skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s stupid to allow countries to select their own zone. If you are enforcing this you might as well just say you are stuck in UTC+1/2/3 and that’s that. You shouldn’t have Bulgaria and Greece be in different time zones. Or am I missing a reason why that would make sense?
I agree. I think the fact that we need a gateway is a big problem. And relying on a big company like Cloudflare is a bigger one.

I think that overall this might help for adoption as long as people don't start using Cloudflare URLs. But ultimately we need IPFS somehow integrated into Firefox and Chromium I believe. Or some other seamless integration software.
After your comment on file storage, and star-techate's response to you about using it as a personal knowledge database, I am surprised that I don't hear about Fossil more often.
That clearly is the case, it was my experience growing up that even seasoned New England drivers couldn't take the weather seriously and ended up in a ditch on the side of the road.
Long live Torvalds
No need to grow plastic eating bacteria, ban plastic straw, shopping bags, or other single use plastics.
>"That's why auto-completion in Chrome is terrible. You will often end up on Google Search rather than the destination site."

Interesting I have noticed this lately as well. Really bad one character a second latency. This is recent-ish phenomenon no? I don't remember this ever being an issue before.

>"Unfortunately, Firefox is now making a mistake by copying Chrome and mixing search results with URLs in one box"

I completely agree. I wonder if this is why Google removed the home icon by default in more recent version of Chrome? If you take away the search home button there is no delineation between search and typing a URL. Is this another dark pattern?
OS-9
They can move to Kansas where they could vote Republican.
What was the controller complexity of the Itanium you're referring to?
So maybe make them yourself? Sounds great. (I read some advice on writing books which was exactly that - write the book you wish existed but doesn't!)
Progressive Web Apps aren't universally a good idea. I'm sharing a 6Mb/s down link with 5 other people. The absolute last thing I want is every website to pre-cache 40 pages for every page I browse.
Thanks for the feedback. A couple things that came to mind:

- It costs me $ each month to store multiple versions of the video for different devices and connections. Charging a flat rate per video would be nice but eventually I'd start to lose money and have to ditch customers.

- Viewers don't have to be members of Mindstamp. The name / email captured from the video is sent only to the video owner, not for account creation. That fact should be clearer if you thought it was the case, though.

- Not all videos need to be made interactive, and being able to 'opt out' of the interactions as a viewer is on the road map.

- The pricing might be over the top for a single individual trying to take notes on a Youtube video, but for a business customer that is uploading and streaming multiple videos per month in a professional setting, $39 / month is a drop in the bucket, especially if it's resulting in a couple fresh leads or a few hours of email timestamp-ing saved. For now, I'm channeling Patrick Mckenzie [0] and keeping the prices high.

Thanks again for your thoughts, I truly appreciate you taking the time.
I've often wondered how much of this is hubris or fear vs. physics. What I mean is - are people in say, icy and snowy climates actually better drivers, able to adjust to the conditions, or are they fooling themselves? Likewise, the person going exceptionally slow and cautiously - are they misjudging the actual risk of inclement weather, relative to an actual scientific judgement?

It certainly feels like humans become improved drivers through various weather / road condition experiences, but I sometimes find myself wondering whether my gut instincts would align with a scientific approach.
Why is it not true that 1 is greater than 0.999...? (2008)
Wil is kind of notorious for freaking out on social media - it really doesn't seem like he has the temperament required to be a celebrity online. Remember when he wrote upwards of a thousand words complaining about the time someone made a lego minifigure of his character on star trek with a crying face?
And Saskatchewan is also FLAT. So sunrise/set times line up with the astronomy. Your horizon is a horizon. I'm in BC. Whether I can see the sun in winter has far more to do with mountains than earth's orbit.
No, 56 qubits is still much too small to break any useful encryption. And your second point is true too - these are not general purpose quantum computers and can't run arbitrary quantum algorithms.
You missed what the parent was saying - assign your shortcut a Siri phrase and then use it in your watch. I’ve been doing that since the Shortcuts beta started and it’s fine.
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No DST usually means that solar noon is at 12:00 somewhere in the timezone. There are many places in the US of equal longitude but differing timezones.
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This is a good point. But I think PWA's are still better than monstrous everything chunks. It would be good to make pwa's configurable to user preferences
That video was fun, thank you.
Or construction, or detours, or cops directing traffic ...
Variable names likely had to be uppercase, and there likely was a limit on variable name length (either hard or of the “you can use lowercase/more than eight, but we will ignore case/all but the first eight” variety).
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That's not really a good point. When New England/Canada drivers drive through a snowstorm, the vast majority of them get to where they were going just fine.

In comparison, basically no self driving car could safely drive 100 ft during a snowstorm.

Getting self driving cars to be as good as humans during harsh weather (which is not that good I'll give you that) will take 10 years in my opinion (I say this as a grad student in mobile robotics).
> I don't care about marketing and branding, and focus only on the product itself.

That's where I find your framework breaks down. You can't ignore marketing and branding. Apple, Tesla, countless companies would be nothing without strong marketing and branding.

A product is nothing if it doesn't reach consumers. A similar point was made upthread that pricing de facto segments your market. You can set the price to whatever you think is best. If you aren't reaching the right people or have trust issues with your brand, ex. a new, untrusted product, then no one will buy your product no matter how many features it has.
What stops someone you blocked from asking their followers to harass you? Should it be possible to force someone to spend several hours a day blocking people?
>For the local breed of unflappable seagulls—which can stop autonomous cars by simply standing on the street, unbothered by NuTonomy’s quiet electric cars—engineers programmed the machines to creep forward slightly to startle the birds.

seeing the fun my dog is having chasing the birds, i'd suggest that a Boston Dynamics dog would jump out of the car, scare the birds away, jump back (and continue to drive while watching electric sheep funny videos :)
Either learn the mathematics if you're interested in the software side, or learn the physics if you're interested in the hardware side.
> I don't like this

> I don't have this problem so nobody else should

> You should build X unrelated technical thing if you want my approval

I don't mean to be rude but this is a quintessential non-helping HN comment. You should consider re-reading your comments before posting.
If you’re just laying off people based on salary divided by value, the CEO would often be the first to go, purely because the numerator is orders of magnitude larger than everyone else. Some CEOs make 1000+ times what their median employee makes. Are they really 1000x more productive?
Absolutely!

Gatsby tries to balance making your site work at some level offline w/ not precaching too much.

By default we cache the front page & then do "run-time" caching as the user visits different pages so ensuring they can at least return to the pages they've visited when offline.
I have been at my current job for a while, but I worked for a number of failed startups before that. The lesson I learned there is that sometimes it doesn't matter how good you are at what you do, or even how good everyone around you thinks you are. I had all sorts of written evaluations saying I was doing great work, but that doesn't matter when the entire business goes belly up.

The way I built security for myself was to maintain a network of people who know me and my work, and make sure that network is distributed across many companies. When I am in need of work, I reach out to them.

Anything you do to increase your survival odds at the company you are in is still putting all your eggs in one basket.
Assembly typically requires you to declare your own alignments. There are some higher-level assemblers, with macros and things, but you're right, there's rarely an abstract language offering low-level memory specification.

I also dislike the tendency to only expose the abstract view, although I think that trend is due to the difficulties involved in designing a language and compiler whose job is to output code for multiple architectures. Well, at least I hope that's why, because I don't know why you'd choose to offer less control in your language otherwise.
Many people intentionally don't want solar noon to match clock noon (permanent DST), apparently because they don't want to update their schedules and have to go up at another clock time. (Seems bizarre to me.)

They want their clocks to be permanently shifted one hour, instead of shifting their schedule one hour.
Short term: Pro-rated jobs should have pro-rated benefits. There shouldn't be any advantage (in fact a skill drain hit) for breaking up jobs.

Medium/long term: Benefits really need to be a function of the government that taxes cover for all workers.
where does Ajit Pai hangout?
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Presumably, this is because their results are really just from someone else's index (e.g. Bing). If that's the case, then it's not really DDG doing the curating or filtering.

The real test will come if they ever switch over to their own crawl and search.
I never saw that post, but it sounds like exactly the sort of thing he'd do.
There is a lot that goes into 'producing good work' at a company, and a lot of those things can only be gained by experience. Of course, not all experience is equal, but experience is still important.
Hey, thanks for taking the time to post this!

Definitely considering the Enterprise angle, just trying to feel things out right now before committing to anything on a larger scale.

I would love to hear what you're thinking about though - could you send me an email? brett@mindstamp.io

Thanks again!
> But if you downvote, that means somebody has a differing opinion.

No, it doesn't.

Downvote means “this post is not a productive contribution to the discussion”.

Disagreement may be a reason for that, but it's far from the only reason.

> Leaving it at a downvote only lets us know somebody disagrees and no new dialog can be had about what other ways something could be viewed.

If a comment presents a productive platform for on-topic dialog, then comment and don't downvote.

Downvoting is for things that don't do that.
No, you still need to know the other person safe zone is.
Yep, Ive heard that. I only wish it were sarcasm.

I've heard it too. My response is usually equally quippy:

So, you hate money or having more negotiating power? Which is it?

Sometimes the people I've deployed that at are smart enough to get the point quickly and a much more enjoyable debate can spring forth. But then there are the real wackos. The true believers who if you asked them today, would probably look you square in the eye and ask you if you were joking after you told them Joe McCarthy was dead.
AZ is much larger than Indiana. A large fraction of Indiana is suburbs of cities in other states (Louisville, Chicago, and arguably Cincinnati).
> Bulc said EU member states would have until April 2019 to decide whether they would permanently remain on summer or winter time

> "In order to maintain a harmonised approach we are encouraging consultations at national levels to ensure a coordinated approach of all member states," Bulc said.

Why pick a fight before even knowing what every country wants? Maybe they all want winter time or they all want summer time. It sounds like they are talking about that now
This[1] site claims over 7,500 deaths each year are attributable to fine particle pollution from U.S. power plants.

This[2] site claims Coal is responsible for over 800,000 premature deaths per year globally and many millions more serious and minor illnesses. In China alone, around 670,000 people die prematurely per year as a result of coal-related air pollution. The ‘Coal Kills’ report estimates that in India coal contributes to between 80,000 to 115,000 premature deaths annually. In the United States coal kills around 13,000 people annually, and 23,300 in Europe. The economic costs of the health impacts from coal combustion in Europe are valued at about US$70 billion per year, with 250,600 life years lost.

1. http://www.catf.us/fossil/problems/power_plants/

2. https://endcoal.org/health/
good, because I will need a nuclear car within 15 years.
EdPuzzle looks great. Thanks for sharing.
6 hour work days 3 or 4 days.
Maybe this one: https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/semaphores.html
In one of them 12noon approximates solar noon better than in the other. Some people object to that because it interacts with the magic social numbers 9 and 5 in a way they find inconvenient.

By contrast, in most places where I've lived, I have found that daylight savings time less convenient than the one which approximates the astronomical situation.
I want a language where you can express time and constraints on time within the language and the type system. I want to be able to guarantee program correctness, pre-calculate fine-grained energy usage, optimize for energy/power-saving mode usage, interface with asynchronous signals, and whatnot -- all with respect to program execution at the ISA-level within some hard real-time constraints.

Compilers make optimizations using detailed instruction timing information, but as far as I know, these details do not bubble up to the surface in any programming language.

It may be wise to keep these details under the surface at the compiler level, but for 8-bit architectures, it would be awesome to have a language where you have explicit control of time.
6 hour work days 3 or 4 days a week
Definitely. Conditional logic is on the road map :)
There was a sort of rivalry in the Pacific to jockey to the front by wrangling time-zones: https://www.csmonitor.com/1999/1201/p1s4.html

Other than that I don't think there was anything remarkable in play. Everyone was too busy patching systems for Y2K to deal with other issues.
Hey, thanks a ton :)
I know nothing about this issue except what I've read just now. Tell me, whose is the parody you're referring to? I don't get it.
Yup, I was just reaffirming it, and then rambling on why we don't use Solar time... which is something I imagine being a fun thing to go back to.
Importantly, though, intent isn't required to make a discrimination claim under the Civil Rights Act. If a policy is apparently neutral, but it has a disproportionally negative impact on a protected class, it is illegal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact

IBM's lawyers are surely aware of this. This is likely going to be painful for them and they did it anyway knowing the liability.
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Agreed, not all videos need to be made interactive. Conditional logic is on the road map to let viewers opt out of the interactions if they'd like.
We’re designing bike lanes wrong
Any suggestions for MS in CompArch?
The problem isn’t sensing, it’s decision-making.
Noon is not the center of the waking day for most people anymore.

Also, even if you use DST, most people still won't have the sun be directly overhead at noon.
The idea of a trial was again brought up in 2010 - 2012, it was rejected due to the same reasons, I think Scotland weren’t happy about it.
https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-12/daylightsaving....
I feel people confuse being blunt with being rude.

"This patch is crap. Stupid this silly that, and how many times have I said you can't break userland."

vs.

"I won't accept this patch as-is, or possibly at all. It has the following problems [...] and I don't feel you respect userland stability enough."

I really don't see how the second version compromises on the clarity or kernel quality.
Writing sites with Gatsby is amazing, but is there any way to opt out of JS/PWA completely? It'd be nice to have a setting where Gatsby just called ReactDomServer.renderToStaticMarkup.
next thing you know, they'll drop the penny.
Like the mid 1970s Tektronix 4014 storage tube graphics display terminals. Saw one that was retired but still operational in early '00s used originally for CAD. Interesting how back then you could draw a circle in a box then morph the box (using scroll wheels) into a rectangle to form an ellipse.
> Of course, not all experience is equal, but experience is still important.

Would you say the same thing if someone used similar dog whistles to talk about old people?

IE, "oh, being able to move quickly and think on your fit is important, and sometimes this can only be gained by being in good physical shape, and having good health, like a young person would have".

Either discrimination is OK or it isn't. One person's justifications aren't any different than another person's.
> Imagine that function A binds the variable FOO, and calls the function B, which calls the function C, and C uses the value of FOO.

Languages that lack dynamic scoping typically propagate a reference to a "context" through the B function. One can see this common pattern in threading libraries such as pthreads, for example. The A function creates a data structure that contains everything C needs, passes it to B as the "context" parameter and it is then forwarded to C.

It's more verbose but also more explicit.
Bat's have hand wings. Their order Chiroptera means hand wing. Their wings are elongated hands and fingers.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Anatomic-structure-of-ba...
d it seems things are only getting worse on a daily basis unless you're a Software Engineer and I don't doubt the hammer will come down on them soon as well.

Why would you joke about something like that? (https://giphy.com/gifs/YVBC4HdSpB7z2)

I've actually been working towards making an exit from tech-actually part of that preparation is lowering my living expenses because it's going to come with a substantial drop in annual income to pursue the goals I'm pivoting towards.

Which, I'm actually fine with because I'm envisioning and plotting for a substantial QOL upgrade, or at least an upgrade to the mental stress doing what I've wanted to since the start.
I feel like one of the truly unique aspects of American millennials is the widespread abandonment of a commitment to free speech.

It is so disheartening to hear people who earnestly equate physical violence with offensive speech. Mastodon offers a forum for people who see the wisdom of a commitment to free speech.
Schedules are social artifacts. If restaurants, bars, workplaces, schools, shops, etc. were available at all hours, caring about clock time might be silly. However, since people's lifestyles tend to be anchored around these institutions, it's easier to adjust everyone's clock than to wait hopefully that each institution you care about adjusts its schedule to suit your needs.
Over a 10 year time scale, figure out how to bring in income that doesn't depend on you working. Or at the very least even if you have to work, you are not limited by market rates.
CAP theorem.
Hm very cool, I've used f.lux for a while now and can definitely see the use case for a nightstand lamp.

Also like that there's no awkward app to deal with, just replace the bulb and forget about it.
I think it's more obscure than uninteresting.

Fundamentally though it's a transputer-on-a-chip so there is an existing base of research on writing/optimizing that sort of thing.
I would personally prefer it, just so that it's not always dark before I leave the office. The more daylight at the end of the day the better, IMO.
I didn't have a GPU when I started; I started with a borrowed GTX 980 I sshed into, but concluded that DCGAN/WGAN were inadequate to generate decent anime faces, much less anime images in general.

So I took a very long break to work on creating a large anime image corpus ( https://www.gwern.net/Danbooru2017 ), with the idea that the rich tagging information could fix the GAN problems. StackGAN impressed me a great deal by generating high-quality images quickly by feeding in a text embedding of the image description and then doing progressive training, so I figured that Danbooru tags would be almost as good. (I couldn't get StackGAN itself to work even though I had tags downloaded for preliminary versions of Danbooru2017: it uses an old pre-generated set of text embeddings and I wasn't good enough at Python/Tensorflow to either fix the original embedding code to generate a new set, or create a new embedding & edit StackGAN to use that.)

Two months ago or so, I finished building my desktop with 2x1080ti, and I've been using a spot P100 AWS instance as well to run 2 or 3 instances of MSG-GAN/ProGAN/SAGAN/Glow simultaneously. The upshot there so far is: MSG-GAN works well but simply requires too much RAM since it doesn't use progressive growing; SAGAN works nicely but the self-attention mechanism means it has a hard time scaling past 128px; Glow has very impressive results in OpenAI's paper but the memory consumption is enormous (reversible gradients or no) and the paper doesn't make clear that it requires several GPU-months and is much slower than ProGAN, so I never got beyond 'cool textures' before I began to wonder if I had a bug and checked the paper/README much more carefully; ProGAN works well but is still relatively slow (1-2 GPU-weeks for anime faces from scratch of decent quality, ~3 GPU-days if initializing from CelebHQ-A for transfer learning) and can handle faces easily but handling anime images in general may require several GPU-months of training, I'm not sure, since I only gave it about a month before moving on.

I post samples from various runs occasionally on my Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1040323921961213957

I mostly work in the terminal, no fancy notebook stuff. I should probably write it all up, but you know how it is, it's a pain to figure out what you were doing years ago and figure out what samples survive etc.
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Yea the dummy interview phenomenon is infuriating. Seems like companies are not seriously hiring. Instead they are “fishing” for that mythical person who will take a tiny salary and sacrifice their life doing death marches. Just so happens that person is almost always young so we see bias.