skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly related: One thing I've learnt in Physics is that there are still a huge number of practical and fundamental problems to be solved. You might expect everything easy will already be done by now but that's just not true. Hence we still manage to write so many papers! In fact many Physicists have too many papers they want to write and not enough time to write them. This was a huge surprise for me coming in to my PhD. I had naively assumed that physicists were all scrounging for any morsel of content to publish!!

Of course it depends on the field. It's a requirement here in the UK to publish a paper to get your PhD (at least I've been led to believe that), and many particle physics students really struggle to manage to fulfill this. On the other hand gravitational wave detectors have a huge amount of unexplored science as there are so many things that we still do not fully understand about the detectors themselves.
I just got into HN, looking for some cool new tech updates as usally

and this article hit me hard

Got me into such an emotional mode

This community is amazing
>Or the local level tracking they can do on your phones now... Ain't no hiding.

Don't bring your phone, put it in airplane mode, use a burner, use a pager. Just a few ways of "hiding".
People are also dumb.
The big problem is a democracy relies upon the political process to counter partisanship, which sounds good in theory—people working out their problems together; in practice the political process algorithm has not proved a sufficient immune system to sustain a democracy against the constant stream of forces subverting it for their own ends.

In the US we’ve tried giving more power to the legal system in the hopes it might be enough to save democracy, but that strategy is essentially conservative. It’s not adaptive. A legalistic system can not rise to meet the problems of the present or the challenges of the future.

A democracy, unless exceptional people lead it, can’t seem to overcome its own greed and self-interest. What we need are more exceptional people.
Wikipedia is a Propaganda Tool
TwitterServer, generating templates from which servers at Twitter are built
and smaller than other platforms for the users of such middleware - and due to physical and power differences isn't usually running the same game but a modified one. A lot of porting to Mac depended on OpenGL being an API that you could start debugging on other platforms as well.
As far as I know, these processors are not yet released. What's the confidence level that this user benchmark will be indicative of real life expected performance?

It seems implausible that this user benchmark is a good indicator. The Zen 1 architecture exhibited nothing of the sort[0] -- it would be an order of magnitude performance regression.

I expect we'll start to see more accurate tests once the processors are actually released into the wild.

[0]https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-7-2700x-revie...
Not sure why your original comment disappeared.

I was kind of curious what the latencies might be for other contemporary processors/builds, and I'm not sure 70ns is actually really outside the normal margins.

Here's an i7-8700k build that is already pretty close to 70ns: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/18173216 - Also acknowledging that, this is not the 'best case' performance. But seems to be not so unusual either.

(edit: Removed section about latency ladder as I just realized it was caching and not system memory latency that we were most likely seeing initially, and therefore not terribly relevant.)

As far as I can tell, Zen 1 has similar latency characteristics[0][1]... so I guess I won't notice any degradation when upgrading to Zen 2.

[0]: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/18173307

[1]: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/18173240
That’s not just on github. That’s totally a feature of git itself. You can set the email address to whatever you want.
Another underestimated advantage is the guarantee that dplyr functions that manipulates a data frame, will always return a data frame.
What's the point? So instead of hitting the 22GB shadowcap on my "unlimited" plan in 70 minutes at my usual 40mb/s I can do it in four minutes and eleven seconds at 700mb/s 5G speeds. Meanwhile I still can't even check e-mail or send a Whatsapp message when I visit my grandmother out in the boonies. 5G is breathtakingly unnecessary.
"Section 25 of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (NGER Act) permits corporations to apply to have information withheld from publication."

I actually RTFA.
Haven't read the paper, not an expert... but you still feel qualified to dismiss it?
I was also intrigued by Pony -- but lost interest when the company backing it shut down. I don't think it was due to monetization though, I think it formed a foundation, but do not quote me on that.

I only know of one (there may be others) that constantly talk about how they're using Pony -- Wallaroo[1][2]. I think they're still actively working on it, based on their Github[3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15558051

[2] https://www.wallaroolabs.com/

[3] https://github.com/WallarooLabs/wallaroo
>The UI is unappealing. I would prefer the default theme to be dark.

I made a stylesheet to fix a few of the glaring UI problems, as well as a sheet for dark mode:
https://github.com/rovyko/hoxly-gui-patch-stylesheets

* Horizontally align news item titles
* New Items take up full margined-page width
* Search input at the top of the page
* All facts button has a pointer cursor
* Increase button text size
It appears that they are acting within the law for this request.

"Section 25 of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (NGER Act) permits corporations to apply to have information withheld from publication. Pending finalisation of their application to withhold their corporate emissions and energy data from publication, Amazon Corporate Services Pty Ltd's data is withheld from publication"

They will probably be denied the request.
that assumes that those twisted and wicket thoughts are actually the right interpretation of the word of god.

i'd be just as skeptical as you are. but that doesn't invalidate the idea. there are other interpretations that make a lot more sense and are actually helpful.
> Personally I don’t love the idea of flying on one of these at this point, no matter how many tweaks they make. I’m sure many others will feel the same.

I would rather fly on one of these once they're back in the air.

The alternative to found and fixed issues is not a lack of issues.
This feels like a 'stop looking out for your own interests, it's OK because I said so'. H1bs are definitely zero sum.
They wouldn't pass cargo certification as well.

Nobody likes a cargo plane falling on them.
Oh yes, use DNS over HTTPS for your privacy. Just look at these organizations that oppose it. While I'm at it, you totally can't break into an Apple iPhone™ and all the cool pedophiles should be using that, for safety.

DNS over HTTPS does nothing for privacy and merely takes control from the DNS providers or user. Companies want to be able to run everything over HTTPS so you can't block any of it without blocking all of it. They can go to Hell.
You could say that about anything though.
The telcos have been fibbing about their coverage of rural areas. They do that to attract customers, but they also get subsidies for coverage. There is no independent verification of their claims. Yet another example of government not being competent when handing out money.

They're in the process of pulling out 3G in some rural areas I've been to. There's even less coverage than before.
> A free market is one in which, once uniform or standard rules or requirements are established

This is not correct. A free market is a market that is free from government interference. Such rules or requirements can constitute government interference. Ergo, they can fail to yield a free market.

To see the absurdity of the claim that "uniform or standard rules or requirements" always yield a free market, consider the "uniform rule" given by the price floor I described above.

> Even within a so-called free market, numerous market failures may exist

This is irrelevant to a discussion about whether the term "free market" is meaningful. It's moving the goalposts.

> coercion, fraud and misrepresentation, capital concentration, systemic risk, capture and corruption, numerous parties unable to participate in wholly market-based transactions (?)

These are not "market failures", and many of the failures you described are really the same (Gresham's Law and information asymmetry). That aside, one must take into account whether the alternatives are worse: in other words, government failure. For example, on your point about "rent-seeking and rents":

Alexander Hamilton of the World Bank Institute argued in 2013 that rent extraction positively correlates with government size even in stable democracies with high income, robust rule of law mechanisms, transparency, and media freedom. [1]

> What you're describing

What am I describing?

[1] Small Is Beautiful, at Least in High-Income Democracies: The Distribution of Policy-Making Responsibility, Electoral Accountability, and Incentives for Rent Extraction. Alexander Hamilton. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/195551468332410332...
I'm inclined to agree. It seems TMobile is the only one going after low band, long range stuff with their band 71. ATT/Verizon seem full steam ahead on their short range clusters. That's fine, but I'll take coverage over speed any day, and I'm sure most would agree.
> Luckily pax anticipated that attack when releasing the KERNEXEC patch and fixed it a while ago.

Naturally.
That is not at all an accurate description. This is a classic example of how people feel like the site is biased against their point of view even when it's the dominant one. It's known as the hostile media effect: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

I've written tons about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

Here's a recent one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20314160

Your comment also broke the site guidelines against insinuations of astroturfing. People having opposing opinions on divisive topics is evidence of nothing other than that the topic is divisive. But the insinuation poisons discussions badly. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN. More on that from a few minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20370575.
[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03792 "Rigorous analytical formula for freeform singlet lens design free of spherical aberration"

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11129 "Single lens telescope"
You're looking at the first why, not at the deeper issues.

Why did they have issues with MCAS? Why did they even need MCAS again?

Because they tried to fit bigger engines onto a 60s airframe that is not fly-by-wire.

If the plane was FBW, no MCAS needed.

If the plane had a bigger ground clearance, no MCAS needed.

> The normal elevator controls are not enough for the pilot to overcome the out of trim condition

I don't think there is a plane where they are, they also move more slowly than the elevators.
1. FlexBox breaks existing CSS Box model that mandates that dimensions of the element are defined by its width/height properties.

2. FlexBox introduces 12 (sic!) new properties in already overcrowded CSS property map. But as demonstrated by Sciter that can be achieved by just one property `flow` and flex units.

3. Flexbox and Grid are conflicting in the sense that the flexibility (as a feature) is defined in two different ways: separate properties (FlexBox) and 'fr' units (Grid) - overall CSS architecture becomes a zoo. Yet CSS has that famous 'auto' value that in some cases is just 1fr ( 1* in Sciter terms).

4. FlexBox is applied through 'display' property that is conceptually wrong. 'display' specifies how the element itself is replaced among its siblings but flexbox is rather about layout of element's children. These two entities are orthogonal. Example:

display:list-item; or display:table-cell; cannot be flexboxes. Just because of architectural specification error but physically nothing prevents <td> to use flexbox layout for their children.

5. Flexbox arrived too late. We started talking about the feature 12 years ago on www-style WG at W3C. And all these years Sciter already used flexibility (the must for desktop UI).

More on this: https://terrainformatica.com/2018/12/11/10-years-of-flexboxi...
He didn't and probably still doesn't know Haskell.
"It is unclear whether he finished eating the Nutella bread."

This article is alright.
It's always interesting to see who adopts the languages first and what they build with it.

A non-GC statically typed language seems to be the future a lot of people are looking for.
Um, but in all seriousness, do we really need even faster speeds on our phones? 5g requires even more fiber junctioned off to boxes that only have, what was it, 500ft radius? So I can do what "faster" on my phone? I get as a home internet replacement. Sure. Maybe offices, as long as it's nothing crazy. But I've seen people argue for it by using Fortnite mobile. Itd take like 30seconds instead of 2 minutes to download. And? Not being an ass, other than the occasional app updates and music sync, what all do you need fiber fast connections on your phone or you might die waiting?

Problem I see is the same argument for 6g. Suddenly 5g isn't enough. Suddenly all that infrastructure is going to be a waste.

Makes me think that people imagine setting up this stuff is magic and free. New fiber lines. Crews to trench and pull cable. Line crews to go on hundreds of thousands of poles. This isn't cheap both materials and labor.

Hell, my buddy and I got a quote about 2 years ago to run a fiber trunk line about 1.5 miles from the interstate to an office we had in Colorado. It roughed out to about 750k. That was with a friend who would do the boring. Easements, code, general feasibility due to existing infrastructure. Shit ain't easy or cheap. And we were in a rural area. I'd imagine an actual city is about two nightmares and a trip to a suicide booth.
Well, to be devil's advocate: just because AMD improved their memory latency does not mean it was state-of-the-art. Indeed, looking at some random user benchmarks of Zen 1, it looks like the memory latency is similar with Zen 1. (See my reply to parent for a couple links, but I think you could also just find random Ryzen 2700X benches and see the same.)

Of course, the effects of ~20ns more latency on system memory accesses may not be as easy to observe in practice, especially if throughput is excellent. But we'll see, I guess; 'gaming' benchmarks should be a good test. (Meanwhile, I'm just going to be happy with Zen 2 if it provides a large speedup in compile times.)
Podcasts/Youtubers attract the shadiest of sponsors. If an amateur content producer is pushing something its almost always a subpar product paid for by an obscene marketing budget.

(They also have no discretion-- no problems at all shilling Bang energy drinks to an audience of children...)
I’m not opposed to progress, but LTE serves my needs just fine so I don’t see the urgency that it being pushed. I don’t see why this needs to be a “race”, except that telcos seem to be driving urgency in the public mind potentially to further their goal of removing the local approval process and associated fees [1], saving them money. Without that incentive, this would be a regular upgrade to keep up with the competition, instead of some national emergency some are making it out to be.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/04/fcc-will-vote-on-5g-plan-...
Just because it has a meaning does not mean it is adding constructively to the conversation.
Real 3D Engine in Excel
Those problems started with Boeing wanting to keep 737NG type rating as a selling point.

Keeping the type rating means that they needed to avoid making completely new wings or significant fuselage changes, which would require a new type rating as well.

All of that led to fitting engines in a way that caused a bunch of aerodynamics problems, which led to crappy solutions.

The economic incentives started it.
The U.S. is woefully, even disgracefully, behind on so many many things.

Feels like we're all holding our breath until the current conundrum resolves itself.
> After months of working on solving the problem, Rafael González recalls, “I remember one morning I was making myself a slice of bread with Nutella, when suddenly, I said out loud: Mothers! It is there!”

> He then ran to his computer and started programming the idea. When he executed the solution and saw that it worked, he says he jumped all over the place. It is unclear whether he finished eating the Nutella bread.

This is my favorite quote from the article. Soon to be the most famous slice of Nutella bread?
Parent just said.

Why do you think this was a best-selling plane for Boeing? Who's buying it, and why?

The answers to that question and yours are the same: airlines want to decrease operational costs, of which pilot training and specialization is a huge component.
... and today PGP was poisoned
Lulubox oficial APK – Descargar la última versión de Lulubox para Android
My reply was narrowly addressing a mistake repeated across a couple comments. It was not intended to undermine the argument as a whole.

Your comment seems, by implication, to make a similar mistake: it doesn't matter much how long we were in a different situation - what matters is whether we've had enough of a chance to adapt to the new one. It doesn't take (k)X years to "undo" adaptations that took X years to find.

And yes, the 100 years you give are clearly not enough generations to do much adapting. Some of the items mentioned in the earlier comment (clothes, fire, shelter) are things humans have had for substantially longer than 100 years. But I don't know enough about the relevant time scales for anything to be clear to me about how much we've probably adapted to having them, which is why I didn't speak to that.
Jsonnet for Configuring Deep Learning Experiments
This will be controversial, but this is true everytime there is a pitchfork-inducing "the rich got richer in 20XX" thread. But it's not that the rich stole from the poor in order to become richer (though undoubtedly people will argue this).

If I stick a million dollars in an index fund and passively get richer, am I stealing from the poor? Wealth is not zero sum, yet we seem to treat it like it is (in order for poor people to become wealthy we need to take from the wealthy)
Agreed, 5G is probably better to support very dense areas with adequate coverage, conventions and stadiums would be examples, I agree... that's not where I have issues. The US is not that dense, while other countries are. I think delaying rollout here isn't such a problem.

I wish 5G had addressed the data and meta-data security model for wireless communications. If that had also been targeted, it would have mitigated a lot of current concerns.
Are those mattress startups any good or is it all hype? I keep seeing them pop up everywhere...
How is it compared to the D language?
If following a religion has zero downsides in life, then it needs no justification. However, the act of trying to justify religion suggests it’s not inherently optimal.

let me rephrase that:

If following civil laws has zero downsides in life, then they need no justification. However, the act of trying to justify certain laws suggests that they are not inherently optimal

life with zero downsides does not exist. we need to make some compromises if we want to live together as a society. be those civil laws or a religion is a matter of choice, but we can't opt out.

the need to justify religion does not invalidate religion any more than the need to justify laws invalidates those.

as a society we still need to decide which laws we want to implement.

and as an individual everyone needs to investigate for themselves which religion (if any) to follow.
Alright, thanks for letting me know. I'll look into it.

EDIT: Fix rolling out. The page was missing jQuery dependency.
Really? You think this rather clear and short document detailing to which extent the Apple Watch is water resistant is basically the same thing as iTunes’ EULA?

It‘s up front and the fact that it takes more than a bullet point on the back of the box to explain the details and limits of the feature doesn‘t change that.

Here‘s the description from Apple‘s official Watch marketing page:

> Sweat, surf, and swim proof.
Apple Watch Series 4 is water resistant to 50 meters and tracks both pool and open-water workouts. Turn the Digital Crown to eject water from the speaker using a burst of sound.

I don‘t see this contradicted by additional support document.
Pricing may have been a part of it but what did it for me was that it looks really complicated. I haven't played it so maybe it isn't but I am sure that just looking complicated kept a lot of people like me away from it.
CAAC apparently got significant respect at least when it comes to civilian/airliner planes.
I feel like their being the first to ground a domestic Chinese model would be more indicative of their independence.
What you just described is rivalry-based schadenfreude.

> Rivalry-Based Schadenfreude is individualistic and related to interpersonal competition. It arises from humans' desire to stand out from and out-perform their peers. Another person's misfortune elicits pleasure because the observer now feels better about their personal identity and self-worth, instead of their group identity.
Thank you. I don't have the know-how to build this device myself. Do you know any sites that sell openBCI/EEG devices?
It also doesn't sound like the kind of advancement that makes camera lenses play mp3 files, but then: neither of those two things are even remotely relevant to the article?

These people solved optical abberation. Even if their work leads to lenses that are twice as expensive as they are today, people whose research, or jobs, rely on perfect optics will be more than happy to pay what it costs to work with those.

Anyone else can wait until one or more companies figures out how to make the manufacturing process cost effective at scale.
That makes sense. I was mostly looking at one of the Tom's Hardware benchmarks in particular; I don't know what the userbenchmark is actually _doing_. So it's probably more fair to compare userbenchmark to userbenchmark like you did.

However, I think it's still true that the actual release of the Zen 2 processors will make userbenchmark scores much more reliable as the scores regress to the mean.
The semantics resembles structures from linear algebra. Linear logic was initially seen as a linear algebra built on coherent spaces. A coherent space is a reflexive undirected graph.

Alternatively: The category of finite dimensional vector spaces over finite fields is a model of linear logic. http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~drg/bll/steve.pdf
CO2 is plant food. The greening of the earth. Why is no one talking about it?
Is there any evidence that consumers are actually pushing for 5g? It's always seemed like it was a buzzword that various telcos and equipment vendors push to ensure spend and churn. The telcos likely get to push for subsidies ("just look at the millions of dollars it'll cost for this thing everyone is talking about - you could pitch in, their your residents...") and equipment vendors, self evident.
Totally. That would mean CAAC is even more independent than FAA.
FWIW, most modern VPN providers spread their infrastructure around to evade ASN bans so there is some value added in paying a service to manage that for you.
What's also sad is that China and India regularly pollute the atmosphere (and cover it up) with impunity and are left out of all discussions of climate change because somehow 'developing' means you aren't responsible for your actions.