skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is more a response to most other commenters that vilify this stance. Yeah, it's good to support your local community and engage with your neighbors in matters that unite purely based on geography. But it can definitely be a tyranny, as many who escaped the small 'everybody-knows-everybody' village into the relieving anonymity of the big city will testify. Especially so if you have been bestowed with some personality trait that traditionally has been subject to chastise or outright persecution. The internet is the freedom of the big city squared. You socialize with peers and like minded people, not with those that happen to live in your apartment building. As for 'echo chamber'; there is that, but on balance I'd say it's not like the internet to a larger degree than previously prevents you from seeing other opinions or doesn't confront you with strange views. On the contrary, in my experience.
And that and $2.95 will get you a cup of coffee.
Don’t encourage heavy handedness by the government, instead push for a better system of checks and balances.
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It got him elected to start.
To be clear: HyperThreading is relevant but not a panacea here. Disabling HT helps for the hypervisor leak, and while the Intel microcode changes now incorporate HyperThreading status into key generation, we don't know if that prevents the SGX leak. Ensuring untrusted code is on a sibling core and L1 flushes should be a mitigation for the SMM attack (it's identical to the VMM attack in that sense).
I can tell that you are a bad driver. Lots of the biking I do now is in the situation you describe, and it's no problem at all for 90% of drivers. They learned to pass slower vehicles safely. You didn't, but it's not too late!
In Tel Aviv I have seen the reverse, from a city with a lot of mopeds it turned into a city with a lot of electric bikes. Not for hire though, everybody have one anyways.
Getting a credit score as an immigrant with no close friends:

1: get a store card
2: get a bank account or two with large bank (say Chase), after you've deposited large sums of money for a few months, ask them about credit cards
3: when you get a credit card offer from someone reputable (say Cap One) accept it
4: apply for cards online that have low score requirements, then higher as your score improves and repeat, but no more than about 4 a year.

If you have a close friend who pays off their cards each month just get them to issue one of their cards in your name but don't use it. Weirdly them using and paying off their card improves your credit score.
How would you rate this solution? Assuming we have static keypad grid.

long moves(int start = 1, int len) {
assert(len > 0);
long[] cur = new long[10];
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
cur[i] = 1;
}

long[] nxt = new long[10];
while (len-- > 0) {
nxt[0] = cur[4] + cur[6];
nxt[1] = cur[8] + cur[6];
nxt[2] = cur[7] + cur[9];
nxt[3] = cur[4] + cur[8];
nxt[4] = cur[3] + cur[9] + cur[0];
nxt[5] = 0;
nxt[6] = cur[1] + cur[7] + cur[0];
nxt[7] = cur[2] + cur[6];
nxt[8] = cur[1] + cur[3];
nxt[9] = cur[4] + cur[2];

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
cur[i] = nxt[i];
}
}

return cur[start];
}
This is the balance on enabling people to escape from communities in which they are censored, to allow those ostracized for their beliefs can find those who will respect them despite, or even because of, the beliefs they hold.

I believe that our tendency to view unpopular beliefs a stain upon a person's immutable character is a more fundamental (as in, earlier in the causal chain) cause of the damage to society you describe.
> Before elevators most buildings would stop at around 5 stories.

And before elevators housing prices and density aren't what they are now. You'd find a lot of people willing to traverse 20 stories if it meant not living a 30 minute commute away. So we really don't have any real-world data for this.

> Walking level ground and climbing stairs is not the same effort at all.

Sure. But I think my point of this comparing favorably to commutes stands. Also, given the statistics of adults who under-exercise this is a win-win, traversing stairs at every opportunity is a great way to get a workout in.

> 10 seconds per floor is absolutely not generous

Those 10 seconds per floor was probably overly optimistic. FWIW I live on the 4th floor and (I just timed it) it takes me around 35 seconds to go up from the ground floor at the pace I usually do, and would be comfortable maintaining for 5x that distance. I take every second step. That's 8.75 seconds/floor.

> which is about what you get in a residential building, an office building[...]

Keep in mind that those office buildings have more distance between floors partly because they're designed in a world where the elevator exists. If we're supposing that elevators hadn't been invented there would be a market pressure to construct buildings that made it easier to go up the stairs.
I thought perhaps the username was just really literal.
The US is full of large, leaky, poorly insulated houses designed without any mind paid to thermal performance. Until that changes, ductless simply doesn't work for many people.

I think ductless will come on its own as US houses improve.
Out of curiosity what does the industry best practice dictates between webm and mp4 for this kind of stuff?

- Which one is more accessible?

- Which one is more "compressed" and mobile ready?
> while removing heat from a room is of course not 100% efficient, it is merely shifting heat from one place to another (plus some waste).

> Whereas heating is ALL "waste".

> So more waste heat should be generated from, and more energy used in, heating vs air conditioning.

This is a logical mistake. It doesn't matter whether you think the heat produced in heating is metaphysically "wasted" or not; the energy used in heating vs air conditioning is a function of the temperature differential you want to maintain. Air conditioning means you're doing work to keep a certain volume of space at an artificially low temperature, and heating means you're doing work to keep a volume of space at an artificially high temperature. The amount of energy you use in order to achieve that goal depends on the amount of work you need to do, not on whether you're doing the work in order to lower or raise the temperature.
I feel like I can see the fingerprints of pytorch on the direction TF leadership is choosing to go. "Eager execution" and "easier to learn and apply" are where pytorch steals market share from TF, resulting in moving towards a more "dynamic" graph model.
Gay can specifically mean male homosexual (why there is both an “L” and a “G” in LGBTQ) or homosexual more generally; queer can encompass any distance from strict heterosexuality or stereotypical gender expression. The terms aren't mutually exclusive, but they aren't identical. And people whose sexuality is substantially identical may identify differently given that the terms aren't mutually exclusive crisp categories, and a tradition of respect in the community is to use the label the subject identifies with not to interpose your own categorization.
idk man they are hugely famous in computer science and are also both renowned for being very kind and well known in the community. they aren't randos getting in a fight with their department. they are academic royalty so their actions are by default assigned a lot of credibility.

as a someone in graduate school for computer science [not cmu] I find this shocking and am INTENSELY curious about the details. hard to imagine a more effective resignation.

imagine if steve jobs resigned from apple because the boards was being sexist or something-I think that resignation would get a LOT of attention. that might be sorta similar to this situation.
That reminds me a lot Dick Fuld.
Bluegrass (and other styles) mandolin at the moment. It requires no Internet connection, runs for hundreds of years strictly on power supplied by the user's hands, never needs updates (key word being needs), and there's a whole community of fellow users who get together regularly (which, ironically, is why I need an RV full of tech gadgets for festivals).

It's my low-tech break for the day. I keep one in my office for the occasional riff between builds.
Why did a dating site launch a dating app as a separate startup? What was the logic there?
I highly recommend reading "The Paypal Wars" - I think Musk learned a lot from his mistakes at Paypal, but I also think there are elements of his personality that are still problematic for managing a going concern.

Nonetheless, I personally like the guy and wish him the best, we need more like him.
I really don't understand this concern.

My emacs gets restarted when my laptop reboots. Which happens on a timescale of months. I honestly don't care if it takes minutes to start, so long as it's super responsive once it's running.

I feel like maybe something's been missed if you're starting emacs all the time. But then, I feel the same way about Linux, and clearly many many people disagree with me.

So the comment in that thread about AOT compilation was extra interesting for me :-)
I have MUCH more access to all the worlds books, movies, television shows, music libraries and documentaries by paying for a service or using the library then I would ever have in trying to own it.

I'm not sure re-watching or re-reading anything is really limited or granted by owning...

Lets take netflix for example. If there is something on netflix that i want a friend to see and they don't have netflix, i can just bring my phone/tablet over to their house and cast the show to the TV and watch it there or they can pay a few bucks and watch the entire series in a month.

I don't have to collect anything, store anything, remember who borrowed what and quite honestly there is enough content on a few select services that i don't need them all and i'm quite content in having so much new stuff to enjoy that the need for having a favorite to watch over and over is sort of history for me.

I watched the shit out of goonies as a kid becasue it was only 1 of 5 movies our entire family could own. Had we had on-demand everything that habit would have been a non starter for me. That doesn't mean i don't love goonies to this day and that i won't ever re-watch it but i may only re-watch it when it makes a round again on netflix and magically shows up as available - and i think that kind of experience to me is much better than feeling i owe myself to watch it because i'm moving it, storing it, seeing it, shelving it and having it occupy my life in some way.
it's funny how 3 months ago, all the news articles were saying Tesla has a 99% chance of going bankrupt

because, based on rational math, if you add this expense and minus that, the result is 0 in 3 months. QED

now that bankruptcy sounds unlikely, all the news articles are focusing on how a tweet could be illegal
He is only really annoyed with the shorts because there is truth in what they are saying. If he really was crushing it, and his company was raking in the money, he wouldn't care much about what the shorts are saying. As it is, his company is hemorrhaging cash and he doesn't know where the next cash infusion is going to come from.
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There's an important implied point that isn't really talked about in this article: the points about learning in startups are mostly only true if you are a founder or an early employee. The definition of "early" depends on the eventual size of the company.

If you are employee #10 and the company grows to 500, you will have learned a ton from the journey. But if you are employee #100, likely not much actually changes for you, and if you join as employee #500, you likely won't learn much from the journey to 1000, if your company makes it to 1000.

After spending a bunch of years in startup land without seeing great success, I still learned a ton as a founder/early employee though, and I absolutely don't regret doing it. However, I've concluded that if you're looking at opportunities to be a mid-late employee, either make sure you're paid well for it, or go to a big company.
Not sure if they learned though

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/07/26/carmaker...

> The automotive industry says it has cleaned up its act. But this week the European Union’s executive branch, the European Commission, revealed it has discovered a whole new form of cheating – this time on CO2 emission tests.
The 2016 scandal concerned air pollution tests on diesel vehicles, where automakers were using so-called ‘defeat devices’ during tests to make the cars seem like they were emitting less pollution. Now, the carmakers are accused of doing the opposite – artificially inflating the level of carbon emissions produced by new cars coming onto the market now.
Why would automakers want their cars to look more emissions-intensive than they are? Because a new EU law will require automakers to reduce their fleet average CO2 emissions by 15% by 2025 and 30% by 2030 – based on 2021 levels.
One thing that seems to be very common in startups is nepotism. People often start companies with their friends and family. This leads to the company having a built-in clique. If you are an "off-the-street" hire, meaning someone who came in because they submitted a resume and not because they knew someone, expect that you're going to be second-guessed while the original people are going to love each other's ideas.
Or maybe someone who was lonely and then found people who he feels somewhat good with. There is zero guarantee his previous social groups were unusually diverse - very likely they were just bubble of different sorts - else there would be likeminded individuals.

Not everyone is happy, plenty of people were and are misfits to particular bubbles they were born into.
I don’t think it’s fair to say he’s equating normal with less diverse.
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The #1 thing I would love to see in future versions of Tensorflow is a better C API, with documented support for gradients, which are essentially for porting Tensorflow to other languages.

As someone who is not very familiar with Python, I found it very difficult to port code over, and so I've mostly paused my porting effort for the time.

Other than that, I quite like Tensorflow, and intend to use it more and more as time goes along.
That too is more complex. An animal like a bear does need more calories, but being warm blooded allows it a greater endurance. A bear can travel further to find food. A bear can access calories over a larger patch of land, and during a greater number of hours each day, than a cold blooded crocodile. So a bear might survive in a more calorie-depleted environment despite its increased appetite.
The US owes China both a gazillion dollars, and additionally a gazillion dollars in stuff that dollars can buy - because they have not just US debt, but they also have currency.
A lot of these are still taking venture money and require it to exist. They're usually not profitable or have very low amounts of profit (such a low amount that it wouldn't allow them to chase high growth). Only way for the business to sustain would be to axe a lot of staff but then they wouldn't be able to improve their product. (Thus they'd get outdated and overtaken by the competition eventually) So they're still startups because they're looking for that hockey stick growth, don't have a sustainable business model (one that doesn't require consistent innovation), and require VC money to keep going.

Plenty of startups here in the bay with well over 100 employees.
He will be re-elected.

Despite everything that was known before the election, he was elected. And he delivered on the major promises to his core supporters (Supreme Court, tax cuts, hard on immigration, rolling back regulations, etc).

Uber is a great tech example of the same phenomenon. Many people on HN who rail about Uber's dubious business practices still use their services because it's convenient or because it is the cheapest. They may dislike the business but they aren't voting with their wallets. Uber "gets away" with slimy practices because "ends justify the means"
Are you offended? I think he covered quite a broad selection of topics. Also he said the food is insanely good.
Those 10 seconds per floor was probably overly optimistic. FWIW I live on the 4th floor and (I just timed it) it takes me around 35 seconds to go up from the ground floor at the pace I usually do, and would be comfortable maintaining for 5x that distance. I take every second step. That's 8.75 seconds/floor.

In one of my previous jobs, our office was on 17th floor, and one day each week before lunch we'd all take elevator to floor level, and then climb these 17 floors back up. Let me tell you, last 4 floors are nothing like first 4 floors. Just try it for yourself one day -- find a 20 story building, climb to the top, see how tired you are, and how much time it took you, and then consider that you'd have to do it 2-4 times a day on average.
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It will also allow you to look yourself in the mirror every morning and not see a charlatan and a thief.

It will allow those around you to have this thing called respect, which still is held dear by many.
I'd argue that POWER is still alive and well.
Wasn't the last suicide by plane in Germany or Switzerland with a plane full of passengers?
This assumes anti-competitive authorities as monopolies but that is as far from reality as can be expressed.

Amazon Kindle doesn't own the content of the books to be able to censure them, they can't legally censor or edit books that weren't censored or edited by the writer/publisher.

Also, there are dozens of ebook stores - a vast competitive market to choose from - not to mention many libraries have ebooks and print books available and interlibrary loans are awesome to get things you want even if not available locally.
Maybe its time to retaliate with our own continental super highways. A combination of these two would be interesting:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/trans-siberian-road/index...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Highway
I did pick JavaScript as an opinionated suggestion. But really what I meant was that a garbage collected, simple OOP, high-level language is much better than a performance-based efficiency focused language when most of what you use it for has no need for efficiency or high performance.
redesigned to intermittently isolate people from each other’s work

Why does the organization need to be redesigned? How about we just stop trying to micro-engineer interactions, give knowledge private, quiet work space, and let them do their thing.

This is what most knowledge workers do that I've seen, when left to their own devices: first they put their head down and try to work on a problem, come up with some promising solutions and/or find some sticking points, talk it over with colleagues, then go back to work on it solo some more. Repeat until convergence or deadline arrives.
String theory's several trillion.
That's always been the case. You can just as easily ignore all the people outside your religion, specific church, household, or even everyone other than yourself, and that's been the case since we've had those communities. This is just another case of something looking slightly different on the surface but actually being more of the same. The way to fight isolation is not to restrict choice of community, but to reach out to other communities and individuals and make them feel welcome.
Make my emacs faster, yes please!
Early access, but gladiabots[0] may be up your alley. Giving intents to robots using a visual programming language, then testing them against another team (human or AI). Ive been enjoying it anyway, decent balance of puzzle game that isn't too complex as to seem like a job.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/871930/Gladiabots/
Based on my experience that's a good thing. Many startups don't care about work/life balance so you are expected to work so many hours you get burned out.

If you work with Big Corp and do a side project then you can take a break from the side project if you are feeling burned out and you have a lot more stability.
A nice article. I hope the local library has a copy, the article has convinced me to try to read it.
Eager Execution was added to TensorFlow a couple versions ago.

https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/eager
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The ethical implications of using quantum-mechanical random number generators
I get around Bloomberg's using chrome incognito whenever I'm past 10
On the other hand, you get a good amount of light.
"I hope this helped everyone else with an interest in understanding some of the widespread ideologically motivated ("money printing" is a shibboleth) misconceptions in this area"

I think the opposite is true, I think you're not grasping some basic economic issues and may need to re-look at the situation.

None of your responses are in fact responses to my points.
Isn't bayesflow already a separate project (i.e. tensorflow-probability[1])?

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/probability
Survivor bias is not your friend, there.
That's what bankruptcy is for. You get to start over after making crappy debt bets (unless it's a student loan).
An incumbent's return will be weighed down by lost share from their legacy business. Colloquially known as the innovators dilemma.

Even if they overcome it they will still have lower returns than a startup who steals 100% of their market share from incumbents.
The problem is he doesn’t provide a reasonable explanation for why Musk made his comments.

It doesn’t take a genius to think, as the CEO of a public company, saying you have funding confirmed when you don’t might land you in hot water.

So the most likely scenario is he understood all of this and said it anyway.

Why?
Another fun fact: commoners in Rome mostly ate out at cafes all around the city - like soup kitchens. Having a kitchen and cooking was reserved for wealthier people.
On the other hand one I don’t really care about init time at all and I think many users don’t care for the same reason. I start Emacs after a reboot (roughly once every three weeks) so even if it takes a minute to start, I would be optimising ~0.01% of my Emacs-using time. If it took ~60s and I reduced that to 2s then this optimisation would save less than 1.5hours over five years. But also that Emacs-starting time is spent reading email not waiting for Emacs so it wouldn’t bother me much if it took ~10min
> Sounds like a violation of SEC rule 10b-5 and possibly illegal.

Well, yeah, and there are already lawsuits charging that.
1) Construction/farm equipment goes much faster than 5mph.

2) There’s very little of it, and it’s pretty much impossible to miss because it’s so big.

3) It’s usually professionally driven (YMMV).