jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not in the podcasting biz, but I do listen to a lot of them, both from established radio players like NPR, and from people who got started by "casting pod." Radio is terrible, because you can't decide when to listen to what you want. However, radio producers have vast experience making audio content that people like. My guess is that people who know how to make radio will move over to podcasting and make money via "native advertising," the same way they make money via "advertising" today.
Depends on the behavior with oils I guess.

Water doesn't dissolve oil, although it could help mechanically remove it -- but if the material is actually olephilic or neutral it could be an issue.
Why does international flight mean 2 full suit cases? Seriously I'm 12 days in on a 14 day business trip across 'the pond' with a half sized roller board and that includes both the work laptop and a personal one, juggling props (hey come'on it's Europe) and running gear.

For business I figure if the privatized transport from the airport is 1/2 as long and not silly costs I'll expense it without guilt. At supposedly $99 from JFK it sounds legit for a short business trip. Granted they claim PMV, so YMMV.
Hydrophobicity alone is only so useful.

Teflon became a thing because it's both hydrophobic and lipophobic. There are lots of hydrophobic surfaces that work very well until you get dirt, finger oils, soap, or just about anything that isn't water-soluble on them. There may also be an issue here with friction damage.

Hopefully the technique here can be adapted to practical products.
Moe already linked to some of them [ if you look at soyoustart.ie you can get the price in Euros ].

But honestly the best deal is generally:

https://robot.your-server.de/order/market

If you are patient, you can get it below 40 Euros there. I honestly tend to think of things at Hetzner's auction rates or Online.net's Specials because I can wait 30 days to add a new node because I use them for side projects.

If you are willing to downgrade to a Xeon E3-1245V2, they have 2 nodes for sale that are otherwise identical.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1245+V...

vs.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2670+v...

Of course, since you can buy like 4 of these nodes vs. 1 Amazon EC2 one...even on a 3yr reserve...ya. Generally, per-node, EC2 has better per-core performance than what you can pick up in the "bargain market" but the fact you can pick up X:1 nodes guarantees it to be a non-issue.
Sure it does. The problem is how to create a stable set of cross cutting technologies that enable you to concentrate on building the thing you want.
Lending at interest only leads to unlimited aggregation if the risk of lending is zero. Zero interest rate policy and government backed securities is indeed as close to zero risk as possible in the real world.
They aren't dogs. They understand a lot more than you would expect.
Afghanistan? Air force? Uh, as fuck? Really?

I'm not prudish about words but .lol would've been clearer.
Please don't fall for the trap of calling actual money fiat as if bitcoin wasn't fiat. If at some point bitcoin becomes money it will be fiat money, as bitcoin is not backed by a commodity. So far bitcoin isn't money because it's not the most liquid asset. In order to buy anything with bitcoins, first you'll have sell them for actual money and use that to buy stuff, hence not money.
I remember a lecturer of mine having to state and prove a theorem due to Heawood[1]. I think he did it first because the statement was quite unpleasant and not easy to memorise. I found the point of proving things from memory is that to memorise a proof, one must distill it to key ideas with obvious steps in between. This was particularly useful if you might need to reproduce a proof in an exam.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heawood_number
Podman can run under your user and use your UID (e.g., 1000) as UID 0 for the root user in the container. Any other user in the container gets mapped to a temporary unprivileged UID on your system (the range to pick from is specified in /etc/subuid).
I use emacs for keeping track of my character sheet/notes for a dnd session. its pretty good, i just want an org exporter of 5e.tools or 5ewiki or something to have all my spells.
> Most of the incidents, officials said, were self-reported. Such admissions can arise, for example, when an employee takes a polygraph tests as part of a renewal of a security clearance

So of the vague number of reported violations that the NSA will admit to, most of them are found through confessions...and some of these apparently come from the kind of NSA employee who can't fool a polygraph test.

There are so many comical things about this that it's almost hard to be indignant
That kind of thinking will only prevent adoption, not help it.

Aesthetics are important to technical subjects as well. It shows that a lot of time and consideration have gone into every part of the project, not just the technical side. It's also a good sign of community support/interaction. I will agree that content is the most important, but you shouldn't write off aesthetics so easily, especially when you want people to be interested and adopt your technology.
Mr. Pilate once asked "What is truth?". Even though there are various definitions and approaches, I credit Pierce and pragmatists with the best one - truth is what we know at the end of inquiry/investigation. So, the "end of inquiry" being flexible, the truth can change as well, and I think, last decade and especially last year can attest to that. Something reported as a fact today - may not be a fact once we get more information in.
From the law point of view, magnet link could be argued to be an equivalent to a torrent file.

Hypothetical question: Should readers of driverdan comment be worried?
seems they are mostly investing in ghost cities property, that will work really well
> I have read this and I don't understand why Wayland developers don't want to write an adapter for NVidia's proprietary API.

If you're NVidia user you're justified to feel bad about this entire fiasco but remember protocols exist so that everyone implements their own part and users can mix-and-match and it works together.

If AMD and Intel can dedicate resources to maintain their Wayland implementations with no complains why NVidia can't?

> why Wayland developers don't want to write an adapter for NVidia's proprietary API

Because they could use the time spent on maintaining NVidia proprietary API adapter writing open-source software that will benefit all parties.
We can afford to manage risk, but not eliminate it.
If we allow safety to rule us completely, we invite regulatory capture and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_traffic_laws
yes I do: let adults make their own decisions.

if you feel that strongly about it, then spend your free time educating people about it.

but activities which don't affect anyone but the individuals who are choosing to participate should not be regulated by the state.

the article you linked has a tragic outcome, but I suspect you're not in favor of ending military service, law enforcement, long-haul trucking, underwater welding, or working in an oil field (all of which have meaningful risks). Let's pass laws to keep industries safe, but it's hypocritical to prohibit one of these and not the others based on some paternalistic notion of what's best for the individuals involved.

* I think your last paragraph was an edit, and I'm sorry about your friends' experience. It sounds genuinely terrible. But without more detail it's impossible to speak to those circumstances. There are people in all walks of life who are predatory, and the individuals have to be protected by the law when they say "no!", but it's an overreach to say that because some people wish they said "no" when they didn't then we need to prevent others who might have been happy with that choice from having the option. By that reasoning, we would have to ban all employment, because a boss manipulated you into trading your youth for a dead-end job at $15/hour.
Are any of those websites the airline/hotel/car rental company itself? If so, which ones?
As someone who works for a space company that was effectively bootstrapped, there are 2 ways I've seen to do it.

1. Government Contracts - this is what my company did. Ground demonstrations to parabola tests to ISS payloads. It's a long hard road and has a lot of NASA bureaucracy, but we just won our first 100MM$ contract and only did one raise 7 years after the company was founded.

2. Build something a big Aerospace company needs - there's a lot of this these days. Company's like Gomspace are building tools for cubesats with minimal startup costs. This is the more independent route, but comes with the challenges of convincing a risk averse industry to use something that hasn't been tested in the correct environment.
> While pornography and professional sports don't.

So this is a story to tell:

Rush - Theatrical Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XA73ni9eVs

Conor McGregor: Notorious - Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syOgWwz2fiE

But when I watch it play out in real time it's not a story?
In the UK (and I'm thinking in most jurisdictions) being sued for libel is very expensive to defend. Defending criminal charges is also expensive. Neither is similar to the small claims track, which is really only aimed at small and simple money disputes.

Anti-"Fake news" laws seem to create a new criminal offence and I thus expect that the costs associated with defending is similar.
Are any of the websites actually the official website of the hotel/airline/car rental?

I’ve never even seen a lower price advertised on a third party website compared to the official website of the vendor.
Thanks! The sensitivity analysis tool is just a little standalone thing, our actual product is a SaaS app for crunching numbers and building models — trying to replace spreadsheets. More info here: https://causal.app
1. That you do not require any part of Go (except the obvious ones that are inside the compiled binary) to exist on the live server.

2. That Go is designed as a programming language.
http://www.mytinytodo.net/
I don't really get the hype about Gradle.

For those of us without XML phobia, it doesn't offer any benefit and is slow as molasses.
Redux in the react world is a good example of real-world application using pure functions and functional programming concepts.
This bears some similarity to the French Republic Calendar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar

I’d prefer a more purely metric calendar if we are going to the effort. Stardate system I suppose
News: Tether prints $1B at once, Tesla buys BTC, Roubini calls Saylor a cokehead
There's one important caveat, though I agree with your thrust: at GPT-3 scale, cutting params in half is a nontrivial optimization. So it's worth keeping an eye out for that concern.

(Yeah, none of us are anywhere near GPT-3 scale. But I spend most of my time thinking about scaling issues, and it was interesting to see your comment pop up; I would've agreed entirely with it myself, if not for seeing all the anguish caused by attempting to train and deploy billions of parameters.)
I didn't want to sound pessimistic, I wish we had a better way to share knowledge, will power, man power to make everybody's life nicer, leaner and cleanr.
> right now there is no good solution. Partially because there is no good way of understanding the value of an employee.

This is the perception among many startups, but I think this is more perception than it is reality.

Exceptional engineers are several times more valuable to most startups than an average engineer, but almost all will hire an average engineer for $115k before they hire an exceptional one for $175k. There's no rational basis for this, but it is the path of least resistance. You won't need to defend hiring an engineer for $115k to cofounders or investors.

This is counter-intuitive, but the solution is to actually pay more for remote engineering jobs. When you do this, you're widening your talent pool to the entire world - and then you're selecting from the very top of the pool. We've been doing this for years, and it's been one of our most significant competitive advantages.
Doing this without the user having Julia installed would require using PackageCompiler.jl to make a standalone executable. https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/dev/apps/

This is a pretty stable well established process now, but the binaries it produces are huge because they actually have the full Julia runtime in them.

Active work is happening on small binary static compilation. We already do it for GPUs, we just have to repurpose our GPU AOT compilation pipeline for the CPU. There are proofs of concept that currently work, but something more polished is feeling like it’ll probably be another year or so.
> pretraining on JFT increases the accuracy means that the model is generalizing

not necessarily, it may be mostly a bonus of the transfer, especially considering that JFT is that much larger - getting for example the first conv layers kernels to converge to Gabor-like takes time, yet those layers kernels are very similar across the well trained image nets (and there were some works showing that it is optimal in a sense, and that it is one of the reasons it is in our visual cortex) and thus transferrable, and can practically be treated as fixed in the new model (especially if those layers were pretrained on very large model and reached the state of generic feature extraction). I suspect the similar is applicable for the low level feature aggregating layers too.
Bitcoin is a paperclip optimizer as it is. It will consume all the world's computation to solve for SHA256 hashes. Eventually we will colonize Mars, not because it is easy, but because it's cheaper to cool Bitcoin mining nodes on a frigid desert planet than on Earth.
Why is easier to believe that Democrats have somehow coerced millions of immigrant (children) into voting democrat, and not the much simpler reasoning that immigrants vote democrat because republicans are quite openly anti-immigrant?

The idea that democrats are somehow acting nefariously for adjusting their policy to meet the demands of the citizenry is sounds completely asinine? What do you think democracy is? Republicans lost because they have bad policy. Complaining that the winning side acted in bad faith for listening to their citizenry is anti-democratic. If you think citizens shouldn't be listened to, then why not just skip to authoritarianism?
"10x the performance of TPU"
That’s probably dependent on the relative abundance. Massive herds of Buffalo don’t require using everything.

Living in the arctic where it’s a lot more effort probably resulted in a more efficient use of the animal.
Do you have a source for this? I read that it was actually the other way around:

> A new report Thursday revealed that Sund turned down an offer from the FBI and the National Guard to help cops in the event of unrest.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/07/capitol-police-chief-steven-su...
Theres a great example of what you can do with this, submitted and discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25690319
Yes and try doing it over network in a multiplayer setting.

Pc title we have been working on foe 2 years entering Alpha soon...
For those looking for the model, the author posted it here: https://twitter.com/ericwbailey/status/1379980899090071554
For me it’s important for a testing command to be able to receive parameters at runtime (for example tox test —- —pdb) , is it possible to do that with make in general? I never knew how.

I generally agree with your sentiment, though. I’m usually limiting myself to Python stuff so don’t have much exposure to make, it’s always felt like a less powerful task runner than other stuff
Unlike in the sciences, historians publish their best and most popular work in books. Not reading books is therefore antipathetic to being a historian. Also, they were a she.
Ask HN - should I build my new startup around COBOL? Or should I use a less proven language such as Python, Go, Rust ? /s
Or the 2nd iteration of it, had Microsoft kept POSIX subsystem for NT properly updated with the same tooling support as Win32, Linux would never had taken off.
I would definitely agree with you about the merits of smaller cities, but half the value of density is that "escape" is easier. Driving for a solid hour through nothing but housing estates is not my idea of freedom.

It does depend on your idea of "escape" though. Good trains to beauty spots make a world of difference.
Cancel culture isn't about a company banning things, it's about an outrage mob getting angry to the point where it becomes untenable for a company to defend an individual that hasn't broken the law.

What you are talking about is something completely different. That's not even cancel culture. It's upholding the law and it requires zero opinions from a random outrage mob, you report the content, the company reviews it and immediately deletes it if it goes against the law. There is no petitioning required to pressure a company because the vast majority of companies delete content like that as soon as they can identify its illegal nature.
> "It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools."

> This is a common saying because it is a common occurrence.

Ha ha. This is not applicable for software, and I assume, for some craftsman.

What's the percentage of software developers that actually get to choose their tools? 40%? 60% at best? Though most likely it's just 20%.

Most projects are pre-existing, it's only natural. You can't create more projects than those already in existence, once a field matures a bit. Which means that you have to use what's already there.

Plenty of people are forced to use bad tools. And they can for sure blame them.
Even better is the police who just stole stuff, because there was no "clearly established" law against stealing stuff:

https://newrepublic.com/article/157342/supreme-court-police-...
Some breads are great just by themselves.

YMMV a lot.
This is a silly issue of semantics, but the trackpad isn't exactly a mouse; still a pointing device though.

Anyways, his snipe is hardly outdated. Apple's most succesful products manage to balance form and function beautifully, but their mice are a pretty big hole where function has clearly been sacrificed for form.
Hey Everyone - did you know that I once single-handedly saved 1.6 million kitties from a forest fire?

Yeah, well I did. Cool, I know. But hey, I like puppies better than kitties. Should I mention my amazing feat on this application to the NYC Fire Department?

Do you think the NYC FD will even care I saved 1.6 million kitties? Saving turtles is WAY cooler right now, sort of like node.js., I wouldn't want anyone to know that I was even good at saving kitties.

Thx,
Grant
Am I reading this wrong, or is he actually using raw income and GDP per capita as data without taking the price of life into account ? I am not even discussing whether he's right or wrong, I just don't think it matters at all if you earn ten times more, when everything could cost 20 times more ...

Also, it seems like the author doesn't like the smaller gap between the various "classes" in europe, I couldn't disagree more. When the rich earn obscenely bigger amount of money than the poor, THEN you have a problem because they don't have any idea how the "little people" life is.
You submitted this and 4 other articles last week, and they are clearly all your own writing. This is feeling a lot like blog spam.
To add to what FooBarWidget said, I do believe that there are inherent advantages to using JavaScript on the server for developing webapps. For one, due to the dominance of JavaScript within browsers, it is the one dynamic language we will be stuck with for at least the next 20 years!

However, unless you're implementing servers, I believe it's better to go with synchronous I/O to simplify webapp development. That is exactly what we're doing at Akshell (http://www.akshell.com).
An ambiguous crime. The limits are clearly posted, but enforcement is highly inconsistent. Driving the speed limit has probably become indicative of old age or an attempt to avoid police interaction. Try strictly driving the posted limit for a while and you will find it socially unacceptable. While most traffic stops are rightly due to excessive violation, some are an excuse to investigate. A stop for speeding makes a great cover should the motorist complain. If they were driving slower than the social norm, or even the cars around them, there is no hard evidence to support their case.
Sounds desperate.
I have a different view on security. A lot of people are talking about defense in depth, and security being enforced by the network. I think although that kind of works, it's largely a mistake. Security, as enforced by middleboxes is fundamentally flawed, especially as we see the proliferation of systems that are too complex, and rapidly changing for middleboxes to understand. Although, they can be a tool in laying defensive trenches, they are nothing more than a simple barrier.

I think that endpoint security is what needs to be enhanced. Looking at what's been disclosed about malware recently (APTs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat), we need to focus on a few things:

1) Isolating components: Components, and processes themselves should be isolated from one another, and the operating system. A web server should be able to run malicious code without fear of it easily getting root access. We have tools to make this possible today, like Apparmor, and SELinux. The fact that distributing Apparmor, or SELinux profiles with applications today isn't normal, makes me sad.

2) Modularization: We should do our best to split the components of a system up into small, well-understood pieces. Rather than trying to combine multiple components into one monolithic process, breaking up components into their individual components. I think Cloudflare's work around Keyless SSL was great, but we've had HSMs for years -- that could have easily avoided such disasters as Heartbleed.

3) Decent abstractions: With the advent of further distributed systems, and modularization, we're going to see more and more interfaces between systems crop up. Largely, CISOs are limited to what the systems, and networking team can do. These limits typically manifested themselves at layer 4 on the network side of the house, and limited layer 7 capabilities like URL filtering, and file system ACLs. I think we need better stories around resource access and authorization. For years, we've had systems like Kerberos which would have been a great building block, but yet goes unused. I hope we see X509, and GPG become more ubiquitous for access management, and encryption.
Exactly this, the same protection that memers have in editing content (but not copying the full implementation), software engineers now have too thanks to fair use.
Personal story - I was the person who used to get angry and outraged whenever these stories of harassment were published, taking a stance which was pro the supposed victim. Independently, I used to be a huge fan of Stallman and read a lot of his writings as well as what others wrote about him.

So when the story first broke out in 2019, my first reaction was "This is simply not possible." Of course, upon researching further in depth, I agree with the sentiments in the linked site and still strongly support Stallman.

I have come to realize that just jumping on the outrage train is not a good strategy and in fact can be dangerous. One must take the time to understand all the facts and only then come to a conclusion. For example, there are huge differences between the Susan Fowler and Ellen Pao stories whereas lot of people just treat them as the same.

Anyway, my 2 cents - get all the necessary background information first before labelling and assassinating the character of a person.
For entries like this:

> Frankenstein: was not the monster, but its creator.