skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the simple explanation of “because I like it” is a good enough reason to have something. If you look at it analytically enough, a lot of the things we end up liking can be traced back to some primitive leftovers of our evolution as a species, and may otherwise appear to be quite irrational. You obviously can’t act on every impulse you have, so the list of irrational resource allocation decisions any particular person makes will reflect their own personal priorities. But pretending you’re somehow above this is just downright absurd. Perhaps the aesthetic pleasures of keeping a nice green lawn don’t matter very much to you personally, but your life is most certainly full of your own personal collection of frivolous and irrational decisions that you made purely for your own satisfaction.
Have you checked out OpenPhone (www.openphone.co)?

We've been building a simple and reliable phone for professionals though are used for personal communications as well since our pricing is very affordable at $10/mo per user or number.

We've just recently launched our web app in beta (launching officially soon) so we're now at feature parity with GV and beyond since we've really invested time into creating a fast and modern service that works seamlessly.

Would love your thoughts!
Random access latency is the bottleneck. You can feel the difference between NAND and Optane even if your sequential speeds are comparable to a hard drive, let alone the 2 gigabytes per second those drives can push.

After all, if you have to wait 100 microseconds per 4K read, a single thread can only utilize 40 megabytes per second.
Good, server-side data is harder to fingerprint and track.
What you're describing is not "law." Law is defining rights based on rules everyone agrees to ahead of time. Changing the rules after the fact based on what "people want" isn't law, it's tyranny. California litigated this issue--what rights it has in land subject to the treaty with Mexico--in front of the United States Supreme Court in 1984, and lost. That is "the law."
For a while, I would receive gift cards as gifts from my mother. She isn't the type of person to buy gift cards for people. But, for a while, she worked at a large supermarket chain, which meant that she could buy gift-cards from the store she works in below cost, i.e. that she could pay $90 to activate a $100 gift card.

This would probably be the one-and-only time that gift cards are really "better than cash."
million dollar question, is anime for kids?

Guess we will see.
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Hatchimals are this too, though in fairness, "surprise mechanics" have been a thing basically since forever— at least in my day you graduated from kinder eggs to magic the gathering booster packs.
I'd argue YouTube is more like a city. It's got its sewers, and it's got its seedy areas, but it also has its museums.
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>YouTube is still trying to get away with "letting the machines do it", which works for most aspects of their business, but not this.

Citation needed. I mean, they do use AI for lots of stuff, but let's not describe it as working. It has routinely caused massive aggravation for their biggest content creators, it has been one in a group of changes that has basically made Youtube an unsafe monetization platform and driven the creation of places like Patreon,

Sure, this is the only AI fuck up that is going to get them sued in federal court and face charges of exploiting children, but it's not like the other AI stuff is working well. Basically, their AI is doing a bad job everywhere, it's just that this area is where they face legal liability and so they can't pull out their usual "but the machines told us to!" defence.
Well, Dell, Lenovo and Asus are onboard, and at least Asus seems to be gearing up for some premium offerings. So far, these laptop chips were mid-level performers with mediocre battery life. At least in their marketing slides, they are potentially addressing both issues. Zen 2 on 7nm is allowing for high core count, higher clocks and low TDP. In theory they've also improved the idle states to reduce power usage under more conditions.

Both the above theoretical improvements and availability in desirable laptop chassis's will remain to be seen, but at least we can be optimistic, given the desktop wins we've seen this year.
same - too much curated content available to let the kids watch random YouTube videos
Winning on most of the merits doesn't really matter if you still lose on one of them.
The police, who I am sure this Vinod guy donates to/has in their pocket.

Don't trust anyone when it comes to people with "fuck you" money.
Makes total sense to have a worker well rested and happy (40 hours does that sufficiently well). Your submission works if it is a task such as programming. A programmer can finish their week's tasks in 3 days or less and you'd be fine with that. That's not most programmers though.

Moreover, I have had other businesses where the time you pay for as an employer totally matters if you're to get an ROI.

If I need you for 8 hours a day and there's an amount we've agreed on as compensation, then that's exactly what I need.

It doesn't really work if for instance it is a restaurant and you need to have waiters, dishwashers and cooks round the clock as patrons visit your establishment.

If they'd rather work fewer hours and get less money, who am I to argue? I'm just saying they'll be poorer for it and contrary to what you posited, they won't be too happy about it either.
It's an idea that's only recently begun gathering research:

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/294545

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13318990

https://www.brinknews.com/working-fewer-hours-makes-you-more...
1. Set up some raspberry pis with cameras that run a webserver that when hit, it returns the current image.

2. Create a backend that queries each camera for their current image.

3. Run the images through some object recognition neural network (fastai has some great object recognition tutorials).

4. Make your backend stitch together the images from each camera to make a video of what was being recognized when objects of interest were detected (each camera will create its own video)

5. Create a nice little UI/App for everyone to view the movies with some filtering in place (time of day, object(s) of interest).

I want to create something like this as well. All of the pieces seem to be pretty straightforward to me except for figuring out power and network connectivity. I guess each neighbor would have to configure the device to use their SSID... and hope someone doesn't steal the raspberry pi and get the SSID credentials from memory... Maybe just make the neighbors use a separate network?
Well up until recently I spent 9-10 hours a day programming machines that turned mountains into countertops and fireplace and such for rich people. Every day I kind of made the world worse to make some rich people happy. I mean there was one day we took a slab of 10 million year old fossils cut from the bottom of the ocean and made it into a counter. This arguably does not improve the world.

4 day weeks or 6 hour days would have been pretty awesome, I could have likely been more productive in life things.

My new job is also nothing world changing, though probably marginally more beneficial to more people and less environmentally damaging, but the lack of 6, nine hour day weeks makes it more appealing in many ways.

Though, I'm kind of torn, because I find the actual work less fulfilling and enjoyable, but having time is nice.
I was thinking this could be a good way to get lame blogs banned off HN. Just order some upvotes for it from one of those banned upvoting services. No one is going to believe someone else ordered it.
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I feel like more and more of our life is what "product" we connect with and use. I kinda want to opt out.
Charlie Rose always seemed to be trying to play some sort of mind game to goad information out of his guests. I went down a rabbit hole of watching old historical interviews and discovered interviews were very tame. Like, Dick Cavett's famous interview with Marlon Brando - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU-4wmwc2Rw where the host was friendly and letting the guest speak above all else. Anything resembling this level of genuine conversation is a nice treat.
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I’ve heard bad things about both their Santa Clara and Redwood City locations. I’ve also experienced bad things in their RWC location. For example, I was always exhausted and I requested a sleep study. What I got from Kaiser was a crappy take home gadget that detected no abnormalities in my sleep. When I switched to PAMF, I got a real sleep study in a lab. They were able to diagnose breathing and snoring issues within 30 minutes. There are more stories from both coworkers and friends. Save yourself a headache, pay more for a better provider

The only advantage Kaiser has over many health care providers is price.
I'm not talking about Google's legal team. We already know which way their going due to the article. I'm talking about reality.
> More RPA and NoCode.

Noooooooo! sadface

Interestingly, this kind of mess probably keeps ~50% of us programmers employed. So ... yeh.
I think what's being overlooked is "it's good for businesses in the short term" not necessarily good for them in the long term.
AMD's market share 2019

Desktop ~ 20%
Notebook ~ 15%
Server ~ 4%

OEM's still have to by Intel chips if they want to sell large volumes.

AMD/TSMC just can't make enough CPU's to take over Intel in CPU market share even if they win every deal.
...and your 12 year old is going to develop a drinking problem because of watching an ad?

This is what's wrong with America... in many other countries beer ads are everywhere and you don't see children brown-bagging a beer in the playground.
Agreed. I am just saying that the Optanes are specifically tuned to be the fastest storage drives for random access -- and they deliver on that front. There are benchmarks out there, I can send you a link if you like.
Heh, I was giving them the benefit of the doubt. They've been running on "algorithms" since 2005, and are still around, so I assume it works for them for some definition of working.

But you have a point. YouTube and Google get a lot of flack for things that are emergent properties due to their lack of humans.
I don't understand your response. It seems like we are saying, at least to some extent, the same thing. Does this mean that you agree that a straight monetary comparison of spending is not adequate to give an accurate portrayal of relative military might?

In case there is misunderstanding on what I meant by duplication let me be more specific. The UK and France both have similar military command structures. Thus collectively both militaries are paying for the bureaucratic overhead of maintaining of two militaries whereas Russia pays for only one. Both militaries have personnel dedicated to HR, admin, police and other ancillary costs for maintaining a military. Since there is no Euro wide military the collective spending on defense is inefficient.

From my perspective The EU is militarily disjointed, fragmented, and overall weak. I'm speaking solely in terms of military might and force projection.
These APU's wont fix todays problems in Laptops. Idle power consumption is largely due to all components together. bigger batteries are only more expensive. I'm still waiting for more efficient SSD's. There's no point in an efficient SOC if you still need a large hard drive and a bright display.

And of note; an 1800 base freq is on the low end of the performance/watt curve we've seen from their other products. Maybe AMD expects most workloads to not use all 8 cores properly and let the boost algo max the cores out?

also, where's PCIE 4? My guess is they are waiting a cycle on purpose due to power constraints.
lose... losing.
Fossil's new(ish) semi-automatic bidirectional interaction with Git mirrors has finally made Mercurial replaceable for me. However, it is hard to ignore that the IT world has mostly decided to settle with whatever is the most commonly used right now, no matter if it is actually the best solution - so at least when it comes to DVCS, the war seems to be over.
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I don't follow. Are you suggesting laws or treaties are immutable?
Unpopular Opinion: There shouldn't be "children's content" on YouTube in the first place.
I can't imagine how frustrating this is for business owners. There are a bunch of obviously fake reviews by people in India on the local GNC branch. If you just look at the star rating, you'll think "Wow, that place must suck!". Then you read the reviews and it's from people who have never set foot in the United States never mind GNC. Reviews are basically useless.
> Professors working 30-hour weeks

This is gated by the fact that teaching even a single class well is almost a 40-hour a week job by itself.
Both the U.S. Constitution and the California Constitution contain special protections for private property rights. What you're describing--"requir[ing] access"--is a property right called an "easement." The State cannot "simply modify the rules" to give itself a property right that didn't exist before.

There is a constitutional way for the state to acquire a property right against a property owner's will: eminent domain. But that requires "just compensation" (i.e. California will have to pay Khosla for the easement). California is hesitant to do that because it would rather try to bully Khosla into giving up the property for free.
What is the value of a giant private beach?
What is the value of that same beach with public access?

It seems to me that the difference between those two numbers could easily be $30M.
Here's is a great long-form article on some of the societal implications of living in the age of Ring and NextDoor. It touches on this point throughout the article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/steal...
Thunderstorms and fire tornadoes say your theory is correct:

https://qz.com/1779572/how-australias-massive-bushfires-are-...
Lidar is solidly worse than the human eye in dust, rain etc. Waymo has struggled w/ dust devils in AZ. Cruise has struggled w/ steam vents in SF. I work at a John Deere subsidiary and we are quite interested in dust performance for field work. From our tests Lidar is low on the list for seeing through small particles.

Lots of things could fix this, less beam divergence, custom signals processing on multiple returns. But out of the box, it’s this statement does not hold true.
Unfortunately, 2.4ghz is still pretty much the only option for something like a smart lightbulb or smart plug. For the printer though, it seems like either the printer software or my router is smart enough to talk to it even though my PC is on the 5ghz SSID. But the same can't be said of the bulbs and plugs. I had to return a bunch and swap for Amazon echo smart plugs, which are also only 2.4ghz, but the echo itself is smart enough to work with them even though it too is on the 5ghz said.
How many opioid overdoses happened among the unemployed coal miners and their families?
outsourced?
media.ccc.de is where the Chaos Communications Congress uploads their conference talks (they're one of the largest hacker conferences in Europe).

However, their hosting site is available for any conference to use, so it's more like YouTube for tech conferences.
> While it’s legal, it is not “normal” for VC funds to be backing out of a half dozen deals at the same time.

Except that softbank vision fund is not a "normal" VC fund. They many times larger than the largest VC fund.

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

Softbank has $100 billion in assets. The 2nd closest VC fund has $17 billion. Proportionally, softbank backing out of 6 deals is like the 2nd VC fund backing out of 1 deal.
While drivers are in many respects indistinguishable from children, they are in fact adults, and can typically figure things out from the explanation that accompanies the punishment.
Mobile processors are always one generation behind. Mobile Ryzen 2000 was Zen, mobile ryzen 3000 was Zen+ and mobile ryzen 4000 will be Zen 2 (while Desktop ryzen 4000 will be Zen 3).

The reason for this is that it takes more engendering effort to always add the igpu to the platform.
The T495 is the T490 with Ryzen. I am so going to get the next model with Ryzen 4000. The only question is how Lenovo is going to solve the naming problem ;)
use h1bdata.info to check if a company has sponsored an h1b in the past, it also shows compensation data

its pretty illuminating at small companies because you know exactly who the data is referring to
How's the power usage of these Ryzen chips vs Intel vs Apple's home-brew ones? The consumer cares a lot more about battery life than they do about getting the last 10% of performance out of a chip these days.
Hold up, this is a different thing than what [1] and [2] are responding to.
Parents will buy said hardware for their kids.
> No thanks. I'll just get it for a penny plus $3.99 shipping from amazon, less than the cost of gasoline to drive into town to order it, pick it up, and return it (3 round trips).

Says Mr. Fancy-pants here with a mailbox/street-accessible doorstep that packages can fit in/on.

Us apartment-dwellers often end up with a notice that says that FedEx or whichever last-mile carrier couldn't in good conscience leave your box in the apartment lobby (and, implicitly, couldn't be arsed to come up the elevator and put the box in front of your apartment door) so instead they have driven your package back to the nearest FedEx warehouse half-way across town, where you're welcome to [pay for the gas required to] come get it. After, of course, waiting 30 minutes behind several people each taking 10 minutes to send packages, before you can spend 30 seconds receiving yours.

Oh, and although you could have intercepted the delivery-man like a linebacker to receive your package today, because you didn't, it won't be available at the warehouse until tomorrow afternoon. Or maybe four days from now. And that's if they don't put it back on a truck to attempt to deliver it again, and again, and again (and give you no way to specify in the delivery instructions that they should just stop trying.)

And after they do finally give up putting it on the truck, they'll make sure to only wait a few days before they send it back to whoever sent it to you, making the sender eat a huge shipping cost that'll make them unlikely to ever send you anything again.

For me, receiving an Amazon delivery both costs more, and takes more time, than buying the same thing in a brick-and-mortar retail store, let alone going to the library!
Ryzen 3000 aka Zen+ mobile wasn't a premium product. GPU was certainly better than Intel, but CPU wasn't the perf/watt simply wasn't there.

I hope they'll stuff these into bargain bin laptops with 1080p displays though. I'm in the market, and don't care to pay more to use more resources for higher dpi that I can barely see the difference with and just causes software headaches. :P
Pretty dismissive take. The author presents a vision on how engineering can be more effective and protests against micro-management that gives them zero room for creativity and being able to put their best work.
Resilient Go net/HTTP servers using timeouts, deadlines and context cancellation
Without further clarification, I'm honestly confused whether you comment is related to my own, or you just wanted to make this observation for its own sake.
This is a reasonable counterargument—though I'm not especially persuaded and it's a little bit of a straw man. Are you arguing that there's not enough evidence to substantiate an actionable belief that nicotine, alcohol & sugar correlate with significantly increased health costs? We already tax two of these on that premise—though not nearly the levels required to offset the costs they create.
It was a pumpjet in the book, MHD in the movie.
she's actually done that deliberately.

She made a statement about why she left her personal stuff in there. Brave woman. Good on her.
Ouster CEO here.

This is single unit pricing. Volume discounts apply. Still work to do to get this in every honda civic, but it is possible with our technology.
Sure lets blame 40 year old merger
>They spend much of their day just goofing off - wasting their own time and often the time of their coworkers.

This is why a world where everyone is an independent contractor feels...right.

I don't know how you could implement it properly, but from a high level it works: work when you want to, take holidays when you want to, move around. There's no such thing as "businesses will take advantage of workers though!" because everyone is a business. Screw enough people and no one will work with you.

Of course, for this to work you'd need a universal safety net or UBI...
Courts have so far ruled that, for various reasons, the 1976 California Coastal Act doesn't apply at all to this piece of land. They have also ruled that the previous use of the land didn't create any sort of government easement over the property.

I'm not sure what else really matters here?
I didn't read the parent comment's point as bias.

Your points about cost reduction spreading wealth and access don't preclude the idea that a race to the bottom incentive might pass a stress tolerance threshold somewhere.
Scientist have no idea what dark matter or dark energy is so it’s not like our world would be overturned. If it turns out to be wrong assumptions, that’s fine. Although it would be embarrassing.
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The core part of it is unchanged.
All CPUs with the Zen2 Architecture are made out of the exact same 8 Core die. Ryzen, Threadripper and Epyc. And that is one of the big advantages that AMD currently has compared to Intel. Take a look at the pictures. The CPU actually consists of 3 Parts: CPU, GPU, Interconnect.

What's new with this CPU is the GPU Die that is soldered right next to the CPU and the interconnect chip that combines CPU and GPU.

It should have been:

Ryzen 1000 - Zen1

Ryzen 2000 - Zen+

Ryzen 3000 - Zen2

But it is:

Ryzen 1000 - CPU: Zen1, APU: -

Ryzen 2000 - CPU: Zen+, APU: Zen1

Ryzen 3000 - CPU: Zen2, APU: Zen+

Ryzen 4000 - CPU: ?, APU: Zen2
u-blox's ZED-F9P chip is capable of 10 mm (0.39 inch) accuracy [0]. AFAIK, high accuracy requires being relatively close to a terrestrial correction station. Some states, such as Iowa, run a network of these stations and provide free access to the public [1].

0 - https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15136

1 - https://iowadot.gov/rtn/IaRTN-resources/About-the-IaRTN