skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems relevant.

The analogy would be following the Lego set instructions vs. self-directed free play with a few limited pieces is like traditional math class vs. learning math via playing with the Logo turtle.

Also the “Lego Mindstorms” product was a collaborative effort with the MIT media lab, and is named after Papert’s book.
The voting rate of to those aged 18-29 is twenty percent. Thus a Google walkout isn't very interesting.
"nixos" might save some trouble?

I've sometimes struggled with this problem with "go" (=> "golang")

naming big projects something common should be a no-no and it's a pet peeve for most of everyone. for something with a very limited scope it's probably less annoying
Is this accepted though? I know it's a possible interpretation, but things get super-weird once you allow regular matter to be moving in alternative time-directions because you wind up at the "nothing is real" problem - a single particle oscillating through spacetime gives rise to all matter everywhere by doing the loop in indefinite cycles.

The argument against this is you should end up with equal amounts of matter and anti-matter if that's the case - though I don't think it excludes the possibility we're just in a universe where the antimatter part of the loop was extremely rarefied.
When I was at college in the 70's, there was a surplus electronics store nearby. It was fun browsing it. They even had ferrite core memory modules. I wish I'd bought a couple of those.
Have you tried teaching 5 year olds? By the time they reach college, the curiosity has been thoroughly stomped out of many people.
Paying customer for years. I got 7000 photos up there -- memories of the best times of my life. Extremely worthwhile service. All these folks talking about "death knell" should maybe think about paying for it if the feelings are so strong. They must really value what is on offer, and how about showing appreciation for what is valuable in your life?
For clarification…

• FANG means “Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google” [1]

• CTCI means “Cracking the Coding Interview” [2]

• LC means “Leet Code” [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Apple,_Amazon,_Netfl...

[2] http://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com/

[3] https://leetcode.com/
a convincing argument is that it sells, and with the profits they continue to make good machines. I agree that the machine should function first - and clearly they accomplished that - but it's not exclusive to the human needs as well.
So what do we do, not develop the technology because some people could use it for evil? like .. umm ... everything else on earth?
He may be right. I don't think Gutenberg had any idea what he'd done, either.
People aged 18-29 vote at a rate of twenty percent. Ain't nothing going to change for them, ever.
Except that the amount of housing you need does not stay the same throughout your entire life. Nor do constraints on your proximity to urban job centers.
The latest Xiaomi laptops are pretty much like Macbooks and you can easily run Linux on them too.

As for gamers of course the majority will use Windows but Win10 is such a shitshow that Linux is going to get progressively more popular, especially now that Steam Play/Proton makes it super easy to run Windows games in Linux.
Obviously the comparison accounts for that. The rental owns the equivalent of the value of the house in other assests.
For myself. I'm just a software engineer with an armchair understanding of physics. I knew my comment would be controversial, hence the down-votes. But I witnessed this phenomenon with my own eye's looking at constellations at night with my dad and my sister in 1996 or 97 in Orange County, CA. Judging distance, it must have been near the El Toro Marine Base which closed shortly after. I have no idea what I saw, but it was fast, I mean hyper fast. Maybe 5x to 10x faster then a humming bird. It did a figure 8 in the sky, stopped in mid-air, moved left to right and dissipated. The phenomenon lasted maybe 3 minutes and I had to make a decision to either go for the camcorder or stare at the thing.

I'm putting this together now because the most defining characteristic was that this was a white star shaped spec that was very clearly mechanical in nature.
> Originally, it was widely recognized by US jurisprudence, though property rights and freedom of association are important, the First Amendment was even more important.

Freedom of association is the first amendment.
Transferring grad schools is never easy, and even less so if the adviser decides to start a whispering campaign
I understand the frustration and in fact share it to a certain extent with science in general. Keep in mind that this wasn't intended to be published as a paper or anything like that. I'm just a software engineer who picked a problem and found a pretty cool solution.

Primarily I thought it was cool because it should be useful in many other image modification domains. And then it blew up in popularity today (didn't expect that). But yeah in the notes in the readme at github I do say this:

>To expand on the above- Getting the best images really boils down to the art of selection.

I added that after getting some feedback similar to yours, because before that, this disclaimer wasn't quite cutting it apparently:

>You'll have to play around with the size of the image a bit to get the best result output.

So yeah I'm trying to stay honest here. I'm not going as far as picking completely random samples, admittedly, but really what I'm trying to drive at here is you can produce cool results with this tool. It's not perfect, but it's a tool. And even if you pick at random, they still look pretty damn good. Just sometimes it renders the tv as color and sometimes it doesn't, and i picked the cool option.
Hang on, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle doesn't need to be preserved with virtual particle/anti-particle pairs - that's the point of Hawking radiation - the particles are no longer virtual, and so much must acquire a real value of energy from somewhere (and do so from the mass energy of the black-hole).

You're very much trying to draw a line here that QM doesn't support - everything is a particle and a wave at the same time, and the interpretation that one pair of a particle in-falls is at least as valid as the interpretation that it's to do with the exclusion of wavelengths.

EDIT: For example, the proposed argument with bigger black holes falls down by a similar interpretation to the wavelengths - for virtual particle pairs with sufficient initial velocity to escape the gravity of the black hole, the initial location of them by necessity becomes very indeterminate, or their mass very light - in both cases making it progressively less likely with black hole size that one part of the pair appears initially inside the black hole event horizon, or makes the resulting energy of the radiation less and less.
This. I bought an expensive machine from Boxx.

I could have built it myself. But I didn't for three reasons:

1) I have other work to do. Spending a day tinkering with components instead of writing papers, getting grants, or working on code is not a good use of my time.

2) Ordering a machine is easier in terms of working through university purchasing than ordering parts.

3) If something's broken, I can call someone.

All of these have value.
Yeah, happens all the time. Cities like Tokyo and Manhattan are full of them.
Just thought the same. There was a way to "follow orders" and satisfy your principles in a way that serves science. And if anything happened to him after that, it would be clear that it was a political firing.
> I’d also like to see someone Hackintosh those machines just for fun.

In fact, not sound as bad. Is necessary to get more details of the hardware to check compatibility, but could be a great option
I should add too, just to be clear- I'm not at all involved in academia.
> Prices in big dense cities say otherwise, there is plenty of demand to be where all the economic action is, many people also prefer urban lifestyles.

Prices just show urban areas are highly valued, there is no proof those areas defy supply and demand.

Density increases attractiveness for some people, but the trade-offs are clearly not for everyone given NIMBYism and higher prices outside some urban areas. Increasing supply may increase demand to a point, but there is still an equilibrium - density is still part of the solution.

> The lack of zoning doesn't encourage density at all, if there is land to build out instead of up, everyone will prefer the former because its cheaper and can provide amenities like free parking. Zoning can prevent that, it can also discourage vertical growth but at the same time discouraging horizontal growth as well.

Moot point, this entire discussion is about urban areas where land has already run out.

> if there is land to build out instead of up, everyone will prefer the former because its cheaper and can provide amenities like free parking.

"Everyone", except people that care about the time cost of commuting and the financial obligation of car ownership.
Aren't the lowest core power9 still intended for servers? I wasn't aware they had desktop processors.
I agree. I have been independent for almost two decades and paid for my family’s health insurance all that time. If you factor in the cost in your planning, there isn’t any reason for it to be a big deal. At least no more than housing, or car insurance or any of the basic, predictable expenses.
I am their target customer (I recently bought a very similar machine to these from Boxx), and I have no idea what Pop!_OS is. I can guess, based on the 18.something LTS that it's a Ubuntu derivative, but I don't know what that involves.
> Prices in big dense cities say otherwise,

Price doesn't strongly correlate to density.

Prices are very high in low density areas like Los Angeles, Silicon valley, North Virginia, Palm Beach, etc.

Before Manhattan got "nice" 20 years ago, it was dense, and there was cheap real estate to be had. It was the gentrification that drive the price increase, not the density.
Housing is always going to be expensive in desirable areas. No amount of social justice or zoning reform is going to make mid-town Manhattan or downtown SF easily affordable for anyone who wants to live there. Sure, these areas are culturally vibrant but the real draw of high cost of living areas is the job opportunities. Many people would gladly try out a different area of the country or move back home if only the job prospects were reasonable. I think there's much more bang for the buck in economic revitalization than trying to make every city in America "affordable". Although opposed to government intervention in general, I am much more in favor of proactive, growth-based policies than reactive redistribution-minded reforms.
> pedagogical construct

No, it was in his 1975 work [1], which considers a non-interacting quantum field in a Schwarzschild black hole spacetime [2]. The negative energy infallers keep the spacetime static, which is handy for preserving a timelike Killing vector field that is orthogonal to the spacelike hypersurfaces at each Schwarzschild time coordinate. That picture made it straightforward to show the mechanism for evaporation; perturbing the picture does not make Hawking radiation vanish, but does make it much harder to calculate.

> sake of public promulgation

It [1] was a hard academic paper aimed at experts. That should be abundantly clear not far down its first page and certainly by its second.

> restriction of the resonant modes of quantum fields imposed by having a border

It has to do with vacuum states.

> the [bh] shrinks and allows wavelengths of emitted radiation to contract

I think you run into controversy (and indeed a bit of inconsistency in your "true picture" argument) with "emitted". There is a secondary issue surrounding gravitational time dilation, depending on where you think Hawking quanta are found.

> Heisenberg uncertainty

How does that enter into the (non-string) picture except at the latest times when the radius of curvature is on the order of Planck length? I'm genuinely curious to see how you'd use Heisenberg uncertainty except in an argument involving remnants (in which a generalization of HUP could dynamically prevent complete evaporation, with the dynamics becoming important at some small minimum BH mass).

Anyway, I strongly recommend Wald [in [2]] to you.

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[1] https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02345020

[2] It's hard to summarize this better than Wald in the Hawking Radiation section of https://dx.doi.org/10.12942%2Flrr-2001-6 notably starting with 'The original derivations [54, 98] made use of notions of "particles propagating into the black hole", ...' and I don't want to plagiarize him.
I live in a super well run coop in NYC, and it's cheap.
You'll get ripped off. New homes depreciate quite a bit because of the ongoing cost of maintenance after 7-16 years. (Except in the Bay Area.) The catch is that inflation usually hides the depreciation.

You will find this out if you ever compare the cost of a new home to an older home, or plan to build your own. Where I live, a 15-20 year old home is about 60-80% of the cost of a similar new home.
...You may have just sold me on it.
> If you don't own a home, you are effectively short the housing market.

No, the same way that you aren't short on Tesla if you merely don't own any Tesla shares.

> If you own one home you are neutral

Long, actually.

> you can't sell it to make a profit because you always need one roof over your head.

Yes, you can; you may prefer to have a home, but people do in fact live without them, and, further unless you own the most minimal home allowed by habitability laws in the most inexpensive neighborhood, you can always downgrade while still having a roof over your head.

> If you own more than one house, you are a landlord/investor

That's no more true that it is of “if you own more than the least expensive house possible”; it is quite possible to own multiple homes only for personal use value, viewing them neither as investment for resale or things to rent out.

> It would be better for everyone if housing was not an investment

If it wasn't, how would development happen? It only happens because housing is an investment for the first owners, the one building it.
His argument is that few people caring about something doesn’t mean that thing doesn’t matter.
I can appreciate that view generally, but desktop cases have always been a veneer, provided they provide a decent amount of circulation. So why not spend some time to make it look attractive?

And although this isn't strictly the point you were making, wood is an excellent material to house electronics - it absorbs moisture and heat well, is extremely durable, it is a renewable resource, and while it goes in and out of fashion through the decades, its consistently attractive when used judiciously. This desktop case probably just has a sliver of wood panel which exempts it from these benefits, but I hope in the future we will be able to use natural materials more effectively, perhaps even to make the computer hardware itself.
In your analysis, I believe you're missing the class of folks that can't afford a home.
This is really nice, and that API is super readable! Well done, I'd use this in an instant.
Isn't that, like, an extremely banal observation? It doesn't mean it does matter either. Meanwhile: what was the point of comparing this situation to internment camps?
I took it as taking you along the ride and showing how easy someone could get caught up. Everyone has some kind of evil inside them, and you shouldn't be quick to judge.

Kind of the message of "Gulag Archipelago".
Traffic is a consequence of segregated uses and insufficient density. Densification is how a quiet residential neighborhood might come to support pedestrian life, service its resident’s need without making them get on a collector road, fund additional public transit capacity, etc.

Some mid-rise condos down the block are far better than another suburban subdivision a few miles down the road, as traffic goes.
The problem is not the wood. The wood may be a good idea (or not).

Imho, it's just that the case does not feel nice. While reading the specs, you have the impression that they have good engineers, that they carefully select components and design the air flow... but the whole case is still not there. As if someone made a draft and stopped there, carrying a "good-enough" tag.

I agree with the GP: They would benefit from an outstanding designer, and that comes with CEO blessing and will.
The presence of other people on neighboring lots does not stop you from living in your house.
A legacy system that few were willing to give up; no surprises there.
For a web server that has low latency throughout the world, and if you don't know any cheaper provider that has equivalent reliability, yes. aws makes sense. Introducing network dependency and latency to your work environment, not sure how that makes any sense.
I was actually thinking along the same lines because yeah...if you could break this problem down into smaller pieces, it would probably be the most effective way to reduce memory requirements. But I do think that's easier said than done. This is where I think I'll have to rely on Ian Goodfellow and others to come up with another something brilliant for me to stick in the code lol
Rent, bills, debt, children, food.
Myself, and most people I know can barely afford to take a sick day. Let alone a vacation.
i think they sell a several laptops that are as beautiful as the macs now.
The most amazing thing I've ever seen is probably the original manuscript proposed hypertext with the hand scribbled comment at the top "Vague but interesting!"
I'm pretty sure it's an add-on repo to Ubuntu which contains customisation of GNOME Shell and some System76-specific firmware stuff. (I have a System76 desktop from a few years back, but haven't run Ubuntu or System76's custom repo for some time on it, so I'm not 100% certain.)
I've read horror stories about bad sysadmin jobs but users not using a system as intended don't usually have a body count as a result.
A Right to Reasonable Inferences: Re-Thinking Data Protection Law
Convincing argument would be long-term customer loyalty by delivering value year after year after year in presence of strong competitive pressure. I wish System76 the very best. They're trying and that's worthy of a huge applause.
How leaky is natural gas production? One puzzle solved
I find this the most baffling. I'm also of the mind that assuming malice here is a bit too much, but what's the point of info security if not to protect systems from being used in ways they weren't intended?
The museum 1401 is insanely cool, but a mainframe it is not.

The 1401 was more of a service processor for a mainframe. You could use a 1401 to order jobs and manage card sorters and things of that nature.

The 1401 was occasionally sold as a standalone accounting machine instead of a service processor, but never as a mainframe unto itself.

It's more of a minicomputer than a mainframe. Which should say everything about its era. "Mini" meant only like, six racks of gear.
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The clones tend to be low effort and shit quality. The clones usually have shit support when things go wrong and don't have a big name standing behind them.

The Pursa i3 is a fully open source 3d printer with countless clones available but still the creators company is the most popular source to get it from.
The microvax was two levels removed from mainframe land.

The original VAX systems, occupying 2 to 4 cabinets, were similar to the 1401. They were both "mini" computers -- smaller than a mainframe, but considerable and interesting unto themselves.

The microvax was a VAX re-implemented with much cheaper, cooler logic, so it could be sold as a desk-side or a single rack system.
I will have to second that. The excessive spending made me cringe at times.
I've had better luck using OS api calls for serial ports. It's not portable, but it's the only way to understand the behaviour of the underlying driver, which can vary greatly with different hardware. It's very hard to get a vendor to fix their driver and firmware when you can't tell them which API calls they're making a mistake in.
This is exactly right - infact, because some people might consider housing in Bay Area to be a good investment, we can try to make it affordable for others.

This is the project we’ve been working on for the last month or so: https://zerodown.com/
That's very interesting to point out Thank you!
Are we discounting the possibility of the NN calculations resolving to show her hand as it really existed? Tonally, it may have been differentiated from the general population in such a way the algorithm amplified this difference?
Thanks for sharing your update. We tried imwith and enjoyed seeing your UI and other ideas in action. Best of luck with GIFted.
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It's easy to keep housing prices from rising when a country has a low birth rate and minimal immigration.
Are You Really a Psychopath If You Drink Black Coffee?
Banally true, yes.

> It doesn't mean it does matter either.

Someone said something doesn't matter because "few people care", just one example of something that mattered and about which also "few people cared" refutes that reasoning. They're not making an argument, they're refuting one.

edit: Another example would be Linus' announcement of Linux at the time. Few people cared, in contrast to the people who today find Linux extremely important, or depend on it without knowing. And there you go, I now made a "direct" (whatever that means) comparison between Linux and Japanese being put into concentration camps in the US, as well as a "direct" comparison between Linux and neo-nazis being deplatformed. The point matters more than the comparison used to make it.
The whole point of Free Speech is to enable all sides of any issue to have their say

And that freedom includes the freedom to say "I don't want to be associated with you".

Any "anti-deplatforming" is, of necessity, forced unwilling speech. Which is sort of the opposite of what "free speech" people should be standing up for. If someone doesn't want to lend you their soapbox, the solution is not to put a gun to their head and order them to hand it over; it's to go build your own soapbox. And if enough people are unwilling to associate with you that it's becoming burdensome to maintain your soapbox (difficulty getting materials, etc.), perhaps that's a sign from the marketplace of ideas that your ideas aren't very good.
People adapt to their surroundings, and try to fit in, of course.

But that's not unique to fascism. By this argument you'd have to ban all ideologies.
> Moot point, this entire discussion is about urban areas where land has already run out.

That isn't true. Houston is still sprawling, many cities off the coat have plenty of land to grow, and they do.

> "Everyone", except people that care about the time cost of commuting and the financial obligation of car ownership.

Of course. But property developers can make more money off the former than they can off the latter, if given the choice.
I don't know, does three months feel right to you? To me, until they go out of business feels right.

My expectations aren't unreasonable. I only have 2 or 3 gigabytes of photos there. Up to two days ago, they were advertising a terabyte of free storage.
I can barely write messages on my phone, let alone code.

I literally made 3 typing errors in the above sentence that were from fat fingering the IPhone touch keyboard. I loathe it, and look forward to switching back to a hardware keyboard on my next upgrade.
Would appreciate if the "3" could be omitted from the title, per HN guidelines. Since this is actually a decent enough article that has an uber-clickbait title.
When people complain about being deplatformed, they're just saying "the platforms that accept me aren't popular enough".

What happens when you or those who share your opinions don't get accepted by the popular platforms?