skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Since you're hopelessly caught within the webs of orientalist spiders, suffice it here to say - what you see of India is not India.”

Well, I surely will never be able to have the same context as those that grew up in South Asia, like a bunch of my family, but I certainly hope I’m not hopeless! I’m open to any suggested reading you may have that I’m missing.

Edit: I wanted to add that I’m very much aware that many of these divisions were made by the British, and even the Mughals before them, as a way to divide and dominate.
Trump golf cart rentals have now cost US taxpayers half a million dollars
If the management of .org customers was as distracting as he claims (I believe it), it would have been better to, instead of selling it, open up the administration to bids where the private companies have to reach certain goals and ensure certain provisions. If the management company can't do it or they start breaking their contact, control reverts back to the Internet Society.
A Thanksgiving Prayer from William S. Burroughs
At least at the moment Librem5 still requires non-upstreamed drivers: "The kernel will be the 5.3 mainline kernel with some additional drivers" [0]

They do at least appear to be actively developing those drivers publicly for eventual submission upstream, though: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-next/activity

[0] https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Software_Reference.html
I installed Debian in a chroot on my HTC Desire Z in 2011, and proceeded to apt-get install exim on it to tinker.
This sounds fine. It's a catastrophic failure test. They push until it breaks, then it broke, and they were very close to their designed target (within 1%). If they had gone 1% past their designed target, they would have been upset, as they could have made the plane lighter. They were 1% short of design limit, they are upset because they'll have to add reinforcement.

Have you seen the wing failure test? I worked for the company that did these tests (they did them before I worked there), and they still talk about how upset the engineers were that it went over spec in strength.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0
Looking back, it really stands out that YC did all that it did with starting with only $200K.. and it was more about how execution happened.
The way I look at it this kind of phenomenon is like Liar's paradox; as soon as someone sets forth a system describing what constitutes rational behavior, it's human nature to think about that system and relate to it in various ways, which has the potential to generate preferences which aren't comprehended within the system (due to their ability to refer to it [explicitly countercultural preferences]). However since most systems of rationality are quantitative the system could remain valid as an approximation.
You need fairly powerful hardware to browse the web these days, which is an important use case.

Non-smart phones in the old days had to use either WAP (a simplified version of XHTML) which you probably won't find much content available on today, or a thin client for a server-side browser (e.g. Opera Mini) which is not great for privacy/security.
Yeah, his argument and conclusion are so bad that they're more likely to make me do a double-take on the value of his credentials.
Getting away from the computer.

Ask and agree on the "why" behind requirements, then the what or how to realize it becomes more easily negotiable.
Want Better Forecasting? Silence the Noise
What happens after the 10 years are up? I very much hope that Wikipedia will be able to stay on the Internet for longer than that.
> What they call 100% for this test is actually 150% of what the plane is expected to experience in a worst-case real-world situation. [..] The difference between failing at 99% and failing at 101%

So, what is it 100% of?

Not that I even care enough about Boeing clickbait to skimread the article, but this discussion makes it seem like "percent" is a really poor fit for whatever this is actually measuring and trying to communicate.
My workload has changed from writing new systems and features to making surgical strikes on existing codebases for performance & reliability gains. Building up an empirical practice around something I don't yet understand or control has been great for exercising new and different problem solving muscles.
In no particular order: Vaccines, indoor plumbing, the powered loom, torrent/distributed file sharing, the bicycle.

Ten is a lot.
Is it possible the walkie talkie was out of spec as well? Little signal booster added after market?
http://archive.ph/hwjD4
You can't think of an example from your own life? Imagine feeling less committed at a job and not really feeling like looking for another yet. Then, you're fired while being on the hook for all of your living expenses. You become committed to the new search then because there's no backstop.

This is a natural human response. Relatable even without testimony from Cortez's troops.
research does not indicate that [0]. mindfulness meditation isn't real, people only believe it because it comes from the Mysterious East and it's Ancient.

[0] https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/mindfulness-no...
A 5 GHz microwave would be more efficient but you don't necessarily want more efficient for cooking - that would just heat the outside of the food fastest. Commercial microwaves apparently run somewhere in the 900 MHz band. There are some neat graphs here:

http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/microwave_water.html
I’d expect that you would make the getting two credits cost the same as the current subscription, so the total income is the same, it just lets users feel freer to not have to come up with new projects each month.
You could own your name outright if you could take sole responsibility[1] for resolving disputes. Basically, we'd have to have some scheme where everyone can advertise which names they own, and then you'd negotiate directly with DNS operators to convince them that your advertisment takes precedence over someone else's.

So it could be done, it might even be a better scheme, but I think it would be expensive and messy.

[1]: You could obviously pay someone to negotiate on your behalf, but you're still initiating the action.
Can someone tell me why it’s socially acceptable to have these mindfulness things in work? I’m sympathetic to the argument that religions should be largely kept out of the workplace, so this isn’t a “checkmate atheists” argument. But if some guy came into my office and started saying we’re going to recite the rosary with all the “Jesus” and “Mary” parts replaced with something generic like “the universe” I cant imagine he’d get away with it.
Many world leaders or people of prominence are wary of eating anything on camera. The President of the United States is not allowed to be filmed eating on camera unless approved by the secret service.
Facebook being down is only lost revenue for Facebook. Every other company on the planet just gained in terms of productivity and revenues.
to be honest, I don't know much about probability.

but my intuition says that if you pick all variables from the same distribution, this should still hold.

At first, we don't know anything about the factors, so they are assigned a random importance. or am I missing something?
Revenue/minute * duration actually worked here because what went down was the moral equivalent of a Kafka cluster — ads were still being served, but we couldn’t log clicks/impressions over that period of time
Lush develops open-source software for its point-of-sale system to boost growth
click bait title. the plane basically passed. that is why a retest will not be required.
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmore

This turned out to be more wishful thinking and less law of nature. Net traffic now seems to readily route itself into walled gardens crowded with gnomes demanding ever stricter speech controls.
Meanwhile, doing nothing allows "vaccines are dangerous" and "Jews are dangerous" messages to become popular to the point that people get killed. And your response to that is that any number of deaths is better than even the most limited attempt to remove known lies from public discourse?
Why is buying an iPhone or Pixel not logical? They work great and they are affordable (if you keep it 3 years they will cost you about $1 / day for the hardware).

If you want to run software that is only on Android or iOS, then buying a Linux phone would be illogical, no?
It should not be too hard to add your own keyboard layout. Many are available already (but not UK): https://forums.puri.sm/t/translations-and-virtual-touch-keyb...
Sadly cant record screen atm, but be sure to check it out when you get home, it is quite the jewel

Edit: Im WRONG! You CAN record!

Here you go

https://streamable.com/bnn16
> The BoJ owns 9.78% of Softbank. https://group.softbank/en/corp/irinfo/stock/ownership/

Are you sure? I just Googled 'The Master Trust Bank of Japan Ltd.' (the only listed shareholder with 9.78% ownership) and it seems to be owned by Mitsubishi Trust Bank and a bunch of other banks, and nothing to do with the BoJ...
Is it feasible to commute between countries for work?
I have a love/hate relationship with the Sony Digital Paper

The good

- It's 13", so I can read/annotate full-size documents.

- Very little eye strain.

- Battery lasts almost a full week*

- There's a little bit of that "magic" when using it.

Neutral

- Syncing with computer and app is OK, nothing special.

The Bad

- It's fragile. Chipped plastic, and dead lines of pixels a year in.

- * Writing drains the battery faster than zooming/flipping pages. At a conference I barely lasted lasted a few hours of heavy writing.
That "oil lobby" conspiracy theory is such nonsense. There are several developed countries with minimal oil reserves and no domestic oil companies. If alternative energy industries were really practical before then those countries would have built it.
The calculator I was using was:

https://tomverbeure.github.io/video_timings_calculator

Changing the refresh rate would work too, but some monitors can be pretty picky about that.
Site blocking the page with an empty overlay named "BorlabsCookie". No thanks.
You can run AMD's port of Tensorflow 1.3 today if you don't want to wait for main-lined support in TF 2.0.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3711008
I’ll tell you what absolutely didn’t help: worthless whiteboard interview questions or brain teaser coding puzzles.
I don't follow AlphaGo but there is a LOT to learn from AlphaZero in chess ... engines are already changing the way chess is played.
> Meanwhile, seven of the eight recruiters who were criminally charged for trying to recruit students have pleaded guilty and have been sentenced in Detroit, including Prem Rampeesa, 27, last week. The remaining one is to be sentenced in January.

Given that for recruiters "knowing the universities" is their job, I would at least be willing to have a separate argument about whether or not this strategy is a valid one to weed out malicious recruiters.
Even in that debate though, I'd argue "confirm that it's officially government certified" is about as high a bar as you can set for a recruiter to cover their ass. If a certified university is still bogus, then the problem lies with the agency that certified it.

For the students, it's entrapment and the people involved with it should be the ones who's careers are ended, once and for all, not the students.

And "by the way" that entrapment is what I would consider the "main issue" here.
Υπάλληλοι στην Google, ποιες είναι οι συνθήκες εργασίας;
I've found CTEs to be one of the few ways to reliably force Postgres evaluation order, which is sometimes quite poor (I have specific queries that run 100x faster with CTE), so retaining old behaviour with materialized is something I didn't know about in 12.
Do you have any benchmarks which show comparable performance? Two quick searches now but I can only find video game based benchmarks but in every case the 1080TI outperforms the VII, which is kind of surprising and IMO isn't a good sign for ML performance.
Things got a lot better for me when I realized almost nobody gets to the best solution on the first try.

Cobble together an ugly and hacky solution that you can confirm solves the problem, then iterate and iterate until you clean it up well enough to ship it.
No. We started doing more general web “consulting” (i.e. work for hire) which then morphed into doing web mapping sites/applications (“mashups”!) which became a startup specialized in this field.

Having worked a bit with AirTable, I do find that it fills this really great and interesting niche of diy table/database systems.
I think a lot of places stick with whatever PHP version comes with the Linux distribution they use, only use Linux distributions with long term support, and only update to a later release of that distribution when the one they are on is about to go out of long term support.

For Red Hat, that means there are places still on RHEL 5, 6, and 7, which is going to put them PHP at 5.4.

It looks like Ubuntu 16 is the oldest Ubuntu still under support. That had PHP 7.0. Ubuntu end-of-life (when they stop getting security updates) are later than end of support. Ubuntu 14 EOL is April 2022. That has PHP 5.5.9.

Debian 8 has long term support until June 2020, and PHP 5.6. Debian 9 has LTS to June 2022, and PHP 7.0.

For those who are on the latest LTS or equivalent:

RHEL 8 has PHP 7.2.

Ubuntu 18 has PHP 7.2.24

Debian 10 has PHP 7.3.
Ok, but what does that let you do that you couldn't otherwise? Nobody buys a phone for the operating system, it's for the hardware and the software that runs on top of the OS.
Many years ago, I implemented star tracking for telescope alignment for auger.org. An actual basic version using libnova et al was pretty straightforward and a matter of days to prototype if I recall correctly (it was a project for a master student, so I had to do most of the work over a longer period of time). I think the accuracy was around a decimal fraction of a degree then. But the cameras of that thing have only 440 1.5° pixels (photomultipliers that sample at 5-20M samples/s). A higher resolution camera could probably do much better assuming you have a very accurate computer model of the optical properties of your telescope/lenses/camera.
Why The .ORG Sale is a Radical Departure that Puts the Internet at Risk.

https://link.medium.com/sDWjTdnxZ1
Which we can all be sure will be used for the benefit of the union! cough Iran-contra cough
I would suggest a refinement. The author proposes that the vertical cables be anchored in the ground with driven piles. This ought to work, but it’s ignoring a detail: the Martian surface is presumably permeable enough to air that the bottom of the structure would need to be lined. If the bottom were strong enough (e.g. the same material as the top), then the cables could be anchored to the bottom material. No piles needed. The resulting structure would look very much like an air mattress sitting on the ground, and air mattresses don’t need to be staked down.
Historical data can't refute an argument about future melting permafrost...
NES console was discontinued in ‘95. Devs are still making games for it
You’re gonna have to provide a bit more context for that challenge, considering all the information already available about it. Which figure do you think is wrong?
They do have their own Apple Music streaming platform, perhaps you can just do what they do
I was required to take CS107 in school, you couldn't test out of it. It was taught by a chemistry professor.

He knew nothing about programming except that he thought it was cool, and often taught us a lot of incorrect information. Being a jackass 18-year-old, I corrected him on all of this. I got 100% on every lab, assignment, and exam... and got a B in the class ("participation!").

It was about this time that I realized college might not be the thing for me.
Maybe it’s different in India but can you not sell the car and use the proceeds to pay off the lien to the bank and keep the difference?

Or are you saying they’re underwater on the loans? If so, what can the bank do about it besides repossess the car? How exactly are they stuck in the city working for Uber?
Tensorflow.js Powered Turkey Detector
Unpopular answer alert:

Doing leetcode like problems on a semi-regular basis helps me a lot.
Of the two, the case of Spain seems more in line with strongman government transition. In that case, King Juan Carlos I appears to have played a pivotal role in ending an attempted coup and ushering in the transition.
For what it's worth, the DMTCP [1] user-space checkpoint/restore system does that (and more). C/R is a way of doing coarse batch-based reversible debugging, typically of distributed HPC programs, and FReD [2] is a(n unfortunately dead) reversible debugger using DMTCP record/replay.
1. http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/
2. https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5204
TIL one more TLA.

FAE = Functional Accessibility Evaluator
> Firefox Replay is currently in user research phase while we validate it

A question about how you develop / roll this out. Do you keep the code private, or do you commit it to the open source repo as you're working with a small amount high touch users?

I guess the question is do you want a full working product when you open source it? Do you tie your PR / forum posts with publicly shipping the source code? Or is all development out in the open?
I was following the old GH issue / thread related to OpenCL support for 1.x of TensorFlow.
I tinkered an got it working with opensource kernel drivers on GCN1 (HD 7970)
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/22

You could do it, and GCN was good at compute (still is with Radeon VI) but I must admit it was far more complicated than any AI researcher would have liked compared to the closed source binary approach of NVidia / Cuda.
One would expect an organization dedicated to freedom to prioritize Linux support.
Who owns the root DNS servers? Can those owners be convinced to stage such a coup? If not 100%, then you have forked a TLD.
Why it's hard to open Indian restaurants in America
Stackoverflow peak detection algorithm with academic citations
There's a similar anecdote about WeWork, where as Masayoshi Son and Adam Neumann are leaving the WeWork offices in a car to see Masayoshi Son off to the airport, Masayoshi Son says "forget the $1B we talked about in there, find a way to spend $5B."
CFD Analysis Shows Aerodynamics Flow Smoothly for Cybertruck
It is really neat how sometimes SO makes it into science. I love stuff like that because it showcases how the internet originally a science project enables new generations of scientists.
Pointers to Members in C++
They knew it was wrong - specifically Jefferson spoke out often on how wrong it was - yet he too was a slaveholder. That said, the political reality of 1789 meant that without Slavery in the constitution, there would have been no United States, the southern states would have split off and formed their own government. It was a left as an unresolved issue for future generations to resolve.
That's why the author suggests peridiodic anchors, like an air mattress. As other commenters have pointed out, you don't want the structure to deflate in the event of decomp, so a strut which is useful secondarily in compression is useful here.

Basal fiber is about 3GPa tensile, call it a MoS of 6 for a neat 500MPa working strength.

If you plug int wolfram alpha `1 atmosphere * 1 square meter / 500 MPa` you get 2 cm^2 of support (tethering) per sq m of roof. That's reasonable.

But here's the rub: compressive strength lags tensile strength. Even granite is a mere 130 MPa. So even a strut which has some compression resiliance is not gonna be enough to fully abate a collapse. So it's very likely a Martian structure would have some arc to it, as it both benefits tension under nominal operation and some compression in failure mode, at least long enough to keep pressure from dropping too low.

I imagine rip-stop at all sorts of scales will be implemented. It's not gonna be like an inflatable golf dome.

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/compression-tension-stren...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_tensile_strength
Do you have link to original announcement?
Of course you can leverage the uniqueness of the approach initially to get trials/pr (as you are doing here in HN), just that won't be sustainable as selling point.
The Science of Curing Aging (2018) [video]
You don't choose PHP. PHP chooses you.
I think they're just trying it out as a feature for now. It's a Preview browser so some things won't work 100% (for example a bug[1] is still present in 2.3.0, the latest stable version, requiring me to switch browser for file uploads.)

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/6279
I ran into a company recently that was still using Meteor (B2B with roughly 50 million USD of funding). It made me realize the consequences of choosing a technology for a major project before it's gotten widespread acceptance. Made me realize I need to be a bit more cautious, and that I've gotten very lucky.
Or just ship it, and write a ticket to clean things up 'later'.
Property is not based on consensus. Even if millions of people think Jeff Bezos has too much money, with nowhere near consensus that he should have it, a court will still convict anybody who tries to take his stuff.

The DNS really does operate on consensus. There is nobody forcing everybody to do it a particular way. We get real consensus because everybody has a strong interest in not creating global namespace conflicts through forks. But that doesn't mean you can't make a change to fix a mistake, it only means you need to get enough support behind it for it to become the consensus position.
Up next "We are excited to announce Cisco acquisition of Let's Encrypt".
That's actually a pretty neat idea. Just yesterday I spent close to an hour manually taking screenshots, annotating, aligning them, etc. This would have saved me a lot of time
you can virtualize linux, you cannot virtualize macos.

no, downloading sketchy images or hacking your virtualization software does not count.
I didn't realise how much I'd missed it from other browsers until I tried it. It's a breath of fresh air.
Same, compared to some other free alternatives (for example CircuitMaker) it's a complete blessing. I think I haven't seen a worse piece of software then CircuitMaker.
Two things. The first is that mindfulness is a Western word inspired by Eastern teachings. The word mindfulness didn’t exist 2000 years ago, and the Buddhist concepts are always very nuanced and often hotly debated inside the various schools. For an example, do a little reading on whether Anatta means “no self” or “not self”.

Second, no one is “changing its meaning to suit your needs”. Mindfulness in Buddhism is a way of attending with full and non-judgmental awareness. It is typically taught alongside teachings on morality and philosophy and so forth, but I believe that it is a confusion to claim that these things are “part of” mindfulness. Instead mindfulness is part of a larger system of teachings from which it has been removed in the more secular West. The author of the linked piece believes this is a problem but also inevitable. I personally believe as many others do that Buddhism does not own mindfulness, because mindfulness is a way of training and relating to attention. You might argue that it is unskillful or even harmful to practice or train mindfulness without some or all of the other pieces that Buddhism offers, but that is very different from saying that you’ve redefined mindfulness.

Of course many people and groups also distort the definition and training in mindfulness and at that point you’re right and I agree that one would be “taking the namd and changing the meaning” though in my experience this is virtually always out of ignorance (perhaps willful) rather than intentional profiteering and disregard for truth.

Mindfulness as a concept and discipline is actually incredibly deep and challenging and most people who think they understand actually don’t or don’t to the extent they think they do.