skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given git's distributed nature, I can't imagine either service going down for a day could have that enormous of an impact. I'd be curious to know how people manage that. I would think other services which point to git.* would largely have some option for a manual work around, or would not be utilized in mission critical roles.
And that behavior is rational. If I have 1 in 1 million chance of dying from a loose brick in a building falling on my head, the rational thing is to completely disregard this risk and live my life as usual, especially if I live in a city.
It is a very hard problem, which is why I personally hate to see so many issues conflated under one slogan. Your point about species adaption is a fair one, however if we are going to consider absolute effects on biodiversity, direct human activity has already had a significantly worse effect.
Yes, https://github.com/enterprise
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I'm -3.25 cylinder for each eye, plus need a prism of 0.5 down in one and 0.5 up in the other. I feel your pain.
> Even when friends say "Oh, but try this source, they are soooo much better", it doesn't take long to realise there is ALWAYS an agenda behind it, a political leaning... It's exhausting.

Journalism is always biased; even supposedly "objective" news outlets, by just picking which stories to emphasize or even report at all, are engaging in bias -- even when you think that the stories they do choose are "fair". This is not a bad thing, it's just a reality of life (it could be argued that objective reporting is impossible, philosophically speaking). You just have to be aware of the bias and take it into consideration.
With nvidea not supporting MacOS beyond the current version, and Google pushing Swift for Tensorflow, I assume both Apple and Google have an increasing incentive to improve the adaptation of AMD GPUs for deep learing.
Pretty much everyone sells part or all of their flow to Citadel or Citi.
Feels like the silly focus on process buries the lead on the video (https://vm.tiktok.com/9hL3uY/)

That is brilliant awareness building.
Ukraine IS Russia. When Peter I conquered Russia, it appended "Emperor of Russia" (Царь всея Русси) to his title. Ukraine IS the Russian state. Russians call themselves "Russish" (русские), and their country Rossiia (Россия), to distinguish themselves from Russians (русичи, русины) and Russia (Русся, Русь)

Crimea and Cuban were part of Ukraine prior to soviet invasion. Look at maps of Ukraine in 1919-1920: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic .
> In every other country in which I’ve lived—Germany and Britain, France and Italy—it is far easier to buy glasses or contact lenses than it is here. In those countries, as in Peru, you can simply walk into an optician’s store and ask an employee to give you an eye test, likely free of charge. If you already know your strength, you can just tell them what you want. You can also buy contact lenses from the closest drugstore without having to talk to a single soul—no doctor’s prescription necessary.

I don't think this is true of the UK. I couldn't buy contact lenses without a contact lens prescription. That might be because i'm astigmatic and wanted toric lenses, but i didn't think so. I can buy glasses online, and there's a note that says i must have a current prescription to do that; i doubt they check, but the principle is there.

Oh, and eye tests aren't usually free. They are cheap, though, around £25. There are free eye tests for children, people over 60, diabetics, people with various chronic eye disorders, and prisoners on parole (!). Also, if you buy glasses from the optician who gave you the test, they will usually credit the cost of the test towards the price of the glasses, so it sort of works out free (except you have to buy overpriced high street glasses rather than cheap internet ones).

This doesn't seem like a bad rule, to be honest. Glasses and contact lenses are medical devices. They're important to their wearer, and to the safety of people around them if they drive a car etc. Eye tests are cheap and easily available. The article's take earns a "this ain't it, chief" from me.
Nice work moving the goalposts :)

If, being aware of everything that's happening around us, you still choose to represent reality as "ridiculous conspiracy theorizing", then you're either in a cult, or a dedicated troll, neither of which I'm interested in wasting my time debating.
> - One free eye exam each year covered by Medicare

Only if you're over 65! Otherwise its one exam every three years for a standard exam. [1]

It's been a while since my last check, but last time I went they did try upselling to some more advanced scan that wasn't covered by medicare.

Either way, still think we're doing something right in Australia but having this base coverage for everyone.

[1] https://www.humanservices.gov.au/individuals/subjects/whats-...
Meanwhile in the oil & gas drilling and exploration sector:

> According to market research by IBISWorld, a leading business intelligence firm, the total revenues for the oil and gas drilling sector came to $2 trillion in 2017.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/030915/what-percent...
>mostly photogrammetry - being able to tell the position and orientation of your mirrors from a video stream - in a feedback loop with motor controllers and temperature sensors.

This. Modern photogrammetry uses computer vision techniques like deep neural nets.

It's an amazing advancement.

Imagine this problem: having to place a ground vehicle like a wheeled robot at an arbitrary coordinate in a room. The mirror positioning problem can be reduced to this one. Traditionally, you'd do it by building a very nice wheeled robot with non-slip wheels, wheel rotation angle sensors, fraction of a degree stepper motors, all very nice to work with, precise, and expensive. You could even solve this in an open-loop system with good enough actuators.

Today, just stick a camera on the ceiling - or on the robot, if want a more challenging problem - and use CV to move a cheap RC car where you want.

The Terminator will jangle and jiggle, instead of being built like a precise Swiss watch. But you'll get ten of them for the same price!
It becomes in combination 80 fold higher over 20 years and 20 fold higher over 100 years, per unit mass.

Incidentally the reaction from Methane to CO2 produces 2.5 times more mass of CO2 than the Methane it starts with, which is one reason why the impact remains quite high. And of course everyone knows Methane emissions are relatively low, otherwise given their potency their effect on GHG warming would be a lot more than the 15% of thereabouts which it is at the moment.

This is all like attacking an IPCC claim that the sea level is going to rise by 1m over 100 years by saying it won’t rise by 5m, but by on average 1cm a year for 100 years. We know that already.
What exactly are you trying to say with this? The tone of your comment sounds as if you're trying to disagree with your parent comment or somehow put it in perspective, when in fact you're just stating a related fact that is totally compatible with it.
Maybe they prefer optional OO over mandatory or no OO?
> pushing to gitlab prints out the URL to create a pull request from that branch, or to view the existing one, also a time saver that's not available on github

IIRC I’ve seen that recently with GitHub too. Not very useful to me though since I use magit for almost all git-related operations.
Continuous integration is typically not distributed, and it blocks releases.
From skimming the thread I get the impression it's a beta quality / work-in-progres kind of deal. Is that the case?
In Germany, we have come to call this the renaissance of the Sale of Indulgences. It's a very good analogy.

Heck, look at this crap: https://www.lufthansa.com/us/en/carbon-offsetting

Lufthansa is allowing you to pay to offset the carbon footprint of your flight. That's some next level delusion.
Do you really think people will draw their concussions about you based on a Twitter account they found with the same username?
It still is cumbersome:

array_filter(arr, fn)
array_reduce(arr, fn)
array_map(fn, arr1[, arr2, ...])
array_walk(&arr, fn)

Not mentioning additional parameters such as `$flag`, `$userdata` or `$clownshow`.
If anything, the media understates the threat by mixing in a lot of debunked misinformation. It's hard to take most journalism seriously with the sensationalism bias, but we're already seeing serious negative effects from climate change in the most vulnerable countries.

The planet will be a very different place in 50 years.
2. is a very sound advice, thank you
They could have a threshold for deletion, only deleting account with <1k followers. This would spare accounts with real historical value.
The cost and hassle of dealing with the American eye care bureaucracy was one of the factors driving me to have corrective surgery.

Now a decade later without complication, I hope they've lost a customer for life.
Well this makes me appreciate the NHL/NFL/NBA/MLB free apis.
It's already part of Windows, and it's not. But you can bind Snip & Sketch to the Print Screen button in the Ease of Access settings.
It's not FUD. It's about different threat models.

General design failures/bugs from assumed acting-in-good-faith silicon/sw designers vs not-acting-in-good-faith silicon/sw designers.

Assuming the radio's are the primary threat to privacy then I'd prefer a design from a privacy activist company who explicityly designs the hw so that the less trustable parts are forced behind physcial and defined interface "firewalls".
Sevastopol, Simferopol, Alushta.
> they'll change their tune

Like this guy for example, right?

[My hunger strike could be deadly. But I am willing to risk that for climate action] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/27/hunger...
GitHub also lets you self-host.
Syntax wise I suppose. Though other languages had similar functionality long before ES6.
Are you ready for eDiscovery under the CCPA?
Agreed and when you pay them better, in time, more and more highly skilled individuals from these markets are going to join your remote organizations. I think it's a healthy and fair competition.
The "shallow dismissal" rule is based on the assumption that everyone is acting in good faith. When some posts their latest weekend project with their Raspberry Pi, that's a fair assumption. When someone who's worked for the White House is publishing a climate change denial paper with the funding of the oil and gas industry and the Koch brothers, good faith is no longer a rational assumption. They may of course still be genuine in the end, but the first task is to establish signs of good faith before immediately assuming the argument is intended to be serious. It does no benefit to discourse to seriously engage with people who aren't trying to play the game by the rules in the first place.
You can't. And to be frank, consuming multiple news sources doesn't move you closer to the truth, especially for political stuffs.
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BitPlanets: RTS (Strategy) with planets like RISK – real multiplayer
Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast, like “make old hardware feel new” fast
* prepare list with separated categories of importance for followups - and write it down immediately after talk, so you do not loose a details

* if you do not have stand, try to share your location or communicate where you will be at what time ... via twitter?

* hydrate :)
Understood, although we have no way to know if there have ever been similar events, as the geologic record is something of a low-pass filter.

Just for the sake of argument, let's say you find yourself in a car in the second scenario, with no known way to stop it. What would you do? I say this as a pragmatist - if we take the headlines at face value, and we only have ~10 years to avert a catastrophe, then the only realistic way to avert it is if 90% of the world's population spends that 10 years planting trees before killing themselves.
Why does this matter? This isn't his field. It'd be like if an honorary professor in another field said something ridiculous about biology; we'd go, "Cool story, bro."

I'm saying: if Ray Kurzweil gets negative press when he says something absurd outside of his lane, then certainly a guy who openly says he's a climate science denier is going to.
Apple too?
Take a look, for example, at the "contributor covenant", which github endorses [1]. It lists as its first example of unacceptable behavior:

> The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind

This is a perfect example of rules that are simply too broad. Say I write a comment `//normalize file path because fuck windows`. I said fuck; does this count as "sexualized language"? Do I need to be banned over this?

Also, a more "fun fact" example (from the same document):

> Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people

Did anybody consider that this is excluding psychopaths from the community based on a psychological condition? They are, by definition, unable to feel empathy. So much for inclusivity, I guess.

[1] https://opensource.guide/code-of-conduct/
LASIK is notoriously profitable. Even more than Ortho, possibly less than radiology.

Normally I would be annoyed by this, but LASIK has a small but significant rate of severely bad outcomes, and a larger rate of poor outcomes (e.g. extreme light sensitivity), and the cost reduces the number of bad outcomes.
But git is not truly distributed. Each 'node' in the network does not automatically gets access to new trusted nodes (remotes). Management of the distributed nature is still manual, meaning that your CI/CD system cannot suddenly pull changes from your local developer machine, instead of GitHub/GitLab/Gerrit/...

In an ideal world, each commit is cryptographically signed and automatically distributed to a large number of nodes. Only correctly signed commits would be picked up by CI/CD and the build artifacts would use the digital signature of the code to further deploy the resources in a trustworthy manner.
"Sagas", or distributed transactions, are what you're looking for.
These are APIs/functions/methods that know how to complete every step of your atomic operation and how to roll it back if any step fails. They more or less recreate what would have been a single database transaction pre-microservice.
You should report it to the mods and ask if they agree.
Given the massive power imbalance in this situation, margin regulation may have to be in place in order for this to work in the long run.

The owner/driver imbalance pales in comparison to massive, multinational/driver.
I totally agree with you - there's nothing wrong with bias, and it's completely unavoidable in the modern media context. News media needs to be honest about its biases, whilst still upholding standards of reporting & journalism.
Have a hard time figuring out what I'd be getting in to - I suggest you show "Five most recent links" on the website or something along those lines
This is why I almost always downvote comments that talks describe a license as viral. It is a metaphor that only causes harm to civil and constructive discussions.
Hi, I have questions.

1. What was your thing? Did you keep it going after the Kickstarter? If so how's it going?

2. Why do you get most funding at the start and end? I can see at the start because that's where you have to bootstrap it but why the end? Did you apply marketing at an increasing rate or decreasing rate or a constant rate?

3. On selling yourself. I've heard this but idk how to do it. I'm not an expert in the field my product is in. My main motivation is just to make money. So I don't have a compelling story. I'm just a guy with an idea. I was planning on doing a video where I explain where the idea came from but aside from that idk how to interject myself. How did you do it or how do you think someone like myself should?

Thanks for replying.
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ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH"

Edit: This is when I try to load https://paulgraham.com/ycstart.html
Eye exams ought to be free, not just cheaper. Here in Australia, eye exams are free. Applying a cost to eye checks results in people being dissuaded from regular checkups and results in both more serious eye problems and possible road accidents. This is all part of our universal healthcare system -- and is something the US should really adopt (though, Sanders' proposed Medicare-for-All is actually even better than what we have here).
Came here to post this same experience. I have terrible asthma and allergies that are completely controlled by the typical prescription medications that any lay person would select after a few minutes of googling, but I can only receive access to them for up to one year without going back to a doctor.

The result is I often run out at inopportune times so I try to hoard / ration medication to avoid that situation.
In the United States they have to, by law, give you your prescription if you ask for it. Pupillary distance is not part of the prescription though but you can easily measure it yourself in a mirror with a ruler that has MM (or use a service like ZenniOptical that has a printable ruler that you use a credit/debit card to make sure it is printed to the correct scale).

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com...
I'm astigmatic - -2.50 right, -3.25 left - and i have never, ever, had any optician in the UK suggest leaving it uncorrected.

When i wanted contact lenses, i asked about leaving it uncorrected, so i didn't need toric lenses, which come in fewer variations (i don't think there were daily disposable torics at the time, for example). They weren't having any of that.
We can't fully trust the correctness of modern complicated CPU designs, leading to problems like <insert all speculative bypasses that have affected Intel CPUs the past 2 years>. But despite their complexity, CPUs and the CPU part of a smartphone SoC are usually extremely well understood (relatively speaking). The reason is that you actually need to run your software on these CPUs, so they need to be understood rather well. With better understanding comes better trust.

On the other hand, the baseband processor is mostly unknown, black box hardware, running unknown black box software, that completely controls the transmission of cellular data. Of course it would be horrible if there was no separation between the CPU and baseband. You shouldn't trust that setup. But as it turns out, separation does exist!
> This is changing with Github Actions.

Well gitlab does artifactory/docker management, security, value stream management, . . . So still
I challenged myself to avoid flying for a year, anticipating a year of missing out, losing money, missing family, and all sorts of deprivation and sacrifice. Within a few months I found it one of my best decisions so kept going. I'm now over 4.5 years and may never fly again.

But when I talk to people about not flying, or avoiding packaged food, they tell me it's impossible.

It's not only possible, it will improve your life as much as dropping sugar or any other addiction. Nobody gets it. They think I'm suffering or privileged when it's the opposite. I explain more in my second TEDx talk http://joshuaspodek.com/my-second-tedx-talk-what-everyone-ge....

Come to think of it, maybe I should stop posting about the joys of not flying since it almost always leads to people responding with thoughtless misunderstandings like: one person's actions don't matter or they need to for work and family. We have to get past these knee-jerk misunderstandings.
I have a feeling that, gradually, the most visible businesses and products will become greener, with nearly everything else remaining massively polluting.

IKEA might become carbon neutral, while companies supplying furniture to furnished apartments, office buildings, etc. won't do anything. Nobody will know if "Franklin Property Management" or whatnot is or isn't green.
What are you trying to say here? My first reading is that you disagree with anthropogenic global warming, but if you did that then you'd be disagreeing with the paper we're discussing and as far as I can tell, you don't.

Can you clarify? Am I just misreading?
Only if it can get rid of semi colons.
Ask HN: Do most employers monitor your work computer?
I work at a growing B2B startup with around 100 employees. Without warning, the sysadmin has started having the developers install JumpCloud, Desktop Central, and AnyDesk on their company-issued laptops. They create an extra admin account for their access, force the developer to change their username, and change the home folder name for the software to work. From what I understand, they are doing this to try to get a security certificate that a client is demanding.

It would be reasonable in my opinion to have this software on a computer that stays in the office, but developers at my company all bring their laptops home every day and also often work at home for either the entire day or part of the day. Employees have flexible work hours too. In practice, for developers at least, this laptop serves as both a work laptop and a personal laptop.

I feel really frustrated by this whole situation. I really like working at my company, and I work both at home and in the office. However, I don't feel comfortable installing this kind of monitoring, remote-access, root-control software on my computer, especially one that I bring home! I like how it is now that I can be logged into my personal email account on my work computer and know that I am the only one able to access it. We use our personal GitHub accounts also at work, and this will implicitly give my company access to it as I am logged into GitHub at work.

I understand that it's a company-owned laptop, but is it unreasonable of me to want this kind of software off the computer that I use? Would I have a hard time finding a reasonably-sized company that does not require this kind of software to be installed?
They also focus on the "buying" portion of the internet way too much. Either that, or 90% of the internet is revolved around buying shit.
It reminds me of this old demo of electromagnetic interference: http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/
We've been experimenting with TF 1.14 on a Radeon VII. When you manage to properly install it, it does work at about 90% the speed of an NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti, but is much cheaper, which can be a good trade-off.

However, the tooling and installation procedure is still rough around the edges and the documentation is lacking.

Last time I tried to upgrade the rocm things and the drivers, and bumped up against an issue that one of the packages tried to write to /data/jenkins_workspace during installation. We have /data as an NFS mount and is not writable even for the root user, so the installation broke down. Worked around it, but there are other issues as well. The order of packages you install can matter as well, I had to purge packages and reinstall them a few times. It worked with TF 1.14.1 but not with 1.14.0 if I recall correctly. The first few iterations are very slow, it seems it needs to find the optimal conv implementation for all kernel sizes separately.

Also, the card does not have anything like NVIDIA's tensor cores for half-precision (float16/FP16) computation. It can do FP16 but won't speed up and delivers worse results (in terms of prediction accuracy) than NVIDIA cards running FP16. There is no prediction accuracy difference in FP32.

And some other small issues here and there. So be warned and test it yourself on one card before investing in big multi-GPU machines.

But I do wish AMD entering the field will benefit us through increased competition in the long run. But at the moment ROCm seems like just a side project for a small team in AMD and they can't yet deliver the streamlined experience we're used to from CUDA.