skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After everything that has happened in the last few weeks I've completely moved away from Google.

1. I retired my ~15 year old Gmail account and registered with Fastmail

2. I moved away from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone

3. I stopped using Chrome's password manager on iOS in favor of 1Password and Firefox Lockbox

4. I've mostly stopped using the Google search engine and now using DDG and Bing if I have to.

Part of what helped me transition away from Google to DDG was skinning DDG to look like Google[0]. The first few days were really tough and I kept finding myself going back to Google about 80% of the time. I thought that the search results were remarkably poorer. I considered that it might just be anxiety of not using Google affecting my view, so as an experiment I decided to theme DDG to look like Google... and it worked. I stopped going back to Google and suddenly the searches became better.

I still use the !g bang for about 20% of my searches, and there are things that Google does so much better that I use quite often (for example searching a store name and it brings up all the local ones with information on what time they close etc, or if you were to write "tengo dolor de estomago en ingles" it would bring up an interactive translation box and so on) but for general searches I've more or less completely moved away.

[0] https://userstyles.org/styles/153678/duckduckgooglymoogly
"You're literally comparing investing in a speculative instrument"

Wrong. You're complaining about investments that give you absolutely no knowledge and no information about themselves, making you unable to make an informed decision. That's not even gambling, so don't try to call it investing.

"If you thought no one would agree with me, you wouldn't be going to such extreme lengths to counter my claims. You would be comfortable letting them stand on their own merit."

That line is absolutely false. If it had any merit whatsoever, this wouldn't be an internet forum.
Oh wow I have exactly the same problem. I really dislike putting down a novel half read I usually won't start reading until I know I'll be able to spend a large amount of uninterupted time on it. Which typically means a weekend. Long distance flights are good too.

It also does mean a lot of late nights.

Perhaps as a result of this I am a very fast reader. My former housemate would lend me novels to read sometimes and would be astonished when I'd return them to him a few hours later read.
Which works great when you have a decentralized internet with a million separate sections where people with different views congregate with their own community moderation policies.

But when it comes to YouTube or Facebook, no moderation policy is appropriate because there is no single set of community standards for all users. When you have more users than most countries have citizens, you're acting in the role of a government.

Obviously the best solution to this is to get back to a decentralized internet where no one site has more than 5% of the total users, but in the meantime the big players shouldn't be censoring anything. And if that so happens to make them less competitive against smaller sites without so many users they're expected not to restrict anything -- good.
Do you have any data that isn't subjective? I have subjective data saying the opposite.

8/9 times when I shop Around Amazon has the best price. If it's close, like a buck or so difference, I still choose Amazon due to reliability, speed, and me having a history of good customer service interactions.

I buy everything I need every month on Subscribe & Save (from tooth, toilet paper, to batteries, air freshener, etc) and the even greater 15% discounts add up as well.
The headline is sensationalized -- I understand there's more to the show "American Ninja Warrior" than jogging up three large steps and not tripping over a log -- but the demo video is still pretty cool.
You're so low it's actually kind of uncomfortable.
Firebase's Realtime Database is currently down
Yes. That's exactly what David Hampton, the subject of the play and film "Six Degrees of Separation" relied on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Separation_(fil...
UK royal family are the same, not a meritocracy, total opposite of "the american dream".
Nothing in space in usual or "safe". There is always a relatively large chance that you can end up in a fireball relative to say getting on an airplane or driving to work. I wouldn't ever take space for granted at this point.
Nah, the law can change and invalidate formerly legal clauses.

So rather than trashing the whole contract because of a change in the law parties can agree in advance to keep the old contract in place and ignore the invalidated bits.

Otherwise, companies might be forced to fire employees and vendors and then re-hire them each time employment law or contract law changes.
I do use DDG a lot, but I still have to resort to GG almost 50% of my search when I don't get meaningful results. So I think there is still a lot of work to do before someone can really fully migrate to DDG. My 50c.
Copyright on telemetry seems pretty stupid in the first place.
> Shouldn't you?

Somehow I have thought that monopolies are so generally accepted as harmful, that it would be the proponents of monopolies that have the burden of proof. Not the ones who oppose monopolies.

So instead of just assuming that copyrights are good for society, can you provide some evidence?
Networking issue in us-central-1c. We're completely down.
That strikes me as a strange way of looking at it. Most math taught to people who aren't pure mathematicians is taught precisely because of application to concrete situations. We value pure math largely because of the potential for future concrete applications.

In case you aren't aware (and I wasn't until I trained to be a teacher, so this isn't meant to be condescending), there are alternative methods of teaching besides abstraction-first. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquiry-based_learning
Without heroes the public will turn against it and not give a damn about robots and computers. I think we need manned space programs to keep the momentum going. Otherwise everyone will be like "why are we in space when the homeless don't have homes". I know it's stupid logic but that the way the masses think quite often.
Maybe that's their choice to make?
In general, sneakerheads wear the shoes they buy (unless it's something extremely rare like a 1985 Chicago AJ1).
I don't plan to use Cloud9 or anything like that. I want to try out native linux apps for development while using Chrome and Android apps for other workflows.
so you better not have that last gallon of ben and jerry's before you take off for your 6 month space station stint.
I've been taken to task in the past by a boss who sits behind me because I ignored a chat message. So yeah that threat is real but maybe us pions are to blame and we need to "grow some" not put up with it and be prepared to instaquit if necessary. I get the feeling in most countries the demand for developers (etc...) is fierce.
> "Russian propagandists", is a partisan issue

It's not. No party in the U.S., or in any country, supports propaganda from foreign powers, and there's not much debate whether it exists; evidence of their activities is deep and wide. The Russians wish it was partisan.

There may be debate over which things on the Internet are the products of Russian propaganda, but that's the nature of effective propaganda - only the crappy stuff is obvious, and the effective propagandists want everyone arguing with each other.
Exactly. We're sort of between a rock and a hard place in terms of choosing a price.

While we could decide to write some software that could pull today's market prices and update tables and graphs dynamically, we just decided to settle on a single number. If you are settling on a single number, the choice is either market price on date of publication or MSRP. Given that other GPUs tend towards their MSRP as time goes on, we decided to choose MSRP.
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In EU regulations, there is often a trend to not exclude small businesses from costly regulations. The GDPR is a recent example of this, with no carve outs for organizations under a certain size or revenue number.

In the US and other English speaking countries, there are often revenue, employee count and public vs private carve outs for various regulations.

By not excluding small business and startups from costly regulations, they often stunt potential new businesses from developing in the EU.
See, you're still missing my point. You are still jumping to the level of how _you_ emotionally feel about Slack and how _you_ choose to interact with it.

I'm saying that, given a generic human Slack user, Slack's design team is optimizing for engagement. They are making explicit choices about how/where/why to show notifications and how the @ commands work, and their goals are to _increase engagement on Slack_.

Their motivations are antithetical to the motivations of Slack's users, who would explicitly like to see _less_, but _more efficient_ engagement ("email is full of crap I never check it, with Slack I can mute certain channels," etc).
Of course you'll be SOL if you legitimately lose your password and the answers to those questions.
I’ve heard about that pressure to have an impact (you have an impact score right?)

What if you refuse to write up how impactful you were? Or what if you do it lightly? I usually don’t care much about this sort of things as long as I’m doing my job.
I've been running my own MatterMost (a Slack clone) instance for a little while now. I've invited some close friends, a tiny bit of family, and colleagues I particularly appreciate. It's been fantastic so far. I decided to host it on a VPS because upload speed at home truly sucks, and hosting it locally wouldn't turn into a good experience for other users. Still, I own all the data. I've told all the other members that I do, and they're OK with it.

I bought a nice sounding domain name, got an SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt, and was good to go! My mental health has been increasing since then (no joke).
Stuff like this is pretty common in the military. When I was stationed at Camp Lejeune NC, my wife worked as a reporter for a local paper. One of her assignments was interviewing people at a town hall style meeting regarding chemicals in the base water supply. Children of people that lived in base housing had an abnormally high cancer rate, but the military denied that any of the contaminated water was leaking into the drinking water.

I also remember the barracks I lived in had old asbestos floor tiles and the walls were covered in lead paint. They eventually renovated the barracks, and instead of getting rid of the lead paint, they just painted over it. The asbestos tiles weren't dealt with, and all they said was "just don't use a floor buffer and you'll be fine". There was also a cleaning station where we'd clean our rifles, no safety warnings or instructions were given, and we thought it was just a cleaning solution. Later we saw a warning sticker on it that said to use full eyes, face, and hand protection because the cleaning solution could cause neurological damage. Just waiting for health probelms to crop up once I'm older :/
Assignment-by-comparative-advantage comes pretty close to existing in exactly one case: a military, in war-time, after the war has gone on for a few years, when opportunities to prove one's managerial competence "for real"† have allowed for a winnowing of the incompetent hired-in-peacetime officers, and gaps in the ranks have been filled by promotions for meritorious service.

This ideal state is what people tend to be vaguely gesturing toward when they say they want "meritocracy." Even this state isn't really meritocratic, but it certainly has a management structure that knows what it wants and is actively steering every action of their subordinates to get the highest-ROI goals accomplished sooner than later; and where there is enough demand for skilled work that skilled workers are reserved to exclusively do the work they do best.

† The assumption (that seems to cash out at least somewhat) being that when two armies of equal size clash, the winner will be the one with a better leader-of-leaders, the one who has instilled a better management philosophy into their officers, such that the army as a whole ends up being run well. If there was some way to make entire departments of a company "fight", the way that two army battalions can engage in mock battle to determine their overall relative competence, capitalism might actually be able to succeed in evading the Peter Principle. Anyone have a good idea of how to do that?
SRE?
And regulations often have grandfathering clauses which favor old companies!
Fair feedback, I've edited parent.

1080 Tis are back under MSRP right now and have been for some time. We decided to assume that 2080 Tis would exhibit similar behavior.
My favorites:

etymology dictionary: !etym

encyclopedia of integer sequences: !oeis
Requiring the phone number is mostly an anti-bot/spammer measure. Once they've seen your phone number you don't need to let them use it anymore.
Darbat seems to be what's running in the Secure Enclave of the iPhone. Or at least something like it.

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Mandt-De...

Pretty darned awesome.

Fiasco is GREAT. You at least used to be able to run it with DROPS which had a cool desktop/demo disk where you could just launch a bunch of Debian Linux instances as L4 tasks. It was like VMWare on crack at the time when I tried it.

I think FiascoUX might still exist... you can run Fiasco as a userspace process on linux then run linux in ... oh I've gone cross-eyed..
CrowdStrike CTO claims China back to #1 in online threat activity
At today's rate that is about $1.89 million of btc. Why would someone give away nearly $2m of btc as a publicity stunt?
As a practical matter, they're not wrong. If you can't afford to litigate a contract, it doesn't matter that the terms are unenforceable.

The only real solution is to outlaw even the utterance of such terms, to be enforced by the Feds. Compare, for example, how a clause like "only Caucasians will be considered for this position" would be treated.
Does this trip up pylint?
Essentially, then, expressiveness (language complexity for the sake of flexibility), beats ease of learning or "one right way to do things".
Apollo 12 crew, if you count a lightning strike taking out the electronics of the vehicle, but not rocket.

https://www.universetoday.com/98484/this-day-in-space-histor...
mdn: !mdn

wikipedia: !wiki

django: !django

python: !py

All sorts of them for your average developer.
We've needed to for awhile, for a lot of reasons; from 911 passports to weapons proliferation.
I love these kinds of puzzles. Can't wait for the write-up of the solution.
I was thinking of someone just walking into their local cellphone store and sweet talking the person behind the counter to transfer their number off of their old "broken" phone.
Seriously tune out. Go for a hike. The wild turkeys on the hillside don't care, my cat seems to not care. Go outside and get some air.
Trump’s tariffs against China are hurting U.S. tech companies instead
What about the many times in history where that was effectively not the case ? I mean, say, take a Russian living in 1905 under the Tsar. Odds are very slim indeed they would have lived to the point when times/rules got better again. Or a Chinese living in the 1920s ?

Rules relaxed again in both cases, but those people would have died long before the rules changed back.
My response is to someone saying we should stop supporting the regime because of how awful it is. I’m just pointing out that the alternative is probably worse.
"The relevant courts had repeatedly found that an offer of initial employment counted as consideration, but an offer of continued employment did not. "

I could swear that the SCOTUS had a similar case and decided that continued employment did count as consideration.
> you're constipated you can roll through Springfield and get shot at just like you can in East Cambridge or Mattapan

You should write for the Lonely Planet :-)
What about L1 or L2?
I read an article that said a lot of employee's look at their RSU as a bonus of when it vets. But in reality, it's part of their compensation. Not sure what Amazon told employees vs what was in the press "starting wage of $15". I can understand the frustration if they said "everyone is getting a raise" and then the math doesn't check out. We need more math.

I've been in a situation where I worked for a company where a large portion of my comp was RSUs. We had a really good year and I probably made $30,000K more than they were estimating (assuming the stock grew at x%). The next year and two, I got a ~5% raise. I took home less money those two years since I had a windfall the the first year and then our stock leveled out. So despite performing well, and getting healthy raises, I took home less money.

I would imagine the hourly workers might have just a few RSUs at best at Amazon's share price of $1500-$2000 per stock. Since that is such a large percentage of their annual income and if Amazon was trying to level it out to make it less spikey, people probably thought money was being taken away because Amazon's stock did so well the previous couple years.

Basically, Amazon Employee's got really lucky with RSUs and got paid more than Amazon was planning for. So now Amazon wants to bump them up in "planned/target" compensation -- which may be less than they made previously because the stock did wildly good.
It's uncomfortable any time that you are in an organization that mixes asynchronous and synchronous communications in the same channel. This is more a people problem than a technical one... different platforms can skew towards being more natural for one or the other, but nothing will save you from the Peter Potamuses of the world that use them incorrectly and stomp into your office or blow up your phone three minutes after they send an email, bellowing "Did you get that thing I sent you?"
Because they have 50,000 more. It was very easy to accumulate BTC in the early days. As usual, hindsight 20/20.
Note that these results are only for convnets. Has anyone posted RNN results?
At a previous job, we had a mandatory policy of creating a new Slack chat room for every incident involving 2 or more engineers. This was before threaded messages. It really, really helped.

And then we started making our own clique chat rooms. Then it became mandatory to not have tech discussions in a clique room.
It's sad to see OpenID experience such a decline. I had hoped it would spread, but I sort of had this feeling it wouldn't once Google started using their login, and then Facebook.
I agree with kbumsik here. AMD only has themselves to blame. They have great hardware and fantastic theoretical benchmarks. Heck, even their SGEMMs are really fast and in line with the 15TFlops of FP32 on the VEGA 64s that we've benchmarked. However, it comes down to software ecosystem and optimizations for common deep learning subroutines.

MIOpen[1] is a step in this direction but still causes the VEGA 64 + MIOpen to be 60% of the performance of a 1080 Ti + CuDNN based on benchmarks we've conducted internally at Lambda. Let that soak in for a second: the VEGA 64 (15TFLOPS theoretical peak) is 0.6x of a 1080 Ti (11.3TFLOPS theoretical peak). MIOpen is very far behind CuDNN.

Lisa Su, if you're reading this, please give the ROCm team more budget!

1. https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/MIOpen
This idea is here already, at least in the UK. If you go into a motorway service station, exhibition centre or a railway station then you are presented with a choice of restaurants, coffee places and other stores. So you could have 'Delice de France' next to a 'Burger King' and half a dozen other places to 'choose from'.

What is not obvious is that one company, e.g. someone like 'Compass' group, run all of the franchises at the site. So the choice is a fake one, the infrastructure behind the store fronts is all the same with the same loading bay for all the 'different' stores. The coffee may appear to be different and you might be able to choose between your favourite Italian/American/British coffeehouses and the coffee may even taste different in each of the different outlets, however, you won't get cheap or brilliant coffee, no matter what you believe about your chosen brand as, at that location, it is all coming from the same company. This company has just franchised a few brands to operate its storefronts from.

Luckily people are easily fooled and they do not ever think to ask if the same company is behind all the apparent 'choices' they have on site. Communism was more honest, they didn't have fake brands.
The fp16 results versus the 1080ti are somewhat surprising. The author specifically pointed out that they are using tensor cores were possible. I would have expected fp16 would be more than 100% faster than the 1080ti if they were using tensor cores. Can anyone explain that?
I had no idea this was planned at all.

Positive news though. It’s ridiculous an insurance company can withhold a cheaper option.

The other thing I noticed is that my generic copay is now $10 or actual price (if lower).

An antibiotic that used to be a flat $10 is now $5.17. Amazing how it took the media shaming the insurance companies into doing this.
4x TPUv2 is roughly equal to 4x V100 performance wise.

The price/performance ratio of rented TPUv2 or V100 can't match the price/performance ratio of owning the system if you are doing lots of learning/inference.

If the model fits inside 2080 Ti and the work is not tightly time restricted, 2080 Ti (the whole $2.5k system) should be more economic choice after six months or less (full utilization 24/7).
I've reinstalled a backup I kept of FF 36 - my entire workflow has been gutted over the years.

1) Lost Tab Groups as of FF 45 (the add-on isn't a full replacement of old functionality)

2) Lost many, many, many addons with FF 57 including a very specific tab management that an addon called FireGestures allowed for: using a context menu to navigate my tabs.

3) Lost Bookmark descriptions with FF 62, also lost the Developer Toolbar

4) Now losing Live Bookmarks with FF 64
I did not say bots control the internet. I did not say that only regulation can deal with the problem. I did not say tech censorship is the only way to save the uneducated. I did not say the unwashed massed could never understand anything.

Please don't lie about what I said.

I said that the argument against, written in 1995, does not reflect the reality of the day. A reality which is producing said regulation and policy change, right now, already, in California. I'm talking about things that happened. I said that this topic wasn't accurate for modern day - that the speed at which technology has progressed has left this post dramatically out of date.

Maybe you've forgotten, but Facebook and Twitter didn't even exist in 1995. Back then the internet was far more decentralized.
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