skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a slightly similar experience at work. We deal a lot with angles and binary angles are often the most efficient representation. Many colleagues find it annoying because they insist on converting every binary angle to radian or degrees, but if you actually interpret the bits as successive divisions of a circumference, I actually find the binary representation way more intuitive than a floating point number.
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The sleeves are usually contact welded shut on the sides, so if one wants to keep the discs working, one of the edges can be undone and the disc can be removed like a letter from an envelope. "Transplants" are also possible.
I think London is particularly bad regarding the cost of living:SWE pay in general. But even in SV, if you started as L5/E5 at Google or Facebook and had enough for 20% down you should be able to afford to buy a 3bed house with <1hr commute based on the cash flow from that single job.
So why is it that climate scientists - the most educated people on this topic - overwhelmingly believe that evidence supports a theory of anthropogenic climate change? Is it more likely that they are all wrong, that they are all in on an elaborate conspiracy, or that you are wrong?
Saudi Arabia to end flogging as form of punishment: document
This probably won't be too far off, if the current level of unemployment benefits holds. Just the $600 a week on top of state benefits comes out to $15/hr.
That's at least the fourth version, look for the archived recommendations in January, February and March, the April one is the first one to touch upon all the aspects directly and more honestly.
oh ok, fun fact ... I never took one and had no idea how warm/hot they'd be.
Honestly if this was a company other then zoom that was being stifled, I would agree. But come on a chinese owned mafia company which routes all of your video through chinese servers so that xi the mad man can create a profile of all americans!! That kind of innovation I want stifled.
Debian, ubuntu's upstream.
But what do all the comments on my reply have to do with Amazon then?

Yeah, I get it, HN doesn’t like them but you say yourself the problem is something else. So why the company bashing?
Bernie Sanders would have been so good for the American capitalist economy. He is the only one who would have after the monopolies, which would help level the playing field that is currently just consolidating into big companies. The social safety net would also spur a lot of new business creation.

I am not very confident about America's ability to handle global warming disasters in ten years.
It was in the newspapers in February and first half of March.

The "big switch" was 14to 15 of March. The MSN here ran a fake story about Trump wanting to buy some German pharma company (all large newspapers retracted the story around March 17), but it was enough to get people sufficiently distracted to completely change their previous policy.

It was pretty interesting to watch how it was orchestered.
>It took Lindsay Devers months of training and meticulous planning to plot out her marathon-length run along the Boston riverside to spell out an inspirational message for her city.

But in the end, she forgot one important thing — the letter N.

QA failure :) She had multiple friends look over the plan, and everybody missed it.
Regarding your point about TSLA's volatility, I think it would help to understand the relationship between the stock market and the economy. Stock prices go up when new information is better than existing expectations and down when it is worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ECqDaPjjV0
Reconnecting with an old satellite has been done before. Perhaps it be done again.

The International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3) satellite was launched on August 12, 1978, and was originally meant to study the Earth's magnetosphere from the L1 Lagrangian point between the Sun and the Earth, where the gravity of both bodies cancel each other out.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pga3m7/techno-archaeologi...
Right, and this is exactly why reddit bans doxxing. The original reddit poster was correct that there was a single individual buying most of these domains; however, other than purchasing the domains, there was no evidence that the individual was using those domains to promote protests. Let's not forget reddit's Boston bombing debacle[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Tripathi#Misidentificati...
I don't think you can buy a complete Morgan in the US except for the 3 wheeler, which sneaks in as a motorcycle.
The argument is that the more explicit version has more things that you have to explicitly specify, and some of those things have to be consistent with each other. You can mess it up by getting the parts out of sync. So when you don't need the detailed control, the terse version has fewer things you have to say, so fewer things that you can get wrong.

On the other hand, if you do need the detailed control, the terse version doesn't let you have it, so you have to use the verbose version.
Do We Need Zero Training Loss After Achieving Zero Training Error?
Exactly. If a company says "we're a family," then, either they are (a family business), or they're lying. I always say "you don't fire your brother," when people say something like this.
The new deal created the middle class in America, rescued it (very lately) from the Great Depression, and set it up for the post war prosperity that made America what it is today. I think the idea of a green new deal is to do that again, as well as save us from the climate grave we are digging ourselves into. In my mind it is poetry.
Have you quit your job to collect these allegedly easy to obtain checks? Or is this character flaw exclusive to warehouse workers?
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You as a user can still access hidden directories. Most new applications are nice enough to respect the XDG specification.
Someone absolutely should write about their circumstances relative to other employees. I doubt they’re without complaints.

Also, it should go without saying, that one section of corporate employees being in more danger than their peers doesn’t disprove the broader reality and divide between warehouse and HQ workers.
If its too difficult politically to get the green new deal passed, maybe a smaller step that we can all agree on would be to require that everyone break one of the windows in their home every month. This would create thousands of high paying window repair jobs.
The argument to this point in the thread was about preventing transmission from the mask-wearer, which is where the more nuanced take is.
>Most important thing for me is sandboxing, no abuse of the device's data and sensors. I hate how most native apps invade your privacy.

User abuse is rampant on the Web. For example, those APIs you mention are used to fingerprint machines. If you're genuinely concerned with abuse of privacy, you'd do yourself a huge favor by researching the history and current mechanisms for such abuse by websites and, by extension, PWAs.
How to Ask a Busy Executive for Anything
> This has been a standard optimization for half a century. The original C compiler for the PDP-11 did these transforms even when you turned off optimizations

Consider this, a common easily applied optimization that compilers have been doing for half a century MAY have made it's way into modern CPUs.

Transistors aren't nearly as power hungry as you paint them and CPUs aren't nearly as bad at optimization. There is no reason to switch a multiply or divide for a shift. The ONLY reason to make that switch is if you are dealing with the simplest of processors (Such as a microwave processors). If you are using anything developed in the last 10 years that consumes more than 1W of power, chances are really high that the you aren't saving any power by using shifts instead of multiples. It is the sort of micro-optimization that fundamentally misunderstands how modern CPUs actually work and over estimates how much power or space transistors actually need.
If you're intrigued by tracking satellites and their transmissions more generally, check out https://satnogs.org/
That's fair. This cashflow is obviously not available to Amazon directly, but I could see an argument that Jeff Bezos specifically ought to make more funds available. (Maybe he will - if you believe the headlines he was entirely hands-off the retail business until recently.)
Not for any big US tech company I've heard of! I think that is only for startups. FAANG (well, Netflix doesn't do equity comp normally), Microsoft, etc. it's all direct equity that vests over time.
Ok, but the key word in the parent was “still”. That pdf dates back to early April.

(Sorry, “continues”.)
Same here, people working across the border get special permits. But they do need permits if they want to cross.

Closing border refers to closing it for regular people.
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Yeah unfortunately you're in the wrong here.

There are multiple levels of forced. It's not an on and off switch, as much as people make it out to be.
Not exactly the same, but the closest Linux equivalent that's semi-widely used would probably by ~/.local
A classic reference, which used to be included in http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/ if I recall correctly.
> To what extent is democracy just re-branding of the concept of letting the popularity contest winner run things?

Not all democracies are created equal, and the Churchill quote is a grand feat of equivocation that paints many different systems as if they were a single immutable institution.

Athenian democracy was a direct democracy where any citizen could get up and talk. Where officers were needed it mostly used a lottery system [0] instead of elections precisely because they were afraid that elections just become a popularity contest that favors the incumbent oligarchic interests.

Generals were an exception because they had to be skilled at war. Handling money was also a skilled profession, and favored the rich so that the money could be recovered from their estate in the case of embezzlement. Politics, on the other hand, was not seen as a skilled profession, and what was important was loyalty to democratic ideals.

Looking at the quality of politicians we have and the power of entrenched oligarchic interests in our society, it really makes me appreciate the wisdom of the ancients.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy#Officeholde...
What it more confusing to me is whether those jobs are supported by automation, and whether Amazon was able to scale up their internal robot production.
True, since 19.10: https://packages.ubuntu.com/eoan/chromium-browser
Oh, for sure, but it's mildly annoying.

Especially when a . is used to make the directory hidden, because I can't unhide that specific directory without changing the name apps expect.
This is super interesting.
The best property is the cheapest group of three you can acquire the quickest based on the rolls in your particular game, so you can buy up houses ASAP and lock up the housing stock for the rest of the game, thereby ensuring you will win, albeit very slowly.

Once you get 6 properties with 4 houses each, you control 75% of all houses.

This is especially true if you play strictly by the rules where you cannot buy a hotel without first having four houses - it's then impossible for anyone to surpass your edge by skipping straight to hotel.

It doesn't matter which group of three, so long as it's cheap enough to build out all the houses quickly.

But yes, orange is best because of jail
Exactly. My usual weekly recipe uses about 850-900 grams of flour, so I go through a 25 pound bag every 3 months or so. This has been roughly consistent for the past 2 years.
Wait, if it's a NAS drive, the drive firmware will ensure that it doesn't timeout due to media failure. Which the RAID can trust, because it's a NAS drive.

So.. why do the RAID rebuilds have timeouts on NAS drives at all? If you paid all that extra money for a special firmware that doesn't time out on media error, and the drive is still accepting and processing commands in less than X hours per command, then wiring in your own timeout seems like a really bad idea.

When the cache is full and something sends a write to the drive, does the drive still accept "are you still there?" commands while the write is queued?
> So why is it that climate scientists - the most educated people on this topic - overwhelmingly believe that evidence supports a theory of anthropogenic climate change?

Because they are practicing a Pseudoscience with a predetermined outcome. Their job is to cherry pick data (e.g. ignoring CMIP6 particle forcing) to support their predetermined conclusions...

Also, the 97% "consensus" study had math errors & has been debunked. Reality is not that simple to have a conclusion of this sort. There are many factors.

The definition of a "climate scientist" has been expanding in scope due to more factors being identified, such as X-RAY variation from solar cycles, Ionic particle forcing from the Sun, Cosmic Rays, Electric effects from the Sun, etc.
The VSCode part is real. I had to install it on Ubuntu 17.04 a couple of weeks ago and it took me hours.
No. But those that lack the capital to be able to take appropriate countermeasures (largely in the global south) certainly will.
>Objectivity does not require blinding oneself to context.

That's not context. The fact that he acts like a child does not justify exaggeration or sensationalism. And the press has undeniably been antagonistic going back to election season - he just seems to be the first president to fight back, however crudely.

And objectivity requires normalizing context for emotional influence. That means not being blind to context, but inhibiting your hatred momentarily to examine whether the media is also behaving unbecomingly.
This technique is called "flood loss," and it's one of the most underrated papers in ML due to its implementation simplicity: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1253505386172145666

Loss getting too low?

loss = abs(loss - x) + x

where x is a value like 0.2.

Presto, your loss is no longer <0.2.

We have some pretty shocking screenshots of before/after using this technique for our BigGAN training runs.

Before flood loss, no progress: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/696383989145010216/...

After flood loss: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/696383989145010216/...

Both of these are screenshots from around step ~3k, about an hour into training. As you can see, flood loss improved things immediately and dramatically.

Other people are reporting that it's stabilizing their runs as well, but that's hearsay for the moment.
Sorry I was just clarifying that we don’t need to wait for better materials. Homemade masks from common materials, when enough of the population (>80%) uses them, can get us where we need to be.
> We were told that this was standard FAANG practice

I'm getting really tired of companies trotting out the "because [Facebook|Apple|Google] does it" excuse. Those are massive companies. Are we so delusional to believe that what works for a $70B/year company will automatically work for our $20MM/year company?
By requiring others to do that for you and paying them pennies for what value they're providing.

I'd agree with you if the company decided to not take profit during this time and paid the employees the same amount of value they produce.
Ask HN: What is the most effective way to build one's personal brand?
Hey, this is pretty neat! Certainly seems like something that'll make it easier to test webpages on mobile or what not.

However, the fact it's a script you have to install on the source page definitely limits its usefulness. Most of the time when I need a console for a mobile browser, it's to debug an error that's occuring on a client or customer's website. They're probably not going to be too thrilled with the prospect of another 100KB of code being downloaded by anyone viewing the site, even if it is behind a URL parameter or flag.

The way that old mobile version of Firebug was available as a bookmarklet just made it significantly more practical to use here.
If I could buy a Windows laptop, and be absolutely sure that it's the exact same hardware used in the corresponding Linux model, then sure, I'd save those 400 USD. As it is with laptops, the Windows version might have a Linux-unfriendly network card or something silly and the fun begins. That's why I chose a Dell with Linux pre-installed. Besides, it comes with support, including automatic BIOS upgrades.
Depends on the processor, but no.

Most processors will decode an instruction into micro-ops and guess what that decode phase can do? It can say "Is this a power of 2? Great, engage the shifting operator".

Only on super simple processors (think embedded systems) would this ever actually make a difference. Anything else, this is an optimization that your processor is going to do for you automatically.
I live in NYC and they still do not give us plastic bags anymore. Was this ban really "reversed"? I've been using reusable bags for the whole pandemic, and a quick google tells me the enforcement has been postponed, not that the ban was reversed.
>If you eliminate the massive subsidies that are given to fossil fuels, renewable energy is probably already more cost-effective.

Because there is a lot of subtlety in the way we contrast subsidies with normal tax deferrals, it may be clarifying to consult this fact sheet from EESI, which is a successor of the Environmental Study Conference caucus originally in the US Congress:

https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subs...

>Well, what’s the difference between the Green New Deal of today and the New Deal from the 1930s? Several things. One thing that’s different is large-scale labor action.

It wouldn't be a Chomsky essay without a paean to the labor movement.

I think that the "Green New Deal" is the wrong name. The "New Deal" was a principally economic initiative. Climate change affects the economy, but climate change is really about physics. The appropriate analogy would be to the Manhattan Project, not the New Deal. (Nuclear technology has also had a massive effect on the economy!)

One unfortunate consequence of the naming trend "Green New Deal" has been an excessive focus on economic remedies which overshadows the most important scientific advances. Recently the most important advances have been in the production and price of lithium batteries.

There are approximately 500 trillion pounds of lithium in the ocean, as well as many cheaper sources on land. The lithium iron-phosphate chemistry is not dense enough for use in cars or portable electronics, but on a cost basis it is quickly eclipsing all other forms of energy storage. At present, the development of this technology is limited mostly by low demand, which is utterly ridiculous when you consider that the widespread adoption of grid-scale energy storage is absolutely essential to there ever being a near-zero-carbon electricity market.

The other key technology that needs to be developed further is the heat pump. Heating buildings with gas accounts for a large fraction of our carbon emissions and can't be easily replaced by Joule heating because the electricity requirements are so large. Therefore the near-zero-carbon replacement for gas heating must be some variety of heat pump, be it vapor-compression, magnetocaloric or otherwise. The current commercially available air-source heat pumps are limited to a minimum outdoor air temperature of about -20 C, which means that they are not viable for year-round heating in many large global cities, including e.g. Chicago, Moscow, Harbin, et cetera. Ground-source heat pumps by contrast have high installation costs which increase with the desired power output. Improvements in one or the other are needed to reach the necessary endpoint where nearly all of the human population can stop relying on gas heating.
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There's a bit difference between having a "friendly" relationship and being a friend.
Language policing one line without the backing context is missing the point.

Those times you disobeyed were also met with decades of limiting your agency. Not letting you cover yourself in peanut butter or fight with other kids, or mistreat pets, or spend infinite money.

Jp sees resentment and pride as the ultimate source for being a rapscallion or monster, putting responsibility on the parent to keep their child in the ‘liked’ category is a very elegant way to keep a kid from destroying your house but also make a parent confront/channel any resentment or excessive pride into productive directions.
> I really wish the "Green New Deal" wasn't mentioned in these pushes for the future.

Yes, and what do you personally prefer to see instead?

> I don't think it deserves any credit for the few good ideas that it did contain

Why would something not deserve credit for any good ideas it contained?

> Sure, it's recognizable, but not necessarily in a good way.

I'm really not trying to nitpick, but it seems like you're overgeneralizing. To whom would it be recognizable but not necessarily in a good way?
What was the end goal of the virus?
"New Deal" is synonymous with a program of large and widespread government reform and investment to combat a specific problem. So while "Green New Deal" is the name of a specific piece of legislation, support for a general green New Deal is support for reform and investment to help the environment and more specifically fight climate change. I don't think anyone ever really expected the specific Green New Deal legislation to be passed, but it was meant to kick start that discussion and serve as a rallying point for future efforts. This type of thing is pretty common when a specific piece of legislation is inserted to represent an entire issue.
Context with wait support in Go
Performance aside I was very disturbed to learn snap packages have no namespacing and no useful mandatory authorship metadata: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/lack-of-package-provenance-is-a...

tl;dr -> HashiCorp's various tools exist as snaps but none are published by HashiCorp. All are out of date. Some have incorrect metadata. Few provide any clue as to who or where the upstream is. There's usually not even a way to contact the snap author to submit patches or ask for an upstream link. eg https://snapcraft.io/nomad
> A passage in this book by a second grader in Buenos Aires, Argentina, reads: “Mr. Brown, owner of the building, gave us a wonderful present. Eighty sprouts of trees. Our teachers explain to us how we must plant them. Let’s get to work! In a few years we will walk in the shadow of beautiful paradises. But—I say to my mother—when these trees are grown, I will not be in school anymore. That is indeed true—said my mother—but it is also nice to sow things so that others can enjoy them.”

I don't know if children still believe in creating paradises. Maybe things were just as bad then and all children imagine such things. Maybe this child is merely sheltered. But so confidently looking forward to the future like this; it breaks my heart a little bit.
>Biggest thing for me would be instant installs[...]

That's relative to the size of the thing you're installing, no? Wouldn't it then be comparable to software of the same size being installed on the host system?

>no/much less space taken on local storage.

Isn't this, too, relative to the size of the application or the data it is persisting?
If you're buying in industrial portions, you should consider freezing it in batches to kill any weevil eggs.

The larger of a batch you have, the more likely there are eggs in there. Most bakers, pizzerias, etc. will use the flour fast enough that they won't hatch, but a home baker might not be so lucky...

https://www.thespruceeats.com/how-to-store-flour-1389337
This is precisely the origin of my question upstream: Why, precisely, in specific detail, are these rebuilds failing?
And the problem is gigantic, programs in general are completely broken - why does my entire system have to be compromised because I decided to play Catan. We need the iOS/Android model for permissions on desktop.