skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not pay-walled:

https://capitalandmain.com/translators-writers-seek-changes-...
It is google, it is probably their secret sauce. I won't be surprised that someday Google makes custom ASIC chip to just run transformer models.
Is there any research a hybrid approach? That is, start with a gravity driver and then continue accelerating with rockets?
There's a similar book, "How Asia Works".[1] This has a good survey of industrial policy in Asia, what worked and what didn't.

Summary:

Step 1: Mechanize agriculture, to free up people for an industrial labor force

Step 2: Support export-oriented industries.

Step 3: Transition to a developed country.

Trouble comes when you botch step 2.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802121322/
Now that you mention it, I also use the history menu pretty frequently. I don't use the bookmark facility in browsers, though, because I run my own bookmark server (so I have access to my bookmarks no matter what computer or browser I'm using).
https://www.dnswl.org
Such is life when we optimize for the majority. We end up optimizing to only about the top 80% of searches, which are sometimes the flavor of "what is that website where everyone is friends with each other and I can see my grandkids' photos?" or "word for ice in latin".

It would be great if the system could infer the level of specificity associated with the query. Some people are just exploring a topic while others want to get to a more detailed document sooner.
MrBeast partners with more than 600 YouTubers to plant 20M trees
And there's vacuun tube innovation today still! For guitar amplifiers.
1) The American left has always been suspicious of government and comfortable with the market economy. The range of policies that look acceptable to the social left skew much more to the right than the social left in other countries.

2) Beginning with Goldwater and culminating with Reagan, the American public internalized economic libertarian ideas.[1] (See, e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/25/archives/the-case-against...) By the 1990s the Democratic Party had lost their multi-generational primacy, and the only politicians able to stem the loses were politicians like Bill Clinton (see also Tony Blaire in the U.K.), whose strategy was to co-opt libertarian economics.

[1] The reasons for this are complex. For example, Southern conservative politics becoming vociferous advocates for deregulation and free trade obviously has more than a little to do with Nixon's infamous "Southern strategy". Republicans promised southern states a larger share of industrial manufacturing by 1) shifting it from the North and 2) extracting concessions from foreign manufacturers to build domestic manufacturing plants as part of trade negotiations.
It seems like this link from the article deserves its own front page story:
https://www.ge.com/reports/call-ecomagination-ge-building-co...

That's pretty neat.
Seagate ST506 (The First 5.25“ Hard Disk Drive)
Not sure what this is supposed to mean but please keep flamebait off HN. Antisemitic provocation certainly is that.
Is there a programming language that uses Esperanto?
> If the majority of your user base is 70 or older, meeting the AAA requirement is beneficial.

Discriminating against people with impaired vision is OK if you do it because you tried to discriminate based on age.
A “lie detector”? Seriously?

If you’re going to put people through this kind of system, you should have some solid science to back it up and as far as I can see, this is just some bargain basement ML agent.
It's not low that is the status quo. Wind and solar have a capacity factor of 20-40% why do you think you always need backup from coal, gas, oil or nuclear?
how to keep an aquarium interesting

how to keep a cat interesting

looks like that pattern generally
Wish there were some kind of scoreboard at the end after you died that showed what level you got to; I made it to somewhere between 25-30 and was waiting to take a screenshot until afterwards.

I did well by only ever firing upward +/- 45 degrees (except the occasional horizontal shot for enemies stuck on the bottom), and then staying near the bottom of the screen and moving myself into position before accurately firing (rather than spraying and praying everywhere).
Distillation is usually used today to tame its resource problems at scale - you run BERT to squeeze out maximum signal from your training data and then distill the model e.g. into cheap CNN for inference.
To some degree. Gun sights provide a point by drawing a fixed line down the barrel.

That method does not handle factors that cause the bullet's trajectory to not be perfectly straight or flat, such as wind, gravity, Coriolis Effect, etc. They're generally sufficient for short range shorting, but at longer ranges a large part of the skill comes in being able to adjust your sights to compensate for those factors.

Gun sights are also somewhat ineffective because they are only usable from a single position. You can't point the gun around a corner or lift it over the top of something you're hiding behind and still use them unless you expose your head as well. This method would change that and might give you some kind of a camera feed to a HUD that shows where your bullets would hit.

Not useful for civilian life, but I can understand army interest in it.
Newspapers were at least, historically at least in the 20th century, were expected to inform and keep a separation between opinion and news. They clearly had a political slant, but they couldn't just ignore facts that they found inconvenient, or only mention them in hit pieces meant to discredit them. Exceptions to this, like Yellow Journalism and Hearst's use of his papers for personal and political ends were at least considered failures of journalism in hindsight.

In the Soviet Union they kept a tight control on the media, and Pravda was controlled by the ruling party to amplify it's message as a tool of propaganda. It would ignore inconvenient facts and stories based on their propaganda value, or if something inconvenient was too well known to ignore it would mention it only to discredit it.

Today many people get most of their news from sites like Breitbart or RawStory. Doing this is voluntarily signing up for Pravda like propaganda. Yes, we have a free society and you aren't restricted to a single source of news like Pravda, but if people intentionally and voluntarily limit themselves to a site that is manipulating stories in the same way as Pravda and for the same motivations, we just have two groups of oppositely propagandized people, and of course that will increase polarization. There is no expectation that these sites would uphold journalistic standards, be generally honest beyond when it is convenient, and their bias is considered a feature.
I agree it's an important question. But one thing often left out of the possible answers is to go forward with using cheap labor overseas while also providing a very strong safety net and job retraining options to those who lose their jobs as a result. If this was done, then those workers might be able to benefit from the cheaper prices of products too while still having money in their pocket. Instead they've just been abandoned.

Obviously this is oversimplifying things, but I'm just saying that on the one hand it's important for disruption to happen (Uber making it harder for taxis) for the sake of progress, but for the sake of justice and the social fabric we should protect those most affected by the disruption.
And to replace humans with tiny, ant-sized humanoids?
It sounds like a story we have heard so many times. A sense of false security enforced by fear of terror and a system that does not work correctly. Looks like now it's the turn for European citizens to lose all their privacy and have the remaining of their data to be collected. Very unfortunate.
> what can the worker do?

I used to work for tips. I quit that job when I found a better one. It feels like I had a say in that, and lots of choices.
Excerpt:

"The ST506 HDD was the first 5.25 inch hard disk drive, introduced in 1980[2] by Shugart Technology (now Seagate Technology). It stored up to 5 megabytes after formatting and cost US$1,500 (equivalent to $4,561 in 2018).[3] The similar, 10-megabyte ST412 HDD was introduced in late 1981. The ST225 was introduced shortly thereafter with 20 megabytes and half the height. All three used MFM encoding, a widely used coding scheme. A subsequent extension of the ST412 interface, the ST412HP interface, used RLL encoding for a 50% increase in capacity and bit rate.

The ST506 drive connected to a computer system through a disk controller. The ST506 interface between the controller and drive was derived from the Shugart Associates SA1000 interface,[4] which was in turn based upon the floppy disk drive interface,[5] thereby making disk controller design relatively easy.[2]

The ST412 interface was adopted by numerous HDD manufacturers such that the interface became a de facto industry standard for disk drives[6] well into the 1990s."
Google digs into deeper meanings of searches
> A small number of well-considered UI/UX design schemas really is a useful thing.

Yes, in principle. But it becomes less than useful when the common schemas get in my way, which has been an increasing problem over the past few years. The aping of Apple's decisions appears to be a large part of why.
> There was a time when designers were taught to value fitness for use.

I've worked with designers who I saw specifically laying elements out so as to avoid the issue the article author's wife ran into.

There is a problem though. Phone screens are of variable height, and user's can change their font settings. While this issue shouldn't happen with default settings with OEM apps or UX elements, it is not possible to avoid it completely given the exact wrong set of circumstances lining up.

Of course, not hiding the scroll bar would be best, and ideal is having multiple affordances, such as partially clipped content and a scroll bar.
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It made a lot of sense to me as an undergrad philosophy student, reading it shortly after I graduated. IMHO the book is somewhat better if understood as a criticism of the Socratic pursuit of universal Truth if you are familiar with the context. But unfortunately this book is recommended to a general audience, for which I think it is a poor novel.

Pirsig did have at least some formal academic knowledge of philosophy though.

From Wikipedia [0]:

> Pirsig earned a bachelor's degree in 1950 from the University of Minnesota.[8] He then attended Banaras Hindu University in India, to study Eastern philosophy and culture. At the University of Chicago, he performed graduate-level work in philosophy in the Committee on the Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods but he did not obtain a degree there. In 1958 he earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig#Early_life
The weaknesses of the phone system are being exploited and exposed. Telemarketers have learned they can just put whatever they want on their caller ID with zero verification, including the phone numbers of random local individuals. If the FCC and/or the phone companies don't start forwarding originator information so spammers can effectively be blocked by any user, the phone system will (and deserves to) fail. At least among my friend group, most of us don't have each other's numbers, we communicate on chat apps.
That's actually old news, and mentioned in OP. They build their own chips (TPUs) that are super cool. You can even use them as part of google cloud! Still, moving to BERT ain't cheap.
Ask HN: Anyone know what's up with hckrnews.com? Seems down
Farming is a phenomenally low-capital industry. Its primary inputs are sunshine, water, and turned soil. Where capital is applied, it's not landscape-wide, but generally small and mobile equipment: tractors, combines, harvesters, etc. This includes much of the irigation infrastructure, which tends to be simple unlined ditches, rarely pipes and hoses (though increasingly used in water-scarce areas).

For water delivery, stockpiling a gravity-fed reservoir would be far more technically conservative a solution than requiring battery or generator-backed pumps. Build an elevated reservoir, and ensure that it is topped off as power is available. Note that this requires land dedicated to the reservoir, and some predictability as to power availability and interruptions.

The supplemental powering of irrigation was among the very first cases of mechanised activity, whether supplied by people, animals, wind, or eventually, coal, fossil-fuel, and electrically-powered pumps. This is a major element of Vaclav Smil's books Energy and World History and Energy and Civilization.
The biggest societal altering impacts may be in terms of dating and reproduction. This has major cultural consequences.
* There’s more than 1 reason for this, but approach patterns have changed. Men approaching women in real life is now rarer than it was in favor of online meeting through Apps.
* Many relationships now happen based on online dating. In a sense, a series of algorithms are already dictating human reproduction.
* Before Apps, people mainly shacked up with equivalent looking people at a fairly young age, but today women have access to the best men in town they’d otherwise never have a chance to meet. The dating marketplace is pretty skewed with roughly 80% of women chasing after 20% of men. Elite men can get dozens of sex partners. Women can usually get sex, but not commitment from lots of men they like. Average or subpar men are essentially invisible in the dating market as evidenced by declining rates of sex by most people. This causes a lot of problems in society as many men drop out and exist as gamers in a dull existence or turn to drugs due to lack of ability to find a connection.
* Dating Apps are part of the reason that birth rates are generally dropping in first world countries: at least it can’t help. Alpha males are enjoying life shacking up with the women all chasing after them. Women while away their younger years in careers and chasing after unrealistic men before settling at an older age and maybe having 1 kid. This is a major first world impact because demographics are destiny. As far as cultural impacts go, can’t go bigger than the consequences to reproduction changing.
Thank you for indulging my curiosity!
They did change the architecture of the machine. C didn't have concurrency and SIMD built-in.
Yikes, that sounds like a software architecture problem. The "infer which words are more likely to get good results" layer and the "search for things using words" layer are blind to each other's behaviors.

How do Google's engineering teams get away with this obvious error? For how much they're paid, you'd expect them to be better about things that passive observers readily notice. Don't they use their own product, anyway?
So how do you find "the right book" these days?
I don't think economists are lying about it. Krugman atleast keeps posting graphs about the low odds of unemployed men over 35(?) getting back into the workforce. If I remember right, he brings it up to push Infrastructure Spending (2-3 Trillion much overdue since everything is falling apart/also has bipartisan support). Something like that would produce that "glut of jobs".
More recent than I remembered when the reports of the hill being flattened were doing the rounds when it was built, but it doesn't stand alone. Saudi has quite some considerable track record of clearing significant Muslim and historic sites to build yet another slab sided monstrosity[1].

Ugly is subjective, but to my eyes it's a large McMansion. Which would normally imply trying to look more expensive than it is, using random features and jarring or anachronistic details, but in this case with colossal budget that clearly doesn't apply. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_early_Islamic_h...
184 million rows is a lot? That's like when Dr. Evil asks the government to pay you "One Million Dollars". Do you know what's really impressive? One trillion rows, in just a second. https://www.memsql.com/blog/memsql-processing-shatters-trill...
That's true; but that's where the problems started, IMO. For example, IBM deserves a rich share of the blame, but who hired and oversaw IBM?
I have ridden BART and Caltrain in the past for work. I've had commutes that involve transfers, too -- usually Caltrain to MUNI.

I don't think what you're saying contradicts anything that I said -- I said that the move to SSF makes it more difficult to commute via BART, but that it was too strong to say that it "eliminates" the possibility of doing so.

In any case, I really suspect that if companies keep moving to the SF Bay Area and keep growing, they're going to have to start moving to places that are out of the city. The rent per square foot in SF is approaching $85/ft^2, the highest it's been since the original dotcom boom; downtown San Jose is around $60/ft^2, better but not that much better. But places like San Ramon, Fremont, non-downtown San Jose, and yes, South San Francisco are around $30/ft^2. Some would argue that staying in the Bay Area at all is silly for tech companies at this point; while I don't think I'd make that argument, if I had several hundred employees to find space for, I just don't think I'd do it in the City.
"Paul Krugman has never suffered fools gladly."

Paul Krugman has never suffered disagreement gladly.
We used to. I had the 4x4 version and I miss that truck. It was absolutely bulletproof and would go anywhere and get back home in one piece.

Since 1993 or so it's been replaced by the Tacoma which might be even better, but not as simple mechanically.
Apparently you've never used Visual Studio. It is amazing.

Many of Microsoft's products are simple and boring at first glance. However, when you really want to flex it to do something powerful, the features are usually there. Their products have so many years of development in them and it shows because their products stand the test of time, particularly in the enterprise. I'm glad there are lot of other vendors entering the market though as it keeps companies like MSFT innovating.
It's in the Gboard settings under "Glide typing": "Enable gesture cursor control". There's also "Enable gesture delete".
Yup. I don't think most people today realize what a one-time event American wealth was after world war 2.

After WW2, the rest of the developed world was destroyed and the under-developed world was colonies. Today, they all have woke citizens working hard to reach a developed lifestyle. Which means America has to compete, hard!
Maybe I just missed this, but I couldn't find any kind of guidance for library maintainers on implementing Suspense. Reading the demo code + React-Cache it seems that it's basically about providing an interface that throws unresolved promises, but is there any more detailed documentation?
The never-ending word treadmill we're on is amusing. A perfectly descriptive word is associated with something awful. We stop using that "offensive" word in favor of another word. The new word is then associated with something awful and the cycle repeats.

It's almost as if the only point of updating our vocabulary and retiring "offensive" terms is to signal our virtue and tribe.
The thing is, for those workers in "poor" countries, this is a step up. My wife can tell you what two months' work for $300 meant to subsistence farmers in Guatemala. They were happy to get it.

You may say "Sure, they're poor and exploited, but that doesn't make it morally right for us to exploit them just a little less". I agree, up to a point. But insisting on first-world working conditions (including pay) mean that very few of them get hired. This leaves almost all of them poor and exploited, without even the option of "slightly less exploited". Who does that help?
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If you were your manager, making your case. What would you say: Would you, in writing, enquire to know at what date you might expect to be relieved of your former duties? Who is provided for knowledge transfer?

Point is, having another role and being in the same company, you may reasonably expect some "support" for your old role. If you take this as failure of management, you can make demands from strength (of course in a diplomatic and understanding way).

At any time, dev work may make you miss deadlines, and where's that replacement?
Couldn't comment to the author without paying for an account there, but as someone who has actually built sCO2 reactors -- you can get away with a much lower cost HPLC pump to pressurize the CO2 if you can force it to be a liquid at the inlet side using an eductor tube and slightly heating the tank to guarantee that the slightly cooler HPLC pump head won't cavitate.

It worked pretty well, though I had to stick a TEC on the pump head. $5k instead of $100k+ for a high pressure syringe pump.

My application was to use the sCO2 to solubilize organometallic precursors to deposit thin films on particles in a fluidized bed, and one of the best reasons for sCO2 was that the only likely contamination would be carbon (sCO2 is sometimes used to form carbides intentionally).
It's up and running
I think the biggest culprit is "tap targets", meaning that everything has to be bigger than your fingertip so that it's easy to select on a phone. It leads to crazy amounts of white space around everything. This ruined the presentation of tabular data on the internet, like stock financials or nba.com box scores. They're waaaaaaay harder to read than they were 10 years ago.
At least they could use something like what has been used in India[1] (though many jurisdictions forbid its usage), at least there is some science behind it. However, because it’s science based and not just a bunch of “woo”, it has the inherent danger of being ”incontrovertible”. Kinda like DNA,but obviously flawed none the less.

[1]http://theconversation.com/if-a-brain-can-be-caught-lying-sh...
What I’ve been impressed with following Blender for a long time is they communicate their development well with their users. They provide demos, give discussions, give example files and videos, and make you realize that the donations are going to something tangible. Other projects don’t do nearly as good of a job with this.
> How do you get your employer to hear you? I don't think these problems are isolated to women. I think women just don't understand that there's an "old boys club" that attacks other men too. I know lots of men who say the same things.

If anyone thinks this is a problem exclusive to men, conservatives, or whatever group it's en vogue to pillory they're flat-out ignorant.

I've seen women in power be utterly despicable to their fellow woman. I've seen #woke managers belittle the pious.

The real test of character is, when discussing these issues, do you assume immutable aspects are to blame or do you consider alternative realities.

Maybe "those people" are bad for being "those people," maybe they just suck.

Edit: The no comment downvote brigade is here, go ahead and flag me too.

While you're at it, leave a comment telling me you're downvoting me because I said something about it.