skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been in love with OSX/macOS since I switched during the Vista fiasco but I feel it's a sinking ship these days.

I recently was looking to get a new machine for music production and ended up building an Ryzen PC with Windows 10. It cost me the same as an i7 Mini but it is many times more powerful, expandable, and silent. Thank god I moved away from Logic years ago.

Windows is not as pleasant to use as macOS, but it's just as stable. A lot of software seems to run better there (eg: Firefox, Chrome).

For dev work I will keep using my iMac and 2014 MBP with Mojave, at least for the foreseeable future. Unless something dramatic happens at Apple I will most likely end up moving to Windows or Linux in a couple of years when these machines die.
I think the solar sector may be different. The component sector has a vast number of components in use (like 500k+ different parts, I dunno), and like 100+ component suppliers.
You're basically describing the Big Dog Backyard Ultramarathon (created by the same person who created the Barkley Marathons, which other comments have mentioned). To get a taste of this year's race (which just happened!), read this thread: https://twitter.com/voraciousbrain/status/118552792918436659...
I like DHH for the most part, but sometimes on stuff like this, seems so out of touch. This isn't an Apple-created problem - credit scores/etc. are deeply flawed. We all know this. Throwing Apple under the bus is silly, but a big target I guess, and a juicier headline. Nothing to see here. If you really want change, go after the credit bureaus and banks backing the cards themselves.

Claiming an algorithm/process is sexist without specific evidence is also problematic, along with claiming this is a "justice for all issue"-- how exactly is anyone/any corporation required to loan you money in any capacity?

Side note - are folks trying to make this like a bigger debate about "algorithms" and "machine learning" in general? They do realize they're different things, right? We're not that dumb as a society--- I hope?
An `async` function _can_ call blocking functions, of course, it just blocks the entire thread of execution which could otherwise continue making progress by polling another future.
"Recommended". So at least they're being honest, unlike Intel and their stated TDP.

Laptop manufacturers have always used the cheapest possible cooling, but since Sandy Bridge, it has become painfully obvious the TDP is severely understated.

Thermal throttling has become acceptable, and while it's impressive that Intel CPUs last years at ~90 degC, I'd rather they be honest with their actual requirements to get the full performance out of a given chip.

Many laptops go over 90 degrees even at the guaranteed base speeds (no TurboBoost), in everyday use, not even multihour rendering or anything.
This is great. I often write just to clear my head. There's never an output/deliverable. It's just meditation. Thanks for sharing!
That's fair, some places are explicit and still lay out "individual", but legally you don't have to.

In either case, I'd also note here, because they are a married couple they are counting that income twice. Which, for offering credit is a bit dangerous as this income "secures" the credit line. I'm more surprised it didn't result in an outright decline if they didn't seperate their income when applying.
Eh, thats definitely something happening in the west but theme cafe culture has been a big thing in Tokyo for far longer than Instagram has existed. These places don't typically stay around for too many years but they are common places to take casual dates, or for groups of people with shared interests to go. C.f.: gundam themed cafes, cat cafes, feudal era cafes, etc.
Yes, this is apparently an upgraded version: https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/11/10/spacex-readies-upgrade... that has gone from 95% to 100% demisable, and also has Ka band antennas in addition to Ku.
There's a classic article worth reading titled "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
While I think domed houses like this one, or e.g. the "Flintstone House" in Hillsborough, are very cool to look at, they strike me as rather impractical to live in, because no straight-backed furniture can be placed flush against any wall. No standard bookshelves, desks, closets, the TV needs to be curved just right, etc. No hanging paintings on the wall.
Censorship is considered crucial in war as it is widely believed that if the folks at home knew the "truth" they wouldn't stand for it and your side would "lose".

I'm not sure this is correct: widespread targeting of civilians in 20th century conflict didn't seem to shorten any wars.
Can Hercules run MP3000?
Just tried updating to the latest firefox on MacOS Catalina and I get:

>“Firefox Software Update.app” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.
> Why couldn't it just change batteries as needed, or just be wired up to power for that matter?

Because the human it's playing can't. In a sport where endurance is a significant component, wiring one competitor up to power, while the other has to use only the fuel that he/she has stored, doesn't seem like an equitable competition.
Why? Starlink is Spacex's own product.
I feel the same way, but apparently there's some research to the contrary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21080132
If I couldn't have written code on my first computer, would I have been the programmer I am today? Would I even have been a programmer?

I don't know. And that part scares me.
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There are a lot of comments here pointing out that this was probably triggered by her presumably having no/little income in comparison to her husband, despite a higher credit score... and that this is a mistake on Goldman Sachs' part not taking into account their married status and income sharing.

BUT every credit card I've ever applied for has asked for my self-reported income. Because there's no official source a credit card can use to verify your income. Unlike debts, your income doesn't get reported to any agency. It's private.

And since 2013, a "homemaker" can and should put down their entire household income, not their individual income:

> The Credit Card Act of 2009 requires credit card companies to take “the ability of the consumer to make the required payments” into account when deciding whether to approve an application... A 2013 amendment to the federal regulations surrounding the Card Act expanded the definition of one’s ability to pay so that people 21 and older can include any income to which they have a “reasonable expectation of access.” This can include income from a spouse, partner or other member of your household. [1]

So I'm guessing perhaps she simply made the mistake of not reporting entire household income?

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/list-spouses-in...
It may be technically easy but you still have to deal with network effect, bandwidth costs, and a multitude of the legal issues before we even get to political issues. There already exist alternatives to Youtube that solve various aspects of this. Peertube, BitChute, Mega, heck there's no reason one couldn't use the the tech behind popcorntime for setting up something useful and legal. You still run into network effect every time.
> Becoming more "consistently liberal" is hardly the same as being far-left.

Becoming more "consistently liberal" and less "mixed" is essentially the definition of moving to the left.

> Hell, even moving more to the left isn't necessarily, depending on where one starts from, and the early 90s are not exactly known to be a left-wing era in the US

As opposed to what preceded that, i.e. Bush/Reagan?

Arguing that Democrats aren't far to the left of where they were 25 years ago because at that time they were much closer to the center than where they are now is just conceding the point by rephrasing it.
Is this speculation, an accusation, an inference or what?

I guess I'm saying: you need a source for this or at least a cogent argument or STFU.
Wim Hof is not a normal human, it’s not clear that there is anything about his “method” so much as that he has remarkable physiology.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6EPuUdIC1E
Thank you and Wow!

That is a very broad statement within HIPAA and subject to interpretation, which leaves a huge door open for marketers to "help covered entities carry out their health-care functions"
DHH (& now JHH) haven't made a strong prima facie case that any gender discrimination is involved.

Credit lines, especially those from differentiated lenders (which Apple & Goldman Sachs definitely aspire to be) will not be a simple function of easily-observed factors like income, assets and debts – nor even the credit reports and simple FICO-style "credit scores" of the oligopoly bureaus.

Those will be inputs, sure, but lots of other behavioral history could be included – anything Apple & GS can get their hands on, really – and the lender will be estimating not just "ability to repay" but "expected net lifetime profitability across all services", as a function of the granting of particular credit lines. Has DHH spent more with Apple over the past 20 years? That could do it.

As JHH notes, she is "an extremely private person". That right there is also sufficient to explain a 5x, 10x, or 100x difference in credit-granted. Along with, say, her partner being publicly-known for buying custom supercars and Italian vacation homes to park them in.†

† https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1670712
Doesn't the fact that language improves ability to reason suggest that structure does too? I wonder if this edit later advice is any good. ISTR Harper Lee said she worked on a page at a time till it was right.
Except the ones that the creators speak or insert themselves.
>There seems to be something fishy going on and Apple doesn’t even know why

That seems a little silly, though, since Goldman Sachs is the bank in charge of the card and approval process. Just like Amazon doesn't know anything about the processes that are used to determine credit worthiness for their cards (that falls to Chase and Synchrony), Apple is merely licensing services from GS.

On top of that, GS representatives that work in a call center aren't going to know anything about the details or inner workings of the process either. With the amount of potential abuse for such information, it feels like it would be irresponsible for those people to have access to that info.

The bigger issue is that this couple had a valid complaint and had to turn to Twitter to resolve it instead of GS having some formal method of requesting the info.
there is a little bit of info on the starlink site: https://www.starlink.com/
It's wall-to-wall horrifying news about Google here these days
Everybody knows now that the NOP was about managed doping.

That wasn't known back then when she started the program in 2012. Per the NYT article on the NOP, Salazar didn't actually begin the illegally doping NOP athletes until late 2010 or 2011 (though he had begun experimenting on himself and his son by then). [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/sports/nike-oregon-projec...]
Your statistic in no way diminishes the losses that each country suffered during the war.
Why do you think Google's intervention will result in doctor autonomy and not rule by algorithm?
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The satellites stack, so the speculation is that they would have had to spend days to unstack and restack everything.
These new norms are hardly universal.
I completely agree, I work in healthcare data analytics and this is the first step.

My hope would be that the government can step in and make your emr (electronic medical record) something akin to your SSN. It is your data and shouldn't belong to the provider.

It would require an institutional body/government to standardize the EMR and centralize it, allow the individual to share their EMR key to whom they wish (Google, your company, etc) to help provide analytics to tailoring health care to the individual.

Wishful thinking, but I hope Google is able to make significant outcomes with the data to show it is possible.
Apple did similar move with Safari. And they are not ad company. So probably it is the valid reason.
Surely they could have come up with a less alarmist headline for what seems like a much needed initiative in healthcare innovation.

But that's the case for all tech coverage nowadays.
Right. But, as a public company, should their position be to leave the harassment up until the court finishes up with its process, promoting its continued spread?

Because what do they gain from leaving this stuff up? It hurts people. If their stated goal is to be a bastion of free speech, that's one thing. But they're not doing that. They're providing a service. Passively hosting and platforming harassment definitely doesn't fit in with their initial "don't be evil" ethos.
Yeah, no, I think you're misreading my comment.

I probably should have mentioned somewhere, I'm not that talented. I've worked enough places to know I'm just average. My apparent special ability is in the long hours department. If I commit to doing something, it's getting done, to a fault. I've been this way since my teens, staying up for days without even realizing it while figuring something out.

I'm already too introspective, you have no idea.
Good plug. I just gave it a try.

I like the blur, but I find it hard to use. I make extremely many typos and my normal typing method involves simply hitting backspace a lot of times. Obviously I should address that instead of complaining about your blur feature on HN, but the gist is: if I can't even see the last few words I wrote, I'll end up writing gibberish :-)

If there'd be a "blur everything except the last 15 characters or so" kind of mode, or something where it gradually blurs characters as they're further away from the cursor (like a warcraft "fog of war" for typing), then that'd be ultra neat.

That said: WOW that app is nice. You got yourself a new user. I love how it's essentially device local and signup is optional. Super user friendly that way, in a literal sense (i.e. it's very kind & friendly to the user)
Previous threads for the curious:

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10009262

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=769163

2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294
Specifically pharmaceutical products. "This pill you don't know about will stave off a genetic condition you don't know you have."

Cognitive dissonance overwhelms me.
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This is not true. I don’t like having my health care tied to my job - they are orthogonal concerns. But in the US, your employer does not have access to your healthcare records.
I have experience in this. I translated exclusive Japanese-only content for a game for the PSP from Japanese into English (fan translation, not professional). At the time, I didn't really know what I was getting myself into. It was just myself and a python hacker who was extracting the script, and I was essentially handed the entire script within a Google Sheets document.

Given how context-heavy Japanese is, it was nearly impossible to translate exactly what was going on as the Google Sheets only contained the additional content and not the full game script. Even if I did have the game script, there are still certain contextual things which are only realized when seeing what was happening to the characters on the screen.

I ended up watching an entire "Let's Play" of the series in order to get the gist of the story, get the character names correct, and see how the original translators localized everything. I took cues from their localization and did the best take I could at the time in order to translate it while balancing heavy workloads at school.

I'm both somewhat proud of the translation and somewhat disappointed in it. I feel as if I could do a much better job if I had more free time to update it, but localization is kinda like an art. Very few people will translate the same content the same way - even the same person might translate the same lines differently at different points in time.

I do something completely different these days and don't get to utilize my Japanese nearly as much, but I'd definitely be up for another game translation again. While you may be bound by certain external forces (pre-localized content you need to mesh with, author's wishes, censorship, etc), there is still a lot of freedom and liberty in localizing. After all, it's your job to retell this story as best you can to your target audience, and it requires both knowing the source material's culture, as well as your own. In fact, it probably requires knowing your target culture even more so, and it's this type of creative challenge that really got me excited back in the day.
The point of HIPAA wasn’t really consumer privacy protection. It’s mostly just a side effect.
> The bottleneck for GPU today is the amount of memory on board and not compute. Especially with large size models.

Well... everything "depends on the model". Some models will be GPU-compute limited, others will be bandwidth-limited, and others will be capacity limited.

> In addition, the problem with deep learning, in general, is the seq nature of the alg. I.e it is parallel within the layer, but not between layers. And for multi gpu setup, again it is the communication link between the GPUs.

You should increase the size of the model to increase parallelism. Any problem has sequential-bits and parallel bits, so we can't stop the sequential nature of problems.

But the idea is to think NOT in terms of Ahmdal's law, but instead in terms of Gustafson's law. When you have a computer that's twice-as-parallel, you need to double the work done.

You can't reasonably expect things to get faster-and-faster (Ahmdal's law). Instead, you load up more-and-more work the wider-and-wider machines get.

In the case of neural nets, instead of doing 128x128x5 sized kernels, you upgrade to 256x256x5 sized kernels as GPUs get thicker.

Moore's law was never about the "speed of computers", but instead about "the number of transistors". As such, its Gustafson's law that best scales with Moore's law. We've got another 5 to 10 years left in Moore's law by the way: denser memory, denser GPU compute, 5nm-class chips (probably networked as a bunch of chiplets).

We will have more CPU / GPU power, as well as more RAM density, in the future. The question is how to organize our code so that we'll be ready 5 years from now for the next-gen of hardware.
It's super strange and ripe for exploitation. The US needs some form of single-payer health care badly.
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It always tickles my funny bone to see people attempt to tie every Google move to "How do we use this for ads?"

It's the opposite; Google's seeing that their revenue stream is very near a monoculture and they know monocultures can't last forever. A lot of their initiatives (cloud, video, wearables) are trying hard to find an alternate revenue stream that will be as profitable as ads so that when the industry inevitably crashes (not because of anything specific they can predict, but because all industries eventually do) they're not powering their entire empire off of a single river that just dried up.
> Staffers across Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent, have access to the patient information, documents show...

And now with Fitbit going Google, it appears that Google wants to know everything about you beyond your name and location. Potentially, serving you ads over your Fitbit or prescription recommendations driven by these ads.

If this is what Google calls the "future of healthcare", then they need more luck than ever, as the healthcare industry is extremely regulated when it comes to healthcare records.
I maybe should've specified "at the top level". Your whole body breaks faster: joints, some organs, lungs. There's an amount of exercise that has a positive effect on people who eat more than they absolutely need to, but at some point you are not doing your body any favours.

Note I'm not saying "being fat is okay" or "exercise is bad for you".
> How much should you have to pay for unlimited bandwidth, hosting, downloads, user ratings, reviews, feedback, crash logs, showing up in searches, the chance to get featured, and other features like CloudKit etc.?

You seem to think that 30% of earnings is not enough for this ... so yeah, how much should you have to pay for that? 50%? 75%? 100%?
Even with community property, surely the occupation is a valid signal? If I was a teacher and my wife was a CEO again I think it’s reasonable she is offered more credit even in a community property state. She would simply have more earning power than me.
How to opt out?
wow, that's crazy
http://archive.is/1E5l9
Employees must authorize health care providers first before they are able to to disclose any healthcare related information to their employer.

What you're saying simply is not true.
Sure, to a certain extent, algorithms are not so different than "strategies" that generals employ in response to enemy movements.

But the speed and execution of these strategies can be improved order of magnitudes as we replace more parts of the system with machines.

One can imagine Sun Tzu's chapter "Weak Points and Strong" discussing various heuristics and strategies to determine a combatant formation's weakest point. With machine algorithms, you could launch a similar probing attack instantaneously, and have the results analyzed and the striking attack coordinated before your enemy even hears the first reports of encounter.
Keep in mind, the entire Starlink array will only be able to handle like ~1% of global consumer internet traffic. They're only a handful of gbps downlink each. ~10gbps downlink.
They explicitly call out "unregulated militias" in the same threat assessment.

The linked briefing is basically a daily update update - it includes a 3 day weather report and assessment on weather impact on operations.

We can't know why the three specific events were called out as "Events of Interest". Probably through social media posts - in fact all the details of the events seem to be the type of stuff on a facebook event page. Question is do militias do that on their patrols?

We're missing all sorts of contexts. Like yes, the slide header is "Threat Fusion Running Estimate", but the subheader is "Events of Interest". Does inclusion under this slide mean they actually think they are a threat? What are their working definition of threat? Or are events of interest (as in any type of large gathering near and related to the area of operations) automatically included in the threat estimate?

For example, the inter-faith group "being tracked" is assembly a protest outside (or near? unclear) a military base. Knowing that a protest will appear a certainly a way to deconflict.
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That actually sounds pretty useful if they can get away from the problem of conflating correlation for causation, but it's probably not a problem you can solve with big data alone for exactly that reason.
It's ridiculous to think that Google would use this to serve ads.
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The fact that nobody can actually explain in a mathematical and deterministic way to a card holder exactly what goes into their creditworthiness is very problematic, given that creditworthiness is a foundational aspect of our economy.

And in many cases, these algorithms are deemed proprietary. So there's no accountability AT ALL. How we were somehow ok with trusting 3 private for-profit companies with this much power always baffles me.