skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do have to "ask" if the answer doesn't really matter?

You tell me; Copenhagen is the one that says collapse exists. It sounds like maybe we are on the same page that collapse isn't necessary to explain quantum mechanical observations? In that case, we are both Everettians :).
money outside govts and banks, money that crosses borders, publicly verifiable tamper-proof transactions, and more. BTC has plenty of value.
The point isn't that Apple isn't good at doing updates. The very next sentence points out explicitly that they do that above and beyond everyone else in the space. The point is that you're locked in to a specific HW+SW ecosystem at the mercy of the vendor. If you like that ecosystem that may be great service to you, I'm pointing out that the #1 computing platform has only that choice and that's not the case in all the other major platforms so far. For the HN crowd that should be worrying.
The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public
This is a really interesting comment, thanks
I don't think anybody actually likes export control restrictions, but do you have a better idea for how we might keep this technology away from foreign governments? It appears that the only thing worse than export control restrictions is all the alternatives.
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It's not a misconception because it happens on a large scale. Note I'm not arguing that it is all homeless or even a majority, but clearly increasing support for the homeless will draw homeless people there from other, less capable areas. Here is a discussion about a church in Amarillo that paid for 1200 one-way bus tickets to get homeless out of their city: https://old.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/5a0pdi/homeless_get...
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Ah, the world of government contracts, where a startup may contractually required to have a "drug and alcohol free workplace" which means getting rid of any beer in the break room fridge.
100% of the public parks and ~80% of the remaining greenspace in downtown Portland has become permanent homeless camps. Anywhere there is a 5x5ft patch of grass there is a tent.
Maybe physics is suffering from the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect. Colliders used to produce helpful results for fundamental physics, but maybe it is time to look somewhere else.
I get it, dodgy surveys trump anecdotes. However, these surveys turn in a reality that is so far divorced to what people are experiencing that they are hard to take seriously, check out:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/king-coun...

> The records show that more than 8,000 clients listed their last ZIP code as 98104, which covers Pioneer Square and downtown. That’s about 25 percent of all clients who gave King County ZIP codes. Putnam says clients sometimes list ZIP codes for the shelters where they last stayed or the neighborhood where they’d been seeking services.

Ya, the data is really noisy.

And do you really think the big cities can solve this problem on their own without regional support? Its like saying they can solve healthcare on their own, or any other country-wide problem.
Linus says:

> I think the trivial patches are among the most important ones - exactly because they are the "entry" patches for every new developer.

I have been running a fairly successful open source project and this is not exactly my experience. I guess about 70% of pull request I get is simple spell, grammar, white spaces and the likes. Some time folks send this in wholesale because they want their personal favorite verbiage. It takes enormous amount of time to go through each line and each file to make sure something else is not sipping in. However, more importantly, rarely I have seen these text fixers to send any real code fixes. Vast majority of them are just one offs.

My thesis is that there are lots of folks out there just trying to brag to be "contributor" for popular open source projects and they just move on from one project to next rarely taking time to settle down in any individual project. This might be not be the case for Linux kernel but might be the case for other smaller projects.
Mommy Blogger Katie Bower Said One of Her Sons Is the Least “Liked” on Instagram
> I feel I may be ignorant, but doesn't drawing attention to her gender like this only work to diminish her accomplishments?

How would it diminish her accomplishments? As a woman founder, the deck was stacked against her, so her accomplishing this makes it even more impressive.
In normal rasterization you can simply render your geometry with a single active shader (one vertex, one pixel etc). This is because you have direct control over when a specific type of geometry is rendered.

With raytracing you do not control when which geometry is rendered. Thus unless you want to simply use a single UberShader for the entire call to DispatchRays you need to link the geometry with the specific raytrace shader. (shader binding table https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pictures/20...)
The remote UK community living off-grid
At the federal level the housing supply is excessive to the point of Detroit house prices being close to negative, some counties in Kansas and Oklahoma providing free land if only people move there, dying coal towns in Appalachians having an oversupply if available housing and Mississippi delta towns being relatively cheap to place people in manufactured housing?

Sure, that doesn’t solve the problem of everyone who’s homeless in LA or SF, but then where do you draw a line on people’s preferences vs reasonable availability?

If a million new homeless people decide they would rather move to LA and not Kansas, should the federal government accommodate accordingly? What if then they say they’d really prefer Santa Monica to East LA? What if within Santa Monica most express the preference for proximity to the ocean and walking distance to downtown amenities?

Where does the federal government then draw a line on providing essential services vs catering to someone’s lifestyle preferences?
Nobody ever got fired for choosing the vendor in the upper right quadrant of the Gartner Magic Square.
I’d say they would now!
Android Inc should probably have gone with a micro kernel, instead of going for Linux' monolithic approach. Would have made things much easier to manage in regard to separation of concerns.
Many programmers also knit, there is a surprising amount of overlap (talking about patterns as algorithms, fixing errors as debugging). Knitters even have their own stackoverflow/github: ravelry.
I suspect that (1) you don't have strong relationships with the people that you've only communicated with via voice, (2) if you do, then it took a very long (multi-year) time to create that trust: significantly longer than through face-to-face communication, (3) you do not do a active, engaging brainstorming and problem solving sessions (e.g. whiteboarding) with your colleagues that you communicate with voice only.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Accused of ‘hate Mongering’ in India
How do you, personally, receive notifications when people blog?
RSS, subscribe via email, IFTTT, just check the blog regularly, something else?
> It is perfectly okay to say something is happening at 1 million light years away.

Well, maybe. Maybe not. Carlo Rovelli would argue that time doesn't exist like that (or at all) and that saying that something is happening now when it is beyond our lightcone would be a meaningless statement, and a lot of physicists would agree with him. (A lot would disagree, too.)

Reference frames only clear this up if time does exist in a meaningful way and 'now' is more than a construction of our own observation.
... his entire reputation is ruined. How does somebody come back from this? I like sleeping with both eyes closed at night, don't you?
There isn't really a better IDE for Idris currently along with it being part of the full Guix experience. Most modern IDEs I've tried tend to either not be supported on platforms I tend to use or come with many features I didn't really ask for. That and they usually are a pain to configure.

If and emacs-like in configurability with less cruft comes around I'll probably switch to it.
It’s not bad for the service to fund itself in ongoing costs, Transport for London is self-sufficient for instance, as long as the money goes back into the service. That’s a good discipline to maintain an efficient service. But agree that initial capital investments should be thought about in the way you’re discussing.
The thing about this is that the MTA and NYC Subway are NOT for-profit businesses. They're part of the public sector and shouldn't be held to a profit motive. Similarly, the Unions connected to City transportation should recognize that the system they're vampirically draining isn't about profit, and working for it should be in the mindset of a public service, not a 'get rich quick' scheme.
For most of industrialized history in the West, poor people lived crammed in tenements and multi-family apartments where they didn't get much beyond a room. This is still the case in much of the developing world.

Has it ever occurred to anyone that spacious living spaces for everyone in every city simply isn't tenable? It worked for a couple decades, but that was a different time and these cities were different places.
When was the last time a banker was put in jail for money laundering?
You're breaking a rule of this site- you should assume good faith when talking to other people on here. There is no evidence that anyone wants to be "censorious for the sake of being censorious"- even if you don't agree with the reasoning behind this discussion it doesn't change the fact that people have put forward reasons.
The load average on my kubernetes cluster is actually around 3-4 without it even doing anything.

There’s a bunch of apps running in there, but nothing that would justify the load.

It’s also generating roughly 20 log lines per second.

I’m really not sure what it’s doing...
I have probably only seen 4-5 videos of his in my life but I did once see a man that look like him flying a drown around the beaches of Santa Monica. I cam back an hour later and he was still there flying a drone.

I was pretty sure it was him and followed his videos for a couple more weeks until a video of him in Santa Monica came out.

I am not into vloggers and agree most play up their amateur status but I was still impressed by the hands-on dedication he was putting into getting one shot.
not sure what point you where trying to make with this analogy. hierarchies are an emergent property of every self-assembling structure -- we all started from the same unicellular organisms after all.
I suppose this is as an appropriate time as any to ask for advice: I am a multimillionaire from inheritance, and am about to complete my masters in physics. I wish to work on long term theoretical physics problems that do not seem to be possible under the current publish-or-perish academic system. The plan was to complete a PhD, then leave academia, but lately I have been having severe doubts about continuing onto a PhD, partly due to the cruft that comes with academia. Obviously, future employability due to financial reasons is completely irrelevant to me.

I would greatly appreciate any advice.
I saw that article. If you read a little further, the position of the comet couldn't have led the so-called wisemen to Bethleham (yet another apocryphal tale). So, still no other cultures.
I think some government employees in Canada 'gracefully retired' after the Phoenix cluster F*.
Houston has deed restrictions, which effectively work the same as zoning.

There is zero land available for you to live in a safe neighborhood near downtown. All new housing is located in dangerous areas. You ABSOLUTELY MUST use a car to get around unless you want to risk being assaulted, robbed, or worse.

The homeless population in Houston is out of control and has gotten worse in parts of town.

Vehicle break-ins, burglary, rapes, and armed robbery are completely out of control. The only actually safe places in the entire city are Jewish neighborhoods such as Rice Village. The police are absolutely useless and crime is VASTLY under-reported. Police hung up on me multiple times and lost my reports each time after I was a victim of a hit-and-run, burglarized vehicle three times, my apartment door was kicked in, and my apartment was burglarized. My neighbor's guns were stolen from his truck and his apartment was burglarized. He was a Houston police officer at the time. Everywhere I lived the same things happened REGULARLY. My neighbor was a wheelchair bound young woman and her door was kicked in around noon, 6 feet across the hallway from the leasing office. All of these places I mention are in gated communities. I lived in three apartments less than a mile off the tram red line over three years.

Houston is a living hell for law abiding citizens. Not only is it incredibly criminal, ALL infrastructure is CRUMBLING and there is trash literally everywhere aside from Rice Village and River Oaks. Utterly disgusting.

Police and landlords have told me: "It's just a big city, crime happens. We can't do anything about it, just have insurance." (i.e., socialize the cost of having criminals around while doing NOTHING to reduce criminality). People who think like this deserve everything they get when it backfires on them. Maybe they enjoy being repeatedly raped like a form of Stockholm Syndrome. I, for one, do not enjoy being raped of my hard work and time by criminals or living under the constant threat of my hard work, time, and life being robbed from me. If you live in Houston and don't constantly carry a fully loaded handgun, you are taking your life in your hands.

Screw that. I don't want to live in a literal hell. Such is life in Houston.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyMY2JnVUDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj3XO3HopsM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0diH5fNLYmU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gctMJhFezE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZQDwXT71_E
Most people, even those in positions of authority, are morons.
> Isn't the answer "investing in the economy?"

Or rent seeking through concrete asset accumulation during the bust phase of boom-bust cycles.
Maybe that's why they're building Fuchsia.
The requirement request is a great way to push back on feature creep. There's a lot of cargo culting that goes on in the "protection against bit-flips". You sometimes have to go a step further and ask what error rate are you required to be below. Once you have that number, you can start asking what your current error rate is without mitigations, and how much a given mitigation will reduce your error rate.
The ‘Neo-Banks’ Are Finally Having Their Moment
I'm downvoting you not because I'm upset and offended, but because you're breaking the rules of this site with this post. One of the rules here is that you must assume "good faith" in conversation with people, but instead you're accusing people of wanting "censorship for the sake of censorship". While you may not agree with the reasons people advocate for this change, they are presenting reasons and there is no evidence that those reasons are made up simply to mask a desire to censor people.
The article did not mention one of the weirdest: Elon Musk's "Starman" dummy and Tesla Roadster shot into Space on a Falcon Heavy Test Launch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster

...though it seems the journal article does include it in the list of references:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...
Gartner's publicity pieces, including hype cycles and magic quadrants, serve the purpose of giving non-technical executives and decision makers a high-level understanding of the risk of choosing a particular technology or vendor. For these users, all that matters is getting a snapshot of the present moment.

Gartner also sells research and analysis reports, and subscriptions for these services. These materials, IME, are of higher quality and can be a good introduction or exploration of a particular issue or technology. But they are definitely more oriented toward the senior leader than to the person in the trenches.
So imagine instead of scammers you had hyenas who lived around a particular stretch of road and ate anyone who wandered by.

You could say "Darwin", anyone dumb enough to get eaten deserves it.

But you could also say "anything that eats people is gonna get shut down hard", because you don't get to be at the top of the food chain if you let things keep eating you.
We had to get out of the bay area this weekend. It was just too much to handle, waking up wheezing and with headaches all day long. I wouldn't be surprised if we see elevated rates of lung cancer in Northern California in the years to come.
Wow, XKCD is now being cited as evidence. What a world we live in.
A more generous interpretation (and the one that I think explains my very short stints as a contributor in just the way you describe) is that I really appreciate the project, want to help somehow, but won't/can't commit to deep work on the project. I also see many projects that practically beg for help "even if it's just documentation" and believe small contributions to be similar to adding a dollar to the tip jar.
No, but the PATH is pretty reliable and buses work - especially the Spanish bus. Every time I hear people complaining about the train into NYC I ask them why they don't either come to Passaic, Union City, or Hoboken and take an easier and faster (and often, less expensive!) alternative in.
The youtube video[1] of his defcon talk is super interesting -although some of his concerns about serving malicious scripts from bitsquatted domains are thankfully mitigated by widespread adoption of TLS.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ8s1JwtNas
And honestly, they shouldn't.

Engineers wanting shiny resume padding to play with can hate on it all they want, but they're not the ones doing the firing.
Publicly listed? ones or just a name for wealth managers
Because the source code is really not the important part of that equation. A competitor with a slick marketing strategy will steal your business no matter what.

Meanwhile, if you do release your software as FOSS, then you at the very least get a marketing channel (the FOSS community) that's 1) cheap to acquire (any "this week in FOSS" blog or software repo or whatever will jump on spreading it around specifically because it's FOSS) and 2) is on average savvy enough to know that you're the actual encumbent and your competitor is a fraud. Assuming your product is actually good, they'll be inclined to support it and possibly even buy it.

If this is scary to do with your core product, then at least start with the FOSS dependencies of that core product. See also: Valve being one of the "good guys" in the Linux-on-the-desktop movement; their core product (Steam) is closed-source DRM (the literal antithesis of free software), but their free software contributions (especially around Mesa and Wine/Proton/DXVK) more than offset the "evil" of their core product, and so Linux users (myself included) have no qualms throwing money their way.
Uber & others seem to be fine with a general congestion charge although, and actually seem to encourage it.
The ledger is public via Omni, their bank balance in reserve on the other hand.......
Money can pay for marketing and shills to flood online forums to trick peoples voting.
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The only reason the union is untouchable is because anti-union legislation entrenched old unions by making new unions impossible. Get rid of anti-union laws, watch as people can now join a competing different union or make their own union under the same job. Then unions actually have to work to exist, rather than being co-opted by business managers who are only seeking to earn a profit for themselves with the actual workers making up the union having no choice other than pay or completely abandon unions altogether.
r2d2 also happened 19 years ago.

I know people who were at MIT then. It was, by all accounts, a vastly different place.
It’s what happens when you have too many non-technical people in decision-making positions. They never heard of big O notation or hashsets but they all know about Gartner.

It provides a way for them to say “I think we should do X” without knowing anything about X except that Gartner recommended it. Gartner gives them a right to have an opinion.
The only way to fix the housing crisis is to build more houses. It isn't rocket science, but every conversation or debate about this issue seems to go on and on in every direction without people actually facing this fact. The same people who vote to increase taxes to fix homelessness will simultaneously vote down every new housing project. Just seems so bizarre to me.
Poorer choice for what? If it's something I heavily rely on - it's should be FOSS because I already experienced sitting there with a bunch of proprietary files with no way to fix the issue when the vendor was closed down.

If I need to do some short time job and there are no FOSS tools I usually buy the license for proprietary software do the work and then uninstall it. Since I can't even see if there are some obvious security vulnerabilities so why risk having it installed.

About the "poorer choice", by using not sufficiently featurefull FOSS tools you get the chance to improve those and everyone benefits.
> Everyone in the same reference frame (or close enough) is going to agree about the order of events

Not necessarily. On a macro scale for general human interactions, for the most part, but the only thing observers have to agree on is space time interval and causality. Space, time, and order (if not important to causality) might be different.
Neat! I've always been a fan of these "low-tech" (not involving complicated radio protocols like Bluetooth that inevitably seem to never work) transmission protocols. I kinda wish something like what you built was more widely supported, so I could transfer files between my phone and OS X. (Which both have Bluetooth, yet it never works. So I upload to Drive.)

Similarly, but with audio[1]: http://www.whence.com/minimodem/

[1]: (and yes, I know this is how it "used" to be done / I am old enough to remember it.)
no need for cosmological concepts to raise the education level
Earth Day hack, from last year: http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2017/earth_day/ was left up for several days (not listed there, but I was around to see it up)
not for home use it was very successful in business as a way to run VisiCalc (mostly)
There's a great deal of luck involved. Casey is a curious case of someone who is not interesting, deep, gifted or talented at anything, and yet has a massive audience.

With Casey, he was doing online video, when so few people were, that anything could become a smash hit. His other hits have to do with him already being an established name.

It is not unlike Dan Bilzerian - except Dan openly admits he got very lucky to end up where he is at, and so there aren't articles being written on how to become the next Dan or use his 'poker strategy', or maybe there are, I wouldn't be surprised :)
My favorite entry in that problem space is metastability[1].

Do you interface two different clock domains(which is basically most things)? Guess what all of your computing is built on the "chance" that bits won't flip.

Granted, statistics make this pretty solid but kinda blew my mind when I first stumbled across it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability_(electronics)
That was very informative and eye opening regarding how much time he has put into mastering the 'amateur' aesthetic while literally doing multiple things at once, eg: Holding a 3lb camera with a gorilla pod while riding a boosted board, drinking a smoothie and having a coherent conversation towards the viewer.
Xilinx tracks a ton of data in regard to their products, packaging, and bit upsets:

https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/PLD-Blog-Archived/Package-Gener...