skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took some classes taught by Nick Hitchon at UW-Madison a little before 56 Up was released. Nice guy who really focused on the conceptual understanding of electrostatic / electrodynamics instead of just teaching equations and how to solve them.

It’s really... odd that I’m going to be able to just check in on how he’s doing in 63 Up.
Interesting for sure, but the market for people that buy a CPU chip as a standalone item probably doesn't relate much to the overall market.

I am rooting for AMD though. Competition was sorely needed.
GCP and Azure are offering AMD Epyc Rome based instances as well. Intel is losing their death grip on the data center space quickly.

https://cloudblog.withgoogle.com/products/compute/amd-epyc-p...

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-amd-ep...
Possibly controversial opinion: It isn't going to have mass appeal even in North America. The type of people who drive the Ford F-150 and similar American pickups are not the type of people who will drive a Cybertruck. So who is?
Please don't cross into personal attack, even if another comment was bad for HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> GDPR only applies to you _if_ you happen to be a European Union citizen

There's nothing in GDPR that has anything to do with EU citizenship.

1. GDPR applies to the processing of personal data if the controller or processor is "in the Union", regardless of where the person whose personal data is being processed resides, and regardless of where the processing takes place.

2. It applies to any data subject that is "in the Union".

All the places in it that you might have expected it to say "Union citizen" instead say "in the Union".
A totally self interested article with little substance. big health insurance's biggest customers are not consumers but businesses who provide health plans to their employees
>>Eventually the goal is lightweight cars

Who's goal is that? Not mine

>>People who want to drive 5000lb cars should have their danger to others health baked into their insurance premiums.

it already is...
comps: components

state-connected: components with changeable internal state (as distinct from stateless components that always render the same way based on their inputs)
We have been breeding housecats for 3,000 years and they arent as friendly as dogs or foxes yet.
Because globalism traded jobs that once supported American families for jobs that allow Chinese families to live in grinding poverty? I don't get it either.
DEF Con 27 Conference – Adventures in Smart Buttplug Penetration Testing [video]
I assumed he was talking about components.
Their whole ad empire is desperate for a massive audit. Google had to be sued to deliver a $400,000 refund they owed but later claimed couldn't be delivered, claiming 3rd parties had been paid the funds when it was their own platforms. It turned out Google had accidentally kept $75 million.

https://marketingland.com/class-action-lawsuit-accuses-googl...
You need to look at the source. Most Forbes content is bad, but this is Ethan Siegel's blog, which is usually pretty good.

The CERN article is also good, and the two don't actually contradict each other -- nobody is rebutting anybody else. An anomaly which has only a 5% chance of holding up still is extremely exciting. Probably not worth all the media attention it randomly got, but definitely worth more investigation by physicists.
I think this car will seriously hurt the car insurance industry. Just imagine a car that cannot get scratches and/or mailbox dents which cost thousands of dollars in repair by simply... not colouring the car and making the surface more scratch-resistant. Awesome!

As a fellow bike-communter myself I had exactly the same thoughts regarding pedestrian safety though.
I suspect you never had to deal with the days of AngularJS, where just rendering a large table-style view with a thousand interactive elements could slow browsers to a crawl.
scott_s said it best: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289

The issue isn't humor, it's lame humor, which is the kudzu of the internet.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
If only it was not so painful to package.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839786
If you hired an ad agency to run radio commercials in Texas and then get a bill saying "oh by the way we found cheap ad space in Tokyo so ran some there too, here's the bill", you'd probably question your relationship with them.

I understand it's not the same thing, but it sure smells the same
This seems like a good place to quote the latest HN guideline: "Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That's implied by the other guidelines already, and is certainly the spirit of the site, but some redundancy seems needed for clarity.
It's a literal angle, like you learned in geometry class. After the decay, two particles fly off in different directions. They mean the angle between those directions.
Those things typically require special drivers licenses though.
With rr maybe but visual studio’s or windbg’s time travel debugging works just fine afaik.
a mess

EDIT: the threads look like a mess. the star/like icons are too big and the whole thread will get so big so soon that it won't fit any screen. needs some condensation

what a mess
They have dozens of Neanderthal DNA going back to 70K years. (They stopped being a distinct sub-species 30K years ago) In humans the skull next to the ear are good place to find intact DNA.
How to Talk to Aliens
I'm sorry, but the arms race of heavier vehicles makes everyone less safe. It's an extremely irresponsible thing for society to engage in.
> You see the same shit in healthcare with a ton of supposed innovations that don’t go to the core of why the system is broken.

well, i guess that’s why it’s done: fixing the core of things is hard and requires concentrated energy to fix, which would you choose if you were ‘just another component’ in the system? and those at the top are the beneficiaries, so they have even less incentive to fix core issues (until they become life/wellbeing threatening that is, and then even, it’s probably too late...)
Only if the advertisers choose to have their ads served to you. They don't owe you ads.
So are you in favor of government telling people where to live and work? I've seriously heard your position many times but no one ever puts forward a solution to making it happen other than the government forcing people to do it. Sounds like a dictatorship to me. and no I don't think employers are all gonna just let people not "come in" to work.
One of the talking points I hear repeated by one side of the debate is: although wealth inequality is high, even the people at the bottom can afford more than ever.

I was doing some shopping the other day and I got thinking about how this could potentially be false. Similar to how salaries have gone up slower than the rate of inflation, I feel like with many products the quality has decreases substantially to prevent increasing prices. I don't believe this sort of thing is factored into studies on spending power, wealth inequality or inflation.

It is more obvious when you look back decades and notice that household items that used to be made out of solid, more expensive materials like metal or wood, are now made out of flimsy plastic that will probably need replacing in a few months. I couldn't find any information about which specific products make up the consumer price index beyond broad categories but I think many products if you compare items made from the same material and quality there would be a difference of 2x or more.
Smartphone use spikes anxiety, depression in 25% of youth
Please don't use HN for ideological and political battle. It's against the rules, and we ban accounts that primarily do that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sounds like a lot of money for something that should actually only be a minor administrative cost.

Something smells. Perhaps a few audits, some regulation and a lot more oversight by people who are less "enthusiastically driven by negotiable pleasantries" would help?
Few of 2020 US presidential candidates are using a basic email security feature
"Total individual market enrollment, measured on an average monthly basis, increased from 10.6 million in 2013 to a peak of 17.4 million in 2015, before declining to 13.8 million in 2018."Quoted from https://www.kff.org/private-insurance/issue-brief/data-note-...
> If you give it an impossible load, so many render requests that it must choke, it will start to manage these requests to maintain a stable 60fps, by updating components virtually and letting them retain their visual state

Does that mean if you try to update too many things it will simply... not update them in order to maintain 60fps? That does not seem ideal.

In this particular example, a bunch of random objects updated every frame, will that result in a "spiral of death"? Meaning every frame M transform requests are made. But it will only process N (where N < M) requests. Or does it drop parts of the queue if it didn't process a transform before receiving a second update for the same transform?

Is updating 2000 boxes per second really considered an "impossible" amount to update? That seems like a shockingly small number.

Edit: I don’t understand the downvotes. My question on understanding behavior is perfectly reasonable. I don’t understand how this new technology works. What is it doing under the hood?
I'm well aware of the multitude of scams, hacks, etc. involving [centralized] cryptocurrency exchanges, but it doesn't actually have much to do with blockchain technologies itself, at least not in the context being discussed here.

If you give over control to cryptocurrency by sending your cryptocurrency to some entity that exists outside of a trust-less blockchain system (centralized exchange or otherwise) then that entity can do whatever they want with it (technically-speaking), and you are essentially then reverting back to and relying on non-blockchain technologies at that point (The exchange was probably just a typical web app built with some common web framework and RDBMS). Obviously, ponzi schemes are possible without blockchain technologies and in a purely blockchain world, because of the transparency of transactions, it would be very difficult to pull off without having willing-participants.

There is a separate discussion to be had of how to use blockchain with "legacy" centralized systems and how to make it user-friendly for non-experts, but it's not an actual problem with blockchain technologies itself, but more of a second-order problem.

The main thing being discussed was digital assets, so if you have 2 pure digital assets that are compatible with smart contracts, you can exchange without any trust and it prevents things like ponzi schemes. Government money, like in the example, really is more of a "legacy" centralized system, which allows for this. That's partly why you are seeing entities like Coinbase try to create "stable" cryptocurrencies [1] that try to mirror the value of government money.

[1] https://www.coinbase.com/usdc
I will always upvote a title pun.

Why on earth is anyone buying a smart buttplug? Did Snowden teach us nothing?
People back then were just as smart as we are and tactics haven't changed a whole lot either, except where technology demands it. We just have much bigger toys to kill each other with.
I'm always ticked off when I hear the hype around constructor theory. While information theory has had profound impacts in physics, constructor theory has always seemed to me to accomplish nothing but add fancy words. Yet it has done very well trading on the past prestige of its proponents, and promoting itself through popular talks where no real scientists are present to question them.

For example, constructor theory "explains" why life exists. Their argument is as follows (condensing 20 pages of vague equation-free words into a few sentences): first assume that there exists a constructor for life. Such a constructor is defined to be an object that can create new life. This leads to the creation of more life. Therefore life exists.

I was so shocked by this that I reread their paper three times before concluding their argument really was that vacuous. Their physics-related stuff is similar: assume the desired conclusion, then pretend you've derived it by adding the vague term "constructor" everywhere. (To derive F = ma... assume F is a constructor for ma!) It's so content-free I literally can't find anything specific to criticize. But they keep getting press by making more and more outrageous claims.

The fact that tens of thousands of curious people around the world have been duped into thinking that it is on par with ideas that actually have content proves the absolute bankruptcy of science communication. It is also a warning to avoid blind trust in past credentials.
I have experience in an unusual domain that's shaped the way I think about truth and misinformation. I play super smash bros melee for the Nintendo gamecube competitively, and I view it as an odd sort of sanity test for the limits of truth.

The deck is impossibly stacked in favor of truth in melee. To start off with we actually have Truth with a capital T. Press Y and dpad down and you bring up white text telling you exactly what state your character is in. Imagine being a psychiatrist and instead of the messy uncertain process of diagnosing patients you can press a button that freezes time and white text from a debug menu god forgot to remove from the public release of life appears. Time switches to frame advance mode and "DepressionModerate 27" floats over your patients head.

Not only do we have the truth, but we have a community that values performance and has a vested interest in the truth.

And not only that, but there isn't even political or partisan resistance to the truth.

Ok, so this is a world where pure objective truth exists, science tools are free easy and available to all, the populace cares about truth, politics doesn't exist, there's no real incentive to spreading misinformation, and there are no large scale or individual actors purposely spreading misinformation. And yet even in this best of all possible worlds microcosm truth always seems to be barely hanging on by the skin of its teeth.

There's always someone around the corner who says that powershielding an attack incurs no shield stun.

I don't think people appreciate just how fragile the truth is even before adding in bad guys. I think we fall too quickly into viewing truth and misinformation through the most exciting narratives. Like getting in a frenzy over shark attacks and neglecting the thousands of people killed by the boring old flu.
But what about the distinction between luck and privilege?

Aren‘t circumstances like country of origin, financial situation of one‘s parents or genetic disposition more commonly referred to as privilege?
Syntax highlighting is not enough to stand out sections and blocks either way. Few good ideas do exist (like #pragma mark + dropdown, etc), but it would be nice to see that in more languages and in greater usability.

#.h1 Auxiliary functions
#.h2 Date routines
function foo(x) {
#.summary {
// this foo does
// no bar, baz
}
#.fold {
assert(x != null)
}
}

code-style.css:

.summary > comment {
font-size: 20px;
color: red;
}
.fold {
display: fold;
}
function-kw {...}
function-name {...}
.h1 {
margin-top: 80px;
}
comment {
margin-top: 5px;
margin-left: 10px;
border-left: 2px solid grey;
}
id[name=“assert”] {
color: green;
}

That’s what cascades stylesheets were done for. Another advantage is that we could create color themes with css, not with some cryptic barely documented config. And then toggle read/edit/toc like your wiki page. We could write entire technical documents in it.

Sadly, that’s not possible as current mainstream stuck in raw text. We have all formatting for pointless blah-blah, but no formatting for a thing that manages everything.
Tech’s Pioneers Have Been Left Behind. Their Stocks Are Cheap–and Complicated
Well, Instagram [1] and Dropbox [2] are probably the biggest Python projects in the whole world, and they both are using mypy and seem to be successful.

And my particular experience with it is very positive, even if my project that is using it is still small (it is getting bigger though, and mypy is really helping me to refactor it when I needed).

Most of the "false positives" that mypy reports to me end up being code that is overly cleverly, and rewriting it to make mypy happy also improves the code quality.

[1]: https://developers.facebook.com/videos/f8-2018/type-checked-...

[2]: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/09/our-journey-to-type-c...
I disagree. The comments here are based on a specific threat model. There are many other threat models where a good VPN dramatically increases a users security.
Unfortunately, history shows us that it's a terrible idea from a performance perspective.
Could you use Amazon Lightsail? The $20/month Lightsail plan includes 4 TB of outgoing bandwidth. ($10/month plan includes 3 TB, $5/month includes 2 TB, and $3.50/month includes 1 TB).
Appreciated! Also, you've submitted many excellent things to HN over the years, and a steady supply of good submissions is more important.
You know most "Red States" have higher minimums that CA right?

Further the insurance minimums does not limit a person liability just the amount the insurance company will pay, if you are stupid and dont have enough insurance then your other assets (like your home) can be seized and your wages garnished to recover the liability

This is also why one should have good Uninsured and Under insured coverage

However saying all of that, one of the reasons for the Low Minimums on Liability in some states as they have gone to a "No Fault" system so your insurance would pay your costs so it is up to you to buy the amount you want to be covered for, it does not matter what the "other guy" has
Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning – AI Podcast
The FMLA allows eligible employees to take up to 12 work weeks of unpaid leave during any 12-month period to care for a new child, care for a seriously ill family member, or recover from a serious illness.

In order to be eligible for FMLA leave, an employee must have worked for the employer for at least 12 months, have worked at least 1,250 hours over the past 12 months, and work for an employer with at least fifty employees.
My reasoning for wanting a large vehicle has nothing to do with safety.

Nor am I concerned with what is "responsible" for society.
Changed to that from http://netpolicynews.com/index.php/89-r/1166-1-300-000-000-t.... Thanks!
It works perfectly for me.

https://i.imgur.com/PFITtZT.png
Tools to Help Find Credibility
Some of the deaths have been confirmed. As far as I'm aware, though, none of the ridiculous methods of execution reported in the media (shot by anti-aircraft guns, torn apart by dogs, etc) have been confirmed. Moreover, the recurrent nature of these rumors suggests that they're long-running myths about North Korean execution methods that get attached to whichever official is rumored to have been executed recently.
The major threads so far, from most comments to fewest:

"Save .org": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21611677

"Why I Voted to Sell .ORG": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656960

"ICANN races towards regulatory capture: the great .org heist": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626677

"ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21557779

"Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold to private equity firm": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21592297

"Private Equity Is Going to Ruin the .Org Domain System and Screw Nonprofits": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21582622

Did I miss any?
This is such a difficult situation.

Your health comes first, and don't worry for a second about what might happen to your employer in negative situations.

But the issue would be difficult to navigate for someone very familiar with the details.

'Legality' may be of secondary concern here unfortunately - you may be entitled to certain rights, but often companies just don't care and will screw you, leaving you with no choice but to sue etc. - nobody wants to deal with that.

It's rational for them to not necessarily want to pay you more, even for ostensible promotions, but it doesn't mean they don't value you.

Also - consider that everyone is human on some level, you may want to let them know you have to go in for some kind of surgery without disclosing any of the details at all. You may want to indicate that you can have your Doctor contact them. This may seem odd, but maybe you literally want to get a Doctor's note which indicates the seriousness and recovery time without getting into any details. The Doctors note will legitimise the situation so they'll 'have no doubts' - and with that documentation on file, they'll think twice about doing something screwy: if you end up in small claims and a Judge sees they have something like that on record, it can't be good for them.

Maybe once you've let them know, you can try to judge from their response the level or career risk you face. You can perhaps offer to 'work out a time' with them if that's an option for you.

It can't hurt to put out the feelers for another job as well.

Good luck with your situation. Life is long, your health is the priority.

In the long run, if you find that you're seriously in a situation wherein your company won't cut you some slack for something so serious, then it's almost definitely time to move on.

Good luck.
Yeah, I'd say around the order of ~10k items is when an O(n^2) algorithm gets noticeably slow. "Thousands" is a shockingly weak payoff for all the effort.

edit: and the real innovation here appears to be writing a multi-threaded scheduler. You should not need to spin up multiple threads to handle 2,000 objects. Something is going seriously wrong perf-wise here.
Not the same thing of course, but this reminded me of the video of the Chinese sorting center after the 2018 11.11 (Singles' Day) sale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjdpz05u2DY

Singles Day is the worlds busiest shopping day.
But how much is your conversion rate for the transferred users. It is not like it is 100%. If it is 5%, you'll need x20 times the CPC to break-even.
“The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate” Read by LeVar Burton
>>Economics predicts that public goods will be underprovided by a pure market. This is because of the free rider problem. Since I can't be excluded from the good, I can consume it without giving something up for it. Since it's non-rivalrous, there's no meaningful back pressure that eventually raises the cost of consumption to an unacceptable level.

>>A strictly rational agent will always free ride on a public good. And most of the time, most rational agents will not provide a public good, because the cost of paying for everyone else's consumption exceeds the benefits of their own consumption.

Thus the reason Free (As in Freedom) software advocates promote the use of Copy-Left Licensing, and why non-copyleft (like MIT, BSD, and others) are slowly eroding "open source" to less fully formed software and more just the tooling, libraries and dev environments used to create software
Security is not black or white, it is shades of gray. We'll just have to disagree.
If I didn't plan on having a physical location (i.e., AWS or Colo as opposed to trying to get Comcast or any other connection to my house), what would constitute a network connection?

What are the terms of assignment via Hurricane Electric? Can they take it away? Do they only allow BGP advertisement to their sites or can I still bring the IP elsewhere?

I still think there is an opportunity for niche needs here.
It's a bet they can take dramatic share from Intel. Intel earned $21bln last year, if they had AMD's market cap it would be a P/E of 2.07.

If you don't believe AMD can take significant share away from Intel then the valuation doesn't make sense.
I'm excited to see how much this will make 2d games possible with react.