skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is false centrism.

The 'science' side is perfectly prepared to accept any compelling data about risks or hazards. In many cases, these are the same people that have raised the alarm on various pollutants or environmental risks. But they don't say that about glyphosate because .. there's no evidence. It's just not there. All the terrible evils that this compound is supposed to have, such powerful effects, would be easy to see in controlled studies. Even small effects that are nonetheless epidemiologically relevant are well within what is detectable.

Instead, what you get is a bunch of certifiable bullshit like Seralini, that Samsel guy linked above, etc. Stuff that is objectively bad science, so far beyond what is on the margin that it beggars belief.

It's crap.

The 'science' folk may seem a little defensive, and that's because we absolutely are. We care deeply about science and epistemology. We don't take kindly to liars, and there are an awful lot of them who take up this torch for whatever reason.
"It is slow and uses a lot of memory, but it only requires operations that are implemented for many array types(...)"

Would

@einsum c[i,j] = a[i,k] * b[k,j]

be slower than direct matrix multiplication?
"In reality, you're not a woman, we're just pretending because we're polite" isn't a very pro-trans stance.
My favourite setup is an HPz620 v2 with e5-xxxxv2 CPUs, and >= 64 gigs of ram.

Basically any workstation with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2650 V2, or the L variant (lower power) will do.

for example:

1 x HP Z620 Grade A - 800W - V2

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2650 V2 - 8-Core 2.60Ghz (20MB Cache, 8.00GTs, 95W)

1 x HP Z420, Z620 - Heatsink

1 x HP Z620 2nd CPU Riser Board, Fan & Heatsink

8 x 8GB - DDR3L 1333MHz (PC3L-10600R, 2RX4, ECC REG)

1 x 2TB - SATA (7.2K, 3G) HDD - Major Brand

You'll need a new graphics card and an SSD, but that is £750 inc vat. this means you can spend £500 on an nvidia RTX, and get a 6k monitor.
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> I watched a TV program here in Japan a couple weeks ago where...

Boy did that go a completely different route than I expected. Television from Japan has some very strange programs.
They didn't get into heavy-handed moderation early on for a very good reason. Now they are seeing why. Once you do it for some groups you have to do it for everyone.

There's no winning this battle of censorship, it will never be enough for the mob. While the other half is saying it's too far. And a small percentage of crazies becomes even more convinced of a global conspiracy. And the actual extremists will use their banning to justify why they were right to be extremist in the first place.

They should have stopped at people promoting violence, spam, and other obvious illegal stuff. Jumping into being the central body that moderates what is 'acceptable speech' online is minefield riddled crazy town with very little real ROI. Which will hopefully quicken Facebook's decline.
Exactly; this is the only way I travel now. I have two backpacks, a large "travel backpack" that fits in carry-on, and a smaller one that holds my laptop and some other stuff and fits under the seat in front of me. The smaller one clips onto the larger one when I need to carry it around, and then when I've left the large one at my hotel/hostel, it becomes my daypack to hold a raincoat, souvenirs, brochures, etc.

In many places, hotels have laundry facilities. Every place I stayed in Japan had them, so it was easy to just bring enough clothes for 4 days and do laundry every so often.

I'll also add that any kind of roll-around luggage is a giant PITA if you're in Europe, because the streets and sidewalks are largely cobblestones.
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> And all the above change noticeably every 200KM

And if you are in a dense enough area, it can change every 2km, when accounting for differences in socially conditioned dialects and customs.
Funny how last XKCD refers to NPR and comment sections: https://xkcd.com/2159/
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I love my 4770k, on air mine hits 4.4ghz stable.
Departments pay differently, but it is not uncommon that protests pay overtime and that picking up extra shifts in 'normal' work also pays overtime. Such things that pay overtime may be providing security at a parade, may be going into a school for education, may be going to a confrence, etc. Typically, any time you see an officer in uniform, they are getting compensated for that. This is VERY dependent on department, but it is typically not difficult to make much more than 60k.
Thank you for offering this, that's very nice of you!
There are all sorts of flaws in the analogies here; that's why they're analogies, not identities.

That said, I'm not quite sure I understand your point. A speaker in physical space can pretty easily take their speech elsewhere; most obviously to the nearest public street corner. So moving away from a private venue typically does not require anything nearly as drastic as "moving to another state/region".

I'd really like to understand your point and how it applies to both the mall and youtube situations, though, and would appreciate you explaining it if you have the time.
The title would not misfit a public newspaper shouting for attention at the kiosk.

Most of the article goes on about stolen MD identities used to pose as a doctor, making false claims. Your stolen data is only worth pocket money it seems. Not to say the danger is real and your data should be protected and in your control at all times.

The interesting part is I suspect older systems pose a greater threat than new systems centrally storing information in cloud-on-premise or cloud environments. The lengths we go these days to separate actual observations or data from the PII bits in fear of a hack make it so the hacker has to hack at least two, but more likely three or more separate systems these days. Two of which typically should not be exposed outside the VPC/DMZ. I sure hope this article, or similar ones, will not be used by parlements and countries to slow down innovations even further. There is already enough trouble slowing down innovation in Healthcare as it is today.

Let's not fear this but see it as motivation to do our utmost best to protect your data forcing innovation to get rid of all the legacy systems that still live in the world. And while we are at it, use your anonimized data (with consent) to improve the quality of care, lower cost of care and improve patient experience and outcomes.
I'm sure there's a few people for whom this makes sense, but mostly people are either:
1) disciplined and/or organized enough to just exercise, or
2) not disciplined and/or organized enough to keep doing Peloton

But, I suppose the real question is, how many do they actually need in order to be profitable? If 1 person in 1,000 is enough, which would be 300,000+ people in the U.S., then maybe they could do all right.

Now, if some VC fund threw 50 billion dollars at them and insisted they try to grow to Facebook size, then this will never work.
Top YT comment ( and I agree ) :

This is absolutely priceless footage. To show this level of detail and remembering that we are talking about an engineering process developed during the early 1940s and under war time conditions is incredible. There are just too many technical details which are fascinating to be mentioned - the whole process is a real testament to the brilliance of everyone involved.
Yup. Southern and present day Eastern Pakistan is extremely similar to northern India given how the region was artificially divided. For example, India Punjabis and Pakistani Punjabis have way more in common than say Indian Punjabis and other neighboring states like Rajasthan, Bihar, etc.
> radical Islam basically just wants you to convert

Then what do you call actual radical islam that preaches death to all infidels, women honor killings and unending war-on-the-west, among other equally grotesque actions?
You can also set up rules like *@example.com, leading to addresses like hn@example.com.
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You are not alone. I had the same confusion at first glance.
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So I can get my useless bullshit faster and cheaper!
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This is super cool, well done OP! It looks like you've got some pretty in depth and interesting articles around the rest of your site too. Big props to you and everyone else who puts themselves out there and works to create something that helps others.
And yet they’re not taking down Crowder’s homophobic videos??
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It looks like they don't have the Onliner Spambot database, as my email is not flagged but when I look at the haveibeenpwned website it flags for this spam list.
If you had something that good I'd find someone on twitter or locally who would read it and if it was good send it to someone they knew who could help get it published. And if they thought it was good they could forward it on to people. Basically building up a chain of trust via vouching.
I thought censorship was never good? Now it's sometimes good except when it's based on "political ideologies," except for whatever example I bring up next, which of course is another exception.
But you are also right that it is not a huge difference :) In no-optimization mode, it keeps the imul in for Multiply. the result is 1.2477 vs. 1.2668, relative to Noop.

The site is really cool, thanks for pointing me to it!
> Doesn't AWS have already a Postgres-like database with RDS but also with DynamoDB?

They have actual managed Postgres with RDS for Postgres, and also a Postgres-compatible (SQL dialect and wire protocol) version of RDS Aurora.
Do you have a comprehensive and viable plan to pay for costs? If it involves getting enough donations, does your plan include a viable way to optimize donations? Simply including a donation link, bitcoin addresses, etc, is NOT a comprehensive plan for that. I see only 2 patrons, zero ETH donations, zero BTC donations, despite what appears to be a considerable amount of work put into this.

Any plans to partner with someone who specializes in marketing or otherwise running the non-technical side of things? You'll attract more interested parties (including potential partners with expertise) by having a higher percentage of what you're presenting, something that looks like it's made by a winning team.
You do realize vinegar (acid) is a human killer right? Too much water is a human killer, too much sun is a human killer. Science typically starts with a hypothesis and tests it. Starting with the hypothesis that roundup is dangerous for humans is logical because we already know it is not safe for other forms of life.
A series of articles in mainstream publications does tend to make you recalculate profit implications. Since their ToS and its enforcement are so consistently fuzzy, they can just follow where the wind is blowing.
The MTAs do. Many a website won't allow you to use this syntax for a user registration.
well, obviously. This was always pretty clear to anyone who put some serious thought into it. Did anyone really think electrons just magically jump from state to state? There is a real physical process there that takes time.
In general, that's of course obviously true. For software like this, that's geared toward use by businesses and SaaS applications, I agree with Cockroach Labs. Their hosted solution doesn't stand a chance if AWS decides to do a hosted version of CockroachDB, and they won't see a penny of that revenue.

I understand why this is the default assumption that people tend to make, but I'm not sure this analysis goes deep enough. I believe things are more nuanced than "you can't compete with Amazon". There are always a lot of different axes on which you can segment a market, and different attributes on which one can compete. And ironically, the fact that AWS (and other public cloud providers) exist simultaneously makes it easier to run your own cloud based service. And yes, it's possible to have something hosted on AWS while Amazon compete with you at the same time - see Netflix for the obvious example.

Note that I'm not saying it's easy to do any of this, and maybe a thorough enough analysis would reveal that, for CockroachDB it really is the case that "we can't compete in a market where AWS is playing". But I wouldn't necessarily take that as a given without having done a lot more research.
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thanks for posting the link. looking forward to the day when we can run post-2012 cpus knowing we'll be able to lock the backdoor.
And Wikipedia is?
> 45 years of work should be more than enough economic output for one person to be able to get a “second childhood” as you call it. What the heck are they working for in the first place?

By simple approximation, assuming a real rate of return between 2% and 6%, you need to consistently save and invest 10% to 30% your working life income consistently for 45 years to fully fund about 20 years of non-work / retirement. The whole point of the pension problem is that most people are not able or willing to do that.
It's not easy and you'd need to find problems to work, but http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu is one source some people swear by. Others say it's too hard for a beginner text. I think both have a point, but it's free to see for yourself.

https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Physics-Understandable-Pract... is not free, but also excellent and gentler.
Nope. Not at all. Even though they are all Romance languages they aren't mutually intelligible. They share many stems but have too many differences in grammar to be called the same language.

You can perhaps argue Norwegian, Swedish and Danish are different dialects of the same language, or say the same for Portuguese and Galician but most linguists, Nordic and Iberian people will be offended by such a notion.
Depends on the implementation of `@einsum`. If the macro is implemented well, that’ll actually just lower to a matrix multiplication call and you’ll have zero runtime overhead.

Otherwise, you might end up lowering to a naïve for loop which would be significantly slower. TensorCast.jl and TensorOperations.jl know how to make matrix multiplication calls but currently Einsum isn't that smart.

Macros are just syntax transformations.
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We took on revenue-based debt from Lighter Capital in April 2018 for my SaaS startup. They’ve been really great to work with so far and their software platform is pretty good. They even fixed a bug I found the same day I reported it.

As a founder, I’m excited to see alternative funding solutions start to pop up recently like this and others.
People need to wake up to the fact that "littering" is no longer a minor crime in the world we live in. I see it as tantamount to murder, given the environmental damage it causes.
Sure - except that under their definition of freedoms you are allowed to share software with anyone, so while you can sell it to the first person, they can freely share it with anyone.

But truly, I don't think looking for holes in definition of freedom would help anyone. The question if, do these definitions achieve what we have set out to do, and in what way? If yes, great. If not, maybe the time has come to define another set of freedoms, which still protect users better than closed source, but allow developers and maintainers to make money from their creations. And yes, they will not be open source, so we might as well come up with a different term.
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Wow, only the header is signed (for the Ryzenfall-1 bug)? That is a pretty big oversight, did AMD attempt to patch these bugs?
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> In many places, hotels have laundry facilities.

In most countries I have visited, the laundry facilities are cost prohibitive and the cost of 4 days of laundry is greater than the hotel bill!

Super cool if you found a place that had free laundry services!
I don't know if this is what you meant, but that's what youtube is doing now. They've decided that these neo-Nazi videos are causing violence, so they've stepped in to remove those bad actors for the sake of everyone else.
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I salute you if there’s anything clear to you in quantum physics...
I'm proof-reading a book that a friend of mine is writing about how normal right-wing/conservative populism becomes corrupted by fascist/hate stuff, and a big part of it is hate groups actively "normalizing" their content and spreading it via mainstream social media like twitter and youtube. That way, they show up alongside more mainstream political thought. If hate speech, even "polite" hate speech, is consigned to its own dedicated world rather than sharing ours, it doesn't spread the same way.
Communists slaughtered more people than Nazis (of course, not due to any virtue of the Nazis). Also, the current geopolitical situation is very different from the early or mid 1900s.
That would have been great input for my thesis!
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikimate_pathway

You don't have that. That's why it's different.

You don't need to be trained in biology. Plenty of people have written about the subject and will explain it to you.
... and food stuck between teeth leads to gum problems in the short run!
There are plenty of other cruise lines. If one is thrown out, others can increase their business in the same area. There's no loss to any of those cities.
For a great craftsman, I expect them to get something out of any tool that a lesser person could accomplish. They can make a good tool do things I wouldn't think of, but can also work around the limitations of a lesser tool.

So if you couldn't get anything out of a better tool, I'd start asking uncomfortable questions about you.

Do I think I as a developer could leverage a Mac Pro to speed up my code-build-test cycle? If the whole team had them, then I'd absolutely tune our tools to use the extra cores, monitors, etc. We are better at troubleshooting when the feedback loop is shorter.

But to me the Mac Pro is more of a tool for designers. If a designer is turning in the same work on a 1k machine I would ask about our process first, the designer second, and the tool third.
It's not just workstation hardware - I've recently bought a couple of Dell T410s off eBay for $125 each (shipped!). Quad-core Xeon E5620s, 4G RAM, 6-bay hotswap chassis, DVD-ROM, iDRAC 6 Enterprise, PERC 6i RAID card.

Upgrades: $25 for 120G SSD (boot drive, goes in the empty second 5.25" bay), $27 for 16G RAM, $20ish for an E5670 6-core CPU, $35 for an LSI HBA in IT-mode (supports >2T drives), $10 for a set of SFF-8087 cables to go from the HBA to the existing hotswap backplane. 30-45 minutes to upgrade all the firmware for the DRAC, lifecycle controller, BIOS, etc.

Grand total of around $250 for a really nice server with full remote management, and for the cost of another E5670 and a Dell heatsink I can upgrade to dual-CPU (12 cores/24 threads).

They're so cheap that I've gotten two systems to upgrade as described, and this morning ordered a third (yet again $125) to have for spare parts.

The eBay vendor emailed me and offered to sell me a pallet of 24 for $80 each, but I don't have that kind of need or money lying around...

As for laptops, I tend to get refurb/off-lease Thinkpads from arrowdirect.com (coupon code ARROW gives 15% off), then max out the (cheap DDR3) RAM and throw a SSD in where the HD was. I've built up a T420s and an X230 like this for when I need a decent portable machine but don't want to take my expensive Macbook Pro somewhere. For the T420s I even got a $50 adapter board from a guy in China that let me put a FHD IPS screen in, instead of the 1440x900 TN LCD that it came with...
Having been remote to a much larger team (at Google) in the past, I know where you're coming from, but I'd also like to point out that this is a question of balance and communication structure. In my case the team was about 20 people, and myself and another guy were remote, but in the same time zone. The co-located team made no effort whatsoever to disseminate information or seek my input. As a result, I sometimes had to undo or re-work other people's changes because they _thought_ they understood the gnarlier bits of the system, but they really didn't. As you can imagine, sometimes this led to confrontation. I lasted about a year and a half, but I was extremely productive during that time, communication notwithstanding, mostly thanks to the constant communication with my TL.

The point I would like to make is, in that team of 20 not sharing information and not seeking input was a problem, even though people sat right next to each other. And that problem could have been solved very easily by putting most of the decision making into one pagers, Google Docs and bug tracker, as well well as by defining the goals more clearly.

That is a cultural problem which remote team members did not create, but merely magnified. It existed before we joined and after we left. It resulted in a project which you need to have a PhD in computer science to figure out how to use, and as a result few teams inside Google use it.

Which is a long-winded way of suggesting, that if introducing remote workers shows some cracks in your team structure, perhaps there's a deeper reason why, and things aren't 100% ideal to begin with.
I didn’t know that countries in the Middle East stopped using leaded gasoline much later (90s). This short post linked from the article has interesting speculation: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/12/prediction-te...
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True. Though in this case it's very admirable how cleanly they have specified the exception case. But yes, it is a harder sell, and this is the main issue that these licenses must solve if they want to be successful.
> But there are plenty of examples like this. I know people have been kick off of social media for suggesting the Prophet Muhammad was a pedophile, or for discussing racial crime stats. And many of the examples I've seen of this don't appear to be in bad faith either, in fact most seem to be in the interest of honest dialogue. They just had the wrong opinions.

I find the trend of "this fact/data is not to be discussed" to be particularly disturbing.

Muhammed being a pedophile/child molester by modern definitions is pretty damn clear in the Quran. Saying we can't discuss it is very odd.

There are significant differences in racial crime and academic stats in the US. The causes can be debated - the existence of a difference less so.

And for a less controversial parallel to the previous... there are major differences in gendered crime stats in the US. Again, the causes can be debated - but a difference most definitely exists.

Under what standard is "racial crime differences are a forbidden discussion" reasonable where "gendered crime differences are a forbidden discussion" is not? What level of fact are we willing to memoryhole if it ends up politically inconvenient?