skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the sentiment. But I wouldn't use the term "miraculous" because that generally comes with the baggage of a creator.

I'd rather say that ~random variation plus selection is gobsmackingly impressive. But the results aren't as perfect as you might expect stuff that's designed and created to be. They're amazing, but not elegant.
I have suggested multiple times on HN that we should set a date where all burning of fossil fuel for power and heat is banned.

The answer I kept seeing from pro-renewable/anti-nuclear people is that banning fossil fuels is unrealistic and impossible. Battery is a tiny part of a tiny part when solar/wind is not producing, as can be seen in sites that provide real time data from EU.

Take a random country in EU. Look at how much energy is produced by wind at peak. Compare it to the lowest lowest point, remove nuclear and hydro, and you get how much fossil fuels that country use at peak. For most countries that is natural gas or coal and it matches wind production almost (only almost as natural gas is a bit more expensive than peak wind, as peak wind can even get negative in purchasing price).

There is also numbers on what power plants countries are currently building. The top one: natural gas power plants. Second one, wind. The power plants we build today is what will produce power tomorrow, and the vector of where investment and constructions is being put is in favor of more natural gas, not less. Nuclear is in many places being replaced by natural gas.

But to get back on track, lets have this ban of fossil fuels in energy and heating. I wish it would happen. It would be great for the environment, force an answer with money on the table on question if nuclear is cheaper than battery, and finally distance the renewable movement away from natural gas. The Northerly regions are not really a big coal/gas users anyway because they also tend to have mountains, rivers, and few people. Hydro will work perfectly fine as long the energy does need to go to southern regions.

To put it simply: countries need to stop building natural gas powers plants and put those investments into battery or nuclear. That is the progress bar for a completely renewable energy grid. As far as I can read it stand right now at almost 0%.
MicroCenter if you have on near you.

I think I've maybe seen them in a Costco before too.
If you’re going to call someone crazy then just come out and say it. Don’t quote the guy and then chime in with your fake compassion and hope that he gets the help he needs. That’s saying the guy is batshit crazy while trying to look like a good guy even though you probably aren’t qualified to make that determination. If anyone else commented “he’s f-ing nuts” they’d be downvoted because it contributes nothing. Somehow, yours is the top comment at the moment.
Wondering will I ever see the day this gets fixed. Shouldn’t take more than an hour?
Yeah so you could do a rebase and remove all of the user’s commits, but their work would likely still remain in the subsequent history- integrated as changes in some way. It would be a real mess.
This is suprising to me. I assume it is much more nuanced than that? How does insurance work then? Isn't insurance fundimentally the same plan with different prices for different groups depending on assessed risk?
Makes sense. He founded a tech company with his brother, got super rich, reversed his balding, got super sexy, and now builds rockets and fancy cars.
It didn't come off as smarmy (well it did), but it primarily came off as contradictory.
That's not generally true. Businesses are free to vary their pricing provided they aren't violating some other law in doing so (e.g. laws prohibiting discrimination based on race or sex or laws requiring common carriers or utilities to charge prices set on a tariff).
Now imagine “U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in France” and feel the difference (which is non-existent). Then it goes on tv and reads the list of this morning’s evil men who must be stopped.
The spies always blame Russia and more recently China for everything wrong.

They just happened to find a very receptive audience both politically and media-wise for their paranoia recently.

Russia et al blame everything on the west too and we don't demand apologies from their propaganda departments.
All good Danny, we had good times at Google... let's remember those :)

Coffee offer is still there!
>"It forced us to use the HMS [Huawei Mobile Services] core."

This is the major failure I see here. Basically, no one wants Huawei's blobby bloatware with system level privileges any more than Google's blobby bloatware with system level privileges. If the world thinks that you are a Chinese spying company, you do not combat that by shipping more crap. They had a good opportunity to either extend AOSP or to make HMS open source. Instead, they imitate Google poorly.
https://openai.com/blog/fine-tuning-gpt-2/#bugscanoptimizefo...

(Someone didn't read the whole article..)
It's a myth that the internet is about "information" that has no power to do any harm. Anything that can be beneficial must, by definition, have the power to change whatever you consider reality, and almost that power can have negative consequences as well as positive ones.

Here, we're talking data and privacy, and it's commonly accepted fact that the disclosure of personal data can be harmful. Countries want to protect their citizen from such harms. Hence regulation.

> , there is no good rational to put the burden on the business. It is much more sound and natural to either put it on the consumer, a business may be visited by nationals from hundreds of juridisction, while a consumer will only visit 1 or 2 businesses

This seems completely, and obviously, be the opposite of reality as I experience it, as both a consumer and startup founder. Businesses have repeated transactions of similar types and products. Since there are fewer businesses than consumers, they also have more resources, and locating any burdens of transactions that occur once per country is vastly more efficient.

A company like Facebook has a theoretical upper limit of a little less than 200 jurisdictions to consider, using billions in revenue. Their customers would have to the same, only they number in the billions, and have few resources nor structures for sharing this burden (except, of course, their governments).

> while a consumer will only visit 1 or 2 businesses.

I'm pretty sure I interact with dozens of businesses every day.
The problem is these services are scams. If people understood what they were doing they wouldn't trade their data for $5/month.

If your business can't survive by charging a fair price for the service it provides without stealing data, then it shouldn't exist.
Let's take Euclid's algorithm which gets the greatest common denominator between two given numbers. Euclid was a mathematician and "father of geometry". According to Wikipedia, the algorithm was improved a long time after he first described it. That means his one wasn't even the best!

Now we have programmers being tested in hour long interviews... how could they come up with this stuff on the spot?

There is a reason why people have to study for tech company interviews. Knowing the solution to a problem that is similar to the one that is being asked will go a long way in the interview.
One thing they may have in the pipe is to have regular short term rental market places like Booking.com to list Airbnb rentals as well. Basically expand the reach outside of their own website.
Just to be clear, negative feedback is not giving 'bad feedback', it's taking an action that 'dampens' a signal as it gets outside of a zone of control to bring it back in line. Positive feedback would not be pleasure or reward, positive feedback would be something more akin to a runaway chain reaction or an avalanche, where the system takes an action that emphasizes a signal as it gets outside the zone of control.
Please also make using Elements with Stripe.js v3 fully optional.

We finished migrating to SCA-enabled payment flow not few days ago. Apparently, you can't create a PaymentMethod instance without using Elements and we don't have the time (nor do we see any practical need) to redo the frontend with them. So the end result is a Frankestein-style frontend that uses the v3, but with a fair share of v2 methods, because it's the only way to retain all the functionality we had prior to the migration (e.g. saving the card info for future use). This was a bit of nasty surprise to be honest. Migrating to the v3 basically breaks existing systems in a non-trivial and expensive to fix way... and the migration is mandatory because of SCA.

* SCA = strong customer authentication
Sure, but then you need to demonstrate real (not just imagined) harm. GDPR doesn't seem to have caused the world to end. Vanishingly few people actually followed through on the whining and quit serving the EU.

From the perspective of ordinary users, GDPR was a pretty successful law with no real downsides. Businesses have to be more careful with data, that's about it.
The law would not be necessary if companies were upfront with how they collect and process information about individual consumers. Now this is a compromise many consumers want.
"With great scale, comes great responsibility"
Did you miss the part where the individual you responded to said "Regulations aren’t set in stone forever, either, and a functional legislative body can always modify and update them as their effects become more well known."?

There is over regulation in some areas, but lets be real: it's already extremely difficult to break into existing sectors, just as a result of industrialization, brand recognition, etc. The idea of the scrappy upstart is overwhelmingly a fantasy. This regulation won't prevent any businesses worth forming from getting underway, in my opinion.
I think a good metaphor to think about this is how a book store in new york will be visited by people from hundreds of countries, where some of the products they sell there are illegal in some countries because of obscenity laws.

If the EU made a law that made the NYC bookstore liable in the EU for selling "obscene" books to europeans, and then arrested the unaware bookstore owner in a vacation to france, is that really right?

That is a big issue with the GDPR in general.
The main problem is that the bill is rushed and the legal bits have a lot of ambiguity.

source: CCPA and its potential compliance has been a big PITA
My experience so far (small team, one company, partly on-site and partly remote, n=1 and all that) has been that minor communication problems and misunderstandings have a greater tendency to fester and develop into friction between individuals. We all hate being interrupted by someone "dropping by" when we're cranking, but the ability to do that seems to help people get along more easily.

There may also be more of a tendency to sort of... drift off, or lose interest, allowing personal life to creep into work hours.

This seems to be exacerbated if management doesn't really know how to handle fully remote teams. The past chatter on HN seems to suggest that managing remote teams is a distinct skill from more traditional management.

So far my preference is a nice office environment with a part-time remote option > full-time remote > crappy (unproductive or uncomfortable) office environment.
There are some teachers who have actually figured out what needs to happen, but everyone's identity will backlash hard against it: https://www.youtube.com/user/ActualizedOrg/videos

What would our behavior look like if everyone realized that the point of their life was to work to improve the level and quality of their awareness and consciousness to the point that they also realize the point of their life is to become infinitely loving and utterly selfless?
(The hard part is that everything you think you are has to die, you can see why dogmatic/skeptic will resist)
ALL of those scenarios are only problematic because the design of these megalithic services didn't even consider things like the basic privacy of their livestock/user base.

Think this law is going to allow me to require 7-11 to delete me from their DVR records? Not part of the business model, it's a matter of security. Nice straw man though.

Their terrible system design can't handle "FROM PornPrefs DELETE SSN,Name,Address WHERE SSN LIKE "999-11-2222"". They brought this on themselves.
They would survive but I imagine that would either cause enourmous sign-up friction, or if they hide it too well, might run afoul of the law?
don't like

vulkan,

rapidjson,

libgit2,

for the first 2, they are too verbose.

for the last, I have trouble translating git command into api calls. They don't seem to match well.
Of course, I never meant that it couldn't get easier. It just won't for as long as there's demand for it. As long as there's money to be made in mining, resources will be thrown at it. As more resources are thrown at it, it gets less efficient. As resources improve, it becomes less efficient. The only thing that would allow it to get more efficient is if nobody cares anymore, as happened across the lions share of 2018.

Nothing about this graph suggests we should expect anything else [1]. The perceived misconception seems more like a technicality :)

[1] https://www.blockchain.com/en/charts/difficulty?timespan=all
This seems completely plausible to me and I hope it puts the absurd "sonic weapon" theory to bed. Combination of stress, genuine brain damage from excessive pesticide fumigation, and a little bit of mass hysteria.
Google has already achieved that with Project Treble by the way.
I do know the MS guy largely responsible for Q#. He's an honest fellow and adamant that there is nothing like it. I've never worked with it. If you do get serious with it I'm sure the team would be very interested in hearing from you.

AFAIK the only "quantum computer" it currently interfaces with is LIQ𝑈𝑖⏐〉 (a simulator). http://stationq.github.io/Liquid/
30 years ago? That was 1989. How many companies were using source control in 1989? How about 1999? Still not very many. 2009? Well, now you will find quite a few using SVN, but Git hasn't really taken off yet.
Capitalism happens inside a framework of laws. There are strong laws against murdering your competitors, that's why this doesn't happen (nowadays). There is a whole set of unethical behaviors, however, that are commonly used for the goal of producing a profit.
Timezones. A 2 hour difference is managable but 3 hour difference is pushing it. Sure you can counter this by shifting work hours, but from a practical standpoint, most people like to keep local daylight hours.
> Grassland species have suffered the biggest declines by far, having lost 717 million birds. These birds have probably been decimated by modern agriculture and development.

This has been known for a while. I remember hearing a piece on NPR about this maybe a decade ago. The problem is actually that we have been working hard to reforest, and haven't left grassland. Everything is either forest, or developed, with very little in-between. One of the proposed solutions was to simply not mow 100% of your yard. Leave some bit of it unkempt. There's a local monastery that does this, and there are birds there that I haven't seen anywhere else in the area, so I think there's something to the strategy.
In what sense is Haskell a "strict superset" of OOP?
What are "detailed accounts"? Do you mean witnesses? How many? Was it all of them? How do you know?

What information did the public inquest provide? Did it exclude anything? Did it exclude the camera footage? What else did they not provide?

Define "fully" because I am pretty sure it is quite "partial." Or do you mean "fully" in the Orwellian sense which only ever means "all you are allowed to know?"

>But, as said, I don't see the point of publicising videos of people being slaughtered.

So you don't see the point in allowing the public to fully inform themselves, if they so choose, by providing the entirety of known information surrounding this event, which would necessarily include all camera footage? Well, lets just hope they didn't fabricate those detailed accounts, wouldn't want to have to watch people getting slaughtered, the graphic nature of which we will have to take at the Government's word. Verifying the truth of Government statements, even as they use these events to justify vast expansions of power and broad limitations for civil liberties, is just not worth it.

>Nothing to see here, folks!
I'm running Manjaro on a 1st gen X1E and it generally works really well. Installing took a bit of trial and error.

The Nvidia graphics card is still a bit of a pain; I usually open another TTL session and start up a new desktop with the Nvidia graphics card running when I need it, but I think it's possible to configure it better than that.
You're allowed to cut your losses and drop out, you kow.
PsiXBot Adds PornModule, Google DNS Service to Its Arsenal
I think the legislative motivation is a belief that people do not (and perhaps cannot) understand the potential cost of consenting to data sharing. Without that understanding, can you really have a meaningful consent?

In this view, a company offering a discount in exchange for sharing is inherently deceptive.
That's an example of where democracy works because the voters are educated and care about important issues. In countries that are full of uneducated idiots, it doesn't work so well and glyphosphate isn't banned.
It's pretty, but your post in a nutshell:
We are too full of ourselves to admit the transcendental beauty and value of our world soooo...drugs.

??
Gaming helps, although there is a risk of spending time after work with work people that way
I work in the NYC satellite office for a Silicon-Valley company, and for the most part it's fine, but there are a few things that I'm still getting used to.

First off, I am historically very bad at reading and checking emails. For companies that are mostly local, this wasn't a huge deal, since people could just come and bother me whenever they needed me, but it's a problem when I'm basically remote. Honestly, the way I've gotten around this is setting a recurring reminder on my calendar to check my email, so that I don't forget.

Also, due to the three-hour time difference, I end up having to dial into a lot of meetings from home during dinner-time. This isn't the worst thing in the world, but it can be annoying.

It's worth it overall, I personally like NY better than California, and that same three hour time difference allows me to show up to work late without anyone really caring, which is really useful if I have to go to the post office or the bank.
The average annual out-of-state cost for a bachelor program in Computer Science is $41,992, with an estimated average four year degree total cost of $167,968.

You have to ask yourself what would be more effective:
4 years in college (spend $170k) or spend 4 years learning on your own (free), working on open source projects (free), and/or getting an entry level job (earn 120k or more)?
Yeah, it would not go well for them for sure.
You can do that if you don't have any poor users, or you don't have to care about them (e.g. many consumer apps).

Our clients are businesses, and our users are their employees (from a wide range of backgrounds). The employees must use our web app, and our clients mostly don't get to choose what their employees use.

We log how many users are on old browsers, and we try to support users on old browsers if it isn't too costly for us to do so.

In my experience, the majority of people using a iPhone 4 or an Android 4.4 device are doing so because they can't afford to update, and they are often otherwise marginalised. I try hard not to give them yet another kick in the teeth for stuff outside their control.
> RMS made too liberal comments about the age of consent rule though.

What I consider worse is his "but was it really assault" defense. The question itself is framed in a hypothetical world: "Suppose Guiffre was coerced. And suppose that Minsky did in fact sleep with her, but without knowing she was coerced. Is that really so bad?"

Well, yes, it would be bad. In the hypothetical situation described, Minsky should have seen lots of red flags. That hypothetical situation is the behavior that Stallman is downplaying. When a person in power makes that kind of defense, it protects sexual predators and silences their victims: it signals that the next time there is this situation, similar behavior will be defended and similar complaints ignored.

Regardless of whether or not Minsky slept with Guiffre, Stallman's comments were a harmful thing for someone in his position to have said.

And what makes me angry about the "hit pieces" is that this angle is completely lost -- he's being attacked for saying Guiffre was "entirely willing" (which he never said) and for questioning whether 17 is really too young to consent (which apparently all of Europe questions). Nobody is going to learn about how to avoid accidentally using your influence to protect sexual predators; all they're going to learn is not to touch any contentious topic with a barge pole for fear of being heinously misrepresented.
Bootstrapping Procedure to Discover DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS Servers
The gas tank is pressurized and vacuumed or something. Actually have to press a button to open the tank to put more in.
If you don't use the gas engine for 6 weeks, it runs for 15 min to lubricate. If you don't keep the average gas age below 1 year, it will run the gas engine until the average age is below 1 year. And that logic is very much as a software developer would expect. It burns half the gas away and you refill it? Average age is now 6 months. In 6 months it'll do it all over again.
>There's nothing, Constitutionally speaking, preventing states from doing so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitlow_v._New_York
That's a huge wage differential for a country the size of Michigan
It's fairly trivial to patch an existing (open source) torrent client.

As a hint for people wanting to do that, torrent clients often have infrastructure in place to limit upload speed for example. It's pretty easy to bend that code a bit.

The last time i did this, it was a one line patch in my particular client.
It's also worth checking out the Dell Precision 55xx series (currently 5540 I believe). It's the business version of the XPS 15 and more configurable and can have Linux preinstalled (and comparably priced)
Yeah, the latter seems like it would involve more bureaucracy than the former. I don't want to sound fatalistic, but I cannot shake off the feeling that it was almost definitely intended.
Secure Plug 'N' Play Authentication for Developers
A plug 'n' play express.js project for devs: https://gum.co/simpleauth.

All features listed here:

https://simplyauth.herokuapp.com/features
All the time. That being said, it is Seattle so I-5 isn't usually moving at 50 mph anyway :)
Yeah I've seen this, it also looks like a submarine commercial to me. What I'm more interested in is it's specs. Can it really charge as fast as they say? Does it really have that range and acceleration?

I've seen the shell of one in person, but it just seems to me if you actually could make an electric truck go 0-60 in 3 seconds and last 400 miles you would just make a video of it doing that instead of making a marketing video of putting a grill in its "gear tunnel".
State government agencies can only override county governments when there is specific state law allowing them to do so. State bureaucrats can't legally just order a sheriff to do whatever they want.
Well when I looked at it a bit later, I was unable to edit the original comment. Kind of makes the point moot don't you think?
Yes. Musk has been exceptional at figuring out markets to drive a tech up the experience curve that aren’t his ultimately desired market. Often it takes multiple companies to do that.
One really annoying aspect of streaming services in Switzerland is that, even when some content is available via legal means, say Netflix, you often have the problem with subtitles. I often run into content that have subtitles only in German or only in French.