Google 24x7. That's why you buy them.
I guess Microsoft may drop ~$30 billion on this poisoned chalice out of goodwill.
Thanks for the name-drop, the brand was new to me, though it has just regular GbE ports unless I'm seeing the speeds wrong. 2.5GBASE/5GBASE is something that would be interesting as it works on regular Cat 5e/6 and 8P8C.
In my view it hurts the suppliers who are trying to do business through Amazon. It also hurts other customers, since it reinforces the idea that you can ship stuff with unknown or intermittent quality, and let the return process serve as your quality control.
Internet Society Statement on U.S. Clean Network Program
Unrelated to the Livingston Portmaster:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ssllc_public_images/PI-52872-210640...
At least this guy was an exec at CIGNA, and his job was to protect the interests of his company, his industry. What happened to Sen. Max Baucus and other politicians, who is supposed to represent the public interest?

Any "mea culpa" from any member from the political class? I don't expect it. Instead, they are busy being on the payroll of pharma, healthcare, lobbyists, etc.
AMD has APUs.
Unfortunately, I am using the FCC form 477 data which is only valid in the US. Do you know of a similar dateset in the UK?
Were you stuck with 2.4GHz for a reason? I can't imagine how bad that would be in an apartment.
There is little point when there is already a huge incentive for customers to connect their smart TV to the internet (ie the "smart" features).

However you do already see some devices include a sim card. Home "smart" meters for the south of England operate this way. I believe some cars do to.
Since we’re discussing syntax I’d like to question the necessity of the tick preceding [JSON].

Could we leave out this tick given that the kind of this parameter is [*]?
In my mind, day trading is like poker in the sense that it’s a game of skill and luck, and, more importantly, the sharks eat the minnows. I refrain from day trading because I presume I lack the capability to outsmart the sharks.

The article mentions there exist hedge funds that consistently perform well, but it doesn’t mention that they’re likely making their profit by feasting on the errors of less skilled traders.
Lync / Skype for Business will not exist anymore in less than 12 months. So maybe not a good idea to onboard there [1] .

[1] https://redmondmag.com/articles/2019/07/30/microsoft-ending-...
Are smartphone architectures really this amazing, or is Intel just dropping the ball so hard that they're getting lapped by mobile hardware?
For those on macOS this can be set in system preferences -> keyboard -> shortcuts -> mission control.

I highly recommend using multiple desktops with dedicated hotkeys over alt+tab to switch between applications. Much much faster to press fn+cmd+<h, j , k, l> and immediately bring up the application you want than to tab until you find the application you are looking for.
How's canary different?
How do points make it “fair”? I’d say points favour those who already have the privilege of an education.
Didn’t know what worm gears are until I saw this the other day https://youtu.be/oHg5SJYRHA0
The obvious reason why we work longer: we have no social lives anymore ...
This subject isn't really related to physics or astronomy except in a kind of shallow sense.

It has way more to do with the biology and psychology of how we perceive and interpret color (which is an incredibly in-depth and complicated subject!)

Overall the post gives off huge crank vibes, and browsing around the rest of their site does nothing to disabuse me of this impression.
Then use HTML and extend the functionality with JSX
Listening to a podcast that is not too exciting helps me switch my brain off. It needs to be one without a flashy ending which might wake you up. That or you can set a timer to kill it before it ends.
> As I’ve learned more and more about 5G

Out of curiousity, what's a good source of information on 5G? I assume the standard itself is not the easiest thing to digest so I'd appreciate your input.
Beginners Guide to Keras CallBacks, ModelCheckpoint and EarlyStopping in DL
https://www.mrjamesnestor.com/breath-vids
A Gentle Introduction to the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU)
The common term for this is lifestyle inflation. As you make more money your “needs” keep increasing. It’s incredibly challenging to reserve this trend but very easy to follow it.
From Wikipedia:

> The expected size increase required to have the same effectiveness without that advantage is the multiplication factor. For example, if a certain technology like GPS enables a force to accomplish the same results of a force five times as large but without GPS, then the multiplier is five.

I am asking about concepts or tools that hackers have in their back pockets which 5x or 10x or 1000x their effectiveness in life or work.

This is more specific than something useful that most people don't know, though it does fall under that umbrella.

For example, "how to take apart your laptop to clean the fan and replace thermal paste" is something useful that most people don't know, but that knowledge is not much of a force multiplier.
The inside comma never made sense to me. Plus if you consider the quotation marks, the commas themselves almost seem redundant.
What a bad article.

Color is hard because of broad spectrum sources, atmospheric scattering effects, biology effects (2-4 wavelength receptors in human eyes), and human psychology ("auto white-balance"). This leads to ambiguous language.

The article does nothing to shed light on those issues.
What sort of lacing should someone wear if someone is not voting for Joe Biden? <g>
The conspiracy grows faster than the claims can be fact-checked. This isn’t the media’s fault. In fact, conspiracies often use the media de-bunking as more evidence they are correct.

If I invent a claim that I am an alien, it isn’t the media’s fault if a bunch of people believe me. By the time the media can de-bunk my story, I’ve already pivoted to how other aliens have taken over the media and they can’t be trusted.
For those interested in foreigners obtaining Japanese citizenship, check out the story of Debito Arudou. It's a whole higher level of difficulty. At some point I think only around 16 naturalizations were happening per year, of a country of 100 million.
Use deflection to deal with difficult questions
Our company uses https://github.com/obsidiandynamics/kafdrop it's FOSS. It can also handle AVRO and PROTOBUF messages.
Also, let's face it, people who are stakeholders have a bias.

Parents who can work at home who have children may want the schools closed. Parents who can't work at home may want them open. And full-time teachers and administrators would want them closed because they'll still get paid.

As a 57 year old who never had children, I wonder why can't they have some sort of compromise. A-L goes to school from 8-11, M-Z goes to school from 12-5. Classrooms are half-empty and separated, and they don't have lunch service in school (except for needy famillies) to minimize risk of spreading COVID. I've never seen things like this proposed. Certainly the teachers won't want it--because they'll have to work.
I've had terrible customers when I ran my old company. I tried to ignore their behavior and focus upon being a worthwhile group for them to deal with.

They tended to share a number of features.

1) great promises of future business if you helped them now. Business which not only never materialized, but later on as you learned from other sources, they never had any intent to work with you on.

2) eager to engage your team due to their recognized expertise in solving problems, and scoping out solutions. Again, usually with a promise of working together on an RFP, or a future contract. The reality was they wanted free consulting.

3) POCs on your kit, demonstrating your performance and cost superiority to other solutions, with again, promises of if the POC went well, they would purchase from you. They refused to sign a contract indicating this. And later the bought very expensive gear from a competitor (about 5x our price) which purportedly did the same thing (it didn't) at the same performance (it didn't). Later reaching out to us to ask us to help re-engineer their purchased solution (we didn't).

4) RFPs that you responded to, and according to the non-purchasing folks, you dominated and won. Later changed by the purchasing people. In one case, a university called me up on my vacation asking me to teach our competitors how to do what we did. Because they didn't want to buy our solution from us. But they wanted our solution.

Fire your bad customers. In the case of the university, we simply stopped responding them them after they pulled that crap. I'd get occasional complaints from them and others that they needed me to respond to RFPs so they could get their minimum of 3 offers to compare.

We had a non-US government purchasing entity literally change a contract on us because they could, and told us they could, without us agreeing to it.

Every single negative interaction wound up being represented in our T&Cs. After a while, some of the larger groups we dealt with complained about our T&Cs. Which weren't one sided, but they were fair to both parties. I am thankful that this provided signals of problematic customers. I'd sit down with the entities lawyers and explain every single clause and why it was there. I helped them understand what were lines what was non-negotiable.

Most reasonable entities adapted. The unreasonable ones would insist upon their own terms, which were tremendously risky for us.

Almost 4 years since the company was killed, and it's getting a bit easier to write and talk about this.
I really don't get why anyone who can choose when to stop working and whose compensation is not hourly would ever work longer hours. Your time doesn't belong to your employer.
It looks yellow? Don't look at the sun.
Exactly. Let's say Eslint, TS, Prettier, Jest, and Webpack, are just standard for most projects I start.

The problem is, each little issue a developer has, often requires not just installing these, but then adding a whole bunch of plugins to make them work together. So whenever I start a project, my package.json is just already packed with a gazillion of devDependencies from @types/ to eslint and webpakc plugins.
Depends on whether you're planning to retire in a high COL area, I suppose. If you're saving 30-50k a year, that goes a long way in other areas.
Any tips on how to do that? Over the last year or so I find that I have lost passion for both my job and my side-projects. While I used to be happy working 60-80 hours a week between my job and side-projects, I now find both of them mundane and can't pull off such focus. With side-projects it probably boils down to not finding success...
Countries exist to benefit their citizens. There’s nothing wrong with only letting the educated.
> working at FAANG where everyone is striving for $$$

This really hasn’t been my experience at either Google or Facebook, in fact I would nearly go so far as to say the opposite is true. I’ve seen far more “striving” in the traditional corporate world
What city are you in if you don't mind me asking? While I agree with the sentiment to live in the present, I do think many of us don't see ourselves living in major US tech hubs for long, it's more of optimizing for money when you are young and de-prioritizing certain other aspects while making sure you still remain Happy and not miserable. For instance, if you are from India, you can get 3x+ salary/savings, learn different cultures/lifestyle and also learn from the best in technology and business for the cost of living away from your family (which you kind of do anyways if your family isn't in an Indian tech hub city).
I think you make an important point that it's about tech literacy. I think the bar is in practice lower. Congress people need to be barely tech literate themselves. They have aids and advisors that should brief them and get them the relevant information for the decision that needs to be made and the questions that need to be asked in hearings.
Belarus2020.org Spoofing
I personally think this is a conspiracy theory, but I doubt there's anything I could say or do to convince you. Fortunately, it's a free country and you don't have to use one of these devices if you don't want to.
I'm pretty sure the difference they're referring to is already there in the raw results - remember, they're measuring how well the masks protect others against the wearer by filtering out expelled moisture droplets, and the results show that valved N95 masks are worse than non-valved (though about as good as the very best of the cotton masks).
A type system cannot be TC. What you seem to talk about, is that if a type checker can simulate arbitrary TM's through an encoding of its input, then the type checker is necessarily non-total. This is correct. But the Idris checker is total and it is not possible to use it to simulate TMs.

The Idris type system does allow you to specify and formalize TMs internally, but that has no bearing on decidability of type checking, as I explained before.
In circumstances where there is such a thing as a "month's worth of data".

Which is still a lot of places, but you can get truly unlimited contracts in some places now, for reasonable amounts.
On my home commute I take short detours to buy groceries, go to the bank, get my hair cut, go to the gym, etc. When I do a whole week of home office I actually don't gain that much extra free time because I need to go to these places anyways.
There is a Bohemia Interactive humblebundle on sale right now, offering a few really interesting 2010s simulators for $1, Take On: Helicopters among them.
> That presented another problem - I had forgotten, but my degree was in Latin. All documents submitted as part of an application have to be translated into Japanese, and I don't speak Latin.

Wait, what?

I wouldn't expect such quirkiness from an American university, though being founded in 1764 kinda explains it.

(The translation, while correct, is also extremely literal and a bit outdated)
What Colleges Fail to Teach
Generally, whatever the rulers say.
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Why would I want to move to the US if the high salary / working at FAANG is not the most important thing to me and I’m already from a developed country?

For some reason a lot of people assume high salary is the most important aspect of life. Sure, US SWE salaries are absurdly high, but SWE earns relatively well in almost any other developed country too,
> Secondly, breathing.. everybody breathes , very few people learn how to use breath control to direct attention, calmness, clarity of thought,

Are there any good resources online for learning this?
as an american, i never liked the inside rule, although it does "look right" to me from being taught it all through school.

the comma is not part of the quote, so it shouldn't be inside, typographical systems be damned. i tend to put it outside, to the horror of (american) grammar snobs everywhere. i think programming is what got me to seriously reconsider the placement.
Yes, I have 3 devices that require fast networking: I run the primary network storage replica, a build server (only powered up on demand) and a mirror server.

A Sonos speaker is also connected to the network, but that’s obviously neither important nor significant in terms of traffic.

In this article, everything is 1 Gbit/s, including the fiber. I’ll talk more about the 10 Gbit/s aspect in the next article.
Looking to build internal SMS API
Looking to build a system internally where we can initiate transaction SMS directly from our end without having to break the bank. We do not want to rely on SMS API because we are expecting a huge volume of these SMSs generated and won't be able to sustain the high cost atm. Any idea how to get this done?
https://www.google.com/search?q=Mac+at+NASA&prmd=inmv&source...
You're getting downvoted because you provided zero evidence to backup a claim that seems pretty absurd. Touching your mask to adjust it is not the same as touching your nose, mouth, or eyes directly. Pretty much every reputable recommendation says to wash your hands after removing your mask, which avoids the contamination problem pretty well.

And to your point on Scandinavian countries, where are you getting that information? Here's Norway mandating that travelers from "red" countries wear a face mask until they get home [1] and planning to backpedal on their lax mask policies [2]. Here's Denmark backpedalling on their original mask policy [3]. Here's Iceland updating their policy because they also realized no face masks is a bad idea [4]. Basically, Scandinavian countries now recognize that their original policies were not that great.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/08/07/norway-cl...

[2] https://www.thelocal.no/20200806/norway-expected-to-announce...

[3] https://www.thelocal.dk/20200731/denmark-changes-face-mask-g...

[4] https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2020/07/31/when_to_u...
From what I've seen, it's a combination of Intel dropping the ball hard, and Apple aggressively pushing to make better and better chips for the iPhone and iPad—and, now, for their computers.

This isn't something that you're going to see in "mobile hardware" more generally, I don't think, at least not unless Intel continues to be unable to find its balls for a few more years.
I am getting very tired of living at work. I miss going in to the office.
Nightly for android is in the middle of some internal changes. Full add-on compatibility with post quantum add-ons will presumably return.
I think it was Seth Godin who coined the term, ‘Choose your customers, choose your life.’ It has stuck with me as good advice to follow since then...
> “ I left a Silicon Valley FAANG for another country more than five years ago, even though I was making ~3x there compared to what I made in the new place.”

This is kind of what the comment you’re replying to was suggesting. Take advantage of the high income first before moving.

> “You can make money anytime.”

Sure, but interest compounds - money earlier is way more helpful than money later.

I always wonder a little about the family wealth of people that write things like this. Most of the people I know who left high paying jobs come from wealthy families and they’re already basically working for fun.

I didn’t grow up poor by any means, but I also don’t come from family wealth. If I want to have a family of my own, and make sure we will always have a place to live, saving high salary (and equity) in order to reach financial independence is worth it.

If you don’t want a family or you come from wealth then prioritizing other stuff is probably fine. If you do want these things though, I think it’s helpful to be more forward looking until reaching financial independence.

> “Not the life I wanted.”

Totally reasonable, but what people want over their life changes. Financial independence gives you freedom to be able to change too.
JuliaCon 2020 was awesome! The virtual experience is better than physical
> What’s important from a user perspective ...

I'd say that's important for a very tiny subset of users. For most users, the main question is whether the devices are useful. I have them, and I'm not sure myself.

For the users who would want to verify that their stuff isn't being used any way they don't like, it's hard to say what could practically be done to convince them. Even if Google explained the inner workings of its privacy protection systems in detail (and it has, in some various contexts), you still can't watch the code running and verify that it's doing what Google says. Short of building from source and running it yourself, there's no way to verify that things are behaving as you desire. Not using devices in this class is the only option, I guess, at least until it becomes practical to move all the computation on prem, and until someone has an economic incentive to build a system with that feature.