skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought some of these for plane flights and I'm always amazed at how much it reduces my stress levels when I wear them somewhere else. I feel far less crowded just walking through a supermarket or sitting on a train while wearing them.
Up For Grabs: open-source projects that need new maintainers
No, because new construction in Berkeley uses electric. Coal is too foul to want to use in your own house.
This is one of the reasons I love small companies
No wait, now it's the US: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-amer...
So hes a masochist or?

Seems to hate ML.
Haskell2010's definition is like 20 pages long and that includes the definition of the standard library. This core accounts for 90-99% of the code in project that isn't going out of its way to use fancy features for the lulz.
You are getting to view copyrighted content without paying for it. That makes you a thief.
It’s a good read but the negativity makes it appear irrational. It would be better if he left the ranting away and focused on the realistic recap without the PR hype.

Note that AI has a history of being stalled by overly pessimist evaluations (Minsky / Papert on the perceptron, Lighthill report).
Money is a claim on future production, and you don't get to transfer that claim over other people's work without caveats, whether it's inheritance tax, limits on gifts, or wealth taxes.
Same, I quite like them. Just a heads up, don't walk the streets with both in. The in ear allows to listen with just one in.
Why do salt water marine toilets use small amounts of water? It seems like that's a resource that is very easy to acquire.
Louisiana activates cybersecurity team in response to attack on state agencies
It takes at least two to tango. It looks like you’re responding to this criticism very defensively. An initial simple “thanks for pointing that out” response could have probably avoided the whole thread.

C++ tends to bring out the language lawyers because it is such a minefield of undefined, implememtation-defines, and unspecified behavior.
The title just means it's one piece of the puzzle. She's thinking about making a comic about how containers work, and one important piece of that is overlays. So this is that piece.
For those out of the loop, most felt Half life 3 was officially dead after one of the lead writers Marc Laidlaw leaked the plot to half life 2 episode 3 to give fans closure:

https://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/

https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/6vwelo/i_edited_m...

So it's surprising to see more half life being worked on!
I think the touchability of nuclear energy was quite negatively impacted by Fukushima, and it's just going to take a while to get reasonable people on board with the idea that that model of reactor was far out of date.

There are the folks that just shout "No nukes ever" and they can't be won over, but we're got flat earthers and anti-vaxers, so not everybody can be reasonable.
Epstein had a lot of advantages, but they weren't enough to buy him a luxurious prison experience. He paid off other prisoners and exploited loopholes, but was still in a spartan cell. The luxurious pay-for-play prisons in the news occasionally are generally municipal prisons; Eppstein was in federal pretrial detention which is much harder to game.

When he died Epstein was in a cell in the Special Housing Unit for uncooperative prisoners. He clearly wasn't able to buy better treatment from the government. (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/real-scand...)

> Jeffrey Epstein, inmate 76318-054, hated his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. It was cramped, dank and infested with vermin, so Mr. Epstein, long accustomed to using his wealth to play by his own rules, devised a way out.

> He paid numerous lawyers to visit the jail for as many as 12 hours a day, giving him the right to see them in a private meeting room ... he and his entourage regularly emptied the two vending machines of drinks and snacks.

> “It was shift work, all designed by someone who had infinite resources to try and get as much comfort as possible,” said a lawyer who was often in the jail visiting clients.

> Outside the meeting room, Mr. Epstein mounted a strategy to avoid being preyed upon by other inmates: He deposited money in their commissary accounts, according to a consultant who is often in the jail and speaks regularly with inmates there.

> But in his final days, Mr. Epstein’s efforts to lessen the misery of incarceration seemed to be faltering.

> He was seldom bathing, his hair and beard were unkempt and he was sleeping on the floor of his cell instead of on his bunk bed, according to people at the jail.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/nyregion/epstein-suicide-...
All of Europe, afaict. It's often so baffling to read about finance/payments in North America, ahead in other ways of course somehow that sector has just completely stagnated, from a consumer perspective anyway.
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My take on this is, you're watching a movie that takes place in the winter. Wintry music is playing. All of a sudden the "cold" music along with the scene of an icy blizzard gives you a slight chilly sensation.

Afterwards you go outside and it's a blazing hot summer day. You put on the soundtrack to the movie but in this case, it doesn't make you feel any cooler. Or conversely it's freezing cold outside, but even so the wintry music doesn't actually make you feel any colder than you already do.

In the situations described above, the music was able to affect your imagined perceptions, not your real ones.
OneAPI: Write code once, run anywhere
"threads" (goroutines) and channels are the new gotos. They tend to make a codebase more difficult to reason about. The more you add, the more you tend to get spooky action at a distance.
I think You'll need a subscription to Audible to play it.
Where does the title come from? This project seems to be about projects that have active maintainers that could mentor people new to open source contributing, not projects that need maintainers.
Sucks to be them. I don't care.
Back in 2005 I was gifted both Guero (by Beck) and Guild Wars on my birthday and ended up listening to the album on repeat while playing the game and I really vivid visual flashbacks to that game's art style whenever I hear that album.
SED would have been fucking awesome.

Yet again, a broken patent system fucks things up for America (and also one of my favorite examples of it that I've been using for years).
Just bought a brand new car this week from a dealership (US) and the seller refused to accept a check.
They really don't, and it was funny that period where you'd see Dockerfiles with all the commands in a single invocation to avoid "bloating" the resulting image with unnecessary intermediate products that ended up deleted.

Maybe it's out there and I've just missed it, but I really wish there were richer ways to build up a container FS than just the usual layers approach with sets of invocations to get from one layer to the next, especially when it's common to see invocations that mean totally different things depending on when they're run (eg "apt update") and then special cache-busting steps like printing the current time.

I know part of this is just using a better package manager like nix, but I feel like on the docker side you could do interesting stuff like independently run steps A, B, and C against some base image X, and then create a container that's the FS of X+A+B+C, even though the original source containers were X+A, X+B, and X+C.
This project has a more apt usage of the name.
I would start working on a plan to finding a quiet space that is yours.

That might mean a small town, or it might mean a $3000/mo+ studio apartment. How do you get to having enough cash flow to afford that space? Can you nix the hotdesking membership? Worst case, can you bail on the startup and join a megacorp?
Valve Confirms “Half-Life: Alyx”
>Epic is easy to hate (it's everywhere), and for good reason. However, the alternatives are not obviously better unless there's been some radical innovation. There are definitely systems designed for a particular piece of a hospital (ex, ER, or labs, etc) that are probably better than Epic is, but when it comes to having one system for the entire hospital, they're all pretty bad.

Yeah, our org is on Cerner and there's excited talk around going to Epic in the future. People don't seem to understand that it's just going to be more of same in dealing with an old, monolithic system.
Yea, it did a great job of covering overlays, but didn't get into how Docker uses a hash value for each overlay piece. Maybe this will be part of a series where she does more of that?

This was posted a few months back on here and it a cool little tools for seeing how Docker fits layers together:

https://github.com/wagoodman/dive
I'm not sure what lesson to draw either, but I kind of suspect that the situations where this tool adds the most value (e.g. a developer needs to jump into a code base without anyone around to help orient exploration) are also the situations where there's least likely to be funding. And in that particular example, if the developer is new to the org, it is a situation where they're unlikely to know how to/feel comfortable asking how to gain funding.
With the pile of cash they hold for clients.

I'm sure they do in North America too, and make orders of magnitude more from it than for charging monthly or transaction fees. But if everyone else charges those, why not make that bit extra too?

It just needs some 'disruptor' to do it for free and drive the rest of them down, as is happening both there and here in Europe with trading accounts (where most money is made from order flow, but traditionally, why not make a bit extra from commission too?).
I always thought the primary reason for that was that stereo low frequencies, when recorded onto vinyl records, hugely increase the risk of the needle 'jumping' out of the groove and skipping into another one.
Note that there is also a BSD UnionFS filesystem doing much the same thing. I don't know what relation it has to the Linux OverlayFS, only that they (superficially) do very similar things.
You can check the waveform with one of these: https://www.amazon.com/EMAY-Portable-Monitor-Software-Compat...
> Since it doesn't, its really no sweat off my back, either way.

Again, only in the short term. A failing company is not a fun place to be, and a failed one even worse. And if you end up with a resume that has a long string of losers as your employers, it's going to get harder to get good jobs.
Nvidia Arms Up Server OEMs and ODMs for Hybrid Compute
That would be great, but significant whitespace doesn't seem to stop all the Python users out there.
True, you can use other stacking filesystems with Docker (I believe it had/has a ZFS driver at one time?) The example she shows in the comic are just about the filesystem and leave out the Docker pieces, so I'm wondering if this is just one part of a series.
actually it seems in both cases they consented to sex, despite disagreeing about the condom
Valid point. To clarify, it was hyperbole, as I got (rightly or wrongly) a more "military" vibe. And in my highly uninformed opinion, I'd feel much less comfortable in close quarters with actual spook-dom than I would around high-end military establishment people. Maybe I'm wrong. I'd probably take upper six figures to warm a seat for either, though. Shake the hand of the devil, sell your soul on the dotted line.
I wonder if selling integrations with language server[1] implementations would be a way to multiply the customer base enough to make this viable as a business.

[1]: https://langserver.org
Pretty much sums up my experience so far in healthcare IT, esp. the C-level and doctor part.
Though whether or not that introduces more by way of pollens and molds than it filters out is a fair question.
That article is so one-sided it hurts. It gives few and silly examples of what trusts are actually used for, like it characterizes one by a rich woman leaving millions in care for her dog after the woman died, in order to convince the reader that trusts must be often wasteful and frivolous.

For one (among other issues) it completely ignores the destruction of family farms and businesses, no longer able to operate due to heavy tax burdens put on them by the state, simply because one of the owners has passed away and they didn't have enough cash in reserve to pay what the government deemed they owe. Mine and your politicians forced the creation of these havens because of their wanton disregard for people's hard work and effort, and I'm not going to shed any tears of there being a way for some of them to protect it.

I know, the writer alludes to a one-world dictatorship that might one day have been able to prevent this 'horrible evil' from taking hold, but we're not there yet, thankfully.
The author uses these ([1][2]) diagrams to argue that more compute has diminishing returns. But the 'diminishing returns' are on the accuracy of correctly picking the single right category for a photo out of one thousand. Photos may simply not carry enough information to be able to meaningfully distinguish between them at that level of accuracy; existing models already exceeded humans' ability at top-5 accuracy in 2015 [3]. It wouldn't be surprising if SOTA models exceeded humans at top-1 already.

It's possible that the human baselines were bored and so performed sub-optimally when picking between the 1K classes. But the argument has now become a subtler one, much less clear cut.

As an example of categories that may be difficult to distinguish between, do you feel confident that you can reliably distinguish between the Norwich terrier [4] and the Norfolk terrier [5]? These are two separate categories in ImageNet1k.

[1] https://i0.wp.com/blog.piekniewski.info/wp-content/uploads/2...

The first diagram shows exponential growth in the compute usage of state of the art deep learning architectures.

[2] https://i1.wp.com/blog.piekniewski.info/wp-content/uploads/2...

The second diagram shows diminishing returns on Imagenet1k top-1 accuracy from doubling the size of Resnext.

[3] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.725...

[4] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&as_q=norwich+terrier&...

[5] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&as_q=norfolk+terrier&...
Well, one group of people in one country.
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Greentown labs.
The words "dirty and deceptive tactics" are yours.

I just don't worry about people with 9 figure net worths arguing over inconsequential things.
LOL at the GPG swarm down below. I hate the Internet, I regret posting my own GPG message, and I'd delete it if I could.
AmericanChopper claims that he's never met somebody who disagrees with him but seems to feel comfortable diagnosing those people, whom he's never met, with autism. Not a great comment and I don't think he made it in good faith. Saying that people who disagree with you must be autistic is too common online for me to give any comment like that the benefit of the doubt.
Most of the stuff by global news is written by Sam Cooper. If you read his pieces he reports on a lot of hear-say, letting the reader's imagination fill in the pieces. Also he likes to inflate the effect of money laundering such that it is the source of all the problems: high real estate prices and the opioid drug epidemic - which is highly simplistic. In a way he is giving what the people want.

If you read the government report on money laundering, they don't really go into detail about how they came up with that 5 billion dollar figure. And then they estimate the effect of money laundering could affect RE prices from 5-20%. So, a lot of guessing. A billion here, a billion there...who cares, right? All the reporters just report on these numbers as facts.
"The Marshmallow Test -- an assessment of short-term vs. long-term trade-offs -- is one such case."

The problem with psychological research is that researchers assume they have thought of everything that could possibly occur to a subject, and that subjects take everything they are told at face value whenever necessary for the validity of an experiment.
National Security Commission on AI – Initial and Interim Reports
Why would anyone get fired, explicit approval and imppicit incompetence should be handled differently. If pentests get people fired, no one wants a pentest. Refusing to accept and resolve pentest results can be fireable but a pentest is suppose to help you improve what you have already.
For individual mass market the big driver is loan margins, both for home mortgages and various short-term loans.

But the improvement in payments was mostly driven by legislation (e.g. the Payment Services Directive from 2007 with most of implementation at 2012) without which banks were quite happy to offer payments as slow and expensive as they could as it was too profitable for the industry to voluntarily agree to disrupt this, especially since most payments are cross-bank and so a single "defecting" institution can't simply offer cheap&fast payments if others don't want to play ball.

So I don't think that there's any way how USA financial industry might get to a similar point if gov't doesn't decide to force them (which might be taboo for many USA politicians) - I'm certainly convinced that European financial institutions would not have reached this point currently if they weren't forced to do so despite all the lobbying.
Are you suggesting a megacorp is more likely to offer private offices?
> join a megacorp?

How will that help with the noise problem?
Yeah the title should be "unionfs: a kernel feature having nothing whatever to do with containers, and some ways to use it" but I guess that's too long :-) . Problem is there is not some central marketing department for Linux that can even tell us what "containers" means. There are lots of people who think they are "using containers" who do not use this style of mount, and there are lots of people using this style of mount who do not consider themselves container users.
Global Survey of Journalism and AI
Yes, definitely pursue both.

My point was more as far as where Gov funding should be prioritised given their relutance to throw funding at new generation and rely on market investment while providing incentives to buy electric vehicles - though for Telsa that will be gone soon enough.

2b would pay for ~3.4GW* of hydro, ~1.2GW* wind or ~700MW solar* but only subsidise 400k EVs (avg 5k tax credit per vehicle).

*
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=31912
I'm not a huge fan of the foam ear plugs and find 3M's
"Peltor Sport Tri-Flange Reusable Earplugs" something that's comfortable for me to wear on long international flights to sleep. The downside of the non-foam design is 26db vs. 32db. They are around $5 for a three-pack.

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/All...
Two sentences from the archive link made me cry: "Suppose you come to the end of your tether, can no longer cope, have a break-down, fall apart, go to pieces. To whom would you turn? Where would you go?... Our program offers a network of fellow travelers who aspire to cultivate skillful means of helping people whose relations with themselves and others have become an occasion of wretchedness and despair."

It's impossible to describe if you haven't been in such a state and don't know where to go. The contempt people have for you when you are on the street is unbearable. Compared to other places, people at HVRP loved me because many of them had been there. That turned out to the magic ingredient. The power of Love is remarkable.
And skimming off some of the float.

What's a company worth with a $1b in it that doesn't have to payout any interest on it and people are in no rush to get back (on average) ?
That was a great video, and highly hackerific. "That would be a bit goofy" is an expression you don't hear very often these days.
That article is a bit off the mark.

Here's a rebuttal: https://blog.turkerview.com/writer-who-never-learned-to-driv...
You’re probably conflating wood furnaces with coal furnaces. Lots of people use wood stoves which are much cleaner than coal and a renewable resource.

Unless you live next to a coal mine you wouldn’t even be able to purchase coal in the US.
I'm not sure of the difference, but before I go look for educational material on how these phrases are used, obviously(?) risk is an abstract idea that we can never actually measure or demonstrate even in retrospect, whereas losses are a fact of life that everyone experiences. So it sounds very odd on the face of it to say loss aversion is irrational and risk aversion is not.

Would you say that evolution is fundamentally irrational? It's certainly unavoidable.
Making tools is a hard business to be in, because the customers are very specialized and few in number.

You also tend to compete against free tools (either via licensing or vendor-giveaways)
Such a tool is not only useful for a junior. It is also useful for (incomplete list I assume)

* The consultant coming to a project for a short period of time

* The software architect, observing the code layout periodically (for example to identify where lower layers of the software depend on higher layers)
Just wait until your GPT2-generated MBA homework gets you full points first time, then you either won't compute, start weeping, shake rapidly or laugh like a madman. Automated essays scoring is already reality, now you get GPT2-automated ones as well.

HN crowd is often intellectual elite; imagine regular persons reading what GPT-2 produces when they can't understand what a regular grad student writes. I can use e.g. talktotransformer.com to complete some quotes like "Intel CEO said that the new 10nm CPUs will...", then post that to some Reddit thread, it would get picked up by search engines, and at some point somebody would use it in some serious work or it would spread like wildfire on sites that don't check their references.
Unfortunately, Bazel also does not support file names w/ spaces https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/374
it's not like power politics ever went away, the question is how they are being utilized
Megacorp is more likely to have a collection of programmers who sit together and peer pressure people into being quiet.
I've lived long enough to see many of my own "obvious but lay objections" become mainstream.

In multiple fields, not just psychology. That's problematic. If mildly reassuring.

(Though suspicion is not experimentally validated refutation.)
Lawmakers can make illegal laws. Not sure how it’d work in Germany, but in the US, for example, it’d be challenged on the basis of constitutionality.
Disney are the single biggest contributor to the shitshow that is copyright law right now. I don't understand why anyone would expect them to play nice.

Personally I view is as a moral imperative to not give them any money.
Might be time to take some extralegal action tbh if the state won't hold up its end of the social contract. I don't envy your position
Previous discussions on HN debating the Allen result among others: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14738010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21237875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18959796 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14738010 http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/nk0/what_is_up_with_car...
Sure OK, but I want my "moral right" to a social democracy of the Nordic style. How come the Swedes and Norwegians can have a functioning socially responsible government but the UK gets a bunch of incompetent capitalists?
> Yes, but you can't pay upfront and get a SSD that will be launched in 2023. You'll be forever stuck with whatever tech was available at the time of purchase.

Given that the SSDs you can buy right now outstrip the IO bandwidth your laptop CPU provides, the only real benefit that upgrading to future SSDs could provide would be a better price per GB. If you're seriously concerned about wanting more storage a few years down the road, you probably also want to buy a machine now and immediately upgrade it with aftermarket storage.