skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you're massively overestimating median pay in finance. Essentially no-one is getting million pound bonuses; 90% of bankers are vice presidents or below and will be unlikely to get bonuses above £200k. Obviously that's still a lot, but anyone who's been at Google for a decade (the tenure you would need to get the highest bonuses in that range) is probably also doing OK.

And it's very weird to call Linklaters "a pretty pedestrian, non-sexy law firm doing boring routine corporate stuff". They're in the Magic Circle, which is the British legal equivalent of FAANG. Their new grad roles will be just as competitive as Google's, if not more so. That the work their grads will do will be more boring seems like a reason for them to pay more, not less (not to mention the difference in number of hours).
Odd that the school render doesn't have the letter Ll on the top.
https://www.excite.com/
are they actually selling it just with gigabit ethernet? that's bad
Here comes another bubble (2007)
"Merchandizing! ...every kid's favorite: Space Balls the Flame Thrower"
ESR should stick to writing jargon files.
We should have a 20 year ( has it been that long? ) reunion. Get all the cast together. Lycos, Excite, AltaVista, AskJeeves, etc. Google will probably be too cool to attend.
What about sole proprietors doing business?
According to the BBC[1]:

> As part of the agreement, Apple must display a notice on its French-language website for a month.

> It says Apple "committed the crime of deceptive commercial practice by omission" and had agreed to pay the fine.

I am unable to find this notice on Apple's French-language website.[2]

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724

[2]: https://www.apple.com/fr/, https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

Edit/Disclaimer: I'm not saying such a demand is reasonable or agreeing with the decision; however, I'm curious as to whether Apple will comply.
The search behaves “as if” it’s using randomly-ordered keys in a random source dictionary, and it’s maddening.

If I type what seems to be the same 3 letters a few times in a row, the result is always different: one time it acts like the app isn’t even installed, another time it finds the app (first choice), another time it finds some other random sub-component instead of the app with a weird file extension. Oh, and my favorite: sometimes it finds multiple things but only after a delay, meaning that just as I hit Enter the top hit changes and I end up opening something entirely unintentional (bonus points if the mistaken choice is something that takes longer to launch, freezing the machine).

They need: (1) stability in the UI (never mess with something once it is highlighted), and (2) stability in the lookup (the same input produces the same set in the same order, every single time or it’s useless).
Any info on how this would stack against a Mac Pro of a similar price?
If I were in the "top 95th" I wouldn't brag about it.

You would say "top 5%" or "95th percentile"
Google Earth Outage: 17 hours and counting
Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Are
If one is to run tests, it would much easier to use the actual nCoV diagnostic panel. The question was whether differential diagnosis for nCoV based on (early-stage) symptoms exists, which to my knowledge it doesn’t yet.
No you don't: Have you seen the TV show "Caprica" ? Part of the plot is that a girl creates an artificial afterlife by duplicating people upon their death from data collected during their life, ironically accidentally killing herself in the process. Technically that's a spoiler, but it's put sufficiently misleading I hope, plus it's revealed in the first 20 minutes of the first episode.

And this can work. You could copy a human merely by observing them. If you get enough data on a person (say yourself, so it isn't creepy), and train an algorithm. Once the algorithm is good enough at imitating you that your own mother can't tell the difference between a robot containing that algorithm and you, is there still a difference. And now every mathematician should say "No". After all, 4 and IV is the same number.

You don't need audio or visual override. You don't need to give any agency to any flesh and blood over a virtual body. Even the robot mentioned before is really more of an optional thing, you could eliminate it.

You could simplify further. You don't need to duplicate a human, you just need to provide them with "a kid". An algorithm that's purely virtual but that is sufficiently smart that humans can raise it to become part of human society. But it's mind can start out mostly empty. So you don't even need to duplicate anything, you just need a sufficiently complex learning algorithm and a way to interact with it, and a human (perhaps preferably a couple?) to teach it, if you're willing to give it a generation or two.
I think the same as you do, although I'm still saving money (maybe to blow it all in a good party). But a worry I have is, what if there's a way for a low percentage of people to survive, but it would cost mucho money? (Welcome to hyper-capitalism). Imagine if you could've joined this Noah's ark had you saved enough..

Not that 401ks will mean much if society collapses...
Major Internet Outage Today
There’s a major cable internet outage going on today affecting everyone from Pennsylvania up to Maine. Not much information available though. Does anyone here on HN know what’s going on?
With only 26 lines of code, System Read Throughput doubled
To have search work viably as a menu it has to repeatable, which generally involves delivering desired results. More anti-user hubris from microsoft.
> my point is that while being top 95% in most tasks

The vast majority of people are in the "top 95%" and it's nothing to brag about.
Also a clickbait title: "... something nefarious" instead of mentioning what that something might be.
I have this same family problem. My brother did the 529 thing for his kids. Behind my brother's back the most problematic family member in this area was really nasty about it. They were insulted. They went on this rant about how Christmas is "their thing" and they aren't going to let us ruin it by restricting how much stuff they buy our children. I hope this 529 things works for some families, but in my experience it's a failure.
I figure you could get away with coming into work in person about once a month or so, status meeting on the state of the developing drop, risk assessment for unexpected drop preparedness, maybe a a quick scrum for an Enterprise suite of "Is there a drop Y/N" management software.
That's less that Tim Cook's yearly stock bonus. How about fining them 25 billion euros?
Living that case quality story with my System76 laptop as we speak :(
I was using an add-on to enable experimental scaling but it's noticeably slower and my remote desktop client doesn't adjust its scaling accordingly. But you're right – browser scaling gets you half way.
NASCAR (and I think F1) do this as well now. Used to be a bit of a wild west, but now all of the cars are to the same spec (which doesnt mean identical). Cars might be tuned differently, for example. For NASCAR, at least, I think it was to help level the playing field, so that lower funded teams could be more competitive.

UCSI also has strict regulations about bike dimensions, weight and even the kind of brakes that can be used. The min weight for a bike is around 15 lbs (think its actually 14.9, but I'm not up to date on current rules as ive stopped racing). Last I heard, disk brakes were not allowed for road racing, despite significant improvements to braking distance and safety in inclement conditions (I know a rule change was being considered a few years ago, so this might be different now). Oddly, they allowed electric deralliers without a rule change.
Wipr: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1320666476?mt=12
These arguments are silly. It would be like arguing against renewables based on tech from half a century ago.

But fearmongering and people being incapable of understanding just how harmful coal is even in comparison to the worst nuclear disasters (which people frequently overestimate the harm from) has lead to significant regulations and cuts in funding, to the point where you're arguing about tech from the 70s.

There's tons of promising research, and without all of the fear, we would not be talking about uranium based BWR. We would have entire other classes of fuel, and some of the Gen4 designs that have been researched could burn all actinides.

You can create nuclear power from a lot more than just uranium.
Paywalled, disabling js doesn't work for this article.
> Young people fear it. Older people know it.

When you say "older" how much older do you mean? 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s+?

I have not had any problem yet regarding my age (40s), and just landed a decent initial offer from a Silicon Valley company.

You don't need to be a 20-something to land a good job. You just need to be somewhat good at what you do.

In my last 3~5 gigs my age has never been brought up. Not even once IIRC.
Zoom is the most most fantastic software I've used for client-contractor meetings. In those cases, the clients or sub-contractors or other stakeholders will simply not use something that is hard to install and start up, or gets blocked by corporate security policies.

Zoom has always "just worked" no matter how non-computer savvy the other side was. I still use it for all kinds of personal things. I strongly, strongly, strongly recommend it.

It also has good "draw-on-someone-elses-screen" functionality, not sure how many other softwares (Skype, Slack, etc) have that. I think it's very powerful and underutilized.
Major spectrum internet outage today
When I entered "bicycle touring" it showed about a dozen links. When I clicked on "More" it showed me the same dozen over again.
> Dozens of franchisees lost their life savings. Others reportedly filed for bankruptcy. The company’s new CEO, Michel Buchbut, admitted mistakes but defended the company to Restaurant Business, saying, “I cannot call it a Ponzi … It was not exactly a Ponzi.”

Not exactly, huh? I’m going to be very interested to read the report when the FTC completes their investigation (assuming they follow Senator Feinstein’s request)
There are already social recipe sites, such as Allrecipes, where people share their own recipes and their own variations of well-known recipes. The Wikimedia Cookbook is just a freely licensed social recipe site.

If you look up a particular recipe online, you end up finding those 7,000 variations scattered across numerous blogs and websites. I don't see any requirement on the number of variations of a recipe that can be added to the Wikimedia Cookbook, and it's no worse to have some of them hosted here.
Sergei Skripal would love to have a word with you about doing things in the open. You could also ask Alexander Litvinenko, if he wasnt dead. Its not being sloppy, its showing others the size of your dong.
How about paralysis?

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/guillain-barre-sy...

Not directly caused by the flu but correlated, fortunately quite rare.
I bought one of their laptops a few year ago. I needed a new power supply as the cable had frayed that came w/ the unit. I wanted to get the original cable, so I called and asked "what was the original manufacturer" so I could purchase a new power supply. They would not tell me and they wanted approx. $75 for a replacement from System 76. I peeled the sticker System 76 put on the bottom and found out it was a Clevo. Once I had the original Clevo model number I was able to purchase a new power supply, that worked, for $29 plus shipping. In short, hardware was good and performed well, their Linux integration was awesome (camera, wireless and all the other do-dads worked flawlessly), but IMO they are overpriced and their lack of candor about their re-branding put me off quite a bit. If having your Linux run w/out issues on your hardware purchase is important it might be worth it to you spend the extra $$.
Not everything.

I can't do the equivalent of

update-package -reinstall

A forced package restore doesn't quite do the same thing. (I'm really glad Rider has that feature though!)

Add-BindingRedirect (would be extra handy since Rider doesn't handle redirects at all [1])

[1] https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-5482
Context: This comment was moved from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22271306, which linked to a BBC article.
You can only do the math right if you get counter and denominator right. The number of unreported cases is probably very high.

I found this in the article posted above:

”So the 20,000 cases in China is probably only the severe cases; the folks that actually went to the hospital and got tested. The Chinese healthcare system is very overwhelmed with all the tests going through. So my thinking is this is actually not as severe a disease as is being suggested. The fatality rate is probably only 0.8%-1%. There’s a vast underreporting of cases in China. Compared to Sars and Mers we are talking about a coronavirus that has a mortality rate of 8 to 10 times less deadly to Sars to Mers. So a correct comparison is not Sars or Mers but a severe cold. Basically this is a severe form of the cold.”
Laszlo Bock Thinks Machine Learning Can Make Work Better
See my other reply. There's not 100% replication, there are some things you just plain can't do outside VS. =(
Influenza is a serious disease that kills tens of thousands of people every year.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
There's a stringency to the barrier to participation that's missing here. To be in the 95%-ile of heart surgeons, may still mean that you make seemingly obvious mistakes, but I kind of doubt it. To be in the 95%-ile of machine-learning engineers ... what does it even mean?

In addition to the stringency of the barrier to participation, there's a stringency of the barrier to opportunity for practice. If you take a brilliant heart surgeon out of New York City, and plop them in the middle of Wichita, Kansas, she's going to find a hard upper limit on the number of mitral valve repairs she can do on any given weekend.

Similarly, if you take a machine learning engineer who spent the last 10 years at Google and give him a a few thousand data points from a heart health study, his main challenge will be staying busy and his skills will surely degrade without other work.
Right, the mind processes it, and in turn does something, analogous to how computers process signals, and in turn do something.
It's not even a System76 case design for the laptops, those are rebranded Clevos.
Whereas shooting passenger-pigeons for fun and profit was just fine.

But, then, scraping the bottom-of-the-barrel has been in for the past 3.
Genetics Will Revolutionize Social Science
They only works if you're building one. If you need to get an entire office setup with these it's actually worth paying to have them prebuilt. Especially if there is a decent support package.
I think the post is both accurate and easily ignored, because it lives from within its own wisdom. Of course you can do better if you work at it - but, why aren't you?

And that's not even a question of personal responsibility and virtue and utilitarian maximization preference. That's - what on Earth is the world doing to discourage you, to make you grind at Overwatch in an ineffective way, then try to compete without appropriate prep? How did your ego get into such a fragile state that asking questions and getting advice feels so difficult?

And with at least some of these questions, the answer is that the intent of the person is different from a genuine competitor in a way that keeps them in a state of self-sabotage. They may be turning to the game as a way of gambling for a dopamine rush, in which case they can't believe in their skill(or anyone else's) - since they want fate to do the work.

But then you probe further and it gets more nuanced. Many people have trauma getting in the way, a whole bunch of stereotypes and expectations beat into them from an early age, which prevent them from reaching out and grasping at the prize. Many are trying not to get too deep into their hobby, because they have a lot of other stuff going on. And so on.

And so the question of why there is a 95% is related to our tendencies around resource allocation as a society and what skills and beliefs go along with that, which creates preferences, which then acts to enable or limit people.

It's never quite as simple as "you could just practice." Finding the way in which practice works for you, lets you set goals you can agree with - that's the trick.
I've found the "CPU Power Manager" add-on pretty good for battery life. I flick between the profiles depending on what I'm doing. Could be better, but I still get at least 4 hours on the "Multimedia" setting.
Not so fast.

From the panel to the outlet, you only get out from 10 to 15% of input solar power, while thermal desal can use nearly all of it right away, and it leaves more concentrated brine. Multiple effect desal will probably move the efficiency up a bit. It's nowhere near clear cut.

Also if you have low potential reject heat from power plants, it's idea for desal use.

If you have nuclear as your heat source, then economy-wise thermal desal will beat electric many times over.

I recently read about thermochemical, and electrochmical desalination methods which can be added atop a thermal plant, further increasing thermal desalination efficiency.
> 60k base salary not including stock - which can be a huge amount even at entry-level.
Techies work in a seller's market (as evidenced by the comparatively huge salaries they command). There is definitely no "over supply of labor".

One of Google's biggest assets is their huge army of talented techies. I'd go so far as to say losing that would be an existential threat to the business.
How do you accidentally avoid sampling _Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_ from a language model?
Amazingly, so is http://www.zombo.com/. It still delivers all it promises
I agree, which is why I assumed the parent was referring to `where` rather than `switch`.
I wondered why Apple use an old bash version, Google said: "The reason that Apple includes such an old version of Bash in its operating system has to do with licensing. Since version 4.0 (successor of 3.2), Bash uses the GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3), which Apple does not (want to) support."
A 3D Engine in Racket
I just did the math on their entry level model because I didn't believe you, but you're pretty close with that estimate. NewEgg prices:

Threadripper 3960X - $1400
16GB 3200 RAM - $70
256GB NVMe - $70
RX 550 - $70

= $1600

System76 price = $3700

That said, if you're looking at their higher-end models, I think you still have a fixed ~$2k markup, and so you're looking at something like $10k vs $12k, which isn't a big deal for that sort of customer (does save time, after all).

Side note: I own their AdderWS laptop and am a happy customer.
Do you think it is a mass media panic within China? Because if you look at what is going on, it doesn’t look like the response to a yearly flu. It looks like a gravely serious event.
My big question, because the obvious "they screwed up royally with wework" has been talked about ad nauseum, is what is their new strategy? What sorts of start ups are they going to try to fund now? Is any startup that takes their funding starting from a bit behind now, because of the stigma?

I don't keep up with the day to day gossip of VC, but I do find it interesting, so I just want to see the next moves.
Can you elaborate on the specific poop? Do they just not hold up?
Also, we should make a distinction between multi-layered, hierarchical information, classification and decision finding systems in general and a possible machine implementation thereof. Those systems have shown remarkable performance when operated by humans, e.g., the Dowding System [0]. (I don't think that any ML/AI systems are able to surpass this currently.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowding_system (The article contains only a quite crude and basic representation of the operations of the filter room.)
Just make a water tower to store provide pressure at night.
Appears to be powered by Bing. The search results are nearly identical. More importantly snippets for each site are identical, which is the real giveaway.
Interesting. I has heard the link between GBS and the flu vaccination before (since all the flu vaccine questionnaires mention it), but that article suggests there's evidence that the flu is more likely to cause it than the vaccination, which is supported by this article:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19025491
Shady is a distraction, every government with the resources has been doing this sort of thing. The line where we could truthfully claim that only the bad guys support groups like NSO was passed years ago. The modern reality is that if you're not expanding your capabilities then someone is probably expanding their capabilities over you.
cemu is way better
You can make a solar still without desiccants. Dig a hole somewhere that will get sunlight most of the time, drop a cup in the bottom to catch water, and create a funnel with a plastic sheet. (If you don't have a plastic sheet, branches can work.) There are various ways to optimize it, but a single water trap isn't going to keep a person alive.
There have been breaking API changes--.NET Core and the upcoming .NET 5 being good examples--but they're generally handled well. I can't recall any major breaking language changes, though.

They don't let backwards compatibility keep them from introducing new features and syntaxes, which is quite nice. Most languages that want to avoid breaking backwards compatibility seem too hesitant to introduce new language features.
Has the exact same poor search results as Bing.

https://search12.lycos.com/web/?q=elm+list

https://www.bing.com/search?q=elm+list

Funny I only ever hear someone call Bing good when it's named something else (DDG, Lycos).
I think if Apple would have done any one of these individual things, it would have been okay:

- Communicated via release notes that the newer iOS version may make their device slower to improve battery performance

- Allowed users to downgrade their iOS version if they want to

- Informed users that their batteries may have degraded, and can be replaced

- Gave users a toggle (buried away in settings, if need be)

- Admitted publicly that they're doing this instead of lying

I actually don't think Apple had malicious intentions, but I do think they deserve the criticism because their communication was so tremendously sloppy here. They deserve the fine because the sloppiness happened to benefit their bottom line and sell more phones. France has decided that this shouldn't be an excuse for Apple, nor any actually malicious company in the future, and wants this kind of thing disclosed to consumers before it's rolled out.
It’s been bad, but it’s getting worse.

Buddy Holly was revolutionary for the way he negotiated his contracts and set a precedent for better treatment for a time. There a lot more nuance to that history.
Please hire a graphical designer.
This seems like some FUD to sell magical pseudoscience phone cases "to reduce RF exposure." And where is Thunderf00t when you need him? ;)