skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The following additional packages will be installed:
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That's a lot, but it does work well.
And a lot of times, these are the people writing confidently on the internet about web development. Problem with programming is most of the people in the community are amateurs and they communicate via the internet. And on the internet, no one knows you are dumb.
A moral hazard happens when an entity is somehow insured against something (e.g. health insurance), so is rationally more likely to behave in some "bad" way (e.g. driving recklessly).

I'm not seeing how this a moral hazard, do you just mean "immoral"?
I don't see your comment as joke/low-effort in this context. Facebook has repeatedly shown itself to be so morally bankrupt that such "jokes" reflect reality, and aren't jokes anymore. With impending regulation that will attempt to control and/or break up Facebook, this move is yet another sign that the company has no soul left in it.
> Did what I say hold up?

No ;)

> If the basketball was of energy 1 quantum, if the energy used to observe is 1 quantum or more the (shining light to see the result in realtime)

How would we observe the light that bounced off the basket ball? Would we need to hit it with another light in order to detect where that light is? How would we detect that second particle of light; would we hit it with a third? And so on.

The answer is that we don't need to shine light to see the basketball. We can detect the basketball itself; for example, if the basketball were representing a photon of light, we could cover the wall with photomultiplier tubes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photomultiplier_tube )

As sibling comments have pointed out, the parent is wrong in saying that observing the wall will change the pattern. Rather, it's observing the slits that will change the pattern.

If we don't observe the slits, but we do mark the point on the wall where the basketball hits, and we do this over and over again, then the marks on the wall will show an interference pattern. Note that we're not throwing anything at the basketball: we're just waiting for it to hit the wall on its own. Also note that the marks themselves don't change anything; we could note them down on some paper instead, or type them into a spreadsheet, or whatever.

What if we do observe the slits, e.g. by putting a baseball in one and a cricket ball in the other? In this case, we'll detect the basketball hitting the wall and either a baseball or cricket ball. After many goes, the pattern on the wall made by the basketball will have two peaks (one in front of each slit), not an interference pattern. This seems analogous to your 'bounce a photon off it' explanation.

However, what if we got rid of the cricket ball? Half the time we would detect the baseball hitting the wall too, the other half we wouldn't (when the basketball went through the other slit). Yet the basketball will still make the two-peak-no-interference pattern, even though we didn't interact with it half of the time!

In fact, we could randomise which slit we put the baseball in, and mark only those goes that the basketball didn't hit the baseball, and we would still see two peaks without an interference pattern, even though those basketballs didn't hit anything (they always went through empty slits)!

This hopefully shows that your explanation (known as the observer effect) doesn't explain the interference pattern in the double-slit experiment.
To be brutally honest, I hate CNN even more than I hate what this story is about.
Formal specifications aren't only useful for proving properties of programs. They can also be useful for providing definitive answers to questions about example program behavior which is useful for regular programmers.

For example the Herd tool kit can take small concurrent programs with some constraints and a memory model and then answer whether any executions are possible.

http://diy.inria.fr/doc/herd.html

Alternately there is the online tool for the same purpose for ARMv8:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sf502/regressions/rmem/
Firewalls don’t only block traffic, they throttle it, log it, and shape it. The US/Facebook firewall is further up the stack than China’s and is more stealthy so rarely blocks any content.
It's not arbitrary but nor is it very scientific. It's an informed guess from an interested punter.

The last time I heard figures, it cost around $3300 in electricity for a given mining farm to mine a bitcoin on average.

That cost will go up and down based on the number of people mining but in my observation the cost of mining is usually pretty close to the value of a bitcoin. I can't prove that that isn't coincidence, but to me it makes sense. If the value of bitcoins goes up, people will online mining farms as it becomes profitable in areas with more expensive electricity, and the difficulty will go up. If the price drops, people offline their mining farms.

On the other hand, the approximate cost of mining a bitcoin is public knowledge since the current block difficulty is public knowledge. Anyone buying large amounts of bitcoin can make very accurate estimates of a miners profit margins with nothing more than the miners IP address and the block difficulty, which puts miners on the back foot for negotiation.

When it comes to the profit margin of miners, one component is the electricity price, but the other is amortizing the cost of the mining hardware. Graphics cards are relatively cheap ($200-800 depending), but ASICs can go for upwards of $12000-$15000. As the number of mining farms goes up, the pressure on mining hardware manufacturers to maintain a steady supply of mining hardware increases. If they cannot do so, the cost of replacement mining hardware increases and starts to eat into profits. If the supply gets too short, the cost of replacing the hardware can become so high that the real profit post-amortization is flagrantly not worth the effort, particularly in places with expensive electricity. Miners who are in it for the money usually want to see their profit completely amortize the cost of their hardware within three months of buying it. If it takes longer than that, you're straight up gambling that the current price won't drop before you can make a profit. GPU miners also often replace their cards on a 3 month cycle and sell the second hand ones on for gamers to use, which helps with the amortization situation.

My spitball estimate is that if ASICs remain dominant, $4000/BTC is the equilibrium point of it being profitable in some places but not others and the number of miners balancing the supply and cost of ASICs such that ASICs can be replaced at a steady rate without supply problems and still pay for themselves before they burn out or become obsolete due to a new generation of ASICs being developed.

$400 is the same spitball estimate, but assuming that ASICs fall out of favor, the difficulty drops, and all those etherium GPU rigs start moonlighting with bitcoin on the side.
Siri needs an Internet connection to do anything.
Why do they call it webassembly if it doesn't even have goto.
Please do not take this conversation off topic. It is against the rules.

We are distinguishing "social credit scores" from "credit scores". If you would like to argue why they are in fact the same, then that is on topic. But if you are going to assert that they are different and continue off on a tangent then you are going off topic. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you are not trolling, but there's plenty of evidence to suggest that you are.
How low is ultra-low-latency that it's relevant for sports? Does anyone really care if their broadcast is 30 seconds delayed from live?

I subscribe to both Formula 1 and MotoGP online streaming services and couldn't care less if the broadcasts were even multiple minutes delayed. They may very well be already and I wouldn't know. As far as I can tell they both just use standard CDNs delivering DASH or similar (basically just short video files played in sequence).

That seems more than enough for sports. Multiple minutes may result in getting real time information from elsewhere (e.g., Twitter, local radio) but anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds seems fine.
Do you have evidence? Or is this just speculation?
In my opinion Paint is one of the best ever examples of good software UI & UX.

It's so simple and obvious how to use it - all the most important controls are right there to hand and the few slightly more advanced features are easily discoverable in a well organised, fairly flat menu system. You can literally figure out every function either by intuition or very quick trial and error.

It uses skeuomorphism and icons wonderfully to make everything absolutely clear in form and function, even for a very novice user.

And - I think this is an important - it deals with images as a 2D grid of pixels without any abstractions on top. No semi-3D overlapping 'layers', etc. In keeping it simple, they give the user maximum control over the image with no abstractions to get in the way.

In all sincerity, I think it should be a case study in simple, right-tool-for-the-job UX and UI design.
It's not absolutely impossible in Toronto, but that's at the very top end of the scale.
Consistent with the reputation they've carefully built with the Supermicro story.
Well I'm a software engineer at an automotive tech company who interfaces with all the big OEM's daily so I'm gonna go ahead and say I'm very familiar. But that's not a reason you know, that's just you diverting.
> I've heard stories of mid to high level managers crying in bathrooms because of poor reviews from their reports.

Is this your idea of an engineering nirvana? Does engineering happiness have to come at the expense of manager happiness?
> It delegated all of that to X windows and user space drivers.

and

> Further slowing down progress is X-Windows. X is the graphical interface for essentially all Unix derived desktops (all other competitors died decades ago).

I'm confused. What's "X windows" and "X-Windows?" Is he talking about the X Window System?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
"You eat with the eyes first" is a common cross-cultural idiom. I'm not saying it justifies the waste, just that it's probably an evolved human behavior that we're stuck catering to. At least there is a counter-culture ugly produce movement right now.
This article was posted below: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/04/23/52...

The facial recognition prevented Bah from recovering his account. He was accused, and I believe arrested, multiple times. Despite being proven innocent time and time again.

If I understood this article correctly, the thief did not always sign in/show an ID. Sometimes the facial recognition just tied the man to the stolen ID. The CCTV did help prove his innocence, when it wasnt misteriously missing, but the facial recognition, was in fact a problem.
Greenshot [1] is a great open source Windows screenshot utility for the workflow you describe. Prt Scr, select region, editor opens with screenshot where you can add boxes, arrows, etc. and save, copy to clipboard, etc. Like MS Paint, it is lightweight and focused in a way few Windows programs are these days.

[1] https://github.com/greenshot/greenshot/
Truly stupid idea
I thought rats are meant to flee sinking ships rather than board them!

Sorry - could not resist the joke!
Yeah, it's hard to be a conscientious objector when you never put yourself into the position of working for a company whose goals you need to object to.
There are two public figures who lie almost every time they move their lips: Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
These all[1], along with the general concept of a loss leader, are instances where a company is leveraging patent or protected data laws in an unintended manner to set up a moat against competition - as this is anti-competitive all these examples should be examined to see to what extent are preventing free enterprise - printer toner is a particularly egregious example of using device lock down to prevent a legitimate use of a product.

[1] Except banks and toasters which is... a weird example case
I think you can deduce some things from the projects people are willing to work on. If I was a lawyer say, I wouldn't have worked on it (and I categorically reject work on privacy violating systems as a software engineer), because it would feel to me like doing my part in enabling a surveillance system that is very, very, objectionable. So at least what we can say I guess is that she doesn't mind doing that.

And I think the same goes for multi-millionaires. I would not hire a tax-dodging rich individual (optimization is a nice euphemism), and particularly not when I run a business where that is in conflict with the alleged values of the business.
Vertical integration, or cutting out the ‘middle-man’ is not in and of itself illegal.

What might be illegal would be selling products at a loss to drive others away.
The problem with that argument is that they can just call themselves developers and nothing would change. Currently, "software engineer" doesn't mean anything. There is no credential that obligates software engineers to the same standards as other engineers or more than developers. Right now it's just an empty title in the tech industry.

It's not a restricted word. It's a restricted accredation that, should one carry it, obligates them to a certain set of standards and accountability.

The people making those apps don't need to call themselves engineers. They can call themselves developers. And the world will keep spinning. But a developer calling themselves an engineer is like a local contractor calling themselves a "residential engineer". An engineer can be a local contractor, but a local contractor can't simply call themselves an engineer, of any sort, unless they're accredited. That distinction matters because engineers have obligations that they are held to that a local contractor doesn't. That's the point.
Razer’s Upgrades Blade 15 for 2019: OLED 4K Screen
OKRs are how MBAs force the company to pretend their business degree is adding value.

Google+ was famous for always having the bigliest OKRs while being an albatross of a product sucking the life and talent out of the company's products
Prop 13 will never be repealed, especially not with housing prices the way they are now. If you want to see one issue unite every single demographic with great vengeance and furious anger, then try to take on prop 13.
Have you used Photoshop lately? There are many new, modern features for selection, content aware erasing, scaling, filling, HDR graphics, 3D, text, computational layers, etc. Get a 30-day trial and try it!
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> (Fuck proprietary drivers though, and fuck Nvidia.)

I love nVidia's drivers. They "just work" and I don't need to muck about trying to understand why this version of this video driver doesn't play right with that version of drm or this kms setting.

Don't get me wrong, there are benefits to being a proper, native component of a modular display system. But what's the point if none of them work, only support random subsets of the hardware, and crash left and right?
Tesla gives first look at new Roadster back seats and door system
Somehow this seems like a homecoming... Facebook was funded in part by the CIA's In-Q-Tel investment arm.

See e.g. https://dailyreckoning.com/revealed-facebooks-cia-connection...
Yeah, my first thought was, "why would you spend that much on a domain name?" Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, all could have done just as well with different domain names.

However, I guess it did function as a sort of method of brainstorming business ideas.
Roads are already moving to your system, Massachusetts did a couple years ago, for example.

https://www.mass.gov/service-details/learn-more-about-ezdriv...
It's not quite my idea of an engineering nirvana, no. I'm not sure where you got that impression.
Bravo. I love his approach and his analogy with fictional characters. Such a wonderful way to view your work - stop trying to force it and let it tell you what it wants to be.
So allow for everything but also have rules for everything?
> the large majority (85%) of people have health insurance

From row 200 of that table, looks like you're reading off the "Covered by some type of health insurance during the year" (85%) column. This is ambiguous. It could mean there was at least some period during the year where you had some sort of coverage. Or it could mean that you had some coverage for the entirety of the year.

Which is it?
Two good substitutes arose! The Microsoft Windows operating system's window manager, and the Apple OSX Window Manager.
You think a one-character change is such a major project that there's just no way to get it done inside of a month?

Because every other part of the change can be implemented without reference to what the era name happens to be.
Mostly C, some python. I spent more and more time on rust and golang these days.
Compared to many companies where managers make a lot of decisions in a room with no feedback given to or received from engineers, it's heck of a lot better.

A very substantial point actually.
There are also crates to use JavaScript inline in Rust. Rust also has fairly complete bindings to the DOM APIs that can be used when targetting web assembly :)
I don't think prop13 needs to be repealed entirely, just changed so it only applies to the owner's primary home.

Then prop 13 will meet its ostensible purpose -- so the elderly don't get forced out of their homes by taxes, while those that own investment properties pay taxes on the market value of their property.

(note that I say this as someone that owns a couple rental properties in the California and benefit from Prop 13)
At least he/she is kind enough to let us know his age.
I don't think it would unite homeowners with non-homeowners.
There’s a couple costs missing from your analysis. One is the individual’s cost of being dependent on staying in the good graces of large employers. Second, the societal cost of large employers having a competitive advantage due to being able to offer taxpayer subsidized healthcare at lower prices. In the short term, your calculations are correct, for yourself. In the long term, you’re continuously losing negotiating power.

And all of that ignores the biggest cost, which is living in a society where we blatantly don’t care about other citizens and their families being destroyed by health issues. The middle class thinks they have a lot to lose, but they’ve already lost it and are hanging on by a thread.
The US actually banned the slave trade the same year. Slaves didn't become fully emancipated in Britain until 1838 or so.
I still think a steering wheel should be a full wheel. Being designed this way means that an user has to put her hands always at the same location.
I'm very uncomfortable with how we are importing Chinese censorship into our lives, due in part to tech companies needing to build services that can operate in both regions.

At an object level, it's an important point to make and re-iterate.

On a meta-level, I am annoyed at how much special pleading I see from the NYtimes about the evils of tech, while it's simply par for the course for -- say -- Finance to act with near impunity when managing, fund raising, and dealing with autocratic and communist regimes.
Not to defend X, because it's awful, but Apple never made that choice. They inherited that choice from NeXT. And at the time that the engineers at NeXT made that choice (mid-late 80s) standardization of X11 was by no means assured.
The hottest of takes /s.
Oh, ok, I had no idea. Thanks.
Except if you screw up and cut the cable too short it's going to really hurt your finances, and maybe more importantly, your time to market. There's quite a lot of risk involved but I guess a big enough budget can help mitigate some of that.
Would you happen to have a table of contents
> In this instance, Apple must have run FaceID from images from the recordings that show the thefts.

But again - we have zero proof of that.

> They certainly did it for one person.

They might well have done but nothing in the reporting of this story has any kind of evidence that this happened!
I know people who did this. They were a nice well-behaved family, though a bit clueless about some things. Converting to add an apartment exposed them to stuff that hadn't really been a part of their world, like prostitution and drugs. Yep, renters ran that out of the apartment.

The downsides are real. If you dislike having police raid your house in the middle of the night, this isn't for you.
This deserves way more than 4 upvotes.
Why not? Our cities are built around widespread use of multi ton "killing machines", where walkability is often sacrificed so that cars become the only realistic option.
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You’re joking right? We’ve never had parking just because. It’s always been there to serve the needs of whatever it’s next to. In the case of retail, it’s to support the shops, period.

We’ve had mechanically metered parking since the 1940s, and manually paid for parking before that. Something has to pay for all that concrete.
Repeal would be devastating to existing home owners who have been in their houses for more than a few years - what would this solve?
I did coding livestreams and spoke with the audience. The lower latency the better. Others have mentioned control of things, similar idea. HLS over Cloudflare surprisingly beat YouTube and matched Twitch in my side-by-side tests—I built an Open Source self-hosted live streaming system. Currently live sports have about 40-85 seconds of latency and BBC is shooting for 1.5 for the next olympics with ip multicast techniques [1].

1. http://www.wired.co.uk/article/england-vs-croatia-live-strea...
If your friends are watching the same events in other places; you basically need your video to be less delayed than your friends' viewing plus the latency of them texting you (friend observes something, types something, sends, then whatever network and push delay on the way to you).

If you're not watching with someone else, it doesn't make that much difference; but 30 seconds is plenty for someone to cheer for a goal and the notification to distract you from seeing it.