skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience SSDs die hard and you will get nothing back from them. I always thought they may go into read only mode but I have never seen that.
Having attended a public school where is was bullied and my time wasted by terrible teachers, I would have been much, much better of being home schooled.
Electric vehicles are the solution. When a country has roughly half as many cars as people you have a tremendous buffer. Combine this with a grid connection to another country that has peak demand at a different time of day from your own and a lot of the problem goes away.

A back of the envelope calculation might go something like this. Vehicles are idle 95% of the time on average, most countries have something like one vehicle for every two people, if all are electric and all have a 40 kWh battery (more than a original Leaf, a bit over half my Tesla S) that is on average 50% charged then in a country like Norway (roughly 5 million population) there is a storage buffer that can source or sink something like:

(5e6/2) cars * (40 * 0.5) kWh capacity * 0.95

that is 47.5e6 kWh , also known as 47.5e3 MWh, or 47.5 GWh.

With real time pricing and the ability to deliver current from the car as well as to it and you have pretty much solved the problem.

The total installed generating capacity in Norway is just over 30 GW. If we harnessed just the batteries in the cars we already have we would have a buffer of something like

200e3 cars times 20 kWhr * 0.5 battery capacity

that is about 2000 MWh, or 2 GWh. Something between one and two hours full power for the whole country.

I hope I haven't got a power of ten wrong in there.
Aluminum cans are poor quality metal. The tabs to open them however, are much better. DIY people that melt down metals avoid aluminum cans because of all the slag produced when melting.
It seems like a tragedy of the commons situation, which we have been able to fix in other instances with organized funding. We've seen some organizations spring up around funding open source projects, but if e.g. the US government authorized federal grant funding for open source projects, I think it would set an example for industry (and other governments) across the world.

The challenge is getting historically scarcity-mindset institutions to recognize the value of letting the rising tide of free information lift every ship in the world. They don't like this on its face because they have divided the world into "us" and "not us" and open source provides more utility (in aggregate) to "not us" than to any "us" defined as narrowly as a single company or country. Until Big Finance, Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Manufacturing, and Big Government embrace a broader definition of "us" beyond their own conglomerates, they will continue to see open source as a threat.

This gets at a broader cultural movement toward abundance, that in the US has strong roots in coastal western cities like LA, SF, and Portland, and strong opponents in the Midwest, South, and East. If the US federal government were to invest heavily in open source, it would send a message to the rest of the country that we are now in an age of abundance, where we recognize the value of lifting all ships, because we know that our strength is in the strength of all of us, not the strength of our few strongest players. It would signal a cultural shift toward collaborative ownership and, I believe, spur investment in many commons.

It's difficult to speak the truth of this mindset to power, because incumbents recognize that there are real competitive threats. The hope is that governments will recognize that there are far fewer threats in a world where people have the basics covered, and companies will recognize that defining and advancing the state of the art makes you look pretty good to the best talent and best customers.
Interview experience is just as valuable as the preparation in my opinion. I recommend you start getting some interviews at companies lower on your list and get some of that practice.

Also, what do people think about triplebyte for this?
He's very much not engaging in any rhetorical fallacy: it's an uncommonly clear observation of the actual reality of the current year in machine learning. Which probably means he labors in the field.

The main businesses which seems to truly depend on ML (other than maybe FICO) is that of tech journalist and PR dweeb.
Thanks. Seems nifty but ClojureScript is a bit too foreign for me
That’s a nice overview for a sysadmin but doesn’t provide tools for making business decisions for non-sysadmins.
These seems like systems where the impact of disruption is so severe that it should be effectively offline as much as possible.

Now the power source of course... hard to manage that.
And please, skip the shoes. People have been wigged out for years around these parts, since shoes with the foot still inside have kept washing up on shore.

I think the consensus was that it was suicides or other drowning victims, not some nefarious plot, but people get twitchy.
> Those are good points. However, I do think we will look back at the large amount of postmodern literature inspired by Foucault and deidre as obfuscatory to knowledge seeking.

Postmodernism, at its core, is precisely a criticism of conventional epistemology. I am not a postmoderinst, but I do find that some of their views are interesting, or at least worth considering. I would not be surprised if you are right, and that postmodernism goes down in history as a fool's errand. In any case, I think that it is good that people kick the foundations of knowledge to see what happens. If nobody does that, it becomes very easy to fall into religion/ideology without noticing.

To borrow a term from another thinker who also hates postmodernism (I think), knowledge should be anti-fragile.

> showing academic belonging in Parisian coffee shops

You are absolutely right about this part. Just don't think that Sillicon Valley's Matcha Tea Boutique Shops are so different. The environment is also full of terms and clichés that mostly serve to signal tribal alignment, that really say nothing new and only create a barrier of entry for outsiders: "let us create a curated list of use-cases for under-the-radar angel round startups that are attempting to leverage blockchain technologies for adtech verticals."

> culture is adapted to get the marginal to conform to the majority (Foucault marginal sexual identity that caused him to attempt suicide)

Right, but he also has some interesting things to say about our relationship with the "mentally ill", how that relationship is different in other societies and why our approach may be pathological for all of us. For example.

> culture corrupts the pristine child’s mind (Rousseau inspired)

Some might say this, but overall culture is just taken as a powerful force that shapes the reality we inhabit. The thing is that, if one doesn't cherry-pick, some postmodernist ideas actually became mainstream. "We inhabit narratives."

> either you apply cultural power or you are a victim to cultural power

I think this is mostly true. No problem if you disagree, but it doesn't seem like such a crazy hypothesis to me.

> but not when used to argue for a deconstruction of all experiences into identity groups like postmodernists have

This is a confusion between postmodernism in general and "grievance studies".

> I think they’ve abandoned their academic duty to try to construct world views contiguous both within themselves and to the larger culture.

For me, the academic duty is to think seriously and independently. Any other red line only guarantees that we get stuck in local maxima. I think that the unusual views should have a place, and knowledge seekers should make an effort to understand them if they are going to criticize them.
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> With this update, Firefox is introducing scroll anchoring, which ensures that you’re not going to bounce around on the page as these slow-loading ads load.

While I love the idea of videos not automatically playing, I'm almost more excited for the scroll anchoring feature.
This will sound like it’s made up but it’s not. When I lived in Seattle a couple years ago (Belltown), my apartment building had a policy of no recyclables or things that are harmful to the environment in the trash.

It was somehow enforced by the city. I didn’t think too much of it until they fined all the tenants because someone was putting stuff in the trash they weren’t supposed to. The city actually hired people to dig in the trash and figure out where it came from.
> I can't count the number of times that a decision was made verbally in a meeting only to find that half the meeting misunderstood the decision or can't remember details about it the next day.

I've had the same experience, but I tend to follow a hybrid approach; bring up everything you can think of in the meeting, then immediately following up with an emailed recap of what was agreed upon. It helps make the verbal decisions explicit and iron out additional details.
That's pretty gross. Thanks for the info. :\
They are available all over the place in Europe: https://tinyurl.com/yyohl585

The prices start at 6.84€ per GB (versus 25€ per GB at Apple)
At the end unless Firefox doesn't block JavaScript, it won't have much effect.

Actually it's also time to ban JavaScript after horrendous front end frameworks made simple page loads slow, energy and time consuming.
They could do this right now.
He's saying there are 1000 possible PINs (000-999) if you don't have the unique digit constraint.
That didn't seem to be the point, since you were implying that EU students are already better and now they are working on getting (to quote you) "more better".

Like I said it's hard to quantify educational programs, but China and Russia both dominate competitive programming competitions, and have for years. Whereas EU simply doesn't (outside of occasionally wins by Poland and Czech Republic).
Russia is more Western than Eastern country culturally. Historically ~20% of Russia which is oldest, most populated (~80% as per Pareto rule) and influental is the western part of the country, bordering European countries.
I've found Live to have great support. Console arrived with a broken disc drive - shipping label seen sent within an hour, and a free (download) game for the trouble; wanted to cancel a transaction and the site was bugging out - sorted in about five minutes in the online chat; controller broke - free shipping label and back in about a week; console developed a fault in use - ditto.
PR drops are definitely fun! You can make them easily with a torch, some glass and a bow of water.

The problem with chips in a lid is that they will slowly expand over time, likely leaving debris in food. It can also lead to sudden unexpected failure as glass gets much weaker once chipped or scored, especially combined with moisture. I don’t discard lids immediately either, but the manufacturers do suggest it for those reasons. Definitely not like tempered glass, you’re right! Tempered glass is safer in how it break into those little square pieces - much less likely to lacerate than long jagged shards, in many applications (shower doors for instance).

I had a tempered safety glass oven door shatter suddenly one day - apparently this happens fairly often?
The visual simile is, of course, not perfect, but the simile is not provided for people that knowledgeable on the science in the first place. If you happen to find a more appropriate simile that people follow, please make it known.
Indeed, you might not have to use the drug to get some benefits :)

We live in a culture of (economic) winners and losers, and if you get hung up on this mindset, which is encouraged btw, you could imagine a low place for yourself. Get stuck long enough and it’ll grind you to dust.

If we can break out using psychedelics, so much the better. And I agree with others here, it’s best as medicine, not a diet.
To add to the discussion. I did a CS PhD with a statistical bent. It's served me well. However, I would see if an MS provided you with equivalent benefits from a career standpoint. Very few companies do "research". And if you're in the US, unless you acquire funding with yourself as the PI its going to be impossible to find an academic position.
It's very easy to get people to pay for hosting.

In Mozilla's case, I would love to see some sort of cloud hosting for Rust. I also wish I could write front end in Rust but maybe I'll just have to wait for webassembly. I can't imagine that some sort of rust to js compiler (kinda like kotlin) would be too hard and this would be a killer application.

Matei Zaharia (of the Spark fame) and friends are working on weld, https://github.com/weld-project/weld. There's going to be a lot of money there as well. A cloudera competitor of sorts.

But yeah, go ham on Rust based paid solution.
Unlike Chrome, Firefox makes it easy to disable automatic updates.

They removed the "never check for updates" option and nag nag nag to update.

I unintentionally updated multiple times when the nag menu conveniently appeared while I was pressing the keyboard.

The last accident made me firewall Firefox's update program.
I had multiple bad trips on mushrooms where Strange thoughts would enter my mind.. usally happend the second day if i did it again or when i did too little. Also with too little lsd it just gives you time to Think and feel yourself rather than enough and be sweept away by it. Did Perhaps shrooms 50x. With 2cb it was Strange and I just had to accept that the Ground below me wasent really crawling with snakes and it was also beautifull. With changa every trip is everything ... its scary its a bad trip and the Best trip ever, Ive made ot myself and given it away under my supervision now 76 times/hours and many go through a Very scared part before they feel the love abd beauti of it ... Perhaps 10 percent even the experienced ones who did All other stuff. Thats Why i tripsit and make them accept and enjoy but otherwise try to make it an undisturbed private thing. Most scary i did was mandrakeroot Where we Two of us did it a day apart but became almost possessed and drawn to eachother to fight for No aparent reason.
As it happens, we have figured out a way to reduce population growth: education. Educated people tend to have less kids. Countries with a highly educated population tend to have less population growth, in some cases even having a shrinking population.
Didn't the whole creative coding community pitch a fit when Chrome did this?
Nice, I wrote an NES emulator in Swift once: https://github.com/robb/NES
This series is well written. The speed up is expected due because you're incorporating second-order information during the optimisation. For more insight into second order optimisation methods, take a look at Newton's method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_method. The intuition, derivation, and proof of correctness and convergence speed are quite illuminating.
Don't make assumptions about people's lives.

I'm far from rich and am on a not-even-competetive UK dev salary. I still and pick and choose which companies to work for based on whether they align with my personal principles. It's not like there's only one company to work for.
Too Soon for Emoji URLs?
Agreed. I had a 2009 iMac with 640GB (7200 rpm) disk and 4 GB ram. I swapped to a smaller (250 GB) SSD and upgraded to 8 GB ram and it's like a new machine for me--a great upgrade.
"Grab" only in the sense of "not leaving" when it would have been appropriate to do so.
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Where you stand really depends on where you sit.

My wife recently became an agent, and prior to that I was all about disrupting the industry.

But I’ve come to see the 3% on each side as an almost market clearing price. It’s really hard work, with low barriers to entry, and significant upfront costs.

In a tight market, being a buyers agent can be a blessing or a curse. She’s been working with one client for nearly a year, submitting over 20 offers and going all over the metroplex with nothing to show for it. On the other hand, she’s had buyers who found something within a month. It works out to a decent standard of living, but it takes a long time to develop a pipeline. Most agents quit within a year.

I’m all for disruption, and it’s an industry with a lot of legacy, slow moving players. Buts it also a complex one with lots of challenges on the individual agent level.
My org (15 developers or so) uses Node for everything except one project which requires C++, and we swapped to Go for two major project backends. I wouldn’t say we made the move since it was only one team out of 3 or 4 and nobody has attempted a new backend in Go since then, but anecdotally we have JS devs interested and trying out the prospect.

The only real problems we had little to do without Go itself and more to do with others willingness to try it or learn it. The projects it was used in were quite successful and by comparison have been very stable.
How do you enforce laws in international waters on foreign flagged ships?
They're barely profitable because they're aggressively expanding and buying/building new infrastructure. Tesla would have been profitable years ago if they had decided to just stick to building the Model S, but they have much bigger plans.
Yes, Australia and New Zealand are not the US and as such do not share its free speech laws and "free speech culture(/history)." This current situation is interesting though because from what I can tell, there hasn't been any government action yet, just private ISPs taking action with their own infrastructure. This is all sort of uncharted territory and it seems like nobody's sure how to go about solving these complex issues, yet ISPs are taking preemptive action of their own accord. (I agree that if an ISP in the US were to do something like this, it would be one hell of a shitshow, again due to legal and cultural differences.)

With regards to the 2017 Republican baseball practice shooting, I do think there should have been more of a conversation about online radicalization after the fact. I'm not saying legal action should have taken place or ISPs should have started DNS-blocking websites, because a.) again, cultural and legal differences compared to NZ/Australia and b.) because there was no convenient scapegoat to point fingers at. When "right-wing" violence happens, it's very easy to say, "ah see! 4chan and 8ch at it again," because everyone basically agrees that those websites contain "right-wing" hatred. Yet, "left-wing" hatred is and has been, for some reason, allowed to take place on most major social media websites and discussion platforms, largely uncriticized. Plus, it's undeniable that this has dramatically increased in recent years, since about 2015 especially, for obvious reasons.

So you have blatant, largely unimpeded "left-wing" hatred allowed to happen out in the open on most of the Internet, while "right-wing" hatred is forced off mainstream platforms and onto fringe sites like Gab, 4chan, and 8ch... so when "far-right" extremists commit acts of violence, it's easy to say, "See, these fringe websites where all this hatred is being espoused? We should do something about them!," but when "far-left" extremists commit acts of violence, there's no easy targets to place the blame on, because the hatred happens just about everywhere and is for some reason considered to be more or less socially acceptable.

It's hard to argue that "radicalization" due to online information and opinion dissemination is anything but a major cause for concern and something that we should be investigating and having frank discussions about, but in order to do so, the discussions have to be actually frank and encompass the entire situation, something which few if any are willing to actually do. Our physical human forms have not evolved to intuitively grapple with the consequences of the existence of the Internet[0], yet just about everyone uses it every day. We should dig deep and really examine this at some point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
That is the most pessimist comment on this thread.

Javascript is useful, it is just a shame most people dont use it for good.
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i can't read. thank you
It asked how many possible choices are there, 000 through 999 is 1000 choices, just as there are 10 numbers between 0 and 9 inclusive. (Yes, the Q also said each digit must be unique, hence the real answer is 720).

Anyway - IMO this is a terrible question.
See also:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/b2ro7k/n...

This official announcement [0] from last year (and HN discussion [1]) about AI image reconstruction seems related, though this new sketch-to-photorealistic demo seems next-level by comparison.

[0] https://news.developer.nvidia.com/new-ai-imaging-technique-r...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16903821
Why would a blur filter require a lot of RAM? It's a convolution isn't it? Shouldn't require any RAM at all.
I was bitten by one of our cats a while back and assumed that I didn't need treatment.

A couple of days later the wound didn't look to good and I wasn't feeling too well and I went to our local NHS "Minor Injury Unit" who rapidly redirected me to the full Accident & Emergency department where I was X-rayed and prepped for surgery within about 20 minutes! Was told I would be in hospital for at least a week - fortunately was out after only 3 days although I was getting intravenous antibiotics in both arms at once for a while.

Turns out cat bites can be very nasty - I since spoke to a nurse who told me she knew someone who lost a leg to a domestic cat bite.
Truly in the Steve Jobs spirit.
I like the idea that the 200 line event dispatching state atom is more over-engineered than a framework that works off wrapped "observable" objects and uses ES6 proxy magic (MobX). Do proxies work in IE11? Didn't think you could just polyfill them.
I have pretty unsurprising compile jobs that I run locally in a normal working day that could be run concurrently and make useful work of at least 256 GB. Instead I have to run them sequentially and they take forever. I have enough cores, not enough RAM.
I couldn't buy a house without a realtor even though its a house that found myself and was paying 100% cash. 3%-3% is a lot of money if I don't use any service from a realtor.
That law nearly convinced me vaccines were dangerous (after all, why do you otherwise need the law), but the issue is that juries were far too eager to award damages for useless cases, so it would have been unprofitable to make vaccines.
Assigning a value to things that can be duplicated with zero cost (i.e. copyright and IP) is a great cultural achievement.

Human creations (physical or non-physical) should rank higher than land (which no one created but still irrationally claims).
Why not use serde instead of rolling your own "Savable"?

Also you should use Rc/Arc and Weak (along with RefCell/Mutex if needed) instead of the unsafe pointers. Even better, if possible, move the functions that access multiple components to the object that holds them all, and don't use any "smart pointers". Another possible design is to pass borrowed references explicitly to the methods, and add them to the trait signatures where needed.

Regarding memory access, it's probably fastest to have an hardcoded fast path for RAM and ROM, and then process the rest like now. Lookup tables might help as well (as long as all the data including them fits in cache, of course).
to truly understand this revolution, you'd have to be existing at the moment of it's conception. you were not, so you have a half-baked plan.
I wonder if this is because the people in companies currently using open source aren't people with control over the purse-strings. They're the people focused on getting a product out the door.

The marketing department on the other hand, expects to have to pay to put the company name on things. So naturally, they'd be happy being listed as a partner, sponsor, patron, etc.