skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All government programs that benefit women suddenly become illegal. No more mandatory FMLA maternity leave. No more WIC, especially not for single mothers. Women would have to register for the draft. No more government support for women's shelters. No more presumption in favor of women in family courts. No laws requiring female representation. And a huge transfer of legislative power from the state to the federal level, for no clear benefit.

Now, you could argue that some of those might be good things, but I guarantee that will not be a universal opinion. And you could argue that, rather than cutting services for women, we should increase services for men--but the ammendment does not require that, and are you really ready to gamble that that's how it would go?

And what about discrimination based on gender--which, after all, is not the same thing as sex?
For database selection, there is a blog post about why choose TiDB over CockroachDB and other MySQL-based solutions: https://pingcap.com/success-stories/why-we-chose-a-distribut...
Building anything real is a lot of work. The real question is: what kind of work do you want to be doing?

I don't really program for fun anymore, but when I did, I always worked on completely personal things I could build without relying on monolithic frameworks. In practice this usually meant command-line or terminal-based apps, e.g. text editors.

I didn't build anything the world hadn't seen some version of before, but the crucial difference between these projects and something like e.g. a Reddit clone is that most of the challenges I set for myself were pure problem-solving. I never had the patience for projects that had me constantly Googling for APIs and domain-specific hacks and so on, for a similar reason to what I'm picking up from you: it all seems arbitrary and brittle and subject to change, and it's not at all fun. It's drudgery. It feels like running on a treadmill, except you're still just sitting on your ass getting older.

It's rewarding to solve complex problems elegantly, and the most challenging pure implementation work I've done has been on my own time. I like to think I learned a lot, in "pure" topics as well as design at complexity scales that a lot of developers never see, and my career to date seems to suggest that I wasn't wasting my time.

Sometimes I don't give this advice, because I don't know how well it would work for somebody who's trying to bootstrap a career from zero professional experience, but it sounds like that isn't the case for you. Unless you think there is some framework or technology that will give you a clear advantage applying for jobs you want, I think you should leave the drudgery at work and spend your time enriching yourself with interesting problems. Pick something you think is interesting and challenging, and learn what you need to learn to make it happen.
When I asked the original question, I was looking for more than a poll; I was hoping someone had some insight into which of the two views to go with here (i.e. whether the evolutionary reasons for the sleepier-in-winter phenomenon are still applicable today or not). You've made it clear which side you're on, without any substantive argument yet. In hopes of eliciting one, I'll play devil's advocate.

Food has always been scarcest in winter. The smart move is to invest less when risk/reward is poorer. A straightforward way for mammals to do that is to conserve energy by sleeping more in the winter. So, there's a reason I'd expect mammals to have evolved to sleep more when there's less light, but this reason is no longer applicable in modern societies. Right?
Teams with better people being more productive and getting paid more seems like a normal thing to expect. It seems weird to expect all people and teams to be only to be average, and to see deviations from this as highly risky.

It doesn't make sense to attack the special team here as that team exists to show what is wrong with other parts of the organization, and how productivity might be improved if incentives/measures were changed.

It's also one managers attempt to be more effective. Should one not strive to be more effective? Is it better to make sure that one doesn't differ from average as that would be risky to the business and create resentment?
Interesting to read, the University in Gießen (Germany) is down for weeks with similar issues. https://www.uni-giessen.de/index.html (engl. Version below). They use Instagram and Facebook to organize 38.000 people and distribute passwords offline https://www.instagram.com/jlu.giessen/?hl=en

- https://www.denbi.de/news/763-shut-down-of-de-nbi-services-h...
- https://www.instagram.com/jlu.giessen/?hl=en
That's cool. Thanks for the link and new information.
uBlock will stop working in Chrome as they got to Manifest v3
> The idea that the leader of the Mormon church is a misogynist and a homophobe, that he stood in the way of LGBT rights, well, that's a story that sells these days.

This isn't just an idea: it's a core aspect of Thomas S. Monson's (and every LDS leader's) legacy.

We have a significant number of LGBTQ+ children committing suicide over the LDS Church's doctrines of homophobia.

The LDS Church likes to tout its $40 million per year charitable donations while hoarding $100 billion in a tax exempt investment fund.

The LDS Church is very successful in creating a positive image that is extremely misleading. It's no surprise to me that an active member sees an honest accounting of Monson's life as misleading, because he himself has been so thoroughly misled. I know because I have been in his shoes.
Option 1 seems like it defeats the point. If you're going to declare a field with a more permissive type than currently allowed, aren't you just hacking weak types back into your strong type system?

Option 2... look. I've seen a lot of API deprecations, across multiple teams in multiple companies, and every one of them was very onerous in ways that had little to do with the service infrastructure. If you've done easy API deprecations, more power to you, but I don't think your experience is representative.
Ask HN: What’s your favorite developer tool of all time and why?
It can be anything - CLI tools, editors, IDEs, build tools, linters, fuzzers, sanitizers, debuggers, SCM tools, DevOps tools, testing tools, SaaS products (Stripe, Datadog), why even software libraries is fair game.
A creature with a human face is casually eating another creature with a human face, whole. That's weird and a description of "vore" is fair even if you're absolutely sure there's nothing sexual going on.
Radio broadcasting as a form of political struggle
The point is to let the market decide where to allocate money for reducing CO2.
The review by Dr. Marcus, a cardiologist [1], refers to a study funded by Apple and published in The New England Journal of Medicine [2]. His main point is that “insufficient evidence exists to recommend atrial fibrillation (AF) screening in asymptomatic adults.” [3] There would be a significant number of alarmed users with false-positive results who would undergo costly additional evaluation and treatment where there may be of little benefit. It is troublesome, in his view, that “private industry has bypassed expert consensus to initiate screening for AF in the general population.” He adds that “this is an industry instigated inversion of the relationship between patients and physicians...” [4] Larry Husten at the Cardiobrief blog gives a good overview of some of the pitfalls [5].

[1] https://profiles.ucsf.edu/gregory.marcus

[2] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1901183

[3] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2695678

[4] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-019-0330-y

[5] http://www.cardiobrief.org/2019/11/13/what-can-we-learn-from...
Fortnite doesn't do anything particularly new; but it does a lot of existing things well, and combines some that haven't been combined well in the past.

I'd like to stake out two wins that define Fortnite's success, to me:

1. It's on every platform that matters, with crossplay.

That's hitherto largely unheard of for games; which is mostly a result of budget restrictions, middleware licensing, and partner contract limitations.

2. Its store combines time-limited access, games of chance, and vanity. You have to keep playing and keep spending in order to look how you want, and how you want to look is coerced to be ever changing by the continual churn of the store.
> Sweeney isn’t quick to take all the credit for the mostly positive attention “Fortnite” has attracted, telling The Wall Street Journal his employees designed and programmed the game, not himself. Whatever his role, however, Epic has grown leaps and bounds under his leadership.

If it was his decision to make it free-to-play-but-not-pay-to-win, then a good deal of credit is his.
Show HN: GPT-2 1.5B Subreddit Simulator after 3 days of training using 88 TPUs
> that sort of thing

If they were going for "furry" they would not have done the faces that way.
Individual environmentalism like recycling and vegetarianism is an industry built to release frustration. Over and over their impacts have been shown to be negligible. They are selling you a feeling and not helping the planet.

There is only one vehicle for effective change here and it is regulation. No matter how many people practice and advocate for less consumerism, if it's just so easy and cheap to massively destroy the environment then it will continue to be done in the service of other goals, whether profit, development, or even just for kicks.

No amount of vegetarians and vegetarian-activism will have as much effect as the politician that bakes environmental costs into the price of meat. Lab meat is a similar pipe dream because it still doesn't address the problem.
Thanks a lot! I love that you are using Rust.
The only problem with biking is that the land surface area is 2 dimensional and thus grows too slowly to accommodate everyone :/ but if someone buys me a reasonable place within biking distance then sure, I would sign a contract that obligates me to bike at least 75% of my work days (we can negotiate a different number) as long as I live at that place.
Converting CO2 to Methane makes a lot of sense if you want to store large amounts of power. Every country already has the infrastructure for storing and distributing gas and turning it into electricity and heat.
Are… are you attempting to mansplain breasts to women?
I'm aware of the vore associations.

However, were the original characters in the Cats play actually humanoid cats? Or were they just humans dressing up as cats and the audience was meant to suspend disbelief that what they were looking at were just regular cats?

I ask because obviously a play can't get "live talking cats" without human actors but a movie can easily do so with CG.

Why did they decide to go with humanoid cats instead of regular cats with voice actors? Was it just to match the aesthetic of the play? Or does the plot actually involve the cats being canonicaly humanoid?
Ask HN: Test?
Test test test.
Show HN: I trained a GPT-2 1.5B Subreddit Simulator in 3 days using 88 TPUs
Yeah, Rust is great! I've used it on several production projects for work, but not for extensive embedded work before this. Embedded Rust is getting better and better!

Shout out to the Real Time For the Masses project (it's an RTOS) I used: https://github.com/rtfm-rs/cortex-m-rtfm
To illustrate your point about AWS, at my own workplace there are a few AWS people who are actually in our office once a week, sitting nearby just so they can be easily available to answer questions and work with us to design our architecture or assist in troubleshooting issues. I honestly can't imagine Google providing that level of dedicated support.
Perhaps. But months and years down the line, recreating an environment to regenerate the book can take considerable effort.
Interesting that no one has mentioned Sonic the Hedgehog movie.

The first trailer came out and everyone thought it was terrible: https://youtu.be/4mW9FE5ILJs

It had to be taken back to the drawing boards, and they pushed back the release date. The new one is much better. This must be the first case of movie trailer A/B test
Technology behind Google keyword rank trackers?
I know the use proxy servers but then how do they create such proxy servers for specific cities or country? Also checking eanks require proxies which can handle session other wise google will give inconsistent results back. How much isnthe cost of such proxy serverices?
Thanks
I’m neither partial nor against Apple, but picked up a Series 4 watch recently with the ECG crown feature. It’s a pain because it only registers when the app is activated and the opposite arm touches the crown. I’d also consider wearing a chest strap for constant ECG and sleep apnea monitoring if such a QS device existed at a reasonable price-point. Lastly, it would be nice if there were a continuous non invasive blood pressure monitor (CNAP/cNIBP) similar to CareTaker but more compact and tasteful in appearance that could also gather data (I have tachycardia and high diastolic BP from unknown causes, in addition to obstructive sleep apnea because of a Marfan-ish CTD and I’m overweight).
Thank you. Another follow-up if you don't mind: have you and the others considering ranking Oxide's values separately, and then coming together to determine their hierarchy? It would help a candidate to know which values are more deeply shared, equally shared, or less shared by their own leaders.

Gitlab describes this concept here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#hierarchy
Just about everything in analog was replaced by digital systems because it does it better, cheaper, faster, and smaller. There are a handful of places where analog design chops matter, but they aren't the majority of jobs (or even the best paying ones!)
This is the perfect and always perfectly accurate response whenever someone links to the Rational-sphere. On the other hand, why use few words when you could use—Jesus Christ—6,663 words instead?
May I ask you, how much it costs to buy a place within 2 miles from your office? I bet, it's a solid seven figure number and at that point your argument is like complaining about how hard it's to switch from Bentley to RR.
These seem like fair points. So there's definitely plenty of room for improvement at NYT.
Do you mind me asking if you have a similarly prepared spiel for Fox News? Didn't they claim the American President wasn't actually American for years?
I know this is whataboutery, but I suspect NYT is one of the better media outlets in the US despite the failings you've pointed out.
no it’s not. this is a myth everyone blindly repeats.
RLDS members disagree with mainstream Mormons on a few things, but gay marriage and whether women should be ordained are not among them.
Cheers everyone. I hope this next decade brings us all meaningful opportunities and personal growth.
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I repeatedly see a cynicism around art on HN and other tech blogs, does no-one here see the inherent value in art or culture?

Jackson Pollock's art pieces get a lot of flack for basically having no publicly presented interpretive structure, the artist came up with a technique for doing 'plastic depth' that was a novel innovation. Irvine Kershner who directed Empire Strikes Back and met Pollock made fun of him at the time for his work appearing to be off the rails, and later came to appreciate it.

Taking out the market manipulation of fine art still leaves it with an intrinsic value whether it is technique or the meaning imbued in having a piece of work produced by an artist. Is that worth millions? Who knows, if I give you any old guitar, and a guitar that Elvis played on I know the second will be valued higher.
Dota 2 has a similar store for cosmetics, but also includes the ability to sell them on the steam community market, giving Valve a 15% cut in addition to the money they made on the initial sale. People are willing to spend a lot of money gambling on $2.50 lootboxes for cosmetics that can be bought on the community marketplace for 3 cents the following year.
British Pantomime is a funny thing. When it's done in the right context it's high art.

I'm sure when it premiered on the West End in 1981 the audience was in on the joke.

Monty Python had a grand time with all their Panto references. This skit could be seen as a predictor of Furry culture (even if that wasn't the intent at the time).

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2uwxiz

Lastly, this is my favorite Panto reference. In the context of the movie it's heartbreaking. Mel Brooks gave the director of Eraserhead control over this movie, and we got this. David Lynch was American but he clearly "got" was Panto was all about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq_YuPa_6_8
Yep, that was an idea, but aside from the temp, nothing abnormal was detected. It terrified the docs the first couple of times it happened, they were afraid I'd die. After I didn't, they were less scared, but still concerned. No answers ever came. The fevers came with the migraines for about 6-7 years. Only once did it get to that 105 range, probably the third time, never again, and each time it was less. The theory was that my body didn't know what was happening and the immune response of a fever was triggered by mistake.
> Consider not using some frameworks to remove some of the magic.

Learning a framework for a single project can sometimes mean a lot of learning abstractions that you'll never need again, and that didn't teach you any new core concepts.

I would only learn tools like React or Vue if I intended to use them for work, which is what I did. If I'm doing a fun project, I write native code because it's more fun to figure stuff out on my own and I come across more novel concepts and fundamental understandings that way. If I'm building a new project I will use familiar tools/frameworks, so that I can remove the noise of learning new stuff and focus on the build.

Frameworks take time and iterations to get used to and use effectively, they're best if you're going to be building a lot of things using them. They're more like a box of weirdly shaped tools that you like.
The article actually discusses this very argument, though in a slightly tangential way.
This was done using preemptible TPUv3's, but you can get similar results with TPUv2's. It would just take about 3 times longer.

I'm excited about the multi-TPU technique. We've been calling it "swarm training". https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2#gcp

It's cheaper than a TPU pod by a fair margin, and you can scale your usage up and down rather than having to do a 1-year commitment for $1M/yr.

Here's a typical tensorboard example: https://tensorboard.dev/experiment/MEXO9GEWR0Wjdb6bz6yjsw/

We're able to process about 1 billion GPT-2 tokens every 12 hours, which seems about equivalent to a TPU pod. It's hard to get a direct comparison because so little data is available. (Each TPU is currently getting 256 tokens/sec, and we've been running with 88 TPUs in the swarm.)

As for the sample quality, I'm pretty happy with it. It seems good at philosophical debates, trolling, writing prompts, and several other tasks.

The dataset was provided by the creator of https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/ and was gathered via pushshift.io. It's about 10GB.

Beyond that, I wrote some code to dump samples using a rolling context window. You'll notice that this file is one continuous sample. You can try it yourself:

git clone https://github.com/shawwn/gpt-2
cd gpt-2
sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 download_model.py 117M
python3 src/generate_samples.py --prompt "What a lovely day today!" --model_name 117M --length 256 --step 64 --top_p 0.90 --temperature 1.0

Once it's running, it will look like someone is rapidly typing into your terminal. (--step 1 is even cooler in that regard, since it looks like it's typing out one word at a time.)

Sometimes it will get stuck in a loop. If so, you can reset the context window manually while it's running by executing `rmdir commands/clear_context`

The command system is kind of a funny hack. I wanted a way of interacting with the AI training while it's running, and using `rmdir` seemed like the easiest way to "press a button". You can also do things like attach a debugger, save a snapshot, change the learning rate, and so on. Bonus: it works in Colab, since you can remove directories while a cell is executing.
I'm learning Spanish now and listening to a lot of radio and podcasts has helped my understanding of it.

Translating easier children's books is really helpful, especially if you can find a book in both English and the target language.

Also, anki decks that have full phrases/sentences are really helpful.

I want to try baselang.com for a month or two to improve my conversational skills. It's only for Spanish, but I wonder if there are equivalent services for other languages (unlimited conversation sessions for a flat fee per month). I haven't tried this yet though so I can't say how effective it is.

Italki is a good place to find people to talk to as well. Basically everyone there wants to learn English so that's nice.
Carpooling takes significantly longer than driving individually, due to the need to coordinate trips. Likewise, using public transportation usually takes significantly longer than driving. I don't think charging employees for parking would change their behaviors (it certainly didn't change mine when I had to pay for my own parking spot in SF for $300 a month - I still found it beneficial to save an hour each day in commuting by driving instead of taking the train).

Outside of highly built up areas (where things are within walking distance or it is economically feasible to have fast frequent public transportation between high density housing and high density office space), driving is simply a better option.
It's very much a response to your point. From your original post:

> It works well as it is, I certainly never find myself wanting something it doesn't currently do.

You are talking about functionality, and I am responding about Amazon's functionality.
vscode is great
How are you arriving at that number?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not release their charitable financials to the public (because they believe in the Biblical tenet not to brag about one's charitable work for the praise of the world). The only solid number released was related to their LDS Charities organization, which has donated $2.2 billion in 197 countries since 1985. This branch does not represent the totality of their charitable work. It is just one organization. For example, this number does NOT include the charity their bishops dole out on a weekly basis, does NOT include donations through their Perpetual Education Fund, and does NOT include the time/money their individual members give.

They recently offered more information about their charitable work throughout the world and claimed their charitable donations equal "billions more" than the $2.2 billion mentioned above (https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-of-j...).

Because there are no solid or accurate numbers publicly available, we really don't have any idea what percentage of their income goes out to charitable donations, so these kinds of statements are simply not valid. Does it really matter though? In my opinion, another person's charity isn't any of my business. Who am I to judge another person's gifts?
I don't think this is such an effective control if you mean controlling the population. Usually when countries shut down the Internet it's to prevent protestors from organizing rather than disconnecting them from the outside world. This doesn't give them additional leverage considering the Russian government's current power.

This is actually most useful for security. At least if you are attacked your national network will survive.