skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really it's the seller's freedom that matters first. It's their product, it's their labor, they can offer to sell it to anybody who's happy with the terms. The buyer has the freedom to buy or not buy the product. In this view intellectual property law is only enforcing the terms of the voluntary contract.

On Orwell. I was commenting that I could accuse the accuser of Orwellianism of Orwellianism. But I could do it with the advantage that their version includes using the machinery of the state to call a restriction of a freedom a freedom.

I don't think it's productive to argue over who's really Mr(s). 1984. Instead we can accept that we're talking about trade-offs in freedoms, that it will be complicated, and go from there.
"maintenance headache."

Then stop maintaining code from languages you don't understand. This is frustrating. I've seen solutions on the comments that call PYTHON! Are you effing kidding me? PYTHON ??

Granted, BASH docs aren't particularly succinct, but shell scripts are an absolute necessity in the OS world.

It's pretty simple: If you don't understand shellcode, don't maintain an OS, or rather, don't expect to be accommodated for lack of knowledge for something that's been standard for 30+ years.
From the video: in a computer with 200GB of RAM, and 32 cores, they factorized the key in 52 seconds.

The first key (in decimal) is 83473593554391843334619428139045661537976651941410655062632649869770538548577

This page https://www.alpertron.com.ar/ECM.HTM solved it in 3 minutes, 37 seconds. I guess they are not using a so powerful machine. (It says "This is the WebAssembly version.")

I'm too lazy to copy the second number, but I guess it will be as easy as factorize as the first.

Can someone just repeat this demonstration in travis-ci or something like that using an standard package?
No context is needed to want conditions to change: conditions at amazon aren't the way people want them to be, regardless of any context.
We've come a long way from stress tests I see
Yes, I said "producer" not "coder", not "artist", not "tester". Much less brutal in management.

[edit: clarification]
Huawei Flexes AI Muscle with New Mate 30 Gesture Control and Smart Rotation
Where are these nicer places in the Bay Area? Living on the Peninsula would seem to mean losing all the walkable urban amenities and having to drive everywhere.
Sensors and AI are finding their way into the barnyard
The problem is anything that helps someone do their job more easily will get approved.
Fashion++: Using AI to inform fashion choices
To retry my earlier comment[1]:

The Fed is nobly ensuring banks' 2.25% APR ("target federal funds") rate against being viciously squeezed to 9%.

Over three weeks.

That means banks are, at most, saved from having to pay an (extra) interest charge of $3.6 million per 1 billion (revolving) dollars borrowed. [2]

That ... still seems like a rounding error against their typical quarterly profits, considering it's a one-time anomalous event.

Is that really something that justifies extreme Fed measures?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21000023

[2] computed from 1,000,000,000(1.09^(3/52) - 1.025^(3/52))
First link: That's hosts not complying with the law, not Airbnb. There is a big difference between the two.

Second link: Still not in non-compliance with regulation, this is a story about lobbying.

Third link: Still not breaking any current regulations, it's about lawmakers considering regulating the business in the future.

Still looks like Airbnb is compliant with current regulations. Same as Stripe.
> if you ARE the only person capable of giving the talk then is there is a diversity issue. Can you take an honest look at the diversity of your industry and perhaps mentor new ones – especially those from under represented groups – to be able to speak on such topics?

This seems a bit bizarre to me. Sure, they're the only one who knows right now, but they are giving a talk at a conference, which is supposed to have the purpose of educating a large number of people.
> likely parasite detected, avoid this person

Definitely the case for this guy https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19216620/0...
>Too much wind is an orders of magnitude more likely problem.

It's worth elaborating that too much wind is as bad as too little wind. The blades can only spin so fast before disintegrating, so wind turbines have transmissions and choose a gear appropriate to the current wind speed. Once wind speeds exceed what the highest gear can handle the turbine locks the blades to prevent damage. In that state it doesn't produce any electricity.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/196010/total-number-of-r...
and
https://www.statista.com/statistics/634072/us-car-sales-by-k...
"Repurposing Top Bits" - don't do that. Honest.

The IBM 360 shipped with 32-bit addresses but only 24 bits decoded. "Hey, there's a whole byte up top that nobody's using today, let's put some stuff there!" When they wanted the address space IBM found themselves architecturally hamstrung, and the cost to dig out was significant.

The 128K Macintosh used a 68000; it had 32-bit addresses but only 24 bits were decoded. "Hey, there's a whole byte up top that nobody's using today, let's put some stuff there!" When Apple needed the address space they found themselves hamstrung by pieces of MacOS that did use those bits, and many applications that did, too. The cost to dig out was significant.

It is practically guaranteed that "Hey, there's 16 whole bits up there that nobody's using today" will wind up the same, because this industry just never learns.

You can do things with lower bits and usually get away with it; many systems put GC tags and type bits down there. But those upper address bits do not belong to you.
It could just as well mke them better by raising the standards.
> Does this move mean that the fed is trying to keep its benchmark rate too low and absent market forces it would be much higher?

Fed used to maintain a corridor system, in that they would intervene if effective fed funds went higher or lower than their target. They moved to a floor system, in which they attempted to set a single rate by paying banks interest on reserves (IOER) held at the Fed. For roughly a decade, this worked (a certain arbitrage helped convert this rate from a floor into a ceiling). Recently, effective fed funds has risen above IOER, but Fed was not conducting reverse repo operations to push this down.
> I can't help but find it vaguely amusing that you seem to find "toilet" (literally, "small cloth") and "lavatory" ("washing place") somehow more correct than "bathroom."

The difference is that of those three words, one consists of 2 fully-semantic unbound morphemes: "bath" and "room"; it literally means a room with a bath in it. Whereas "toilet" and "lavatory" as single-morpheme words.
The New Capitalism Is Looking a Lot Like the Old Capitalism
(Con)Currently Unavailable – Troubleshooting the Node.js Event Loop
If you want an EV now, buy a Tesla/Leaf/Zoe. That's all I'm hearing from VW.

I'm thrilled with my Focus EV (cause Model3 wasn't available when I bought it). I have a basket of features I'd like on my next EV that I don't have now, but it's way better than waiting for the "best" to show up.
Was gmail made in house?
Sounds like Google hasn't communicated these technical changes nor their intentions very clearly at all. Just judging how there's multiple people saying different things in this thread for both.
You can't assume that Hoover would have been against increasing the power available to himself and his agency.
I thought to myself "that's a bit much, like advertising could trick me into drinking a dangerous beverage" then read your follow-up comment and realized I'm holding a coke in my other hand.
a founder has far more leverage vs a waged worker
Deprecations and Removals in Chrome 78
I don’t think marketing only applies to people with low IQs. There are many “prestigious” magazines and newspapers, mostly marketed towards educated professionals, that get a huge portion of their articles ghost written by PR firms.

The majority of content is sponsored in some shape or form, and all content is biased towards the interests of the publishers and authors.

Sure you may not buy a certain car because of the music in the commercial, or positively view some corporate ambassador saying “80% of our cocoa does not come from child labor!” but there is much more to corporate propaganda than that.
Confused, could you explain? A heater that puts its energy into something other than heating is just being inefficient at heating, right? Shouldn't you want it to put 100% of its energy into heating?
It’s to prevent a cascading failure due to a rapid loss in confidence requiring even greater action from the Fed (such would occur if interbank lending dries up because of counterparty risk [perceived or actual]).

Disclaimer: I work in financial services, but am not involved in these operations.
> That being said, I have no idea how colors work. For example, I assume I can't just take 3 arbitrary colors from this tool and stick them together and expect them to look good.

Well, you kind of, sort of can. That is what this and similar tools are designed to help you with.

Think about this as a programming language library. It's kind of sort of there to help you accomplish that thing you have in mind, but you might still use it wrong it or it might just not be the right tool for the thing you have in mind or the thing you have in mind simply isn't really a thing.

The point being, you need to be able to reason about what you are doing and your status towards your goal in either case. Not in a "I can explain this" way, but in a "I think this is better than that other thing and it's getting closer to where I want it to be" way.
FTA:

> Saudi Arabia’s state-run media apparatus were found to be “engaged in coordinated efforts to amplify messaging that was beneficial to the Saudi government.”

The person you're responding to didn't say anything about bots. These are state-funded efforts to manipulate the platform.
FYI - They are not free for commercial use per the "Terms and Condition" link even thought it says on the homepage "for any use." It is for personal use only.
If prohibition had Apple's marketing behind it, a huge number of people would suddenly get onboard.

Paternalism from software companies is popular these days.
The fact you think he wants to see America collapse is part of the problem. People like you further contribute to not solving problems.
Hey, it's all fun until 14 million people lose their homes again right? /s
Makes sense, competing vs. centralized fascisms.
That's a cool trick but I'd like an operator with more pixels for that behavior.

When I used to track new languages, I ran into one where the . was implicit. You could change a member of an object from a single value to an array and it would iterate over all of the values. So you could do an information architecture that was 1:1 and change to 1:many later and things would still work.
I'm surprised Amazon didn't go with Zenith Motors. They've got a good electric cargo van and a barebone chassis/cab. In my area, I've been seeing a dozen of them boppin' down the road (Northern Cali).
If the difference between a State and a Corporation is that muddled in your mind it's your issue not the rest of ours.

It's a critical part of being a discerning person to be able to BOTH say how things are similar and how they differ.

You seem to have no test for discerning how Coca Cola and the Russian government differ.
Actually, I wonder if that is true.

https://today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2008/sep/old-growth-f...

I'm sure tree-farmers would sale their trees to governments interested in sequestering carbon. Probably could just dump them in the oceanic trenches...
> They know it is illegal and they do it anyway, and bring their children along; do you not harbor any moral outrage against those parents for subjecting their children to this possibility?

No, I do not harbor any moral outrage for parents who bring their children with them when fleeing from a place where gang violence and organized crime have made it very unsafe. For a lot of these families, getting the kids to a safer place was the reason they left.
It's by H.L. Mencken (1915): https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=hXVHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Democracy...
People always downplay the power that technical users have on regular people.

Who do you think the moms and friends all listen to? Their technical friends. This of course won't hit 90% of users but it's enough to have a large influence well beyond just power users.

Few companies survive pissing off the nerds when there is legitimate competition available in consumer products.
> GitHub uses MacStadium to host the macOS virtual environments.

https://help.github.com/en/articles/virtual-environments-for...
Cobalt is an off-product/"waste-product" of Nickel mines. Certainly, most of the world's Nickel mines are in questionably regulated locales such as Columbia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but Nickel is likely to continue to be mined whether or not the Cobalt those mines produce also gets sold to battery companies.

Cobalt is also presumed to be entirely recycle-able from most battery compositions, but is in such small quantities that it isn't today economically feasible (and so long as people are mining Nickel, unlikely to be).
AMD is in a really good position right now.

Intel still has the lead in low idle power which is good in laptops.

Ryzen lets different cores have different max frequencies so if your code is single threaded and your operating system isn't the newest that could be a reason to go Intel. Likewise if its single threaded and can take advantage of AVX-512 or the Intel Math Kernel Library.

But otherwise?
Your savings on gasoline would be put in banks which would create growth by reinventment. Also while your car getting twice the mpg may not open up new possibilities for you, it could make a huge difference for people and businesses and nations where cost of transportation is significant.
Better hope billionaires succeed in trying to all emigrate to a space station or something in time. Really. It is so much easier to restart civilization from a pocket of technology.
This is true. But if it's at all possible, the marketplace could automate it. History shows that DRM and adjacent technology rarely succeeds if the law doesn't make it illegal to circumvent. And history also clearly shows that most users are willing to click a button letting others access their Steam account if needed.
I absolutely do not think the ability for people to manufacture their own guns has any bearing on any of this. Gun nerd forums are rife with people observing that a full-auto conversion isn't rocket science either, and the immediate responses are always "you'll go to prison for 10 years". "Printing" has nothing to do with it. Computer nerds didn't invent machining.
Just imagine the amount of salesy BS and recruiter spam that must come from HN.
Gravity is super, super weak compared to the other forces.

Every time you lift an object, you are overcoming the gravitational force of an entire planet. Gravity is that weak.

Meanwhile, the incredible destruction caused by a nuclear bomb is the product of the energy stored in just a handful of atoms.
Bulma is a gamechanger for me in this regard. I can get something professional looking up and running with literally no design experience.

There are obviously limitations to it, but for my use cases it's great.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/npm-inc-announces-l...
Massive misallocation of resource mainly from the financial crisis into bad financial products. But if you look around the rate of technological development and the amount of money to start one of those ventures it's only been failing
Russia Announces Free E-Visa to Saint Petersburg for 53 Countries
I'm in the same boat.

I struggle hard with the UX, but I'm amazed that with modern tools I can create a rudimentary, but clean design in Sketch, code it, and manage the infrastructure behind it.

Even 10 years ago, these were 3 to 5 completely distinct skillsets (designer, frontend, backend, infrastructure, DBA).
Oranges, Mangos, Black Pepper, and lots of other natural things cause cancer in rats
We're commenting on an article about Richard Stallman being removed for something he did not say. That's the damage I'm talking about.
Deep learning for improved breast cancer monitoring
> It can take as much as 2 gallons of gasoline to produce a single gallon of ethanol, so this is just insane.

You got a source for that claim because wikipedia says it has a energy return on investment of 1.5:1 [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_ethanol
I was in a similar situation, and at some point I just realized that I was better off seeing some therapist rather than trying to guess the best one. So I just found one that was within walking distance and had time available. It worked out well in my case.

If the first one doesn't work out, they might recommend somebody more suited for you specifically or, in the worst case, you can just repeat the process above.

Unless you can get a recommendation from somebody you know, I think this is the best option. It's usually better to do something than to do nothing :).
iPhone 11 Machine Learning Performance: A Benchmark
Then you’ll probably also be interested in IWantHue[1], one of my favorite tools when I need to generate a color palette.

[1] https://medialab.github.io/iwanthue/
When a group indiscriminately accepts the words of someone they are being "fed." This happens for both liberals and conservatives. I'm describing the character of that specific subgroup of Trump supporters which are being fed his words, not that all Trump supporters are being fed.
When manipulating a slider with touch, is there a way to filter out Y movements that cause accidental scrolling?
Alternative title: "Why don't we make solar panels last 10-15 years instead of 20-25?"

How about no. The technology improves in very small increments, there's no need to replace panels for a 3-5% gain. This smells of wanting programmed obsolescence because the current growth rate will stabilize in the future.
I got the feeling the author was saying: "Step out of the way for what ever group we feel is marginalized today"

It's such a regressive statement. If you know what you're talking about and are excited about it. YOU ARE THE RIGHT PERSON. The people who are at the conference and speaking are people who stepped up to do it. You don't just get this granted pass to be up there.
some ideas:

Clearly, there is some difference in how your emotional arousal works to motivate you in working with someone else vs doing your own work.

Look into doing some introspection and try to uncover and compare the difference in core belief/subconscious commitments you work with others vs for your self

check out the link if what I said interests you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HoE_PKlanc&
That's probably true, but it shouldn't factor into the decision about whether or not digital goods should be transferrable.
> dogmatic ignorance

What a fantastic phrase and way of putting it, thank you.
I'm actually looking for a good container hosting OS right now. I remember hearing some stuff about CoreOS being deprecated or something, but I can't find anything concrete?!

Do you know what the situation is?

I also looked a bit at RancherOS today, which looked pretty cool, but it seems to use 10x the memory of CoreOS...
It is unjustifiably mean spirited to Julia programmers in general. I admit that it is an unfair characterization of everyone who programs in trendy languages. I just got irritated that he commented with pure snark to what looks like an amazing paper. And I find being witty and mean instead of blandly authoritarian is the best way to handle those people.

Anyone who wants to learn, great. Anyone who wants a one-sentence snark, I'm not going to be as open to helping out.
I vaguely remember my macroecon class in college so many moons ago. The point is to stop a “contagion” from spreading and causing panic, right?
By that logic, my Tinder profile is nothing but self-sanctioned psyops manipulating people into liking me.

I can use scary words to describe mundane things too.
Accessibility of text over the generated colors would be a great addition to this. It can be cool to have colors generated, but with UI, more than likely you will have to place text over the top and you need to ensure that everyone can read without troubles.
Essentially. Read about the 2007-2008 GFC [1] to understand how fast the system can break down (weeks). Personally, I find the story of how JP Morgan (the financier) first acted as this sort of national economic backstop in 1907 very interesting and a fun read [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907
>in the hopes that it will let them use the apparatus of government to hobble said competitor in any way without repercussions

This is the problem nowadays. We can't really trust anybody. The threats to our privacy and freedoms are coming from every quarter.

And the worst part is,

that some of the people and organizations telling us about the threats to our freedoms and privacy, are, in fact, likely the biggest threats to our freedoms and privacy.
> I have a moral and ethical obligation to prevent my source from being used for evil," Vargo wrote on the now-empty Chef Sugar GitHub repository.

This defeats the purpose of 'open-source'. There will always be bad actors out there using your open-source project. Once you release your project out into the open with a permissive license, there are little to no restrictions into how they can use your project, except for attribution. Even forking it is allowed. Just ask Gab.

Probably should have licensed it under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 or GPLv3.
Very little in my experience.
Even if the standards get raised across the warehouse industry, the restrictions might harm low-skilled workers more than it helps them. E.g., they might make it economically rational for Amazon to automate the jobs away. E.g., Amazon might be forced to pass on their higher costs to consumers, causing a transfer of spending from Amazon.com to brick-and-mortar outlets where the jobs for available to low-skilled workers pay even less than the eliminated jobs the Amazon warehouse did.
This is plain truth, not nonsense. You can go and start a corporation any time. If it appears successful, you need to hire a CEO and a bunch of other people. At that time you'll own nearly all preferred shares that give control. Despite CEO will get maybe 5% and will run the company, according to laws, preferreds will give you a final say in everything and you can fire that CEO at any time. This is even more true with big execs: they hold nowhere near 5%.
That's true, but guidance on how to get better at design is much more available than it used to be. I remember creating web sites 20 years ago and getting feedback that they looked dreadful. I had no idea why people didn't like them; I liked them! It turns out I like lots of things that most people don't and I needed guidance to find out what most people like.
Keybase
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/hamzabj; my proof: https://keybase.io/hamzabj/sigs/jeJHN83i8cG6xkrpg7u0bjoD1URF3p6k9yQjNrmWtP0 ]
Microsoft Attack Surface Analyzer 2.0 – GA Release
A little more background on administrative subpoenas:

We Don't Need No Stinking Warrant: The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena
(https://www.wired.com/2012/08/administrative-subpoenas)