skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, bringing a healthy online-subscription model back into the mainstream is definitely ideal for journalism. Even more than that, I do wish there was a quick/easy/safe way to purchase individual articles (or even whole issues could work if needed) for a few bucks. Back in the old days, if you were curious about a hot running story, you just went to the news-stand and bought a copy, not a whole year's subscription then and there.

The ability to participate à la carte would certainly help paying customers like me.
> As Forbes said, it was ‘tech for tech’s sake’.

It was more than that.

A sizable number of people carry Android-based surveillance, or data collection, devices in their pockets.

Imagine the upside for Google if people lived and worked inside Google devices.
I'm not even sure, any options for improvement, would it be possible to pay to have a line run?
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This HTML-but-not-really kind of approach makes everything more complicated, not simpler.
^ This

Without exception, everyone I've seen or heard of advocating for continuing the lockdowns/shelter in place have remote-friendly jobs with direct deposit. I'd wager most have months of cash reserves. While their 401k's have suffered, they're still paying their mortgage, feeding their families, and - at the worst levels - are exceptionally bored.

On the other side, I see people (friends and family) choosing to wait to pay their rent in favor of groceries.

* I'm in Austin, so almost 2 months in counting the SXSW cancelation on May 6th.. which was a good idea in that it probably prevented us from being a NYC or New Orleans in the short term.
> Unlike the text entry models of before, which placed character after character in a facsimile of a typewriter, this was a tether that connected us, embryonic, to the aleph.

I literally don’t understand what this means
Does Wolfram's model correctly generate the many worlds of quantum mechanics? I get the impression that it doesn't, and I've seen it claimed that this has been mathematically demonstrated, but I can't say for sure.

That includes variability in some things that are constant in our region of the universe. It's fine for everyday purposes for us to regard things like the ratio of masses of the particles or strengths of the forces as fundamental and given, but a truly fundamental theory needs to generate the entire landscape, possibly including variation in the number of extended dimensions of space.

At the same time, there is a sense in which it's easy to do that: just use a universal Turing machine. A correct fundamental theory should generate something akin to the landscape of string theory, but at the same time not generate e.g. Conway's Game of Life. Is Wolfram's theory being evaluated on achieving that delicate balance between generating too little and too much?
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That would be really great, but feels like very unlikely as well. If they could open source it, why didn't they do it before?
But you can def estimate how big the two sides are.

100%: I will lose my home if I don't pay for it

x%: I or my family may get seriously ill or die.

We don't know x exactly, but we do know some bounds. We know it is better than a coin flip. I've heard estimates of worst case being around 20% if hospitals get overwhelmed. However, we know that this affects young, healthy people far less than others. But let's say it is 20%. When you are poor, your risk tolerances change. I know people who would willingly take a 1 in 5 chance for death to get back to work. And likely, their chances are more like 1 in 1000. I know vastly more people who would take that chance.
I wouldn't call trying to build and maintain a prosperous society a "road to hell", but it's true that UBI is just a different form of wealth redistribution. But most nations currently achieve redistribution through a convoluted mosaic of overlapping/competing/intertwined systems, each with their own entrenched bureaucracies and complicated rules. In contrast, a UBI system can be streamlined and efficient and, based on studies like these, even have better outcomes for recipients.
They also were not able to actually factor that one, the biggest number which produced the correct answer was 103459 = 337 * 307.

Clearly they wrote the paper using the output of their annealer...
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For anyone chancing on this thread, here's my recap. Note that I have little experience with these, so am trying to summarize, not give my own verdict.

Competition:

- DataGrip (~$150/yr, Clunky, Powerful)

- TablePlus ($50, Pretty, Useful)

- DBeaver (Free version, Clunky, Powerful)

- SQuirrel (Free, Clunky, Usable)

- Heidi (Free, Clunky, Usable)

- Postico ($40, Pretty, Mac + Postgres only)

- http://sequeljoe.ohwg.net (Free, beta)

- Azure (Free, Pretty, SQL server only)

- Sequel Pro (Free, Pretty, Mac + Mysql only. IMO has issues with MySQL v8)
On many-GPU machines, the CPU isn't idle- it's handling the data infeed and data outfeed pipelines. This can often be a bottleneck if training is really fast and you need to stream lots of examples/sec.

As for your comments on water pipes breaking: I work on Google's TPUv3, which uses water cooling to the TPU chips, see https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/10/tearing-apart-google... for some speculation on the details.
My dream is marry relation + array + functional + bit of imperative for a programming language (building slowly at https://github.com/Tablam/TablaM). But the ECS is one paradigm that must fit here but don't see how actually apply in more "normal" scenarios like erp/ecommerce programming. Do you have any hint?
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Okay, let's compare it to Australia then. Or South Korea, or Taiwan.

p.s. I don't think Americans collectively decided anything about what options we would use to combat the virus. The federal executive branch effectively decided to do nothing, or nothing coherent and consistent, and states have individually scrambled to come up with their own responses, with varying levels of effectiveness.
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I really hope that's the case, for Zoom's sake. Unfortunately, that means less than nothing to me; I don't use Zoom, whilst I do use Keybase.

I don't trust Zoom to be custodians of the Keybase company or software. This has been a real blow to my confidence in them and I'm not sure I'll continue to use Keybase :(
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While I have only worked in engineering industry for a few years, I have never seen any large scale, or for that matter any scale, use of octave. Are there example of companies replacing matlab with octave? I don't see that happening because of 2 reasons:

1. Octave does not have the inclination or man power to replicate all famous toolboxes of matlab. They are not even going for 100% compatibility, their home page says _many_ matlab scripts can be dropped in. A company with technology lock in will have such a large code base that I don't think octave will be able to handle it.

2. I don't think managers want to give away the ability to pick up a phone and shout at someone when something doesn't work. Even in my short career I have had this happen. Companies I worked for payed in hundreds of thousands USD per year in mathworks "support". Now, most of these support credits never get used, but at least the older managers like to have the option.

I work with a 20 years in development code base, maybe I should try and run some of it in octave one day.

Another thing about point 2, I think Julia did the right thing by establishing a company to promote the language. I see that tech managers are more open to it because of that. Can this be called the red hat effect?
Isn't that just "branding"?
The negativity here is astounding. This really comes down a company putting their money where their mouth is. Think about the reasons you'd decide to acquire Keybase. It certainly isn't for PR as most people have no idea what Keybase is.

What we are seeing is that Zoom is truly concerned about how their security posture is hurting their business. Remember they aren't the only game in town and there are plenty of competitors. Buying Keybase is an investment in their culture and longterm outlook.
I tried with various app and I can’t break any of them. I’d be really interested in a firewall for iOS
Depends which one - I have a 4790K + a GTX1080Ti and I see absolutely no reason to upgrade. There are no games that I cannot play at near max settings in 1440p. The only game that has somewhat stretched the CPU is Satisfactory, but then I think all machines struggle with it once you have a large enough factory.
I read it differently, because he started with "You(r) Rust borrow checker", making his point automatically in oposition. But now after reading without this You at the beginning, I agree it was neutral.
I'm happy if any of those three options happen, but I'm preparing for that none of them will happen.
Gotta love the “usually white and male” jab.

It’s ironic how the default virtue signal about racism and sexism right now is to attack white men, because to attack someone’s race and gender is the definition of racism and sexism.
Writing definitely matters to my career. There's some quote somewhere about how writing clearly is akin to thinking clearly. Personally, I extend this idea into _communicating clearly_. Career growth will be based on how effectively you can get people around you to want to work on the same thing as you, or support the same goals as you.

When you talk about "seeing people around me successful at writing", what forms of writing are you referring to? Blogs and books? or, technical specifications?

If you already have skills in, say, programming or product management, then there's various ways to apply writing, and it all depends on your circumstances.

My principles for writing boil down to "who is the audience", "who is the writer", and "what is the purpose".

- For example, if I'm writing a spec, then the _purpose_ will be to precisely communicate the design of a project/feature.

- The _audience_ is the implementors. How you write for the audience is related to UX (of the reader). It took me a long time to learn how to find the right level of abstraction for specs, so I don't confuse the implementor with details but still give enough guidance as to what the requirements are.

- The _writer_ is obviously yourself, but who is writer _in the reader's eyes_. Thinking in this way, I would establish myself as someone who has understood the problem and carefully designed the solution (in contrast, I don't want to give off that I have no idea what the problem space is). How you portray the writer is related to credibility and trust. For tech specs, this would likely involve references or links to your previous documents.

If you are writing for a blog, the audience, writer, and purpose will change. Let me know if you want me to explain further.
> There are plenty of digits in pi.

Yes, but

"These fears can be allayed by using numbers created in a way that leaves little room for adjustment. An example would be the use of initial digits from the number π as the constants. Using digits of π millions of places after the decimal point would not be considered trustworthy because the algorithm designer might have selected that starting point because it created a secret weakness the designer could later exploit."
I think we'd all benefit from an effort to put perspective on the risk of this disease. E.g. if everyone knew that the one-time risk from COVID is approximately equal to their annual risk of all-cause death, it would be easier to reason about.
Maybe. I really don't know.

There are some places where functionality is dependent on hooks.

React fast refresh won't work with class components. (useState is the hook alternative to class style state management and fast refresh is fancy hot reloading but with persisted state and only reloading modified modules/components).

There are few escape hatches only built as hooks mostly for improving performance issues which weren't previously available. But most of the hooks are basically reimplementation of features from class style components.

There are differences in how hooks work though. Hooks are executed as they are laid out.

Previous life cycle methods were dumped into a single useEffect hook.

It's easy to change hooks and introduce separation in how you build your logic is what I assume they might be referring to.

Instead of

<Consumer>

{({text}) => {

return <div> {text} </div>

}}

</Consumer>

You can do

const [data] = useConsumer()

return <div> {data.text} </div>

It gets messy with a real complex application.

typing on mobile is sad.
One of the problems Redux is used to solve (as a global store) is peace of mind that you won't need to refactor large swathes of component trees to reparent state and callbacks that need to be shared or persisted across different subtrees as new business requirements arise. Hooks (especially custom hooks, which are just a composition of other hooks packaged together as a single function) make the reparenting/hoisting/anchoring of state and callbacks trivial compared to other mechanisms, providing similar peace of mind that you're not boxing yourself into an inextensible component tree. (This is regardless of context; passing down props isn't a large pain point, and is often misguided to try to solve because it leads to importable components and hidden contracts.)

Render props and HoCs solve similar problems for composition/reuse of functionality (these are all mixins at heart), but the hoistability of hooks is really the distinguishing mark in my experience.
If you are just trying to make the argument that science has made mistakes, there is no argument, I agree. So theoretically relativity and Newtonian physics could be untrue. But it's highly unlikely.

I would argue that a combination of the simplicity of study of a phenomenon, the amount it's been studied, and the consistency of the results of that study correlate with the likelihood of it being true.

IQ is very simple to study, it's been studied exhaustively, and results of that study have been consistent. Outside of physics and some very basic biology there are few if any scientific phenomenon as likely to be true as IQ. Can you name a single phenomenon that has been as well studied in the modern era with the same consistency of results that has been untrue?

Btw you still haven't made a single argument against IQ. You've only been arguing against the totality of science and my credentials.
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If anyone's looking for a fully open source, decentralized encrypted filesystem similar to keybase fs, then checkout Peergos[1][2]. It's built on top of IPFS.

[1] https://book.peergos.org

[2] https://github.com/peergos/peergos

[disclaimer: Peergos founder]
It’s worth remembering that the PS4 and XB1 consoles both have eight relatively slow x64 cores. Thus any multiplatform titles targeting either of these platforms has to be optimised for many cores and cannot rely on single core performance.
I actually am surprised you would say something like that. Public cloud is infamous for their VMs being unreliable. The idea is that you should assume that VM disappears at any time, and you need to design your applications in a way to successfully handle it. It's kind of how Internet Protocol (IP) is unreliable, doesn't guarantee packet delivery or even that packets arrive in order, but TCP protocol can provide a reliable service.

I've seen on-premises, where reliability wasn't even objective machines that easily run for 5+ or more years without any interruption. Now parent said that they actually need reliability and you can achieve it using many technologies. Starting with RAID, dual PSU, or even hot swappable RAM or CPU (I remember SPARC machines allowed this). With full control of networking you can also make a standby node take over nearly instantaneous, when in AWS it might take couple minutes. You can achieve nearly any availability as long as you have enough money. In AWS you don't have any control and your only way is through designing your application in specific ways and that still has limitation. Just take look at RDS when everyone would want to have it instantaneous, but it usually will take few minutes.
> Keybase is primarily a secure chat app

I guess it depends on the user, but the key feature of Keybase (for me) is the web of trust I've built over the years now, and secondary is the features built on top of that web of trust.
I have a couple of articles on my website about my experiences with (previous versions of) Clash if anyone wants some examples. I used Clash in a processor design class and it was amazing. We had some "competitions" between the various CPUs in the class (e.g. performance and correctness given some ISA spec) and I was able to create one of the top few CPUs with only a small fraction of the effort of my classmates using a "traditional" HDL like VHDL or Verilog.

Slides from a clash talk I gave in probably 2016:

https://yager.io/talks/CLaSH.pdf

Simple non-pipelined CPU (I've been meaning to release part 2 for years but never got around to it):

https://yager.io/CPU/CPU1.html

SKI calculus processor on an FPGA:

https://yager.io/HaSKI/HaSKI.html

A superscalar out-of-order processor I built for a CPU design class at UT Austin:

https://github.com/wyager/Lambda17

(Take a look at Hardware.hs to see some of the cool parametric stuff you can do.)

Like I said, these are all with old versions of Clash - it's changed in the last few years, but I haven't done any HDL projects recently.
OK, but Nazi Germany if you'll read some history was not ever a military takeover.
It's because they're not getting vaccinated, which makes a big difference.

Believe I also read that there's a vaccination window for TB--it doesn't work for adults. So each year of lowered vaccination coverage matters that much more. Globally a million people die of TB each year.
The theoretical max for chemical rockets using standard fuels is around 530 using hydrogen. 1,000 requires it to be using the atmosphere, ie a jet.
The backlash against this is pretty ridiculous. Despite the dystopian rhetoric, in reality it was a small project of 12 acres that would have held a few condos. By comparison CityPlace is 44 acres and was also done by one company.

So shat do people imagine will happen now? Instead of trying something new and interesting on a small scale, that same land will be given to another generic developer (Concord/Tridel/whatever) and they'll just do more of same. It's not bad, just meh. But honestly, Toronto is a fairly conservative place, so it makes sense.
A key part of UBI is that the recipient can allocate the funds as they please.

If someone goes to a college that costs $500 per credit hour, can they spent the other $250 on whatever they want?
As this excellent article points out, lots of research shows that most online advertising is a waste of money, due to phenomena such as targeting people who are already looking for the advertised product or service:

> Picture this. Luigi’s Pizzeria hires three teenagers to hand out coupons to passersby. After a few weeks of flyering, one of the three turns out to be a marketing genius. Customers keep showing up with coupons distributed by this particular kid. The other two can’t make any sense of it: how does he do it? When they ask him, he explains: "I stand in the waiting area of the pizzeria." It’s plain to see that junior’s no marketing whiz.

Alas, the incentives everywhere are stacked in favor of wasting money:

> Within the marketing department, TV, print and digital compete with each other to show who’s more important, a dynamic that hardly promotes honest reporting. The fact that management often has no idea how to interpret the numbers is not helpful either. The highest numbers win.

> "Bad methodology makes everyone happy,” said David Reiley, who used to head Yahoo’s economics team and is now working for streaming service Pandora. "It will make the publisher happy. It will make the person who bought the media happy. It will make the boss of the person who bought the media happy. It will make the ad agency happy. Everybody can brag that they had a very successful campaign."

Moreover, the online advertising complex has evolved mechanisms for 'manufacturing' more demand for online advertising, for example, by relying on zero-sum games like "crowding out" in which no one wins except the online advertising complex:

> If, for example, BestBuy was the only buyer for "BestBuy" search ads, brand name advertising would only lead to a mere 2% to 3% additional clicks. More than nothing, but it is hardly enough to warrant the investment. But there was one group of advertisers with a valid reason to purchase own brand name ads. Not that they were any more effective for this group, but because their competitors were "crowding them out" by buying ads that targeted the brand owner's name (so you search for "Bestbuy" but a sponsored ad for "Walmart" tops the list). This can enable Walmart to steal 20% of Bestbuy's organic search traffic.

In the aggregate, all this wasteful advertising feeds a quarter-trillion-dollar "industry" that seems to add little or no value to anyone, and may in fact subtract significant value from everyone's quality of life. Is it a "bubble?" I don't know. Is it a net negative for everyone else? In my personal experience, the answer is a big YES.
It's not a 5G issue, it's a spectrum allocation issue.
https://protonmail.com/about indicates they're funded to some extent by Charles River Ventures (https://www.crv.com/). They were initially crowdfunded, and also get funding from a Swiss nonprofit foundation.
The company wants to build a 5G network in the US, so it would affect GPS in the US. It's interference at the receiver, not at the GPS satellites themselves.
> I hang a fake wasp nest in my yard, it keeps wasps away but doesn't impact honeybees. (I recently bought a nice looking wicker one, but used to just hang a brown bag that looked like a nest)

Thanks! Seems like a reasonable approach. We had thought about doing this, though the only wasps we have around are relatively harmless mud daubers.
TO dodged a bullet.

It's Google's nature to lose interest and abandon their products. You think it's bad with software, imagine them building part of your city.
Look at all the biggest spenders in Advertising: most of them are all big brand advertisers where proving ROI is nearly impossible. In that type of environment, in the absence of a good ROI calculation, a lot of BS can prosper.
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The ever immature concept of using something edgie as a name, that will likely result in you having to change it, or never getting broad adoption.
The transition was "democratic" yes, but it became a fascist state operated by the military.
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The author created a DSL which generates code. Macros are another way to do that.
I've Samsung SCX 3201G bought 6 years ago and still running on the starter toner cartridge, I've printed 739 pages so far with it as per the statistic.

Printer was $180 and new cartridge on HPs website is listed for $85 for standard cartridge with 1500 prints.

There are $10 Chinese cartridge available for same printer

What do you guys recommend? I am already using it with Pi+Cups.

Well the printing issues started appearing when I noticed my pages in printer had a lot of dust, I've no idea of its dust which killed my print quality or 70% used cartridge.