skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know about the US. But here, in Sweden, I am sure that you could get a job in another field. Apply for lots of jobs while learning on your own on the side. Make it clear in the interview that you are passionate to learn this new area. Explain how you have reached out on hacker news for advice on how to break into this field. Tell them about the time you spend on your own learning.

Any smart company would hire someone like that.
Any real world examples?
But I did before. Now you’re just inventing new ways of policing... - yet policing what, exactly? The crime levels are at the lowest points in the civilised countries.
Oh, I'm sure there are lots of things to discover, but I think this underestimates what it takes to actually know enough to find the frontier and decide on a good problem to solve.
We use SQLite in lieu of large REST transfers when transferring large amounts of temporary data internally in our application between services. It means the structures are already in a format where you can work with them, etc. Once the file is in S3 you can use it with an unlimited number of worker processes, it's very easy to add new steps to a pipeline when you don't need to worry about extra impact on your database server.

We also use SQLite for read-only data caches (i.e. points of interest in a 3d model) and these are exposed via REST API. This saves database space as there are tons of models and we can just effectively store an unlimited number of SQLite databases in S3 or whatever storage mechanism we want.

I think for a situation where you prepare the document once and then read from it as much as you need, it's a really good option. I'm not sure I'd want to do something like what you've described where (I assume) the workload involves reads and writes by users.

Of course, you know your app and customers better, but consider this - an adversary can just write a script to update some data constantly (i.e. changing their password) and with enough threads you can lock the database for updates. You won't have that problem with a database server.
I don't think having the same fact submitted multiple times from different sources is necessarily a problem. The voting mechanism on the facts should cause the version of the fact with the most reputable source to rise to the top.
If I may direct your attention to FAR 25.173...

And

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/the...

There are more than enough reasons to reasonably decertify the aircraft. When you start doing things that "fly-in-the-face" of industry best practice, and begin requiring the most liberal interpretation possible of regulations as written, it's time to start dialing back what you're willing to let slide.

Even with these "minor tweaks" to every fuselage, the airframe can reasonably be assumed to have further problems.

As a for instance, what happens if a dual flameout in flight occurs? Does the Ram Air Turbine make enough power to run the Flight Control Computer and all it's dependencies to ensure the MCAS functionality stays intact until the plane can be safely touched down?

If not, will there be simulator training so pilots are prepared?

There is more than enough publicly available information to be cause for concern.
> Standing above in their white tower, yelling down "but the math says you're wrong" doesn't matter if nobody's having any fun.

Even Wizards of the Coast (WotC) struggles with this in Magic: the Gathering, and that game has been around for over 25 years and remains King of the paper TCGs. Counterspells, discard, and land destruction are all very balanced effects, but a plurality of the players hate them so much that WotC eventually made those effects more expensive or less reliable.

One of the keys of game design is that your first goal is not to build something that's balanced; it's to build something that's fun to play. Making something balanced and competitive, though necessary, are secondary to the enjoyment of the game.
AI can simulate quantum systems without computing power
I think people get a little over zealous with CPU requirements on games. If my eight year old Xeon 5676 can handle every past and present game I throw at it, I think you'll be beyond spec for years to come with a Zen 2(or any modern processor).
Yeah, lol, I’m like procrastinating on all the stuff people are flexing on here.

Let’s not make it seem like mowing a lawn or doing some minor handiwork around the house is more than a little kids job.
Only partially. There are diminishing returns on cache size.
Wait, so companies are potentially not meeting the terms and conditions of the subsidies they receive, and this is somehow the government’s fault?
What do you not like about web development, if you don't mind my asking?
> people tend to assume that if a product is superior in one dimension then it must be inferior in other dimensions.

Assuming price is one of the dimensions, this is generally a true statement. Otherwise we'd have a bunch of best-in-class products that are cheaper than inferior competitors.

This can occur for products sold at massive scale and with large tooling costs. This dynamic enables the producers of premium products to manufacture at lower cost than smaller-scale competitors. But usually they don't set their prices lower--they just enjoy higher profits.
It's Django running on AWS Lambda. The frontend is done in Bootstrap MD. No other JS besides the Bootstrap stuff and some handwritten.

Django: https://www.djangoproject.com/

Bootstrap MD: https://mdbootstrap.com/
>New ford vehicles ship with a wireless hotspot

to be used by... other phones

>A lot of laptops come with sim slots

really only useful if you're working on a train or something because most stationary places you'd use a laptop at has wifi.

>Is a tablet a phone? What about a phone that has a usb-c port that can drive display port (or UltraGig) and supports bluetooth peripherals?

Not sure where you're trying to get at here, but everything you've described is already covered by your prior point about laptops.

>Why would anyone want to deal with cable or dsl when everything already runs over IP anyways and they already have a phone plan?

data caps? I'd take a 1TB data cap on cable/dsl over an "unlimited" 5g plan with some arbitrary FUP.
In South Korea, people actually move to 5G; it's not something like just a marketing buzzword :-o

I've seen about ~20 of my friend switching to 5G phones, partially because Youtube buffers when seeing 1080p videos on the 4G network.
What does that have to do with OO? Is there something unique about OO that makes it superior for "facilitating the adoption of proprietary languages and code by third-party application software developers"?
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It's not clear from your reference (and I've read a few of the further references) how Buran determined where to land exactly. Was there really no signalling from the ground present, as in the featured article?
this. I wish this comment was at the top of this thread. Saying that end-to-end encryption will somehow fix the Huawei threat is utter nonsense.
Scientists teleported quantum data into the flawed heart of a diamond
> If you say so, but it seems necessary to counter your apparent lack of empathy for people without perfect vision.

How is that any more helpful than me accusing you of an apparent lack of empathy for people with vision that can discern colors better than small symbols?

> Now you're just bending the discussion to your will.

Your argument was that not making all cables in a way that addresses all needs is saying "screw them all" to anyone else. But nothing has to work that way because total uniformity is not actually mandatory. It's completely reasonable to have a default that works well for most people and use something different for the people who need something different.
I just had fiber pulled into my home. It was no more difficult than the copper line which preceded it (which we used as a messenger to pull the copper through my buried conduit.) An aerial install would have been identical to copper.

Just for ongoing cost… I've been in the house for 30 years. I've had new copper pulled three times (twice for adding ISDN lines back in the day and once to bury the service). The copper lines have over the years required days of effort for the linemen to work their way back toward the switching office looking for bad connections. Every spring for a few years I used to have problems from moisture ingress to the lines. My neighborhood is older than telephones. All of the pairs on the poles were in use and they had to work their way back through the lead clad lines to repair mine instead of just switching to a good pair. Eventually in the days of DSL they lost me as a customer because they couldn't (or wouldn't) afford to give me a clean enough pair of copper for reliable service.

So from the phone company's standpoint they made a capital expenditure which was long overdue to nail up fiber to the poles, and for a 4 hour truck roll they got me back as a customer for probably a decade.

The fiber on the poles is made for easy installation. There are ports already in place for each house. The installer rolls out some bulk fiber in a black cladding with some sort of tensile element. The cross section is smaller than a copper line, so it fits anywhere the copper is. I didn't see how he terminated it after cutting, but it didn't take long.

… and my upstream speeds are now 50 times faster than the cable company could provide. Happy nerd.
You can read about the business model here: https://news.hoxly.com/credits
there is a Twitter account called "The Center For Decentralization" that used to post about this issue, but seems to have gone inactive for a long time. Too bad because the name of the account, with four words, sums up the core paradox of blockchainism better than anything I've seen since.
The MAX as it is would not exist if they went that way, as they would then have the freedom to say screw it and ditch all the excess baggage of maintaining the 737 type certificate.

No aerospace engineer worth their salt would have designed the MAX as is given the freedom to reconfigure and avoid all the problematic aerodynamics inherent to the design entirely.
The No-Algorithms Follow-Up
Proud to see it was solved using Mathematica :)
It’s a common fallacy to believe that wealth is zero sum. It’s also a common fallacy to believe that, since it’s not zero sum, gains by one group are uncorrelated to losses by another.

If the rich got richer, does that mean they took from the poor? No. But it also doesn’t mean they didn’t. As usual, you have to look at the specifics.

The world does have limited resources and capacity for economic growth. In your index fund example, a substantial chunk of those are being allocated to someone who already has plenty, and it would be a lot more useful if it went to someone who had less. That’s not exactly taking from the poor, but it’s not exactly not.
You seem pretty certain this will manifest as a noticeable performance hit. Can this kind of thing be easily measured in practice? I don't know if my workloads would be memory latency sensitive and worse, I don't even have a clue how I would find out.

I'm not too concerned though, since I already use Zen 1 and it looks to be around the same. If I had to take a shot in the dark, I'm guessing it's just a consequence of the chiplet designs of Zen and Zen 2 that enabled them to scale so well. If it is such a tradeoff and there is not future gains to be made on latency for Zen platforms, I can accept that.

Though it does make me curious if Intel will ever stumble upon the same problems.
> …OO libraries and frameworks are also a useful way to promote a hardware platform…

In my experience, that causality is backwards. Apple built a device that became insanely popular, and developers did whatever they needed to (e.g. learn Objective-C and UIKit) in order to be there. The particulars of the implementation almost don't matter, although of course Apple cares about the developer experience.
Right. I don't think it's controversial at all to say that the game would have been far more successful with a visible and statistically sound MMR (Elo, Glicko, whatever). I played Artifact for maybe 30 hours. The free draft was fine, and I never engaged with the other forms of gameplay so the predatory economics didn't directly affect my experience.

But in the end I had no way of knowing whether I was getting any better, and the games ended up feeling totally meaningless.
> that was a Pycon talk from 2003

Haskell's from 1990 - it's older than Python.
> C++ doesn't have a standardized ABI

It does: the "Itanium ABI" (initially for IA64, adopted for other architectures).
That’s basically what Valve in general got too comfortable with. Loot boxes brought in a ton of cash and they realized they didn’t have to make real games anymore.

We could have had new Left 4 Dead.

IMO they ruined TF2. I haven’t really played it in a while because every time I do it’s all completely different and just a joke.
Changing the name means a new type cert. It means new a wider scope of design. It means new flight tests, from scratch. It is a very meaningful action.
End of Life Plan for ACMEv1
About now, stars over 60 light-years away are receiving our I Love Lucy episodes. I wonder what they make of [1]. Will they have a sense of humor, or will they thinks it's some kind of documentary?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPzLBSBzPI
Direct link to press release, as I was rather put-off by TNW's editorialized-simplification of the study: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/ynu-rti06251...
GL called the GL-AR300MD a beta product.
Really? Are you really using some random data points to discredit an scientific consensus?
Marijuana is outlawed due to social conservatism.

Privacy must be preserved for the same reason since we still haven’t yet lived without privacy for long enough to see the consequences.
Would this be dissimilar to undercutting a competitor? For example Ryzen 3rd gen chips seem to out perform, and undercut the price, of Intel chips with a similar feature set. Maybe brand is a dimension?
> Making something balanced and competitive, though necessary, are secondary to the enjoyment of the game.

That's generally not true today, where 'organic' marketing driven by professional streamers is a large part of potential players' initial exposure to a game. Streamers can easily kill a game in its infancy simply by providing negative feedback (as we're seeing here).

But the pro players will only commit if they think there will be a successful pro scene revolving around a balanced, relatively low RNG, high-skill-cap game.

So developers are forced to attempt to appeal to two very different markets and occasionally stumble badly.
I’m questioning my sense of humor because everyone here seemed to have enjoyed the tone of the article, while I was quite put off by it.
Isn't commit signing a bit like NuGet package signing? Not worth it unless _everyone_ does it all the time? Any valid commit doesn't necessarily invalidate unsigned commits. It only means this commit is really done by me, but it doesn't me the other commit wasn't done by me.
> Be careful not to breath in any dust (or eat anything!) from the drive, as they do contain some exciting elements.

Can you expand on this? Which elements?
The downvotes prove your point, wow.
Good Catch! I was being overly reductive! I should have said:

I realize this is a rather shallow simulator working more closely on the with the view layer than the underlying model/hardware, but...
I have been thinking a lot about how to implement a categories type feature. Right now the closest thing is "Filters" which allow you to basically follow keywords and customize your homepage based on what text appears in the headlines. Kinda like Google News alerts.

Right now, I'm thinking maybe it would be good to add tags to stories which would reduce some of the problems with filters.
I have the same reservations. What impetus is there to compete against entrenched cartels/monopolies? Inevitably 5G will have the same 1TB cap Comcast invented in order to juice profits off the death of cable television.

LTE had the same promise. Best case 5G takes off, media conglomerates attempt to purchase/merge with new ISPS/old telecoms rolling out 5G, the government inevitably doesn't enforce antitrust, and we're in the exact same place we're at now.
Millfork: Mid-level programming language targeting 6502, 8080 and Z80 machines
This raises the perennial question of whether product placement is a legitimate source of funding for fundamental scientific research.

After placing an ice-cube in my delicious glass of refreshing coca-cola brand carbonated beverage, I yelled Eureka! and jumped out of the bath.

Is that really how it happened? Is it not inconsistent with the pursuit of truth?
Physical Magic cards hold their value really well, and, in general, increase in value.

In comparison, MTG Arena costs less overall, but there is no way to cash out. I have nothing of value. Just an account with digital cards. I could sell the account, but I'm sure that's against the TOS. That's how most digital card games work. I didn't play Artifact but it seems like a huge ripoff.
Hopefully it leads to software-based spherical aberration correction too, which may mean better perceived quality with the same lenses, or even thinner/cheaper lenses over time.

Or maybe they'll find a way to apply it to make better lenses that need less software-based corrections. They struggle a lot not just with clarity at the edges but god rays and glare too.
> Wealth is not zero sum

But what relative wealth buys - a safer, more comfortable position in society - definitely is.
SEV is claimed to be present on Ryzen Embedded, https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/ryzen_embedded/v1605b#Featu...

Available on UDOO Bolt, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/udoo/udoo-bolt-raising-...

At least AMD made DRTM (SKINIT) available on consumer CPUs, where Intel still keeps DRTM (TXT) limited to business vPro chipsets. ECC is available on some CPU/motherboard/bios combinations for Ryzen, although ECC and low-power for Ryzen APUs is segmented to "Pro" models only available to OEMs.

It's still near impossible to buy devices with Ryzen Embedded, despite several system announcements from ASRock, but SEV is available today on Supermicro Epyc 3000 mITX motherboards.
This is incorrect. Fly-by-Wire makes minimal difference when the basic aerodynamics are flawed and non-compliant. Airframe certifiability is behavior based. You must meet a prescribed set of behaviors, while lacking any prescriptive misbehaviors. The idea is an airframe in it's minimally "assisted" state should demonstrate basic airworthy characteristics.

A plane should be airworthy even if the majority of it's automation has suffered a casualty.
Not an optical expert, just also interested in optics for VR/AR :)
I tried Artifact for a little while but got really into this other card game called Prismata around the same time. I suspect artifact would have done a lot better 5 years ago, when there weren't so many digital trading card games. Valve should have stuck to what they do best, which is waiting for people to make cool mods of their games and then buying / remaking them. Fortunately they seem to have wound up doing that anyways with Underlords.
To clarify: the innovation isn't that they design better lenses. It's that given the first surface of a lens, they have an analytical formula for the lens's second surface so that the lens doesn't exhibit spherical aberration. Traditionally, numerical methods are used to compute this second surface instead of an analytical formula. Also, as a practical matter, designers often use several spherical lenses instead of a few aspherics because the latter are harder to manufacture/more expensive.
It's a good article if you enjoy jokes and references about photographers and how they behave. It's not a good article if you want a minimum of fluff and just want to understand what the discovery is and why it might be significant.
Or maybe not... (linking the reddit link with summary because it's a quicker initial read): https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/691o8m/k...
> probably not a sustainable option

In fact it's probably the most sustainable option. The conquistadors during the age of discovery claimed to come in peace more than once. Until humanity has the power to destroy stars and FTL technologies I would stay very very quiet. We are very much hunter gatherers to any space faring civilization... Until you are on equal technological footing in the ability to resist invasion or conquest there is no point in attracting potential conquerors.

Being able to destroy stars is very similar to having nukes in that stars are very difficult to protect and their destruction devastating to all planets which circle around them.
> If the price was the only problem, you'd still expect to see people playing draft regularly, at least in the interim, especially since there are free drafts you can play. But there's more wrong with this game than just how they priced it.

Fwiw, price _was_ my only problem and i still stopped playing. Why? Because it felt the game's intentions differed from mine. It felt like the game was trying to be Magic, where as i just wanted to play a card-dota game - not invest in some market, continually buying packs, etc.

In addition to this, the drama and complaints surrounding the market also made me feel like the game was doomed for failure. And the type of game it was made me not want to play it if it died (unlike a single player game, where i'd happily play regardless of other people).

Just my 2c / context.
I do for a slack app. I have to queue the writes to avoid lock related errors but writes are relatively rare for the app so that’s no problem.

I also use SQLite for data analysis. If the data isn’t very big I always prefer it to ORC of Parquet because it enables full SQL. SQLite let’s you keep every table in a separate file and then use “attach database” to reference them into a query . It’s pretty ideal.
Please don’t presume to know my position on this. I never said whether I do or I don’t find this objectionable.

I asked you to expand on your comment, that is all.
Amsterdam Deals
You mean Zapp Brannigan.
Why Male Lions Sleep 20 Hours a Day
Modern Life is so complex.

And in many situations , telling whether they're zero sum, is uncertain, and hard. Look at the debates here for example.

So people default to what they already generally know.

They know that society is very competitive. The job market is very competitive. The mating market is very competitive. Zero sum games are everywhere.

So it's no wonder they have this cognitive bias.
It seems like the bulk of your concern is about the voting specifically. I'm curious if the voting aspect of the credit system were removed and voting worked more like it does on Reddit/HN (one vote per user), but the other aspects of it were left intact would that alleviate most of your concerns?

Specifically, it would still cost credits to leave comments, submit stories and facts, but not to vote.
The Tyranny of Trendy Ideas in Academia
Ask HN: If you're a remote worker, what tools do you use?
Where do you work?
What tools does your employer expect you to use? Slack, JIRA, etc. or any employee monitoring tools?
Think about Trump tax-cuts, who benefited most, the big corporations. That meant they made more profit which meant their stock price went up. Which meant people who owned stock got richer, and if you owned a lot of stock much richer. Whereas poor people who can't afford to put money aside for stock-investing did not get any less poor and they did not get tax-breaks or government support-programs either. They didn't get better infra-structure so travel for them would be cheaper and food fresher etc.

Point is it does not matter if rich got richer. What matters is the tax-system that (at least under Trump) favors the rich and produces growing inequality.
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