skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The issue here is you could probably have...

No.

The issue here is that Samsung notified an employee of a coronavirus case on their floor by an email they could only read at work.

The HR willingly and knowingly subjected the employee to the risk of contracting coronavirus, taking away their ability to make an informed decision of whether or not to come to work that day given the risk.

This is criminal behavior. Don't make excuses for them.
>Everything is political! Everything. If you see something like science, religion, art, anything as apolitical, that probably means its just reinforcing prevailing politics.

Let's assume that everything is political. We could certainly argue that every concept and every thing created by human is in some way political.

But then what? If everything is, what does it mean for a thing to be "political"? That concept has simply become empty and useless.
In-person Blackhat 2020 Cancelled
> I can walk outside and practice social distance. That doesn't endanger you or your family.

That's correct. And, to my knowledge, none of the lockdown measures in the US prohibit walking outside. Your previous claims of "indefinite house confinement" were made in bad faith.

> most of the deaths will be older people and the unhealthy.

So, these people are somehow worth less to you than young, healthy people?

> ...reasonable precautions and practices could effectively mitigate disease spread....

And, what are these "reasonable precautions and practices"?

>... and allow economic activity and reasonable freedom.

Economic activity is not prohibited. What is prohibited is unnecessary face to face interaction. Your freedom is not relevant here. What is relevant is containing the spread of the most serious public health threat in a century, and you're coming dangerously close to saying we should sacrifice certain "useless" people because you feel protecting them infringes your "freedom." You have a civic obligation here. Take it seriously.
Don't know why you're being downvoted. Physical delivery IS a third rail for retail investors and brokers should absolutely have a field in their settings page that authorizes them to close the position x days or hours before maturity.
Comparing Rewinding and Fine-tuning in Neural Network Pruning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02389
Avoid being an early adopter of new technology despite everyone on HN raving about it. Instead focus on solving actual business needs that grow revenue or profit margins.
Edit: reworded.

Careful, some of my teammates and I are trying to do that and we have to get it cleared by management first as it changes what state taxes they will have to pay.
Hmm I disagree I think many people have heavily optimised for never needing to be in their home except for sleeping. They work in an office, they work out at a gym, they eat out every meal, their do their laundry at work, public parks are their green space... and this probably now looks like a very a bad idea for the long-term, even if this particular situation clears up quickly.
I've been using Roam daily for the last month. What I like about Roam is the markdown, the ease of creating bidirectional links, and the automatic daily notes. The daily notes feature particularly eliminates friction for me. I just start writing.

What I don't like about Roam is its slow load time. Also writing does not feel snappy enough - if that makes any sense. I feel a slight delay at times between typing a key and seeing the character on screen. Every time that happens I like Roam a little less. I've never experienced that with an app like iaWriter, and as a result, even for all its lack of features, every time I use iaWriter I like it a little more.

I think what Roam is missing for me, besides improving the writing performance, is a weekly email digest somehow summarizing my notes. This could use the bidirectional links and give me a quick overview of what I wrote for the week. That would help improve my memory and be more introspective.
Did you miss the Twitch part?
I'm not interested in the ads, so I don't notice them if they're not shoved in front of what I am interested in.

I can see that if you consider ads to be inherently offensive, you would notice them wherever they appear, and be annoyed.

But that's not where most people are.
It's not being launched, and it's not a product to begin with. The Wikipedia pages that another commenter posted are helpful, in any case.
Come to Atlanta!

There are satellite offices for many of the major tech companies (some of them not so "satellite" at 200ish engineers).

The cost of living is cheap, it's not cold in the summer, and there's so much culture. Atlanta is in a forest, so if you like outdoors stuff, you'd be in the right place.
Developers, Do Not Get Promoted (2019)
Considering how Google and Apple are basically mandating WFH for the rest of this year, these lockdowns aren't for them; they're for all the other people who need a way to take care of themselves without giving their bosses the finger.
> If you're trying to do justice to the concept of negative freedom, then what definition are you using? To me, it's about being free to be left alone and go your own way, as opposed to being provided for (eg freedom from hunger, or whatever).

Yes, and for most people in America, this is unquestionably the case.

> I would classify a public defender as a mitigation of an impingement on negative freedom rather than a bona fide positive freedom. There are surely other countries where you have less of a chance of being harmed by the courts, because they compensate for their general infringement of freedom by giving you better protections to defend yourself from it.

It's debatable that the US public defender system somehow mitigates this impingement less effectively than any other Western country, indeed most western countries have similar public defender systems.

For the sake of argument, even if we were to accept that premise...the majority of Americans spend far more of their lives exercising the uniquely strong negative liberties extended to them than interfacing with the one aspect of American life in which a globally uniform impingement of negative rights is allegedly mitigated the least.

> The US has some of the most draconian copyright laws in the world. Are those outweighed by something else, or should we dispense with this notion of "most" ?

The US's copyright laws are on par with those in most of the Western world. All EU countries are signatories of the Berne Convention, and the copyright length in the US is the same as it is in France, Singapore, Switzerland, South Korea, Italy, UK, Australia, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark...
My pet hypothesis is that the market is pricing in a large amount of expected near-term inflation. In other words, it's not that the market thinks that companies are not going to lose much value due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it's that the market expects that the dollar will lose almost as much value as the average company.

Share price is an exchange rate between dollars and fractions of ownership of a company - it goes up when the value of the company goes up, and also goes up when the value of the dollar goes down.

Of course take this hypothesis with a large grain of salt - I'm pretty sure there exist ways to figure out expected inflation, but I'm not sure what they are. Specifically, if I knew of something like a Consumer Price Index futures market, that would fairly definitively answer my question of whether expected inflation is a large part of why the stock market is priced so high relative to the dollar. Absent something like that, I have no strong evidence for or against my pet hypothesis (if you know of something like that, please do let me know).
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23115743.
Oh, awesome, thanks for the links!
I reached a similar conclusion. Dynamic memory is seductive for the task of indefinite scaling, but a practical system always encounters bottlenecks that aren't along the memory management axis, and in the meantime your code is much harder to verify.

NB: Historically, game engines have tended towards object pooling at runtime without any dynamic allocations. In that case there is a defined limit to what a scene will accommodate, and the object counts often simply reflect the other performance bottlenecks involved.

GC is still nice, but mostly in the sense of stitching together the most dynamic elements of the system. You don't want to have to trace a ton of stuff, and that also leads in the direction of flattening the data and making it more manual and static as the type system allows.
WTAF?

Given the attendees, I'm surprised some didn't seriously mess with anybody entering their rooms. At the very least, one would expect all the goons getting doxxed, their phones pwned, and the whole shaming posted somewhere.
This is interesting because you can incentivise people to go to other streams by offering them multipliers for every raid they join (or something). You'd have a network of people who are watching ads for the chance of having their ad watched!
I agree Maggie's talk wasn't arguing against metaphors. I had to watch it to find out ;)

I also agree with you about the point of the blog post, it just wasn't very clear when I first posted. I see Julia has since re-written parts of it, for example removing Maggie's "frivolous" quote, which was a bit misleading for those of us who hadn't listened to her talk.
No Plans to Support X470, B450, X370 Chipsets with Zen 3
Peterffy is talking out of his ass, they had more than 5 days. CME's current specifications for order entry/market data has been in place for years now. Whoever was writing their software on their backend failed to read the documentation.

https://www.cmegroup.com/confluence/display/EPICSANDBOX/Posi...
Oh joy, more background JavaScript
I like the approach to css with stylex. I hope that now linaria and astroturf will get more support.
You might want to consider some up and coming platforms where the competition is less intense, for now. On our platform, Spoon, if you stream for an hour you will definitely get listeners (it's audio only though). I think that dynamic changes as the platform grows.
Export larger pages from LibreOffice Draw using PDF 1.6
When you say "retro computing", what do you mean? I assume you have something specific in mind, and I'm curious what that is.

I don't think your request is particularly relevant to this HN post, though I may be missing the context since I'd never heard of MNT Research prior to today.
Sadly no mountains (I am actually moving to Atlanta in a month, for other reasons). Decent rock climbing though. And great fruit selection.
Well, they are free, so that probably contributes to that perception.
It's a useful tool even if you use something else for coding. Org mode is very good. Magit too.
https://youtu.be/E2Fv-nJCfrk?t=56
Not only that, but Samsung also informed them of covid cases on their floor via an email they could only read at work.

"By the way, your office is infected, and we didn't want to tell you this before you arrived here. Sorry not sorry."

This is criminal, and should not be excused.
Yes, and a COVID-negative individual doesn't kill, in your words, "60,000+ people" if they want to go about their lives during a pandemic.
Here is a lecture on the technology by MIT Professor Yet-Ming Chiang from the MIT Club of Northern California last October.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E76q-9q7ZDg

(Edit: After rewatching, a little short on the actual tech, but tons of info on the chemistry, materials science, markets, and economics of battery storage in all of its forms. Here is the original paper https://www.cell.com/joule/pdf/S2542-4351(17)30032-6.pdf)

MIT Professor Donald Sadoway also invented a liquid metal battery and founded a company called Ambri. Talks by him are easier to find.

Both have interesting tech, flexible chemistry, and good price models that beat wildly optimistic lithium ion battery price forecasts.
The distortions in the markets caused by new money creates a lot of very serious systemic issues, it just doesn't do much to price inflation (or, at least, hasn't) because the money has been remaining in financial instruments.

Most of the state budget is going to be things like welfare (e.g., health care), unemployment payments, and salaries of state employees. Some infrastructure, but then much of that goes to salaries, too.

Purchase of bonds is the same thing. The money is still created and spent. It's kind of a good deal for the city because by the time they have to pay it back it may cost more to cut a check than what is left on the principal, but of course that also means that every bit of wealth has been reduced to zero.

Many municipalities have passed laws (usually through initiatives) that forbid the cities from borrowing without a vote, and even in California voters do not just automatically pass every bond measure. However, the state might be able to pass bonds, but it looks like there are some hurdles even for that. I found what I thought was an amendment is a referendum and was pass in 2004:

https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2004/58_03_2004.htm
The kicker is that in order to be transferred to the non-covid hospitals, you still had to be TESTED for covid and come up negative.

THAT'S why these hospitals were all empty in the first place. It all comes back to what a shitshow testing is in this country.
I run my life on an Airtable GTD framework. I'd totally skin a iOS build to improve on the experience.
What other changes would you forecast?
I'm usually like "Who wrote this shit?"
https://archive.md/Gvsop
Being unwilling to pay for the service suggests to me that the entire experience has no meaningful value.
This technique figures out how to find a subset of neural network edge weights that can replicate most of the full model's performance, and is indeed quite simple. The catch is that this sparse subset of NN edge weights has no structure, so it doesn't get efficient execution on a GPU. If you're on a CPU with no specialized matrix math, this does in fact cut down on execution costs, but if you have an embedded ML chip, this doesn't really help.

Distillation is another shrinkage technique that is also pretty foolproof, but allows you to pick an arbitrary architecture - this way, you can make full use of whatever hardware you're deploying too.
Which one do people here recommend?
This is awesome. I imagine that you get some neat reactions when a streamer gets a ton of attention they weren't expecting.
As mentioned in the blogpost, they use code splitting and bundle hashing to actually maximize usage of browser cache.
I just looked up the restrictions for France specifically, and apparently they are set to expire on May 11 -- so that makes more sense. Where I am, most restrictions are still in place and going back to offices now seems ridiculously early, but maybe the situation is different in France.

I was curious since lawsuits over premature return seem like a major business risk, and I was wondering if they'd accounted for it, but if the French govt is allowing it, then yeah, they can probably just point at that to justify it.
> It seems we are all attributing this to a successful lockdown rather than considering other scenarios

The curve in parts of the US without a strong lockdown isn't flattening. NYC just dominated the counts so much that it makes the whole country look like it is flattening if you don't break things out. There's similar indications in data from international experience

So, there's a lot more basis for conclusions than “anti-tiger rock” situation.
My browser doesn't have a MIDI out, so I don't understand how that's meant to work.
> They have the right to make and sell the product they believe will benefit them the most.

If you honestly believed that you would advocate for more qualified data oriented decisions about your software to ensure the decisions at present aren’t wasteful and inefficient.

And that’s what makes software unique: ethics aren’t of value in this line of work. Developers frequently make unqualified decisions for their own self interests in conflict to their employers profit motive and in conflict to their user’s experience. If ethics were important you would serve as an advocate for your product as qualified with evidence.

Consider the difference if your medical doctor acted primarily in their own self interest for profit instead of primarily in the interest of your health. Consider how that same reasoning can extend to software developers who produce poorly tested medical equipment.

Yet somehow this reasoning seems to have offended you. I am unclear as to some ideology that you speak of.
What's the difference if you die from the flu you contracted at work?
We do have mountains!

We're also only an hour and a half from Chattanooga, TN, which has amazing mountain climbing.
I assume you're talking about only on linux? On a mac `alt .` and `alt /` are mapped to characters ≥ and ÷
Honestly these posts seem like the equivalent of "lifehacks" for devs to me :D

The only protip I have is to think through a task on paper before you start writing code. Scope it if unclear, sequence it into small chunks, do more technical design if its a complex change etc. See if you can reuse existing code/libraries to do what you need.
Hi davyson - is Staker responsive on mobile?
Fast or Slow
I love SF, but no reason to overpay for a small studio when I can't even go to a tech meetup...left March 14th.
Research into hunter gathering has major issues to the point where we can't really say much about their life. Most studies tries to find surviving hunter gathering that looks like they have not been influenced by non-hunter gatherers, but they are very few that still exist and those that do tend to be semi-hunter gathering rather that true hunter gathering, and they are useally located in very specific environments which limits how useful observations are.

What those studies do find in common is is that hunting is an minority part of the diet and both sexes spend most time gathering. Hunting is more an act of opportunity or desperation.

When it comes to violence there is/was two camps with the research community, one claiming major violence in hunter gathering and the other arguing very low level of violence. One side accuse the other of pacifying the past, and the other side claims people are warifying the past. More modern consensus seems to lean towards less violence since the majority of time spent for all members of a hunter gathering group is on gathering. There just are not time to spend on violence when 75% of waking hours is spent on creating food for the day.

Farming is historically the mechanism which allowed people to spend less time per day on food and more time on social interaction and social fighting over dominance. It also made people more vulnerable, as crops can be destroyed and weather can cause disruption, which then has a direct connection to increased violence. When people started domesticating animals they further increased their food source vulnerability since animals can be stolen, and there is research linking ancestry of herding with increased biological response to aggression with the hypothesis of increased risk being the primary factor behind greater aggression.

I know a good book if you want to dig into all the different theories around this subject, but it is a pretty complex area of research.
It's an extraordinary video, amazingly ahead of its time both about distributed computing and just as a film. Even the use of the word "guys" is like a bit of the future back-propagated.
* Arstechnica
* Anandtech
* Randsinprose
* Reddit
* (Podcasts + Audiobooks)
No, but the long term effects are unpredictable. I certainly wouldn't encourage anyone in a city to pack up and move to rural Alaska because of the situation.

But I suspect many people on the fence about living in this or that city and going through a rough period of city-living will take this as a call to move elsewhere.
what do you mean
> should the very nature of written language change to adapt to the needs of technology

This has been always the case. I mean, think of how modern latin letter forms developed. Think back to the Roman Empire, when the letters were etched in stone or wax tablets, with only capitals (before the invention of minuscule), drawn with straight lines that are easy to chisel. Think of the later periods when many books were written by scribes using pen and ink, resulting in changes to letters so they could write entire words in one hand motion. Later still, we have the printing press and its demands that each letter be a discrete unit, doing away with the wavy flow of words. Today most people write using print letters simply because the majority of writing you would encounter is in print, so that's what's easiest to read. Those changes probably don't register to you as egregious as the one parent proposes, due to the fact that the person enforcing the change and the person developing the technology are one and the same - a native speaker modifying his own language to fit the tools at hand. Which I think brings us to a resolution - the native speakers of the language are the ones to decide how to change it to suit their everyday needs, including making it easier to produce and consume with the tools of the day.
Well, in fact, I have contributed to killing 0 people in a car accident by driving. Can you reframe your objection now? If I spread the coronavirus by going about my day as normal, how many infections would that result in, and how many deaths, hmm?
ooh a category so esoteric it has to invent an esoteric descriptor
>The C level will instruct the managers to work in the office, then the brown nosers will follow

there is a risk that covid may turn that into a natural selection process ...
I don't think you articulate this quite right: it's possible to both think that websites and web applications are worthy uses of the web, but also that many web applications would have been best engineered using 'classical' techniques from early websites. There's a strong argument to be made in Facebook's case, since the core value proposition of Facebook hasn't changed much since it's inception, and it began its life as a server-side rendered 'website.'

In any case, this argument is operating at the wrong level of abstraction, the issue here isn't the distinction between these two things conceptually, but if there would be less incidental complexity overall if what are typically called web applications took a different approach to implementing their features, while still maintaining the same user experience.

It's hard to look at all of the crap you need to do to get a functioning web app working to not think there must be a better approach.
There's also heedy: https://heedy.org/
> There is a part of me that dislikes this level of insight someone can have into my life and habits ( yes, it is intended for owner use, but the data is there, neatly organized for someone to access ).

Well this is already happening. Google and facebook for example earns basically all of their money from this. They replaced advertisment middle men because they can track and quantize human behaviours and identities. They do it because they are able to aggregate the data and provide API for marketing people.

This is a tool that brings it closer to you as the creator of the data. it doesn't do anything new just exposes what's going on.

If you are able to open pages through EU check out data processing partners from GDPR consent you have to accept. Lists on every professionally built services are long. There are literally thousands of companies accessing, aggregating, processing and reselling the data and their analysis.

The tools you are afraid of already exist and are commercially available.