jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They compare the training latency for different models with a fixed batch size of 32. But if the DeepMind models are several times larger than the comparison models in each latency class, it seems that the comparison models could use larger batch sizes for faster overall training time.
Are you near Rotterdam?
The analogy at the end is not accurate. I as the consumer don’t pay less for a shirt made in Bangladesh - I buy the highest quality shirt that is offered at the lowest price, and don’t factor on the cost of living (or mote accurately cost of labor) of where the shirt was manufactured.

Regarding the widespread practice of locale-adjusted pay (it generally is not cost of living adjusted e.g. London is paid far less than SF despite a similar cost of living), it is a clear example of why the argument of “women can’t be paid less because companies would hire more women if they were cheaper” is simply false.
Are you implying that's a bad thing? Maybe if you want to go public with some insane P/E ratio selling the dream, but B2B tech businesses serve the economy, provide useful jobs, and have staying power.
> It's fast enough for 99% of apps out of the box. It's fast enough for 99.99% of the apps with minimal tuning.

It might be true that Clojure is fast enough for the apps you write. I know it is not true for the apps I write and have worked on in my professional career.
Ever try qBittorrent? its very light(QT + C++) and low on resource use. It was the first linux client to build support for magnet links.

I like it for its excellent torrent search.

It is available in more than 25 languages and is also available as a Mac client.

Oh and its open source.
That is the sort of thing COBOL does well :)
Also, I prefer to be able to know what the software on my computer is actually doing, especially when it comes to internet communications.
What about non-addicts? I very rarely drink caffeine (just midterms and finals, basically) but I'm pretty sure that when I do, the effects are no illusion.
The headline is a little misleading. For regular and heavy coffee drinkers, the study suggests that a cup of coffee merely brings the person out of caffeine withdrawal, and does not provide any stimulation. Since caffeine withdrawal makes you groggy and less alert, it means that regular caffeine drinkers have to consume caffeine just to reach the level they would have already been at if they weren't consuming caffeine regularly.

For people who don't currently have a tolerance for caffeine, it most certainly does provide stimulating effects.

It also seems like the study gave participants the equivalent of a single cup of coffee. If you need more than that for your buzz, looks like you'd have been out of luck.
The printer angle is not that exciting but definitely a welcomed change. HP has always lagged behind in this area. PC LOAD LETTER? It's not a big issue for simple inkjets or single function lasers but when you move up to the bigger multi-function, multi-tray, scanner, copier, coffee maker, toaster oven style devices having a good GUI is crucial. HP has gotten a lot better but they still lag behind Canon & Xerox. Even in the home inkjet market people are starting to expect more functionality out of a printer's front panel controls. (direct photo printing & e-mailing for example)
I think more of such stuff is going to come in coming years. It is just a manifestation of changing economic profile of the world. I believe something similar might have happened at climate talks - http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/05/05/Lea...

How it plays out in the long term is anybody's guess. But right now the EU and US have run very high debts which are only increasing with the deficits. With not very good immediate economic prospects, the developed world is beginning to learn to have new folks at the table. When you are neck deep in debt and those new folks are your creditors, there really is no choice.
For me, the most intuitive way of illustrating Bayes' theorem is using Venn diagrams: http://blog.oscarbonilla.com/2009/05/visualizing-bayes-theor...
I can tell you why Java is worse from hosting providers point of view: php is stateless by default, you can easily monitor resources used by php, while java servlets are stateful, they can use up a lot of resources and there are no easy to use available tools for hosting providers to monitor those resources Java can use. Java is designed to create applications to be deployed on multiple servers, not on a single server shared between a lot of users.
The only thing I find odd about Grooveshark is the same tune but displayed in different ways. Almost like a group of people have just uploaded their personal collection. It does feel a little amature in that respect.

I think its hard to make an unbaised decision on the company and how I feel about this take down decision because I do not know the complete inner workings, only what Grooveshark tell us. They could tell us they are paying fees when they are clearly not, they could say all royalties are being honoured, when again they could not be.

It's all assumption led but I know that whatever is happening is not good for the end user. I was going to pay for their mobile version and I didn't question the legality of it either. To the average user, all this messing around means that when Google or Apple release their own product then every "normal" user will jump ship for it because they know it's there to stay rather than being worried it will be dropped at any point. The end user doesn't generally have any loyalty, they just want to listen to music.
It's funny that you mention Red Hat (and CentOS), since they invest very heavily in attack mitigation and sandboxing through virtual machines:

http://www.awe.com/mark/blog/20101130.html

And as much as people dislike SELinux, it does help a lot in confining applications. OpenBSD does not provide comparable techniques.
On a side note - are there any other people that find politically correct modern (US? Western?) pop culture where every group of people has to contain all the notable minorities - offensive and racist?

I remember watching the Flyboys - and contemplating if the same movie could be made about any other WW1 squadron where there were no black pilots.
I think they are on a release train, AKA they will make a major release every X weeks if there is anything to ship.

I guess they are either starved of resources (see recent layoffs) of are working on something big
The only practical response I can think of is increasing the bar for it to be effective. For ex: investing in hardening, detection, and attribution. And in the near term it doesn't seem governments are well incentivized to help in this area.
750k is a lot in the real world... then you move to the Bay Area and run into the cost of living issues: rent, transportation.

It's very hard to find housing under $2k a month per person -- so if you make $7k a month and have X left after it you're going to be surviving on 75-100k a month... but it's like getting paid $50k in Atlanta: small apartment, decent food but no savings or big Hawaii trips.
This is blogspam. Original source was discussed here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8921655
The most notable one that comes to mind is Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers [1].

It was a common part of the COINTELPRO playbook [2].

> The FBI also conspired with the police departments of many U.S. cities (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Philadelphia, Chicago) to encourage repeated raids on Black Panther homes—often with little or no evidence of violations of federal, state, or local laws—which resulted directly in the police killing many members of the Black Panther Party, most notably Chicago Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton on December 4, 1969.[15][69][73] Before the death of Hampton, long-term infiltrator, William O'Neal, shared floor plans of his apartment with the COINTELPRO team. He then gave Hampton a dose of secobarbital that rendered Hampton unconscious during the raid on his home.[46]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
That seems extremely wasteful

It is. I'm not afraid to admit that. Old vacuum cleaners give me the heebie jeebies. We all have our quirks.
Good cultures outlive their founders. But overtime, as the memory and charisma of the holy founder diminishes into the far recesses of the collective memory - decline is inevitable.
Did the effective tax rate change on the top quantile from 1980 to 2013, or did they just earn a lot larger fraction of income?
They might not have planned to execute the murder themselves (though I'm not so sure about that), but the deaths of black leaders was certainly one of the goals, or at least a very welcome side effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
I'm looking at it through the lens of "let Rust have the best possible newcomer experience", which of course isn't a sentiment that has to be shared by the creators.

I suppose I appreciate SmallString's ability to alias itself to Rust's String.

But I'd immediately agree that this adds hidden complexity and the potential for it to bite you in the worst possible moment.
And I assume it is all one long word?

Edit: Apparently it is two long words instead: Unverbindliche Preisempfehlung
No, sorry it was unclear, my point was that unlike normal we actually have independent evidence that this was NOT about DigiCert becoming Symantec, because that was a requirement for these stakeholders. So at most this is just "Popular product's customer services made worse due to expansion" a familiar story which rarely signifies much.

And to be honest the parent article's main thrust comes across as "Wah, I had to pay full price" which like, I'm not even getting out my record-breaking world's tiniest violin for that, who cares?
A big problem with sites being paid directly by users is how to treat that transaction legally. It may require the site to register as a business in every jurisdiction it has paying visitors, collect taxes for each jurisdiction, and comply with each jurisdiction’s consumer protection, privacy, and content restriction laws.

I don’t think you will see any large scale movement to micropayments until at least the EU and the various US states change their legal frameworks for digital goods to characterize these transactions as being solely under the jurisdiction of where the site resides.
I don't see anything wrong with trying to sell services. I wouldn't want a generic, fraudulent, big business, or cookie cutter site in there though.

If you recall what website it was (or check the history after reloading stumblingon) and let me know the URL I can reconsider whether or not it belongs.
Infrastructure doesn't cover it. Without a way to defend it, there will be no investment, so crypto and directed energy defences. Payments, identity, etc. Same as earth.
'F = ma' is a special case of 'F = d/dt(mv)'. Expanding the latter via the product rule, we get: F = m dv/dt + v dm/dt, where a=dv/dt and dm/dt is the time rate of change of the mass of the object. This fuller form matters in, for example, aerospace engineering, where the mass of the rocket is changing as fuel is burned, so dm/dt is emphatically not 0.

I wonder if the philosophical questions asked in the fine article could have been addressed more satisfyingly from that more general starting point?
Not just count the pieces but to limit the colours of the pieces would be great too!

http://ryanhowerter.net/colors
Sounds more like a mid level dev.

IME Seniors aren't afraid to ask for help when it makes sense to.
Out of all the good reasons to quit Twitter, not having enough likes, and observing the proverbial assholes who share one's nationality must be in the bottom 1%
I wish OneDrive, Dropbox, etc. had a notion of a Personal Database File System, PDFS. With PDFS if they all shared the same API then you could build a database ontop of the PDFS that syncs to popular file systems.

If both of those things existed you would be able to build apps like LinkedIn such that LinkedIn could just access your PDFS so your profile is actually hosted directly on your PDFS - so if you delete your profile info on your PDFS it's gone from LinkedIn. Of course, this also depends on trusting LinkedIn to not just copy over the contents of your PDFS but that could be handled as well.
The other option would be, which could be applied to anything we do, to be a responsible consumer/user but just like with everything else in life it is hard to do primarily for the reason that most services feed on our attention.

The amount of your self you open up to public is the amount you lose from it and the more you put in the more you depend on and are addicted to the feelings that rise from using the service. You liked the feeling of being acknowledged by total strangers? Here, some more tweets for you strangers! You want to argue with me on this trivial subject? I'll prove you wrong!

On the flip side, you can still both use Twitter and keep your sanity, but to me, it just isn't worth it. Life is too short to pay attention to every little thing that one comes across to.
And then there are places that have a coin deposit you can get back if you return your cart properly, which provides an interesting comparison of intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation.
much like a well managed subreddit?
Yeah if you aggressively block, unfollow, and curate Twitter can be really great.

I think it's super cool to be able to interact with different people doing interesting things (a little like HN, but it's easier to remember who the people are where as on HN I never remember 99% of the usernames in threads).
It actually is a problem for cheaper laptops whose exact SKUs often don't last more than half a year, which is my primary reason for buying "business" laptops.
According to the specs, this laptop is actually only 1.3kg and 15.8mm thick.

As a couple of comparisons, the XPS 13 is 1.27kg and 14.8mm thick; the MBP 13 is 1.4kg and 1.56mm thick; the ThinkPad X1 Nano is 1.18kg and 13.87mm thick.

Note you have to compromise with the X1 Nano, as it maxes out at only 16GB of RAM, and doesn't have great battery life.

So this is lighter than an MBP, and basically the same thickness, all while being upgradable - you haven't convinced me that this isn't witchcraft ;)
Pasturization is used as a pretext to support supply management. Considering milk has been a staple for some 1000+ years, said dairy non-consumers in Canada are a minority interest that isn't a representative sample of the market or the culture.

Liberalizing the dairy system is not just about "cheap" dairy either, it's about enabling people to make a relatively independent living outside cities, and provide high quality and diversified products to supply food to their regions. This is what supply management prevents.

Also, the point of a market for something people want is that it doesn't need subsidies or have quotas. There is literally no legitimate benefit the quota system provides that could not be handled by import tariffs instead. That is, to actually enforce borders and markets instead of hollowing them out with globalized and dumped products from countries with abusive labour practices and other corrupt subsidies.

Not only this, but the monopoly has has compromised our political processes to where it manipulates party processes. It's laughably corrupt and is an example of what makes Canada seem like a write-off economy in its other sectors as well.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210224124603/https://lightmete...
Page size is variable on aarch64. You can even have 1GiB page if you like.
How exactly do you do that for running? You obviously cant have just 1 specific shoe that everyone has to wear, so how many do you allow, and how do you stop it from getting back to the current form?
Sometimes I get the feeling that we are 2 standards revisions away from C++ compilers to pass the turing test.
lol... yeah.... I've become "the expert" on so much shit just because of RTFM :D

It's amazing how much stuff is spelt out in manuals that nobody bothers to read.

The only issue is that so few people RTFM that some manuals are pure garbage to try and glean anything useful. In those cases, usually the best route is often to just read the implementation (though that is tedious).
This does not scale. Imagine if every grocery store, doctor, and gas station decided to deny someone service because of an unproven criminal charge. Given that innocent people are charged with crimes they did not commit, the morality of denying someone for something they do not have control over is the same in this case as in cases involving protected classes.
Long ago Ruby on rails had a feature that sort of cached all links on the current page to make navigating to them faster. What happened to that? Would that not provide the same speed benefit? I'm ignoring the inefficient use of data here, ofc.
> I want my history, link copying, bookmarking, middle-clicks and Ctrl/Cmd-clicks to work as intended.

Solutions for all of those for SPAs have been around for quite a while. Whether any particular SPA uses them or not is, of course, variable, but there is nothing inherent to SPAs that prevents them from working.
I try to avoid calling anything a refactor. I just describe it as part of the fix.

Similarly I never try to convince management that I need time to improve code quality... I just do it to code that I’m touching. I think people who don’t know the details have the (often correct) heuristic that work that doesn’t deliver incremental results is just an excuse to waste time / sandbag, so I just don’t bother trying to convince about the ROI.
I thought the article referred to the Métis people, one of three indigenous cultures mentioned in the Canadian Constitution. It took a few ticks to realize that it was using "metis" in another meaning.
No, iirc then he didn't get banned/temporary suspended for that comment. Twitch only decided to not do any direct business (partnership) with him anymore, so they unpartnered him. That means people can't subscribe to him anymore for a monthly fee and he can also not be tipped with Twitch's virtual tip currency. He also doesn't get any ad revenue split anymore. (And I think twitch is currently not running any ads on unaffiliated/unpartnered streams, not 100% sure about that.)

He can still be tipped through third party services though. (Like streamlabs and streamelements)

He's still allowed to stream, and now without contract, not exclusive anymore so that he also streams on Youtube and Facebook now I think.

I think that is also something they should do with people who just got arrested. Distance yourself from them, but don't ban them. If it's severe enough then they won't be able to go live anymore anyway.
If you're on a keto diet and/or want to eat well and save big, I suggest going to McDonald's and ordering 1/4lb patties which, depending on your location might be $1 to $2 tops each.

Despite what they say, McDonald's patties are a 100% beef and they're relatively good quality.

More info McD keto hacks here http://www.zerocarbhealth.com/zero-carb-ordering-from-mcdona...
I appreciate the expert feedback. A lot of very complex things often seem trivial from an outside perspective.

I think everyone can agree this will be at least somewhat a burden on astronomy and will at least marginally increase the cost in obtaining certain imagery.

I guess it’s possible that there are certain types of images which may even become prohibitive or impossible to obtain, but I personally haven’t read a scientific analysis making this claim.

I also think most everyone is agreeing that we attack this problem from both sides. Limit the reflectivity of the satellites and work on enhancing software to mitigate the effects.

In the end there is a tremendous benefit to society both from astronomy as well as having affordable worldwide broadband internet.

I’m not going to go so far to say that we need to sacrifice one for the other, but I think the capabilities and opportunities provided by Starlink to billions of people are too great to pass up. Even if there is a significantly increased cost to perform certain observations. Even if it means some observations can only be made from orbit in the future. Even if some observations become entirely impossible? Hopefully that can be avoided.
The Windows UI is using the VCL (Delphi's visual component library); it's easy to see with spyxx.exe or similar from the Windows SDK and viewing the window class names: tSkMainForm, TChromeMenu, TSkypeSplitter, TScrollBar, TAccessibleTntEdit (TNT Unicode controls), etc.

As to why it was chosen, I can briefly list my (biased) opinion as to the benefits of Delphi: an easier to use language than C++, proven IDE and framework, a lot of third-party code and components available, but without sacrificing low-level control to a VM.
That's fair, but even if it is dynamic, I doubt it's checked on a regular basis; I doubt it's a scenario they've even considered before now. This would be on par with the DNS root servers changing and somehow letting everyone know about it on the fly.
Are your graphics drivers up-to-date?

edit: to add, I'm on 64-bit Win7 too -- I've been using nightlies for over a year and haven't seen anything of this sort.
This is a great idea! However, I highly doubt that they will disclose this information.
That's a really good question.

I haven't hit a limit yet and tested with 200 queries / minute.

Will update this comment when I find that out.
>The value proposition for the user is very weak

The value prop for the average user is also very weak for encrypting data. I am more likely to lose all my data than prevent some theoretical malfeasance, never mind the extra time and effort. I am not a secret agent.
I completely agree. I bet I could take a leaf blower, and with the right application of air on that size of a fire, blow it out. On a fire that small, it doesn't take much air to change the fuel-air mixture creating a fire that won't burn.

Best illustrated when you throw a match at a small container of gasoline, and it flies into the gas, and is put out by the fuel. But if you slowly move it towards the gas, eventually it will start a fire, because the match passes slowly enough through the right air mixture to allow the gas to burn.
> > Well, and the complex numbers, they're the only algebraically closed field.

> That is very, very far from being true! There are algebraically closed fields of every characteristic and of arbitrarily large cardinality. What did you mean?

Although BrainInAJar seems simply to have misspoken (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9254999), you have just explained one of the things that the remark could have meant: namely, that ℂ is the unique characteristic-0, algebraically closed field with the cardinality of the continuum.
Bubble bursts are generally large-scale psychological phenomena. Nothing can be done to avoid them, and boom bust cycles will continue in small sectors, larger sectors, and the entire economy for the foreseeable future. As investors slowly start struggling to find valuable places to put their money, an idea that it isn't worth while begins to circulate through the investment world.

The best advice is to always invest wisely. It makes no difference whether you are in a bubble or a contraction. Doing so will put you in a better position to succeed even when the bubble bursts.
Everything is connected. If there's a collapse in private equity funding, you could see consequences such as a decrease in advertising on major platforms such as Facebook, which would hurt their earning and market cap. I definitely think it would have some systemic consequences, but not at the magnitude of early 2000s unless it's triggered by a general equity market crash or some sort of global debt crisis.
I enjoyed (and mostly agreed with) the article but the dollar amount of the bet gave me pause. 10 years ago (aka before the bubble in long bets) that would have been $10k.