jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You need 1.63 W for 1200 seconds (i.e. 1960 J, assuming no losses) to reset the system. I.e. the same energy you already got out.

If this worked, you could get free energy from any sort of gearing system - e.g. you could put a fly-wheel on your bicycle and power all your up-hill trips from the downhill legs of the same size by switching gears at the right time.
In spite of the close architectural resemblance with the VQVAE2, it definitely pushes the text-to-image synthesis domain forward. I'd be curious to see how well it can perform on a multi-object image setting which currently presents the main challenge in the field. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if these results were limited to openAI scale of computing resources.
All in all, great progress in the field. The phase of development here is simply staggering, considering the fact that few years back we could hardly generate any image in high fidelity.
There is an important point missing. The bank can always lend for a better interest than it gives to its customers. In these cases, they lend for a negative interest rate! Thus the customer pays 0% but the bank still makes money on the loan from for example a government bond of -1% that it is linked to.
When I refinanced it was one phone call and then e-signed a document. And a week or two later someone drove to my house to get a wet signature to complete everything. It was with the same lender though so may have been streamlined because of that.
There are currently undocumented instructions on M1, and Apple aren't a regular Arm partner so I'm kind of classing it as it's own ISA
Traditional and mRNA vaccines are two vastly different things. In a traditional vaccine, it’s learning by practice. In mRNA it is learned by teaching/programming from a set of instructions.

The programming part is what got people worried. you can’t introduce proteins to get your DNA to do something it isn’t naturally programmed to do without some rewriting like mRNA has the potential to do.

Also I’m not a bio engineer I don’t know every set of instructions this vaccine or future vaccines contain. Couple that with a blanket authority to the government to tell you what you must put into your body is creating a terrible situation waiting to happen. Yes it’s absolutely something people should worry about.
I think the point is more, teenagers are more motivated to leave school and go home than to leave home and go to school.
Geneva is surrounded by mountains and a lake, it's hard to build more.

Similarly for Zurich, there are significant hills around and most flat space is already built up.
The A340, A380, 727, 747, and L-1011 existed because of the hub-and-spoke model, and the requirement for a minimum of three engines for transoceanic flights. The 777 was the harbinger of their doom, as it brought ETOPS with it.

Somewhat tangentially, there is a (strong) argument that twin-engine aircraft are actually safer than three or four engine aircraft. First, they are at lower risk of having an engine problem (as they have fewer engines). Second, the requirements all focus on having sufficient performance with a single engine out, which means that a twin engine aircraft normally has at least 200% of the power required to keep it aloft, whereas the four-engine aircraft only has 133% of what it needs. Given that many problems can be solved with a sufficient application of power, the twin-engine airplane is actually at an advantage!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS
>but the moment you start wanting to eat fish/meat, your food expenses will skyrocket.

Not necessarily, though it depends on what you consider skyrocketing. I find that it only adds $2-$3 a day, depending on what your eating and how you buy it. I buy pork chops in bulk for around $2.49/lb. So that means I can add a half pound chop to my dinner for only $1.25. I also tend to stock up frozen chicken breasts, which I don't remember the cost of since a big back of those lasts me a long time. But I usually end up eating one pork item and one chicken item a day, alternating between lunch and dinner. I'd say in total my daily meals are $4-$6. Obviously if you're eating filet mignon as your meat, your costs are gonna shoot up. :)
I couldn't read through the scans without straining my eye either. All I want to know is: wasn't he also indirectly involved in the Philadelphia experiment? I'm insinuating that Einstein had a direct hand on that according to history records.
It would be pretty slick if someone built CDMA 3G (EVDO? Is that what it's called?) or WiMax board that just plugged into the jack on the iPad's motherboard.

But I wouldn't be at all surprised if that somebody turned out to be Apple in a year or two.
Yup, and neither is buying $16 worth of non-food items so that you can get $4 worth of food items for 'free'.
my customers need

1. cheap. (these are my customers, right?)

and

2. Not managed or controlled by me. (the whole /point/ of backups is to cover them if I really screw it up, so backing up on to my own equipment is of limited utility.)

Actually, a s3 clone at half the price would be about perfect.
I think you wanted to say "the more coal, and, preferably gas, nuclear, solar, wind and geothermal we use, the lower the demand for oil there will be"?
I'm only aware of two submission cases from his blog where this as happened:
1) His post about Apple something-or-another
2) His second post bitching about the first submission getting killed.

One thing HN has been pretty consistent about is minimal tolerance for bitching/meta-bitching.

Overall I think that most of his content is neutrally interesting at best, and he hasn't struck me as a terribly insightful author. Having a submission to one of his blog stories killed is hardly a grand-scale conspiracy or an indication of any singular view held by HN or pg.
Ditto. The day after campus IT borked Morpheus, 2 DC++ networks sprang up. Good times.
I loathe policies about expiring passwords because it breeds insecurity in the manner you mention. However, my company has this same policy, not because its been evaluated as being a good policy, but because our SOX audits require it.

Another reason to grumble over SOX.
Actually, it would be sticktoitiveness -- yes, there was already tenacity in the lexicon, but vernacular trumps Fowler every time.
* How long does it take before the image is changed?

* Can we view previous images?

* Can you put a timer up that says image has been up for X minutes?

* If I want to change the picture and pay you and some does the same thing at the same time, but they clicked the submit button a few seconds after I did, then I'm gonna be a little pissed as I never saw my picture up there

* Counter that says Image viewed X times?

* Is there a minimum amount of time that the image stays up? (5 or 10 minutes?)
I paid a dollar, and it worked!! Now waiting for the self-satisfaction to set in...(edit: didn't last long, "fork you" took over.)
Between this and adding priority inbox to the Android gmail app, Google has given some phenomenal holiday presents. This will be really nice to still be able to access (most of) the maps while on the subway. It'd be great if they gave you the option of always caching certain areas.
You should be the only one being surprised. This isn't just a nice app, it's a killer app.

People will buy smartphones/iTouches/tablets for this purpose. Alone.

This is a simple to use, cheap app. on an existing popular platform which makes a significant improvement on a task a lot of people want to do. You're standing there saying "What's all the fuss about Chrome and FireFox? I can browse the internet with IE6 and have done for years!".

This reaction is future shock, this is a surprisingly strong wave in the flow of future technologies and it's shaking people up.
That's the title of the page.

Jason probably used the HN bookmarklet
Thanks for the comments, will put some into action.
January 1st is an obvious start to the calendar year, not the fiscal year.

In the UK the fiscal year begins in early April, and while different countries do have different starts to the fiscal year, few of them (not, for example, UK or USA) start on January 1st.
>This is completely pedantic. If you want to argue that coding is different from modeling, true, but there's a great deal of modeling implied in coding. I don't think anyone would refer to someone who could only write if statements and for loops that didn't model anything as a coder

You'd be surprised. That's what most "introduction to programming" courses do. And for online posts and tutorials it's usually even worst.

At best, they use the BS "cooking recipe" analogy for programming, but they are total failures on teaching people to model and understanding analysis.
My first thought is that it's not even a truck. The price will likely be increased and it will be unrepairable. You can't drive a car down the street without side mirrors.
Don't forget, the military is the biggest emitter on the planet. We should rapidly downsize all militaries immediately.
It’s on 6.5 feet. You can’t put an existing truck camper on it.
He is wrong, the market won't solve this problem. We need mass transit, not more cars EV or not.
I have a product in the field, Chinese clones are on the market using my firmware that was pulled via voltage glitch.

Two things,

1. You know you’ve made it when there is a Chinese clone of your product.

2. I’ll never use that chip again.
I am wondering it this is because of Swift.

And after 5 years I am also wondering if Swift was the wrong bet.

Especially on the Mac, no one buy a new machine every year, and hence the Mac as a platform are more for new comers and replacement cycle. So as long as the hardware were kept up to date, they will come. Why not just stop making new features on macOS and start fixing bugs and paying down those technical debt, all the way down from the Kernel to application layers.

I cant even name 5 features that were must have in the last few macOS release.
It has a 6.5' bed, and I look at the bed to judge whether it's used as a truck or not. Shortbeds are unusable and nearly useless for any real work. They're so frustrating, that I don't even consider a shortbed truck a truck at all. It's a family sedan masquerading as one. Tesla very wisely delivered a real truck.

The only thing the Cybertruck needs is more colors. It's a little odd looking, like Robocop is coming to town, but it's time for changes in the market. The Model 3 converted me to viewing existing cars as dinosaurs, and this will probably transform the truck market as well.

I grew up working on a farm, and while I'm a developer today, I still get my hands dirty. I'm in for one.
Yeah, you nail the point: there is no incentive. There is no benefit for them into it. Exactly my point.

The rest of their business is where the money is. Office runs one way or the other out of the web, on Android, iOS or macOS.
>> (I don't agree that Finders Keepers is a legal basis for ownership

you don't even have to find it, if something is in your car then the cops will insist that it's yours, although that doesn't necessarily make it a legal basis for ownership
Aren't physical side mirrors also still required in the US?
> It was a joke.

Can you explain the joke? What's the set up? What's the punchline? What expectations are being subverted? Is it somehow a pun?

You're claiming it's a joke, but I struggle to see how this works on any level as a joke.
I deleted everything, going through every page and my whole timeline etc pressing delete on everything. I considered changing my number etc. to nonsense and wait a week and the delete it but I figured facebook are probably versioning that stuff anyway.

Right now my profile picture is a plastic duck, there are no photos and no information apart from my name and my throwaway-email adress (which I hope is hidden from the world via settings).

There is also a "privacy page" there where you can check what information they have saved about you and if you forgot to delete something. I would probably have done it this way first if I where to delete my FB-account but for now I need messenger.

If you are running firefox you should also install "facebook container" even if you don't have an account. :)
If the richest 1% didn't dodge taxes on over a fifth of their income, would it change anything?

They'd still be the richest 1%, right? There wouldn't be any fewer Bentleys and Rolls Royces to go around, so the price would have to come down, but they'd still only be affordable by the richest 1%. Meanwhile poor people might have more 0s in their bank accounts, but there wouldn't be any more food to go around so prices would go up.

So what difference would it make?
You can ask the same question of someone who invested $5 and got $12.
1. Can't define variables as easily as in SQL.

2. Weak support for functions/SPs as a result.

3. Naming conventions inconsistent with SQL which makes any ORMs a pain.
The same asinine tax code and welfare rules that give people a massive incentive not to really commit to stable relationships is why so many poor people grow up with absentee fathers.
> var = !cmd syntax

Is this a standard anywhere outside IPython? I would love to use this sort of thing (python with seamless integration with a system shell) in place of bash scripts. Yes, you can use subprocess but it's a lot less readable.
Having problem accesing OVH dedicated server
Social engineering is a well established industry and art. It just generally falls under the categories of "Sales and Marketing". See also "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie.
Hi, I read almost half of your book and I like most of the stuff. Please add more examples of your statements, more case studies, more data, like in the book Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling
By keeping the laws vague you can pretty much arrest whoever you want for whatever you want. And, when you've got enough ridiculous laws on the books that the average citizen can't avoid regularly committing felonies, a police state isn't far behind. That's not to say that the ones who wrote the laws, or the ones who enforce them, are doing so to that end. But when the pieces are put in place, even if unwittingly, it's only a matter of time.
Does it also have a UI like TortoiseHg?
They're not open source, and I don't see any checksums on their site - so it's possible that their site could be hacked and have a trojan version uploaded. Harder to do for the iPhone/iPad version, but it might still be possible for a clever hacker^Wcracker to put something into the source code if they can get access to it.
Stack is Last In, First Out: LIFO. Queue is First In First Out, FIFO. It's insertion and exit order which really defines it.
Bin Laden promised us that "America will not be able to dream of security until we live in security in Palestine." The TSA and NSA are making Bin Laden's dream come true. Our overreaction to Bin Laden is causing more harm than Bin Laden did. Bin Laden killed 3000 Americans, but more Americans -- over 4000 -- were killed in the Iraq war. We also did ourselves a lot of economic harm, having spent close to a trillion dollars on the Iraq war alone. Spurred by Bin Laden, we are doing this to ourselves. And I am not even counting the over 100,000 Iraqi civilians killed in the war and the damage to goodwill towards Americans.
Insurance is about managing risk. I willingly and happily pay extra money spread over many small payments to eliminate the risk of a single rare event (e.g. A car accident that's my fault) from totally ruining my life.
One of the interesting opportunities there is IMO in this area is to recognize that what we have done with our anti-poverty programs, in liberating people from family and community, is as oppressive as anything we have solved. I think there is a major opportunity to sit down and help rework charity and government programs so that they help with this issue.

We are social animals and disrupting this I think is something which causes all manner of problems from inner city violence and gangs to founder suicides. If we start changing our thinking about the problems we are solving, and start thinking about households and communities, and helping these thrive, then I think those solutions can be monetized just as much as the so-called "social" apps, which aren't really social at all in the same way.
To be honest, I won't say that you can run a lot of users on it and expect amazing performance.
It is mostly for evaluation and hobby usage. I suppose that it would be good for 2-3 users. I am thinking of removing certain extra things that are running on it and create a lean image. Hopefully it'll improve the performance.
The thing that irritates me the most with Php, is not being able to quickly jump around the code from class to class without some hack. While magic autoloaders are great my IDE/text editor isn't smart enough to know how to do this. You could probably write some code to help in this respect for your editor or use some other tools. It ultimately ends up that I want to hold too much of the project in my head, which is a brain muck.

I personally recommend Python over Php to newcomers because I think it's an easier language to understand and get going with.
I thought wine was supposed to be vaguely positive?
Curious to know what the daemon was written.. ie is this in python using kazoo (reimplementation of zkprotocol from scratch) or the buggy libzookeeper c client library.. or java (the only reliable official client sadly, and really for devs that often means netflix's wrapper around the java client).

zookeeper is nice.. and well known, battle tested, and a pita on devops (no dynamic reconfig till 3.5), and devs. a pain to interact with at reliable scale outside of native java clients, oh.. and the zk src.. cyclomatic complexity and npath complexity on large scales.

i keep hoping for something like etcd (raft + rest) can bring simplicity and ease of cross-language use for distributed coordination to the many.
I didn't equate them. I said mind control is worse in the West. And, I cited a detailed analysis of the topic.
Georgia Dusk (by Jean Toomer)

The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue
The setting sun, too indolent to hold
A lengthened tournament for flashing gold,
Passively darkens for night’s barbecue,

A feast of moon and men and barking hounds,
An orgy for some genius of the South
With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.

The sawmill blows its whistle, buzz-saws stop,
And silence breaks the bud of knoll and hill,
Soft settling pollen where plowed lands fulfill
Their early promise of a bumper crop.

Smoke from the pyramidal sawdust pile
Curls up, blue ghosts of trees, tarrying low
Where only chips and stumps are left to show
The solid proof of former domicile.

Meanwhile, the men, with vestiges of pomp,
Race memories of king and caravan,
High-priests, an ostrich, and a juju-man,
Go singing through the footpaths of the swamp.

Their voices rise . . the pine trees are guitars,
Strumming, pine-needles fall like sheets of rain . .
Their voices rise . . the chorus of the cane
Is caroling a vesper to the stars . .

O singers, resinous and soft your songs
Above the sacred whisper of the pines,
Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,
Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.
While I don't know of any cases relating to Microsoft, there have been a number of Chinese spies found in American companies (defence, industrial components, medicine).
There's a summary on en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Intelligence_Operations_in_the_United_States
Shortcomings:
Generics. Lack of closures. Please tell me how those are not shortcomings.

>Even the required detour of multi-core resulted in the industry's gold standard of memory models: JMM.

Which has absolutely zero to do with java the language.
Did you forget what we were talking about in your second sentence?
I just mean make it so u can see when people are available so u dont click and just wait. What else do you suggest.
There are at least 3 heliports in the city. There is one no the East River at 34th ST, and one on the Hudson at 30th st. There is also one in battery park that I think is more of a tourist flight spot.

I live near the 34th street one, and I am amazed by the number of people that use them during rush hour on weekdays. There might be 50-100 people that commute by helicopter into the city each day at that heliport. That's certainly more than I would have expected.
Is this fundamentally different from simply providing different implementations of a “Logger” or “Database” interface? Why does the involvement of side-effects result in the machinery being so different?
I do not think they do anything wrong.

You are trying to be cheap while casting unrealistic expectations and executing cut-throat tactics on their chat and support.

Things do not work that way.

Either you pay a minimum, follow the rules and wait in a queue or you pay the premium to be greeted with quick turnaround and other perks.
I look up HAVING every time I write it.

I just don't use it enough to keep it in memory as a first class concept. A quick google search with an example is enough to jog my memory.

If I got asked about it on an interview, I'd be completely blank.
Not everyone is a DBA?
This is a really good read: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never...

It shows what happens when you have exactly the misunderstandings being discussed here. Also note that the author still has absolutely no idea how to do a simple ER diagaram.
As a frequent user of in-flight internet, I can tell you their login page has a big reminder saying that streaming video is not supported and giving examples like Netflix and HBO Go.

The technical reason -- which is sound -- is that there's not enough bandwidth between plane/ground.
You can use Emacs with a mouse just fine out of the box if you want.
heh.. i seriously have this problem too. Funny you brought it up.. anyways I use a small desk heater, I blow across my keyboard area. Not sure how I feel about using gloves, and I do drink a big cup of hot coffee, and generally doesn't help much.
It'd be great if they explained the details (just like that) to the more technically apt people (who are more likely to ensure that the software succeeds) rather than just throwing around what sounds like buzz-words.
Just had another look over the policy:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion

Seems perfectly reasonable, and more importantly, prudent given the LTS nature.

To summarize:

* FF4 is available in a PPA right now - ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
* 10.04 will continue use FF3.6 in main as long as Mozilla supports it (probably about 6 more months)
* Once mozilla stops support for 3.6, 10.04 will switch to the latest stable (if that is FF5, that is what gets installed).

Seems very reasonable. Imagine if you are a huge corporation and you standardized on Ubuntu 10.04. Would you want every package to get updated to the latest and greatest each time it comes out or would you want security updates to those packages? If you want latest and greatest, jump on the 6 month cycle. If you want to get security updates for a known system, stick to the LTS. Even so, for those that WANT to get the latest of select packages, there are ways.

So, if you feel that having the latest and greatest for your users is important, stick to the non-LTS cycle and pick it and go. You can also install 10.10.

Have a look at the EOL dates...you can use 10.10 with full support until April 2012, getting you through 2 more Ubuntu releases and to the next LTS.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
oh like you'd know!

(kidding) :-)
Patent violation claims from the organisation in which they are a key member? Oh please!

MS have stated time and time again that they pay more in licensing fees to MPEG LA than what they make from it. Therefore it'd only be detrimental to other members of the cartel if they go after Microsoft for implementing WebM.

The reason for not implementing WebM are as simple as MPEG LA and Microsoft not wanting the format to succeed.
"and it gives the Supreme Court jurisdiction over its interpretation"

[citation needed]