skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your take on vscodevim is a sort of "glass half empty" kind of argument. To be fair, vscodevim is fantastic and it gets a lot more thing right than it gets wrong.
About GDPR: is it possible that holding data in a non-storage/volatile medium could be legally distinct from non-volatile storage, especially if it's essentially syncing with an authoriative data source that's responsible for managing GDPR? Because if not, it seems to me every proxy and persistence layer runs legal risks....
> would AI driving not fail there too?

It might if it were relying solely on a GPS and nothing else, but, of course, none of them do that. The biggest difference is that navigation software can improve and sensors don't stop paying attention. You can't say either of those things about people who screw up in exactly the same circumstances.

> Heres an example of AI driving into a river https://electrek.co/2019/03/10/tesla-crash-river-claim-unint.... so it happens as well.

Let's note that the article is skeptical that the problem was actually the car:

"I want to give the driver the benefit of the doubt, but every time we have seen similar circumstances, the logs always pointed to a user mistake."

But even giving the driver the benefit of the doubt and asserting as a premise that the AI caused the accident, we're still left with the fact that people unintentionally accelerate their vehicles all the damn time. If a machine does it once in a while, that's not a regression, that's the baseline.
> If those subpoenas aren't valid, then congress cannot possible act as a check on the president

Sure they can. They can refuse to confirm his appointments, they can pass laws with a large enough supermajority to override his veto, and they can even remove him from office with a Senate supermajority.

> What McConnell did was subvert the process of checks and balances to remove the presidents ability to make appointments.

Thus disproving this notion that Congress is powerless against the President. The President has the constitutional power to make appointments with the advice and consent of the Senate. There's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to have a good reason to withhold that consent.
Meta: Do the majority of people on HN have WSJ subscriptions? Or is there some other way to view these articles? I see something from the WSJ get to the front page at least once every couple weeks. My gut tells me that either people just only read & comment on the first paragraph, or they're reading the articles for free some other way.
Why would you think that? Apple's processors are very powerful.
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This is why Costco is worth what it's worth. Why risk buying garbage elsewhere?
> very often for things they did in their emails.

Do you have an example? I don’t recall ever seeing that. I’ve seen mostly for other services.
serious question as someone who has an iPhone + iPad but isn't very familiar with emulation. What could you do with this? How feasible is it to run Windows and then install Steam or something like that?
these numbers are across all industries, right? a 40 hour union job has certain parameters such that the work hours aren't going to shift much without larger political shifts within those orgs.

But I suspect the number of hours a non-union knowledge worker works per year has gone up in the same time frame.
I believe it has been many years since any Google employee has looked into a Gmail accounts message contents without prior permission from the account holder.
Guilt is a hell of a drug.
It isn't possible to be in a world where the in-memory representation doesn't matter. Someone has to write and maintain that code, and if it's you, then you get the fun task of telling some users their workload won't fit into it. And then they go off and write their own in-memory representation.
> I overbuy power supplies because I think, but have not tested, that it will convince them to run the fan at lower speed. This strategy has resulted in quiet, for sure, but I'm not sure that it gets you reliability.

This theory is sound. High-end power supplies tend to not turn on the fan until reaching 30-50% of their rated maximum output. Fanless power supplies are usually internally using the same components as regular high-end models with 80-100% higher output ratings, but with larger heatsinks. A high-quality oversized power supply with a fan will be silent most of the time, but keep itself cool when necessary.

( I have a semi-passive 750W power supply that has spun up its fan exactly once, when I accidentally shorted two of its power rails together and melted some wires while burning out the PCIe slot I was measuring the power draw through. The motherboard and wires had to be replaced, but the CPU, PSU and PCIe card were all fine.)
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What light does that sentence put things in? It's not been 30 years since the US tried to prosecute the author of PGP for the crime of FOSS development.
I don't see how you can say F#'s syntax is more like Reason. OCaml and F# have nearly identical syntax for the core language, with the few differences being:

1) places features diverged

2) modules

3) F#'s "light" syntax mode

None of these really seem like Reason at all. Do you have any specific places where they're similar?
I don't know what you're talking about. I've personally worked in several language ecosystems and interacted with members of their communities. Clojure people are one of the most humble, reasonable, friendliest people in the entire CS universe. Many of them have years of experience working in different languages, they are not fanatics, most of the time their answer to the question "is that the right way?" would be "it depends."

While devs in other programming language ecosystems either debate endlessly or rush to add more "features" to their language, Clojurists quietly make things that simply work.

If you follow the trends and dig a bit more, you realize that Lispers carefully filter out good ideas and put them into use, they know how to tell the difference between a brilliant idea and a fad.

And there's no fanaticism and worshiping of language creator. Only respect and gratitude.
My current job is a 4-day workweek (not the whole company, just me), but it's also not the most interesting job. I've seen other jobs posted that look more interesting in the last year or two (and would likely be for higher pay), but after doing this for almost 2 years I decided that the chill work-life balance is more important than total comp or having "interesting" work.
If you're referring to the fact email is usually not encrypted / verified, that is clearly not what OP was referring to by "privately". Email is in general a "private" (as opposed to "public") means of communication.
Great point. I hadn’t considered that at all.
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Hutter Prize Goes Big
AI professor Marcus Hutter has gone big with his challenge to the artificial intelligence community. A 500,000€ purse now backs "The Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge". Contestants compete to compress Wikipedia. to its essence. The 1 billion character excerpt of Wikipedia called "enwik9" is approximately the amount that a human can read in a lifetime.

Hutter's challenge is an advance over the Turing Test. Devised by the famous AI theorist, Alan Turing, a chat bot must be able to fool a human. It is pass-fail. The Hutter Prize incrementally awards distillation of Wikipedia's storehouse of human knowledge to its essence. This judging criterion derives from a mathematical theory of natural science, informally known as "Occam's Razor". Formally it is called Algorithmic Information Theory or AIT. AIT is, according to Hutter's "AIXI" theory, essential to Universal Intelligence.

Hutter's judging criterion is superior to Turing's in 3 ways:

1) It is objective,
2) It rewards incremental improvements,
3) It is founded on a mathematical theory of natural science.

http://prize.hutter1.net/
Umm how does that make sense?

The project owner(s) picked a platform for their communication and presumably all current contributors are fine with the choice, and then some third party is coming along and demanding that the entire project change their entire communication system to accommodate this one person? How in the world is it hypocritical to tell said person to take a hike?
The link is in response to @DerAlbi, who suspects the VRM of hisGigabyte mobo, not the CPU. DerAlbi is techo enough to use an oscilloscope so he’s more likely to have a clue than many.

Read DerAlbi’s (recent) reply on thread:

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/3970x-prime95-stability/1532...

I.e. if an AMD CPU suits your needs, you should get one (unless you are doing Prime95 as a load!), and perhaps avoid a MoBo with that VRM. Or wait a couple of days for the truth to percolate up through the murk.
I'm not sure I even agree with that, since I just spent my lunch down a 20 minute rabbit hole of researching the regard usage experts have for English translations of the bible, and it's actually a pretty interesting digression. I shouldn't have jumped on you for it; I made the thread worse.
Not necessarily. Most folks have kids, most folks I know that prefer four 10s have kids, and like having that fifth day off.
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I don't seen an exclusion of illegal aliens from the program. So citizens of California would be forced to subsidize people who should not be in the country. And the program would likely encourage more illegal aliens to come to California.
How are you determining whether or not the resource was requested? If you can hijack my network traffic you've already owned me pretty badly and don't need this silly game in the first place. If you haven't, this doesn't help you get that.

Encrypted DNS is a thing, so snooping on those is non-trivial and not at all something you can be assumed to have access to.
No one can get any more the grsec patch...
Post grsecurity/kconfig file on github or pastebin for view...
Sort of like a tracing JIT? I'm not trying to equivocate modern CPUs with the JVM, just emphasize the similarities as a way to understand and explain observed behaviors.
This sentence from the doc referenced sums it up well I think:

> A naive implementation of this feature may allow an attacker to determine the existence of textual content across an origin boundary.

Security & privacy implications of that seem obvious, e.g. extracting an account number (or other sensitive information) from a page by searching for successive prefixes.
Right, but that's you, lots of other folks like them, so we should have the choice.
As a guy who tried to get into OCaml development several times, the language is not the problem at all. It's the several different "standard" libraries, lack of good official agreed upon tutorials and guides, and the fact that it has a GIL and is essentially single-threaded.

If OCaml had Erlang's runtime (parallelism and concurrency via actors with message inboxes) it would likely be the most used language.

Its lack of adoption isn't at all related to syntax IMO. Programmers use all sorts of quirky syntaxes and the world hasn't ended yet.
Predicting protein structure based on a given DNA/RNA sequence has been a field of study that has existed for quite a while now. There have been two primary methodologies that have been explored, one of which has been to try and simulate the actual physical dynamics of a given system at a molecular/atomic level. At places like D.E. Shaw or with Folding@Home, you'll see approaches like these being taken and with relative success. Though generally with purely physics based solutions, you quickly run into exponentially growing simulation time scales as well as a lack of accuracy due to a currently insufficient understanding of molecular mechanics.

The other approach has been to take the problem and look at it purely as a translation problem, ignoring simulation of intermediary steps, to go directly from sequence to folded protein target.

With the advent of deep learning and a massive repository of data from an existing Protein Data Bank (PDB) et al., this approach has become increasingly popular, and for protein structure competitions like CASP, has quickly become state of the art within the field. DeepMind's recent breakthrough with AlphaFold in the paper above is just another solid step in the right direction.
I'm still eyeing the 3950x as my next upgrade so I hope this gets resolved through a BIOS update or something. What motherboard are you using for it? (I'm assuming stock settings, no overclock or PBO, AMD doesn't consider PBO to be stock)
Agreed, the choice to use obuild was also bizarre. Dune has been standard for the last ~2 years and before that Oasis was the most popular build tool I believe.
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To elaborate, the process for standardizing browser features today is whatwg managed, not w3c. And it's basically "write a proposal, solicit feedback, implement the feature in one browser, and if it's ever implemented in 3 browsers it's part of the standard".
None of the sources you provided attempt to claim that raw, unmodified satellite photos are copyrightable. They all have to do with "enhanced" or "watermarked" photos. There is no question that Google owns the copyright and trademark to their logo, and adding it to an image will allow them to enforce their copyright on its distribution. Additionally, Google has done processing on the photos to remove clouds, add roads, city names, and a lot of other info.

But a claim that a raw, uncreative, unprocessed, mechanically produced photo is subject to copyright would be a major exemption from the requirement that anything copyrightatlbe be significantly creative. Unless you have an actual case involving an unprocessed satellite image, it's pretty safe to assume they are not copyrighted.
As knowledge workers (I'm assuming), I feel strongly that the number of hours we spend at work has little correlation to the amount of value we deliver. I could easily get the same amount of value delivered in 4 7-hour days that I currently do in 5 8-ish hour ones. I'm only forced to hang out at work for a certain set of hours because of... tradition I guess?
Suppose I become a well-known skeptic of the heliocentric theory of the solar system. I write lots of blog posts, show up on contrarian TV segments and attract a large following.

Should an astronomer or astrophysicist come and debate me? Would they have anything to gain by doing so? Would I have anything to lose?
Intersex is a physical condition at the chromosome level. Gender dysphoria is a mental condition, so it follows that no, "transwomen" are not women, and "transmen" are not men, just how someone who believes that he's a dog doesn't make him a dog.
> in a timely fashion

This is the crux of it: All involved (except Varoufakis) apparently thought their words would remain secret forever. This is bad for democracy, because it nurtures conspiracy theories. Prompt publication is likewise bad, because it hardens negotiating positions at a distance far apart, and makes participants fearful of speaking uncomfortable truths.

The US Federal Reserve publishes its minutes, but only some time well after the participants go home. Live-tweets on their hourly progress -- say, from Mar-a-Lago -- are not a concern.
"Natalie Nagele, co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, has heard from other leaders who say it didn't work for them. She says it fails when employees aren't motivated and where managers don't trust employees."

I would muse that employees usually aren't motivated because they hate their working conditions, usually imposed by shitty managers / company cultures. Managers & companies may complain about "unproductive" or "motivated" employees as if its some personal failing of their employees, but news flash people aren't going to care unless they have a reason to care. If you want employees to enjoy their work and actually be motivated to some degree greater than the bare minimum, give them working conditions that they enjoy. Give them retirement benefits, less working hours, less micromanagement, more pay, remote working options, etc.

This is a problem that stems from crappy notions of how work cultures "ought to be" in America, and can only be solved by destroying those notions and getting rid of the idea "productivity above all else" in companies.
It is also the basis of much conspiracy theorizing. The chain of logic is:

1. Group X has an incentive to do Y

2. We observe Y

3. We also observe specific instances of X doing Y

4. Therefore, all Y is caused by X

The problem, obviously, comes in step 4.
Yep. This is an especially weird thing for some people to grasp when working with native libraries developed in Reason (like Revery, which most people assume is built on web tech).
I've also found them on LinkedIn and angel.co in the past.
> it fails when employees aren't motivated and where managers don't trust employees

I'd counter that _anything_ (including the standard 5x8 schedule) will fail in those conditions.
Arguably, this should only be available to green card holders and citizens. H1B visa holders are sponsored by a company, so the company should be caring for them enough they don’t need UBI; and, the abuse potential for illegal immigrants should seem obvious.

I would love to have someone change my mind here if I’m off base.
This last came up for OSS and Slack (e.g., "Please don't use Slack for FOSS")[1][2].

I took some time to reflect on why OSS wasn't the default for these messaging tools, rather than proprietary alternatives — and what it would take to make more users use OSS alternatives:

> As Slack has continued to grow, open source developers have had lengthy debates about using it rather than IRC. For some, the fact that Slack is closed source and a walled garden makes it unsuitable when building projects that are open.

> I’ll take a different approach: in the age of software, why is open software not more competitive for many products used by non-engineers and what can be done?

What Open Source Can Learn From Slack

https://www.nemil.com/musings/oss-and-slack.html

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486541

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013136
If it's part of your pay structure, and then suddenly it's not given to you, that would be stealing.
> where are the people clamoring for F# to adopt more of Reason's ideas?

Probably writing C#.
The article does not demand that you use Signal.
Does the phrase "California resident" include people who live there but aren't legal residents?
Do you have PBO or overlocking enabled? PBO is not considered stock by AMD, ensure that it's disabled in BIOS (some motherboards incorrectly enable it by default)
Quoted from the article:

"Consider a situation where I can view DNS traffic (e.g. company network), and I send a link to the company health portal, with #:~:text=cancer," he wrote. "On certain page layouts, I might be able [to] tell if the employee has cancer by looking for lower-on-the-page resources being requested."
Right, just remind me when we're able to change the physical construct after it has already been constructing. It's literally impossible. Might as well change a banana into a fly by "changing the source code".
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Nice set of mountains would be cool. Or move the Lake of the Ozarks two hours closer.
Technical writing is a skill. Little things like linking related topics requires foresight into the range of knowledge your audience could have. It is easy to assume everyone shares the same knowledge you do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
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dnf install ocaml ocaml-lablgl-devel

?

Anyway here's a toy game I wrote in GL + ODE + OCaml years ago: https://github.com/fccm/OCamlODE/blob/master/examples/katama...
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> these numbers are across all industries, right?

I think so. The way these sources gather data is somewhat opaque to me but there's nothing to suggest that it's filtered out by industry.

> I suspect the number of hours a non-union knowledge worker works per year has gone up in the same time frame

Huh... I don't see that data anywhere on FRED but it would be interesting to know. You can search for yourself here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/searchresults/?st=hours%20worked

Anecdotally, I have swapped stories with my father in law who started his career as a finance worker for a large corporation in the 1980s and he worked significantly more hours than I have at any of my current or previous jobs. 10+ hours 5 days a week was the expectation, plus an hour commute both ways... hard to say if that generalizes in any meaningful way though.
I came to the same conclusion by looking at the maps in the article and looking for the Avenue Hotel. You can it is at the corner of Congress and Hickory St.

Hickory St (now 8th St) is 3 blocks south of the Capitol.

I guess at some point the tree named streets were converted to numbered streets.
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Agreed, the one thing I have promised myself is to never have a commute over 35 minutes. I even found a 35 minute commute to an internship in the suburbs disheartening when it was mostly spent sitting in traffic.

It's insane to waste that much of your daily life shuttling to your job (if you have an option, which I hope to remain lucky enough to have).
How about doing something to address the housing crisis first so all of this money doesn't just end up in landlords pockets? Land value tax maybe?
Another example:

My dad is a letter carrier. He's off Sunday and then has a floating day off that changes each week. (Scheduled far in advance.)
People have moved through different messaging apps so many times over the years that this in not a secure position for Discord.
I agree that Discord and Slack has some bad sides, but for kinda opposite reasons than the author.

There are so many discussions, QAs, tips&tricks etc. shared on these chat rooms, that are impossible to find for those not a part of it. If it was discussed in a public forum somewhere, it would pop up in a search engine. I may have a problem with tool X and google for a solution, but since the discussion happened in some closed Discord server I will never find the solution someone else there has posted.

So kinda the opposite of the author's point about privacy: I prefer everything to be open and accessible. Hiding this stuff hampers the adoption without people realizing. I don't join a discord for everything I use, and often I'm not even aware that it exists.

An example I had a few weeks ago: Elm package repo died so I got some weird errors when building my project. Apparently lots of people were aware and knew about the problem and the status. But it was discussed in some Elm slack (I think), so for me not a member there I had no idea what was going on and couldn't find anything about it.
Have you played Civ VI on an iPad? Except for being slightly harder to click on things (and no keyboard shortcuts) it plays the same as the desktop version. Same UI and graphics.
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I'd be interested to see what you found out!
I wish there was a canadian version of this.
I think it must be mentioned that in addition to fission and fusion (ITER) work, General Atomics is the creator of the MQ-9 Reaper, which is commonly used for drone strikes. A software job at this company may involve work on these aircraft.
That was a straightforward observation that the writer of the original article was being pointlessly condescending and that they were alienating the people they were ostensibly trying to help.

In general, personally attacking your audience is not an effective writing technique.