skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> It's only a negotiation if the official has any chance of being prosecuted for that bribe.

I’m not saying it’s fair, but it is a negotiation. There are offers and counteroffers that are accepted and denied.
Bribery and Tip culture are both about public servants being underpaid by the public sector (or by the restaurant sector), and thus it is rationalizing the need for a private economy on top, eg prioritizing certain people and so on.
I'd love to hear as many details about this as you have.
"Indian citizens pay approximately £3 billion (about $4.9 billion) in bribes each year." So with a million government/bribe-able officials in the country, that's $4900 a person, easily a doubling of salary.
Hunter Biden Had Invested in China's Face++
Torvalds is employed by the Linux Foundation.
> If the highway is congested, then the rule becomes meaningless

I don't think this is true. On a German three lane highway you normally have a lane of trucks driving 60 mph, a lane of cars going 80 mph and a line of cars going 100-120 mph. This arrangement follows naturally from "keep right unless passing" since each of the lanes is constantly passing the lane to its right.
I know nothing about "reference grade" monitors. Can anyone comment on the veracity of the only competing product for this new monitor costing $30,000?
Same with Saudi (it says five riyals). Bahrain has the numeral and words for one!
Good point. I really was drawing out the best use case for this note. It could certainly go wrong.
Well, that's cool, but that's comparing Apples to Linux-Oranges, I guess.

I do have a Linux box with a fast Intel CPU and it's nice and fast, but a Mac it ain't. I'm happy to pay more for a Mac machine, if only for the fact that I get an OS with working copy/paste in all applications. I won't be buying the Mac Pro anytime soon, though, I'm not willing to pay that much. But there are people who are and I'm glad there is something being offered there.
More on my work background in my freelance posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20089657
While Germany would be the 5th state by size, it is only 3.6% of the area of the United States.

(Those of us who grew up when there were two Germanies knew it as even smaller - only 2.5% of the US' area...)

I learned this when being berated by my German hosts about the fact that you could at that time mail a letter "anywhere in the country by 4pm" and have it delivered the very next day, as an example of how efficient the Deutsche Post was.

We'd usually make up by drinking some good Weizenbier, so it was all good.
ECC ram can actually be a negative in certain use cases. Recording studios don't like the extra latency the ECC adds for MIDI for example.
HI guys, this is Rish, a mechanical engineer from New York. I am looking for your suggestions over the product. Also in search of an advisor in the same space. Thanks
This business positioning reminds me of what "App.net" did to Twitter a few years back.
There was some sleight of hand in the benchmarking for me too, they compared GPU compute rendering engine speeds to "Nvidia Quadros" when no one doing CUDA rendering on Windows uses Quadro cards, they all use GTX because the price to performance is ridiculous on Octane render/Redshift/etc.
Looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-Mode_Driver_Framework, but for mac.
That's a very accurate description of how it is where I live. But at the end you call it a terrible win-win for everyone. If it's a win-win for everyone how can it also be terrible?
As someone with ADHD, I can say it's nearly impossible for me to read a post split up into tweets like this. Too many comments between each post.

[edit]

someone posted https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1135354815259656192.html elsewhere in the comments, and this is perfectly readable for me.
I can tell you that, after starting almost infinitely broad topic podcast, I think going niche would be better. Seems like the experience gained from a broad podcast will lead me to a niche that may even be a different podcast, but I will have gained experience from the current one.

https://anchor.fm/podcasts/accidentallyfasting
I'm having a hard time finding any info about how this affects iOS / iPadOS app development. Do you still just build & submit once and it targets both platforms?
Why am I being downvoted simply for being happy about this update and that it brings down the learning curve for other engineers?
I’m right here with you. Just built a Win10 machine because of thermal issues. I don’t even mind having a laptop but is it too much to ask to pay iMac prices for mid grade hardware??
A Major Coal Company Went Bust. Its Bankruptcy Filing Shows That IT Was Funding
https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa
Could this be used for better nvidia egpu drivers?
Vivo Guru Tutoriais
Yes because:

1. Apple first failed to update the cheese grater line for years consecutively

2. Then Apple's redesign of the Mac Pro transformed it into a larger Mac Mini trashcan which wasn't really expandable compared to the original cheese grater line. No one asked for that.

There is evidence for demand for a reasonably priced Mac Pro Tower if you look at the Hackintosh community and eBay sales of older cheese grater Mac Pros, but Apple keeps refusing to meet demand.
Another way to say 10G via an SFP+ transceiver, as opposed to 10G via twisted pair.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form-factor_pluggable_tr...

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair
Pretty much. In Facebook's defense, they did grow Instragram from the small app startup it was to the size it is today.

Also while Google+ is a bad example, Snapchat is one where a new entrant to the market was able to grow quickly and go IPO.
I initially thought it was about the Monkey C language: https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/monkey-c/
> It's almost as if the theory that monopolies inevitably grow to take over the world has serious problems :-)

Even if they don't last forever they cause harm while they are around. The theory isn't that monopolies allow companies to last forever but that they prevent competition and harm consumers.
I have the 10.5 in Pro and Apple Pencil 1. I wonder if the 20 ms vs 9 ms is detectable by the human eye.
$1 trillion sounds bad. But divided over 10, 20, 30 years, divided by how many municipalities? And for something as basic and valuable as clean water? Are we just talking about a few percent of most city's water systems' budget?

Characterizing this as categorical failure, with the implication that the whole system should be thrown out and drastic measures taken, seems wrong to me.
There are speed limits on about half the autobahn, mostly for noise control, to improve traffic flow and around construction zones.
I think it very unfair to the original set of word2vec papers to be talking about 'academic dishonesty'. This is a case of a user that has little to no experience with neural networks. There are a ton of articles describing the need for random initialization [1][2]. In fact, if one spends a few seconds thinking about it, the need is evident. Without it, the NN cannot perform symmetry breaking: If inputs are set to zero, all neurons will perform the same calculations, rendering the network useless.

[1] google: "neural networks vector initialization"
[2] http://deeplearning.ai/ai-notes/initialization/
> "[...] Don’t be surprised if they flash their high beams. It’s common and only considered mildly rude. Just move over."

According to the very angry and also very stereotypically German Police officer pulling over me and my friend back in 2017, flashing your lights is in-fact illegal. We were doing approximately 140km/h having just passed the police car in the left lane when someone pulled out ahead of us going much slower forcing us to slam the brakes to avoid hitting them. No blinkers were used on their part and we flashed our lights as we had seen and experienced countless times on our trip to let them know we were coming. We had driven all the way down from the top of Denmark, through Germany, France and Switzerland, down through parts of Italy and were then on the way back up through Germany when this happened so we had seen people flashing their high beams like that countless of times, and it seemed like a good practice if you were going much faster than the people ahead.

My friend was driving at the time and luckily got no ticket and kept his license after getting scolded by the police officer for a good 15 minutes.

No idea if it's actually illegal, but considering of angry the police officer was I'm assuming so. We were confused as to why they stopped us at first, and he kept yelling/asking "what is that? Why do you do that?"

Other then that my experiences driving on the Autobahn (and that whole stretch of road) have been pretty good! Very straight roads of decent quality where they seem to use concrete or something instead of asphalt like they do here in Norway. Someone else mentioned the speed limits kept going up and down over short distances, which I remember as well.

I think the most perplexing thing for us driving on the Autobahn is that you can purchase alcohol, even the stronger stuff, at the gas stations along the way, coming from having a strongly regulated alcohol monopoly system here in Norway where anything stronger than 4,7% alcohol is only available at Vinmonopolet, which is only open specific hours and dribks with a lower percentage are also only available in normal stores within certain hours.

This is turning out to be a much longer comment than I intended.
I'm scared to put anything serious on GCE. One super bill from a DDoS, one tiny billing dispute, something else tiny and unpredictable, etc. Suddenly my entire 10+ years of gmail is gone. Or Google cancels my friend or SO's gmail for whatever Orwellian reason, suddenly my production app is inaccessible or is deleted.

There's too much liability. And no support.
I've been waiting on Apple's Mac Pro announcement to decide if I would be buying their new pro monitor. I have previously owned an Apple Cinema HD Display 30", which was great, but started to show its age over time. I believe it cost me about $2500 at the time. I'm not afraid of spending a lot for a great monitor.

This is $5000, or $6000 with the stand. Oof. I wish there were a cheaper 4K version.

I guess I'll just spend like 10-20% of that price some other 4K monitor.
You almost need a dedicated 15-amp circuit to run this or have 20-amp circuits so you have some overhead for the rest of your electronics (or a cubicle neighbor).

The power supply draws 1280W. A 15-amp circuit provides 1800W, but you are really supposed to keep steady loads at no more than 80%, which is 1440W. I bet some circuit breakers are going to start tripping when these go live.
Then some other academic can get credit for publishing a rigorous paper describing the actual algorithm, explaining why the original paper is wrong (without speculating on the motive, just the facts), and why the approach taken in the code is in fact better. Bonus points for describing a further improvements, with working code.
I don't know about the others, but Instagram's price tag was a tactic tied to raising hype with the public around FB's upcoming IPO - and it worked.
I don't use the features, but I know my Qnap keeps touting IoT so they might be worth checking out as well.

It's also my Plex media server, file server, VPN, I run some containers on there. I used to use it as a print server but my new printer is wireless so I never bothered
I have a recording studio with an iMac as the centerpiece. not buying from another company is really just a matter of aesthetics.
Even without link aggregation (which does generally work quite well), this would allow you to have a dedicated SAN + network solution, which is often very useful.
Ok this is silly but 24K gold is about 40$ per gram. Does anyone know the weight of this stand? Could I make one out of solid gold for that price :)?

Probably not with 24K gold, assuming the stand weighs more than 250g but 6K gold is about 10$/g so it’s still semi-possible :D
What? You develop it using SwiftUI, then you compile it and it will run on whatever you compile it to. So yes, it will run on older OS versions.
I fear this will mean kexts (kernel extensions) will be impossible in the near future, further limiting users' abilities and tightening Apple's control. :(
I'd get rum, cushions and a book delivered under the guise of someone claiming to be fetching money.

edit - and a bundle of zero rupee notes to distribute round the jail, along with half the rum and a promise to send more rum, the quicker I get out.
I also saw this ad, and was amused by one of their perks being "unlimited PTO". The combination of that and "not a lifestyle job" tells you everything you need to know about so-called unlimited time off policies.
This. Have a look at the various Linus Tech Tips videos on their ingestion and editing workflow. There's a reason they upgraded their network to 10Gige and it wasn't for fun.
What's that? I just went to app.net and all I found was a mostly empty map.
Quantum Chromodynamics
How many people actually need an 8 core Xeon vs an i9? Almost none. And that's without taking into account how much extra you're paying just for the hardware you're getting on the base model. I was willing to compromise and pay for workstation hardware just to have macOS, but not at a 2x markup.
The closest I can think of is mobile home manufacturing. Berkshire Hathaway has 52% of the market (up from 17% in 2007).

https://concentrationcrisis.openmarketsinstitute.org/industr...
HG Wells’s Forgotten Fiction
I think you are confusing the executive branch (Justice Dept, etc.) with the legislative branch (e.g., House Judiciary.)

This article is about the former, though the latter has also announced investigations.
I try very hard to give some grace to the "Trump bad in everything" that I hear so much. However, his moronic tweets aside, I see nothing more than normal politicking, and right-of-center governance. The biggest flaw I see is the inability to admit and correct policy problems, which is absolutely not unique to President Trump.
> Would you be comfortable with children or elderly people taking the lane though?

I'm middle aged, a bit overweight and tow two kids in a Burley Bee trailer and still take the lane. It doesn't require one to be able to sustain 25 to 30 mph speeds on flat ground. I go between 8 to 15 mph most of the time.

The only requirement is that they know the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles. The elderly should know that if they have driving experience. Children who are older can be taught these rules. In fact in certain states, 14 year olds are legally allowed to drive and there is an expectation that they know the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles).

> Protected bike infrastructure gets more people cycling, of all ages and abilities

The problem is that when they get to intersections and they presume that they have the right-of-way when they don't or there's not enough time for turning vehicles or vehicles approaching the intersection to see them, they end up getting hit.

> Telling them "you're really safer in the lane" doesn't work to allay their fears,

The fear is not rational. There are people who are afraid of flying despite the fact that, statistically, it's far safer than driving. If they want to fly, then they need to deal with their irrational fear such that they can do so.

> and as the study showed, isn't even true statistically.

The study never made that claim. It did state that there's a correlation between overall traffic fatalities and city blocks with bicycle facilities. It didn't make the claim that bicycle fatalities specifically went down.
Or just selling leftover stock
Honestly these new changes (esp. the second monitor for MacOS support, if it works well) will probably finally get me to buy an iPad. This all looks very good to me. Real file system browser; much better multi-tasking; closer integration with macbook.
They do enforce the limits and they will even seize your car if you are going far over the speed limit.
Film editing kinda makes sense because there is probably a lot of lock in on the software for people who don't like the Adobe monthly charge BS.
You can get iCloud on Windows now https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204301

It's not a great solution, but I'm not paying over $6000 for a Mac Pro.
>Oh, I understand it's a reference-quality, blah, blah, blah, but I just need something to replace an aging Cinema display that was originally $1000.

That section of OP's comment seems to clearly show this understanding.
Highlights from WWDC 2019
That's hardly the point of the article --- the actual paper does not describe the use of two separate vectors for each word. The initialization was an interesting tidbit.
Sounds to me like you're just disregarding anything that doesn't fit your narrative of "both sides support NN". A bunch of subreddit posts are not evidence of anything except the trends of a reddit bubble, however, if you're using subreddit posts to justify your position, I don't understand how you can cherry-pick a single post as evidence, but reject an entire page of posts as "manufactured propaganda". I don't think you're posting in good faith, so at this point I am going to stop the conversation on my side.
Post Pallet B Exam
Anyone remember the question on the Post pallet B exam? If so is it more difficult than the SAT or ACT? And was the passage difficult to understand for reading comprehensions?
That's an education version only mode. Normal users are required to get an iPad for every person that is using it.
These devices are used heavily in telecommunications for transferring data from almost any model device to another. Very useful when customers transfer from an old Nokia to say a brand new iPhone.
right, another one to ban
All sides have won in a way. Those who wanted to take Bitcoin in a direction most users didn't want to go now have their own network and block chain to make with what they will.

The split has also highlighted the complex tangle of factors that makes Bitcoin work. That mix has proven extremely difficult to replicate, with both Bitcoin SV and Bitcoin Cash competing for users, miners, developers, and popular press attention in a market jam-packed with Bitcoin-wannabes.
I assume you mean Visual Basic, since Visual Studio was geared towards C/C++. Unless you actually used the MFC designer in VS5/6, which never really worked that well for me.
Yeah I see all these iPad pros with the stock home screen apps... I’m thinking man what did you buy it for
I don't think people actually use the note though. I don't see anyone having guts to give that note to policemen or government officials in India.

Everyone in India just like the US is scared of the Police and know not to mess with them.
Just sets the tone for the culture fit.

What they describe is the reality for most small tech businesses, other companies just lie about it for recruitment purposes and then subject employees to various pressures to make more commitments. This just cuts through that and there are people available for it and it saves everyone a little time.

All these operations are based on getting your job done in an optimal time.
There is also much software that is complete garbage. If the ones with $500k TC are writing decent software, then those making $100k may be writing the garbage.
After the iTunes calendar joke I actually thought when the launch video started it was another joke about the old cheesegrater design and was going to show an actual cheesegrater, until it cut and made it clear it was a real video.
I wanted to provide you all with an update on the postmortem I promised on Friday. Our analysis has been completed. We will be sharing the full document soon and will publish a link in this thread for those wanting to read it. We promised Raisup a first look and we have provided the draft document to them this afternoon. Because some information in the document could be considered sensitive we wanted to give Raisup a chance to review the document before sharing with the public.
2019 big tech innovation is basically finding ways to ensure only they have access to your data
Keep in mind your Thinkpad probably doesn't have ECC RAM, probably can't accept 2 TB of RAM, and doesn't have a Xeon processor.

This is a workstation for complex engineering/design/research use, not a general purpose desktop. You buy a workstation when you need as much compute power and expandability as possible, irregardless of price.

You can find similar workstations on the PC side as well (e.g. a Lenovo P920 or HP Z840). And they tend to be roughly as expensive.
I think these initiatives are great. But they lack a tiny bit of thought to pass the hurdle of adoption.
That company in particular has only 2 employees right now (the founders).

With respect to this particular company, I only know them from trying their product, so I wouldn't necessarily make any assumptions around comp when the data doesn't exist yet. Presumably the early employee offers are generous in equity. Usually founding team means high equity, and the company is pretty green as well. They have just raised a $1.9M Series A and they presumably have revenue coming in from their current customers. It's good that they are upfront about the stage.

I think this kind of job can be good for someone who wants to go all-in on their career, potentially right out of school (see their student loan repayment perk), and compress years of learning down to learn things several times faster than a bigger startup and tens to hundreds of times faster than a big company. Seed stage can be extremely fun and rewarding but of course there is increased risk of burnout. Another reason to consider this type of opportunity is if the company or problem they're solving is obsessively interesting to you (e.g., you'd consider founding your own company in the space).

Bottomless is having real scaling pains right now. They have initial traction but their software needs help. As a user, I get the impression from a quality perspective that they've outsourced initial development. There are bugs going unfixed for weeks and months. My first experience with their product was okay: there is potential, but the scale and first coffee arrived weeks late so I had to buy coffee from somewhere else when the projections were missed more than once. They are clearly overwhelmed right now. The second experience was bad: my credit card was charged overnight by surprise for a product I didn't want with the sole warning and option to opt out of the charge occurring overnight < 8 hours beforehand while I was sleeping, then my card being charged before I woke up, then they refused to cancel the shipment and put up a fight refunding to my card. (Their recurring shipping does not run on a fixed calendar schedule so the customer has to rely on the business to notify them of when it determines new orders will be created.) Though I pointed out that this process is unreasonable and also does not match what is listed on their website ("12-24 hours notice"… which is still too low especially when traveling), they did not offer to or issue the refund initially without me being extremely persistent and I had to fight with them for it. They could really use people focusing on these kinds of challenges full time to make the product / service better. I am going to give their product another chance because I like the concept, but for a software engineer interested in this space I'd imagine they're offering an opportunity with significant product ownership given how clearly strained they are right now, how much needs to be built, and their fresh funding.
And yet there are still swaths of HN commenters claiming that people would surely support paid, ad-free alternatives to YT, if only they existed.

Well, this is try two. Think people will still try to claim it’s a viable model over ads after this one?
Because people are getting away with ignoring the law, and in turn that makes bad laws more transparent, which in turn give people even more incentives to bribe their way out of situations.

Bribes are also tax-exempt.