skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't downvote it because I believe it might frame a good discussion or debate.

Specifically, while I agree with three of the four solution points, I actually strongly disagree with the first.

1. Increase the minimum wage.
2. Pay workers for overtime labor.
3. Restore labor's bargaining power.
4. Increase taxes on the rich and their estates.

The first is often stated but is incorrect in the long term. Raising the minimum wage FAILS to increase the long term BUYING POWER of those earning it. Prices for all staples in the economy rise to consume the numeric gains. What raising the MINIMUM WAGE does is destroy the value of SAVINGS and lower the wages of everyone that earns wages rather than returns from investments.

The true way of achieving the spiritual ideal of the first point is to instead INCREASE CONSUMER BUYING POWER by making the 'staples' of living cost less. There are many and potentially controversial ways of making that happen. My own favorite is for "the government" to establish a baseline which private industry is free to compete against. (If they're so much better, they should be able to win; which would be a win for consumers.)
That's a rather cynical accusation. What if the people signaling this virtue are doing so because they genuinely believe in it?
That's just cruel.
Is this fear-mongering?

"Despite WeChat’s somewhat more private design, Amnesty International, in a 2016 report on user privacy, gave WeChat zero out of a 100 for its lack of freedom of speech protection and lack of end-to-end encryption. By comparison, Facebook scored 73. People are regularly arrested for messages they send in supposedly “private” group chats. In 2017, two people were arrested in Nanjing for separate instances of making satirical comments referring the massacre in the city by the Japanese in 1937.5 One person, seeking a job in the city and down on his luck, wrote in a group for job-seekers that “Nanjing is a pit. We should let the Japanese come slaughter again.” He was detained two days later. A similar case that same year saw a 31-year-old man jailed for joking about joining the Islamic State in a group-chat. He was arrested under China’s anti-terrorism laws and given a 9-month prison sentence."
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5ca51e99e4b082d775dfec35
>Why try a different solution? Why not just rebuild the existing grid more robustly so it can withstand damage better?

OF COURSE that's the right solution but that isn't sexy.

Puerto Rico instead decided: why not be a guinea pig for unproven technology with unknown costs and unknown benefits. Especially in light of issues with PREPA around neglect and corruption and competence.

It seems like the more bloated and corrupt the organization is, the most likely it will engage in these pie-in-the-sky projects.
> Do they actually do that?

For some value of they, yes. I was there, and I saw it.

> My understanding of police training is : "Rule #1, don't get hurt"

I have never gone through it. I imagine that there is a rule that says "don't be stupid", which covers many points such as "no, the siren doesn't magically stop cross traffic", and "bullet-proof vests are only so useful".

However, if your premium is on not getting hurt, there are many occupations with smaller risk.
PyTorch Tutorial Series: Graphs, Automatic Differentiation and Autograd
How much is there and do you live in the USA? I'm interested, if you want to talk about it, PM me.
JavaScript: The Parts (Implicit and Automatic)
> I unsure what the previous comment was taking about, but how does amds differ from Intel in that is prevents one bad process from blowing cache?

Ryzen/Epyc has cores organized into groups called a CCX, up to four cores with up to 8MB of L3 cache for the original Ryzen/Epyc. So Ryzen 5 2500X has one CCX, Ryzen 7 2700X has two, Threadripper 1950X has four, Epyc 7601 has eight.

Suppose you have a 1950X and a thread with a 500MB+ working set size which is continuously thrashing the caches because all its data won't fit. You have a total of 32MB L3 cache but each CCX really has its own 8MB. That's not as good for that one thread (it can't have the whole 32MB), but it's much better for all the threads on the other CCXs that aren't having that one thread constantly evict their data to make room for its own which will never all fit anyway.

This can matter even for lightly-threaded workloads. You take that thread on a 2700X or 1950X and it runs on one CCX while any other processes can run unmolested on another CCX, even if there are only one or two others.

In particular, that misbehaving thread is often some inefficient javascript running in a browser tab in the background while you're doing something else. And that rarely gets benchmarked but is common in practice.

> And most people don't run a bunch of vms.

That is precisely what many of the people who buy Epyc will do with it, and it's the one where there are the highest number of partitions. The desktop quad cores with a single CCX have their entire L3 available to any thread.

> Single thread performance still dominates

If your workloads are all single-threaded then why buy a 16+ thread processor?
Isn't the whole point of the article that ICE was not way better and racing is a harmful distraction?
Sure... and then Starbucks sells 43 more drinks in the next 100ms and completely overwhelms your example.
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Interesting article and really close to what we’ll need to do at my company soon!

I wonder if there are any open-source projects that operate in this realm and provide an off the shelf solution to this.

I’m thinking that it could be something like a small server to store the policies and a few libs in various languages to interpret them.

This could or could not be tied to a user management system.
It's for softening. The process breaks up the meat fibers both for easier chewing and for absorbing your saliva into the fibers. The latter makes it tastier when you chew it longer.

You can find similar dried fish / squids in Korean and Vietnamese grocery stores. Roast them slightly and they go really well with beers.
I don't understand why this is getting down voted.

Here's a clip of Dr Rhonda Patrick, who is incredibly well informed on the effects of dietary cholesterol, basically saying the same thing: https://youtu.be/VnYeuES3joc
I at one point did call the bank and ask about that (I took a few weeks to move stuff in and it was going to exceed their timeline), their response was more or less "we're not going to check in on you or anything? If you say it's your primary residence that's all we need".

Nobody checks on it.
> It was in fact considered food for poor people which is quite strange since it was imported from far places.

Well, so was lobster at one point...
USB and GPU drivers are also user space.
What part of basic economics tells you this?

I could think of a few ways that this makes total sense.

$50 is $400 in an 8 hour day. There are places where $1000-1500 covers you for the month, even with non-local, white guy pricing.

My hourly comes out to "only" $20/hr more, but my apartment alone is likely a few hundred more than this guy's entire monthly expense profile.

He's going to get consistent work at this price point, so he won't have to hustle for contacts. That's more time billed or spent on the beach.

Stepping away from the economics and getting into comparison to Google/FB engineers, there are tons of people that could outproduce many Google engineers in a startup setting. They just aren't good at Leetcode problems or never took a shot at FB/Google. A lot of stuff just works as an engineer at Google that you don't get for free elsewhere. They're good at leveraging the output of some truly amazing engineers across their org. They're also generally overstaffed.
I didn't do any purge...
Note that "fall over" in the context of a mature RDBMS means that the database got slow because it wasn't properly tuned or administered, whereas in the context of NoSQL datastores, it may well mean "didn't write any data for the last five minutes, try to rebuild transactions from customer support tickets and your card processor's logs I guess????" or "woops, I just lost about $20 million in bitcoin". I think the potential tradeoff there is clear.
The IRB would not be the correct office for a HIPAA violation, unless it was an informed consent form for a research study.

Most hospitals have a compliance office where this type of issue would be handled.
I'm still really amazed sometimes GitHub hasn't added more roles for people to work with issues without getting push access. There's been a few repos where I've done a lot of issue triage, but been unable to be granted rights to closed or edit issues, without being granted access to the repo that is neither justifiably warranted nor desired by me.

It sounds like this is a solid patch for that missing feature set.
We don't need regulations! The Free Market(tm) will solve everything! (/s)

Snark aside, it's simply a problem of money in politics. It costs corporations less to lobby against regulations than it does to follow said regulations.
> machine learning model to make major decisions off of

I have basically no experience with ML, but from what I know I'm having difficulty understanding how it's different from OLS with constructed regressors. Can anyone explain?
Medium instantly absorbed half the screen to demand I log in and use the app were not lost.

I hope the irony is not lost on the author.
The whole power of Lego is that it is a heirloom toy, it stays in the family. In mine now for three generations and likely more to come.
The "Oscar Wilde’s talk [...]" piece is not bad either:
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/oscar-wilde-s-talk-...
Trump official goes rogue, says climate change may cause next financial crisis
It's even more ridiculous, from the same article:

>Since 2010 the NIH itself has offered about $5 million a year in special grants for U.S.-China collaborations, with 20% going to cancer research, and a counterpart in China has pitched in an additional $3 million a year.

So ... if we compare average living standards, China seems to be investing more
If you read the article, it clearly explains these weren’t Tesla failings, but systemic neglect and disregard for the equipment donated and deployed.

Tesla can’t fix apathetic government and locals. There’s a reason Puerto Rico is in the condition it’s in.
> it has little or no value.

You are so wrong about that. Vintage sets go for many times their original worth, and some parts are worth more than you'd think reasonable for a little piece of plastic.
In other news: rock placed on gas pedal becomes first uncrewed truck to hit 60 mph, defeating the previous record held by Starsky Robotics.

Cool tech regardless, but I am unsure of why this headline. was chosen
As much as they are in Linux. Honestly Linux puts more in user space, and allows USB target drivers in user space too (ie. an implementation of the backing USB device).

Edit: and the GPU drivers still very much have a kernel component, and more or less have to. The creation of a GPU instance is super duper privileged, since it's setting up page tables. If you allowed user space to do that, you'd be able to circumvent the MMU.
Itanium IA-64 Support to Be Deprecated by GCC 10, Planned Removal in GCC 11
RAMBleed Exploit Inflicts Rowhammer-Style Attack on Private Data from PC Memory
Agree name isn't primary concern, but by your own definition shouldn't it be called <popup>?
Just a small correction-- Formula E doesn't swap cars anymore, they go the full race distance now, although the distance is much shorter than Formula 1, for example.
It might fetch as much as $15 per kg depending on the quality and what sets were in it. Just one rare train in there and you're going to look at substantial money.
It's definitely getting closer to that point - for example winnie the pooh is a popular meme used to make fun of uncle Xi but it's hard to police given that it's a children's cartoon. It hasn't stopped the aggressive censoring of pictures of winnie the pooh (no joke) but it has definitely presented a challenge. Using vague historical anecdotes and rarely used imagery is a traditional Chinese mode of communication - in modern days you can see it in action via the aggressively close reading people do of CCP mouthpiece newspapers - the use of certain terms signal a greater ideological shift which people will then try to adapt to/guess at. Personally I'm curious about how this mode of communication will evolve given the current development of automated policing algorithms which will undoubtedly take context into account.
Less bad. I'm just making this up, but I assume something like this has to happen. Someone must drill/dig/mine for the oil (and maybe extract the bitumen from sand), transport that oil product to a refinery, refine the oil into something that can be used to make plastics, ship that refined product to a plastics manufacturing facility, make the raw plastic, ship that plastic off to Lego's manufacturing facility, make the Lego, package them up and ship it off to a warehouse where it will then be shipped to someone like Amazon who will then sell it and have it delivered to the buyer. There's a huge environmental costs to everything, whether it's oil based or plant based.
It does bundle Chromium so it isn’t far off.
Agreed, that's not worth it if you value your time. But a rough idea of what sets are in there plus a kg price and someone will be happy to take it.
Thanks for the suggestion! The reason average pooling is faster than max pooling is that the former uses only addition, which is quite a bit faster than comparison in MPC. The smooth max requires both exponentiation and division, both of which are significantly more expensive than doing the comparison in ReLU or max pooling.
America Is Stuck with a $400B Stealth Fighter That Can’t Fight
Intel Makes Strong Ethernet Switch Play with Barefoot Networks Acquisition
Don't know if I agree with most (after all there were 7600 games released on steam in 2017), but I'd say the ones that are successful do pay close attention.
At some point, I needed a logo for my hobby website. Nothing fancy, just better than what I could cook up with my non-existent creative skills.

I asked 5 different people on Fiver to create one for $5 each and chose the best one.

This is obviously an example on the low end, but you could expand this to the $500 dollar range per designer for a full website template and still end up with a decent looking thing for $2500.
Why social media is turning blue for Sudan
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Beats $2k Intel Core I9-9980XE in Geekbench Test
P(D) is just the probability of D. This is common when talking about probabilities.
> Tesla, for example, still doesn't have an official Nurburgring lap time because it simply isn't able to drive at racing speeds for long enough without the battery overheating and reducing power output to avoid damage

Now I'm really curious: with a limit on the Tesla's performance to keep the battery from overheating, what's the fastest time it could do?

That they don't have an official lap time for this reason strikes me as almost dishonest, since they marketed the Roadster entirely and the Model S significantly on performance. But you can't actually drive either to its limit for more than a couple minutes? Lame.
The first lego sets I had are still great. They are more basic and allow more open play than the current sets in my opinion.

The lego pieces today feel a bit better and are easier to connect and pull apart. But I do not like the way Legos transitioned into Collector-Pieces/Merchandizing toys. There's just too much of it and most of them limit your fantasy.
Is Google blocking ad blockers?
Why would you assume that? Granted, there is a lot of corporate virtue signalling, and it's existed since time immemorial, but I don't get the sense Lego is necessarily virtue signalling in this case, or at least virtue signalling in a way that isn't genuine. One reason I say this is because it's a family-owned company and really aren't comparable to a corporate giants like Procter & Gamble(which happens to be known for blatant virtue signalling), Coca Cola, or Disney, to name a few.

I don't think it's farfetched for someone in charge at Lego to see value in biodegradable plastic, and there really isn't much of a reason for them not to research into and use biodegradable plastic if it was a viable alternative to whatever they're currently using.

Now, if they were making commercials about biodegradable Legos that don't exist, or "toxic masculinity", or saving the whales, then you could definitely say that Lego is virtue signalling. But I don't see that here.
AMD Plans 64-Core Threadripper CPU: Report
steal?

>Along the way, Wu developed close ties with researchers and cancer centers in China. She was encouraged to do so by MD Anderson. The center’s president in the early 2000s, John Mendelsohn, launched an initiative to promote international collaborations. In China, MD Anderson forged “sister” relationships with five major cancer centers, cooperating on screening programs, clinical trials, and basic research studies.

Instead of harassing employees doing their job, or research centers doing their job, how about if FBI want's to powertrip, they simply individually vote to make collaboration illegal, and only when it passes the legislative branch then prosecute? This is just framing people...
If iOS gains enough features to replace macOS, then it will just be macOS again. iOS is gaining new features, but it's still a rather constrained and touch-focused environment. For example, you can do split-screen on iPadOS, but you can't do arbitrary overlapping windows. Instead they're focusing on ways to save "scenes" and switch between apps, but each app still owns the portion of the screen it's been given (and those portions are very constrained; full-size, half, 1/3rd, or a slightly shorter 1/3rd in a slide-over; and the 1/3rd size is literally supposed to be your iPhone UI). They added mouse to iPadOS but strictly as an accessibility feature, and apps can't even detect that the mouse is there, let alone add mouse-related functionality. The file system is still heavily locked down. There's still no process spawning or any indication that Apple will ever allow process spawning (which is a hard blocker for a lot of developer tools). iPads support external screens, but not as the primary display (that's basically just for projecting stuff, e.g. presentations or photos).

Ultimately, there's no point in relaxing these restrictions for an "iOS-derived" laptop OS. The primary argument in favor of unifying macOS and iOS was the fact that iOS has a lot of developer momentum and that way you can use iOS apps on macOS, but that's exactly what Catalyst gives us already. Apple is working towards unifying stuff at the developer API level (e.g. Catalyst, SwiftUI, etc) but at the OS level macOS and iOS are quite distinct and will stay that way.
a lot of good dev in europe (not only eastern europe) can only dream about $50/hr. A lot of would be willing to work for even less to have a comfort of working remotely from anywhere.
There are other issues with nuclear that made it not the best technology. https://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/17/nuclear-powered-atomic-a...

Like I said before. I am a big fan of electrics. Currently drive a Volt and plan on getting a Tesla eventually, but am not blind to it's faults.

If we were talking about what lead to using leaded gasoline there is a different argument because that could have been avoided.

Given the lower population density and the fact that in the early 1900's a large percentage of the population did not have electricity to charge the batteries.. when you factor that in with the other issues of electric cars vs ICE I can see why electric cars did not take hold at that time.
Have you ever thought that maybe not everything has to be seen through the lens of software? Not trying to be snarky, but it's something I see so often here on HN and it kind of bugs me.
Nvidia's Super GPUs, Unleashing Monsters [Updated]
not for lack of trying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon

but there are a lot of reasons why it never made it into production.
There is a near insatiable market for second hand lego. So even if you're not attached to it plenty of people value it enough that you'll be able to recoup a substantial fraction of your initial outlay. Lego holds its value better than most other commodities.
I brought a bag of it back through Boston IIRC, about 15 years ago. It wasn't a problem and I'm sure they could smell it through the two layers of plastic bags and my backpack. Had a lot of fun with my hardfiskur - I had to keep it in a big glass jar so the housemates wouldn't be too grossed out by it, but it was a great treat every now and then with a bit of butter as discussed elsewhere.

But, perhaps the customs person just took pity on younger-and-dumber me, who had been out on the town in Reykjavik for about two days, trying to keep up with an Icelandic friend showing off the night life there...
Defining clear owners for each repo makes sense, however having a single owner is a problem for most companies:

What if the owner goes on vacation but something needs to be merged and released during that time? Yes everyone has a copy, but does this mean you would release from a feature branch?

Owner's ability to commit without review is a significant security and product risk. Violates multiple security standards like PCI, OWASP.

How does this scale, do you eventually have multiple owners per repo or do you have to constantly break the larger repos into smaller repos as the team grows?

How do you handle the knowledge loss when the owner leaves the company?
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I don't get what you're saying, unfortunately.
"Things we've heard"?

Every single time I have ever been asked by a medical office to sign that I have been given a copy of their privacy policy, I have never been given that policy. Every single time I have pointed this out. Every time except one I have been made to understand that I am being unreasonably difficult.

From my experiences, I wouldn't say this is a rumor and something to be heard of. It is the standard practice everywhere I have ever sought medical attention.
We could be running all electric cars on nuclear, indirectly, if we would start building more power plants.

cue the anti-nuclear power comments
Maybe we should experiment with giving these gorillas knives, see what happens.