skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a start, I can't even understand what is exactly the point of advocating any action against fossil fuel companies. After all, those companies only exist because we, directly or indirectly, buy their products. And we buy their products because they're cheaper than the alternatives, or even irreplaceable.

It's as if everybody were asking the government to take action against the supermarket where we all do our grocery shopping. We could ask the government to impose a heavy tax on our shopping (which we'd have to pay dearly, of course) but no, we want some action to be taken against the company that owns it. What is the purpose?

Another commenter links an article on the Guardian that claims that only 100 companies are responsible for 70% of the global greenhouse gasses emissions. It's as if those companies were producing and consuming the fuel themselves. No, those companies sell fossil fuels to us, we are buying and consuming it.

Am I being extraordinarily naive? Or this thing just doesn't make sense?
“All that being said, his belief system guides the FSF. I’m concerned that the FSF will degrade with him being gone.”

It may also improve. Often things just keep going once the person thought to be indispensable leaves. It’s a good test for the organization if they have people who can step up. I wonder how Linux will do once Linus retires.
This is what you get when whistleblowers have no protections. If we don't want to see this happen again in the future, the answer is to protect people coming forward with information about abuses.
How many people do you want to force into doing business with someone they find repugnant?
France gives more people iodine pills in case of nuclear accident
I made this subsite: https://excel.secretgeek.net/ to make it easier to share the video internally at work.

Sending a video about "Secrets of Mastering Excel" is less like to humiliate your colleague than sending them a link to "You suck at excel"
Some AI researchers believe that using learning methods with no built-in prior knowledge and throwing a bunch of compute at them is the path to building effective AI. I'm thinking of Richard Sutton in particular:

- Bitter Lesson essay: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

- A lecture of his on temporal difference learning, which is a "model-free" method of reinforcement learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyCpuLikLyQ

I personally don't agree with his emphasis on model-free learning, but it's not the case that people are building model-free RL agents because they don't understand the trade off that they're making.
Just show us the onboard. Here’s an example: https://youtu.be/8m31EgQkswg of how it’s done.

Edit. Which day. 15th? If this was Sunday, no way he would cover the whole circuit on Touristenfahrten. Dottinger Hohe is not possible to run flat on tourist rides. 16th? That would be a track day or industry pool. If the picture is the actual car, there is no track day starting number so it would indicate industry pool. That would imply tesla actually doing testing. In such case, let’s wait and see!
I think a lot of the student debt crisis is self-inflicted. No one is forcing you to attend a 4 year straight from high-school, go to a community college and then transfer to a state school/4 year. (I spent 3 years at a CC, but I graduated from a UC and paid off my student loans within a year)

Yes, college is expensive, but there is an existing alternative that everyone seems to forget about and it boggles my mind.
Besides vastly greater sales volume and higher programmer productivity due to better tools, another reason why software is cheaper now is cheap distribution via the internet and app stores.

Not having to deal with boxes, printed manuals, inventory, warehouses, shipping, and shelf space saves money. And the 10%-30% markup from app stores is probably lower than the 50% markup from brick-and-mortar stores of the 1980s.

I still occasionally miss printed manuals though, especially for games.
> Who tells these students to stop spending 60 hours a week at the lab and start using their skills doing something people will pay for, like develop a no-palm-oil no-aspartame but-still-addictive Mars bar for 25c unit cost?

Almost everybody, whether in or out of academic science, tells them that.
Yes. Read 4 programming books front to cover, do all the exercises, write code everyday. Find someone you can ask a question if you really get stuck.
Ask HN: Contractors: What tool(s) do you use to invoice clients?
1) What tools do you use to track your time, tasks and submit invoices?
2) How much do you spend per month / year on 1)
Prototyping – Metal 3D Printing (Dan Gelbart)
The second page is more likely to be a traditional style resume with the same information as the first page
That accretion disk represents constant growth via new mass.

So, either way the black hole is is sucking up mass faster than a star.
> Now all the eyes are on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, and you can't pry them away.

This is very true. I've got a YouTube channel and I'm developing premium training solutions on the side of it in Podia... video is king.

People want high value (to learn something) wrapped in high quality and compacted into a 5-10 (max) minute video. And they want it for free... sigh.

Remember, though, that Google is the #1 search engine, so blogging (and SEO) is still important to drive traffic towards your videos. That being said videos will take over.

I can't remember where I saw the statistic, but I believe it said in the next 5-10 years at least three billion people are coming online and they want video, because video is how they want to consume knowledge.

I think people should start picking up a camera.
Cheers on the note “my professional work isn’t here”. Makes me wonder if I should be more explicit like that.

I have to side with you on this.

And I do use those modern frameworks at work.

My goal was to keep mine working coherently in Lynx, but uses some JS for syntax highlighting and a click event or two that degrade well enough.

It’s also an awful hacked together static-ish blog in Go behind Nginx. I was working on an improvement last night and realized how much I’d learned since I wrote it. It’s funny and frustrating at the same time. Might be time to start over again.
An accurate 3D visualization could have been a lot simpler than this. The actors are most likely modeled physically as simple cylinders; all the character animations are extraneous. And there's plenty of subtle effects in the seekers' vision cones, the reflective floor, the uneven box landscape outside, etc.

So, as tlb said, I'm curious if all of that was added for the public release, or if the researchers set it up while running the experiments. It seems like it would be fun.
You car is not a very good asset from the bank point of view, so it's not going to be cheap. But the typical example is to draw on your mortgage, (equity release, i.e. reborrow a little more against your home). That's pretty much as cheaply as a consumer can get liquidity against an illiquid asset (home).

And that's pretty much what banks do with the Fed. They have assets that they get funding for from the Fed with a short term repo transaction. In theory the Fed takes very little risk on the transaction.
Ask HN: Is it inadvisable to re-apply to a company that rejected you?
I recently went through an interview process at a company I like, in which I made it to the very last round before being turned down in favor of another candidate. It's a moderately large company, with many teams, and there's now a different opening that I might be a slightly better fit for.

Is it weird to try again without giving it some time (and gaining some experience)? Will I look desperate? Is it a general faux pas in any way?
Diversify investments :)

It's hard for a qualified specialist to diversify his income revenue, though.

Also, with all the bubble-busts it's never total destruction. We may get a haircut to the salary, but I doubt jobs will outright disappear, or even slide into average salary levels.
Not really when that service is offered free of charge. I am pretty sure most people in India, Africa don't give a shit that Facebook uses their data to serve them ads. They and the world, gets an invaluable service in return.

I certainty don't care.
We've had mathematical models of change for over two thousand years. We have reliable, precise ones for astrological changes. As far as I know, we have none related to ecology or other complex systems that have proven capable of making long-term predictions.

I never said we should ignore any prediction. My calculation is purely Bayesian: how much prior trust should you place in a model (or class of models) with no long-term track record of success?
The Air Force Will Let Hackers Try to Hijack an Orbiting Satellite
That is a terrible idea. You do realize that all information transmission is predicated on trigonometry?
Nobody else at the FSF has been anywhere close to as visible and vocal an advocate of software freedom as Stallman. It really shouldn't be hard to be more charismatic than Stallman... but where/who is such a person?

That's an earnest question. I would sleep better tonight knowing the FSF will be in safe and effective hands.
> Important Note: Multiplayer is NOT SUPPORTED between 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems!

Does the network protocol pass unsized integers or data pointers between clients? What other CPU architecture dependency might prevent 32-bit and 64-bit clients from playing together?
> > As I already mentioned, Go was created to solve Google problems, and Google problems are definitely enterprise-scale problems.

> You know who has Google problems? GOOGLE! You know who else has Google problems? NO ONE!

That's true, but guess what, Google still uses C++ and Java for the vast majority of its critical infrastructure. So even at Google, C++ and Java reign supreme at handling "Google scale". And it's not surprising really, the maturity, performance, tooling, etc. available for Java and C++ are far superior to what golang has to offer. Not to mention both being far better languages than golang (even with how complex C++ is). golang is a weak language not suited for modeling complex domains.

Secondly, golang was developed by some employees at Google, not Google itself. And if it weren't for the brand name behind it, it would have gone nowhere.
This isn't a verbal conversation, this is something he wrote on his own blog, no?
Let's say that it passed. Is Chevron now legally obliged to actually limit their methane emissions, or can they ignore it if they so choose?
Currently I manually track my tasks (and time spent) in an excel sheet, and ZipBooks (free) to submit invoices.
It does take a bit of time to collate the tasks and time to the invoice every month.
Dammit you beat me to it!

I second this. And a few stolen animated gifs. You know, for posterity.
Please note that Minksy is alleged to have had sex with the girl, and there is an eyewitness account stating that he declined to have sex. It's important to be as truthful as possible when speaking about this issue.
>Never has a country build itself into a super power in so little time.

CCCP?
His age would have forced the issue anyway at some point.
I have a question for the game devs who are developing games for PCs: Why are you developing new titles for PCs when mobile games are both the largest and fastest growing segment of the market?

I am curious. I was an early web app developer who missed the migration to mobile. I have always regretted it and am playing catch up.

Source: https://newzoo.com/insights/articles/global-games-market-rea...
The Mysterious Whistleblower Complaint: What Is Adam Schiff Talking About?
I remember the supposed mas-exodus that would occur when Github was acquired by Microsoft.
"We are motivated by the results of MLIR and XLA, and we are working towards enabling and optimizing these technologies for AMD GPUs."

So the answer is "not yet".
Free Software Pioneer Quits MIT over His Comments on Epstein Sex TraffickingCase
One markets unpopularity is anothers arbitrage.

The underlying value is what drives the asset in the long run.

Oil companies play the long game.
Rising stock prices is not the only way or even the primary way that companies generate returns for their investors. Many oil companies pay dividends to their stockholders and these can outweigh the gain from increasing stock prices. BP, for example, uses a significant amount of their cashflow to pay dividends and buy back stock. Their current dividend return is ~6% and has varied between ~2% and ~8% over the last 10 years meanwhile their stock price has fluctuated (by a significant amount) in the 30s and hasn't produced any meaningful gains in value for the average "Buy and hold" investor.

Long term holders of BP stock make their money from dividends, not from increases in value in the BP stock. Making that stock cheaper just means that the dividend rate of return goes UP.
That can be said in regards to leaks pertaining to constitutional violations against US citizens. But how about the unrelated cyber espionage and surveillance leaks which fell into the hands of China, Russia, etc.? There are only a handful of truly knowledgeable parties in the U.S. which can measure how extensive the damage to those affairs was.

It's very easy to say there should be no surveillance whatsoever but that would be anti-pragmatic.
Bill Gates also doesn't support the Green New Deal or government involvement (god forbid his taxes go up) in mitigating climate change. His public prayers for a technocratic solution to climate change are ridiculous and embarrassing for him considering he knows it will never happen.
Respectable publications still have a firewall between their business and editorial sides. I know some cynics will scoff at this, but there are lots of ethical journalists who would blow the whistle if they felt they were losing editorial independence.

Some publications have suffered a breakdown of the firewall as their business declined, but the top-tier outlets (the ones who still have a lot of money and even print circulation) are still more trustworthy than your average blog.
That can be said in regards to leaks pertaining to constitutional violations against US citizens. But how about the unrelated cyber espionage and surveillance leaks which fell into the hands of China, Russia, etc.? There are only a handful of truly knowledgeable parties in the U.S. which can measure how extensive the damage to those affairs was.
It's very easy to say there should be no surveillance whatsoever but that would be anti-pragmatic.
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Fi could otherwise be a great smart watch plan too since they don't charge per additional device. Unfortunately, they don't support eSIMs beside pixel devices.
See [0] for atmospheric oxygen levels over time. That dip from ~35% to ~15% atmospheric oxygen corresponds approximately to the permian extinction (~250 mya). My understanding is that there have been a number of oceanic hypoxic/anoxic events[1] in the history of the planet but that atmospheric oxygen levels have been relatively high since the oxygen holocaust[2].

[0]https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/96/20/10955/F2.large.jpg

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event#Anoxic_events_in_...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
I am not a game developer, and I take it that you do not play games.

There is a significant difference in the market and experience of mobile and PC gaming.

You may as well ask why people still develop for console, when they’re basically just stripped down computers.
Programming doesn't really need that much memory. The average brain can juggle around 3-7 pieces of information at a time. The trick is to keep it around 3.

Make heavy use of todo lists, probably plaintext. Often when you're programming something, a lot of tiny issues crop up that wreak havoc with your short term memory. It's sort of like doing calculus, you just have to learn to write more steps, instead of trying to skip a few steps ahead.

Keep as few tabs open at a time as possible. Ideally, around 4 or so.

One function should do only one thing. Memorize the shortcut for jumping to a function by name. If it's too hard to understand what a function is doing, split it into more.
Do you have any credible evidence to back up your claims? It seems to me that you're spreading baseless accusations.

> he stole a tremendous amount of classified material that had nothing to do with what he felt civil liberties issues.

How could you possibly know this? The only people who had access to the full documents are just a handful of journalists.

> Also doesn't change the fact that the Russian government outright admitted that Snowden shared Intel with them (according to the house Intel committee report).

Again, any evidence besides some half-baked government PR? He didn't have any documents with him by the time he left HK.
When did it not have ads? I remember seeing ads as early as 1993. AOL's browser was full of them. Sometimes they were just links at the bottom of a page thanking a sponsor, though.
You can do whatever the hell you want as long as you’re prepared to face consequences. In the case of sending gifs in an email, someone will first have to litigate you and then get to some kind of financial settlement/award. Then you gotta convince the other party to pay up / try and collect. The juice ain’t worth the squeeze. So yeah, you can.
Indeed I thought this was the entire point of divestment. Not to profit off of unethical activities. I'm surprised anyone would think this would impact climate change.
Maybe she didn't have anyone competent to advise her this would make Hong Kong look bad?
And that is studying in Europe.
I did 2 years at CC before going to a UC too. I don't think people are forgetting about it. There are many reasons people choose larger loans instead of transferring, most of which are unreasonable in hindsight once they enter the workforce.
I didn't eat breakfast today, so I am

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on the couch all day. So much work. So many plans and projects. So many excuses. I really don't feel like doing anything. Not even writing a blog.

I'm just trying to stay as healthy as I can and not feel so bad that I'm going to throw up. Just try not to throw up.

Oh and don't worry. I'll be fine. I'm not a super sick patient. I promise.

I'll have you know that if one of my babies dies I'm going to be totally fine.

Thanks for reading!
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Yeah, lot's of fun, but on a more serious note: neither model I tried can continue what seems to me like a pretty obvious thought.
Right and here's the problem. Pension funds are notoriously underfunded and filled with people that don't give one iota of a rip about where it's invested. Pension managers will not leave those yields on the table or they'll fave a revolt.
Thanks for mentioning Arq, that looks really useful. What are the cons you've found?
Very similar to Reassembly also:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/329130/
Californians Can No Longer Be Forced to Join a Posse
Hit the monkey to win!
> 100TFlops that some NVidia GPUs are putting out...

Theoretically. In practice you need to make sure you're not bandwidth bottlenecked, which is heavily dependent on workload. E.g. large fully connected layers are bandwidth bound, so the FLOPS difference doesn't matter. Besides, nothing prevents AMD from implementing its own matrix multiply OP in the next generation of GPUs.
More generally, if your leadership position depends on making and defending an argument that is based off of strong premises, and you seek to amass a lot of support for that argument, it seems the most effective pathway is to be very visible when making that argument, and rather private otherwise. This is just because if you are trying to maximize support among those that agree with your argument, you are going to attract people that disagree on other arguments. It requires focus. As soon as you, a leader, weigh in on another divisive argument that has nothing to do with your charter, it acts as a filter that can jeopardize large swaths of support.

I'm also a little fascinated, just generally, by the tendency for very smart people to make "good points for bad reasons" - strenuously quibbling with some premise that would make no relevant impact to the lemmas and conclusions constructed atop them. It's like an inability to grasp larger points.
It sounds like you're talking about one specific kind of content: educational material. That's not what I make or have any interest in making.

And there is no way I'd get on camera even if I wanted to do video. I do not believe video will come to dominate such that text and audio won't still have a place. I personally can't get much out of most non-fiction videos, and I know I'm not alone. I didn't even watch more than 0-2 YouTube videos a month until I found ContraPoints and got pulled into lefttube.
> So we just ignore the years of NATO surrounding Russia and carrying out "training exercises" on the borders?

Yes. Russia's excuse for taking umbrage at exercises, that it was scarred by the memory of Nazis invading under pretext of an exercise, has grown pathetic from overuse.

It happened nearly a century ago and -- try this on for size -- NATO isn't Nazi Germany.
The Nazis Ordered Their U-Boats to Fight Airplanes. It Was a Mistake
Originally read this headline as "NYFD rescues overnight lending market with $53B" and momentarily thought the calendar photoshoots were more than just a joke.
Wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting
I think that he should have dumped everything. Or at least, everything that didn't put individuals at risk.

I get where he was coming from. But the people in charge of releasing stuff seem too clueless and/or deferential.
Maybe I'm weird. I always thought the purpose of divestment was to stop profiting off of unethical companies, and to eliminate conflicts of interest for value-driven entities such as nonprofits. I'm surprised anyone would treat it as a tool to fight climate change.
Wow, you are stretching this into the realm of the unreal.

It's like saying no one is precluded from buying military vehicles and driving them, therefore they are not for the military.

This is what's needed for standard mail, and no, your letter to your friend will NOT qualify, when will you stop making things up or at least admitting to being wrong?

> Standard Mail. Standard Mail usually consists of flyers, circulars, advertising, newsletters, bulletins, catalogs, or other printed pieces that are generally identical in content. Standard mail must be less than 16 ounces and must meet a minimum quantity of 200 pieces or 50 pounds of mail.
I'm not sure you're helping.

Basically, the Fed issued a bunch of promises of positive growth in order to get businesses or people with money (cash) to dump that money into the banks to increase liquidity if I'm understanding this right.

The financial market actually only gets into trouble when money (capital reserves) get low in comparison to balances/liabilities. "Money now" being in the right places is more important in keeping things going smoothly than "Money Later" being dumped into the market.

"Money Now" shortages cause bank runs. "Money Later" (Treasury Bonds) excesses tend to attract "Money Now" when people want somewhere safe to plop "Money Now" to get back "Money Later". The extra "Money Now" allows interest rates on lending to drop.

As I understand it, low "Money Now" supplies are responded to by lending at increased rates, because the bank in question can't just issue loans without the capital to service them.

Or something like that.

Shit, I don't even know if I managed to help. I just spent a week pouring over economics stuff to try to make sense of it all, and I'm still not sure I'm grokking it.