skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There aren't any public platforms to voice opinions, so if you are cancelled from private platforms, then you are essentially silenced into submission. In my opinion, it's worse if the government is not involved, you can at-least vote the current government out.
Thanks for the advice. Will definitely try to follow that. I was trying to learn basics of statistics and went through most of the intro to statistical learning. Will complete the rest in few days.

I am more of a book person, if you have any other resource for probabilistic graphical models, please share here.
The forward is also essential reading, even for those uninterested in the math. It's one of the best descriptions of a field of science I've ever read.
I'm not sure Google's Recaptcha is a good example. They use the same methods and their business model is using your personal data to target ads to you.
Only one state (BW) requires payment with no clear indication that others will follow.

> you will have to guarantee that you can support your life in Germany
What's so special about that?
Does anybody need those 5.3 GHz at 300 watts? I believe the next big thing is "massively parallel distributed processing": thousands or maybe even millions of tiny processing units with their own memory and reasonable set of instructions run in parallel and communicate with each other over some sort of high bandwidth bus. It's like a datacenter on a chip. A bit like GPU, but bigger. I think this will take ML and various number crunching fields to the next level.
I don't think the basic architecture is going to go away. Even some of the newest operating systems have something quite similar:

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/ea2fce2874556205204d...
Why would having someone who knows the law and drives a taxi make it a waste of resources? Taxi drivers should be uneducated in your view. Why? How does that help society?

Many lawyers need to drive taxis to get by. Being a lawyer doesn't mean instant riches unless you land at a high profile firm directly out of school.

Studying law isn't a finite resource either.
Citation needed. The device telemetry does not include browsing history.
U.S. survey shows majority are firmly opposed to reopening economy now
if rsync is available it's easy:

rsync -av lcldir/ x:remotedir/

rsync -av x:remotedir/ lcldir/

I've gotten pretty strict about trailing slashes otherwise I end up creating directories within directories depending on whether things exist or not
Ask HN: Would you choose Dalvik VM to Arduino?
Hi All,

I developed a Dalvik VM in C from scratch which let you code in Java with lambdas.

It runs as fast as Arduino UNO/MEGA on a cheaper board with similar power consumption.

Would you use an Arduino UNO like board which can be programmed in Java?

Below is the list of features

* >1M instructions on STM32 based BluePill board(<$3).

* Precise compacting GC. No fragmentation!

* Interrupt support.

* Native C interface generator.

* Platform abstraction layer for HW peripherals.

* Arrays, Float, Switch, Exception, Interface, Multiple inheritance, dynamic and etc.

Any information is appreciated!

Best Regards
Why would they? Instruction set is basically irrelevant. Almost nothing about the CPU design has anything to do with ARM or x86 or whatever.

Apple may drag the OSX ecosystem kicking and screaming, battered & bloody over to ARM so Apple can control more of the stack, but why would that have any impact whatsoever outside of Apple's corner of the market?
Should be fixed now - thanks!
So the latest games require the latest CPUs? Well, no shit. The points I'm referring to are where the comments above say that games need multi-threading, or need multiple cores. Both are absurd statements. They try hard to do multiple threading only because multiple cores is what they CPU manufacturers are giving us. Nobody wants, much less needs, multiple cores.
How is this even possible for $35?

50 staging servers per seat
($1450 Value)
11GB RAM per server
8 CPUs per server
Nope - similar concept, different stories.
The Microsoft you remember is at a time when dev tools were "the future". They are now the past. Microsoft's ruthlessness is no doubt focused elsewhere now. For example, do they go out of their way to make your code portable b/w Azure and Google? Probably not.
I remain extremely impressed by Stripe and pc's handling of this; kudos for taking a somewhat hostile blog post and using it to inspire improvement.
Thanks for this insight. Can you kindly also suggest a good book for someone to start with Bayesian Statistics? I could really use a suggestion about first and second book on this.

About Probabilistic Graphical Models, is there book other than Daphne Koller's book that you would suggest?
<Cue your "OK boomer" clips>

Former professor (community college), father of three, two still paying tuition.

Here's my take:

Students should be ineligible for loans until they complete one semester of college. Colleges should make that semester a "boot camp": Varied, challenging, intellectual curriculum, forced work-together times (a study-hall "lab"), and so on. The problem I have is that a helluva lot of students who go to college right out of high school are there for the wrong reasons. They aren't applying themselves intellectually- any growth they get will be, if not despite their behaviors, at least accidental.

I don't want free tuition/subsidized loans/etc. in the current situation. And I totally believe that society should make an investment- hell I've dedicated my life to it- but it's a careful investment. I want those young adults to come away from college with real intellectual growth. At least they should be able to read and think critically.

And making college free in the USofA will make college costs increase (unless you think the US military spending is under control).

Having an onboarding boot camp, where you have to learn to study and take it seriously or you don't get to stay, would help the First Year Experience folks (who would run it), the professors (yay!), the students, the parents who would otherwise be throwing their money away, even high school teachers. It might make enrollment drop-at least initially- but it seems like that's an issue now anyway so it might be a good time for it.

Now, get the hell off my lawn!
Other than the tracking, would you recommend it? Is LineageOS available? I've been curious about trying a Chinese phone for a while, but would only do it if Lineage is available, since I'm annoyed by anything more busy than stock Android.
Perhaps if the conservative voices would stop saying stupid stuff like this, they wouldn't be systematically excluded from the conversation. In my particular subfield of CS, there's a "self-identified conservative" who's been more or less utterly rejected from the community because, in addition to their bonkers political opinions, it turns out they also have bonkers scientific opinions. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that they reject the scientific process. It's hard to find that compatible with doing science. Perhaps I have many secret conservative colleagues in my field, but the only one I've seen is not someone who I would ever wish to collaborate with.
My friend, my comrade in arms, I have a link[1] for you. If you read only one of these papers, then please just read the first one, but please note the author credits on almost all of them.

[1] http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/

EDIT: In the past half hour, the original website went down, I don't think it is related to my link. Here is a different link with the same contents:

https://9p.io/sys/doc/
Or maybe the problem with Jira is that bringing in an external consultant is the best recommendation.
Here is an idea: let’s have colleges themselves act as the guarantor for a student loan. This way the incentives are aligned; if the colleges are poor judge of a students talent (and admit too many low performers), or having teaching standards are too weak will stand to lose money when a student cannot secure a job and repay their loans.
If you include crime, you can't beat the ROI of a successful bank robbery, though, even if the DOJ retroactively decides not to prosecute.
I hope not. Especially if it means strip mining the ocean floor. Oh, and that CO2 thing as well.

Fossil fuels should be incentivized away as quickly as possible.
We spent six months developing a hypervisor that lets us treat any linux VM as a lambda - We pass on the efficiency to our users as a value add.
> If you’re a shareowner in Amazon, you may want to take a seat, because we’re not thinking small. Under normal circumstances, in this coming Q2, we’d expect to make some $4 billion or more in operating profit. But these aren’t normal circumstances. Instead, we expect to spend the entirety of that $4 billion, and perhaps a bit more, on COVID-related expenses getting products to customers and keeping employees safe. This includes investments in personal protective equipment, enhanced cleaning of our facilities, less efficient process paths that better allow for effective social distancing, higher wages for hourly teams, and hundreds of millions to develop our own COVID-19 testing capabilities

This seems huge. Spending all $4 billion of their expected Q2 profit on covid-19-related things, including developing their own tests.

Committing to spending all of your future profit (which seems like a huge statement on its own) aside, anyone know how this compares to what other companies (or even governments) are spending on safety/testing? Trying to get a sense for the scale here.
So what you‘re proposing is that a fairer way to paying back tuition is making it essentially free when taking it and then, IF you end up making a lot of money, paying it back with a share of your income?

I can‘t resist the feeling this sounds surprisingly related to the concept of free higher education and a higher, progressive income tax, a pretty revolutionary approach we‘ve been doing with limited success over here in Germany.

Then again, that might just be my naïve European perspective on things and since taxes are theft and free education is just for those commies wanting free things, it‘s surely inappropriate for a free country.
Yep that's it. As of now they have a multi-client testnet running a near-final version of the beacon chain, using proof of stake. Assuming all goes well, they'll launch for real later this year.

The sharding design is integrated with that but won't actually be implemented until next year. First version of sharding will only store data; execution on shards will be after that.

The other thing going on is various layer-two systems called "rollups" which compress on-chain data to a minimum and prove its validity with either fraud proofs or a cryptographic zero-knowledge proof. Some of those are in or near production and can take today's Ethereum to about 2000 tx/sec, for simple transactions like transfers and exchanges. The data-only phase of sharding will multiply that by the number of shards.
A human isn't a machine. What is in your head is sacred to the law. A neural network algorithm and its data is not.
Yeah that's called Hindsight bias
State schools are still a relative bargain. I attended around 30 years ago and it was about 5000/year + 4000 room and board. Tuition now is about 16Kyear and room and board is about 13K/year. If tuition is doubling every 20 years, that is about 3.6% growth in cost

The average public university is about 10K for tuition today. I think that is attainable for a middle class family.

Where things are really out of whack is all the loans to attend private schools. A student has no business going to any private school if they have to take out 50-100K in loans per year.

There should be no govt backed loans to private schools and no student loans should be discharged in bankruptcy.
Walking and/or running. even if you do small and irregularly it helps. if you are consistent then it make significant impact on the way you deal with stress and several other issues. It tool long time to realize this, but for me it works really well for me.
Blockly is definitely open source[1]. Scratch looks like Blockly because Scratch is now written with Blockly :)

[1] https://github.com/google/blockly
Why is the company that had the breach managing the payments? Surely it should be neutral third party who then just passes on the final bill.
Maybe smaller channels, but I find that most of the bigger ones (especially GamersNexus) put a ton of effort into having a good, repeatable process for in-depth looks at performance. Certainly on par with Anandtech or any of the other typically trusted review sites.
Great to see an answer that provides context and reason for a language preference. By way of reflection on your answers:

1) This is hit and miss for me. I have to read Go code frequently: not every day or even week, and sometimes under incident pressure. It's less verbose than Java/C#/JavaScript, more verbose than Python/Ruby/Scala. But it's sufficiently verbose to require, for me, cognitive discipline to not skim (ie, "I've been skimming, need to go back up" awareness). So when I'm reading go I put my Java/C#/JavaScript hat on not my Python/Ruby/Scala hat. Not a big problem, but it was so, so close to being in the latter camp. For me then, its regularity claims are something of a wash such that I'd like to see some supporting empirical data or summation of anecdote that it does in fact optimise well here and make good engineering tradeoffs.

2) The problem (I think) is being being to skip by the returned values. It's better than return codes in C, but you're not absolutely required to handle them. I suspect trying to patch structured returns onto an algol-like is a dead end, and if we want structured returns, we want to use a language that really induces us to 'process it forward' eg via map/flatmap/case handling, rather than adding ceremony around if. I think Go made sensible and realistic choices here.

3) Lack of generics are a pain, but a pain for writers. Go does not optimise for that concern, except afaict for its core language creators who have escape valves. The conspiracy theorist in me says Go was wait and see on generics (and exceptions, and objects) as a function of when it was incepted, and may now reasonably conclude that generics are here to stay so the language will need to solve for them, but objects and exceptions were good holds. ie, I don't completely buy it required a decade to figure it out, but could buy it took a decade to observe generics are not going away.

4) In Go, this seems to be satisfied by codegen and templated YAML. I wonder if this is generational, in that the need for reflection might be lessened because of how work on cloud/virtualised systems happens (networked services handling data in and out, with regular deployments).

5) Agree. GoLand I find a great tool for reading and delving into programs, and VSCode is a fantastic 'every day carry' for code.
You could use that same line of reasoning in almost any situation that there are circumstances that lessen the repercussions of an action.

i.e. "Self defense" puts a nice spin on killing someone, doesn't it?
> "Consumer CPU" refers to non-server application PCs. Workstations, desktops, laptops, and DIY. Personal and professional use (including enterprise purchases, so the full fleet of corporate laptops at any company are included).

This is a totally arbitrary distinction. We can’t just ignore the fact that consumers are doing the bulk of their computing on smartphones nowadays.
To be clear, are you saying that in order for a data breach to be considered legitimate, the plundered data needs to be released publicly?
And it adds much more user friction, essentially requires having a logged in Google account, and may not be as accurate. Nevermind that it is outsourcing that protection to Google, who will definitely use your personal data to sell targeted ads. I don't think Stripe's fraud detection behavior is unreasonable here, and if you're willing to accept fraud liability, you're given the option to disable it (and run your own recaptcha, if you like).
I see you. Thank you for saying this.

I will say though: if a person has no idea what they're missing out on, all of this seems very rational. Revolving the world largely around oneself is totally rational if you've never experienced a real community and can't understand how badly you're crippling your own life experience by not investing towards the good in others.

Most of the people I know who do good in the world; it's because they've glimpsed how good life can really be. They've tasted a bit of utopian paradise, and see absolutely no point in sticking around with this. It's not a story worth living through and everything people do to hold onto it just seems oblivious and short-sighted.
If you are a native English speaker kudos for writing "huevos" and not "Cahones" or other of its similar cringy misspellings. But 90% chance you are from the south cone so carry on.
It's not a hypothetical. Intel delivers the best single core performance and that matters. That's what we're talking about.
If I remember the settlement details, something like 75 million was for legal fees.

I bet they've been paid.
Well then, consider the bubble boy who was immunodeficient. All those vulnerable to the degree it is life threatening can get one of those and let everyone else get on with their lives.
How will you pay for it if costs go up?
> All of us should be regularly lobbying our lawmakers to make student loans dischargeable by bankruptcy, just like any other loan.

Because if that was the case no one would lend them money, and there wouldn't be any student loans.

Also there is a repayment system where you only are required to pay a percentage of your income above the poverty line..
You should probably be selling that if it works well. That is something I have not seen.
So what are the flaws of brutalism? To look at the referenced examples, no storage space would be one. Confusing floorplan is another. Huge volumes spent on being brutal, but little attention to functional value?
I think they have invested directly in cryptocurrencies (that is why they decided to register as an RIA), along with a range of other bets that include Coinbase, Compound and Anchorage.
What if crypto fund II were a token. That'd be putting money where mouth is.
Anyway the idea of NNs was introduced to work on data which a simple human brain couldn't make sense of.

For more general tabular data, like trees, regression and even rule based models are more realistic.
Debate: Roam Research vs. Notion
To be fair Microsoft wanted to adopt Java, and with J++ they added Windows specific base libraries and make it work with COM. One could still compile ordinary Java back then also with J++.

Although they weren't allowed to do that if I remember right, so they basically had to create C# - and C# turned out to be fantastic in my opinion.
i agree overall, there are also high schools for 'talented' kids who can take exams/ or private schools in the US/ of course not all is available everywhere
To their credit, stability of such a setup might be facilitated by Windows' fine display driver model (WDDM).
It varies. Sometimes they're a bit confused, sometimes they just shrug it off, sometimes they give you a really hard time--especially if they're new.

I just got a text message indicating that Verizon is going to allow me to install an ONT myself, and a tech will attempt to guide me from... outside, I guess?
- How would you sell me on Pantry vs. AWS S3? (You can use S3 in much the same way ... throwing up JSON at a path and fetching it. The cost some would argue is neglible)

- How do you deal with CORS?

- How do you deal with authentication?

Is this intended to be like the take a penny leave a penny jar? You put stuff here knowing anyone could come and destroy it at any time?

I did not sign up, I am only going off your API docs.
If you're trying not to sound like a fascist, downplaying Yarvin's neo-fascism as "ideas you find distasteful" is a bad way of doing it.
But maybe easier to load a custom rom?
But isn't the reason for the sole existence of college loans that there aren't any regulations controlling the private education industry? More availability for loans means the schools can charge more for tuition.

Just like the whole american privatized healthcare; the sky is the limit... to what they'll charge you.
I previously read this: https://cachemiss.xyz/blog/parallel-reduce-and-scan-on-the-G...

whose implementation seems a lot simpler than what is presented here.

What is the main difference here?

I've only dabbled a bit in Vulkan. (I wrote a pathtracer that I wanted to speed up using compaction; for which I needed a prefix sum)
no, i dont think i said that.
The tech posts are mostly good - politics are too US-centric, no surprise. Quality of comments going down, for sure. There's an abundance of "libertarian" views. Make of that what you will, but when you see it enough, you know the conversation here is dominated by a lot of young techies spending most of their days in a bubble.
Government is far worse than the private sector at long term planning.

Mostly, governments optimize for things to look good on the next election day. With 4 year terms, that's an average 2 years planning horizon.
I agree with you. They both seem to be a worst-of-all-worlds approach.
But the young adult has agency over outcome while the bank doesn’t. Normally the bank would take collateral to align interests.
No they aren't. There's no NUMA console on the market, why would anything be NUMA aware?
A small party table from costco, an old monitor, keyboard/mouse from office and a chair from dining table set. I know I need upgrade very soon.
I don't fully agree with your post, but you do make some good points. In The Netherlands I have seen some majors go downhill (hello psychology!), while others became a bit tougher actually (hello computer science!).

In the Netherlands though, what I've noticed is that high school was tough (if you did STEM high school that is). IMO, high school was way tougher than university, considering the skills you had at the time and effort you needed to put in.

Even computer science is a cake walk compared to that, because at university people tend to be more motivated than in high school.
You say you're not a fan of throwing around the term "Nazi" lazily, but immediately in the previous sentence you suggest that you understand Nazism as a combination of "nationalism" and "socialism". Since this is a pretty common cudgel among far-right media commentators, used to disingenuously associate Nazi atrocities with left-wing politics, it's very difficult to read that in anything but bad faith. In fact this misrepresentation is so common that r/askhistorians has an entire section of their FAQ dedicated to explaining it: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/faq/europe#wiki_...
The folks over at ArmsControlWonk Slack channel are saying they are likely guided MRV tests.

It's easy to get objects with no wings to travel at incredible speeds if they are in re-entry. It also explains multiple objects flying in formation.
When can we create an account with email/password instead of Google?
With http://songsmith.ms/ from Microsoft Research you just sing whatever and it tries to fit cheesy, casio-keyboard music to your mumbles to make it sound like you planned it. Of course, the real fun is taking vocals from popular songs and making casio-keyboard covers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTN-ixHQ2hM
It's not about the insignificant amount of money everyone will get out of it; it's about equifax being severely punished and fined, even though that settlement won't really change anything.
No idea why but I always feel any company dealing with blackbox credit rules are very fishy...wish there is a way to remove them away from the financial system.
Which also have side channel attacks... these and much more:

[1] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-16/materials/eu-16-Lipp-ARM...

[2] https://duo.com/decipher/new-side-channel-attack-extracts-pr...

[3] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/980.pdf