skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>The main downside I noticed was meals based on meat and potatoes, not many vegetables.

Pretty sure you can find veggies too, but the price might not appeal to you. As others said, their climate is cold and importing veggies cost a lot, especially relative to wages there.
I'd imagine this was made mostly with developers in mind, but this looks like an incredibly useful tool for Gaming. Mapping ports to set up dedicated servers with friends can be a huge hassle! This would have been great when I used to run Minecraft servers.
Copying some BASIC programs from some magazine (PC World?) onto "QBASIC" in DOS on an IBM 286 in the early 90s. Or entering x86 ASM via debug.com in DOS from the computer manual (which contained a section on how to program using debug). I can't remember which was first.

Edit: It's interesting a lot of people seem to have a similar experience (thanks BASIC!). I thought there'd be more "I played with JS in the browser in early 2010", or "I attended a programming bootcamp after studying law to get an engineering job" type experiences as well.
> Glaz also pushed back against the whole concept of Russian subsidies, arguing that Moscow is obliged to sell energy to Belarusian companies at the same price as to Russian ones under the integrated market rules of the Eurasian Economic Union, to which both countries belong.

Russian mafia run by Putin sees "Eurasian Economic Union" as a source of money for their thief pool (obtshak). I.e. it's designed for the sole purpose of extracting resources from those territories. It's not built to give anything back to the people in the participating states, except for collaborationists which sell off their countries to that mafia. So joining it is clearly a damaging idea for any state, and only happens due to corruption of the local government.
> Sherlocked :-)

Hehe
> If funding your own Google was enough to build Google Search, then people would use Bing.

Some people do use Bing. The reason more people don't is that there isn't a lot of reason to. Even if you can get the results to be as good as Google, actually making them better is hard. And it's just trading one giant tech company with privacy issues for another, so that's no advantage either. People need a reason to switch away from the incumbent.

But if you fund the development as public domain research and open source code, that's a different story. Now you're putting it within the capacity of even medium sized organizations to do their own indexing and run their own search with quality results. Instead of two competitors, you open it up to potentially hundreds or thousands.

If the Wikimedia Foundation or similar started doing search indexing, people might actually trust them more on privacy than they do Microsoft or Google.

And the more of them there are, each running their own fork of the code, the harder it is for SEO spammers to pollute the results, and the more advantage the little guys have over an incumbent that spammers will still continue to specifically target as long as they continue to have high market share.

If the code was available for anyone to adopt or modify, you could also get some potentially interesting new domain-specific search engines. There isn't a lot of high quality competition in the video search space, for example, and if there was then that would help to erode the dominance of YouTube by making videos hosted elsewhere more findable.

You would also be likely to see it displacing Google Custom Search pretty quickly if it was free to adopt.

And what's the cost? An amount of money less than they've received from Google in fines? The worst case is that it only helps a little instead of a lot. (And it wouldn't hurt to do the same thing against Windows considering what Windows 10 is doing on the privacy front.)
You can install Stylus in your browser and use one of several dark themes, or make your own.

https://userstyles.org/styles/113994/hacker-news-dark

With the structure of HN, it doesn't take a lot to make something nice.
You're right honey, now just calm down and have another biscuit
> Why does he deserve it virtually tax free?

Because as a part of someone's compensation, you can be paid for with future value.

> How can you possibly justify this?

If I want to sell off my future value of my future work, in exchange for someone else's past work, that is my right to do so, that's why.
My rough reading of an Urbit document describing the senate [senate] is that the senate has more power than that. For example, the senate can vote on textual proposals and code-based proposes. However, I'm not well-versed enough in Urbitspeak to conclusively state what this document actually says. Can you help me understand it?

[senate]: https://urbit.org/community/governance/
The Awk Programming Language (1988) [DJVU]
But since said company would be completely under their control and grace ahead of time, they could do whatever they want with it, at anytime, even if it changes or not. No need to go through the regulatory song and dance.
The ocean is closed on Sundays?
> At the plant’s health clinic, 560 doctors and staff use sleek Western equipment to provide care from routine checkups to surgery, including laser eyesight correction.

So they are showing off equipment produced by Capitalism? How does that work to prove their point?
Not only that, but the runtime semantics are different. ‘foo isn’t a function in CL. But in emacs lisp, it might be.

It’s not just a pedantic destination either. ‘(do-foo do-bar) is far easier to write than (list #’do-foo #’do-bar). And you can pass it around more easily. These are all things users want and need.

Emacs lisp probably wasn’t designed as a lisp. It was probably designed to be a configuration language, and lisp happened to be the most flexible way of designing it. That’s why stuff like lexical scoping or compiler semantics took a back seat (as it should in this case).

Look, I love lisp. You’d be hard pressed to find someone more fanatical about lisp. But CL is... well. CL is CL. You can make it into a config language, but even basics like (require ‘foo) leaves much to be desired.

Emacs Lisp is fundamentally simple; most people just don’t take the time to learn the design, and they dismiss it due to the long identifiers and global scope. But the global scope is the power. The global namespace matters. A lot.
Don’t forget about the house of representatives
Anecdotally, I have seen 50-100x (seriously) increases when moving from a V100 to TPUv3. To be fair, some of that is batch size increase. This was using the models in https://github.com/tensorflow/tpu/tree/master/models/officia.... On the other hand, a lot of those models are broken in some way and need fixing before running, caveat emptor.
Here's a novel idea (/s): Move cities.
Fragmentation issues depends greatly on language. E.g I'm (perpetually, it seems) working on a Ruby compiler, and I slotted in a naive gc as a starting point and instrumented it.

Turned out the vast majority of allocations are tiny object instances of a handful of different sizes. As a result minimizing fragmentation is as easy as allocating pools of a fixed size for small objects, and round up larger objects to a multiple of block size. There are still truly pathological patterns possible, and a compacting / generational gc may still be worth it later both to deal with that and to reduce the cost of a collection, but for a lot of uses you can get away with simple options like that.
The European Data Protection Supervisor Investigates the EU
Look at Germany. It’s a better experiment. Former democratic part got billions from westerners and didn’t evolve far. They got basically new infrastructure build from western money, but people left former communistic paradise. Salary gap is still huge. That’s why Tesla picked location there and not in the western part of the country.
Urbit is a front for a nascent cult, kind of like Shen Yun is a front for the Falun Gong [1], or "What the bleep do we know?" was a front for Ramtha's School of Enlightenment [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/12/shen-yun-falun-...

[2] https://whatthebleep.com/portfolio-item/ramtha/
Temperatures inside and outside the window, I suppose.
I'm not sure there would be any difficulty supporting Unix socket paths in your URI scheme? I guess you can just steal the semantics from the file:// scheme.

Or do you want the same URI scheme to support all your different transport protocols? It kind of feels like missing the point of URIs, after all the whole idea is that your application can interchangeably handle different kinds of URIs for different use cases.
Is it though, if you have to keep going back and fining them with nothing really changing in between except for a thin veneer of "compliance"? Or is it preferable to have it that way, a piggy bank/rich uncle of sorts, one EU regulators and always rely on to get some cash quick for the next EU citizens sanctioned scheme? Who is really benefiting? Is your search experience really getting any more productive/better with this prolonged cat and mouse game?
A lot of the people in this forum are part of the wealth. People talk about how after just a few year of working they are making $400k at a FAANG like its now big deal. That is a lot of money compared to the people around them.
Yawn. They have been “investigating” for what, a decade now? But never take any action and Google ignores them and becomes more egregious every day, because they know this. Same with Google’s tax situation.

What happened to those GDPR fines of 4% of global turnover? Looked good on paper but it’s an open secret now that the regulators have no teeth.
This process, while a part of metabolism, is specifically catabolism.
This is such a strange comment. I had no idea that anti EU rhetoric escalated so much that it is being compared to China.
I mean, of course there are US/EU disputes, even more when the tariffs started, but communist party?
Inca Road System
Yeah well - next time I read a proof by a mathematician that skips several steps that to mathematicians are unimportant or "obvious" yet fundamentally blocked my understanding of the proof overall - I'll think on this reaction and smile...

Or maybe even just write some mathematical overviews myself that leave out stuff that drives mathematicians insane with frustration...

It would be justice...
I'm curious how Rainier's capitol ended up as Tacoma, instead of Olympia (current capitol of Washington) or Seattle (largest city)
Missing the W. Richard Stevens books right about now...
Because Windows 10 has a negative real price. It's adware.
These are Edge TPUs, for inference, not for training
Sadly the EU is not that eager on taking new memberships right now. Look at North Macedonia and Albania's potential membership negotiations getting initially opposed we are too busy right now and then conditioned by France ok, but one step at a time.
This is mostly about defining behavior for the bad cases - program abort and system restart. Those are classically undefined behavior, which causes problems.
Remember as well that the Senate was intended as a sort of administrative body, with each states senators being selected by the state government...not via popular election. In my estimation, the removal of that aspect diluted the original concept to some degree.
I knew people could imagine other solutions other than hitting up the rich uncles that never really gave a damn about privacy issues all in but name only.

What you propose actually sounds like it could be a better way than the status quo (privacy issues or not with current providers), and if it fails, you can always go back to hitting up the rich uncles for ransom!
And relying on trade with Russia which has shunned them after their pro EU escapades.
Most non technical people I know can send emails.
SOTA Music Source Separation Using AI
But you are adjusting values to get a more perfect reproduction, not to produce a new work.

Copyright doesn't care how long you worked or how hard it was. It cares if you made a new creative work. What you describe would be more in the domain of patents.
Anyone wanna move to California City? If enough of us do it at once we can jumpstart the growth cycle.
This is neato. I wonder where the name Firelands comes from. Is it from Lake Erie catching fire in the 70s...
>The fundamental problem of the electoral college is that the states of the United States are too disparate in size and influence.

No, that is the problem that the electoral college solves. In any federation you must curb the power of the most powerful and boost the weakest for it to work.

Instead of blaming with the institutions that are working as intended, start the dialog to convert the US from federation to something else.
Is it possible to build a startup in the USA as 20yr old non-us citizen?
I have a idea about new social networking platform that come with new features to connect with people. I already built the prototype/demo web app.

I'm 20 years old from a developing country. I have little knowledge on some technical areas. Good at php, java etc.

I have developed some other ideas too.

non-profit organization (online crowd funding for social services), networking software for educational institutes etc.

If it is possible,
1. How to find a cofounder from USA?
2. How to manage living expenses, accommodations ?

I submit a late application (w2020) as solo founder. Is there are any chances ?
Please give me a advice.
Aah, thanks for the clarification.
My pleasure.

fwiw, I don't blame you for your misunderstanding.

The project is quite young and not quite stable/mature enough for the faint of heart.

Having said that, the water's fine for swimming. :)
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I do not have direct ML experience at the moment. I’ve only run simpler regressions. I was making an educated guess as to the tech which may emerge, and it doesn’t seem far-fetched since it probably would not require language comprehension or higher order reasoning. I would love someone who’s worked with ML to weigh in.

The way I see such a thing working is that you train it to identify what makes your writing unique . Everyone has a highly esoteric writing style, akin to a thumbprint.

An ML optimizing for uniqueness can identify:

- Relative frequency of certain words

- Diction

- Written tics

- Distance between certain words that the author tends to cluster together

- Mean clauses per sentence, clause variance

- Symbol usage

- Affect

- Interests

and abstract patterns that we haven’t even recognized yet. You can limit the search space at first by pointing the algorithm at certain websites and sub-sites that you’re fairly certain the person uses, but eventually I think even that will not be necessary.
There's links for most of the names at the bottom.

Firelands are much older than that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firelands
The names are definitely my favorite part. They really express America’s mythic quality
Each planet can generate 2^32 moons, which are subsidiary processes. Your phone could run one of those.

You can also generate a comet, which is effectively identified by the hash of its public key. Those are free; while eventually planets have some notional advantages, notably a default positive reputation, at the moment there are no downsides.
> In any federation you must curb the power of the most powerful and boost the weakest for it to work.

This is a very Americocentric view. There is in fact no such requirement in general.

The US in particular has a problem of being pulled by some small, fringe groups.
People rarely tag releases from feature branches I think.

But if you did it, hopefully the tag would continue to refer to the pre rebase revision. Anyone know the answer? This is the kind of uncertainty that rebase introduces to the semantics!
The scale makes the difference. Similarly, you don’t expect your appearances in public spaces to be private, but you would likely object if someone could arbitrarily pull video recordings of you and trace your movement through the day.
Yeah. Sadly you never really own your house. Even after you payoff the mortgage, which many won't because they always refinance and consolidate loans. But even if you do end up paying off the mortgage, then you have to pay rent to the government, which who knows when your neighborhood will be torn down to build a highway or high speed rail project.

Then if you own the land, you don't even own the water, oil or whatever else might be under it. Remember abou a decade ago seeing something where a guy was disputing the county in Oregon over water rights, and they even illegally entered his property with no warrants or anythings.
Yes, they are now marked as spam.

As I am the sole person to ever use this server and I have been sending to some of those emails since almost as long as gmail has even existed, the fact that they are now marked spam is simply an admission that Google doesn't actually give one shit about accuracy and solely trains their ML networks on things that bring them revenue.
Isn't .www the obvious choice? ;)
The problem with breaking them up is that the search engine is the whole ballgame. Separating the search engine from, say, gmail would have negligible benefit. It might even make things worse if the newly independent gmail company started doing a lot of the scummy things free email providers sometimes do to make a buck against everybody's existing gmail account.

What you really need isn't a breakup, it's some way to foster sustainable competition for search.
Yes, may the heavens forbid any other solutions are available to pursue outside of continuing to engage with a provider that has had dubious standing with such a jurisdiction for way to long, other than hitting them up for a quick payout every other year.

Must be anti EU, no other notions/stances or thoughts on complex issues could be possible.
They didn’t.
> Ends the over-representation of small states and under-representation of large states in presidential voting and in the US Senate by eliminating small and large states.

States are not regions of a larger nation. In Federalism they have a different history and different statuses, and the US has never been built as a direct democratic system. It's a Republic. Not sure what this list of bullet points is all about: changing everything about US politics?
You should look up the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan
It didn't. State capitals are underlined, the capital's still Olympia.
I don't think you can judge code just by how readable it is, and you can't frown on what seems cool and magical all the time. Sometimes "clean and readable" means that complexity is pushed outwards onto dependencies or you've simply created an inelegant solution that doesn't consider the whole problem domain.

A perfect C++ program that outperforms a simple looking python program which does the same thing isn't worse because it's harder to read or to write, or better because it's faster, it's just different.

If you need to optimize for readability, so be it. If you need to optimize for performance, so be it.

If you write code executed trillions of times in a trillion places, where power use and the expense of hardware is dependent on the performance of the software, I think it's okay for it to be as complex as it needs to be to be very optimal, at the expense of readability and other things. It should be well annotated, sure. That's always a reasonable thing to expect except in rare, extreme cases where you don't even have the time to type out the comments.

It's important to weigh the relative importance of simplicity vs speed vs memory frugality vs portability vs maintenance difficulty (dependencies and tool choice factor in here) and so on to determine the best approach.

Dogma about how best to code in a general sense is only helpful if you don't want to think or talk about what's the best fit.
IANAL, but isn't it quite obvious that a photograph of a painting that faithfully reproduces it has no creative/artistic value of any kind and can therefore not be protected by copyright? They explicitly made ridiculous claims because they know this ("The photographer had to make creative decisions in repect of lighting, illumination time, shutter speed, distance, angle etc").
The problem with the electoral college isn't unequal size of states, it's that deeply blue or red states get hardly any attention from presidential candidates, and any individual's vote in such states doesn't matter much.

Btw check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta... for an interesting hack: not likely to happen, but still 100x more likely than redrawing all state lines
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What's the point of this submission?
I wonder what they used to typeset it.
I would go for a comment like "a simpler naive implementation is in commit A0348C. It ran approx. 2.5x slower in 2019."
> what is special about life that makes it unrepresentable with physics

absolutely nothing

> The physics consciousness relies upon is fundamentally uncomputable

This would be "huge if true", but I don't think it is. At least I haven't seen any indication of why it would be.

> Consciousness _is_ computable and all the weird consequences that follow

I think this is true, and I think the weirdness is a result of misunderstandings on our part (we are notoriously bad when reasoning about systems that contain us in some way).

> What are your thoughts on why a simulation cannot be conscious?

I think this whole consciousness confusion is due to mixing levels of abstraction on our part. Replace consciousness with other higher-level cognitive or social functions, like "love" or "patriotism", and see how silly it sounds. Is "love" computable? Can "loyalty" be reduced to physics? Yes, but the concept makes sense on a whole different conceptual level, which would be silly to reduce to, say, quantum physics, and is much better to reason about at the right abstraction level.
Actor and model Godfrey Gao dies at 35 after apparent heart attack in China
The US has similar variation in GDP per capita in its states, despite having had essentially the same economic system at least back to the civil war over 150 years ago.
Nagle, I believe I last read your comment on this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13964053), progress has been made .

We have the temporary files you're asking for. https://lwn.net/Articles/619146/

With O_TMPFILE, you can also write new data, and then automatically replace a file on disk.
I don't use Windows so I only had a chance to install a copy of W10 few weeks ago. I was completely surprised by the fact that one cannot disable "telemetry", instead there is only a flag for "basic" or "full" report. It's worse than adware.
Given 11 numbers: n, n+1,...,n+10
the sum of 10 of them:

10*n+sum_conseq=2012

where max(sum_conseq)=0+1+...+10=(0+10)+(1+9)+(2+8)..=55

therefore erased number is n+3 because (2012-55-3) divisible by 10
-> n=196.
I think it does, the signal is just overwhelmed by the commercial internet. I imagine the number of creative, interesting people who publish their content is approximately linear growth, while the number of ways the commercial internet tries to "reach out" and expand is geometric.
It could be done like in Germany without the spirit of the Senate being lost. Something like 2 representatives plus some number that depends on the population.
The 17th amendment completely diluted the intent and blew open the doors to the special interest play field. It will likely be one of the primary reasons we collapse.
Nock off the name calling!
well, people do portray Gandhi and Mother Teresa as saints whereas the reality turned out that both of them were horrible individuals.
In public debates about this people often defend rebasing feature branches rspecially if they feel nobody else will work on the same branch. My personal experience bears this out as well.

It's very easy to accidentally break your own rules, si this goes wrong regularly and the gallout becomes apparent only at some point down the pipeline.

It's an added cognitive burden to be vigilant about which git mode you are working in.