skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Lenovo T470s. Works with linux out of the box. Able to take anything I through at it. A screen resolution that does not hurt my eyes.
That's what I felt while leaving facebook. Then we built this because we were frustrated. Just check if this suits you
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He was a PM, so he doesn't understand the real problems inside Google. Talking about agility: you have to provision TPUs years ahead. Developer jobs are taken over by higher priority production tasks all the time. Datacenters are always turned down, and job dependencies on datacenters are still managed manually, as the internal tools don't support automatic migration. Forgetting to provision necessery network quota means that even when you get a lot of GCUs, you have to wait months again to get network quota. If you find the right SRE though they try to be helpful, but their tools are limited as well.

I'm not saying things are bad though. There are lots of great tgings at Google, but agility is not one of them.
Emergent behavior in animal groups is very cool. I once saw another interesting algorithm in the wild: schools of anchovies sharing the most dangerous roles in the schools.

The front and back of the school is the most dangerous spot - since it is the most exposed to predators. However, anchovies share this responsibility of being in the most dangerous spot by following two simple rules.

Rule 1. When you get to the front of the school, slow down to a speed slower than the school.

Rule 2. When you get to the back of the school, match the speed of the school.

Following these two rules means that the anchovies will constantly rotate between all the varying degrees of safety of the school, a problem that would be difficult to orchestrate from an outside perspective, but one that is easy for the anchovies to figure out for themselves.
they broke my main use of Facebook for it, which also helps a lot
> It's hard for me to understand what kind of person enjoys basically trying to manipulate other people for sport.

Your question contains the answer: it’s _for sport_. Sport and games are a place we can play out desires we’d never want to in real life. Tons of gamers like to pretend they’re shooting people. Strategy gamers orchestrate war and genocide. In sport, boxers pummel each other to unconsciousness, and many boxers are lovely people.
So... I long tapped on a word in a page. It got selected, and I get some UI with "COPY SHARE SELECT ALL :", choosing : there is "Web Search". This leads to a DDG search since DDG is my configure search engine.
It doesn't seem to send anything to Google, but maybe I'm missing something?
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A lady at DjangoCon (2011?) was giving a talk about how she brought her site/app to market and made a comment about getting feedback. She mentioned HN, which I’d never heard of.
Problem is if you leave Facebook you're not going to be invited for school reunions.
meal plans at both schools cost about $11-13 per meal

I knew the chef at a previous employer, he used to like to make bets with people, “I bet you can’t eat £1 worth of food”.

He always won because at catering rates an egg was 2p and a rasher of bacon 1p. The money goes on labour and facilities, the cost of the actual food is a rounding error.
+1 for Amsterdam (the Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht). Rent is getting more expensive, but quality of life is very good, healthcare is 60€/month, top universities at 2000€/yr and overall good job prospects
The analogy was more than apt: a car crash is devastating, as is losing your identity, it's more likely than people tend to think, and the cost of protecting yourself against this devastating thing is relatively low.

If anything, the umbrella analogy wasn't great, because getting wet is a consequence of forgetting your umbrella, and that's far from as devastating as having your identity stolen. Further, you getting wet doesn't create a negative network effect like having your computer hacked does by adding your computer to a nefarious botnet.

This isn't Reddit, you can agree that the comparison was solid, but that the conclusion was still wrong. No need to go into Internet argument mode; we can have a discussion. For example, your helmet analogy in the bathtub is a decent one, except for the fact that it costs way more than running an update does to keep you safe.

Are you critically vulnerable all the time? No. Are you better equipped than Microsoft to judge which updates are important and which aren't? No. It's, as I said, the definition of hubris to think otherwise.

If you don't like how Windows does updates, don't use Windows -- lots of other great options.

Besides, the cost is absurdly low to keep yourself safe. If you're making the choice to run an un-updated Windows machine that's connected to the Internet, you are driving without a seatbelt, and not only are you literally risking your own livelihood, but you're also putting others at risk.
This is particularly fun to implement on a modern GPU to simulate very large boids populations.

It's also the perfect toy problem to learn the strengths, limitations and complexities of high performance GPU programming..
you can still use v1 (but they don't make easy)
It's not inconsistent though. It's never caught a single spy. So it's got a 100% false negative rate. That's very consistent and reliable.
Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the USA [pdf]
List of banned sites on HN ( 2009 )
This stands out:

The most recent estimates suggest that at times between 5.2 and 2.6 million years ago (during the Pliocene), the carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere reached between 330 and 400 ppm. During those periods, global temperatures were 2-3°C higher than now, and sea levels were higher than now by 10 – 25 metres.

And the following:

Atmospheric CO2 is currently at a level of 390 ppm.

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So I take this to mean, it has not been seen before naturally - the current levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide - and a non-associated temperature change (and the associated sea level rise - which I personally would expect should rise in the event of any rising temperatures - I don't need evidence that ice melts at higher temps).

I take this inability to prove that to mean further it is hard to observe the change temperatures in short time frames (think annually), but we can expect it would happen over time with our associated CO2 level, or we may be already in the middle of it and not know it.

Meaning the associated problems (a significant rollover type of change) may occur in the generational terms (100 years).

Do I have the gist of the main thrust?

If so - then the logical conclusion being presented, is that the line is so fine - we may cross it without knowing it.
How do you know, in your in-person whiteboard interview, that the candidate isn't wearing an earpiece and a microphone, and someone else is whispering a solution, and convincing explanatory patter, into their ear? Do you make them whiteboard in a special room that's set up as a Faraday cage?
Brooklyn is cool for the culture but it's expensive , you live cramped,in old buildings and crappy conditions, the transportation is a mess(L train shutdown, etc). If you pay the money you could live in a nice area of Brooklyn, but the point here was about cheap/afordable for everybody,as in other intellectuals can afford and not live from paycheck to paycheck
I met him once, in the 1980s. At the time he was talking about implementing Ada on something like the P-System.
It's a "to be continued"
I have zero confidence that enough action will be taken before it is too late.

Even if almost every country in the world takes immediate drastic action, all it takes is inaction by a single major polluter to ensure that the negative consequences of climate change will occur anyway.

Voters will think, why should we make sacrifices when we will get screwed anyway, because other countries won't take action?
Do me a favor and give me your answer to this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18164600
I find when you actually work out the costs of these things in terms of real, in context, impact - the story often does not justify the headline. For instance an article The Guardian ran was, "We're moving to higher ground': America's era of climate mass migration is here." [1]

That article took a negative end outcome of climate change and calculated that by the end of this century 13 million people might have to migrate. That sounds pretty scary until, again, you actually break it down into something in context. 13 million people over 82 years works out to 434 people per day. I contrasted this against current day migration rates found here [2]. Today Florida has a very large migration rate of 16/1k. For a population of 21.3 million that means they're seeing 340,800 new residents per year or 933 per day. So to put another way this migration rate, which was framed as a catastrophic and revolutionary event, would have a net effect of the entire US having to take on about half as many migrants per unit time as Florida alone already does.

Of course it wouldn't be evenly spread out, but it also wouldn't just instantly jump from e.g. 20 to 20,000 per day. It's a gradual effect that is and will continue to pass mostly unnoticed. Present tense because we're already seeing this. Climate change has likely at least contributed to the severity of conditions in Louisiana, North Carolina, and Florida. Those residents that decided, 'ya know.. this isn't for me' already make up part of that 13 million. Another mitigating factor is that I'm certain their study accounted for population growth. I'm not. 82 years from now there will probably be a whole lot more people in the US meaning this "mass climate migration" will be even more minuscule just relative to normal day to day migration levels.

Climate change is not something that should be ignored, but the media is exploiting it for clicks. That not only damages society but also undermines the issue by poisoning the well. If somebody reads one article on the topic and realizes how far it was taken out of context, and reality, it makes them more skeptical of everything else they read on the topic. And while healthy skepticism is good, some end up taking that skepticism a step beyond healthy.

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/americas...

[2] - http://www.governing.com/gov-data/census/state-migration-rat...
Race conditions: now in hardware at the gate level!

A few questions

1. Could you call current SOCs asynchronous since they not only clock different blocks at different rates, but internally within a block subsections run at various rates?

2. Does variable clock rate deliver many of the benefits of async without the complexity? In other words how much more blood is there to squeeze from the async stone in the current world?

I doubt we'll see a competitive async chip anytime soon, but as CPUs continue to evolve perhaps we'll see the functional blocks broken up into smaller and smaller clock domains until it becomes difficult to tell the difference?
A Tiny Gecko Prank-Called a 'Bazillion' People in Hawaii from a Hospital Phone
That can be avoided by video content uploaders verifying their source content or a plugin running in your browser noticing you about detected fake videos. Sort of like firewall against deepfakes.
That's a reasonable presumption - Bloomberg makes its money selling access to reliable information, the people buying their services are not reading Bloomberg for entertainment but in order to make financial decisions. The editors know where their paycheck comes from and, unlike most other news sources, have a strong incentive to avoid speculative clickbait.
> For instance, consider a DApp like Blockstack that allows users to control their online data and privacy. How would Blockstack be able to comply with legislation for things like names and email addresses when the app is decentralized?

They will demand Blockstack builds a 2nd version of their app that send's all the decrypted data to the spy agency, in some hard to detect way that looks like the same internet activity blockstack's app would normally produce. The act requires the pay Blockstack to do this. They will then demand that Blockstack silently download this version of the app to any device the nominate.

Notably they won't demand that Blockstack introduce a black door or other weakness into the app they normally supply because the bill forbids introducing a "systemic weakness" others might be able to exploit. They can get away with this fiction because they already have a systemic weakness you could drive the entire fleet of US aircraft carriers through: automatic updates.

Nor will they demand Blockstack provide data they don't have access to, maybe because it's encrypted with key they don't have or stored in a place that's difficult to get access. That's because entire point of the bill is to allow them to get access to the data when it's unencrypted, which it must be at some point if the user is going to view it. Why bother going through the time consuming effort of decrypting stuff when you can just demand the unencrypted version be delivered to your door in close to real time?

Finally they probably won't ask Blockstack to do any of this. Why bother when they can use the same mechanism to force Google to install back doors in the keyboard, touch screen, microphone, camera, Android javascript libraries that captures everything the user types, taps, says or photographs along with their current position back to them?
What I find most interesting about that link is this:

> The FTL JIT was designed as a marriage between a high-level optimizing compiler that inferred types and optimized away type checks

Why not just use types in your language? It's not that difficult and makes a massive performance increase.
I re-use the same SD card so my phones, so I don't pay extra for large storage.
From the article:

> We define a price drop as a listing price reduction of more than 1 percent and less than 50 percent.

I would like to see the number of houses that increased their listing prices by more than 1% for a clearer picture. Without that information, I don't see how this graph leads to the conclusion of a general price drop.
If you have licensed Windows, install Virtualbox on Ubuntu and install Windows in that. Share a drive between them and you should be able to maintain Office documents that way.
Social networking was never a waste of time. The fact that both of us don't know each other still exchanging ideas is a proof of that. Online social networking gave us the power to find people we might not find otherwise in an all offline world. It all got screwed up when the business models came into play and we became 'products' instead of 'users'.
We made https://pden.xyz because we felt a stripped down version of a social network with no like, share counts would work better for us.
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The nested loop in the UpdateFlock function could be optimized. The nested j loop should start at j=i+1, not j=0. Currently the author is making each comparison twice.
Hungary consistently ranks as having the lowest percentage of English speaking people in Europe. It's perhaps one of the few countries where this would actually still be an issue in Europe.
You should remember that we do research on real humans. Sometime this means we can't have the evidence we'd like to have.

Active placebos are designed to cause detriment to the patient - to cause side effects to convince them they're not on the placebo. Getting ethics approval to do randomised trials in depressed patients is hard enough without harming your control group.
GLOBAL WARMING OF 1.5 °C [pdf]
I guess the bonuses are not handed the day after, so there's time for the response and to see if the story was legit. Otherwise there's a incentive to write "XXXX Co to restate earnings since 2007, major fraud suspected" and to get it past editors one way or another.

Linking the story with market moves can be legitimate, they are a business news org and market is moved by major investigative stories.
NZ is good an option.
I heard couple of startup moving to nz from bay area.

Good atmosphere, easy visa, government supportive for migrated ppl
Haha! Wow I had to urbandictionary that one, but yes, that's actually the usual way we copulate.
One of my coworkers just quit cannabis after having an addiction for several years. Her and her (unemployed) husband were spending upwards of $300 a week on it, more than 40% of her pay. Had never been able to save for a house or anything, they had to buy in $50/$100 lots as they had so much trouble with money.

Forced herself clean on a holiday (that her parents paid for) and she's doing so well, it's great to see.
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I have read a lot about async designs recently and most of the research seems to have drained around 2010.

There doesn't seem to be a consensus on how much power you can actually save with an async CPU. It's said that clock distribution on modern CPUs/boards(?) amounts to around 30 or more percent of the overall power consumption but on the other hand the savings do not necessarily amount to that much.

From a Technical Review article on clockless chips: The Intel "clockless prototype in 1997 ran three times faster than the conventional-chip equivalent, on half the power." Apparently economically that didn't make sense for Intel because you'd have to re-create virtually a whole industry that is based on clocked chips.

Another Intel scientist (unfortunately I can't re-find that source) later said that the power savings of async CPUs aren't as high as claimed by their proponents.

Interestingly Intel Chief Scientist Narayan Srinivasa left the company to be a CTO at Eta Computing who develop an asynchronous ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller.
Living in the Bay Area means you're used to cool and rainy

Rainy? Rain averages 13-14 inches a year in San Jose.
Exactly my feeling.
Also, when I hire people coming from the startup industry I have to explain why we don't use kubernetes (we manage 2 servers for our production) or redux (good old publish-and-subscribe works great for us). Some of them just don't get it. Others feel relieved.
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I think I encounter this behavior outside of big desktop managers, when using an openbox session for instance.

For clipboard history, I understand that you don't want everything saved. I think most clipboard managers allow you to delete entries. (But you have to think about it)

>> by the way, the absence of Copy paste using select+middle clic when using Wayland

> It doesn't work as it is meant to, reliably with all the apps even with X11 with KDE5.

I'm curious, in which situation it does not work correctly?
We cant stop a grand solar minimum as we go into a new one called the Eddy Minimum. This book details some of the effects we can likely expect to see. https://wordery.com/the-little-ice-age-brian-fagan-978046502...
Market manipulation is a prison-worthy crime.
The OP asked for a place where he/she can speak English as well, and unfortunately this is not really the case.
Montréal — winters prevent you from softening up and remind you about the great force of nature
Ask HN: What are some location sensitive SaaS business ideas?
What are some examples of SaaS business ideas which can be copied in other regions (eg: Africa).
This can be an idea which has proven successful in other parts of the world but where the successful company cannot easily expand into other regions, creating opportunities for local aspiring entrepreneurs.
KL is also polluted and very dirty. I couldn't recommend it to someone used to clean air and clean streets.
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I think JWT are supposed to help here, allowing other services to self validate signed credentials instead of always reaching out to the external service.
Those are definitely two of the major problems that need to be solved for visual programming to really work. Many people look at the problems and just throw up their hands, but I personally think they can be solved. I look at things like people building giant systems in Minecraft, something definitely not even designed for laying out logic or processing, and the way they talk about the physicality and geometry of the processing they lay out suggests to me that some breakthroughs might be right around the corner. Years ago when Supreme Commander was released (the game), they introduced an interface where you held down Ctrl and scrolled the mouse wheel in order to 'zoom' from high level overviews all the way down to single unit detail. It felt so intuitive and natural after using it for a bit that I found myself accidentally trying to do it in a file manager application after exiting the game. I think that would work for visual programming as well. And who knows the possibilities that VR brings along....
I'm in Melbourne right now but I'd love to move over the strait to Hobart. Do you have a remote job? The only thing stopping me is not being able to find work there - of the many things Hobart has, a thriving high tech industry is not one of them.
I don't know how effective these carbon offsets are.

Many of them may just be re-planting some forests that would have been planted anyways or may be even playing some more obvious scam.
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The founder of a startup I was doing work for introduced me to Paul’s essays. From there I found out about ycombinator. I was reading every word on every page. Somewhere that lead me to hacker news. I remember seeing a link shared on how to cut a bagel into two linked halves at one point and I’ve been coming back ever since.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982249
The amazing thing is that back when the US had a manned space capability, those gyros were replaced. Twice. There were five servicing missions to the Hubble telescope.
My further response, distanced from what I feel sure is a good analysis (to save my points).

This is a good convincer - but there is a lot of hyperbole, political theft, and outright exaggerations being painted out there; not to mention previous abuse of the scientific method to push extreme claims in previous papers. These things hurt the cause.

And further, putting people into a bucket of trolls when they are only looking for information does the same thing. Why would healthy people open to debate do that? And on Hacker News?

You have convinced me further; I am more open minded. And I will look for more ways I can justify supporting this conclusion to be sure; but I can't put everything behind such a negatively based bias and effort to convince me. There are too many charlatans to jump in with both feet and too much at risk with blind support.
I don't remember how I first heard about HN, but I came here from SlashDot, too. At some point, I realized that /. was too many fluff posts (I can't say now exactly what the "fluff" was, but the perception was very strong for me), too few posts that I was interested in, and that I had just grown tired of trying to dig any gems out of comments that had become increasingly toxic, boring, or irrelevant.

I remember when I first visited HN, after an initial bit of confusion, I realized two important things. First, there was no stream to follow...no need to feel like I had to "catch up". Second, I could scan 30 posts in the same time it took me to scan maybe 6 /. posts. The presentation was just so much more clean and efficient.

After about a week, I noticed a third really important thing. For the first time in ages, I felt like I was actually finding out about tech news as it happened instead of being days-to-weeks behind the leading edge. I was spending the same time/effort on HN that I had on /. (and mostly just staying in the top 60 posts), but getting much more for it.

That having been said, HN ain't perfect. Probably my biggest annoyance is the prevalence of links to paywalled and/or adblocker-hostile sites. But as far as news selection, I dumped /. just days after coming here and I've never looked back.
I don't think a systematic problem like this one can be fixed by individual action.