skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason I don't like the whole bike thing is because it's emblematic of a culture and a vision I don't like: everyone living densely-packed into the stereotypical SF or Seattle city. This isn't often argued, but it's part of the larger "culture war." I know on which side most people on HN fall, but most people on the other side like their culture the way it is. Telling them to just import the dutch bike culture isn't a good solution, and will work just about as well as any other time people have told another group to just import their culture.

Ah, well, there it is. It's hard to argue in good faith with one who assumes that all things related to cycling are a part of a culture war being waged. I'm out.
A Soccer Team in Denmark Is Using Facial Recognition to Stop Unruly Fans
I attended a remote coffee chat[1] and then applied at the jobs page[2] :) I did already know a handful of people that already work there as well.

[1]: https://stripe.events/remote-coffee
[2]: https://stripe.com/jobs
Presumably the guy was a US citizen at the time the story began, so stating it in the title and when it's relevant is the chronological narrative.

The perspective of when CBP could prove this to themselves is irrelevant if they didn't have a cause to detain in the first place.
Why doesn't this break Google tracking?
Just more of a smear against Yang. The establishment is afraid.

Also the tint of anti Asian American racism - similar to SV when the hiring team or management group tries to talk themselves into finding reasons to not like a qualified candidate that does not fit the mold of the obediant Asian worker drone. Usually done insidiously to cast doubt on a person's character etc.
Thanks for putting that together, I see your point know. Thought you were talking about embedding when you said "wrap" before.

Considering that this is not related to embedding specifically, would you say that decorators in general are bad practice in Go?
A small critique on your examples: you never actually show using the Client interface anywhere. Might be useful to someone new to see how you'd switch out HTTPClient for CachedHTTPClient using it.
The problem with that is that, outside of our personal lives, most of our meaningful activities and contributions in society are organized as jobs at companies (or various government bodies). In my country even more so than in the US, as there's almost no volunteering here. It's just hard to feel like you're living a meaningful life without a job, or running a company yourself.
Actually, the simulation argument is solid. One of the three possibilities Bostrom outlines absolutely must be true.
Very mature thoughts. Sounds like some good life experiences behind them. Kudos on your clarity.
Yep, I have similar revenue and I charge somewhere between 25-45 per user.
DEVONThink documents can be opened in Vim and supports WikiLinks natively.
I only offered one source, and the research it quotes suggests no such thing, so your comment seems a bit odd. The closest it comes to saying what you suggest, is not very close at all:

But a spokesman for the SWOV acknowledged that the protective head wear might be a hard sell in the Netherlands. ‘Helmets aren’t often worn in the Netherlands and we are aware of the arguments [that cycling could decrease if they were obligatory],’ he said.

I'm not invested in what happens in the Netherlands at all, but I wonder if a lot of people are just taking "the downtick in injuries would be overshadowed by the reduction in biking" for granted.
Some of them are factories they remodel from ICE to EV, so those decrease the delta by 2. For example the Zwickau site that starts EV mass production on Nov 4 (but ramps up on EV and down on ICE over the next ~2 years until it's fully EV).

Apparently the same is true for 2 US factories, so that's 3 EV factories and -3 ICE factories.

https://electrek.co/2019/07/22/vw-zwickau-factory-electric-c...
IIRC, car ownership within the ring of Amsterdam is ~10%, because it is both expensive and unnecessary.

I will grant most people I know living in Amsterdam rarely get outdoors into the green, which is why I did own a car when living inside the ring.
Way past time to ban app stores.
You say you are familiar with building codes. But have you ever tried to build or renovate a building?

Some areas are okay. Others are not. The issue is not so much building codes, although there are definitely codes that e.g. push specific products from specific vendors and other shenanigans, but the approval process that gives the local authority unlimited time to mess with you for any reason.

There is, I think, a single US state that puts reasonable limits on project authorization, but I can't remember which it is.

All in all, doing anything with real property opens you up to just having your money taken by the government and lawyers while accomplishing nothing.
According to [1] the entire VW group owns 61 plants worldwide. However this also includes motorcycle factories and plants which make various parts which are used by ICE and electric cars (i.e. metal casting, injection molding, gearboxes, etc.).

8 Factories are quite a lot when you think that VW has only 3 electric vehicles in the pipeline (id.3,id.crozz and id.buzz) and also does not own any battery manufacturing plant.

It's a very risky move for VW. Margins on ICEs are way higher and VW factory staff is way pricier than tesla's. They can't really burn cash the same way since going belly up would be way more devastating. That's why other big manufacturers like toyota are similarly cautious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Volkswagen_Group_facto...
Doesn't the freedom and Android allow for you to trust a secure app store? I know that Playstore has its issues but it still has their barrier to entry and is patrolled by Google's app security team. Alternatively, there could even be a more secure app store established with even higher vetting. This is in contrast to Apple's store where you're either comfortable with their balance of security/hassle or you're not.
Shifting to hybrid or full EVs was laudable five or ten years ago, increasingly less so since then. Neither producers nor consumers in the auto market care about LCA's that look at REMs and battery impact. Plus you're only as clean as your electric grid.

The only solution to the climate catastrophe was a massive change in the economy, supply chain, and western consumer culture. Hybrid car technology was a viable wedge or mitigating factor five or ten years ago. Now our only option is to adapt
I'm not a UK resident and running it with Transferwise borderless account, and have opened several accounts in other fintech banks as an experiment as well.

As for Estonia, de facto e-residents have to open accounts in internet and non Estonian banks too.
You just described why Apple has dragged their feet as slowly as possible developing Safari. "Add to Home Screen" is now completely hidden away and unlike on Android, progressive web app functionality is delayed as long as they possibly can.

I imagine there would be so much innovation and interesting content if these companies didn't have such a tight grip on their walled gardens. Politically sensitive, erotic content or just innovative apps that operate outside of the Apple curators is just never going to be available for users of this expensive hardware. I believe it should at the very least be optional like sideloading is on Android.
Good catch!

From the Garmin MARQ Aviator page:

> Smartwatch mode: Up to 12 days
> GPS mode: Up to 28 hours
> GPS with Music: Up to 9 hours
> UltraTrac™ mode: Up to 48 hours
Why Progressive Web Applications (PWA) Make JavaScript Frameworks Obsolete
Archived copy, which can be read without JS enabled:

https://archive.is/YOIND
Text files in a google filestream with daily incremental encrypted backups 2x onsite 1x cloud

I’ve gone down the special note taking software and formatting route before (OneNote first, OpenOffice later). What a mess.

Tempted to try a self hosted wiki though. Definitely never touching a commercial solution again though. Evernote and co. Might replace filestream with nextcloud though
Re: upscaling, I was reading another article on HN about a specific species of plant when grown in sufficiently large quantities (6x size of Texas I think) would basically bring us down to carbon neutral. We can probably scrounge up that land if the world works together but who knows.

Re: engineering biosystems, I imagine engineering native plants (if possible) has much fewer ecosystem wide chain effects) than using gene drives to eliminate mosquitoes or whatever.

Re: crispr, I see photos of glow in the dark monkeys and super muscular dogs, so as a layman it seems like cutting a gene and vaguely throwing the desired gene near the cut location seems to work. We don’t have as many ethical implications about rapidly iterating on plants as we do on animals, so it seems like if an experiment doesn’t work, just repeat 1000x until it works would do it. People talk about off-target effects etc. but you won’t really know unless you try I guess.
Chairs into Tables: Novel Deep Learning Method for Unpaired Shape Transforms
Not mentioned in the article, but critical for debugging and testing - Chrome has added a 2 minute grace period, where cookies set in that time period are still allowed on non-get requests even without a samesite policy. This is considered temporary and will be removed some day in the future.

If you test with Chrome 78, and your app works, you can't know if it'll work once the 2 minute grace period goes away. Please test your app using an old version of Chrome (76/77) with the flags for this enabled.
> There is no reason for VW to not build more, if the demand is there. If the demand is not there, then it can become a financial disaster.

The problem is that EVs are going to cannibalize the legacy auto industry. It takes far less people [1], far less parts (typical combustion engine has ~2k moving parts, a Tesla powertrain has ~17), just a much smaller supply chain overall [2] to deliver EVs. And these EVs will last much, much longer than your traditional combustion vehicles.

Legacy automakers are fighting over the smaller pie that will be left over, hence the handwringing. Innovator's Dilemma [3]. Governments should be looking at the auto industry the same way they look at coal: upskill those who will stay, transition out those who a redundant. It's quite worse than coal, actually. Coal only employs ~50k people in the US. The auto industry employs over 7 million.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/30/gm-strike-highlights-how-shi...

[2] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/IF11101.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
Browser Tool Aims to Help Researchers ID Malicious Websites, Code
They (will) add the samesite decorators.
I've used Fleksy for over a year and wasn't aware of that feature. The in-app purchases are themes which I don't need. If you don't open the settings, you would never know these upsells existed. It's a great keyboard and you shouldn't be put off by the IAPs—they're completely optional.
Hn is very similar to r/programming r/starups etc
I'm not knowledgeable about CPUs but as someone who switched careers from one tech (networking) to the next (web development) it's amusing how many approaches to problems are found, resused, not used found again, redeveloped and etc.

I'll find an excerpt from a book from the 1980s someone will post and while on its own I might not grock it I'll hit an issue in React a while later and ... oh I get it now even if the technology is different, the problems and strategies seem to be somewhat natural / recycle.
That is true, but somebody did mention a "cloud friendly language". Most of the languages in common use were designed pre-cloud. This new thing, whatever it is, could thus have cloud dependencies that current languages don't.
That is effectively what Apple introduced with the Apple Arcade and what Google followed up with.
I'd love to see one that can compute energy levels for molecules that are larger than we can currently simulate on supercomputers. quantum chemistry simulations typically scale O(n7) where n = # of basis functions (usually larger than the number of atoms in the molecule).
> Plus you're only as clean as your electric grid.

"The Zwickau plant is supplied with electricity by Volkswagen Kraftwerks GmbH. For a few years now, this company has been offering pure green electricity sourced from hydroelectric power plants, wind farms, and solar parks. This green electricity is TÜV-certified. Even though it costs a little more, Volkswagen Sachsen (with the Zwickau, Dresden, and Chemnitz sites) has been using this green electricity since April 2017. “It is completely CO2-neutral“"

https://electrek.co/2019/07/22/vw-zwickau-factory-electric-c...
> Roads degrade on their own, and the people who use them should still pay for them

How much do roads degrade on their own vs due to usage? In dry places like California or the southwest, I can't imagine it's a lot. In places with harsh winters or heavy rain it's probably more.

But if roads are designed to maximize bike throughput rather than car throughput, they'd probably be built differently too. They wouldn't need to be as wide or support speeds as high. This would reduce maintenance costs by a bit.

> many people work across town

If towns are denser "across town" isn't as far anymore. Not to mention if driving across town is no longer as fast, people will live closer to work. In any case, on an electric bike a distance of 10 miles is trivially bikeable in under an hour, which is also the length of an average car trip.[1] Implying half of all car trips could be done on an electric bike.

> comparable convenience

Cars are convenient when there aren't many other cars around. As the number of car drivers goes up, I don't really see convenience. Traffic, pollution, fatal accidents, needing to find parking.

> What is the objection to [EVs]?

They take up just as much space on the road and cause accidents at similar rates. Particles from tires and braking are still a health hazard. EVs are awesome and we should all move to them because they're lightyears beyond ICE vehicles but I don't think they should play the exact same role.

> I'd hazard a guess that producing the energy required to move people via nuclear electricity is more efficient than producing it via consuming food.

Maybe. But I'd hazard you have to produce less energy overall because a cyclist is moving 100 times less weight than a driver. Also there are second- and third-order effects of less energy spent on road maintenance (less wear and tear) or healthcare (everyone's getting more exercise). And the cyclist has to eat anyway - biking may add maybe 500 kcal/day to their diet at the high end.

> if you'd be open to biking in, say, Texas where summer temps are easily above 100 degrees and above 110 in some places

It depends. If I'm going to work and can change and/or shower at the office sure. If I'm riding an electric bike and have to go less than 10 miles, sure.

> I have trouble seeing how you could convince people to do this; most hesitate to step outside unless necessary in such weather. How would you mitigate this?

These are all fair points. Most people value convenience. Ultimately everyone needs to decide what they want. Endless traffic, noise, pollution, sprawl, risking death (car accidents are the number one killer of children in the US) seem like a pretty high price to pay for convenience to me.

1. https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-728-may-21-2012-av...
A few problems with that. This was never just a moderator code of conduct, but a change to the regular code of conduct for all users. It was just revealed to moderators early. (And with the clear statement that it applied to them immediately, even though the policy was still being written.)

Also, this new policy requires the use the the pronouns whenever known if you would normally use pronouns in that circumstance. [1][2] But that is for any pronoun. This includes all the weird neo-pronouns: xe, per, ze, hu, sie, kit, thon. Do you know how to conjugate all those? Most you can probably guess and be correct, but a few can be surprising).

But technically the stated policy did not stop there. So if somebody says their preferred pronoun is ghaH (The Klingon third person singular intelligent pronoun), users would need to use that. I for one, have absolutely no idea how to conjugate Klingon pronouns, so I would be hard pressed to actually use that pronoun.

[1]: They were really unclear about that for a while. The fired moderator wanted to know if just generally avoiding pronouns for all users was acceptable. They finally answered that as yes, but not before they totally misunderstood what she was asking and fired her.
[2]: StackExchange wanted to avoid people with non-standard pronouns getting singled out by others avoiding pronouns only for these people
Let's focus on customers, not WeWork
To pick up a package from customs, not to travel through the border. He also might not have been driving the car, and there was not way for customs to know.
There were three people in the car. Only one needs a license.
The Comforting Pseudoscience of the MBTI
What is the point you are trying to make?
Ironically, your pricing page is down. Starting an updown competitor now!
FWIW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study YMMV
Demand will be there once you can charge on every corner and they start making cars that don't cost double the gas equivalent
The somber reality is US CBP exercises athority to do this anywhere within 100 miles of the border: https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
Organize: The file management automation tool
New haptic arm places robotics within easy reach
Then they wouldn't be able to move closer to a world where general-purpose computing is not the norm.

That's the real issue with computing nowadays, this desire to lock everything down. You see it with DRM, you see it with walled gardens, you see it with almost everything nowadays.

I fear that a world like the one described in "The Right to Read" [0] is closer than ever.

0: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html (yes, I know it's Stallman, but even he was right on a few things, as disgusting as he was in a lot of other things. Stopped clock right twice a day, etc)
Oh yeah, I did listen to that one. It was a perfect venue for Carmack because I could listen to John speak about anything for as long as John wants to speak about it. Rogan didn’t need to do much prompting for Carmack to spill his solid-gold guts, and he also didn’t feel the need to cut in.
I would expect it to (but I haven't thought about it too deeply so I could be extremely wrong). My thinking is as follows:

At the end of the day, all we're doing is maximum likelihood estimation. So we're trying to find model parameters which define a probability distribution where our observed data is the most probable. In the original GPT-2, this observed data is the text from quality outgoing links on Reddit. Since this data is so diverse, there will not really be any special structure that the model can pick up on, besides whatever structure exists in the English language.

However, when we fine-tune on RapGenius, the observed data is now songs. These songs have a certain structure to them such as stanzas, rhyming, etc. In order to maximize the likelihood of this data, the model must learn to model the structure.

Finally, if we further fine-tune on Beatles lyrics, the model is again trying to find parameters which maximize the likelihood of the data. So the model will try to match both the lyrics and the structure of Beatles songs. It's likely that the structure of Beatles songs is pretty similar to the other songs from RapGenius, so mostly what will change are the lyrics. Also, changing the lyrics seems to be the most straightforward way to maximize the likelihood since by definition we want these particular lyrics to be the most likely.

That being said, this is all just conjecture. It would be interesting to try out both methods and see if you get better results doing this two step fine-tuning vs the original fine tuning (or just fine tuning on RapGenius then conditionally sampling Beatles songs as @gwern suggested).
I still don't understand what the hell is "quantum computing". I think my problem is my own conception of classical computing.

My best approximation for what a quantum computer actually is. Is that it's some sort of device to set quantum states, then run a "quantum algorithm" (i.e. a graph of "quantum logic gates"), and finally read out the "quantum bits" resulting from the algorithm. That sounds a lot more like a sensor to me. Also all the problems with noise and calibration reinforce my notion that it's more like a sensor than a computer.

But to be fair I barely understand "classical computing". I think my personal notion relies too much on badly defined ideas about "the run-time" of a computer program (some software) that I have constructed from "industry" experience.

To me big huge fundamental part of computing has to do with arbitrarily representing anything with a symbolic alphabet. And then automatically manipulating this symbolic alphabet to get a result with can be "mapped back" through the initial arbitrary representation so we learn something about whatever we initially chose to represent.

Maybe that's not computing? but then what is that? and then what is computing??

Try as I might I cannot reconcile my understanding of classical computing with quantum computing.
I agree that it's ironic/hypocritical. I disagree strongly that we should simply expect it. Consumer attitude is a real component of capitalism, so it's self-fulfilling to encourage silence under the theory that we can't affect anything.
I realize this may not be the place for this comment, but a few of these comments got me thinking.

Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts + feelings that help you make future decisions and everything else is integrated into smaller and smaller summaries until it fades away entirely. I spent years clinging to every experience wanting not to forget anything, and being horrified when I couldn't remember. I documented everything. I wanted my memory to work more like infinite dropbox storage and less like a tool, evolved over millions of years, to keep me safe and making good choices.

These days, my personal knowledge base is whatever I've bothered to remember. Usually I don't know I've kept something tucked away until I'm in the middle of a conversation and realize it's still there. My memory of events shifts and degrades over time, and I'm fine with that.

If you don't use a tool to document every page you visit and every thing you read or learn, that's completely fine too. It all fades away eventually, and if it remains relevant enough you'll hold on to the important bits.

The real power-up isn't keeping it all, it's being able to change and grow, with just enough focus on the past to make good choices.
He's since disavowed the moon landing conspiracy theory beliefs. I agree he has a bunch of episodes that dabble in pseudoscience, though. At least there are a lot of episodes with actual scientists as well.
This breakthrough is only a big deal from a practical perspective in that it very strongly suggests that further research on engineering large quantum computers will provide the exponential performance improvements predicted by quantum complexity theory. That is to say that this is a strong “go” signal in a go/no-go test.

In terms of where I am personally excited about quantum computing, it has the potential to greatly speed up simulations of chemical and material science properties that are currently hard to simulate accurately at all. This will be great for, for example, semiconductor development and medicine. These applications are a ways off though, but if we weren’t hitting milestones like today, it would suggest they were not worth vigorously pursuing.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, not on quantum computers. Not an expert in quantum computation.
I've been using 'keyboard with ctrl key' and couldn't code on my phone without it.