skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What kind of era are you talking about? Early to mid 90s? I'd agree. But after, for me anyway, around '98 texting was absolutely ubiquitous and it was absolutely the primary method of communication between everyone I know.
> And you can’t compare an Apple to anything non-Apple.

There are plenty of professional users doing just that.

For example, I can get my job done on a Lenovo just as well as on a Macbook, until I need to plug in a USB peripheral. Then, I can do my job better on the Lenovo than the Macbook.
This is a terrible and impractical idea. Nearly all insurgencies fail. And among the few that succeed, the new rulers are often as bad as or worse than the old. (Mainland China itself being a good example of that.) If the HK protesters start an insurgency, they will destroy the city and gain nothing in the process.
AI-generated "true" fiction seems like scifi to me.

Of course an hypothetical "Turing Test" of fiction-writing might be able to fool some people, and in an age where Netflix has been accused of producing content "by algorithm" this seems increasingly possible, but...

... what is "true" or "good" fiction is up for debate. In fact, it's a debate that can never be solved, because there is no right answer except what it feels to you, your friends and authors you respect.

But that said, I seriously doubt it would fool me, and I think it won't be within reach of an AI any time soon, or ever, not without creating an artificial human being from scratch. And maybe not even then, because how many real people can write compelling fiction anyway? :)
What a hilarious notion that Amazon "created" the problem of counterfeiting. Counterfeiting has been an issue for centuries, long long before Amazon existed.
Kosovo is not an independent country. Increasing number of countries are reverting their decision of recognizing them as independent country, and as of few days ago majority of UN countries don't recognize their independence.

Kosovo je Srbija.
Startups Like Uber and Airbnb See All. You Do Not
Yup, the reason I posted this was the great discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484215
How about questionnaires for remote workers?

It'd be interesting to know more about why and how people ended up working remote, how it impacts their lives, how it impacts their job search, how it impacts their day-to-day work, what kind of sacrifice (if any) was required to go remote, what sort of experience did they have to start with, etc.
10nm Ice Lake laptop chips are currently shipping in systems from Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.
If you edit the line that sets the x.domain in the chart cell, you can see it run with a fixed scale:

x.domain([0, d3.max(keyframes, ([, data]) => d3.max(data, d => d.value))])
Bing Adopts Distributed LightGBM for Training Its Gradient Boosted Trees
My understanding is that the HK Internet exchange for Hong Kong is hosted at the university. Would taking that down black out Hong Kong?
One of the interesting unforeseen downsides of RDBMS-based queues is explored here: https://brandur.org/postgres-queues

TDLR the lock time grows exponentially depending on the number of dead tuples in the table, which naturally grows as you use long running transactions.
If you haven't already, would you mind reading about HN's approach to comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html) and site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)?
The author of this post, Chris Hanks, created the Que queueing library for Ruby: https://github.com/que-rb/que

It’s changed significantly since this post as the 1.x betas use a very different structure which should actually be more efficient, use fewer Postgres connections, cause less lock contention, and cause less table bloat.

Not sure if the benchmarks have been run recently or not but I’m definitely curious how things stack up to this post from 6 years ago :)
I’ve never in my life worked on something where we didn’t keep having to upgrade our database resources
He ushered in modern gaming, and everything he did in that domain was way ahead of the curve.
If you look at performance per watt AND performance per dollar it is a record breaker. Also, it is the highest base clock speeds of any of the AMD chips.
An Oral History of LimeWire
"reasonable suspicion" is a term of art, not a new thing that was just invented by the court. There is already an abundance of case law that explains what can count as reasonable suspicion and what can't. Refusing a voluntary search is not enough for reasonable suspicion.

Here's an explanation of reasonable suspicion in comic form (part of a larger chapter on 4th amendment law): https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1833
Those aren't core to actual password management though. Bitwarden is a very good password manager, and that's what it needs to be to fulfil its raison d'être.

If 1Password's claim to fame is functionality beyond password management, so be it, but that doesn't define it as better but rather broader scoped.
They probably trained the model with audio, then told it what to say using text inputs. That made me do a double-take at first too, it's a pretty misleading wording.
Ah beef tallow, hadn’t thought of that. Good suggestion.

The best theory I had was that he was getting a buzz from solvent in the ink or the plastic itself.

Or that he was just odd.
The Zebra’s New Parental Leave Policy Offers Twenty Weeks Paid Time Off
But since the CCP will not respect their autonomy, they need to fight for it.

Plenty of examples of European nations who had to fight violently for their autonomy in the recent two centuries.
Same with a 3700x. Running an Android Emulator, Docker, and WSL2 on Hyper-V simultaneously with no obvious issues.
Please. Hyperbole that we'll be over capacity by 7 billion people due to climate change is irresponsible and deflects from changes that are actually achievable. Fear-mongering will do more damage to solving the problem then being rational.
Definitely highly unethical but not more than what a lot of apps are already doing regarding privacy.
Check out Bitwarden. This[0] event sealed the deal for me that I wouldn't use 1Password again, and Bitwarden was a great alternative.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20417832
Britain's destroyed economy after WW2 probably had more to it. A peaceful resistance can work against an enemy that is distracted with other matters, no longer interested in occupying, or demoralized. In the case of India, the UK managed to maintain business connections quite well in the region and colonialism was becoming outdated and expensive to broke Europe.
Social-media influencers: Incomes soar amid growing popularity
I've heard theories that they were after HK's main internet exchange, which is hosted on the campus. I'm not so sure that's a priority for them. I'd be more inclined to believe a "control of academia" angle - to put a limit on "credible" reports and opinions from HK.

The real aim was probably the students. Public perception, especially among the mainland camp, is that this is mostly a youth protest (but from what I've heard, it's far from solely a youth protest). Back in August, they were all saying that the protests would die down and fizzle out once the semester started (which obviously didn't end up happening). In their eyes, the educated youth are the ones "driving" the protests. In their eyes, taking and suppressing the university would be a strike at the core of the pro-HK movement. That didn't work, and now their move is backfiring into further publicity and support for Hong Kong.
Oh, come on. I hope you're just kidding. Surely you don't relish living in ignorance as you get older? The fun part about life for me is that the curtain keeps getting pulled back. Nothing is what it initially seems to be.
And I suppose adding, "...while keeping you informed about what's happening in the world" or "...while entertaining you" wouldn't matter to you, would it?
This is awesome, I love Que
I Spy: The Sleeper Agent
Well, they're alive. The USCG made paper charts optional for US-flagged vessels in 2017. Most cruisers use chartplotters at the helm, and chart apps on phones or tablets for route planning.

At this point, I tend to use my iPhone at the helm as well. The charts are updated more often, and the location and tracking are very accurate (with an external Bluetooth GPS).

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/07/18/2017-15...

https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DCO%20Documents/5p/5ps/NV...
Is that fixed by the VACUUM process?
Wait, what do you mean here? The job is a row in a database. You can crash as much as you want, the row is not going anywhere until you explicitly mark it as "worked" and delete it.

There are different performance constraints to this approach, but data integrity and robustness of it are unmatched, really.
I was visiting family. Phone was OK when I put it in the pocket, hopped on my bicycle, and rode back home. Next morning, I pulled a turned-off phone with shattered screen out of my pants' pocket. I no longer got a picture on the screen and it didn't seem to react at all to blind typing.
Simple answer. Updating legacy code. If it works now why upgrade? Stability is more important than some new features of the language. Granted that has its downfalls via security issues but stability wins

If you have a hole it's hard to dig yourself out of it. This is why I prefer modular apps instead of monolithic codebases. You can upgrade piece by piece. Otherwise it's all or nothing and dangerous
Or you just don't authorize multi-million dollar unreversable transfers with a phone call? Processes for this kind of thing are in place for a reason.
Dude it's not so straight. First our universities aren't somehow in an ephemeral plane absent of any police jurisdiction, second it seems the number of petrol bombs (I heard 400) was enormous pointing to some large capacity being built up there (I remind you they are more lethal than tear gas round) and third this standoff produce 0 positive effect in retrospect.

I'm all for opposing our communist overlords, but they might not be convinced to listen if we hurl molotov and cry at birds rather than show a reasonable front, which is what ended the extradition law in the first place.
The voice model is trained on voice inputs. The text-to-speech synthesis is based on text only, rather than audio of a different voice. So, together you have voice and text as inputs.
Will wind turbines accelerate climate change?

edit: during its exploitation

I was involved in design of Wind Farms and they affect wind directions at least locally. Naturally, they change climate locally. The question is how local is not global enough.
I strongly suspect that many cats develop an enjoyment of certain textures. Mine is completely uninterested in most greens, but delights in chewing on broccoli.
Because Que has transactional/ACID guarantees, and Redis does not.
64 GB will cost you $800. For $2200 you get the 8 TB. $6000 is the price of the full 8-core machine with each and every bell and whistle.

It's expensive, but not absurd. Think of it as paying $1000 a year for a computer.
How Crystal Performs Compared to Ruby – Filtering Module for Marketplace
Thanks for the explanation.

Do you see the same kind of risk problems in the muni bond space? For instance: PZA, MLN, FCAVX all show that they're 100% investment grade. Are these among the funds that are actually more risky than they appear?

What's your opinion on CEF Muni bond funds like: MYD, IIM, VGM, NVG, NAD, MHI. I know they're relatively risky but should do fine as long as the world isn't completely falling apart. I've seen some professionals say the credit markets are kind of binary. When things are good, they're always going up. And when things get really bad, everyone wants to sell at once. is this true of muni bonds as well?
Reproducing stressed skin effect in aircraft models (2012)
No, if we were we could figure out the genetic code, or how a neural net makes its decisions. But we can't because, among other things, we have a limited working memory of 7-12 objects.

Programmers know how it is to live at the edge of the capacity of the mind to grasp the big picture. We always reinvent the wheel in the quest to make our code more grasp-able and debuggable. Why? Because it's often more complex than can be handled by the brain.

An AGI would not have such limitations. Our limitations emerged as a tradeoff between energy expenditure and ability to solve novel tasks. If we had a larger brain, or more complicated brain, we would require more resources to train. But resources are limited, we need to be smart while being scrappy.

For the record I don't think there is any general intelligence on our planet. A general intelligence would need access to all kinds of possible environments and problems. There is no such thing.

There's also the no free lunch theorem - it might not apply directly here, but it gives us a nice philosophical intuition about why AGI is impossible.

> We have dubbed the associated results NFL theorems because they demonstrate that if an algorithm performs well on a certain class of problems then it necessarily pays for that with degraded performance on the set of all remaining problems. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem

Another argument relies on the fact that words are imprecise tools in modelling reality. Language is itself a model and as all models, it's good at some tasks and bad at other tasks. There is no perfect language for all tasks. Even if we use language we are not automatically made 'generally intelligent'. We're specialised intelligences.
Agree on the easing into it as one grows older. I didn't fit that into my comment but that's what I think is more ideal.
"growth" of course. Which, in context, probably doesn't mean good things.
Naïve Bayes for Machine Learning
Depends on the project. We have some that use PostgreSQL backed queues. Some using Redis. As you get more traffic RDBMS resources are precious - wasting them on queues starts to become a poor tradeoff. Redis is so generally useful we tend to use it on most projects anyways, so it doesn't add another moving part. And we tend to be really conservative about adding new things to our production environment, and despite that Redis has found a home in our stack.
probably but whatever will be used it will just be the next generation input, it's going to continue escalate indefinitely.
Yeah I guess so... apart from all the other downsides about size and robustness and things.
"Deepfakes voices!" makes a cool headline but there's a 90% chance either the employee or the CEO is in on it. Right now the only real fact is "the employee claims someone who sounded like the CEO called"... it's far more probable that either the employee is lying or the CEO actually made the call.
Unless you renounce your US citizenship.
I think the aim at this point is not to win outright independence, but to re-secure the autonomy that they are accustomed to and ride it out until the Communist mainland government collapses. (Which may or may not happen...)
A 1400 dollars phone that cannot compete with an 1000 iPhone/Samsung? Delusional.
A lot of tooling (yum, for example) was written in python. This all takes a lot of time to port, especially gtk/gobject stuff, but nowadays this is all written for python3 or JavaScript or Vala.
Not sure what fantasy land you live in but it is far from ended.. Do you really think the CCP won't eventually ram it through?
I also agree that people running their mouths of on how bad teens are without considering that they are essentially chattel and being told every day of their life they are not to make any decision that matters to their physical and mental well-being -- straight up until they're 18 and then they better get every decision right -- is insane. Judgment is not something you can learn in school.
Are you sure it only dulls the sweet receptors? Coffee (with no sugar or milk) tastes sweet when I brush my teeth. I always thought it was the sour and the sweet getting confused rather than the sweet going bye-bye.
India did.
wow. i love it. (1) it would be nice if the ui panes did not overlap the table (2) what do you think about automated chart creation as seen in apache zeppelin and databricks notebooks? (3) shaded cells for 0-100 gradients like beakerx. (4) has this been tested with any large memory/ distributed memory pyspark/ koalas libs?
But the availability numerical libraries have been lackluster in my limited exploration.
Americans now have a record $14T in debt
Red Hat has long support contracts for their server OSes that shipped with Python 2 when it was still kosher to do so.

That means they'll patch Python 2 should vulnerabilities be found on their OS.
Hurray for labor day
Found this very interesting. I hadn't given much thought to it before, although I've seen this effect on pressurised sections of aircraft and assumed that was the only cause of this effect.
The entire line of argument would have been immediately rejected in a phone screening or an on-site interview at any of the major companies, and even many lesser companies that deal with spatial data. Anyone doing spatial queries and not using existing spatial data structures had better have a really good reason for not doing so.
What I don't get about these scams is what is preventing them from working with the bank to reverse the fraudulent transfers? Sure I get that in these instances money is usually moving between the banking systems of two different countries, but just like we have extradition treaties, how is this not a thing?
I don't have much to say about this issue either way, but it's not as ironclad as you make it seem.

It's less trivial but people can and do renounce their US citizenship. It can be expensive, but probably not 2%-6% of you net worth in perpetuity expensive. Now, you will have to find a new flag of convenience, but you can do that from probably somewhere b/t 500K and 1.5 million in a desirable locale.
They Turn ’49 Mercurys and Shelby Cobras into EVs, One Tesla Carcass at a Time
Who Ate Docker's Lunch?
I think this happened to me a long time ago on Amazon (2015). I ordered a bicycle tail light. When I got the package it was some cheap bad non brand name product. I'm not sure what Amazon did on the back end, but they refunded me. I just looked at my order history, it appears to be one of the items Amazon sells from multiple vendors, like what you describe.
Isn't there a several year lead time before your tax reporting requirements are no longer the case?
There are decades of academic literature on visualization and perception: IEEE VIS (and InfoVis specifically), IEEE TVCG (Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics), ACM SIGCHI, and lots more. If you’re interested in learning about visualization I recommend starting with Tamara Munzner’s book, Visualization Analysis & Design:

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/vadbook/
There must be Macs like the iMac Pro and Mac Pro that don't have Quick Sync.
FWIW, if you have DropBox, they can sync passwords via DropBox, giving you many of the same benefits as their cloud solution.

You can use the pay-one-price license if you already have the motivation to use DropBox.
CPUBoss sucks. It doesnt have chips from the past 4 years in it.
Paper maps are nearly ubiquitous for routing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota.
AI Is a Lie [video]
A news site owned by a billionaire says that taxing the rich don't work. It's really surprising.
That's just a fancy way of referencing a particular paper. None of those terms mean anything outside this particular subfield.
I don't claim this to be deliberate and I am sure my supervisor is good human being and it is nothing personal. Simultaneously I also think it is not difficult to see what effect this causes deliberate or not.
That is quite the inversion of burden of proof there. Amazon is a marketplace in the first place as opposed to a portal of stores. They sell by product. They have no obligation to do otherwise or to bar all secondary sellers. It is a privledge in the first place and they are entitled to demand that it not be used to shut out secondary markets.
Well, some citizens can, but the rich can't. The Foreign Earned Income Exclusion exempts the first $105,900* of income.

*https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f2555.pdf
This isn't really that hard to fix, and it's basically horse-battery-staple a la Hogwarts dorms. Families need to establish a verification phrase or word and ask "what's the password?" if there is any doubt about identity. Given deepfakery of images, even a video call won't be safe in the future and personal info about people can be datamined, so the "3 security questions" approach is also already useless.
Yeah me too, but I don't like accidentally touching something and then being out of context. Also happens with the gigantic track pad. It's really annoying.
That's surprising to me, because I don't see any SIMD use in this library. I guess the C++ libraries they're comparing against aren't using SIMD either and aren't effectively using autovectorization. I don't believe that the Go compiler autovectorizes.
To borrow a line from Spock: 'Fascinating...'
So bring back capital controls. 10,000 wealthy can leave the country - just without all their wealth. Plenty of Western countries had limits until the seventies and eighties.
Most of these are trash.

I like old buildings, a lot, and I also understand that growth requires new construction sometimes replace old buildings, but this is kind of the worst possible outcome. It still destroys the old building, and puts an incoherent one in its place. Some mergers of old and new are interesting and cohesive, but it seems like there isn't even an attempt to make them work together in a lot of cases.
You have to centralize somewhere—IP address assignments are also centralized.
How are private companies synonym for capitalism? Capitalism is an economic order (characterized by the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit).

Would you say we live in the age of rocket ship capitalism because rockets used to be the domain of governments?

Overloading the term Capitalism may sound sensational, but it is not useful in explaining the issue.
renouncing citizenship comes with an exit tax of 23.8% of your assets. https://1040abroad.com/faq/renouncing-u-s-citizenship/
I don't even know how to form goals or dreams anymore. I'm so horribly lonely I don't have anyone to check in with to try to stabilize my life at all. I got so lonely I couldn't sleep so many times for 2+ nights in a row I had to quit my job because I couldn't safely commute.

I guess I grew up thinking eventually I would meet someone I liked that also liked me back, and then I could finally have someone to talk to about hopes and dreams and goals and plans, but it never happened.

I guess if I can offer any advice to anyone if anyone actually reads this it would be to just go all in on liking someone back if they want to like you.

When I was 17 a 15 year old liked me and I liked her but was to afraid to like her back because in a year I would be 18 and it would be illegal to like her and... now I'm 31 and no one else ever even showed interest in me except some girl I didn't like that drugged me and raped me and I'm so fucking alone
A news site owned by a billionaire who just entered the race for the US Presidency in 2020 because he doesn't think that the pro-billionaire candidates are doing well enough in polls says that taxing the rich doesn't work. Incredibly surprising.
> If we live in the age of surveillance capitalism because some companies spy on users for profit, then we also live in the age of strawberry-harvesting capitalism, because some companies harvest strawberries for profit.

Seems like the major difference here is scale. The scale of surveillance encompasses pretty much everything. Communication, travel, bodily characteristics, the sale and purchase of strawberries, etc etc.

I think it's definitely a defining characteristic of our age.
That's not going to work outside of Mac or PC. Linux is a browser plugin.