skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does it have to be roads?

All airports have more than enough free space as it is, which can be used to set up solar panels in the most optimal way.
I remember when people were so conditioned on Web banner ads that even non commercial sites added graphics in the same place and size because otherwise it felt wrong. I see sugar and sweeteners added to anything edible in certain countries because the populations pallet is conditioned to expect it. I remember a time where teens were so used to low bandwidth overcompressed music downloads they actually started to feel that was the way music was supposed to sound and preferred it over the original recording...

Thanks, but no thanks.
Never thougt of them. Great indeed.
That's what I meant. And we need something better than IMAP/POP to have a fighting chance in challenging google. Because without it IMAP will, without doubt, loose market share even more - further cementing the dominance of larger players.

That is why protocol fiddling is an essential part of it. Not enough, but without something better than IMAP might as well give up yesterday (as most already have done).
So do I.

But syncing mail with IMAP isn't good enough and many features of webmail clients do not map to IMAP clients. There are also tons of caveats during configuration so tons of people, rightfully so, don't bother.
Many people type with Cangjie because that's what gets taught. Very few people know Jyutping, and even fewer type with it; most people encountering Jyutping for the first time wouldn't know how to pronounce it, largely because of the unfamiliar 'j' and 'eo'.

For day to day transliterations of names etc there's actually no standard, just some loose rules based on English pronunciation.
The author is from Singapore and writing from the perspective of a graduate with fang jobs to his juniors. Also, looks like it showcases some software(Docusaurus) he made at facebook.
Author should have tried CRTs. They can run at a plethora of refresh rates.
That wouldn't work. Either Amazon has to ship sturdy containers for the lock to be of any use, or thieves would just break it apart with tools.

There's a reason why safes need to be bolted to the floor; a safe that's not bolted can just be taken away and opened somewhere else with appropriate tools.
Immensely useful which I am forever grateful that it exists. I've made use of it thoroughly during a search engine indexer test I ran back in 2013, which allowed me to pretty much download and index (download + indexing in one go) an entire country (Romania) pages in less than 1 hour on a laptop with only 4GB ram and i7 Ivy Bridge processor (Zenbook UX21 a particularly).

All the components I've wrote are optimized to the core (short of going assembly). It allowed me to scale my operations up to 10000 processes continuously for the duration of the test. All this was done on a 4G connection with roughly 40Mbps bandwidth at the time on a virtualized (VirtualBox) CentOS LAMP installation.

It blew all my expectations, without parallel it would taken more than a month. Learned a lot from the experience developing it and maybe will make a post sharing what I've learned.

In regards to being complicated, well it isn't really when you consider its use scenarios, for these sorts of tasks, it's a indispensable tool.

Think of it this way: It is far less difficult than the difficulty of the tasks where you need to use it.
This seems to be comparing a hand implemented neural network in python (and numpy) and one in rust. Even in this simple case, the author discovers that in the python case, most of the time is spent in non-python linear algebra libraries.

Most of the major deep learning frameworks for python (tensorflow, keras, torch, mxnet, etc) will not normally be spending the majority of their time in python. Typically, the strategy is to use python to declare the overall structure of the net, and where to load data from, and then the actual heavy lifting will be done in optimized libraries written probably in C++ (or fortran, I seem to recall BLAS used fortran).
Edge Insider is quite nice and it keeps me from having to use Chrome.
I'm a Software Architect who made a progressive move to that role after being a Sr. Software Engineer for almost a decade. I see the distinction as pretty simple. We do the same things, but, we specialize in terms of time spent and breadth of awareness and contact in the business.

As far as skills go I expect to maintain my coding skills and as far as what I know more about than other SE's is not about skill as much as it is about practicality of time spent. We need the devs to be writing code/implementing every day and the architects spend more time on the, well, architecture as well as business interfacing and planning side.

So that's basically it, the difference is where we spend our time and focus. It's more about roles and needs of the group than about the skill set. At least, that's what I'd hope. Anyone thinking they are a Senior level engineer who can't understand the concepts of software architecture needs to rethink their position and maybe broaden their skill set a bit, imho.
Brooks famously showed up to correct himself: the book advocates against information hiding but he later changed his mind and said encapsulation was a good thing.
One thing I've experienced with Apple's tracker blocking is that the WSJ guest pass doesn't persist across sessions. It's supposed to last for 7 days (and does on Chrome), but on Safari I have to enter it fresh every time. I wonder: if the WSJ took steps to make their guest pass persist, would Apple view this as a security vulnerability?
Online privacy for average people will never be a fair fight. Someone needs to draw tighter lines.
I wonder if I can blitz Apple's newly revamped bug bounty program to make a boatload of money by reporting websites that track?
only because reasonable opinion were downvoted to hell from the easily excitable crowd. I distinctly remember because I was amongst the downvoted, and dirt/rubber was one of the common concern, and it's weird to read in the article "engineers didn't think about the leaves" like, randos on internet could tell you that, what kind of cheap ass engineers were involved in the design and feasibility phase?
Looks perfectly fine on Firefox. Maybe you need an upgrade :)
Then propose a better system. State censorship is not it.
This seems like more good news from Apple.

TFA is a little incoherent, however.

> Publishers and companies rely heavily on online tracking — i.e. collecting (anonymized) data about a user’s activity on the web — to keep tabs on your every move as you hop from one site to the other. [emphasis added]

> While this is typically used for targeted advertising, the implications go beyond just serving relevant ads in that it allows marketers to create detailed dossiers about your interests — resulting in significant loss of privacy.

> This involves the use of cookies, tracking pixels, browser and device fingerprinting, and other adtech-based navigational tracking methods intended to amass browsing activities and build elaborate profiles of web users.

None of that is at all "anonymized".
But doesn’t this also mean that as a country, Britain or the US can “tax” the economic growth in an arbitrary country which uses its currency as reserve?

As Botswanna’s economy expands, it needs to print more money to conduct all the transactions and take advantage of the increased resources provided by an increasingly-skilled workforce. As that country’s central bank prints more money, it tries to acquire more GBP or UK treasury bills to hold in reserve. In order to do that, Botswana spends its own currency in Britain. Britons can trade this Botswanan currency in exchange for the right to receive some amount of goods/services from the people of Botswana. So britons have gained some goods as a result of Botswana’s economic expansion.

... in exchange for the possibility of needing to give someone goods whenever GBP stops being a reserve currency.

Or have I completely misunderstood international monetary policy interactions?
Is We a tech-first company?
Scarcity alone is not enough to make something valuable.

The value of gold comes from the fact that is has been a financial hedge (safe haven, at least to some degree) for a very long time, and presumably will continue to be for a very long time.

I'm not sure if that is a correct use of "financial hedge" but it seems to get the point across. Gold is not necessarily a good store of value, but its downside is certainly much more limited than a lot of other things.
But not an advertised one as far as I can tell now. So I don't believe they were doing anything like that.
Lol:

> the court made several observations regarding the nature and content of the commercial. These included (among others) that:

> "The callow youth featured in the commercial is a highly improbable pilot, one who could barely be trusted with the keys to his parents' car, much less the prize aircraft of the United States Marine Corps."

> "The teenager's comment that flying a Harrier Jet to school 'sure beats the bus' evinces an improbably insouciant attitude toward the relative difficulty and danger of piloting a fighter plane in a residential area."

> "No school would provide landing space for a student's fighter jet, or condone the disruption the jet's use would cause."
I have a similar issue I think: I can't get YouTube to remember my Autoplay, Dark Mode and language settings at all, even though I'm logged in.

EDIT: Maybe not 'not at all', but it's remembered for a very short while anyway.
Herd immunity is a decent argument. Still, it is hard to evaluate the effectiveness of the solutions out there.
If you find this interesting “other minds” by Peter Godfrey Smith is an excellent book.
For a long time people have said that tracking will be an endless arms race between blockers and ads. You know what else is an endless arms race? Malware. However for many purposes the arms race has been "won" by companies like Apple: vulnerabilities exist, but they are not a major part of the daily life of Mac users. Apple provisionally won the malware arms race, maybe they can win against tracking too.
> Adobe should release the source, but probably doesn't due to all the security holes that probably are waiting to be found. Of course, that is speculation.

The AS3 spec, compiler and runtime/VM are all open source, have been since at least 2008 IIRC. Details are in the wikipedia page you linked, third paragraph.

Aside: discussions of Flash or its legacy have an unfortunate tendency to get derailed by FUD, so it would perhaps be useful to avoid speculation like this where possible.
Algorithms are great but in the real world what matters is being able to recognise a class of problem then go to the literature e.g. Knuth to find the right one. No working programmers know every algorithm off the top of their heads.

The classic detect a loop in a linked list question. The original guy took years to devise the algorithm for it. In an interview either you’ve seen it before, in which case you rattle it off, or you have to write a research paper effectively in 5 minutes.
Because it is an opportunity for quick arbitrage - you get paid to accept trash shipment, you pretend to process it (on paper) and then you simply incinerate or dump trash.

In a country like Malaysia or Thailand with lax regulation, corruption and poor enviroment standards it is an opportunity for some and problem for all.

https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-malaysia-plastic-20...

> Some attributed it to the periodic air pollution Malaysia suffers when farmers burn crops in neighboring Indonesia. But Pua, a chemist, knew better. Over the next several weeks, she and a few others traced the smell to a growing number of factories that had cropped up on the outskirts of the town of 30,000 and were taking in truckloads of plastic.

Some of the crude facilities were tucked into oil palm plantations or surrounded by walls of tin sheets. Others made no effort to evade notice.

> Driving home from dinner one evening in June, Pua saw smoke rising from a large plant right along the highway — and was hit with that same noxious odor.

“They were doing it every day,” she said. “We felt helpless.”

> In July, after months of ignoring her complaints, local officials shut down 34 illegal recycling plants in Kuala Langat, prompting a national outcry that resulted in a three-month pause on new plastic waste imports. About 17,000 metric tons of waste was seized, but is too contaminated to be recycled. Most of it is likely to end up in a landfill.
I wonder if this will undo, in large parts, the "new" web that's being worked on for the better part of this millenium. Third-party cookies are blocked, presumably YouTube-like redirection to make cookies first-party are detected, other cookies are held no longer than a week, etc. So advertisers will turn to browser fingerprinting, so soon we'll see requesting window/viewport dimensions as being flagged as insecure. Even CSS media queries aren't safe as they can trivially be used for fingerprinting (and I have seen CSS where max-width was beeing queried in steps of 3 pixels out of sheer incompetence). Also caching/timing "attacks" for fingerprinting. And finally, arbitrary JavaScript execution will be questioned, as it should've been a long time ago. It'll be interesting to see this arms race enroll, with Apple protecting their users (and also their apps and iDevice market) and Google protecting their version of freedom (and unchecked privacy invasion and monopolization of the ad space and web). Hint: I've recently purchased an iPhone
It gets better, Chrome is caching YT stream, but if you ever decide to rewind to already watched part it will forcefully re-fetch data from the server.

All chrome does is burn thru your SSD write cycles.
I work out of a WeWork location sometimes. I don't like the product and only work out of WeWorks because I need to for my job. I would never choose to be a "member" on my own.

Here's why I'm not a fan: The interiors are cheesey, badly designed, and generally seem poorly built (things are janky and break way too easily). It's often hard to find a good place to work in the common areas - pop music is blasting in the main common areas and the few phone booths and quiet corners are often full (people sometimes just work in phone booths, which is annoying). The fact that you have to pay to use conference rooms (at least with my company's contract) and you have to pay for granola bars and other snacks feels kinda nickel-and-dimey. (There is free coffee, and free beer but during the workday I'm not usually looking to drink a pint.) Also there's a theme of forced happiness everywhere (the mugs all say "do what you love" or "always half full"), which feels at best like vapid corporate fluff and at worst kinda cult-like, but either way it's mildly off-putting. Finally, they often invite salespeople from different companies to set up tables in the common area to sell/advertise random stuff, which isn't that big a deal but monetizing their tenants' attention during their work day kinda seems at odds with "building a community" and "elevating consciousness" and all.

I like the concept of a global coworking space network. I'm just not a fan of WeWork's implementation.

My bet is that in ten years WeWork will end up a bit like Groupon is today - still going, but far from the world-changing force they were once hyped to be. Of course, a lot of weird stuff can happen and maybe they'll end up dominating the worlwide office market, or maybe they'll flame out spectacularly in a couple of years.
All of the main parties in the UK keep skirting around the start of the solution to "rebalancing" the economy: massively increased taxes on the rich to pay for the required investment. This is not a new idea; low taxes for the wealthy are a relatively modern phenomenon yet the social mobility gap has been getting wider. There is surely enough support for it among a properly informed plebiscite, but they are never given the option or they are lied to or given the idea that this tax might affect them when they get super wealthy.
Outcome perfectly predicted at the time. And no, you do not need to eat a dog feces sandwich to know it tastes bad.
If only there was some sort of regional currency, less susceptible to a single country’s economic changes, that one could use...
Oh, you haven't heard of Ramen Hero? [1] This is apparently a thing. At least ramen is a complete meal though. I eat lots of spinach (6 days a week) and like Indian food, but I would not consider this service because it is much too expensive for a side dish, and one that is widely available fresh and frozen (and in IMO is not made that much worse by freezing).

1: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1091208024/ramen-hero-t...
Seems like manufactured plateaued in the late 2000s, at least compared to its historical growth rate.
Is that why its using ~150MB per open TAB while Opera 12.x used 15MB on same websites? :) Lets not kid ourselves.
> I am not sure what the race of murder victims has to do with gun death rates, the race of the gun using murderer is more important...

The race of a murderer is strongly correlated with the race of the victim. "As with homicide in general, most victims are the same race as the offender(s)....More than 80 percent of all crime involves victims and perpetrators of the same race. Whites and African Americans of course can and do attack each other, but they are the exception, not the rule. "

> young white Christian men have a mass murder problem, somehow they are being radicalized.

There is definitely a mass murder problem, but it isn't particularly biased toward young (mean age 31) or white (54% of shooters out of 60+% population share). It is overwhelmingly male (especially for perpetrators - 98% of mass murder perpetrators, but also for victims - 75% of murder victims).

Not sure where you're getting the idea that Christians in particular are committing the shootings - there doesn't seem to be a lot of data or discussion of the religion of the perpetrators.

"Despite the widespread perception that mass shooters are overwhelmingly white males, researchers have found that white men are not overrepresented among mass shooters. In other words, white men are no more likely than other male demographic to engage in a mass shooting. Daniel Engber, writing for Slate, noted that mass shooters are not disproportionately white male. He writes that “the notion that white men of privilege are disproportionately represented among mass shooters—indeed, that they make up ‘nearly all’ of them—is a myth.” A widely referenced analysis by Mother Jones (mentioned earlier) found that “white people weren’t overrepresented among mass shooters. "

Statistics change if you include other types of mass shootings (family more white, felony more black) which are much more common than the "public mass shootings".

https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/who-are-mass-shooters-mass...
If the tracking is done by a site you directly visit, no. Only cross-site tracking, like Google do to build ad profiles, is targeted for blocking.

I guess the next step for advertisers will be to enlist the websites themselves to send through more user data.
Isn’t it strange that an article that has a very specific title immediately changes the topic and starts promoting brave—a browser that practically nobody uses, and has a controversial business model—while there are companies like Mozilla, that have proven record of protecting users’ privacy online? It’s not the first time I’ve seen this aggressive, misleading, promotional articles, which makes you wonder about if Eich and friends are desperate to hype their Ware by injecting brave into this clickbait articles?
There's a standard maximum height for vehicles that is taken into account for freeway bridges, so your first argument is nonsense.

The rest still stands, of course. If you absolutely do want to put solar panels in the same place as cars, starting with parking lots is clearly a better idea. Fewer problems with high speed collisions, the electricity is generated closer to where it's needed, and people will be thankful for having parking in the shade. (Still more expensive than putting panels on a roof or field of course.)
I think BLAS is a spec rather than one library. So your version may or may not be fortran. I do think the original "reference implementation" was written in fortran, which is sometimes called "The BLAS library" but I think most BLAS you see in the wild are not that.
What do you suggest? German domination of the Euro has exactly the same effect on Southern Europe, the so-called PIGS.
The name loop implies it runs the jobs sequentially, while the main feature of GNU parallel is to run the jobs in parallel. Maybe this is also possible with loop, but I don't see that option.
There are 77,000km of interstate in the USA. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System)

There are 4,000,000km of paved roads. (https://www.roadtraffic-technology.com/features/featurethe-w...)

That puts your estimate out by a factor of maybe 25 or more (depending on road width) if all roads are converted to solar. And that's before the other paved areas like parking lots.

I'm not advocating solar roads. They're a strange idea with many, many flaws, but the inefficiency aspect isn't one of them. If you want to generate lots of electricity with solar you can have one very efficient array, or lots of inefficient arrays. Solar roads are the inefficient one.
If we're talking about the same kind of thing, I don't consider those to be skills. For example I've seen resumes which list every javascript library they've ever used. Or every UNIX command they know how to run or similar minutia.

This tells me the person doesn't know the difference between skills and implementation details, so I don't need to proceed to an interview.
This is the strength of python, though, and one you cannot ignore. Python is old, and has fast C ops for everything you may want to accomplish. There's no shame in that method in benchmarks.
...if only that currency was controllable by Britain's government according to Britain's needs, instead of being run according to some other country's interests to propel its own economy (using a number of satellite states to vote in its favor) -- and causing the exact same problem the grandparent described in the periphery countries...
They had one of these places in downtown Palo Alto (Town and Country shopping center). It lasted a year or two, despite being directly across from Palo Alto High School, which every day mobbed the shopping center with lunch traffic. I was surprised it went under so quickly. Apparently it is not quite the holy grail after all? I went there and liked it well enough!
At least if Nazis implement Nazi laws themselves, all the blame's on them. If the supposed non-Nazis implement Nazi laws that Nazis don't even have to change, that just shows that your law system was already fascist.
That’s one possible approach. The one I favour is a total moratorium on new building work in the South East. That’s the only way to force both workers and companies to look to the North.

The problem with “tax the rich” is that the numbers of truly rich are tiny and you could swallow their entire fortunes and they’ll be gone in a week. Exercise for the reader, how long would Richard Branson’s entire wealth run the NHS for?
Being affected by noise doesn't mean you get a source of noise that has the particular properties you want (namely, not compressible / not predictable in a statistical fashion).

You can take 'bad' sources of noise and make them better, but these generally require a fair bit of math [1] and can be costly to implement. At that point, why not just use a PRNG a la urandom?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor
The ECB is not unbiased in the slightest, they always favour the northern states.
Republicans aren't science-illiterate. Spreading that myth is a great way to have people immediately tune out from listening to your remaining arguments.

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/03/28/what-american...