jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
there are lots of applications that benefit from GPU acceleration, where even a single small-ish GPU is useful. Even outside of deep learning -- DL tensor libraries can be useful just for GPU numerical operations + autograd. Managing moving data back and forth to cloud environments can add a lot of friction.

A laptop that has the performance of a low-end discrete GPU, but is the size and temperature of a regular laptop, would be a very nice thing to have. Hoping software support for the M1 continues to improve.
>But in reality, in my experience in the Netherlands and in Australia, tickets get written because x, y says so. Not because you were or weren't doing anyy reckless.

Yes, we can certainly agree that this "anti-pattern" occurs, and that it's a perversion of the system. I've been on the receiving end of some technically-correct-but-not-helping-anyone tickets myself. On the whole, however, it is my feeling that police operate as described above.

More to the point, it is not the purpose of these laws to fully suppress the behavior they punish. When applied in a manner to do so, it is a perversion.
Thunderbolt 3 is 40GBits/s (5GB/s). PCIe 4.0x16 is over 6x the bandwidth.
It's not the exact same idea, but Living Vehicle has an actual product you can buy as a travel trailer.

https://www.livingvehicle.com/

(I have no affiliation with Ark1 or Living Vehicle)
San Francisco did not make a law about how much housing to have and then enforce it. It crafted a system of discretionary reviews, lawsuits, and other project-level activism that turns each building permit into its own little lawmaking exercise. A major pro-housing goal is to shift the system towards one that's more law-governed, where the requirements are written down in advance and a building that meets the requirements must be approved.

The accusation "NIMBY" does not even properly apply to a consistent, principled stance against development (that would be BANANA). It applies to e.g. people who agree in principle that a city needs apartment buildings, but grab onto any straw they can find to block the actual apartment building proposed on their block. San Francisco offers very many of these straws.

The democratic solution is to shift decision-making to larger polities (e.g. state government) where the balance of interests is different, where you can get people dealing with the system of housing in abstract rather than only about their own block. Scott Wiener has already had some successes with this approach and I think we will see more. See also several municipalities responding to the YIMBY push by eliminating their single-family zoning categories and allowing duplexes everywhere.
Esperanto is dramatically less effort to learn to usable levels than any evolved language

That is a frequent claim in the Esperantist literature, one I encountered when I studied Esperanto, but it is dramatically untrue. There are very few people who have taken up Esperanto who can communicate well with it even after much effort. That's especially true for people of the majority of the world's native language backgrounds.[1]

By the way, how would you write your whole comment in Esperanto?

[1] http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/
One of my fav on the site is
"Algor Mortis - coldness after death"

The RILT for that is "It sounds like Al Gore" and he was known for he's CLIMATE/(READ "Temperature") concerns !
You'll note that Apple is already preempting this argument. Reader exists to offer clarity to the reading experience, removing "annoying ads and other visual distractions." iAds, on the other hand, is promoted as adding to a seamless user experience. Apple is bending over backwards to show that iAds are different -- not "annoying" like what we're used to, but something immersive and interesting.

Of course, much of this is marketing. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. An insightful article, overall.
Nexus One total internal storage: 512MB
'the largest iPod': 160GB

The Nexus One is a phone, not a device with a large storage capacity. If Google made one of those, I'm sure it would be referenced.

edit: the Nexus One box also includes a 4GB micro SD card, but that'd be comparing flash memory with harddrives, and is hardly an intuitive explanation.
HA! Yes...sometimes. We vote every Friday. It varies wildly. Five Guys burgers are ahhhhmazing though and we would probably eat them everyday if it weren't for that thumping thing in our chest telling us not to.
The probability of not seeing ads if (b) is true will drop throughout the years, if cable television is any indicator.
Wow, good catch. I wonder if anyone from Twitter reads HN. Seems like this is something they'd want to fix.

So to replicate this bug, I'm guessing you just have to get around 100 people to RT a tweet from a protected account. I imagine that isn't a common use case. But it's still a privacy issue.
My understanding is that many of them fled following the Cuban Revolution and subsequent nationalization of property; the ones who were in Cuba at the time are likely either very old or dead by now, but presumably their descendants still harbor resentment over it. From the associated Wikipedia article:

"Cuba began expropriating land and private property under the auspices of the Agrarian Reform law of May 1959. Cuban lawyer Mario Lazo writes that farms of any size could be and were seized by the government. Land, businesses, and companies owned by upper and middle class Cubans were also nationalized, including the plantations owned by Fidel Castro's family. By the end of 1960, the revolutionary government had nationalized more than 25 billion dollars worth of private property owned by Cubans."

The angry Cuban ex-patriots are generally from that middle or upper class that had their property nationalized.
thanks! feel free to stop by and say hello if you are in DC. we have cold beer and fruit always in stock to entice the curious onlooker.
There are low field scanners that use conventional electromagnets, which aren't always on. However, the scanner shown is a 1.5 Tesla (T) or 3T scanner (difficult to say which from just the housing), and the main magnetic field is always on. The main field is supplied by a superconducting ring immersed in liquid helium. As a previous poster noted, the only way to shut one down is to dump the helium, and the cost to bring the scanner back up is in the tens of thousands of dollars. There are smaller electromagnets involved to apply field gradients across the bore of the scanner (on the order of 50 mT/m) which are off when the scanner is not operating, but these are quite small compared to the main field.

My Ph.D. dissertation was on data acquisition and reconstruction techniques for MRI. I've logged hundreds of hours operating high field scanners like the one shown, and dozens of hours being scanned for various research studies. I've also (carefully) hauled a variety of strange things in and out of scanner rooms. Most of the tools we used were non-ferrous, and we had to be extremely careful with the few ferrous pieces of equipment we had to use. The magnetic field does drop off rapidly as you move away from the scanner, so objects more than 10 feet or so away are unlikely to be pulled in.
The only reason they can use PHP in the front end is because they have a lot of different backend and frontend services to compensate for it speed-wise. Facebook uses HipHop, backend services written with C/Java/etc(?), and lots of interesting frontend JavaScript stuff to speed up page loads. Wikipedia has literally hundreds of Squid servers to cache requests, so most visitors never touch code that was just generated with PHP. Needless to say, this would be unlikely to be possibly using PHP Fog. (This comment sort of turned into a PHP is slow argument, oops. My point should still come across though)
"where is the don't switch option"

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.
You really should have a look into Matrix/Element, esp when you are a Business.
> Instead of setting quarterly goals or using OKRs, we move towards a single north star: maximizing how much money creators earn

I like this. I've always wanted internal metrics to be this (or something similar). Like just measure company revenue and target increasing it. Goals and OKRs seem like distraction sometimes. Relying on people intuition of just how to make the product better, not with a specific targeted goal, just overall. It's that kind of intangible thing, that's hard to reduce sometimes to an OKR or a goal. Which means you can meet all OKRs and Goals and yet fail to have made the product better. I think it's because OKR and Goals miss on the little details that add up, by having you focus exclusively on the big obvious things. Yes this is good in some way, get that 80% done, and initially it'll mean success, but once competition shows up, it'll be the little details and that extra 20% that you couldn't capture in a goal or OKR that'll make the difference.
I mean, they very much should be shamed for that when viewed in context with the rest of their awful management.

In a vacuum, sure, it's not a bad thing to return profits to shareholders, but that's only like 1/10th of the story here.
Who would get fired though? It seems that it is more likely to affect those lower in the hierarchy.
I don’t think this is as hard of a problem as people make it out to be. Why not just take fingerprints, plain old ink on paper, in lieu of ID? Or a photograph of your face that is immediately printed and signed, they already do this at airports. You should have to leave some form of identification but there are lots of free, easy and instant ways to do this that don’t exclude anyone.

https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign...
I dunno about that. I readily acknowledge that cars are a different bucket of fish, but the benefits of open-sourced firmware have been well-established in areas like routers.

It's also (hopefully) not a binary choice between OEM firmware and a clean-room from-scratch implementation. If it was I might agree, but the ideal scenario is that the OEM releases the firmware, then community members (okay, whatever, generalists and amateurs) get to fix bugs/do long-term support when the business has moved on. Complimentary rather than adversarial. For instance, even a generalist could throw some static analysis at some code and come up with a bunch of trivial (but useful!) memory correctness fixes or something like that.
Perhaps not as different as you think! Most of the "known matter" is indeed H and He drifting in otherwise "empty space". Stars, while very dense, are few and far between on cosmic scales. In terms of mass, the ratio is about 4:1. So you'd get quite similar answers from both calculations.
A bias towards "beauty" or simplicity of some form is inevitable and part of good science.

For every theory, you can generate a more complicated theory with more moving parts that generates the exact same predictions. For instance, my theory of gravity is the same as general relativity, except that at 3 PM April 9th, 2021, all gravity will be reversed.

You have to appeal to some principle to sort out such theories from good descriptions of how the world works.
> I really wish someone with a ton of money and backing would create "TypeTcl"

They did. Larry McVoy of BitMover created Little, a typed extension of Tcl [0]. Didn't do the marketing bit, though.

[0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Little
A "mockingbird" also sings late into the night and mimics other birds, which can be annoying and throw the blame on others. It's a natural metaphor.
Svn's complete inability to handle merges at a file level may have been simpler, but was by no means better. Needing to coordinate who is allowed to edit each file in order to avoid a painful merge is common with svn, and nearly unheard of with git. Svn looks at the inherent complexity of multiple people working on the same code base, shrugs, and figures that it is somebody else's problem.
You won't get to max HR from a 40 meter dash.
I think this is more a sign that git (porcelain) is not aligned with the underlying model.

It is actually a pity that so little effort went into git UI. I find the OP explanation of git model awesome and the presented concepts beautiful, but the cli utility has countless naming and consistency problems which make me sad that hg didn't win over git. Life would be much simpler for many developers if it did, imho.
Not to mention the cost savings in hospital stays for ppl who might have had the disease.
Uhhh, thank you. I was interested in using Python, since it seems so omnipresent when you look at the it security space. So this might be a great alternative to PHP (at least for me...)
Rust uses LLVM, I believe, and LLVM does as good a job optimizing as just about anything else out there.
You must have a pretty sad definition of the word "relationship" to exclude two companies that share executives.
What? No more time shifting reboot regurgitants for you? What if Kahn morphs into Kanye for hip-hop goodness? You're going to miss yet another weak Spider Man/Superman/Iron Man written to appeal to a 10yo(seemingly written by said 10yo), or the greatest Terminator peppered with digital homages to Arnold and paper thin plot lines. Perhaps 'Transformers VII: It Can't Get Any Worse' will entice you back. Think of the popcorn, man!
You are right. So I changed it.
The only thing BT seems to store is your location (so they can connect any peers which use your key) and potentially the mechanism for authenticating the key the other device uses to connect (it could be done client side but I dont think so).

A has files and gives B the key to the sync location.
B enters it into btsync and chooses a folder.
B downloads A's files over an encrypted channel directly from A's computer.

Add more people to get more to get multiple seeds.
I'm guessing this tactic was a means to an exit for individual developers looking for the door?

One of the things that bothers me about resumes that cross my desk is the emphasis on skills over projects. I blame linkedin since it allows HR (generally, not the most innovative or thoughtful people I've dealt with, especially at the banks) to half-ass their job to the Nth degree with filters begging to be reverse engineered by a job seeker.

I think there is value in building towards a goal skillset (I do the author's resume goal setting myself, actually), but I generally never share my resume and if I do, I am completely legit in what I present).
Don't know what scientists you know, but most of them love what they are doing instead of doing it for a living.
The intent is that you'd use the C API. Or, with luck, someone will make a little game engine similar to Löve2d that bundles Wren along with a renderer for you.
I second The Soul of A New Machine, what an incredible book.

It follows a team of engineers at Data General around 1980 as they race to build a new computer under incredible pressure.
It's an incredible story and anyone who has worked on a tightly knit team under high pressure will relate.
Hmmmm, IMHO every statement here is incorrect.

Do you have a mathematical prove that ABC is not Turing Complete? I suspect that if one is sufficiently smart, he can implement a Turing machine on top of any 1930s, 1940s computer.

BTW I don't think 'General purpose computer' is used widely as equivalent of a 'Turing complete computer'.

From https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/John_Vincent_... : "In June 1941 Mauchly visited Atanasoff in Ames, Iowa for four days, staying as his houseguest. Atanasoff and Mauchly discussed the prototype ABC, examined it, and reviewed Atanasoff's design manuscript. Up to this time Mauchly had not proposed a digital computer. In September 1942 Atanasoff left Iowa State for a wartime assignment as Chief of the Acoustic Division with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory (NOL) in Washington, D.C. ... Mauchly visited Atanasoff multiple times in Washington during 1943 and discussed computing theories, but did not mention that he was working on a computer project himself until early 1944.

By 1945 the U.S. Navy had decided to build a large scale computer, on the advice of John von Neumann. Atanasoff was put in charge of the project"

Sounds to me like Mauchly just tried to steal Atananasoff ideas (with some success).
As a first programming language, I wouldn't consider Haskell, plus the Real World Haskell book could use a lot more polishing.

If you are seriously in it for the long hall, gentrysherrill's advice of learning a functional language is a probably a good choice, but it shouldn't be Haskell. Scheme or Common Lisp is a better choice.

Get Conrad Barski's new book Land of Lisp. Go through it first, then consider checking out the Little Schemer or How to Design Programs (version 2).
"The Pianist" was not a more advanced expression of Polanski's sexual predilections. Those entrepreneurs' later tech ventures were more advanced expressions of the same causes that led to their early ones. Cutting off theif technical and entrepreneurial careers early might very well have created a different world today.
if anyone's curious, well, I was, So I just started up 30 terminals under awesome wm.

I did 30 gnome-terminals, and then 30 xterms, and then 30 urxvts

I start out at 150 mb of ram, and then with 30 gnome-terminals I go up to 250. With 30 xterms, I end up at 230. With 30 urxvts, I ended up at around 210

I used htop to measure memory.

I've always wondered how much lighter the lighter terminals are, they aren't enough to make me switch, but there you go, there's definitely a difference, since I'm usually at least running 1 graphical we browser(like chrome) that always dominates my memory usage
Social media is universally terrible, you might be the last one to notice.
We did this to ourselves by integrating Google/Apple products into our every day life. 20-15 years ago we didn’t have any of it and still led mighty fine lives. Yes, private companies are free to do this stuff to us, but we only have ourselves to blame.
Sounds like the bad kind of group selectionism hypothesis to me. Death bestows no fitness benefit to the individual, and is therefore not evolutionarily selected for. Organisms don't die because evolution says they should, they die because evolution doesn't care.
UITextField is a good example - http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/...

There are 7 delegate callbacks, 2 of which are voids so they're not really delegation methods.
There is also a large list of UIControlEvents also sent around value change and touch events.
Lastly 3 NSNotifications can also be dispatched by this object when data changes.

Some of the list components are equally bad. The rule of thumb for ideal delegate vs event models is this. If you need a value returned, it should be a delegate method

- (UIView )viewForZoomingInScrollView:(UIScrollView )scrollView

but if a callback returns no data, it should not be a delegate but rather an event

- (void)scrollViewWillBeginDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView

there is no reason for a void method to only allow for one listener and it's bad design.
Link to article sans sign up stuff:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/business/25netflix.html
I agree with the coverage of events by the press/media encourage people to be terrorized. If the media get a story that will sell papers / get eye balls watching TV screens they will run with it until the cows come home (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/382900.html).
In the early days of a startup, everyone is on one team; they’re all part of the same tight-knit family.
Until the headcount reaches 15-25 – especially if they all share an office – it’s hard for any employees to be misaligned for too long.

Fast forward to when the organization grows to hundreds of people, or even thousands. Then the execs start making choices about how to organize; considerations like efficiency, career paths, dependencies all come into play.... more here http://www.mikebz.com/2015/01/cross-functional-teams.html
AI is not fundamentally different from a simple linear regression

it is fundamentally different because it is complex nonlinear regression (unless you are using a one layer linear network which no one does)
looting isn't the same as storming the capitol.
Cogensia
100 W. Hillcrest Blvd., Ste. 406
Schaumburg, IL 60195

Anytime you see a Suite number, it’s a pretty small firm.

Confirmed by

https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Customer-Asset...

So basically a glorified department head, if there are less than 50 employees.

Before you pile on too much, remember the employees who are going to be impacted. Someday, it might be a small firm you are working at...
> your name, user name, physical address, email address, phone numbers, and other similar identifiers

My problem with this isn't the info they collect, it's how they would collect it, which this privacy policy doesn't seem to clarify.

As it stands, this policy technically gives them the right to crawl through all my personal files or even listen using the microphone to search for and collect this information.

I'm not saying they are doing this, but the policy is not reassuring. I wish there was enforced legislation (so GDPR is excluded, as regulators don't give a fuck) to curb this. There should be a legal requirement describing exactly the information collected, how is it collected, transmitted, sorted and which third-parties it is given to, if any.
People in Asia still ride crowded public transportations. So yes, if everyone wears a mask everyone is protected.
He is not lying to you. That’s disingenuous. The OP is stating that the very little protection you get by wearing a mask does not warrant you horsing it. Masks should be used by sick people to
Maximize their proficiency. I’m surprised to read such comments in the HN community which is supposed to be focused on engineering and optimization within a set of constraints.
It also keeps your hands away from your mucus membranes. Just tying a bandana around your face is absolutely a useful mitigation. But staying home is better.
Related from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16549966

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14108718

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13365470
Ventilators are early 1900s technology. You're not *going to "get sued" for a basic unit.

And yeah, it costs a ton of money to get regulatory approval.

So where do you think all that money comes from? Think maybe they have to build that into the price of the ventilator, so maybe it's not so "overpriced" at all? Maybe?
It’s a survival instinct when there’s two mouths to feed, and one meal to do it.

When there’s enough for everyone and more, and we take enough resources for 50 because then we get it faster, cheaper, and shinier... well, I wouldn’t personally describe that as survival instinct.
Also, more harmonics, more efficient sound production. And human voices are very harmonical. Sexual selection is likely responsible for that.

What I find strange, though, is why animals don't appreciate music (or almost never). You can't even train pigeons, nice or apes to tap to the beat.
> As for removing retail jobs, Amazon does hire a ton of people for every store to restock, answer questions, prepare deli foods, etc. So the jobs are likely moving to different parts of the store.

Is it fair to say that you are making the claim that there is no net decrease in labor hours when compared to a similar store that does staff cashiers?
Can't edit my comment now, but that's what I meant. Normal bikes in 39C is something I might do with a tank top or something, e-bikes seem neccessary there. I also implied scooters = bad but I take that back, scooters and e-bikes seem good, it is manually driven transit in 39C seems like it would be sufficiently uncomfortable.