skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Actually AMD gpus are the most cost effective gpus.

No, AMD gpu is zero cost effective because Tensorflow does not support AMD gpus.

> But people are locked in the Nvidia proprietary jail and no one seems to care...

Sounds like you want to blame the users, but this is because Nvidia highly invested on GPGPU and Cuda since more than 10 years ago, while AMD did focus on something else like HSA. It is AMD’s fault.
Maybe lead-damaged people make better soldiers.
Same here, and I had done this same experiment last year and switched back quickly. DDG is better than google often, I find relevant things quickly. For most of my searches it takes the cake, Google has a heads up on relevant recent (last hour) sort of info at the moment
> I'm old (gettin' there, anyway), and we don't have kids.

Well I do have kids, so I can't just say fuck it. I basically have to cling to the hope that geoengineering is going to stop the worst effects. I yoyo from "it'll be tough but we'll survive" to "we've had a good life" about 12 times a day now.
Sorta...yes it is media as it is information transferred over a medium..but I think nerdponx is excluding this because its more 'social internet' than social media. With social media, you are like a company, with your brand, that you are trying to ensure looks good and shows good collaboration with other companies. With social internet, you are a human talking to other humans through technology.
What's really scary, is that facial recognition articles it links to describing the dystopian future that awaits China: the "ubiquitous surveillance network". Video cameras everywhere watching every move you make and reporting it to the social credit system.
you also have the problem of defining what a troll is. Looking at many Facebook threads these days, "anyone that doesn't go along with my way of thinking" is a troll. Or they're dismissed as a Russian bot/fake account.
> In an attempt to make the planning permission system more comprehensive, it has only turned out more complex and expensive to navigate. That means that only the largest operators can afford to work within it.

That's exactly what I'm talking about when I say "artificial restrictions". Don't assume that the market players don't want these restrictions, it's easier to sit on past success than fighting for sustained success. Big players always profit (relatively) from regulation, it keeps down competition from below.

> Your assumption therefore makes a crucial mistake - it stems from an assumption of perfect markets and unrestricted housing supply. In reality neither of those two hold true.

Of course it's an idealization, I'm talking about what would happen to prices if these restrictions didn't exist. Housing supply doesn't have to be unlimited, demand could easily be met, we're far away from any physical limits. You really have to ask yourself, why does San Francisco not look a little bit more like Hong Kong? What would happen to minimum rents if a dozen of residential highrises could be built near the center?
Slack is good for group messaging for a real time chat about an issue that will get resolved hopefully in the next few hours, coordinating lunch orders, posting random YouTube videos, news articles and memes.

There are focused channels on dealing with specific projects that can be productive. But those are lesser utilized.

The daily stand-up channel, only a couple people actually read them. For actual stand-ups, every one is checked out.

Slack is nice for a few things because email is useless with thousands of emails that are irrelevant. On the plus side I'm glad I don't have a work voicemail anymore.

At a previous company the owner would forward 30 minute recordings of a conversation, for 3 years I just deleted every voicemail. It actually never caused a problem. Every day I'd have 8-10 voicemails waiting, every day I just hit 7, 8-10 times.

People over communicate but say nothing important and it just adds noise.
I'm going to just bring up Anwar Al Awlaki. A prominent contributor to Al Qaeda's "Inspire" magazine, and a preacher of that radical sect.

I personally do believe the official US story that he was actively recruiting and actively participating in Al Qaeda. but a lot of people have debated with me otherwise.

Clearly, he was "in" the Al Qaeda culture, but publicly at least... some believed him to only be a preacher.

War is messy, to say the least. I'm not sure if the truth will ever come out. Nevertheless, I'm personally in the belief that Anwar Al Awlaki was too personally connected to a number of attackers, so he almost certainly was an operative.

Nevertheless, I bring up this example to demonstrate that the line between "operative", "journalist", and "preacher" can very well be blurred during wartime. Regardless, the US certainly ordered an assassination through our Drone technology.

Much of the evidence to his Al Qaeda "operative" connections is classified unfortunately. So the US Documents at least, won't be released for many years to come. In any case, even with only the public information, its clear that there's a "Lot of Smoke" as they say, and where there is smoke, there's probably a fire. But nothing really proves him to be an operative publicly (just a lot of corroborating evidence and close personal-connections to attackers).
I haven't been so lucky, maybe that's because of searches in the UK ?

Google manages to find more locally relevant information (the most annoying one is the stuff from amazon.com instead of amazon.co.uk). You can easily turn "UK search" in DDG, but when you do it, but in turn that's less relevant for technical search.

Probably will wait a few more months to give it another go.
Could that be considered fraud? They should be able to take at face value that a document that you signed is actually your signature.

Seems a bit odd to expect a business partner to "verify your signature". How could they do that anyway? Compare it to previous documents? You could have changed your signature.

Not saying they should get away with draconian agreements, but the "right" thing to do would be to not sign it.
My best guess is that the administration doesn't care because the people being "disappeared" are Muslim.
How you make money with government contracting is to bid low and then have huge cost overruns.
You're mixing several things.

Threats and legitimate harassment are illegal in the US. No further action needed there. Just call the police if you're in danger. Platforms are legally obligated to work with the authorities and remove illegal content.

"Russian propagandists", is a partisan issue and definitely something that free speech should help protect. I'd say this strikes at the heart of the issue actually. People can accuse those they disagree with of being "Russian" or "bots" then get them censored. Free speech stops this from happening.
Phoning Is an Art in the Age of Shoulder Surfers (1993)
The main reason I use DuckDuckGo is when I want to search for more controversial topics that Google decides to filter how they want.

When I search on DuckDuckGo I know I'm not having that filter imposed on me.
>As a-moral as the US' foreign policy can be, we don't do outright assassinations anymore

That's incredibly untrue. The drone assassination program was making ~2 strikes a week under Obama in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, and other places. After Trump took over that pace has accelerated and safety controls have been removed.

What would you call these if not assassinations? I mean, nothing as barbaric as sawing a guy's body - but we're blowing up someone who we hope is our target and everyone near by. I'm not sure that's better.

One difference is that the US isn't killing Western Journalists. The US does kill people, and coincidentally their children, for saying things they don't like though. Anwar al-Awlaki was an Islamic preacher, and US citizen, who preached in favor of jihad against the US. He was killed by drone strikes. Later, his teenage son, also an American citizen, was killed when the US "accidentally" blew up a restaurant where he was eating with friends. Still later, in another bit of bad luck, his eight year old daughter was killed by US forces in a commando raid.

The US absolutely commits assassinations.
> I'm failing to find out why the US would find Iran to be a threat

They have money and influence. They have a stated and record of trying to harm the USA and the US allies. It's a threat and wouldn't take long to become a nuclear power (see pakistan).

What's hard to understand about the last 75 years? The speed of technology transfer is less than a change in Iranian regime.

Not implying Pakistan is a threat, SMH
Side note... Why does everything needs to be bold on that page? It made reading it very difficult.
Believe it or not, US support has made KSA extremely weak, especially militarily. So its more like keep your enemies close, or in this case, oil targets. US could topple KSA in a matter of months.
...and? If UBI replaces money obtained from crime, then does the overall social cost rise or diminish?

We have a decent social security system in my country, and as I often like to tell well-off people whinging about their taxes being given to the "spongers" - social security keeps society secure against poor people.
"You should help your teammates and colleagues." is not, by itself, an argument. It's a moral precept.

"You should help your teammates and colleagues produce more value for the company because we hired you to produce value for the company" is an argument.

Now if the company's employee evaluation process doesn't recognize the second-order value you produced here then that's the company's problem, not yours.
This year, according to this article by the Washington Post...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/judge-all...
So pretty much every government expense, no matter how shitty or worthless, is "pocket change" and can be ignored, as long as it's at least an order of magnitude less that the cost of the F-35?

Do you use the same reasoning in your personal life as well? Buying worthless stuff as long as they cost less than 1% of the cost of your house?
>"Will we be able to maintain this for the next 5 years?” to, “Can this last until I’m promoted?”"

If that mentality is widespread, it explains so much about Google.
No one is getting a free pass. The article discusses private landlords.
This is actually a common misconception. The goal of the Constitution is to not allow the government to control what you can and cannot do. This is because the Founders, rightly, felt that the government is what we really need protection from.

I have some pretty unpopular opinions because of my support of this Constitutional underpinning. For instance, I think that there is nothing wrong with exclusive country clubs. Or hoisting Confederate/Nazi flags on private property. Or even kneeling during the anthem. Etc.

Our government does not stop any such activities. (And if they did, I would consider it an act of governmental overreach on the level of treason against the Constitution.)

Now from the other side of it, if that exclusive country club does not want me on their grounds, that does not restrict my activities. I don't have any rights that impinge the rights of others. That is, the country club does not have to give up its right to be exclusive, because I want to go eat there.

My rights, shouldn't trump anyone else' rights, but I believe my rights should almost always trump the government's rights. And my honest belief is that that's how the Founders saw things as well.

That's the way I think things should work.
That's going to be less than 64 bits of usable space isn't it? I think the largest integer you can fit in a float precisely is 56 bits.
Your comment is in pretty poor taste.
totally worth it, that number can be used to create a new google voice number.

Offering SMS based one time codes - with no OTP protocol alternative - should be considered negligence of the legally sanctionable kind.

and finally who cares about your social graph on Google? Thats not the issue at alllll
I think Iran's posture toward Israel has much to do with the antagonistic relationship between Iran and the U.S. The U.S. allied with Egypt and Saudi Arabia long before those countries recognized Israel's so-called right to exist, and even during times when those countries actively supported militant groups hostile to Israel.

Egypt's and Saudi Arabia's stance toward Israel has softened partly because of their relationship to the U.S., and partly because of the bifurcation of regional interests--the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Turkey, notably, has recently vacillated between strong support of Israel (including bilateral--U.S. not involved--strategic security cooperation) to being passive-aggressive (i.e. ignoring arms shipments). Not coincidentally, Turkey has had a similar relationship with Iran. And through all of this Turkey has remained a NATO member.

So... it's complex. The U.S. is perfectly capable of normalizing relationships with a country hostile to Israel, as long as that hostility isn't openly flouted. The degree to which Iran openly flouts its hostility to Israel, and to which the U.S. stylizes itself as Israel's protector, is context dependent and self-serving and really not about Israel, per se.

All of which is to say, the U.S. is antagonistic to Iran not because of Israel, but because of the U.S. And vice-versa. And it all quite clearly started with the Iranian Revolution.
Same thing here - recently (and reluctantly) ordered some fridge repair parts from Amazon after I couldn't find them anywhere else and instead of new, was shipped 'factory-recertified' parts, fulfilled by Amazon.

Tried to log reviews but the review was rejected because it wasn't specific enough in their opinion. I racked my brain for 2 seconds trying to add specificity to a fridge part review but my 2nd attempt was rejected as well.

Had to fix the fridge so return wasn't an option though I will order new spares from somewhere else now in anticipation of early failure of these inadvertent refurbs.

I have had an Amazon account since 2000 and I find myself using it less and less. It is just an encumbrance now generally, which is sad given how wonderful it actually used to be.
I co-authored the paper and stand by the rigor of the evidence and arguments. If you believe there is a mistake, I would be happy to have that discussion to the extent that substantive arguments and/or evidences are presented.

In referring to "CRDT", the paper qualifies upfront that it is "CRDT for co-editors" that we focus specifically on (title and 2nd sentence in the abstract). CRDT counters, sets etc are not in scope.
It doesn’t force remediation for lead paint, it indicates only deteriorating paint is addressed.
Justice only for the rich.
I wasn't able to find hardly any information about the post-escape-tower-jettisoning abort mechanism. Do you know somewhere I can read about it?
Rosie Pattern Language: Improving on 50-Year Old Regular Expression Technology
Slack should be your first and primary communication channel

Am I old fashioned in thinking that voice to ear (or nearest equivalent) should have the role of primary communication channel?
pass for ios ftw!
Hey they are on the libraries page: https://common-lisp.net/libraries (taken from https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl)
Around the time that more Russia election meddling stories were breaking, a friend (probably now identified as a Russian bot for his views) sent me a link to a video put out by AIPAC on the importance of bipartisanship for ensuring that the US maintains a favourable stance. [0]

Of course, this is a fully legal way to influence the US political system. Sure, it costs a fair bit, but it doesn't matter who's in power. I was impressed by how unobfuscated the video's message was.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvFYn9RbYlc
We(as in HN) should have a no-HN day.
Stupid question, but how is the danger from lead paint? Do you have to eat paint chips? I see you can breathe in the dust- how much dust does it take?
Reverse engineering a simple CMOS chip
Their security is very good nowadays. I suggest reading their security whitepaper and their blog posts on various security topics:

https://www.dropbox.com/static/business/resources/Security_W...

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/tag/security-2/

Disclaimer: I used to work there on the Security Engineering team.
The other thing is that any contract is only enforceable in court. Even if everything is perfectly within the normal parameters of a contract, only a court can actually enforce it.

Some people sign contracts, and then do not fulfill the terms, betting that the other party will not take them to court.

I was once asked to sign a non-compete when my employer was going out of business. I had to sign it to get the severance package. It was quite broadly worded, and could have been interpreted as preventing me from doing any software development for a period of two years. I did sign, because who was ever going to enforce it?
An excellent follow up to the YA movie Space Camp, which is very fun. I’d read/watch that!
Even if that may be the case, systemd has now afflicted every relevant distro. That means their community and their philosophy affects everybody else. Not great.
If you enjoyed this video check out his series on designing a discrete RISC-V CPU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLs_NRwu1Y4&list=PLEeZWGE3Pw...
I witnessed a solar eclipse recently. That night (post eclipse), all the cicada were chirping in perfect unison.
Yes, sadly this is not an anomaly: https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/camp-lejeune/
I switched earlier this year. It takes some time to get used to it. I used to !g often. It doesn't feel as intuitive at knowing what you are looking like Google. Addresses and map integration is not that good either and does not come even close to Google. It is a good enough. I have their app on my phone as my search tool, which I miss Google maps more often.
What do you mean, humans can't? They can and do.
Why do "old" organizations like hospitals understand comparative advantage better than FAANG? Why isn't it seen as a failure of management to prioritize effectively when everybody isn't always doing the most important thing they could be doing at that moment?
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That's so good i want to steal it for a chapter in my book
The alternative to the monarchy in Saudi Arabia is not a liberal democracy, but rule by the clerics, who are even worse and, from my understanding, have the support of the populace.
This is so right and also so different from reality that I had to read it twice for it to register.
Two downvotes, no comment as to why, either folks think it funny or just won't get it.
Out of the incredible volume of emails I get, if it's important I'll either be watching for it. Or someone will instantly come over to my desk asking if I looked at it. this seems to be a trend at every company I've worked at dating back to 90s.
The US does fiscal stimulus like this fairly often.

In January 2008, Congress & President Bush sent $600 checks to each individual ($1,200 for joint tax filers) to stimulate the economy. I remember getting my check in the mail.

They also did this in June 2001 ($300-$600 'rebate' checks).

The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act in February 2009 included $400 per worker payroll tax credits for 2009 and 2010, immediately available in W-2 paychecks through lower withholdings. It was a classic Keynesian fiscal stimulus, clumsy but likely effective at speeding up our recovery.

I agree with the article's concerns that we've built an unsustainable hole in our ongoing budget, especially after the most recent tax cuts. We should not be operating at a deficit at this point in the economic cycle. We should be at a surplus, like we were in 1999/2000, in order to preserve some flexibility for the next downturn.

Will it tie our hands in the next recession? I don't think anyone really knows. I suspect we'll weather it better than most other global economies. US Treasuries remain the global safe asset of choice, which should keep borrowing costs down. We'll probably just emerge with an even more enormous debt burden.
This is one of the things that gets me about Python.

It makes this big noise about being a super-friendly form of executable pseudocode, but then you open any code example and the first thing you see is two asterisks and the mysterious word "kwargs" (a Swedish dessert perhaps?).

I wouldn't mind except for all the haughty pretense about Python being a language that doesn't do this sort of thing. Dear Python, get a grip, you're just another ASCII-abusing interpreted monstrosity like Perl, you just decided to make programmer life suck with whitespace instead.
> No, AMD gpu is zero cost effective because Tensorflow does not support AMD gpus.

Incorrect, see:

https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/tensorflow-upstream
OK, but wasting 2 general purpose registers on that, out of just 15 available, also matters for performance.
Is the person who did it available for hire? Awesome work!!
Yeah, poking around this thread I'm also seeing people underestimating the lead time required for any changes to the CCP timeline.
He could claim he didn't sign it, but I doubt he'd get away with it because the next question would be "why did they take the contract from you, with this signature on it, and the file it under your name, with this signature on it? If you didn't sign and give them this contract, why did you not question why they employed you without (from your perspective) having turned in a signed employment contract?"
Social media data used by researchers to predict retail failure
In the UK we had lead in petrol until the year 2000 and most motorsports was sponsored by big tobacco in those days. So worrying about a little bit of lead in paint left over from 1986 kind of shows how far we have come.

We did actually have lead free petrol before then in the UK and the government even made it significantly cheaper. But nobody wanted it, they chose to pay extra to put toxic lead in their cars. Damaging their engine bothered people more than damaging their kids brains (or even their own brains).

Luckily the UK was part of Europe and EU legislation resulted in leaded fuel being removed from forecourts.
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Percentage of US children who receive no vaccines has quadrupled since 2001
The cavendish isn't really that good of a banana, among all the banana species, so no one should shed a tear if it's supplanted with a different species.

Blue Java Bananas are yummy. (altho probably not destined to be the replacement).
He was just a guest, so yeah, he can fake his way in... He didn't have a 'show' at fashion week.

The awful truth I learned is that everyone pays their way into fashion weeks. Every event is run by a production company, and their customers are the designers, who pay for the show. Pay more, get a better event, a better slot in the line-up.

My wife is a fashion designer ( high-end couture, lilymarotto.com ) and we've done 3 fashion weeks now, twice in NY, once in LA.. You (usually) get great photography, videography, and the cachet of saying you were at fashion week, you build a portfolio and use it to get your stuff in boutiques and attract customers... Best case, you get a really favorable writeup in some magazine, or are contacted by someone interested in working together. Difficult, expensive lottery tickets, in a sense.
When a 'joker' can make 'experts' look like idiots, you have to wonder about the relevance of the subject matter (in this case haute couture in Paris).
I don't know the solution, but you can't reasonably expect normal people to out-lawyer lawyers.