skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, if someone says that (a) proof of work is the only viable solution and all others have flaws you can't get around, (which I have noticed people claiming) and (b) BTC is still the most successful cryptocurrency, which people are not abandoning, what's your response?

You just made a string of assertions without explanation, so why do you think these things?
Wat??? !!! ^^^ is that base salary or total compensation with stocks??
If the IP the domain points at is some big hosting provider like akami/cloudfare, how will they know which site you are actually accessing? TLS still sends the domain name in plaintext, but it's only a matter of time till that is fixed.
> where someone felt it was satisfactory to clamp a single wire to the water line. I’ve seen this numerous times.

Our house was built in the 70's and that is what we used to have. After we upgraded our panel though we got not 1, but 2 grounding rods.
More Perfect, a podcast by one of the hosts of Radiolab, has an episode on this in song form: https://project.wnyc.org/themostperfectalbum/#amendment-27

Side note: This podcast is excellent. The first two seasons are not songs, but investigative (and entertaining!) pieces on important Supreme Court rulings.
Wonder if one can create a new repo and commit the revisions with original Authors' names and historical date.
Retool (YC W17) is hiring engineers, support engineers, designers, etc. in SF
Hi — we're Retool (https://retool.com), a fast way of building internal tools. We launched on HN around a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966). We're a small team based in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA.

Business-wise, we're profitable, growing quickly, and well-capitalized. (We recently raised a Series A from Sequoia. Other investors include technical founders, including Paul Graham, John + Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Greg Brockman, etc.)

Culture-wise, we're a small group who enjoys solving problems and working hard. We work closely with customers, and iterate quickly. We spend our days typically either writing code or talking with customers.

The market for custom enterprise apps is huge. And we think that we have a promising shot at capturing much of it: we have a product that works, that customers love (go talk to any customer!), and whose usage is growing rapidly.

We've significantly de-risked the business (e.g. have significant revenue, have a good amount of paying customers, have raised $20M from Sequoia, are profitable, etc.). But there's plenty of stuff to figure out as well. For example:

- How can we quickly ship new products while keeping current customers happy?

- How do we design the UI/UX for a new programming environment?

- How do we concisely explain what Retool is, without a 4 minute demo video (https://retool.com)?

We're hiring for many roles, including engineering, sales, developer relations, customer support + success. We think you'd be a good fit at Retool if you enjoy:

- building things,

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If you're interested, please email me at david@retool.com. Thanks!
Trump's megalomania is exceeded only by his stupidity. The sycophants that defend and support him, politically and legally, will be forever stained by their association with this disgraceful man.
Well yes, if you constrain the solution set to satisfy "requires no additional software to learn" then you'll end up with the status quo solution.

One thing I've always been concerned about when negotiating a legal agreement is how I verify that the tracked changes actually track every change. Because Word lets the user decide which changes to track, I'm always reading the untracked sections as well to confirm that no other changes were sneakily introduced. That's something that git addresses well. Does Word have a solution there? If not, does that ever concern you?
It would be awesome to have a reference list of examples to demonstrate how twisted headlines from major sources really are. Any come to mind?
That seems crazy high to me, personally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_supremacy

First line-
"Quantum supremacy is the potential ability of quantum computing devices to solve problems that classical computers practically cannot."

We can argue about what practically means but I read that as a very very long time. No one worries about someone breaking RSA-2048 with a classical computer because it is "practically" impossible.

>In putting together our video, we estimated the age of the Universe to be 13,751,783,021 years or a little over 13.75 billion years*, therefore if you tried to break a DigiCert 2048-bit SSL certificate using a standard modern desktop computer, and you started at the beginning of time, you would have expended 13 billion years of processing by the time you got back to today, and you would still have to repeat that entire process 468,481 times one after the other into our far far distant future before there was a good probability of breaking the certificate. In fact the Universe itself would grow dark before you even got close.

https://www.digicert.com/TimeTravel/math.htm

This may not be the case with Quantum Possible computation.
Alliteration in medicine: a puzzling profusion of p's
Literally from the link I posted, a federal government website:

Freedom of speech does not include the right:

To incite actions that would harm others (e.g., “[S]hout[ing] ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.”).
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919).

So at least your last sentence is rubbage.
I don't know how AWS and Paypal affiliate links work and if they even send a cookie, or if they just send to a URL with your account ID embedded in the link. You could probably check by using the 'Network' tab in your browsers developer tools, or as other have suggested newer versions of chrome allow testing of this feature.

If there are any cookies, you will need to add SameSite=none or similar to the Set-Cookie directives for the cookies which are intended to be shared cross-domain.
Turning it off in the browser is a PITA, even for just a home user. Family of 4 and if I wanted to turn it off I'd need to do it on 9 computers, 3 tablets, 4 phones and 2 set top boxes. Not saying we're exactly average... but the shit adds up fast. [edit: +1 computer, forgot one]
First we have to remove tech troglodytes from government by voting for sane replacements. Only then can we discuss rational advances to tech in government.

I see this as a distinct possibility if there is a wave election in 2020 with new voices who are open to actual non-lobbyist reform.
Hunh - I missed that!
There are, Australia Post runs one which I've never used at https://shopmate.auspost.com.au/

International shipping is typically not that difficult or unreasonably expensive for most items (I help to send some physical goods from Australia, which is conveniently near nowhere else).

The problem is usually customer expectations, we can submit their parcel the same day but any delays in customs, processing, or their local courier/postal service becomes our fault since the customer has no one else to contact, but we have no real ability to change the outcome for any individual parcel.
In the 68K, I definitely wouldn't describe the Dx registers as special. The Ax is kind of grey - they aren't quite "general" in the way the Dx registers are, but they are still also "standard". But the status register... yeah, it's special.
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No, but some recent versions of Android allow you to disable camera access to specific apps. Unfortunately, always ask every time isn't enough of an option. Simply don't use apps that refuse to work without the camera permission.
The intent isn't to break tracking, it's to prevent CSRF.

One of the nice side effects is it will temporarily break tracking, though.
Damn it you speak my language.
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Git has all those things, except yes it is a different tool.
There's quite a few competitors in the narrow body space like the 737: Airbus, Bombadier, Embraer, Irkut, COMAC, etc. The lack of competition is in wide body aircraft (With Airbus and Boeing being the only players although there will be the Craic at some point in the next couple of years).
Always amazes me that so many people think the constitution grants people the rights.

The constitution grants the govt rights.

The people have all the rights not expressly forbidden by law.

Law enforcement seriously lags in this as well
Sure, but the government would likely allow it to go through chapter 11 restructuring, which could wipe out all equity holders.

American Airlines still exists, but all the previous stock was voided during bankruptcy.
You better start unthinking before you're the one getting put down the memory hole.
> What?

Feature Flags without writing it in your code.

> How?

Pushing flags to the network layer, leveraging modern networking services.

> Why?

Let you focus on writing business code instead of spend time writing and removing feature flag code.
My kids are going to work for scholarships if college is in their future. I should have but didn't because my parents didn't understand the game and nobody told me otherwise. There is a balance to this though but I will provide all of the supports I can to help them be the individuals they are.
But the problem with general purpose computing is that it's probably one of the most powerful, equalizing things humanity has ever created. This is probably the first time in history the power to create, acquire knowledge, and become self sustainable has been so cheaply and readily available to the average person. It gives a lot of power to them where historically this hasn't been the case. This is less than ideal for those in power and I think it's just taken a while for them to really catch on to what the average person with a general purpose computer can actually accomplish. It makes me worry that this has just been a brief historical anomaly. But, it could still go either way at this point.
They still haven't understood that they're the product being sold, not the customers.
> I think he should be given a fair trial and judged.

That’s his whole point. But if you truly care about the law, shouldn’t government officials also be put on trial for breaking the law on a much more massive scale?

> Our Congress has 535 members for precisely this reason, the president answers to Congress and is not a king, and even the Chief Justice does not rule absolutely.

The reason he went public is precisely because the system of checks and balances didn’t work in the first place. In case you’ve forgotten, government officials actively kept members of congress in the dark and even lied under oath.
I think people should get points for sparking discussions. So since you generate a lot of replies you should get some points for that. You can have a 1 point thread that has 10+ comments on it.
I think the problem is that perfectly wonderful science has been put in the hands of marketing people. And those are the same marketing people that kept telling us L5 autonomy was right around the corner. Or more lately that we couldn't discount the possibility of a near-term AGI. Great science, lousy PR IMO.
Actually (WSJ alum here) our long-ago training was to lead the story with the percentage change in net income, no matter what. The assumption was that in a congested world, that was more likely to be the most useful metric. And it was a simple, easy-to-find number.

Focusing on net income was meant to keep inexperienced reporters from being bamboozled by IR/PR departments that sometimes went to crazy lengths to find something positive in the midst of a crummy report. (One tech company with dwindling sales, profit and market share liked to talk about its strong cash position.)

Of course, that was in the days before up-to-the-second updates on after-hours trading. So now reporters know the market's verdict within a few minutes of the earnings release. That leads to financial-results stories that hunt for something (earnings? revenue? next quarter outlook?) that explains the stock movement. In this environment, different metrics get different levels of prominence all the time.

I wouldn't burn up a lot of energy coming up with conspiratorial reasons why reporters pick different numbers. Inexperience and confusion usually are the simple reasons for 90% of strange decisions. This is probably true in a lot of areas.
It's up 20% after market though. Inflection point reached? Now it's a matter of organizing the momentum.
> it will be pretty much destroyed next year by the Tesla S with plaid mode

Why don't Tesla's current cars destroy the Taycan? I think it's fair to say that at this time Tesla's a year behind Porsche in the performance EV stakes. Here are some of the Taycan's performance test results which Tesla has so far been unable to match:

- 24 hour endurance run. 3,425 kms covered in 24 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jSG_10_JRg

- Onboard video of their 7:42 run at the Nurburgring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m31EgQkswg

- Acceleration and handling comparison to the Model S P100D: https://www.thedrive.com/news/30467/watch-a-porsche-taycan-t...

- Model S Plaid's Nurburgring results: https://www.thedrive.com/news/29946/porsche-taycan-laps-brok...

And no onboard video yet from any of Tesla's Nurburgring runs unfortunately. It's also disappointing that Tesla isn't bringing any of its current cars to the Nurburgring.

> the new roadster will literally lap it

That seems unlikely. To literally lap the Taycan the new Roadster will need to achieve a 3:50 lap time.

The current electric lap record is 6:05 held by the Volkswagen ID.R: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3w3fVS-SgQ

And the overall record is 5:19 held by the Porsche 919 Evo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQmSUHhP3ug
I don't understand the point of repeatedly misrepresenting what was said, since it's right here in this thread.
I took lsd for the first time two weeks ago and sometimes when I zone out, geometric patterns like carpet appears to morph. I'm not really good at understanding my own thought process, so I can't really tell if it affects me in other areas. From my extremely limited experience however, I would warn against casually taking any psychedelics. For me at least it was a needless experience, with needless aftereffects.
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One funny thing about a company I worked at was the pervasive, incorrect usage of the word "revert", in the context of replying to an email thread.
A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (1966)
What really matters is what rights the people with the guns are willing to give you...
World's smallest camera is size of a grain of sand
AMD been executing well on multiple fronts. One big advantage is that AMD divorced themselves from their fab (now global foundries). So when a particular fab fails at a shrink they can just switch. In the 7nm case that means moving from global foundries to TSMC.

Additionally they were first to hypertransport (Intel followed with QPI) and knocked it out of the park with chiplets. Having two dies per package was pretty common, even way back at the 66 MHz pentium pro. But HT allows AMD quite a bit of flexibility. They can switch lanes between hypertransport (now updated and called Infinity Fabric) between pci-e and IF.

The this helps them on multiple fronts. It decouples the CPU and memory interface and pci-e standards. It raises their yield by using smaller chips. It also allows them to use different processes for different chips, so now the I/O die can use an older process.

One big impact is now only does the yield increase, but also the increased number of chips lets AMD amortize their R&D over more dies, and also customize for different produces without having to spend the extra R&D on numerous different dies. The low end desktop/laptops get 2 chips (1 cpu + 1 I/O). Higher end chips get 3 chips (2 cpu + 1 I/O). The high end servers get 9 (8 cpu and 1 I/O). So they can go from under 65 watts and under $200 to over 250 watts and over $5,000 all based on the same chiplets.

The AMD first generation Epyc did expose some weaknesses in OS/Applications that didn't like the high variations in latency to main memory and I/O. 4 chips inside a single socket had their own pair of memory channels and would have to use Hypertransport/IF to get to the other 6 memory channels. The design was reasonable, but many apps were NUMA aware and ran poorly.

In the second generation AMD moved all memory channels to the I/O chiplet and now the socket is a single NUMA domain and all chiplets see identical latency. The NUMA tweaks, 10-15% improvement in IPC, big improvement on the floating point side, and 1.5 x more cores (depending on the model) means that for many real world codes that AMD Epyc generation 2 chips (rome) are twice as fast at real world codes as the previous generation, which Intel is still trying to match. Meanwhile Intel is still trying to get a Xeon shrink they promised in 2017 working.

So generally ability to switch fabs and how well HT/IF works with chiplets caught Intel at a really bad time and for once AMD seems to be actually executing well and producing non-trivial volumes into multiple market segments.
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Firefox seems to have already implemented it behind prefs in Fx69 [0], and are just now waiting to toggle them to default true, presumably around the same time Chrome ships it, February 2020.

[0] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/nx2uP0C...
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If you get a lumbar puncture it should drain all that extra acid out of your spinal column. After that make sure to del /sys32/
Qt Design Viewer Implemented in WebAssembly
The proof of the Theorem on friends and strangers [0] from Ramsey Theory, which is a special case of Ramsey's theorem [1]. I like it because it is a fun proof to show people to demonstrate a few different proof techniques while remaining very simple. You can draw it out on a napkin and even people who don't usually feel that they are mathematically inclined can follow along.

Another favorite of mine is Cantor's diagonal argument for proving the existence of uncountable sets [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorem_on_friends_and_strange...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey%27s_theorem#2-colour_ca...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument
Watch AOC ask Mark Zuckerberg if she can run fake Facebook ads, too
I have always steered clear of psychedelics. I know some people are super into legalization, but I wager it's a bit irresponsible considering we barely understand their long (and short, for that matter) -term effects. There's some evidence where psychedelics (particularly LSD) may have triggered schizophrenia in some patients[1].

Musician Daniel Johnston (he passed away a few months ago) is a notable case.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6870484
Read the Steele report and Keith Schiller's testimony to congress and decide for yourself.
It's not that we do not understand that, we do, it's that we don't agree with such stupid and aggressive move considering enterprise setups (I certainly will not use this version if I can avoid it). Shame, this is exactly the opposite of why I migrated to Gitlab.
> Why do I need to give an app a explicit permission to access common folders in my home directory?

Because you might not be aware that the application wants to harvest all the {meta,}data in your Pictures/Documents/Downloads folders?

The era of trusting applications with wide-open privileges has long since ended.
> Hallucinogen Persisting Perceptual Disorder is a condition marked by visual or other perceptual disturbances typical of psychedelic use that continue for weeks and months after coming off the psychedelic, in some cases permanently. Have you ever had this condition?

‘Visual or other perceptual disturbances’ is very different than hallucinating.

HPPD is probably real, but also probably not a big deal for most people. It most likely just results at staring at empty space a bit more from time to time when something odd pops up.

There are bigger risks with psychedelics such as trigger an underlying mental condition or suffering emotional trauma (‘bad trip’).
Quadratic speedup over any black box function is pretty nice. Could certainly help ML a lot.
For many people including myself, this is something that goes away over time. If you are concerned about it, avoid psychedelics as well as cannabis.
Yes

https://medium.com/@raphlinus/inside-the-fastest-font-render...
GitHub seems to use both Google Analytics and it's own JS tracker.
This sounds inhumane and thus unlikely to happen in modern prison design (which tbh is more of a jobs program these days than actually designing for restitution or rehabilitation)

"The rotary jails had many design problems. For example, in the event of fire, it was not possible to evacuate the inmates fast enough".
Wow great copywriting on your homepage. I love the main line.
How this being mandatory without opt-in help Gitlab users, more specifically?
This could be unrelated, this has happened to me plenty of times in the past and I think it could sometimes be related to either lack of sleep, dehydration, or fluctuations in blood pressure.
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Which is the reason the 2nd amendment was written. The founders knew politics 101. Violence is required.
Try delete it from your watch history: https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

Your recommendations may return to normal.
It's huge everywhere; a relatively smooth roll-out of the Y would be enormous for Tesla.
So I wonder: psychedelics make you more likely to believe woo, and more likely to have certain classes of visual hallucinations. But some people believe woo without taking psychedelics, and some people have those same visual hallucinations without taking psychedelics.

Interesting, I believe it and have always wondered about this. I think people's sensory experiences vary wildly by nature, but we have no access to them so can't really prove anything.

Some people are audiophiles, others foodies, others fashionistas, etc.

Your athletic ability can vary from Usain Bolt to completely uncoordinated; some people have photographic memories (e.g. Lebron James apparently); some people can factor large numbers in their heads (computation), or recite huge strings of digits (non-episodic memory).

Some people are prediposed to like drugs and others don't. (e.g. reading a lot of rock n' roll biographies it becomes apparent that the alcohol and heroin addictions aren't randomly distributed; it's somewhat "innate")

It would be surprising if our sensory experiences did NOT vary widely.

This sounds silly and is totally unsubstantiated, but I always believed my senses are "accurate". I told a friend in high school this and he said it was stupid and impossible :)

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Although I can also conjure some low-level hallucinations when "looking at the back of my eyelids" when falling asleep. I imagine that's pretty normal/common since low light is sort of like sensory deprivation.

But they are very elaborate hallucations with all sorts of geometric forms and motion. Elaborate but not intense, if that makes sense.
It's fairly common to see residual effects and trails for weeks afterwards, particularly when tired. I don't know anyone who hasn't had that to some extent after taking LSD.