skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're all part of the same natural world, we have more in common than we have differences. The world we're all born into doesn't seem to particularly care about suffering -- it's baked into its very fabric, we're all going to suffer and die.

If you are going to survive, you have to kill every day, be it plant or animal; it's just the way it is. You can say that plants matter less than animals, and make up some justification about consciousness and suffering, but that is simply our own personal bias. There is no way to know if the universe cares more about thinking or non-thinking things, or if they share the exact same intrinsic value. All such moralizing is on very shaky ground and comes down to human bias and not much else.
What's common to Lightning and Criminal Hackers? The path of least resistance
The trained models are likely not directly applicable to any other company's data centers. Instead, Google publishes machine learning research. Open access so that everyone can benefit. Here's a paper on Deepmind's reinforcement learning system for datacenter cooling: https://deepmind.com/research/publications/safe-exploration-...
Drink lots of water - it's good for you and the enforced toilet breaks can add up to a lot of extra movement during the day.
VW only announce the price of base model which is about EUR30k, no prices of two upper models yet.
Google is a US corporation. It doesn't matters
Crown Sterling Decrypts RSA Asymmetric Public Keys in Live Demonstration
After much back and forth and introspection on this topic I just went ahead and became a Zen Buddhist.

I don't think we can function as humans without regular long, meaningful detachment from all these digital tools.

There's a lot of ways to do it. But I feel like everyone needs to pick one.
As the maintainer for Ranvier I'm curious as to which you consider it: very raw or unmaintained? :P
"New data confirm increased frequency of extreme weather events, European national science academies urge further action on climate change adaptation"

https://easac.eu/press-releases/details/new-data-confirm-inc...
They could have saved Earth and you would find a fault. This is a great initiative, but you're criticizing about not "open sourcing" it. Google open sources plenty of things. The solution maybe heavily coupled to their infrastructure.
It's not free; you have to pay for Switch Online monthly or yearly.

If you have Twitch Prime, you can get up to a year for free but only through Tuesday.
Yeah, don't believe in dogmas, measure. Zero cost abstractions sometimes are anything but.
How to approach planning as a startup CTO
I suspect the answer is no but they rationalize until it either strengthens the ideology to cover up because they refuse to admit mistakes, and they convince themselves that their shaking hands are from fervor or they become disillusioned and break free with PTSD with added rightful guilt.

Addrenaline and immediacy of threat do help a bit though - drone piliots apparently have more PTSD from killing compared to cockpit gunners being shot at before they pulled the trigger.
In the US the lower receiver of the AR-15 platform is considered the firearm. You can buy 80% lowers for glocks, 1911's and ARs without having to do a Federal Firearms Transfer and then mill them yourself or if you want to be really fancy get a ghostgunner. https://ghostgunner.net/featured-products/
Network of 25 Observatories Search for Habitable Exoplanets [video]
Don't be angry at Amazon (and the others) - campaign to change the law.

Fixating on massive corporations not paying tax is actually making the problem worse, because it takes attention away from the only thing that can fix the problem which is changing the law. Anything less is just asking companies to hurt themselves for no reason.

Just like how most people would pay lower taxes if it was legal, the same goes for companies. That's not saying I don't completely agree they need to pay their fair share - I do!
Thanks - my concern is that the IPCC reports appear to be too conservative, possibly not modeling feedback effects enough. We're tracking around the worst case scenarios presented in the 2015 report so far.
Skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Germany it sounds like there is just a perpetual lag, where offshore wind is built and then it takes awhile to get it hooked in. It's been going on since at least 2014, and since that time like 5GW of offshore wind looks to have been hooked up, so I'm not sure there's a problem beyond "things take a while to build".
Coincidental; going to therapy for the first time today.
literature and history be damned, we should all stand in obedient awe of some lisp nerd's rules for meaningful conversation
I am sincere.
A Link to the Past randomizer is easily the most popular randomizer, but there are now many more randomized games. There are other Zelda games like Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker, and there are non zelda games like Final Fantasy and Castlevania Symphony of the Night.

This is becoming a bit of a trend in classic gaming speed runs. Multiple people will play the same "seed" or arrangement of items/characters and you can watch them race on Twitch or even at live gaming events. In some games the top non-hack gamers have crossed over and spend significant effort playing the randomized version of their favorite game. While there is an element of luck in this game format, the best players tend to consistently rank high in tournaments so skill is a large factor.

Of course, the legality of this is highly questionable. Most people that play A Link To The Past Randomizer do not have a legal copy of the v1.0 Japanese game the hack operates on. For those that do their license would allow them to make a rom, but would it allow them to make modifications to that rom and upload gameplay videos online for profit?

Some game developers have noticed this trend. For example, Cadence of Hyrule (2019) plays similarly to A Link to the Past Randomizer in that key items are distributed randomly across the game. They even call a specific item distribution a "seed" which is terminology borrowed from the randomizer community.

It's easy to ignore this trend in gaming because it's not very large like loot boxes or two tier currencies and it doesn't have a marketing budget. It is however a fun grassroots movement branching out from people's love of classic games.
Google’s datacenter power management relies on software features that nobody outside Google is prepared to accept. Most operators expect to have thermal headroom for short CPU clock rate bursts and they don’t want some central daemon downclocking their machines. From what I’ve seen outside Google, most organizations would get much more benefit from focusing on utilization than trying to replicate Google fan speed control techniques. If you still have UPSs and dual AC-DC power supplies in every box and your PUE is 2.0 you don’t need the thing that allowed Google to go from 1.11 to 1.10.
I feel for your troubles. Letting you know you can move it into EKS or Google cloud could probably save you a lot of headaches in the long run.
I wish it were that simple. It’s truly a global economy and between the spike in oil prices, the looming brexit/not-brexit, the US-China trade war, and everything else, I think it’s all one big cluster%]+} and it doesn’t make a difference which of the two currencies you store your money in, long term.
I know, and I think some of that could be eliminated if ISPs were required by law to allow people to self-host Web and gopher sites (and properly secured SMTP) on residential connections and do a full IPV6 rollout so that you can have your server directly accessible without NAT if you want. Then you can just give out your IPV6 address if domain registrars refuse to serve you because they find your site's contents objectionable.
I know this graph as well, but i've always been suscipicious of the "hockey stick with multiple lines" in the end. Seems like it has been heavily critized as well :

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/09/20/josh-takes-on-xkcds-c...

I'm pretty sure climate change is an extremely complex subject, but i must say the "simple" data tells a story that's so different from what seems to say the majority of professionals working in the field that it makes me a bit nervous.
exactly, a den of thieves:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-21/amazon-hires-army-...
Yeah it's really hard to replicate the feeling of being in a room with someone and talking through specific situations in your life. Talk therapy (and probably all therapy) is better in person, but there's value in being able to do some home exercises and sessions as well even if it doesn't replace therapy.

There are other therapy approaches which are more suited to be delivered through a phone. Something that we've seen work really well is teaching coping skills, mental models and different perspectives. It's much less about focusing on your past and life situations, and more about actionable skills that you can learn to manage mental health issues.
Not "everybody" hates Google for it. People who don't understand the security implications inherent in allowing browser extensions that have nearly-unrestricted access to the user's behavior -- even if well-intended -- may hate the Chrome team for it.

But there are those of us who understand why the Chrome team made the decision it did, and are sympathetic. And we're happy that the Chrome team and Apple are of the same mind about this.
Since Mozilla has switched to Zoom internally as of recent, I'd be surprised if this compatibility issue stays unfixed for long.
Ask HN: What are your AI/ML success/fail stories in your company?
He left Beyond Meat to start a company that goes beyond meatless burgers
even if they didn't, seeing the limits of those models in different environments would certainly help the community overall, and if it saves a tenth of the energy it does for Google somewhere else it would be an enormous immediate reduction in energy consumption on a global scale, so it's hard to see what the downside would be.

If one was truly concerned about 'democratizing AI', as companies like Google so often claim, then sharing access to the trained models would arguably be far more effective than just sharing research papers which many companies don't even know how to implement. In fact the large majority of companies that are responsible for energy consumption don't have any data on the scale that Google has, so I would go as far as call this a bad faith deflection from the beginning.
Good luck! Hope you enjoy it and it helps :)
I guess partially because it can quickly become very dependent on the system you work on. But if you're specifically interested in caching issues, one good keyword to look for is "cache aware algorithms" - or "cache oblivious algorithms".

On the locking side, the counterpart would probably be "lock-free algorithms", but I still don't believe their complexity means that in most cases you shouldn't look at those :)
Stripe considers move out of San Francisco
I think the takeaway is companies should compete on ethics but be transparent about it. If corporations openly call out each other's malignant actions that's a huge win for us all in holding them to a higher standard.

I don't believe the "poor Amazon" angle for a moment though. A lot of the "campaign" against Amazon takes place in EU courtrooms where no rival company is focusing our attention on their transgressions. A lot of stuff Amazon chooses to do is morally unjust and should be illegal - they choose to include bathroom break time with productivity calculations that determines who gets fired. Bezoz just clawed back 1900 workers' healthcare to indistinguishably enrich himself.

France fined them for abusing vendors -

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/04/france-fines-ama...

EU is investigating them to see if they abuse vendors with the vendors' own sales data -

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/19/eu-probing-amazons-use-of-da...

Reversing corrupt tax deals -

https://www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/amazon-apple-tax-...
Yeah that tweet is uncivil due to foul language. I wouldn’t use that same language, but if Twitter doesn’t have a ban on those words, I don’t see why they’d ban the tweet or account which is expressing an opinion and isn’t a call to act on violence.

It’s really trying to mould behavior otherwise allowed in public. We accept this opinion but not that opinion or language.
We do have solid storage technology, deployed in the field at smaller scales around ~100MWh, with many GWh installations planned soon: lithium ion:

For example, this recent LA contract got lots of press:

https://boingboing.net/2019/09/14/green-keynes.html

The technology is not hard or mysterious for storing during the daily cycle, it's just a matter of costs falling. And costs are falling dramatically.

The bigger question is what we may do for seasonal storage, or if instead of seasonal storage we just have capacity for 200% of generation and overproduce for much of the year.
AIs can't protect us from AIs.
> Conferences don't exist to convey information

I don't entirely agree with this. Many speakers talk about their experience with some technology or problem. If it's not presented as a sales pitch - which sometimes might happen -, it is definitely valuable to hear about real-world use cases. And then you even get to ask them questions at the end. It is an opportunity to share info and practices that you can hardly get in the same way from a non-interactive blog article or a forum thread.

> When people attend conferences, they're doing it to be seen

This might be true, and as you say, it's all business.
I don't think this is necessarily bad (I'm not saying that you think so). Conferences are useful to meet people in person and expand your network, which is also very valuable. Maybe some do this as a deliberate calculation, some others are genuinely interested in socializing. That's all very fine. And ultimately if speaking at a conference has chances to improve my resume, why would I not go for it? It's all business, right?

> If you're at a talk that's truly unbearable, just tune out or walk out if it's that bad.

This is good advice.
Overall I would say conferences are a decent tool for staying in touch with the community. Not all of them are bad, and not all speakers have inflated egos.
I'm not a writer so I'll let you know when it happens. It may be years from now, but I'm steadily working on it! :)

I'll check out Mindset, thanks. (I couldn't find it on google, send a link if you don't mind)
Uh... I'm guessing Neoconservatives in the 60s? There have been many strategies over the years to make the Federal Government ineffective. In the 80s they did the whole Starve the Beast thing. More recently it's locking up budget talks and shutting down the government.

These days Moscow Mitch just sits on his hands and does nothing.

* I'm not blaming Republicans, Nancy Pelosi and her buddies have been doing similar shenanigans in the House. Currently she refuses to address any serious legislation in the House using the fact that it will never make it through the Senate as an excuse.

Honestly the behavior of both leaders has the same net effect and makes you wonder if they're both working towards the same goal.
It’s the difference between brief therapy, where you’re learning specific coping skills and is much more solution focused, and talk therapy which is much more problem focused.
Sure!

Edit: done! Can't wait to hear from you, I'd love some more ideas to put into the book.
You can always use "git annotate" or alias git commands in your gitconfig.
Making video games is not even remotely similar to playing video games.

Source: I work in the game dev industry. It’s brutal.
Agree.

I expect $100 board to have 2 or 4 GB.

Yet once upon a time I thought a 48 K Apple II was a lot.
Second that but there is no matplotlib underneath AFAIK. It does html based interactive graphs using a variant of the grammar of graphics, with extensions for interactions. Grammar of graphics means a great, proven (see ggplot) compromise of power and simplicity. <shameless plug> If you need a library of one-liners built on top of altair (that is if you need some standard stats graph) I wrote altair_recipes (https://github.com/piccolbo/altair_recipes/ or pip install altair_recipes) for that. </shameless plug>
That's practically 99% of the time really. Even in enterprise scenarios Kubernetes is very, very rarely required.

I've yet to come across a single instance where such rapid scaling happens and stays consistently high.

Most of the time you know well in advance when your resources will be put to the test.
The problem is that pretty much anything can have effect. With your approach you would have to ban everything to the level of people with lowest resistance.

First you ban torture videos, then murder videos, then animal slaughter, then violent porn, then violent video games, then violent movies, then all movies where gun is shot (see shooting ar-15 gave me ptsd) and you have banned all action movies. And you still can't be sure if there isn't anything even more benign which would have "an effect" on someone.
I don't think the bpmlegal article I linked is using the word "disclaimer" in the same sense as USPTO here. One of the examples they list is:

Teflon is a registered trademark of DuPont.

They're just saying you should add a statement like that, not saying this is a "disclaimer" in the specific meaning USPTO uses above.
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https://doc-00-7o-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/a...
Plus, Chrome only plans to disable the blocking functionality of webrequest, not the monitoring part.
Could you elaborate on what it means to "use memory like tape"?
The only problem with this point of view is that, effectively, you have painted a sort of target on your back. As you say, not everyone goes to therapy (even though they should). Therefore, there is still a stigma associated with those who do choose to go to therapy.

That wouldn't be so bad, except there are consequences to going to therapy. Paperwork and records are generated. There are certain positions where you have to disclose any therapy that you've received (see for example Section 21 on the SF-86: https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf). Then, you answer that truthfully, and your paperwork leaked. You are supposed to be open and honest with your therapist, but can you do that in good faith? Knowing that truly anything you say can come back and haunt you in the future? Even if you work through those issues and they are firmly in the past?

There needs to be a way for people to truly feel secure and talk through troubling thoughts without fear of reprisal. I have personally avoided going to therapy for the fear that I would be denied opportunities if it was disclosed that I had a "mental illness".

It's the same reason I refuse to obtain genetic testing or DNA sequencing for myself; if I do that and, as a result, I learn that I am potentially at risk for an illness/cancer/whatever due to my genetic makeup, undoubtedly some life or health insurance policy will use that information against me to deny coverage in the future. So I remain ignorant out of fear.
>start having only 1 or 0 children for a while.

Almost all developed nations already have birth rates below the replacement level. The only way our populations are not falling is through migration from less developed countries.
[plant-based] chicken chunks, pulled pork, beef tips... ground beef and chorizo... meatless beef burger patty... chicken, turkey and breakfast sausage patties

the alternative meat sector could reach about $140 billion in sales over the next decade, capturing about 10% of the global meat industry
Used Nissan Leaves seem to fall off a cliff. 2016 ones are already visible on ebay for under £10k.
While I think Snowden is a hero and whatnot, I think a black and white reasoning about being a traitor isn't particularly helpful. If anything, the concept of a traitor is a weak one, and shouldn't matter in discourse... it's not a harm or benefit in and of itself, and any celebration or punishment should rest on the extent of those harms and benefits themselves rather then some abstract and largely tribal concept like "traitor".

Maybe the NSA needs to be taken apart or heavily restructured, but this can be done without using their words or us vs them worldview.
Perhaps a special tag such as "suspected troll" would suffice.
Once wasm is commonplace, this might not be that bad actually.
Please answer instead of downvoting
I'm using a toy command line python app that I wrote when I was learning how to do PEG grammars.

But I've used Harvest [0] in the past when I was a contractor and I was happy with that for time tracking and invoicing.

[0] https://www.getharvest.com
The Rise of Managed Services for Apache Kafka
I'm personally OK with most feminisms. I can even manage a few chuckles when I read stuff like the SCUM Manifesto. However, when I see a headline like "This is your phone on feminism", I figure there's a non-zero chance that the actual article will not be a substantive piece of work that examines modern tech through a feminist lens, but an ill-informed rant about SJWs using phones and social media to impose their "pomo cultural-Marxist PC agenda" by some reactionary dudebro who spends too much time fapping to alt-reich memes on Gab.
> “Eliminate things from your life that don’t bring you joy and happiness.”

The key here is to have a long-term view of this. Obviously this doesn't mean to disown your relationships with anybody who didn't bring you joy this week, but you should look at the history of the relationship, and how you think the relationship will be in the future, and decide whether or not the relationship is really a value add in your life.
Yup, great ideas. They really do add up. Even in a city I find stuff like that helps me, I often extend an errand through a park for example.

Here's another: when I'm in a multi story building, I almost never take the elevator down. If the building is less than five stories I'll generally take the stairs up too, often at a light run.

One more: stairs instead of escalator. At minimum, walking on an escalator.
These might be 10k when you buy them used...
My comment was to be taken as a joke and also not untrue. The current state of our Congress is that one Party controls the Senate and refuses to bring any legislation to the floor, and the other Party controls the House and refuses to hold anyone accountable for anything using the excuse that it won't make it through the Senate.

So because no one agrees on anything, nothing gets done.
Iirc Clear Linux also started as an OS for containers and morphed into a full functioning desktop OS, let’s how this goes.
The abstraction necessary to make tagged pointers platform-dependent is quite small and trivially removed by any optimizing compiler.
Google makes almost all of their money through ads...
> Also, "so I can get the game cheaper" - do you? When I buy a newly released game on Steam it's usually in the 50 to 60 Euro range.

It's about 30 in my region.
I’m not sure what the boundary is when it comes to “copying” shoes.

The last time I bought a pair of Nikes, there were Adidas, Nike, and other brands who had shoes that are basically the same fabric style on top and similar base with different logos or color variations. Having seen that, this looks far less egregious, although I’m providing a moral defense.
I believe people are much more reasonable then you give them credit for. When properly informed they will make the right choices.

And the good news is that you don’t even need to wait for the majority to make the “right” vote. Apparently, it’s enough for the 3.5% of the population to take part in a sustained active resistance to bring about radical change [0]. This is also why I believe Extinction Rebellion is the last hope of humanity.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w