skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice work!

I primarily use TablePlus, but it's lack of support for saved queries is a big downside, this could be great for that use case.

A couple of UX things I've noticed, do with them what you will ;)

- When clicking on a table, the more common expectation for me is for it to open that table in a new tab, or switch to an open tab already using that table. The dropdown with columns is nice, but feels secondary.

- When opening a table, it would be nice to pre-seed with X amount of rows immediately. Commonly I just want to filter or search through the data in some way, and being able to immediately interact with it would be a nice touch.
Tools are getting so good. I remember just a few years ago it was easy to make an impact in a hundred different directions.

This is impressive
So if you have an incredibly shitty setup, and have no idea how vscode works, then it might be worth it. Got it.
I picked up three Dell R900's for an average of $200 each, with 4x Xeon E7450 and 128GB of ECC RAM. No hyperthreading (2011!), it's 24 real cores.

They're noisy and use lots of power, but you can't argue with the value for money.
A small inline graph! Popularized and named by Edward Tufte. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline
The CDC has all-cause excess mortality tracking and graphs here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

As far as I can tell the numbers are statistically computed estimates, based on real reported deaths, so it's not actual counted deaths, and there's still reporting lag skewing the last couple of weeks.
Which turns into the science fiction hypothesis it is the wormhole / ancient alien artifact connecting Sol to the rest of the galaxy.
Mostly because enforcement has not gotten to them yet - lots of the really bad examples are from non-EU companies, and the priority of the enforcement has been mostly with local businesses, and most of that for all kinds of privacy issues with more real world impact.

E.g. at the launch of GDPR a local major supermarket chain tried to use a bunch of dark patterns for their loyalty card program (mostly offline) process so as to continue their tracking, they were forced to change last year. It's clear that issues like that have a much larger impact on privacy of people than some foreign news website, and that's prioritized accordingly.

For the major multinational social networks, the delays are (intentionally?) caused by the lack of capacity in the Ireland data protection agency, as many of these multinationals have their EU HQ in Ireland because of tax purposes, so all their cases are being handled there and that means that enforcement for them is going to take a long time. But if I look at random local websites today and compare it to what was happening a year ago, the dark patterns are not prevalent anymore. They appear occasionally, but they're really rare now locally.
Normally it's not. But if certain thinks went wrong you might have much less control to fix thinks.

Like consider how many cases of "help big company randomly blocked our account" popped up on hacker news and twitter the recent years.

Also consider news like: "Amazon spies on seller to get a competitive advantage when selling their own products".

Or e.g. companies short term massively changing their service terms or API's. Deprecating old ones etc. This might be fine for customers which products are always changing anyway. But for banks this isn't attractive at all, they only want changes if they are really needed for them.
Try running any service with an average egress exceeding 10 Mbit/s then tell me cloud still makes sense. By the time you reach 1 Gbit/s the very idea of it is enough to elicit a primitive biological defensive response.

We don't do on-prem but we do make heavy use of colo. The thought of cloud growth and DC space consolidation some day pushing out traditional flat rate providers absolutely terrifies me.

At some point those cloud premiums will trickle down through the supply chain, and eventually it could become hard to find reasonably priced colo space because the big guys with huge cash-flush pockets are buying up any available space with a significant premium attached. I don't know if this is ever likely, but growth of cloud could conceivably put pressure on available physical colo space.

Similar deal with Internet peering. There may be a critical point after which cloud vendors, through their sheer size will be able to change how these agreements are structured for everyone.
We are evaluating the possibility. But this is really for research only. To go beyond that we need further improvements to the safety layer.
'New bill would forgive medical-school debt for Covid-19 health workers'

https://abcnews.go.com/US/bill-forgive-medical-school-debt-c...

It's called the 'The Student Loan Forgiveness for Frontline Health Workers Act.' Introduced by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday
> “ You are making a MASSIVE assumption that most people dislike Leetcode.”

No, this is not an assumption.
I love the mood in this writing
The plasma is the resistive coil. Microwaves are used to carry energy to it because wires would melt.
That's extremely transformative: it's learning from a large corpus what faces are and how to create brand new ones which cannot even be traced back to an original. (If you think even that is not enough to count as 'transformative', I suggest you look at the examples in the WP article of what has been considered transformative, like 'thumbnail screenshots of web pages' and 'putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa'.)
I think why it works in Game of Thrones is that it’s used both sparingly and in ways that feel like an alternate-universe feudal European society might plausibly coin them. “Brother-by-law” and “sister-by-law” are particular examples of coinage that feel realistically archaic and foreign, yet aren’t arbitrary “smeerp” words, either.
> It's the same numerical distance.

...

What people are going to care about is the difference as a percentage. :)

> Look how small the bars are at the anandtech page, https://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU-2019/2247 also does not show you the one is 66% faster - same problem, just inverted.

Actually the bar for the 2700X on the Anandtech page is 66% longer than the bar for the 3900X, though it's admittedly harder to eyeball when they're both that short because of the much slower processors at the bottom of the page. You can imagine how much easier that page would be to see if they didn't include those two Celerons at the bottom. (You can also imagine how that would affect the results using the math you were using; if adding or removing a CPU changes not just the length of the bar but the actual numbers for an entirely different CPU, something's fishy.)

Doing 1/X for timed benchmarks helps that for the modern processors though, because it makes it so the bars that are short and hard to eyeball are the slowest processors rather than the fastest ones.
Systems in the cloud are always going to be less secure than local systems. With cloud you have the same issues with in-house access and data leaking, because you have the same people with access to the same data, PLUS with cloud you also have additional issues with the various third party/parties (over whom you have little control).
Running code before main has nothing to do with performance.
Is that like calcum, uranum or strontum?

Or are they talking about aluminium?
> Preference cookies are not allowed to persist without consent.

> OK, I am willing to be educated, point me at the place in the regulations this is discussed.

It is not discussed, it is stated very explicitly:

>(66) Third parties may wish to store information on the equipment of a user, or gain access to information already stored, for a number of purposes, ranging from the legitimate (such as certain types of cookies) to those involving unwarranted intrusion into the private sphere (such as spyware or viruses). It is therefore of paramount importance that users be provided with clear and comprehensive information when engaging in any activity which could result in such storage or gaining of access. The methods of providing information and offering the right to refuse should be as user-friendly as possible. Exceptions to the obligation to provide information and offer the right to refuse should be limited to those situations where the technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user. Where it is technically possible and effective, in accordance with the relevant provisions of Directive 95/46/EC, the user’s consent to processing may be expressed by using the appropriate settings of a browser or other application. The enforcement of these requirements should be made more effective by way of enhanced powers granted to the relevant national authorities.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:...

If you want to persist any preference information, you must get explicit consent. Whether you use that information for tracking or not, or whether it is combined with PII or not, has absolutely no bearing on your obligation. The act of persisting that information in the users browser requires consent. As this is a directive, it will be implemented independently by every member state, so if you want specific guidance for a specific state, you'll have to look it up. I linked the UKs guidance on this to you above, which you ignored. The facts are:

> If you want to persist any preference information, you must gain explicit consent

> The existence of cookie consent dialog is not a sign of malfeasance

> Lack of a cookie consent dialog is not a sign of lack of malfeasance

> Your stated interpretation of the regulations is very highly opinionated, and not supported by any jurisprudence

> Some of your stated interpretations are just demonstrably wrong

> The actual regulation is almost never followed

Based on those facts I would argue that the regulation has provided no benefit to the public at all, and has simple created a global nuisance that we all have to put up with now.
As I understand it, the concept refers to reifying relationships between humans as relationships between things. Is this an example of that? People use this kind of stuff for the most varied reasons: long distance partners buy one for their SO, people online hand remote controls to roleplay doms... Hardly what Marx had in mind when criticising commodity fetishism ;)
And the messaging to that effect was effective. People have taken it to heart.
Knowledge, by itself, isn't power. The sharing of knowledge is power.
What if the transformers movie was also spying to make money and was the primary cause of remote exploits, crashes, and fraud? Because javascript is.
This book shows that many of our institutions have both visible, socially-respected goals, but also hidden goals nobody likes to acknowledge.

Example: Health Care

Visible goal: Improve Health

Hidden goal: Show how much we care ("kiss the booboo")

This explains why much of health care is devoted to high-cost high-visibility interventions (like bypass surgery) and much less to lifestyle interventions (like diet/exercise).

It also explains why many obvious changes that would improve the stated goal keep failing to be adopted - they hamper the hidden goals.

Software example: Why do people keep estimating development task size assuming nothing goes wrong? And why do their managers not hold them responsible for continually slipping the schedules?

Visible goal: Accurate estimates

Hidden goal: Brag about how fast we are

If accurate estimates were the only goal, then when schedules slip there would be a strong feedback loop to improve future estimates. My experience has been the opposite - the slip is blamed on something "no one could have foreseen" and everybody keeps estimating as before.

To be clear, it's always a mix of the visible and hidden motives. Much of health care is actually about improving health. But acknowledging the hidden motives is vital to understanding how much of society works.
Er, that's irrelevant. Obviously people with avatars of dragons and wolves are not actually dragons and wolves, nor are they generally claiming to be the original artist, any more than the millions of people with anime avatars are usually claiming to actually be Japanese schoolgirls or the mangaka who drew the avatar. There's nothing to 'find out' in either case.
Playing chess with a friend across the world is not a waste of human potential. Writing a script so you can lie to your next employer is.
> I can understand how a person who believed all that would believe putting their business in their competitors hands would be a naive decision.

That sounds like it's hard to believe all this. But some thinks you state actually had some proves that they do happen...
> Going on most of the comments, is nearly everyone on this forum a weirdo?

Nearly everyone on HN has empathy, curiosity, and the ability to entertain other points of view.
Sorry about a slightly off-topic comment. Working on a deep tech startup, with a significant segment of potential customers being national labs, I'm very interested in learning various aspects [beyond the basics] about the process(es) that national labs use to procure application software (not the system one [OS distributions, monitoring etc.], but rather domain-specific one, e.g., scientific data management, modeling and simulations). I have looked at relevant sections on some of the labs' websites and my initial impression is quite fuzzy. If you are familiar with this subject, I would very much appreciate if you could clarify that. If you prefer, you can reach me at aleksandr <dot> blekh <at> Google's e-mail service.

P.S. I do have connections at some national labs, but thought that you might shed some additional light on this.
release forced updates and launch no new features, but "general bug fixes and performance enhancements."
Twitter Asks Users to Reconsider Before Sending Vulgar Tweets
Maybe they could try the novel method of charging money instead of buying ads to get users to show ads to.
Take Your Gift
Kubernetes in Practice
You still have to fork
This line which, apparently, came from a famous con man:

Interviewer: "Sir, how did you get these otherwise worldly, intelligent and sophisticated people to give you whatever you wanted?"

Con Man: "You see, everyone has something that they desire above all else. If you can give them that thing, or appear to be able to give them that thing, they will give you whatever you want in return."
> Bold of you to assume that a disease can just run its course and then end.

Not that bold, since it is how most diseases/viruses work (with a few exceptions like HIV, and there's no reason to assume covid-19 is an exception)

> Would you say the same thing about the Chickenpox

Yes, chickenpox is one-and-done. Once you've had it, you (basically) can't get it again.

> Are you willing to bet on a far deadlier second wave not occurring?

Yes - "Survival of the fittest"

If there is a second wave, it will only affect survivors of the first wave, and as far as I can tell, the vast majority of first-wave survivors had mild-to-no symptoms. Kids are barely affected at all, it seems.
That'd be awesome!

diff --git a/src/strconv/atof.go b/src/strconv/atof.go
index 28ad094..49cec69 100644
--- a/src/strconv/atof.go
+++ b/src/strconv/atof.go
@@ -410,12 +410,12 @@ out:
}

// Exact powers of 10.
-var float64pow10 = []float64{
+var float64pow10 = [...]float64{
1e0, 1e1, 1e2, 1e3, 1e4, 1e5, 1e6, 1e7, 1e8, 1e9,
1e10, 1e11, 1e12, 1e13, 1e14, 1e15, 1e16, 1e17, 1e18, 1e19,
1e20, 1e21, 1e22,
}
-var float32pow10 = []float32{1e0, 1e1, 1e2, 1e3, 1e4, 1e5, 1e6, 1e7, 1e8, 1e9, 1e10}
+var float32pow10 = [...]float32{1e0, 1e1, 1e2, 1e3, 1e4, 1e5, 1e6, 1e7, 1e8, 1e9, 1e10}

// If possible to convert decimal representation to 64-bit float f exactly,
// entirely in floating-point math, do so, avoiding the expense of decimalToFloatBits.

math.Pow10() already uses arrays this way, and I found a ~10% performance while optimizing an alternative float parsing implementation by making the same change.
Why are my posts being blocked
You know I put myself at significant risk by publishing some of those articles, and they take a tremendous amount of research. I've received threats for some of those articles, and you're literally blocking them.

You can dismiss what I'm saying as just crazy talk, but what I just said is true.
But many companies will be on it for a lot longer and this is version 3 of WinUI. The question is "what tech stack can we use to target all current versions of windows and isn't being deprecated anytime soon?", as windows 7 dies out this may become the answer but for the past several years and probably the next few Win32 is the only possibility.
It's conceivable. I've seen solid state RF amplifier modules successfully combined into some quite high power units and that was over 20 years ago. I haven't followed the technology since so I'm not up to date on that at all. In any case I think a 10 MW amplifier and associated power supplies and cooling equipment would need to be large and heavy.

A single jet engine generates about 20 MW of power and I'd be very surprised if you could pack 10 MW of RF amplifier into that kind of size and weight envelope.
I suspect it was a matter of budget and collaborators that made Rez work, too, though I haven’t looked at the crew list of his games with that theory in mind. Eden was trying to catch the same lightning as Rez but... didn’t.
I much enjoyed Ben Franklin's autobiography.
Why people start at the K8 end state is twofold, fashion and a lot of younger people don't look at highways and see they started out as either single lane tarmac or dirt roads that were remade in place.
There's a lot more talk these days about refactoring complex systems. But its really a job for senior engineers or young folk who have time for it (Like the new grads who complain about being dumped on legacy systems :) ).
When you're jumping from framework to framework and shipping features, sitting back and considering things is really tricky, and the inertia to build from scratch but also have 20 years of refactored improvements delivered makes jumping on K8's and the magic that brings seem like a no brainer.
Annual costs, backups, security and latency.
I actually am moving my startups servers from AWS to a home server.

Reasoning:

* We know how much compute is need.

* We know how much the new servers can compute.

* We have the ability to load balance to AWS or Digital Ocean or another service as needed.

* This move provides a 10x speed improvement to our services AND reduces costs by 70%.

For reference, had to call the ISP (AT&T) and they agreed to let me host my current service. It’s relatively low bandwidth, but has high compute requirements.
Manufacturing company with insane deal with local utility. No idea but server room cost is probably under 2% of machinery cost so hard to quantify.
In my experience, it's not the time required but that a lot of development teams don't have a sysadmin or ops skillset.
Not the person you replied to, but you might find this comprehensive and plainly worded summary from the NIH interesting: https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/calorie-restriction-and-fasti...

An important caveat to bear in mind is that not all fasting diets entail calorie restriction (though many often do); it is calorie restriction that is linked to reduced inflammation and possible benefits to lifespan.
Interclass variation amongst rubik cubes is far lesser than intra-class variation amongst different objects. I would put that in the same category as dialogue systems generating responses using RL ( I've actually worked on this ), incidentally also on top of the page today. These things are mostly dog and pony shows. RL's application in practice is limited, even for Covariant .ai I'm not convinced that most of the paper they have posted is not just marketing. Academics are quite good at playing this game, see this paper on their site[1]. It has nothing to do w/ grippers. In practice once you touch hardware, all that policy gradient goodiness goes out the window, hardware considerations, domain specification, etc will dominate how good your solution is. So "domain spec and design" means you need to work closely w/ your customers, and have a say in how their warehouse is designed. Amazon doesn't run into this issue because everything is done in house. But if you try to deploy the same system at Walmart w/o strong institutional support, the system will fail.

Thus companies such as this is a pump and flip play. There's a direct comp that's Amazon's internal division, everyone is trying to copy Amazon's supply chain efficiency these days, so the best outcome is strategic investment from Walmart and such, and then followed by an acquisition.

You saw similar companies come out in the nascent days of the deep learning hype, socher from Stanford comes into mind. His company MetaMind was sold to Salesforce for xx million amount, all the engineers got a fine pay day, they didn't really release a product. But they certainly published some nice papers along the way.

[1] https://openreview.net/attachment?id=ByeWogStDS&name=origina...
I cannot even begin to put into my own words how essential poetry turns out to be for this experiment in being human.

I have a handful of poems that are nearly always kicking around in my head and come up in snips and tatters in idle moments. Sometimes it's an actual liturgy -- often, when I'm walking, i get snippets of thomas cranmer's english on endless loops through my mind -- but more often than not it's a figurative one, though no less grounding for that.

Poems take a language and bend it past its breaking point, without breaking it.
Can you provide evidence that every antibody test used in all of the studies above are as inaccurate as you claim? Your 1-word opinion on each of them is useless.

> We don't have that for viral presence tests, unless you believe the god awful seroprevalence tests.

https://www.livescience.com/covid19-coronavirus-tests-false-...
> You may talk with our models. The 2.7B can be interacted with on a 16gb P100 GPU or better. The 9.4B parameter model requires at least two 32gb V100 GPUs to interact with.

Still cheaper to rent humans!
Clorox ramps up production of wipes, disinfectants in fight against coronavirus
I picked up a few refurbished dell servers off Ebay for super cheap a while back - and usually use these with Cloudflare Argo tunnels to host various servers. However, since these are just sitting on the floor next to my desk, usually rely on cloud for any applications with high uptime requirements.

Recently though, I've been working on some distributed systems type projects which would allow these servers to be put in different physical locations (and power grids), and still continue to operate as a cohesive whole. This type of technology definitely increases my confidence in them being able to reliably host servers. I wouldn't want to be reliant on the cloud for large scale services though, from my understanding you can get some crazy cost savings by colocating some physical servers (especially for large data storage requirements).
Yes, it's a testament to crowdsourcing and filtering. Many people have argued that 'generation + filtering = creativity', and it's impressive what NNs+crowds can do. The NNs are unhindered by any merely human considerations and are indefatigable, while the crowd brings the filtering & evaluation to select just the best candidates.
IMHO a language's complexity is proportional to the square of the number of bnf rules. By this measure C++ is a disaster. If Thompson and Ritchie had tried to write UNIX in C++ they would have certainly failed!
Yes, mostly a modern user experience. Also the web stack is much more accessible there are many developers who are already familiar with it.
Most business workloads simply aren't CPU bound, nor amenable to parallel computation. The public clouds would offer it if they had demand for it.
On the other hand, what if this technology was used to influence society and elections in a good way?