skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The extent to which computer programmers literally don't read anything about computing history or alternative systems is quite funny. I can't wait until, sometime in the next few years, someone announces they're "modernizing the cloud operating system" and "unlocking the synergies between microservices" or whatever by... reinventing MsgSend, which we all knew about 30 years ago at this point.

To save you some time and test my prediction powers: they'll get $50 million in funding and almost flop until they find a way to stick Linux inside of a virtual machine (so it can act like a glorified driver for you, for device compatibility, because it turns out burning cash on trying to replicate 10 million lines of drivers isn't smart). It will grow Docker compatibility at some point. 90% of the development will come from one group of ~6 people. Then they'll get bought out and the project will die overnight. The end.
Has that actually happened? I’ve lived in the US for basically my whole life and I’ve never met someone who disingenuously described a mediocre eating experience as the best in their life. I think it would be hard for them to make friends if they can’t even be honest with how they feel about meals.
Is this good for quality of service?
“...its built-in advertising network and Ethereum-based crypto token exchange system.”

I really don’t think that that’s a selling point. I really think most would think this is not a browser’s job.

Also, not our job to help Eich displace Google. As users, this is not our concern at all.
Hackers can clone millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia keys
If both parties have enough money to litigate, the relative wealth might not matter as much.

But if one of the parties cannot afford to litigate, they are screwed.

Considering that 40% of Americans can't even afford a $400 unexpected expense[0], it means most people are extremely vulnerable to legal liability, as they would barely be able to afford maybe 1 hour of consulting with a lawyer.

My guess is that you've mostly dealt with people and companies that had the money to go through the legal system. Most people don't.

Also, in my experience, it is very (extremely?) rare to find a lawyer that will work on a contingency basis, especially on short notice. So unless you know it's coming, and you've already spent the time to interview a bunch of lawyers (most of which are not even going to give you the time of day without having an open case) ahead of time, then you'll most likely be out of luck when you get served and have 30 days to respond (and if you don't respond they get a default judgement against you).

You just can't deny that the (American) legal system is, in practice, based on money and resources, rather than on justice and fairness.

0: https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-americans-struggle-cover-400-em...
Send them to the people hit by the tornadoes in Tenseness.
$500 CAD in 2000 would have to be ~$705 now in order to beat inflation, according to Statistics Canada - so his $8 return was not great. https://www.in2013dollars.com/canada/inflation/2000?amount=5...
Those are all just "cloud" talking points.

My time is worth a tremendous amount to me, which means I want to use my own hardware. "The cloud" does not guarantee reliability.

Any company that does any project that even slightly regularly requires compute / storage can easily justify the time to do all the things you mentioned.

The fact that many companies have gone towards "the cloud" goes hand-in-hand with the fact that many companies use Windows. It's clearly not the best thing to use to get things done, but the IT people don't want to reduce their importance and the management people like the kickbacks and perks they get from buying certain thing from certain companies.

The savings look good on paper, but the reality is that they're based on leaving out lots of information. I've helped several companies move from "the cloud" back to good, local compute resources because of the amount of money they were hemorrhaging to "cloud" providers.

For the most part, it's all marketing bullshit.
Financial crises tend to be much worse for securities than a regular recession.
It has nothing to do with race, and it's not US-specific. I'm from Germany, I'm ethnically German, I'm not visibly identifiable as a religious, political or sexual-orientation minority. The risk for me to cooperate with the police in Germany (where the police is less trigger happy than in the US) is still too high. Being black in the US just increases that risk by a large amount.

The general advise for everyone is: cooperate to the extent required by law, but don't say anything beyond that unless your lawyer is present. The police are not your friends, if they want to talk to you and you're not 100% sure it's because you got robbed or saw what happened and are obviously and exclusively treated as a victim/witness, they can and will use anything you say against you. Their incentives are solving cases, not serving justice. Their KPIs aren't destroyed if it turns out they went after an innocent citizen, and if they succeed in building a case against an innocent citizen, they are still rewarded, because it does not matter whether you are innocent, it only matters what the judge says you are. The police are not your friends.
I was particularly upset, after watching Zero Dark Thirty, to find out that it was nominated for various Academy Awards, given its justification of torture. Portraying torture positively is particularly more troublesome than on "24", for instance, since Zero Dark Thirty claims to be based on history and thus is more likely to affect people's perception of reality and the justifiability of torture.
Personally I love karaoke, but looking at the repo and the website gave me no information whatsoever about this project. Maybe that's something you can work on? In the meantime I found this article, which reads quite positive: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/2/19/21144452/youtube-you...
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In most cases, there is limited support for sparse operations.
"Sparse Networks from Scratch: Faster Training without Losing Performance" https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04840 openly says "Currently, no GPU accelerated libraries that utilize sparse tensors exist, and as such we use masked weights to simulate
sparse neural networks.".

However, the situation seems to be very dynamic. See:

- https://github.com/StanfordVL/MinkowskiEngine (Minkowski Engine is an auto-diff convolutional neural network library for high-dimensional sparse tensors)

- https://github.com/rusty1s/pytorch_sparse (an efficient sparse tensor implementation for PyTorch; the official one is slower SciPy https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/16187; however, I failed to install it - it is not "pip install"-simple)

EDIT:

I checked it now and was able to install pytorch_sparse with one command. It is a dynamic field indeed.
RCV and Multiparty Democracy
The only benefit and rationale for competition there is to prevent bureaucratic sclerosis. Its easy for any monopoly to become top heavy with corrupt or incompetent chair warmers who just extract from it and barely do their job.
Balance Questions with “Banging Your Head”
It sounds like you're making good choices for your mental health. It also seems like taking that approach to the extreme by checking out of politics entirely (e.g. not voting, or uninformed voting) is a great way to delegate really important decisions about your life and things you find important to people who you may not trust to make those decisions.

For instance, I don't believe the people who vote the most often in the US (wealthier, older individuals) are best suited to choosing legislators, executives, and laws. Those individuals tend to prefer:

- fewer environmental protections (I like swimming and fishing in clean rivers and oceans)

-lower education funding (I wish everyone who wanted to learn about fisheries, welding, nursing, biology, etc. could afford to do so)

- subsidies for themselves at the expense of younger generations (second mortgage interest deductions, elimination of estate taxes, country club tax exemptions, California's 1978 Proposition 13)

- legislation based on bad science or religious faith (no guaranteed paid sick leave, backdoor encryption bills, violent video game bans, book bans, corporal punishment support, for-profit prisons, abstinence-only sex education)

Calling your legislators and telling them to support or oppose legislation or impeachment isn't for everyone, similarly reading story after story about incurious individuals legislating emerging technology might be unhealthy in general. That said, voting for and against candidates and issues at election time is really a very, very inexpensive way to attempt to make your life more into what you want it to be (for either the betterment or detriment to humanity).
Great Plague in “Ring around the Rosie”, lesson in meta folklore
On Success and Sincerity
Why does FaaS (that's what Lambda is, right?) need more full blown virtualization? I thought you could maybe get away with even lighter separation than Docker?
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/google-geofence-locatio...
Was submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22505466
Why do you feel like overfunding causes a no skin in the game situation?
This is ridiculous. I'm actually speechless by how insane this is.
I think this post has a big misconception in it. Public defenders are for the destitute. You have to ask for one, and convince a judge that based on your assets and income, you can't afford a private attorney. There's no choice here, if you can afford a private defense, you won't be given a public defender.
I've been getting into Rust lately and really enjoying it so far. Coming from JavaScript, It can feel a bit verbose at times and I'm still trying to get an intuitive grasp of ownership but it feels like a really small cost compared to say C/C++. A nice bonus is that it has very good support for WebAssembly/Node.js which makes it easy to start using Rust for some JavaScript modules without having to re-write the whole codebase. And finally, the community is still very noob-friendly.
Here in Switzerland they specifically do not want to close schools (yet) unless the school had a positive test and kids are in self quarantine.

The reason given is that if the kids are home it is likely that the grand parents will have to care for them as the parents have to work and the elderly are the high risk group.
Implementing a Ordinary Least Square from Scratch in Python
The Local SEO Domination
My wild guess is that the virus is quite spread there but healthcare caught up very late. South Korea has 7.041 cases with 36 persons in ICU; while Italy has 5.883 cases with 567 in ICU. If we correct by ICU numbers, then Italy should have diagnosed 109k persons with Coronavirus.

That assumes that South Korea did diagnose anyone who got the virus which is unlikely. So the real number might be in hundreds of thousands.

The virus is yet to hit the rest of Europe very hard, though. Italy should be a warning to the other countries of how bad the coronavirus is.
> North Americans have often lived on 'the frontier' between civilization and the harsh conditions of the natural world. And FYI said conditions are generally harsher in North America than they are in Europe where distances are shorter, the weather is more temperate etc..

Eh? The USA is right in the middle of the world’s most temperate climate zone, some distances are vast but there are vast tracts of very habitable and fertile land. It has non predatory neighbours at both north and south, and fish on its east and west. In the aftermath of WWII, Iowa was producing 90% of the world’s corn.

Throughout its history, the United States has had a level of geographic security unparalleled by any other country in the world. It has never once faced a serious threat to its existence. The US has a geographic endowment like no other. How can you possibly call it living on the frontier?
I would guess that the anecdote about the woman who can't get tested is because of a severe under supply of test kits. The CDC developed a test kit last month, but it is only being sent to approved laboratories, and the tests will only be given to people "who meet CDC criteria for COVID-19 testing." [1]

Test suppliers who develop test for hospitals and doctors offices are ramping up production as fast as they can, but it will take time.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/testing.html
I just listened to a 99PI episode that goes into the epistemology of song with Who Let the Dogs Out that is a fantastic listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/99-invisible/id3947753...
But what % of passengers purpose for travel has any utility?
Close to zero I would imagine.
A treasure he is, but he writes a lot…I can never seem to be able to use his stuff except as reference when I need to know the IPC of something.
It seems to be a shibboleth specific to numerical computing people -- ODE solvers, linear algebra algorithms, or Fortran weather simulators tend to be described as "codes". Numerical applications are the biggest part of HPC and there's probably more of it in defense as well.

I've never heard it used but it seems "one code" would be one implementation of a specific algorithm from the literature -- probably one or a few functions.
I don't think E2EE and guns are exactly the same but I can't help but notice that the arguments that always get brought up by E2EE hardliners are pretty similar to those of gun supporters. Namely:

1. It's vilified, by the numbers more people use this safely than for harm

2. Sure it can be used for harm but it's the only thing stopping the government from taking over

3. It's so simple that you could build it at home, and banning it would amount to banning math/geometry

4. The bad guys will have it anyways

5. Bringing up the 2nd/1st amendment a lot

6. Violence/identity theft will increase

Anyways, not to pass value on any of the arguments, just wanted to note that I've seen a pattern in the types of arguments made.
When I see "codes" I generally assume it means passcodes/keys of some kind (especially in this case with the word "key" beforehand)
Digital Ocean is still significantly cheaper (unsurprisingly). They don't charge for the control plane, so you just pay the normal prices for the droplets and resources you use. It's well integrated, allowing K8 to provision load balancers and volumes, and the Terraform provider for it works well.

My (admittedly small) cluster of 3x 4Gb droplets, an external load balancer, and volumes enough for logs, databases and filesystems costs about 70 USD/Month. It's been absolutely rock solid too. I have very few minor gripes and a lot of positive things to say about it.
Are you measuring the process or the inputs? Because in your post the inputs are what you criticized (the prior and the data), not the process itself. Every machine learning algorithm takes these inputs. So I was just saying that it seems unfair to penalize Bayesian statistics for this and not any other method.
Author here -- I can add DO to the comparison today, I'll ping here once I have done so!

---

EDIT: Done!

I have updated the notebook with the digital Ocean offering using their General Purpose (dedicated CPU) droplets.

The major takeaways for DO are that they:

- Also do not charge for the control plane resources
- $/vCPU is less expensive than the other providers
- $/GB memory is more expensive than the other providers
- No preemptible or committed use discounts available

For smaller clusters and/or clusters running CPU bound workloads, DO looks like the most affordable option!
I can’t figure out how to execute a search with my own term(s) on mobile (iPhone SE). UI/responsive issue?
Moving a piano in New York city
It's not 'key-codes', it's 'codes (source code) that are key', in this article. It later says 'Israel’s refusal to provide the US military with Iron Dome’s source code.'
I never notice performance problems with my Firefox, except for Gmail (which sucks in Chrome too). And uBlock Origin is pretty well optimized already, I'm actually skeptical that Brave can be much better.

Is this an actual thing that's noticeable by people?

What is more noticeable to me is that projects like uBlock Origin are entirely community driven and thus less likely to succumb to monetization schemes like "acceptable ads".

Plus I trust Firefox itself more than I trust Brave, because Firefox has been with me ever since 2005 when I started my career.
Pandemic is not systemic risk. Pandemic might trigger systemic risk. Pandemics, wars etc. are real world events that affect economy, not internal systemic instabilities in the financial markets.
Legislation requiring mandatory ability of carriers to track mobile phones by location was passed in 1999 in the US[1], almost a decade before the 'modern smartphone' existed. The broader issues still apply whether or not someone opted in to google location services or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_9-1-1#The_911_Act
Well, UNIX "at it's core" is the kernel; what you are talking about is what is known as 'shell.'
The Coronavirus Is 7.4kb
considering property tax is proportional to the value of the property, it shouldn't be too hard for them to make this work...
You could even sell puts or put spreads to pay for the calls. The volatility lately makes the timing and magnitude a lot less crucial for option trades.
I wish the readme had a description of how Youka works.
Looks promising, but I’m not sure it does what I think it does.
The Whigs used the laissez-faire argument when they did not really have laissez-faire. Britain had high tariffs on corn and other grains that could have allowed Ireland and Britain to import food other than potatoes. Navigation laws also required only British ships to bring goods to British ports, which further reduced any import of food.

One year later, the British government did intervene by building workhouses to help house the poor tenant farmers. However this made the situation worse because instead of the British government funding the houses, they taxed the Irish landowners triggering mass evictions of the poor tenant farmers.
This is really not a new idea for anybody that has studied numerical optimization or done a lot of much simpler linear modeling. It has to do with the gradients, which are basically random steps in high-dimensional spaces unless you align with a ‘large’ eigenvector of the Hessian. This explanation didn’t go over well at all with the ML cargo cultists until someone gave it a name. Interesting how things work.
This is huge.

It confirms basically everything I've read over the past year on the topic (mainly on hn). Culture of concealment, production pressure, self-oversight, conflicts of interest, faulty assumptions.

Like many other lessons borrowed from commercial aviation, these are supremely relevant to tech companies.

Edit: BA stock down 1.27% in after-hours trade. I guess the market has decided that this behaviour is fine.
(I work for AWS, but not on the Firecracker team. Opinions are my own and not of the company.)

Firecracker is open source. We welcome community contributions to bring the technology to additional CPU architectures.

Also, as other commenters have noted, AMD support is already in-tree. It's just in Developer Preview, which indicates the relative level of maturity.

AWS does not have any RISC-V processors in its EC2 offering portfolio, but if customers are demanding them, we'd love to hear from you - please reach out to your account team.
My grandpa retired with a pension, and was well on the way to an early grave until they got a new house and he started building things. He ended up working a part time job for another 10-15 years until the big C got him. Most of the money went to savings or to supporting my uncle who didn’t grow up until he was thirty, and then lost his house to an electrical fire not of his creation.

I’ve just sort of resigned myself to the idea of working less when I “retire” and have been starting to more seriously engage in some hobbies so I have more “range” and thus more options for what that looks like.

I have been saying for years that what the world needs now is not more programmers but programmers with more varied backgrounds. Write me some software for model airplane meetups, volunteer management, seed swaps, or sewing instructions.
You guys are swinging way too hard the other way in this thread. Being part of a society is generally pretty cool.

Shitposting (and consuming shitposts) over the dumpster fire that was Game of Thrones was pointless, culturally relevant, and also a lot of stupid fun.
In other words: a society predicated on working is obsolete and needs to be replaced.
If you are actually searching for tiny GUI library that can run on embedded devices and additionally supports Micropython bindings, check out https://littlevgl.com/ .
You right! I'll add illustration gif soon.
With Safari, no, iOS/macOS content blockers are significantly less powerful than uBlock Origin.

With Chrome, yes, as long as it continues to support uBlock Origin and you don't count its built-in communication with Google.
If you need support with this, there are lots of resources (both human and online) like https://www.modulo.app/

Let me know if you need help, I can only imagine how stressful this would be for families who aren’t used to it
I think this is a great explanation. The US has a much more recent history of frontiermanship and homesteading than Europe does, and that continues to permeate our culture in many ways. When I was a kid, books like My Side of the Mountain and Island of the Blue Dolphins were required reading. Apocalyptic television shows like Jericho, Lost, The 100, The Last Man, and Revolution are still very popular. The echoes of the 1800s live on in books, television shows, and movies.
If you're not going to build the next Facebook, why would you need so much complexity?

You don't. I think this is a recent point people are trying to make. Kubernetes makes sense at a certain scale, but for smaller startups it maybe shouldn't be the go to.
You can swith to edgium to equilibrate
> Meanwhile most of the harm to children wont be captured on digital media because it will keep happening when trusted adults abuse minors they ought to be protecting instead of harming.

Can you explain what you’re getting at here? I don’t get how this fits into your argument.
I know that, I'm just contributing to the parent comment's discussion about naming conventions.
I think FREE is the problem. Anything that is free will either find ways to make you pay for it or has other people pay for it. As a bonus you don't have any complaints either since you officially didn't pay.

Is Wikimedia acting in users best interest? It really doesn't need to beg for your money but it cant get enough of your money? haha

I don't know what it costs to host 250 billion page views per year but they claim 40% is spend on hosting. They have 180 million to spend so hosting would be72 million? 1 dollar would buy 1400 page views? If you simply use a crappy service, say hostinger's 1 usd per month x 12 you get 1200 GB bandwidth. Average wiki articles are 3.6 kb. That is 27 million page views. 20 000 times 1400? I'm not an expert but I imagine hosting on that scale is much cheaper.

It is acting in my interest 1:20000 which is certainly better than selling my personal information to creepy faceless money men.

I would much rather buy access to 250 GB worth of wiki articles for 1 euro but no one figured out the payment model.

Brave does seem lovely until you see them solicit funds in other peoples name without permission. It much seems like [say] collecting funds for Greenpeace but hey! I keep an administrative chunk for myself.

The puzzle is unsolved.

Good luck