skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interpreted the post the same way.
> the whole point is to be well ahead of what most people can understand

That’s not the case at all. Being at the leading edge of research should mean that you are creating new knowledge. That doesn’t imply that people cannot understand it. This expectation that laypeople cannot possibly understand science is one of the reasons so many papers are written so densely and obtusely. “They” can’t understand it anyway, right?

Feynman said if he couldn’t explain it to freshmen he didn’t understand it himself.
The folks who use CentOS over RHEL wouldn’t likely use RHEL even if CentOS lagged much longer imho. You don’t buy RHEL generally because you want it faster, you buy it because you want the support.
Trust is a curious one, it's not the antithesis of science, indeed it's required for science to actually work rather than simply be an idea.

You trust in people, in consistency of physical laws, in coherency of your own mind, in constancy of temporal flow, in so many things because - as the Pyrrhonist refrains - nothing is certain, not even this.
I think they're really overstepping it here, making the browser itself an ad delivery vector.
The OpenAI approach to managing the release of the larger dataset strikes me as totally flawed and upside down. The biggest concern the team seem to have is that the fully trained GPT2 model will be used to spread propaganda and misinformation. They also imply that the biggest hurdle to training a similar model is money needed to pay for the training resources.

The problem with this approach is that the users most likely to be malicious users of GPT2 are state actors. China, for example, already spends millions on an immense propaganda factory. Money is not a serious obstacle for a state. Given that other research entities are, by the sound of things, already far along with development of similar models it seems unlikely that China and the US don't already have functional models internally.

On the other hand, legitimate business and research is clearly hamstrung by withholding the full model. What we have is the maximum degree of inconvenience and the minimum degree of security. It feels almost perfectly analogous to ban on liquids in airports. The motivation for that ban was that existing security measures couldn't detect liquids, but simply announcing a ban was to be enforced didn't change the fact that liquids were undetectable. Instead millions of travelers were pointlessly inconvenienced at great cost.

Release the kraken already!
Very interesting article.

I think what a lot of these articles lack is a discussion of the role that monetary policy plays in the financialization of the American (and, indeed, global) economy. While I agree that there are other factors that lead to the rise of shareholder primacy, I think the most important one is the distortion of relative capital proportions in the economy largely caused through the mechanism of monetary inflation.

I find it odd how there is so little literature on this apart from books and papers from the relatively fringe (but no less accurate) Austrian school of economics. Inflation is not something that happens everywhere in the economy at the same time (the Cantillon effect). Inflationary central banking policies benefit those who are closest (relatively) to the money printer, and in modern Western economies this is almost always financial firms and those who marshal capital. Large inflows of money (inflows that have vastly increaed sinced 2008 after the advent of extensive quantitative easing) allow those close to the central bank to have a larger purchasing power than the rest of the economy as inflation has not "trickled down" yet. This allows said financial firms to purchase assets, invest in companies, and capture value in ways they would otherwise not be able to do and in scales that are completely unnatural. And yes, this includes venture capital firms (for many of us who work in startups, we are among those who are relatively closer to central banks, hence the ridiculous salaries). As there is much more money flowing in the system but less "real" wealth, much of this money heads to equity markets to chase returns, and the result is what is described in the article.

This distortion of the capital base allows financial firms to hold and direct more capital than they otherwise would, so it is no wonder that the financialisation of the American economy and increases in general economic inequality globally largely began after the gold standard was abolished in 1971 and central bank printing presses were set free.

Indeed, I would go so far to say that the real fix to this problem is to abolish inflation targeting (and by consequence the central planning of the money supply through central banks).
It’s possible to raise chickens as part of a broader regenerative system where much of the feed is an output from elsewhere in that system. This has been done profitably by folks like Joel Salatin, but it has its own constraints (for example, availability of pasture land).
We've got a few people asking for double USB-A+C when we launched Solo, but I personally don't feel particularly excited about a dual plug key.

This said, if anyone here would like to give it a shot... our hardware is open source so relatively easy to add both plugs, firmware should just work, and I'm happy to support with manufacturing. I would highly recommend to test the market first (landing page, or even crowdfunding campaign).
I know systemd is controversial, and frankly I think its lame because it doesn't follow the simplicity and reliability of previous designs, but this sounds like "yet another linux trashfire" issue.
Municipal wastewater treatment does not use expensive treatment or chemicals. It is a huge bioreactor where the only input is aeration and stirring.
There would be a written contract between the two companies outlining Tesla's responsibilities. If this case proceeds that far, it would definitely be part of the evidentiary record.
This would be pretty handy for indoor mapping. Imagine a crowd-sourced 3d OSM for malls, public buildings, office-plans ect.

That would be massively useful.
Also, see the book Cornered by Barry C. Lynn, who argues that over the last couple decades, the U.S. economy has been mostly taken over by monopolies, so we don't have much open free market competition anymore.

The monopolies generally aren't obvious. For example, we have three major car companies, but they all get their parts from the same suppliers. In 2009 Ford asked Congress to bail out Chrysler and GM, because if either of them went down, so would Ford's suppliers.
man.sr.ht has an API which is equivalent to git.sr.ht's API except for the portions which deal with querying git data:

https://man.sr.ht/git.sr.ht/api.md

So you can create and manage repos over the API today. We're still figuring out a good API design for fetching hg data over REST.
People in general are hard to "manage". Expectations that every one can be treated the same and the breathtaking unawareness within tech of the arbitrariness of social norms and customs generally only exacerbates all of these difficulties. What we need, even more than understanding of ASD, is awareness and empathy in general.
No other car company claims to sell the safest car ever made.

When you make outlandish statements like that you have to expect increased scrutiny.
>Is there a calculable upper limit to the amount of sargassum that could be produced by the ocean if it were aggressively being removed?

I suppose the biggest limiting factor will be whatever minerals/nutrients it is taking from the water being in a sufficient volume in a given area. Although water temperature will probably matter considerably too.
> Can we hide the actual memory layout without big overhead using C++ inline/template functions/classes?

Not super easily because the array type needs to know the fields of the class it's containing to do the re-write. This is where you need more substantial codegen to enter the picture. Something like the metaclasses proposal should handle it just fine. Or macros in the meantime.
The fact that you feel like you’re “under the thumb” of companies that provide a majority of their software products for free is really a testament to how wealthy the market has made us.
Isn't that how is done in academic circles? Maybe not quantatively but qualitatively surely tenure boards or hiring boards or student applicants notice such things.
> available in those same foods in 1940.

I guess most people today eat much more than five times the amount commonly available to people in the bloody days of WWII.
AMD uses TSMC’s process, so PowerPC could end competing with x86 for Western consumers as well.
I'd suggest that it's not so much the particular words, it's that all the "oddball" words in the sentence are directly Latin-derived -- garrulous, taciturnity, voluble, reticence. This is what gives the sentence a somewhat forced tone - perhaps a good Anglo-Saxon term might provide a punch.

Probably the stock phrases, "collecting friends", "some measure of X", "all but the most", "style is contagious", don't help either.

The quoted words don't seem that well-crafted, but the content of the observation serves as a good character sketch.
I believe you can use catalysts and filters to get reasonably clean exhaust.
Hadn't heard of DTAM yet, but found a video and am very impressed! What GPU did you use? Do you think it'd be feasible on mobile GPUs?
Yeah I've found them to be of mixed quality. Mainly they're just high-level overviews, which I guess is fine as a primer (and for the price!)
Yes, there are 2nd order effects, and there are also a bunch of assumptions in basal rate calculations, and conversion efficiency etc. Your assumption that the current day surplus doesn't carry forward (i.e. that as someone gets heavier they done increase intake to account for increased basal metabolism) is also a pretty strong one.

Anyway I could have been clearer, but my point wasn't to suggest that you would end up exactly 200lb heavier, but that your calorie surplus adds up to roughly 200lb - exactly what happens to it depends on a lot of things.

This is response to someone who suggested they hadd seen a lot of clearly obese people who couldn't have got there on a few hundred extra kcal per day - however that doesn't seem accurate.
I think there's a big difference between something like a corporate campaign or voting ring where a bunch of comments show up to boost a product, and a case like the one I described where many people showed up organically to express an alternate point of view. For one thing, in the second case there is something to learn.

In general, though, you're right that users here should be using the site as intended, and that means not using it primarily for arguing about politics or nation.
And sometimes an old system actually does need a total rewrite because it's leaking PII everywhere, prone to completely crashing every couple of years and struggles to interface with automation.
And how many Baby Boomers?

More: When the Baby Boomers were 25, how many of them were planning to quit within 2 years?
I liked his comment that irrationals really aren’t that unreasonable in the common sense of the term. There are so many questions on Quora which demonstrate people are really uncomfortable with transcendental/irrational constants like pi and e. While you can approximate those as much as you like, the true monsters like Chaitin’s constant cannot be approximated at all.
I did write a Django project with SQL Alchemy and without any ORM whatsoever.

It made sense because it was database-heavy and UI-light.

Yes, you have to do a bit more when producing forms. You have to do it anyway if your DB operations are not simple CRUD.

Sure you lose much of admin stuff, too.

Django is a framework, a structure where you add (preferably small) pieces of your code to customize its behavior. If what you are building deviates seriously from what the framework was intended for, it quickly becomes more of nuisance than help. But within its subject area, a framework is highly efficient.
So they charge for their software but deploy it on centos instead of rhel?
Can we add this to the Geohashing app?
Programming term projects done in one evening, haha!
My Sudden Trip to Hell
Thrusters not strong enough to move the orbit in one go, they wait for it to along around to thrust again.
I am thrilled Keanu Reeves is back with Matrix. It was such a thought-provoking movie with a great actor.
And more questions, Correct me if I am wrong,

So this is opening up of POWER ISA, since there is quite a few different version or Revision of that, I assume that is the one beings used in POWER9 and in the future POWER10?

And it is more like RISC-V ISA open source rather than MIPS open source ?( I believe POWER was previously opened but with Cooperate Protection speak all over it ).

And this does not include Implementations, like POWER9?

I mean, if all of these were true, without implementation , or at leats licensing it for cheap, it still doesn't change the market one bit.
Why synthetic chemicals seem more toxic than natural ones
Did you create Easylang?
I'm lucky to have transitioned from web development to working on scientific computing desktop software. I started my career in aerospace engineering, but left it to chase the glitter and unicorns of fast-moving tech companies where I did a handful of Rails development and data science. After a few years, I really missed working on the technical challenges related to modeling complex simulation systems and managed to loop back around to work for the first company I worked for out of school.
That surprised me too. IMHO Tornado should be #3 after Django and Flask since AFAIK it has the best built-in support for writing hybrid HTTP/WebSocket servers in Python.

I use Tornado to serve the WebSocket backend for https://www.slickdns.com/live/. I've also used Django Channels to add WebSocket support to a Django app and found it very cumbersome compared to Tornado.
Thanks for the feedback! Fixed on both counts.
That sounds interesting.

Any links to further explain what DTAM is/how it works?
And what are your biases?

The thing is, it's not relevant to the discussion, either yours or anyone elses, because we're discussing issues, not investigating people or putting them on trial.

A point is a point, no matter who made it. It's up to you if you wish of course, to refute it, but by using argumentative devices, evidence, studies, or explaining how you arrived at your point of view only. Not via character assassination.

As an aside, I feel these accusations merely make some people shut up on here. I've actually loved this thread in general mostly because people have come out of the woodwork and explained why they think this or that, and there have been some really inquisitive questions.
Steve Reich: the composer with his finger on the pulse
Steam charges state sales tax on tax holiday because “steam” does not qualify
US gives Huawei another 90 days to buy products from American suppliers
That's the Art of the Deal. Set the initial position much higher than desired and retrench to actual one on push back.
> People pay good money for “sea salt”

true. and if the salt produced by this process if free of micro plastics, people might pay even more
I think that the point is that some things that we usually use to judge other people, aren’t necessarily good indicators of how successful they will be. Also, (and that has happened to me) we tend to put people into boxes (engineer, chemist, programmer, philosopher, etc). I am a chemist, for example, and I have had the opportunity to work for some companies and startups doing engineering (mechanical, industrial, and electrical) work. One of the most common things that I faced during my time working as an engineer, if you will, is the phrase, “but you are a chemist”. Meaning that some of them thought that because I was a chemist, I shouldn’t be able to do engineering work.
How clean is 'reasonably' clean?

Given so many parts of the world throw trash into rivers which is one of the main ways we get so much plastic in the ocean, this seems extremely wishful.

Seems like if we could avoid plastic in the first place, or have all plastic be biodegradable in a short time period, we'd be far better off.
So many apologists on this site its hilarious. I guess Walmart is against climate change!

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1130913917864034304?s=19

At won't point will you hear something that makes you doubt this company? Anything?
Reddit Enters Live Streaming with the Reddit Public Access Network
In the US, that could be construed as "Constructive Dismissal," where your job changes so much you have to resign. In California, at least, you'd have a strong claim for unemployment while you looked for your next (remote!) job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
Not sure what you're referring to. If you're a sole proprietor, then you'd file a Schedule C with your individual tax return. If you have a co-founder, he/she would need to file separately. Is that your plan or do you want to create a business together?
Well, I guess that's that :)

I cited a number of first hand pieces of evidence that are more directly evident to everyone than the speculation you provide, and you accuse me of not providing any evidence. I guess there is nothing further to be said.
Ah yes, nothing dubiously ethical about strapping a patient to a gurney, administering tranquilizers(to reduce convulsions) and indiscriminately shocking the brain with high voltages. Everyone that volunteers for ECT is coached into it, nobody would naturally come to the conclusion that it's a good idea.
When you say "moderated" I assume you're talking about the moderators of this site, who are me and sctb. I don't agree with you at all that this is how we moderate HN. In fact, what you describe is something that we both try to be careful not to do. If you're going to accuse us of something so awful, you should supply links to cases where you think we did this. That way we can learn from our mistakes if you're right, and readers can see for themselves if you're not.
A very large number of people get their water from captured rain water stored in tanks. I do myself. It's not mineral-free but it's certainly very low in dissolved minerals. I appear to be alive, as do many others.
Apple appears to be working to add WebAuthn support to Safari. See https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/12/05/apple-testing-usb...
「文仁が観念した」そう意味を捉えられる幽体離脱時の映像を拝しました。観念の次は実際のアクションです（祈）†
It's hard to say until we see it in action. I'm optimistic, but with Apple's track record of hobbling integrations in annoying ways I'm still a little hesitant.

I really do want them to work fully though so I can extend my product to mobile too. I know a lot of people now that have gotten rid of their computers and just use their phones for everything.
Walmart Sues Tesla over Solar Panel Fires
Very readable. A fantastic contribution.
People might start reposting stuff they think should be more visible. You'd have to do something like 4chan's /r9k/.
Pretty slick application process. Very quick approval. I’m digging the privacy.

But it didn’t work when I tried to buy lunch. I’ll try again tomorrow.
Are all accesses to the memory from the GPU still checked for permissions at the hardware level by an IOMMU?
All I want is a clear answer from someone at facebook. Why can't I choose to delete data about me from your database? I don't even nec need to be able to see it or do it at a granular level, though that would be nice. All I want to be able to do is say delete this.

Can I delete a private message from your database?

Can I delete your record of a status I wrote from your database?

Can I delete access logs from a website that was using a FB pixel from your database?
Or you just happen to be there for the good bit?

It seems like PhD candidates work on peripheral elements of their sponsor/tutor/professor's work, of that professor at some point is going to make a significant step then one of those PhDs will be along for the ride; not necessarily the genius one.
This is by the D.J. Wheeler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler_(computer_scient...) of the Burrows–Wheeler transform (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows–Wheeler_transform).
Hey, I'm using TabNine, but how do I get TabNine Cloud? I didn't even know there was TabNine Cloud!
How so? Aren’t all integers computable real numbers?
I'll consider it, thanks for sharing.
It's almost as if I keep adding new material to it every half year or so =)
This really shouldn't need the (2013) suffix - it's constantly getting updated, and the most recent update was from only a few days ago. (it's probably about 50 pages longer than it was back in 2013, if not more)
I'm not sure about this - there are many open processor designs in academia if a fb/google wanted to pick them up - the difficulty is integration and software. They could easier just work on ARM, the reference designs are available if you are fb or google.

I guess what I'm saying is, even if a reletively modern, 2-issue, OoO, with SMT and 256b vector proc, came out open source, would anybody really bother to integrate it and fab it?

From what I see fb and Google work with silicon vendors because they don't want be silicon vendors.
Firewalls Cannot Defend IIoT from Cyber Attack
It's a far, far cry from an open ISA to having multiple competing vendors, let alone open CPU designs.

It was much earlier, but OpenSPARC's impact was limited-- and that was full RTL.

If POWER is open, does anyone really want to make competing high-performance designs-- let alone open them? Better to take something like RISC-V and come up with the first high performance design.

This is especially true when you consider IBM's vertical integration: IBM is the only real POWER OEM and the only real POWER semiconductor vendor.

(If we really assume a reduction of innovation in processors, and a 15 year time horizon... expiration of IP becomes a significant factor, too. Why not just make generic ARM?)
> When it comes to a topic like should protesters in Hong Kong be allowed to continue and make requests for freedom, generally the only opponents are going to be state sponsored.

I think dang answered this eloquently and you're merely prompting him to repeat himself: "Someone simply disagreeing with me is not evidence that they are an "information operation" or "commentary from a totalitarian state"
YC S19 Demo Day 2
Not good, but not terrible.
I think the firehose we have now of unconstrined fiat currency will go down in the history books as an aberration in the history of money. Money and the economy are part of the bedrock of modern society and the human interactions that happen on a macro and micro level. When you get down to it fiat currencies like the USD became uncoupled from reality when it went off being pegged to a physical amount of gold/silver. I always see a lot of hand waving when I bring this up. I am betting that our current system of fiat is smoke and mirrors and we will return to money based on something concrete.
Doesn’t definability just depend on the system you’re using to generate numbers being able to represent it?