skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mostly I don't, but I've found that most of the time I mess up is when I have more than 30 min of unstructured time at home with energy.
I have similar concerns with people who claim existing education would massively benefit if homework didn’t exist as a teaching tool or means of gauging progress and development.
I hate video calls. I'd rather just talk on the phone than say "What?" over each other and look at their facial reactions 2 seconds delayed. Low latency video destroys all the benefits of face-to-face interaction and then some.
Who is doing the coordinating? What if too many people want off on a certain day?

My point is there doesn't exist a 24/7 business I know of that would be able to survive if they simply let employees "demand" days off. You can't rely on a bunch of coworkers to sort out who is working when. You request days off, a boss checks the schedule to see what can be moved around and whatnot, and then approves it.

I have yet to see a 24/7 business that works any other way.
And, to go even further, a drug that could cure something like high blood pressure in a single dose is almost inconceivable. How would it work? It’d have to permanently change some state in your body. And what if your blood pressure dropped too much — how would you reverse it?
Do they finally offer mainly DRM-free music? I think I saw at least some mp3 offers from Amazon, but haven't looked closer at music streaming for a long time, since other sources are numerous.

For music it is one of my expectations. I have strange and sometimes old devices for playback. Not really interested in locked down content here.
IBM Sues Zillow over Multiple Charges of Patent Infringement
Jeff Bezos climate change plan unveiled – buy 100k electric vans.
ditches need digging too. every us school i or my kids have been a part of has a gifted and talented program. two tier approach seems a reasonable compromise
I think they're speaking French.
Unfortunately, you have to use C or ObjC (or at least the ObjC runtime) as the middleman.

Now that there is a stable Swift ABI, at least it's theoretically possible to add a first-class Swift interoperability support to Rust, but it's a quite a chunk of work that nobody has attempted yet.

Currently the practical approach is to write the UI in Swift and Rust on the back-end, e.g. gif.ski app does it this way: https://github.com/sindresorhus/Gifski
Having a couple free indexers and a decent paid one (or two) along with a couple good Usenet services tends to cover most needs. With a good downloader app, it's simply a matter of plugging in a couple API keys once and basically forgetting about them while letting your system do the searching and scouring for you.

Or, so I've heard.
I don't always feel great about sending my kid to school, but until you can get a critical mass for some kind of alternative, the cost in social isolation for keeping kids out of school seems way too high to me.
If he's looking for a formula for mass production of Nobel Prize winners he probably hasn't yet discovered the central limit theorem and thought through its implications for his little idea.
This comment isn't in the article anymore..
Ask HN: Do you think the financial markets are broken or breaking down?
I have been seeing a ton of different stories about the financial markets breaking down or not working properly. Is it just me does it seem to be ramping up? Sharing a few links and just curious if these stories are being overblown or showing an accurate picture.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-17/-this-is-crazy-fed-s-repo-madness-sends-wall-street-reeling

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-fuzzy-science-of-ipo-measurement

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-03/u-s-stock-market-wars-pit-everyone-against-everyone-else
> consultant to design a security instead of hiring ethical hacking services

One does not exclude the other. And also consider that even the best security practices are not guaranteeing anything. Hackers can afford to fail 1000 times. The company only has to fail once.
Never understood how they survived that. Now they seem to be dominating their country's tech landscape. Market ended up rewarding sociopathic behavior. Pretty terrible.
If you think that's bad, try using the browser version on mobile... It's full of annoying pop-ups to try to encourage you to use their crappy mobile app. (sadface) :(
These days its mostly because Iowa has an outsized role in our elections.
Everyone who’s pushed narratives like this that I’ve known seems to have gone through bad public schools or private schools with a majority of bad students.

Similar to how most open “communists” or “socialists” I’ve encountered seem to also have daddy issues (especially my friends from Spain haha).
I'm more upset about them not paying for the minerals they dig up.
We've let a lot of money out the door for very little return.
Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps
Some of it is heating subsidies for the poor, which gives a misleading impression, unless we're planning for the poor to freeze once we've transitioned to renewables; the subsidy will simply transfer across.
The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition
How much of that $300M was a secondary to founders and employees? We may never know.
If the stated goal of a rule is X, it's entirely reasonable to request an exemption based on how you act relative to X. As a matter of principle, I object to denying said exemption because the request comes from the requester's position on Y.

In this particular case, if the tax is indeed levied on the basis of how it impacts road use and repairs, it's perfectly fair to exempt fuel meant to be used only in private property, irrespectively of how I feel about its polluting nature.

I do agree it's absurd that we don't disincentivize the use of fossil fuels, and the mining of said fuels in general, but two wrongs don't make a right.
Yes -- the default camera app doesn't support it, but there are a bunch of third-party apps that can shoot RAW.
Actually, it’s the ultra wide lens that is unique to the pro.
A few things:

1) That's not what was spent, it's what this paper projected was spent.

2) I think this paper is defining subsidy in a way that we don't usually use that word. They're calling the costs associated with anthropogenic climate change and pollution "subsidies", most people would just call those things "costs."

Using the word "subsidy" implies that governments are actively taking tax dollars and giving it to fossil fuel companies and consumers. That doesn't appear to be what's going on for the most part.

Look at Figure 4, the bulk of the so-called "subsidies" are "global warming" and "local pollution" those aren't what most people would call subsidies, they're costs.

I'm saying this just to clarify things, personally I am supportive of massive tax increases on carbon and massive subsidies for renewables.
It's worth noting that the newest generations in developed nations (XYZ) are the most carbon intensive creatures this planet has had to date, in 300+ million years of vertebrate life.

You can't really blame his legacy without accepting some personal responsibility at the same time.

Either take the cross off or put the knickers back on as they say.
The replies to this observation are hilarious. The "article" is as marketingy as it gets. It's blatantly obvious. But noo, "I don't know what you mean", "you sound mad" haha.
Should have just gone all-in with “Major bumskies bro”
If discouraged by the weight, but not the price, consider a compact Leica (e.g., the Q).
Ask HN: How to ship software as a physical device?
I have a business idea that I would like to work on. It is a combination of a software product (a field in which I am experienced) and a hardware device (a simple android tablet).

The tablet will do nothing, other than run my application. It will be based on Android. It will boot directly into my application following a splash screen. The user wouldn't even know it was an android device, it would just be a tablet that has my interface and application.

I would have thought the best approach for entering this field would be to approach a manufacturer on alibaba, explain that I want their hardware, but to flash it with a custom image that I would provide, and away we go. It seems nothing is quite so simple.

There are multiple android tablets that I can source on alibaba that would be suitable, but it seems they want to sell the devices with their (often terrible) android distribution - suggesting I simply install the application. This is not an option - I really want to have a things like a seamless boot, a customized interface, dedicated app store, etc - and I want to be able to handle my own updates rather than distributing some manufacturers idea of a "final" release, with no channels for updates, etc.

What are my options here? Am I asking the wrong questions? I don't have much in the way of funding. The plan would be to get a device, build a prototype, and launch a campaign on kickstarter or similar. Ive already been through validation, its just I don't see how to proceed with execution.

Any advice would be gratefully received.
I'm really curious about this now, I wonder if there is some sort of way to sniff the the data / packets / whatever being sent and try to decode it
43% are in engineering, according to LinkedIn.
You definitely need to know someone to get your application to the top of the pile. Perhaps the legal industry is an extreme outlier but aside from my very first job as a “summer associate” (read: intern) I haven’t gotten a single job from blindly applying. And even the summer program was an “inside recommendation” of sorts since the school organizes the whole OCI process.
If everybody lived in the suburbs there would be endless rows of cookie-cutter houses with a law in the front and a swimming pool in the back. You would have loops upon loops of cul-de-sacs that just meandered in residential housing blocks. Every 50 miles or so you would have a mall with box stores and you grocery stores would be so big that they would have little electric cars in them to get from one side to the other. Because shopping would be such a big PITA, people would buy mayonaise in 1 gallon jars and would buy vans just so they could transport all of their groceries for a month. Children would have to be bussed to school because the low population density would make a school within walking distance too expensive. Likewise children would be shipped around in their parent's van because soccer fields and basebase fields would be too distant to get to by foot. Public transport would be so expensive that you couldn't have a reliable and prompt service for any reasonable price. People would drive one or two hours to get to work -- each way. Since they would be either commuting or working for 11-12 hours a day, a couple would need 2 vehicles: the van for buying monthly supplies and carting the kids around as well as another vehicle to go to work. The increased load on the traffic system would mean that it would be almost crazy to consider riding a bicycle. All the roads would be set up for cars because it would be the only reasonable transportation that could work. The expensive of maintaining 2 cars, driving all over the city all the time, keeping the house in shape and the garden in shape would mean that in many households both parents would have to work to make ends meet. The children would have to be looked after by a service for most of the day, every day of the week.

Of course many people can't afford to buy a house in the suburbs. Thank goodness.
Developing the Bloomberg Terminal – Local Performance and Measurement Techniques
Security and performance is why we moved our WordPress clients to WPEngine about 5 years ago. If you can't move web hosts, Wordfence, WP Cerber and of course Sucuri make sense.
> ServeTheHome asked Oracle why it chose to create a cluster of Raspberry Pis instead of using a virtualized Arm server and one company rep said simply that "...a big cluster is cool."

Honestly that's a totally valid reason to make something like this. This is super cool.
In fact, I’ve “pirated” shows I already paid for because the owner doesn’t offer an offline option, or I don’t want to use the crappy players forced upon me. (HBO is a notable example.)
Many of the best products seem to come when the founder has enough capital to self fund a solid base product versus needing “metrics” that at such an early stage often track nothing imo.
There's a lot of engineering challenges to still work out, but my favorite is currently flow batteries.
Those people here are not anti-Musk but anti-Musk-holydom.
In previous threads when this book has been mentioned, it's always followed by numerous comments about the many things the book gets wrong, largely because the book tried to force history into the framework of the author's political ideology.
No, it doesn't imply that.

When an employee works at Microsoft he creates value. He didn't have that value before he did the work, he created it through the work done there.

Microsoft pays him a salary in return for his value.

However, the salary Microsoft pays does not match the full value he created. The difference is Microsoft's profits. The company is taking those profits from the workers who created the value in the first place. They didn't have that value when they joined, they created it there, but it's still taken from them at time of creation.

Those shares represent a right to a share of those profits. Stock shares literally represent a right to the excess value taken from the workers who created it.

So who did Bill Gates take that money from? The workers who created the value the money represents.

And this is how you wind up with massive wealth inequality and all the problems that creates.

People recognize the problems with wealth inequality. The recognize the problems with unions (which have their own power problems and corruption problems). They recognize the problem with having the government redistribute the wealth (which is still better than allowing the inequality to continue to grow).

But we're so ingrained with the idea that the way things are is the way they should be that we rarely talk about a pretty obvious solution - let those who generate the wealth have democratic control over what happens to it at the time of generation.
He received a device in exchange for his review, so yes he was paid.
Nice article. I am interested to see this stuff blended with the GPU/ML powered databases rather than the TF-IDF of decades ago - as well as it works
I think a few AV companies whose products I utilized in the past were from Romania as well (BitDefender?).
Mirrorless cameras seem to be fleeing uphill towards larger sensors, with the Sony A7s and Fuji medium formats.
Ca you give us some more specific details about what you have heard, like the name of these services? Why are they better than torrent?
One of these is not like the other.

With your first sentence you're accusing people of having personal experience(!), while with the second sentence you're just plain insulting people.
Mass production of both along with greater effieciencies in manufacturing and installation. There are huge factories that churn out solar panels, and the installation systems have become simpler and faster. On the domestic side it can now take just a couple of hours to fit the panels once the brackets are in place, it used to take a day or more.

Basically both technologies have been matruring for a number of years, getting cheaper and better at the same time, so the cost per kwh drops.

On the wind side of things, the turbines have also got larger, which increases output significantly (power is proportional to the square of blade length, roughly).

We also seem to have hit a price point where there is ample capital to invest in projects of all scales. Add in the flexibility of gas to deal with varying demand and the you have a better market to invest.
Thank you for your response.

She applied for 800 job postings. That was the only thing she did the whole day - apply job after job. She maintained an excel file with all the details. Which company she applied for, who responded, who rejected. It was demoralizing. She got a job now but she started the job hunt last November.
Itunes for example is DRM free.
I don't think it's for idealistic reasons either, but I fully believe piracy is a service problem and not so much free vs paid.

I honestly can't remember the last time I pirated a PC game. Steam is just more convenient than pirating a game. And okay, when I was a kid i pirated games because I simply couldn't afford to buy them.

I had a spotify subscription for quite a while, but they seem incapable of making a working music player. So now I'm buying albums on bandcamp and 'find' the missing ones online.

Netflix here is so garbage, it just flat out made me stop watching movies and TV shows, I just watch youtube/twitch instead these days.

As soon as your service is better than piracy, people will pay for it.
To be fair, the passages in question (this verse and the next few) do talk about equanimity towards results (very Buddhist) as service towards God. However, what God seems to want in the verses happens to be what would be good for society as well.

In modern contexts, the text is jarring in many ways. Arjuna's initial argument for not wanting to kill his cousins, uncles and grandfather on the other side are that if he kills them, their women would be led astray, i.e. procreate outside the clan (not clear if willfully or made to do so without male protection) which would lead to out-of-caste progeny being born and thus the destruction of the pure family blood line. The emphasis is on the illegitimate children being the problem, not that the women would be harmed.
Financial Times New Agenda
What is forced arbitration and why should women be wary of it?
A hat that zaps the scalp with electricity helps reverse male balding
People routinely criticize rigid schooling yet the very people they aspire to emulate are products of such systems. The people who often struggled in such systems (artists, athletes, celebrities) are looked down upon. Even entrepreneurs, by in large, did well in school. For every Steve Jobs there's 10 other founders who were former super students that aggressively tracked into tier-1 schools through hard work and (yes) conformity. No offense but every founder story I read about their "rebellion" is almost silly. It's always like "My parents wanted me to be an investment banker but I said NO!"
This doesn't make sense to me (theoretical computer scientist). If I run the code

x = rand() % 2

Then mathematically, x is a p-bit. That is, it is in a classical "superposition" having value 0 with probability 0.5 and having value 1 with probability 0.5.

So you don't need any special hardware to do classical probabilistic computations. You just need a source of entropy and a standard computer.

Now it might be that a different architecture than the standard von Neumann processor+memory one could give a polynomial speedup for certain problems. And that would be fine. But the focus of this Ars article as well as the Nature letter abstract is on p-bits, which seems nonsensical to me.

(Added later) I see there is an emphasis on the bits fluctuating or evolving over time, annealing I guess. We could of course simulate this on a standard computer, but not as easily. Still I am reminded of Aaronson's soap bubbles...
Abstract:

Large organizations like YouTube are dealing with exploding data volume and increasing demand for data driven applications. Broadly, these can be categorized as: reporting and dashboarding, embedded statistics in pages, time-series monitoring, and ad-hoc analysis. Typically, organizations build specialized infrastructure for each of these use cases. This, however, creates silos of data and processing, and results in a complex, expensive, and harder to maintain infrastructure.

At YouTube, we solved this problem by building a new SQL query engine - Procella. Procella implements a super-set of capabilities required to address all of the four use cases above, with high scale and performance, in a single product. Today, Procella serves hundreds of billions of queries per day across all four workloads at YouTube and several other Google product areas.

Here's a review of the paper -
https://tech.marksblogg.com/youtube-database-procella.html
It's not syntax. It's programs. [ Is a program. Bash blew my mind when I found that out. What a clever idea.

I know what you mean though. I always had to look up things every time. Lately I just committed a bunch of it to memory as it's useful enough and I'm pretty fond of it.
With wind power, storage is hardly required to the extent that is needed with solar.

Wind farms, especially in the UK which is my point of reference, are almost always producing something. This can be statistically modeled, so you can then say: "Building <x> MW of wind capacity will meet our needs of <y> MW <z> % of the time."

You can then decide where to be on this tradeoff curve. So over-provisioning wind will reduce the need for storage or other generation types.

This is of course not possible at all for solar, which only produces power during sunlight hours, with a peak generation between the morning and evening demand peaks, limiting its usefulness.
Yeah but if it makes 600kw then it can do it for an hour since it's a generator not a battery
the article seem to state that they are making things inefficient through lobbying to get a bigger piece of the pie i.e. greater cost
The point of the law is that virtually every measure is a proxy to some extent. Finding a measure that exactly matches what you really want to optimize is almost impossible.
The article is a shrouded puff peice for the interviewee.
Not just PR. To have a stockpile of carbohydrates in case of Total War.
It is not that hard. See what is sold in a luxury store deduct what is sold in average Joe grocery stores and what you got is luxury food items.
There was a great episode of the Planet Money podcast they recently re-ran that got into at least one of the factors of the drastically cheaper solar availability: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/14/751234092/episode-616-how-sol...

As I recall -- there was a boom of manufacturing plants for the solar cells in China as they were forecasting a drastically growing demand. The plants came online and boosted the supply greatly before the demand was high enough, so the prices sank.

There's also apparently been a number of improvements to tooling in regards to the labor required to install solar panels that has generally lowered labor costs.
You Are What You Read
and DL'ing is only going to get more pervasive as the fragmentation of "exclusive" content gets worse with the explosion of services
What qualities made him amazing?
It isn't about size, it's about the nature of the foodstuff.

A biscuit is basic.

A chocolate biscuit is luxury.

Cake is basic

Meals you cook at home are basic

Meals someone cooks for you (e.g. restaurant or takeaway) is luxury.

(among other examples)
You're talking about something entirely differently than what I am talking about. We aren't bundling at all. We're minifying and relying on H2 for high performance concurrent delivery. Bundling is the only old-fashioned thing here. Semantic versioning is timeless.

You're talking about a mechanism that is purely designed to cache-bust. I am talking about a mechanism for humans to deploy, understand, and utilize libraries across teams (and to group different files into distinct versions). Apples and oranges. The thread was about architecture, after all...

I won't get drawn too far into your post since it has too many strongly held claims without explanation/justification and I don't feel like trying to unravel that. But, yes, if you're automatically generating bundles for HTTP 1.1, append a hash. We aren't, so we don't.