skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and that the only reasonable solution for this is a tax on owned capital (not on income or cap gains) and the political chances of this happening are slim, etc.

I think another reasonable solution, and one which actually has a chance of happening, is a land value tax
But who cares about a R&D processor that you can only use on
a specific cloud hosting provider? All people will care about is if they will have to modify their applications to utilize it, and knowing Amazon that is precisely what they'll try to do. AWS is anti-competitive and it should raise alarms with many in the tech community.
It came as an unpleasant shock to Saddam's Iraq, because it allowed US armored forces to navigate accurately through the desert and drive him out of Kuwait.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gps-and-the-world...

The NAVSTAR GPS constellation was incomplete at the time, so accurate positioning was only available for 19 hours a day. There weren't enough mil-spec receivers to go around, so some units relied on commercial receivers that parents had bought their sons and mailed them to them.
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This is a basic property of any 3-phase AC VFD motor, it's hard to see what's special here compared to a traditional electric drivetrain.
I didn't know that they had an option to disable the mic at all. I'm glad that they do, but I'd question anyone who bought one just to use as a speaker. If you aren't going to use the mic, you're better off buying a regular speaker with better quality. Disabling the smart assistant on the phone still leaves you with a highly functional device.
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Chyeah sure bro. Ever actually been there?

https://www.google.com/search?q=china+smog&source=lnms&tbm=i...
1. I'm pretty sure I was suggesting not having kids. It's a bit terrifying that you went here.

2. This doesnt change the calculus of what you're proposing at all. And it's not energy that is the missing resource; that's available in quantity. It's resources and water.

Sitting here saying, "Well the people I'm proposing the death of are historically poor and therefore their hardship inevitable" isn't a rebuttal, it's a rationalization.
Yes, I was posting in a rush and was being sloppy. Here's a more detailed calculation.

The process involved is that the couple continues to have children until they have at least one of each gender. If we assume that at each birth there is a probability p of having a boy (as I noted in my response to btilly elsewhere, the Bayesian prior would actually be a distribution for p, not a point value, but I'll ignore that here for simplicity), then the process can be modeled as a branching tree something like this:

Child #1:
boy -> p;
girl -> 1 - p

Child #2:
boy - boy -> p^2;
boy - girl -> p(1 - p) : STOP;
girl - boy -> (1 - p)p : STOP;
girl - girl -> (1 - p)^2

So we have a probability of 2p(1 - p) of stopping at child 2.

Child #3:
boy - boy - boy -> p^3;
boy - boy - girl -> p^2(1 - p) : STOP;
girl - girl - boy -> p(1 - p)^2 : STOP;
girl - girl - girl -> (1 - p)^3

So we have a probability of [1 - 2p(1 - p)] [p^2(1 - p) + p(1 - p)^2] of stopping at child 3 (the first factor comes from the probability that we didn't stop at child 2 above).

By a similar process we can carry out the tree for as many children as we want. For the case p = 1/2, which was the case I was considering, all of these expressions for the probability of stopping at child #N (for N > 1) simplify to 1 / 2^(N - 1). So the probability of stopping at or before child #N is the sum of those probabilities from 2 to N; for N = 7 that is 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/32 + 1/64 = 63/64. That is close enough to 1 that I ignored cases with more than 7 children; but for a more exact calculation you could add an extra 1/64 to the denominator used to calculate the likelihood (or p-value) of the specific case that was actually observed, to allow for the cases with more than 7 children.
"Baring it all" would be a native idiom preserving even the emphatic nudity reference while not suggesting that you're taking off some other woman's clothes.
> That fake university was Obama's program[1]. Are you now going to advocate deplatforming Barrack Obama?

As a citizen who caucused for Obama, I'm deeply disappointed in his policies surrounding immigration, cowardice on marijuana, broken promises around transparency and whistleblowers, and the exploitation of protected lands for oil and gas the world can't afford to burn. He's not a damned saint and whataboutism is intellectual laziness.
By no means do I want to hand wave it, I'm just personally not convinced of the presented outcomes.

I know that alarmism is the best way to get attention, but its also the best way for me to think you're a zealot who should be ignored.
what services would you like to keep location turned on then? Why do you trust them to have access all the time and at the same time you don't trust apple themselves for useful features like "find my phone"?
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According to: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2019/12/how-go...

>We gathered all the climate models published between 1970 and the mid-2000s that gave projections of both future warming and future concentrations of CO2 and other climate forcings – from Manabe (1970) and Mitchell (1970) through to CMIP3 in IPCC 2007.

If you're a cynic or suspicious: "projections of future warming" means they intentionally excluded studies that projected cooling.

Otherwise: it could have been written as "projections of future temperature", but they came across no studies that projected cooling.

This really makes me wish for open access journals, as most of the questions in this thread could be answered if it was possible for anyone to look at the paper.
I wish individual consumers could go out and buy these processors. Amazon really has little incentive to sell them - they are not primarily a chip manufacturing business, and anyways, why give away their hard-fought competitive advantage? - but damn, it would be cool to stick one of these in a workstation and watch it fly.
I never heard of this. Have you ever heard of the symbols also used for Mars and Venus indicating male and female?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_symbol

According to that page, in some contexts, a circle means female and a square means male, but I've never heard of that before either.
> Most couples are biased towards boys over girls.

Yes, but the Bayesian argument shows that you can't infer that from your one sample. You only know that there is a bias towards boys because you have the global data that allows you to adjust the Bayesian prior to be peaked around the actual observed ratio instead of around 0.5. The Bayesian prior is still a much better prediction for any other case not yet observed than any value different from the prior that you might calculate from the data from just your aunt and uncle.
Build consensus first, then you can build buildings.
I found it hard to discover what they were even trying to achieve. I think they are saying they needed to make the pi pretend to be both a modem, and the server on the other side of the modem. But not all is clear. What generated "RING RING"? Normally the modem would say that, if there were one.
As a hobbyist lockpicker, I still keep running into the assumption that they're most often used for breaking into places. Good to have a source to show they aren't "mainly used for crime"
I've been kicking around the idea of digital escrow for that sort of thing. I put this file in the digital locker, you pay me money, and when you download the image the locker is cleared out. The purchase price includes the exclusive rights to that digital file and the creator gives up all rights as soon as the locker is opened.

File that into "side projects that I'll likely never get around to".
Whether or not China emitted lots of CO2 doesn't matter here. The old studies didn't predict how much CO2 the world would emit. They predicted how much the planet would warm, for various amounts of CO2 emissions. It turned out they were correct about that.

Among the models this study looked at was Hansen's. That's the NASA scientist who testified about global warming to Congress in 1988. It'd be quite a coincidence if there were lots of models with a wide variety of predictions, and the one model that was presented to Congress just happened by chance to be one of the few that got it right.

But if you can actually show that there were in fact a bunch of models by scientists of similar stature, which made really different predictions and were left out of this study, then that would be interesting.
> Which probably applies to most denizens of the West.

Most denizens of the West seem to like Western democracy and, well, Putin doesn't. So Russia doesn't. So Yandex doesn't.

As one of the "denizens of the West" - we might hate on what the US does, but only because we believe it could do better. We have no such expectation of Putin.
Does anyone run proprietary software in a cloud context?

The whole point is that the hardware becomes as flexible as the software, spin up, spin down, blow it away and deploy a fresh instance if something goes wrong.

I can't see many people trying to do that with proprietary licensing?
This.

Unless you monitor the network it is very likely that it is pinging a Chinese server.

Many years ago we bought a treadmill with LCD screen and Android running on it with a browser and other stuff. Connected it to WiFi and were happy.

A couple of years later I got a Ubiquiti edgerouter, configured it and decided to check its deep packet filtering. It started showing me an odd Chinese domain being pinged periodically, like every 5 min. Don't remember the domain but it was some Chinese search engine/portal I had never heard of (not Baidu). It took me a while to figure out that it was the treadmill that was doing this. At which point I had to just disconnect it. I have no idea why it was doing what it was doing and what data it was sending and if I was running a backdoor in my home all this time.

Point I'm trying to make is, don't assume. Mistrust and Verify should be the modern day mantra for Internet connected, especially Chinese, devices.
> It's just as likely that reality is worse than predicted.

This cannot possibly be correct; it's the same reasoning as the argument "Either the sun will rise tomorrow or it won't. These two possibilities exhaust the entire space. Therefore, the odds of the sun rising tomorrow are 50%, one in two." The premises are completely correct -- and unrelated to the conclusion.
We didn't find any quantitative and peer-reviewed projections of cooling, or we would have included them. If you know of any, please let me know and I'll publish an update to the paper.
With that much money you basically have to make a single phone call to Vanguard. With slightly less you have to spend more time on the phone...
I'm really happy you respond to the harsh criticism given, but do you think its cool to say : "Hey, no adds in this paid app........ But the money doesn't go to the guy who made the content"

I get why you might have done it, hey a nice adblock feature. But you are asking for money for it.. Did I miss something ?
Reading this comment thread hours after everyone else has posted, it sure is strange that a handful of individuals are defending the state from pretty much every objection by random commenters. I'm not a conspiracy guy, but this feels like when I watched the Hong Kong Blizzard protest, and you had all these guys named like "John Harrison" and "Alex Jeffries" spamming messages about how Tienanmen Square was just western propaganda. It feels like a couple of accounts pushing a specific agenda.
P.S. Our coauthor at NASA was able to host the paper on their official site for anyone to read. https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha08910q.html

I share your wish for open access journals.
An overview of model explainability in modern machine learning
> With a move to more distributed programming models the network is often in the critical path now, making cpu performance less relevant for many workloads

Oddly, Intel ought to have an edge here, because they have been selling chips with embedded 100 Gbps Ethernet controllers on-die.

However, I've never seen such a beast in data centre, I suspect they've "reserved" this feature for HPC workloads only.
For what it is worth, this is absolutely not true and (regardless of what legal prescient may or may not imply) companies still sue people for such activities. While it has been shown several times that circumventing DRM does not explicitly run afowl with the DMCA, that does not mean you are not in the clear with the EULA of the software which leaves open an avenue for you to be sued in civil court for EULA violations.

If you go to court you may be able to defend yourself (depending on the circumstances of your DRM circumvention activities, the wording of the EULA, and the quality of the lawyers on each side), but it will still cost you a huge amount of time and money--a fact that is commonly exploited by litigative companies to punish people accused of such practices.
[1] and [2] are not studies. [2] isn't even peer reviewed.

[3] is behind a paywall. It appeared in the "2006 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance", which is a pretty good indicator that this is not work done by social scientists, i.e., not scientifically backed. I have worked in science, the good papers appear in journals highly relevant for the topic.

[4] and [5] are not about software engineering.

[6] is also behind a paywall, and is based on a study with 24 students.

As I can't access the full-text papers, what is the reported strength of the effect, i.e., if person A is x% better than person B in spatial recognition, how much better is A in software engineering?

edit: here is a study presenting evidence that spatial skill differences in gender are not biological, see https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-38414-001. Without paywall: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mike_Stieff/publication...
I was looking at the dials on a refrigerator, and realized I never really knew which way is which - does turning the dial towards "cold" make it colder, or does the opposite, revealing more of the indicator from the "cold" end make it colder?

There is a tapered blue line with numbers, so is the wider end colder, because blue is cold and more blue is colder...or is the other end colder, because it has smaller numbers, and lower temperatures are smaller numbers?
Kailaasa: A new nation “Established” in South America
And where does that auth-info-via-file-handle come from? I did a bit of duckduckgoing and couldn’t spot anything about that.
I’m not seeing how this could work on most driving surfaces. On asphalt you would have to penetrate the surface, which would require extreme force, or somehow apply additional downforce to a friction device, which would reduce braking friction to the other wheels.
Chronic fatigue syndrome.
Indeed, the authors (I am one of them) would appreciate this. I'll personally add any extra papers you find to the plots. If it turns out we really left out some important papers, we (or at least I) will publish a revision to the paper.
It’s true there isn’t a financial motivation, but there are plenty of trials run with government grants.

Fact is, if they really are beneficial, physicians want to know and are willing to spend time and money to collect data.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate it.
This is a bit like whether Magneto can escape the Plastic Prison (yes or no) without Logan traveling back in time and altering the timeline.
Which will be great, just as soon as someone comes out with a competitive server CPU + chipset.

Surely these are in development, but based on the ARM experience, it'll be at least 5 years from availability of reasonable parts to any decent volume.
There is an excellent paper on this, it is a combination of both luck and skill:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068
> This is especially true as JSON-the-standard (RFC7159) is horribly underspecified

Normally.. you would hope that the great test system built in to go would benefit stdlib upgrades like this and allow you do them more easily and with greater confidence.. but if what you're implementing suffers from this, then you pretty much stuck locking yourself into specific implementations rather than general specifications.

> but it's definitely in the Good Enough category

"Two steps forward, one step back" sums up how I feel about Go. It's still my favorite user-mode language, though.
I often wonder what the positive VC experience is like.
No idea, the most plausible explanation is that the driver stole the item and left the empty envelope. Although what they thought they could do with replacement foam pads for a particular set of headphones I don't know.

But I'm sure it's possible to lockpick the door or do something else to the locker, as it was an outside 24/7 one. fairly unlikely though.
Sure, but Slack channels are somewhere between email subscription lists and recurring email threads, in the space of corporate communication.

Channels may exist for each corporate customer, of which there may be a hundred or more, where CS reps subscribe to subsets that they're focused on, country managers subscribe to those that are local, product managers subscribe broadly by vertical but only scan to get a feel, sales may subscribe by function or region, etc. This is an easy way to get a large number of useful channels that simultaneously cuts down on noise.

BTW, you're surprisingly dictatorial in what you say. Emergent behaviour is far more interesting to me, because - along with conscious reflection - it evolves uses that can't easily be foreseen. Where did you get your rules handed down from on high, how were they justified, and what right do you have to think they are correct?
> you would have to penetrate the surface

No, you just have to push down hard enough to take some of the pressure off the tires. (In an extreme case you would lift the tires entirely off the ground. A nice side effect is that you would no longer need a tire jack. Hm, I am beginning to understand why car manufacturers don't implement this :-)
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I think it's sophistry to pretend we haven't any more idea of that since pre-Democritus. Thousands of years of science has shown that infinities are always a problem in our heads, with our theories. Does that prove they don't exist? No more than it's proven that the sun will come up tomorrow, I guess.
How Exercise May Fight Aging
I would happily pay some of the non spotify / subscription based podcasts I enjoy, infact I do through patreon etc.

If the content provider offers it, and I want to give it, cool.

But paying for this, has nothing to do with the provider.. At all actually. All money goes to someone who filtered out Adverts, if you wanna have a better argument you could say : can't anyone do this: And yes, but its the time and effort that goes into it, maybe release it open source and free so others can build a network of methods to remove more ads and even support the content provider without them needing to invest in a 'special ad-free' streaming service.

Nobody is telling you not to use this, just their own reasons for not.
That was 100G Omni-Path (not Ethernet compatible) which has been subsequently canceled, I guess due to lack of demand. Intel's 100G Ethernet NICs were years behind other vendors due to the 10 nm fiasco.
It's interesting to see the supplementary tables (that are free).

In the supplementary table 1, classified by menopausal status, they report 55 results. The intervals that exclude 1.00 are:

1.30 (1.04, 1.62)
1.35 (1.08, 1.69)
1.41 (1.10, 1.79)
1.26 (1.02, 1.55)
1.51 (1.17, 1.94)
0.68 (0.47, 0.99)

(Some are very correlated.)

Anyway, they get 6 interesting results, slightly more than the expected number of false positive cases with a 95% CI interval with 55 cases.

Moreover, in the last case, 1.00 is excluded because the interval is too low, i.e. in this study in the premenopausal women that applied hair dye to other person between 1 and 3 times a year got less cancer that the women that didn't. This is probably just noise, but note that this case is not highlighted in the abstract in spite they highlight a few cases where the 95% interval includes 1.00.

In the supplementary table 2, classified by estrogen reception, they report also 55 results. The intervals that exclude 1.00 are:

0.78 (0.63, 0.97)
0.82 (0.70,0.95)

Both are below 1.00, and neither is highlighted in the abstract. This number is close to the expected number of false positive cases with a 95% CI interval with 55 cases.

I guess there is another table in the paper where they classify the women black or white, and perhaps even more classifications.

So the evidence looks weak and close to the noise level.
If anyone wants to see why little endian is better try implementing a sigint. Big endian makes everything backwards in terms of iteration order.
How can you distinguish survivorship bias different from... developing better models? If there are any models that made quantitative predictions of global temperature change (whether warming, cooling, or neither), please let me know. I am extremely interested :)

P.S. Read the paper here: https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha08910q.html
Don't forget its role in the movie Risky Business:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O8_FMhW9dY

"Porsche. There is no substitute."

I wonder what they paid for that line.
The correction is based on physics is really quite straightforward...
Don't forget the part where they said Samsung is Darth Vader fighting against Apple.

Hard to take an article seriously with that kind of hyperbole.
I'm not suggesting anything other than the state may not be interested in serving the poor and more interested in reducing what the state pays out.

I did not make a statement about what I would personally prefer the state to do.
I expect Ampere eMAG 2 to be pretty similar to Graviton2, so you can buy that instead. (Or pretend that you're going to buy it until you see the price.)
Typically yes. I think Nintendo sometimes turns a profit on consoles due to optimising on other factors than cutting edge power. Consoles can also become profitable over their lifetime as technology matures.
It's very hard to buy prebuilt AMD products into the enterprise still in my experience
so I remember being upset that I could not run my javascript code in amp too... is that maybe what has you feeling it’s google trying to take control of the web... the thing is google make money selling ads not controlling your web content so I just don’t see how your assertion makes sense?
Well, now we have RDS proxy that was announced after my original post, so that should help with DB connections....
It isn't petty. Especially in our younger years, we are susceptible to suggestion. If we tell our youth that they don't know about technology, we should celebrate teens who push back on us about it... because many others will simply believe us, and stop trying to learn.

Despite the ranting tone, this encourages me for our future - we have youth with both brains and spines who are willing to stand up and have their say. We need a little youthful outrage in this society to start making some changes, so this might not be the typical HN post, but I like it.