skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I posted previously when this topic came up (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19079526), it makes little sense to regulate these companies while there are still federal laws on the books actively encouraging the centralization of big tech. Quoting from that post:

Why not start with relaxing the federal laws which forbid the development of third-party applications?

The limits on third-party apps are legal, not technical. It is not technically challenging to build an application that collects Facebook credentials and then presents alternative views and features. It could, for example, finally be possible to see a time-ordered view of your friends' posts (Facebook doesn't allow this since it reduces engagement).

The development of such applications would serve as a threat and check on the market dominance of Facebook. A popular third-party application could consider adding its own features that Facebook does not have. It would also reduce Facebook's revenue.

What stops this? In the US, it is primarily the CFAA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act). Once Facebook formally tells a company to stop accessing their servers, they are in violation of federal law if they continue to do so.

It seems premature to pursue legal action while we still have federal laws that encourage and cement the dominance of a single provider.
Eh, sadly I think if Amazon had shut up about the process and just silently negotiated for tax breaks this probably would have gone through without issue. These sorts of stupid tax breaks get offered to large companies all the time and it's always a race to the bottom (and, with our broken campaign finance laws and legality of post-service employment, often times deals that are just clear losses get passed so some politician can get a sweet 5mil/year when they retire onto that same company's board of directors)
part 1: try not squandering your entire free time

part 2: a day job is challenging, educational, provides variety, and frees your side projects from the burden of supporting you in the short term; also risk has no inherent value

part 3: false dichotomies are bad (yet inexplicably new dichotomy of "meta" vs. "absolute" tasks); be patient
Um ... lawyer and former litigator here; I've done patent-case appeals at the Federal Circuit in a prior life:

1. Especially thanks to the Supreme Court's utter trashing of the analytical method (in Alice and other cases), it's not all that simple to move for dismissal on the pleadings.

2. I've looked at the patent and its claims; with a different trial judge and/or a different three-judge panel at the court of appeals, the outcome could easily have been different. CloudFlare's lawyers must have done a pretty good job, because getting a peremptory affirmance in the court of appeals under "Rule 36" [0] is a non-trivial achievement.

[0] http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/rules-of-pr...
"what consumers are willing to pay" is intermediated through health insurance companies, whose policy premiums have skyrocketed in the US in the last few decades.

Before relatively recently, most US medication consumers didn't understand that rising drug prices were a factor in the rise of their health insurance premiums. Now they are catching on to that, which is why it is becoming a politically important issue.
One major issue is discriminatory access.

They shouldn't be able to pick and choose who gets access to what APIs and under what terms.

Everyone gets the same terms or no one does.
wtf! That's sickening!
Processing data from format to format is a total drag to me. I just can't do it.
Everyone is hired on merit, but going to techy social events will help you get past the HR filter. If you are in a US city then there is probably some social network that publicly schedules monthly open houses at different tech companies. In Austin, TX that would be BuiltInAustin.com, I'm not sure what it is in other cities, but there is also Meetup which can be good.
I don't have a good sense for how the typical voter contexualizes these things. The numbers are so big and abstract I don't see how you can tell $20B from $60B as a voter.

I think though, if people had known in 2008 that not even 100 miles would be completed by 2019, that might have swayed some minds. In my view, the big tragedy here is the painfully slow construction, not so much the cost.
> What would it even mean to have a lambda reference to a variable who's stack frame has already popped?

That bit is simple - the variable is kept alive as long as there is still a lambda that references it.

Don’t think about stacks - that’s an implementation detail and the compiler is free to use a combination of the stack and the heap to implement local variables.

The issue I’m talking about is if one thread writes a local and another reads it, what does that look like?
Entity–component–system (ECS) back and forth
Did you try the Ruby 2.6 JIT Compiler?
I feel like this argument is the software engineer's version of "smaller government" political ideology. Yes, we want small, fast processes. Yes, we want efficiency. But we want efficiency _for the sake of usability_. For the Linux user, Sloth is (nearly) useless. Electron would have provided great value (at the cost of and under the burden of larger hardware, etc.) Complexity and resource usage creep isn't going away, although I applaud efforts to reduce complexity and use resources parsimoniously.
If they know how most food animals are treated, which seems likely, then most people who eat meat are OK with severe, sometimes grotesque cruelty. It goes beyond opinion: they put their money down for it.
I don't agree with this article. The article presents the very narrow perspective of an apparently uninformed person who thinks that invoking the names MLK or James Baldwin will help their case. People like the author of this article avoid, in their reasoning, any conception of income disparity, an intrinsically racially prejudice curriculum, micro-aggressive and biased media (to which students are constantly exposed), and any such thing that would lead to a rational that an unfair system is producing students who are going to be unresponsive to a traditional school system that is based on a presumption of equality and social equity.

What is more is this uninformed person, doesn't seem to know why it is not OK for a "white person" to use certain words. Showing that she has no understanding of recent history and how words take on a different meaning depending on who is saying them. This isn't a new concept; natural languages(unlike say many computing languages) are VERY context sensitive and have always been so.

This article reveals that it is, in fact, too the teacher who is lacking education. Here I yield to works like that from Robin DiAngelo and Ken Wytsma.
I’m thoroughly confused as to what state of the world one envisions as the alternative and how that would function. I understand an argument against purely a philosophical justification for proprietary software and no open access. But the practical reality of modern societies and Capitalism is that the closed source nature of many services / software brings many positive benefits to society and in some case is necessary for that platform’s very existence.
meh. i think the unit count is down to about a thousand. also strongly dependent on what node size you use. 180nm and 350nm are pretty cheap these days. but you're probably only off by an order of magnitude if you're talking about 28nm (which is what the SiFive HiFive Unleashed chip uses.)

but... your point was probably more along the lines of "getting custom silicon is still going to need a market of greater than several thousand," and that's probably always going to be true.
A patent is way to encourage inventions, awarding the inventors the exclusive rights to their own inventions.

The public good is a priority. The idea is that the invention is beneficial to the public. If somebody creates a good invention but deny it from the public, this patent should not be in public interest anymore.
Using neuroscience to develop artificial intelligence – by Shimon Ullman
The waterfront is slowly getting nicer, but as soon as you go even a few blocks inwards it's still sketchy and/or industrial. An anchor like Amazon HQ would have had a ripple effect of improving the whole area (like maybe we could finally get a decent grocery store? It's cheaper to take the train into Manhattan and go to Whole Foods than visiting the local LIC Food Cellar and Key Food markets!), especially the more eastern neighborhoods within walking distance, which really aren't seeing much of any development today.
'No way' Gab has 800k users, web hosting co. says
Don't patent trolls generally have hundreds of random unrelated patents they sit on? That sounds very different from a "small inventor who's invention has been stolen". Maybe we can limit the number of simultaneous patents you can sit on?
Is this really a thing in the U.S.? Genuinely curious as I've worked for a major telecom company in Europe, and the the IP ownership belonged to the company only for stuff done during work hours and/or done using company's equipment.
In the US, three pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) control >70% of the market. [1] In an oligopoly, higher prices aren't such a bad thing.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Speeches/ucm599833.htm

"Capturing the Benefits of Competition for Patients"
Speech by Scott Gottlieb, MD
Commissioner of Food and Drugs
March 7, 2018
Personally, I find it annoying considering it's just based on convention from other math software. Otherwise, an amazing language.
Try to bulldoze your way through community politics in NYC and get your ass handed back to you, every time.

The only person who successfully circumvented NYC politics was Mike Bloomberg, and that was solely a result of his personal charity giving over $600 million in donations to different community orgs and non-profits over the course of his mayoral tenure.
What would they negotiate for? They aren't directly paying for the drugs.

"Oh hey, can you charge this other guy less money for me?"
It's a matter of scaling. Small business-focused products generally will scale linearly with inputs. Good for a "lifestyle" business that keeps its owners and employees happy, bad for a VC-funded business that needs to hit a grand slam just to break even.
I've actually read, that the upper part of the atmosphere, where a returning Falcon 9 booster does retro burns to slow down, is similar to Mars (in terms of pressure I guess).

edit: found a paper on the topic https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201700...

also:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/spacex-has-already-d...
> No discount, still business

Not the business that was conditional on the discount.
I'm curious if JRuby came up for consideration at all. It seems to get some really notable speed-ups on straight ruby code.
40 GB is surprisingly close. I estimate I already read at least 4 GB of text so far. That's just 10 times more samples. I probably write better than GPT-2, but certainly not faster.
Brexit needs a consitutional convention
Doesn't even have to be a global single rate, just a way to collectivize the negotiations worldwide while still accounting for local economic conditions.

Business people form conglomerates together whenever it makes strategic sense. How this became so stigmatized an action for business people selling their own labor makes no sense at all.
Indeed it's my experience only.

I would agree that the quality of care in the US has a much bigger spread than Canada. However, as a middle class person in both countries, there are benefits that you get in the US, you don't get in Canada.
> When they commute, one might drop the kids off, but the other will be driving alone.

Except that if the one who has the big car has an issue at work, the other cannot go and take the kids because he has a car way too small!

No, that kind of car only works for those without children.
Unfortunately I am not an accountant and cannot give you tax advise, however, NJ has a non-resident income tax form, which you may be required to file: https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/taxtables.shtml

Edit to add: According to my interpretation of this: https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/pdf/current/1040nr...

Assuming your income is over $20,000, you ARE required to file a NJ state tax return.

Also, note that even if you don't file a tax return, doesn't mean you are exempted from doing so.

Example, as a citizen of Texas, you are also required to pay use tax on any items aquired out of state/country and used in the state. My assumption is that you don't also pay that either, even thought you are legally required to do so. It turns out that use Tax is particularly difficult to audit and collect for, especially without a mandatory return like state income tax.
DevRel Weekly Year One: Patterns, Projections, Plans
There are no original ideas left? That's depressing.
I can only speak from my personal experience from living in Perú and the US. So I'd say that the majority of Peruvians and Americans support animal cruelty with the decisions that they make every week at the grocery store.
A naive perspective: Crystal is still a baby with a relatively tiny userbase, so I'm willing to bet there's plenty of Ruby gems that they use that don't exist in Crystal.
Where are they going next? Will that decision be a new contest?
Package theft affects their margins. They will have a strong financial motive to minimize it. No conspiracy theory required.

It's also a moral outrage, when a subset of the population blatantly preys on others, and perpetrating the vast majority of thefts while constituting a tiny proportion of the population. There needs to be a strong response to these types of people for the safety of everyone else.
I'd love to hear a follow up to the story!
https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/23/9021191/google-patent-sta...
from merriam Webster online [0]

> Definition of proponent: one who argues in favor of something

Even if people are enabling something doesn't mean that they are proponents. Let's stop with the newspeak and use the correct words for things please.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/proponent
> It could, for example, finally be possible to see a time-ordered view of your friends' posts (Facebook doesn't allow this since it reduces engagement).

Am I missing something? This has always been a feature on Facebook right? I might be crazy but I thought that this was the only way I've been using FB for years. They call it "Most Recent" News Feed, isn't that the same as "time-ordered"? I'm quite sure they more than "allow it", they spend significant money on supporting it.

> It seems premature to pursue legal action while we still have federal laws that encourage and cement the dominance of a single provider.

Why? The laws are generally meant for different things (protecting trademark/quality of service/etc issues, vs. destabilization of society by having too much direct influence.

We can - and must - do more than 1 thing at at time, it's not premature to take action on Thing A while Thing B is still in-progress.
This is correct. The idea is that you can conjunctively (using the product) or disjunctively (using the coproduct) quantify the variables over the formulas that use them, essentially getting a conjunction/disjuction of the formula, instantiated with each of the concrete values of the variable quantified over.
Most insulin companies are not really making endless profit growth. They are very profitable but not by as much as you think. Secondly, no one runs a business of charity. Can't really blame them if they want to make huge profit by offering you something you really want.

The real solution here is that FDA needs to close the loopholes on the patents that help them renew patents indefinitely. Secondly, drug import must be simplified from countries like Canada, China and Mexico for personal consumption.

Third, people should opt for cheaper alternatives which might be slightly less effective than cutting edge.
Loss aversion is a real thing - people can and do decide to go brick and mortar because of being afraid of package theft. It isn't realistically a big issue but people care about it a lot.

As for why I would guess wanting better rates from turning bits to cash.
It is clearly not obvious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163755
Breaking a Little New Ground at the Large Hadron Collider
Getting started with Filecoin
Designing an ETL for a Data Warehouse
> The subway for people commuting into LIC for work is probably currently fairly empty, so the subway could accommodate them. (The same cannot be said of the reverse. Commuting from Astoria, Queens or Williamsburg, Brooklyn into Manhattan for work during rush hour is horrible).

I lived in Greenpoint and Sunnyside for 3 years ~5 years ago and either took a train from LIC into the city or through LIC. They were always busy. Just because no one is going to LIC for work doesn't mean that they don't have to use the same trains that would be used to go to LIC. The 7 is a crowded line as are the orange and blue lines that go through. The only line that wouldn't be incredibly crowded is the G, and even that isn't fairly empty going to Court as it's a popular way to get to midtown if you live near the G.
I wouldn't expect server/desktop/phone variants of RISC-V to drop any of the current extensions of the ISA. Why would you, if gate count isn't what you're optimising for?

There could be further, more advanced extension that may not be in every processor, but that's just the same as x86

The modularity in the ISA as it is now, is something that's more geared towards embedded devices or FPGAs, where you'll be compiling code specifically for that target anyway.
> other common hash algorithms are likely only going to add a few hours

Hash algorithms or password hash algorithms? Because if the former I'd completely disagree, it would be closer to hundreds of years with a modern algorithm like Argon or even old stalwarts like Bcrypt with higher cost parameters.

The twitter statement is ridiculous, password length isn't the problem here, it's poorly secured credentials, was under the impression that NTLM was deprecated anyway?

Edit: Going off this benchmark[0] of 19000 H/s for a single 2080 crunching bcrypt. The keyspace for alphanumeric(62) + password symbols(23) with 8 characters = 85^8 = 2.72 x 10^15

@19000 H/s it will take 143416065810 seconds to go through every permutation. So around 4547 years worst case scenario. Add 7 more GPU's like in the OP's rig and that's 568 years.

The birthday problem doesn't apply here to finding a _specific password_ so on average looking at 284 years with 8x 2080 GPU's.

All modern algo's from the last Password Hashing Competition were designed to be memory hard (or at least offer it as a parameter) to resist GPU attacks and would be pushing these numbers up a magnitude or two.

8 character passwords aren't dead.

[0] https://gist.github.com/Chick3nman/d03c0d696699af2886c340425...
I don't think working out zaps work energy I think it would actually enhance it. But doing intellectual work on the job likely reduces capacity for intellectual work off the job at least in that same day.
The proof of replication provides assurance that for some given data D, a unique replica R is created for it. What you’re proving with the Proof of SpaceTime isn’t that you have some data, you’re proving that you have the replicas. Generating the replica is slow, so you can’t do it on the fly. I gave a talk recently that goes over some of this briefly: https://youtu.be/GZZ2G9bPXsM
Yea, the more I research this, the more I realize that this is the crux of the issue. The residents have no faith that the politicians will stem gentrification.

The affordable housing crisis and congestion will only be further exacerbated. Your average Queens resident who's already barely making her rent will see rents skyrocket, forcing her to move out and further into the boondocks come lease renewal time.

I think the opposition reflects a dissatisfaction with the politicians/administrators who run their city more than a hatred of Amazon.
Being a financial supporter does not make one a proponent. There is nobody out there that I know of (maybe lobbyists) who actively argue that there should be more animal cruelty.
You generally define them as infinite sequences with a finite number of non-zero terms. Since we only care about a specific quotient field you could force it to work by working with only polynomials of bounded degree (<=2 should work. <=4 is probably the least bad option), but it would get ugly.

You could also ignore polynomials entirely. Since Q(sqrt(2)) is just a two dimensional vector space over Q, we could define it as the ordered pairs Q^2 with an appropriate definition of multiplication and division (like we often define the complex numbers to highshoolers), but this also gets ugly.

I guess the moral of this post is 99% of the time a finitist or constroctivist complains you can rework your theory into a more ugly one that avoids the complaint.
You can "act like an atheist" by not making decisions which are based on the presumption that a deity will intervene. Pretty basic stuff here.
There is also the market for tv top boxes and a lot more embedded applications for stuff like e.g. remote controllers, IoT and more. Then on top of that you have stuff like the kindle. Think how many copies these market segments have sold. Arm takes a couple cents per copy. Now keep in mind that these are rather small and simple cpus. Some alwinner chips sell for less than 4$ a piece and they sell millions per quarter. That's enough revenue saved for them to cover the moving to RISC-V costs.
You are applying heuristics for a normal distribution to a power law distribution. If you aren't in the .01% you aren't really that rich at all in the larger scheme of things.
We do - that's how Kafka Registry knows what schema to apply for the Avro message. If you like, you can ping me at my username + gmail and I can answer any other questions about what you're doing.
This is not always a good idea - Private Eye has almost gone bankrupt before trying to pay court costs for libel - and subsequently facts emerged to show they were not libelling but in fact correctly reporting.

I doubt there are legislative fixes that won't make things worse - perhaps We can only hope for sound and robust rulings from engaged and informed judges.

(don't laugh)
I don't think it's reasonable to think that most people working at HQ2 would have been doing a reverse commute from Manhattan into LIC. It's equally likely that they would just be crowding the already crowded trains heading through LIC to Manhattan.
Good fucking lord, I kept waiting for the punchline but it just never came.

Make sure you read the whole thing - it’s a treat. Sounds like every terrible Valley culture post squeezed through a Markov chain.
People make compromises with their social circumstances.

They're not "ok" with the level of cruelty but in a pervasive environment of limited culinary and social choices, they're okay with living with that knowledge.

Personally, I think you get further raising better people than trying to impose a moral standard in a population that (for the most part) eats diets that hamper cognition and volition ala high sugar and ultra processed crap. Intermittent fasting and a decent diet would do much more for the quality of moral calculation of people than telling them that their entire culture is morally bad. Because we're humans who utilize different strata of values, not mere moral robots.

To paraphrase Nietzsche, the moralists and priesthoods of the world devalue the very small things which give arise to moral judgment: Diet, climate, and habit.