skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Weeks of coding can save hours of design"
> I've found that lots of companies actually have better deals on their site or offer a coupon.

If coupons and discounts are the best the competition have to offer, then Amazon doesn’t have too much to worry about.
Tech company indicates a "plan" to do something that they implicitly assured everyone that they'd be doing from the get go. I question how much effort, cost and what the timeline would be to build the logistics to realize this goal and, given their past performance, how many more vectors for scams they will create along the way. They have profited from the risk that they have pushed out to their customers, I'm not sure that they will actually do anything substantive, but feel certain that they will make it seem as though they are.
Press release: https://mlperf.org/press/

Link to the results: https://mlperf.org/inference-results

Link to white paper: https://edge.seas.harvard.edu/files/edge/files/mlperf_infere...

After introducing the first industry-standard inference benchmarks in June of 2019, today the MLPerf consortium released 595 inference benchmark results from 14 organizations. These benchmarks measure how quickly a trained neural network can process new data for a wide range of applications (autonomous driving, natural language processing, and many more) on a variety of form factors (IoT devices, smartphones, PCs, servers and a variety of cloud solutions).
Might I ask, what is the trust model for GoFundMe campaigns launched on the behalf of someone. Does GoFundMe do an escrow/arbitrage sort of thing to assure that the money gets to Gillepsie and not the organiser of this event?
The same can be achieved easily with non-blocking IO with an event loop.

In addition, several threads will go faster than one as soon as any two remotes overlap.
Is “a house in a modern city” a basic right? Or just “a house”?
Because fusion will let us do things that we may not be able to do right now. Especially if fusion takes the form of one of the non-ITER-style reactors that merely costs millions instead of billions, it may still be by far a more environmentally-friendly power generation method; no massive construction of square miles of solar panels, no need for windmills, power for space craft and space stations. Things like desalinization may be far more practical with fusion.

In the long term, we won't just need power as good as today; we need something much better than today.

The next step after fusion would be some form of total conversion, of which the only feasible chances seem to involve black holes, so, a ways off yet. Probably not save to use on a planet.
Literally every other first world country sends a receipt with how much the government took, how much you're owed or how much you owe and the ability to amend. Ours is intentionally made more painful because of anti-tax zealots that want it so and have admitted it. There is zero reason our taxes need to be as stressful or as Stone consuming as they are. Most of the time your "donations" still don't add up to more than the standard deduction. If you're wealthy enough to be above that, you're probably already using a tax professional and own either real estate or a business.
FYI - if you would like some help setting up any of these - drop me a note (email in profile) - happy to advise, most of this is pretty easy.
America’s only water sommelier justifies his restaurant’s 44-page water menu
I don't see why this would be considered something to downvote. You're essentially hiring an outsourced I/T staff by going with a service like this which is probably something that can be leveraged a very long way and will remain cheaper than bringing on full-time staff or engaging contracted I/T consulting.
Sure... but there are two simple facts: a) billionaires are unelected and b) they dictate the usage of vast quantities of resources.

Personally, I believe this is immoral.
There's some interesting game theory at work here. I remember learning in the early days of ransomware that the hackers would typically provide excellent customer service to the targets. They'd always promptly respond to emails or phone calls, and they'd even walk you through the process of buying Bitcoin to send. The premise was that you'll get the highest revenues if you make it as easy as possible for people to pay you - and establish a reputation for actually unlocking the data once you're paid!

Of course, just taking the money and running is a much higher-margin business, but it relies on that established reputation-building. Maybe a good analogy is counterfeit sellers on Amazon.
Volume effort went well indeed. What's still lagging behind especially are temperature, distance and speed units. Lot's of people are still not comfortable when you are trying to use metric for them. Which probably only highlights that there should be a stronger push to use them.

Also, 24H time system is something people often don't get, and only know about it as "military time", due to army actually using it.
I think I may have worded that poorly, since it sounds like you're agreeing with me. GINI is a measure of relative distribution, but doesn't necessarily have anything to say about overall wealth. I was responding to someone who seemed to be saying that GINI is bad because it only measures one thing, which seems a lot like saying the centiliter is bad because it measures volume and not temperature, when sometimes you want to know both volume and temperature.
Inequality will always be inevitable. Striving to better yourself by learning new skills and improving your abilities is to produce inequality because you're rising above the mediocre masses anytime you make an effort at anything. People should focus on equity, not equality. Equality of outcome is more fair than equality of opportunity.
What reduces our personal CO2 footprint? We have no clue
California DMV data breach exposed thousands of drivers' information
People always try to tie income inequality things like standard of living and centralization of power. Why not attempt to measure those things directly? Income inequality may be a useful factor in an attempt to quantify those things (or it may not)- but it certainly isn't a measure in itself.
I think this is much more of the fault of rise of "infinite cable channels" and then streaming services (Netflix, et al) than the franchise films themselves. A lot of the contracts that the cable networks and streaming services have signed in the last decade or so have pushed a lot of independent cinema into cable/streaming, including "locking down" exclusivity on a lot of the classics that used to be free or cheap to small community theaters. For better and worse, the small independent cinema moved directly into people's homes. On the one hand it is more convenient, but on the other hand it is easy to lament the loss of the small community event gathering around a "lost" classic or enjoying a second or third class film together on a big screen.

It's also unfortunate in how losing those small community events snowballs. Franchise films are all that's left in most of the theater chains, because those can still be "big" community events that can compete with the convenience of people's homes. Getting people out of the house for a smaller event gets more challenging when folks don't do it regularly.
Yup. I suspect this sort of thing is going on all over the place but most people don't speak openly of it.

All work is value-based. Never forget that.

No clients care if you spent 80 hours a week not solving their problem, so why would they care if you spent 20 solving it?
Zone interface is specifically good at log structured CoW is what it says. Later they talk about how they tried using a write ahead log but that it does not work well for managing metadata in a distributed filesystem.
Be a contractor a bunch of time, build up your network on linked in, and "Always Be Closing" small projects with your network. Each time a past manager moves to a new department, new company, new something, I reach out after a couple of months to see if they have any gaps in their current team I can temporarily fill.

It takes a lot of work to not work that much. I used to spend 20% of my time selling/pitching/quoting/etc for free.

Right now I have a semi-stable 30-35hr/week gig, so I'm not having to sell any.
This classification failure reminds me of the concept of "Disguised queries" I saw on LessWrong [1]. That is, there's the question you really want to answer:

A) Should I avoid driving this car into this thing?

and then there are subsidiary questions that help to answer that, but would be fully obviated if you already had a good answer for A):

B1) Is this a human?

B2) Is this a vehicle?

B3) Is this unrecognizable?

The "natural category" here is "drive into" vs "don't drive into", not "human vs vehicle vs fruit stand vs other".

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4FcxgdvdQP45D6Skg/disguised-...

In the article, the A)-type question is whether the object has vanadium, and the B)-type questions are whether the object is a blegg (blue round thing) or a rube (red square thing). The distinction becomes stark when you know it has vanadium, but it doesn't neatly fall on the blegg/rube continuum.
Aside from that claim being trivially proven false[1], I worked in biotech for more than a decade and this is just wrong.

[1]: https://www.healthit.gov/faq/who-must-follow-hipaa
... Thanks to centrifuges, nowadays the easiest path for a rogue state to develop its own weapon is to use enriched uranium.

Maybe. South Africa used electromagnetic separation. Slow, but it works for a small number of weapons. Pakistan has both a plutonium and a uranium program, and they've been plugging away at it since the 1970s. North Korea seems to have taken the plutonium route first. So did Israel.
All this really shows is that public pressure can affect a company's policy choices.
Bear does it (just less elegantly)
Both failures may have had something to do with "fuel", but they aren't in any way related.

The Crew Dragon abort test anomaly was caused by a problematic valve leaking oxidizer "backwards" into the helium tubes which are used to pressurize the system right before ignition. The second they pressurized, it sent a huge amount of oxidizer into the engine where there should have only been helium at the time which caused the explosion.

The AMOS-6 anomaly was caused by LOX pooling and working it's way into the liner of a COPV inside the LOX tank. The LOX got into the fibers, and a small amount of friction ignited the oxygen and caused the "boom".

They may seem similar in that they are both related to the oxidizers getting somewhere they shouldn't and igniting, but a rocket is pretty much just a tube of carefully controlled fuel and oxidizer and a nozzle to shoot it out.

Of course most problems are probably going to result in fuel or oxidizer getting somewhere it shouldn't, and when that happens they are going to explode. For laypeople the exact reason why the fuel and oxidizer mixed at the wrong time isn't really important, but don't fall into the trap of thinking that the 2 are related.
Struggled with this a lot when I started studying foreign language.

I spent way too much time deciding between Turkish, Russian or Japanese and trying to justify my decision with arbitrary metrics of usefulness.

In the end I went with Japanese as I had the most interest in the culture, but then ran into another phase of paralysis by analysis in determining the most efficient study methods.

Finally bought a "recommended" textbook, instead of endlessly searching for the perfect learning resource and just got to it
I take mine home so if I want to work from home the next day I can
Part I https://invenia.github.io/blog/2019/10/30/julialang-features...
Unfortunately Julia was just a prototype system that they are going to turn off. KNL made it into one of their main production systems (Jureca) as a "booster" module, but they use GPFS on the main storage system (IIRC).
I had not looked at it this way before..It is possible to be prudent with your data but once you share with other who are maybe not so prodent, who knows?
> Equality is unavoidable as long as people are allowed to compete for stuff.

The kind of inequality that is perceived as problematic is something different though. It's the rent collection that transfers wealth from the poor to the rich.
These days, my mind immediately jumps to "what if you plugged all those books into GPT-2!?"
You're also far less likely to receive a fraudulent product buying direct from the company versus Amazon thanks to the third party sellers and commingling of inventory.
Ya I miss the 68000. It was the first assembly language that I learned. It was much closer to RISC than x86 is, so there were plenty of registers and the instructions were fairly generic so it was straightforward to map C code almost directly to assembly. The "32 bit clean" stuff caused a lot of bugs for years after 32 bit memory arrived though.

What really killed it though was perceived slowness. Apple insisted on shipping generations of Macs with crippled busses running at half the bit width of the CPU and/or at reduced frequencies.

I remember the very fastest Macs in the early 90s not being able to even run a scrolling 2D game at 640x480 in 8 bit color because it just wasn't a priority. Meanwhile a 486 could run DOOM in 320x240. We had to wait until the 60 MHz PPC 601 arrived, and even it struggled with 640x480 graphics (the lowest resolution available). On top of that, most software was still emulated 68000, so the perceived slowness of Macs continued until Steve Jobs returned and introduced the colored iMacs.

I eventually came to love x86 assembly for the brief time I used it though. It has so many easter egg instructions for moving bytes around wider registers and getting free side effects with memory access that it felt like there was always another way to gain a bit more performance out of hand-rolled loops.

Of course that's all gone today, because instruction sets are so.. byzantine that a good compiler will usually beat hand-rolled assembly. That's because the real processing happens as RISC beneath microcode so a human can't really know the optimal way to string instructions together to keep the pipeline full or avoid cache misses. Also the SIMD stuff expanded the solution space to such a degree that it's almost pointless to do anything directly. Better to use a vector language like MATLAB and compile to SIMD accelerated C or go to GPU processing instead IMHO. Otherwise you're perpetually struggling with premature optimization and can't work at a productive level of abstraction.
How do you know it's not selection effect and the ROAS number are BS just like they are with Google? Have you tested?

Google and Facebook are 60% of the market, so if it would be only them this is important.
Give your financial advisor $8M and tell him you're happy with a 4% annual return. If you can live on an annual pre-tax income of a mere $200K, the remaining $120K gets compounded.

Zero effort, compound growth, risk bordering on zero.

*Edit : a typo
> A function which expects a `base* ` can already be passed a `derived* ` without any problems. Doing the same for a collection of `base* ` to a collection of `derived* ` is not fundamentally different

Since C++ has multiple inheritance, derived* differs from base* not just by reinterpretation, the pointer value could be different.

A single pointer can trivially be adjusted, but a heap-allocated, potentially huge array of pointers would require an equally huge heap allocation to store the adjusted pointers.
Adidas Football Reveals Encryption Pack
What if it doesn't? What if there are 60 liars and 1 truth teller?

The assumption that everyone is telling the truth in a biased fashion is an incorrect assumption and leads to accepting lies from people who don't deserve your trust.
I'm reading grandparent as "10 boxes handling 10000 connections each is better than 100 boxes handling 1000 connections each".
Does Google Now still not respect "I'm not interested" flagging?

I've tried to use it many times, but I'll keep seeing the same stories I've marked as not interested. One easy example is any Marvel release. I'll say not interested in "move title". Then the same story will pop up in the Marvel category. I'll repeat the process for Marvel, and the same story will show up as entertainment, repeat until I close the app.
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> No clients care if you spent 80 hours a week not solving their problem, so why would they care if you spent 20 solving it?

This has not been my experience at all. It's a different subject entirely, but it is very common for clients to be much happier to pay for 20 days at $550 a day than 5 days at $2,200 a day, even if they got it two weeks earlier. People are not rational.
If you are deadlocking, you have a bug. If you hit OOM, you most likely have leaks or went wild with threads or allocations.

Both of those conditions are orthogonal to async/thread pools, so what do you mean?
This is excellent point.

If it is too easy to gather wealth so you can gather wealth without actually having to create any value (through corruption, extortion, monopoly, theft, deception, enslavement, etc.) then you will have the bad kind of inequality where most people are not compelled to put hard work to create value for others in order to create wealth for themselves.

Again, GINI does not differentiate between the good and the bad kind of inequality, so two countries with same GDP and same GINI might be very different. One may be on the rise, with a number of enterpreneurs creating huge progress and value and the other might have couple of oligarchs who were able to amass their wealth with corruption.
Tides rely on the sun's gravity. Geothermal might be independent, but also don't seem very renewable.
I worked this schedule while I was studying, 5-hours a day 5 days a week (part-time) and to be honest my productivity was around 85/90% compared to working 8-hours a day 5 days a week.

I would have the stand-up as 10/15 minutes after arriving, and then I would most of the times enter flow and work for 1h30 to 2h, make a break and work for more 1h to 1h30, sometimes longer if I got distracted with time. On those flow blocks I would only pause in intervals of 2-3 minutes for filling the water bottle or going to bathroom. Between those flow blocks I usually had a longer break to talk with my colleagues (work related or not), sometimes play a bit foosball or board/card games and eat.

It was great, except when we had bigger meetings/workshops and other time consuming events. When those occured I had troubles getting into flow. In those days I managed to do it I would often get distracted with time and work 5h30 to 6h unintentionally.

It worked really well, I think the lunch break has a large context switching cost, making it hard to have productive 8h. Making it feel like either the morning or the afternoon short on time.

I would also love to try 8-9h (getting more hours after the context switch of lunch) a day 4 days a week. Getting 3 days to focus on you (your hobbies, chores, friends, family, whatever) and 4 days to focus on work might be a great alternative as well. I might suggest and negotiate it in the near future.
The Andromeda Evolution by Michael Crichton and Daniel H. Wilson
You missed something in the article. He bought a property in a depressed area. The property rose in value to where it's now over $125000. The city foreclosed on the house and sold for $25k and kept the profits above $8.41 of back taxes owed.
20000 startup ideas - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21112345

Seems people found this pretty funny when it was posted

>> Document software defects, using hand and horn signals.
It really does come down to coverage and (as you say) congestion/oversubscription.

I've used a cheap ($30/mo) prepaid plan on TMo for the past several years and it's only gotten better in my city. Just ran speed tests on 3 different sites from my office (with passable signal strength but not "full bars" and without checking actual numbers).

All three claimed 24-25Mbps download and 5-8Mbps upload with 65-75ms latency. This is more than enough for my cell phone, but I'd imagine any drops or latency would be a lot more noticeable if I was tethered to a laptop.

I guess for me, the main uses of cellular data are web browsing and media streaming when I'm not at home or at the office (when I'd be on WiFi instead). This is plenty for me and I even get coverage outside of the city these days. 5 years ago I might not have said the same.
First Open Source Silicon Root of Trust Revealed
cycle dynamics is an unsolved control problem
http://www.inkcode.net/qute does it quite similar (on a paragraph basis instead on a word basis) and it's open-source
And in writing you experiment too : you write things down, you read again, correct, ask a friend to read a chapter for feedback, etc...
We've reached a strange point where I can no longer tell if the above comment is genuine, satire, or schizophrenia.
If you spend 80 hours you're being inefficient.
If you spend 20 hours (and they're being charged for value,) they feel they were deceived.
Selling your hours to anyone truly seems like a lose-lose situation.
I started scrolling around, and then an unclosable "subscribe to my newsletter" blocked the entire page.

WTF???

No, I don't want to subscribe to your newsletter. Furthermore, forcing me to subscribe to your newsletter just to read a silly post on your website is a jerk move.
>Equality of outcome is more fair

How so? To equalize outcomes for all parties, you must take from those that performed better?
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Yeah, I'm with you on that. My original comment was really tongue in cheek, and I agree with most of what you said in your original post. I'm the same way, I refuse to put work email or slack on my phone and once I clock out for the day I am done. I work from 7-4 M-F and do almost zero thinking about work outside those hours. I've been at my company for five years now and I keep getting promoted so my email habits are obviously irrelevant to my employment status.

If I were to get fired for "not responding fast enough" or something like that, then I wouldn't want to work at that place anyway. I'm a programmer and I get paid to program, so that's what I do. It's worked out pretty well so far :)
I think temperature is easily the most alien to Americans. Metric distances probably aren't quite as well understood as metric volumes, but I'd wager that knowledge only trails by a little. The rough equivalence between a yard and a meter is widely know by Americans, as is the rough equivalence between 100km/hr and 60mph (helpfully, American speedometers all provide this education.)
Policy goals change from "reducing X" to "reducing the harmful results of X."
> I also have a way to beat adblockers that I'm afraid of bringing to light

Proxying ads through as first-party content?

If you really are invested in making them work ethically, consider these ground rules: https://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/random/no-stalking.html
I don’t think they were questioning the possibility, just the practical need of it.
> A former Facebook engineer once said (and he’s been quoted a thousand times over): "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click on ads." I spoke to some of those best minds: economists employed and formerly employed by the most powerful companies in Silicon Valley...

Not to be a jerk, but almost none of the best minds in SV or of my generation are economists.
bingo the oh lets do the MS App api strategy in new form
How big of a city? Does 1.6 million people count? If Auckland, New Zealand runs on 80% renewable electricity which is certainly a majority in my books.
It is a conservative position, hence no new policies are needed. Some pushes that inequality is proof of injustice and therefore we must make policies against it, this is just a response to that position.