skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Donald Trump is a pathological liar; I am skeptical of every word that comes out of his mouth.

He has also come out against mail-in voting since he feels it will destroy GOP chances at the ballot box. So yes, I do believe Trump is more concerned about voter suppression then election security.

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/trump-says-gop-would-n...
It is a great idea, but it's also a testament to the sorry state of our nation's internet infrastructure caused by telecoms that are free both from competition and from being regulated as the essential utilities they are (the latter thanks to Ajit Pai's cronyist FCC).
I don’t think there is one single change that made a huge difference. I follow the changelogs posted on the mailing list, and of the performance related changes, it’s often “we got 3-5% speed up on this benchmark on this fs without making things worse on others”.

Over 8 years and tens of those changes, it adds up to a significant performance improvement.
Why? SGX allows you to attest the contents of the enclave independently of the host software stack (OS/hypervisor, other apps).
I agree, there's definitely flexibility in what I expect, and what other people will likely expect. Here's the thing though: when I double-click "double-click", I could reasonably expect "double" "click" or "double-click" would be selected. I wouldn't expect it to select everything between the last and next punctuation characters (as an imperfect analogy).

For me at least, double-clicking is like fuzzy string matching. It's an imprecise behaviour by nature, but should be designed to be useful. Firefox's behaviour in the case of Japanese, but especially Chinese, often isn't useful, not because it doesn't perfectly reflect linguistic expectations, but because it usually selects too much--meaning you can't correct your selection by moving the cursor back and forth, and instead, have to stop and select using a different method.

Take the following passage:

もうこんなことは終わってほしいと願うばかりだ

Different people may break apart もうこんなことは differently, but it's hard to argue that it's one word. Chrome (and Word) separate it like this: もう こんな こと は, and whether or not you agree that each one of those parts are words, simply splitting もうこんなことは into parts semi-logically makes it smoother to edit (for me, at least! I understand most people might not be as dependent on double-click selection).

The same behaviour for Chinese is so useless that it's not even worth mentioning, since you'll always select either a large part of a sentence, or an entire sentence at once. I mean, I love the word 匹配的近似度用如下方法来度量.
I wrote my own mail client:

https://aerc-mail.org
Do "acquihires" work in practice? It reminds me of this Dilbert comic: https://dilbert.com/strip/2014-07-31
> In the UK the total costs of driving a large car premium car (Mercedes, BMW, Volvo) are lower than the costs of driving a small city car

??

I'm pretty sure that's not the case. Large engined cars use more fuel and are taxed higher, plus the insurance costs are higher, as are parts etc. Small city cars are cheaper on all fronts AFAICT.
honestly is there even any purpose in trying to help them? A majority of them don't even want to learn and could benefit more by just sending them meals (which the kids probably went to school for)
When I read articles like this I wonder whether mesh networking (a la the One Laptop Per Child project) might help with improving the reach of WiFi in underserved areas?

Could anyone with more knowledge of the topic explain why mesh networking seems to be a good idea that never succeeded?
Personality traits that are intrinsic, thus suggesting women are intrinsically less inclined to engineering. (Note: I don't agree with the thesis, but that's the implication).
It's badly presented, but it seems to show the difference of the current values to two different baselines (earlier this year, and a long-term average).
First video played well (at reduced quality, 480p), with 6 peers. The other videos seemed to just have a single peer, and it seems like I had bad peering with that person/server, so everything was pretty much unplayable.

Would be cool if there were a way to add peers from the command line. Then I could add a server or two with better peering and maybe be able to watch stuff.
What @gmail.com says to me, is that the user is okay with Google reading their email.
In fact the BBC can't say anything either. A person wrote that.

Who was that person, and why do they have such good intentions for us readers?
Any difference between two things might turn out to be responsible for some other difference between the two things. Perhaps men are better at software engineering because they're taller. Perhaps women don't enjoy programming because they have breasts. It is pointless -- and in this context, often harmful -- to speculate.
This looks nice!

~3 years ago I was still working in SMB/SME ecommerce IT and made an aborted attempt at building automatic small-parcel rate shopping and optimization on top of https://www.teapplix.com.

Even today it seems the big* SMB/SME players don't offer proper rate optimization tools, likely due to contractual relationships with the carriers which restrict that functionality.

*Stamps.com owns most of the major SMB/SME shipping tools: Stamps.com, Endicia, ShipStation, ShippingEasy, ShipWorks (+ upmarket tools like ShipEngine and Metapack and maybe more)
Ask HN: Would you want a way to share an email via URL from Gmail?
I'm thinking about this as a way to publicly share an email thread. A future version could have you setting a password, or sharing only to a select group of people. But rather than "sending" an email, you turn an email into a link (like an archive), and then have that URL that you can reference. You could also create a list of multiple such links, to collect some archives together.

I'm just thinking email is so useful and ubiquitous, and the web and URLs are so useful, but there's not really a way to do this.

I know there are some where you can forward it to some place and then it becomes a web page. Someone this seems non ideal. But maybe I'm just imagining this. Maybe this is not useful for people at all.

Anyone want this?
Seems like it would be a better idea just to subsidise these homes with a regular wired connection...
Low orbit sats spend far less than half the day in darkness; it is only when they are in the penumbra of the earth that they are in darkness. What makes space-based power interesting is that such sats have a line to sunlight (and therefore power) when a portion of the planet below them does not, enabling them to provide power for a period of time after sunset and also before sunrise.
In London that's exactly wrong. Low/lower middle class people in London use public transport. It's much cheaper and faster to do so, usually.
Is biking on the sidewalk allowed in Norway? Hear arguments like that here too, and am always surprised how cyclists are somehow "entitled" for following the law.
> they will be tested, quarantined for two weeks, tested again

With this scenario you get no tourists and no business trip. Can you really call that re-opening? For how long such measures can last?
That actually sounds like good advertising to me. Allowing children to join ruins everything. Not because of the children but because parents cannot think rationally about their "safety" (as if you can be hurt over the 'net). They're neurologically hardwired to be biased and prioritize perceived safety over all other issues. This leads to crazy commercial policies re: children that effect everyone (and even worse laws).
I think this nature of retro-fitting models used for software engineering into research is ill-targeted.

Research is non-linear by nature. One of the reasons research code is usually not well written is because of this same fact - there is no clear plan (or else it wouldn’t be research). Restricting research cultures to follow this linear progress model also imposes an artificial block that may be detrimental to productivity. Alternatively, this exercise could demand a second pass over research code which cleans it up and puts it in its “place”. This may or may not work because “clean up” is a non-trivial task which the researcher may find limited time and utility for.

By no means I’m against writing clean code. In fact, I’ve had multiple discussions advocating it but it’s hard to keep everyone aligned. The primary objective of research in a fast-paced field like Machine Learning is to get the idea out the door. Unfortunately, the exceptionally compounding benefits of writing clean thoughtful code from the beginning are realized much later in this timeline. By then, it’s too late and too hard to retro-fix code.

My understanding so far (having written code for multiple research projects) is that the only way to fix this culture is to deeply ingrain the compounding benefits of clean code in new researchers. By exposing junior researchers to the compounding benefits of “clean” code, we can gradually nudge the community into a more favorable culture with respect to this “commit history” of research.
"When I sat down to write, I was no longer paralyzed with self-doubt. I wasn’t thinking of failure, I just wanted to keep trying."

This is a brilliant place to be in.
I made a site of interviews with open source developers: https://sourcesort.com

I haven't added any new interviews recently. I might get back to doing them soon but based on my mailing list stats I'm not sure it's worth the time. Let me you know if you like them though.
Maybe some kind of centralized lookup? Oh wait...
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>On a more personal note: I don't understand why everyone wants to eat the fancy cake but hate the baker for telling you what it took to make it.

Because nobody asked for the fucking fancy cake! Why do people in the industry not get this simple fact?

We were all very happy with the cookies we had before. Which is why we kept coming back to the bakery and telling all our friends how awesome the bakery is. Then the baker says, "hey, those cookies suck, what you really want is the fancy cake! No more cookies, only cake" and despite the customers screaming at the baker, pleading with him to bring back the cookies, he just won't and is surprised that customers are frustrated that they can't get what they want. We eat the fancy cake now because it's the only thing available. But we want the cookies we had before.
Damore plausibly used those venues to circulate his paper.
What an awful idea. I don't want to come near a service that is designed to render public any private communication.
That's exactly why I said "It sounds silly to the technical demographic".

Many people on HN just straight up won't understand what I'm talking about.

To a normal person, "@gmail.com" doesn't say _anything_. Give someone a different domain and they will literally look at you funny.
There's a layer that you're missing, I think.

If you cheat, and cheat badly, it's often the case that the casino has noticed and is choosing to let you continue.

Almost everyone who sits at a high stakes blackjack table thinks they have a system for beating the casino (perhaps by breaking the rules), but in most cases their system doesn't work or they don't execute it well enough to make a consistent profit.

If it's profitable for the casino to allow this type of cheating, they will absolutely let it continue.

I once sat at a table with someone blatantly marking every card that passed through his hand, but not in a way that gave him a hope of profit. The dealer was clearly aware of him doing it, and play continued. (I was quick to leave that table)
I agree and it's important, at the same time, not to trick yourself or push yourself. If you don't feel like doing more, don't. With time, you'll want to do more.
That it doesn't cost something. And, that anything that costs something must be paid for by a false choice between an oligarch and a tyrant.
It's enough to say both can be oppressive without bothering to rank them.
That’s not what he said
My understanding is that it was "normal" for Google to have these kind of discussions on internal boards. A remnant of the libertarian message board and usenet culture of the early silicon valley.

They only fully cracked down on political speech like a big boring company last year:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/23/google_politics_cha...
I wonder whether some day the industry will discover cloud-gaming as a "solution" for cheating. After all, if the gamer has no access to the system, many ways for cheating are impossible. And if you design a game around the additional lag, it might work well enough to feed it to the masses.
Should also help the general population with circulation and vitamin D, which appear to be key factors in COVID outcomes
This is where regulation needs to happen. It makes no sense for a website or a group of websites to pick a fight with google over this, but a union or a government entity needs to step in and make sure google pays for this. They should set 5% of their ad revenue to pay publishers for snippets.
This person meant from the perspective of the original SF inhabitants. 50-60 years ago, before the tech industry moved in, SF was sort of a weird, sleepy counter-cultural city where hippies and Beats hung out.

Sort of like: a crowd of people moves into your house, making it uncomfortably overcrowded. You refuse to build an extension to the house in order to give everyone more space, as it would destroy the architectural reasons that made you wanted to live there in the first place.

Who’s at fault? Tough question. It’s unclear if urbanization trends made this inevitable or if there are/were better ways to deal with gentrification.
Uber, Lyft and Airbnb cut thousands of jobs as pandemic batters Silicon Valley
The most surprising aspect of this is that it's a solo paper accepted for a major conference!
They have a few plugins available on GitHub so you can copy and adapt and intuit some of the API but I did not see docs available a few weeks ago when I looked.
> Those things called the trains connect only consolidated urban centers...

This thread is about London, which has extensive train, bus and underground systems throughout. Driving into London for work is a fool's game.
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Sun light is about 1kW/square meter.

A 737 has a wing area of 125 square meters. To deliver 7.5MW to those wings will need 60kW/square meter.

That's a far greater energy density.

As for "time in beam" of a moving beam. Presumably one end of the beam is fixed, and depending on the target's velocity the beam might not be moving much at all (oncoming plane).
One thing that would partially help would, at least, a global video search at peertube.com. With channel names you have a problem, as they would not be unique, BUT at least, you could return all users in all instances, and hope people check the avatar. That would make the process more transparent to users, as they would go to peertube.com and see everyone they follow.

BUT, there's a huge problem. When you have a big creator on the platform, like PewDiePie for example. Every instance would have someone creating a fake PewDiePie. So, either the original creator would go to another platform, or they would need to use bots to create they users on all possible instances. So... creator will not have any incentive on using Peertube, as there's no 100% way to know who's the original.
I think we are on the first steps of a very interesting road related to using DL for image processing:

- Automatically cutting a person or an object https://www.remove.bg/

- Turning 2d photos in 3d perspective videos https://shihmengli.github.io/3D-Photo-Inpainting/

- Artistic style transfer for videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khuj4ASldmU

- Super-resolution for old games https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-neural-networks-being-us...

Etc, etc.
Where are the howls of derision of which you speak?
Relevant: https://dilbert.com/strip/2014-07-31
Originally you were presenting an opposition which is based on a theoretical objection held _by women themselves_, one which you've now confirmed you've never actually seen. If you're going to advocate on people's behalf, limit it to concerns they've actually expressed themselves.

You've now rephrased your objection that you would have a problem because you would assume female programmers were less qualified, which is not what you said in your original comment.
Is there a way with PeerTube to use Backblaze and Cloudflare as an object store and content server of last resort? Similar to how Amazon S3 supports serving objects as torrents but you can also retrieve it directly over HTTPS.
Cycle more, until the end of summer 2020, then the bad weather hits, and people are back in their cars and 2020 is a distant memory.

And in the UK cycling is horrifically bad.

Car drivers that don't accept that cyclists have identical rights to use the road.

Awful tarmac and pot holes.

Drain covers and manhole covers in the road, by the gutter where cyclists are expected to cycle.

Cycle paths shared with pedestrians and dog walkers.

Cycle paths that are badly laid out, incomplete, badly signed, switch sides, full of obstructions and just don't join up.

And then there's the law. If a cyclist is killed by a motorist, the motorist rarely gets more than a slap on the wrist. If a cyclist collides with an idiot on their mobile phone that hasn't looked before they stepped off the kerb, it's the cyclist's fault.
Ask HN: What are some good ways to invest?
If you had a moderate sum of money to invest in the current climate, what would you do with it? Stocks? Mutual funds? ETFs? Real estate? Something else?
> So moving to beam ASAT that can disrupt / destroy sensors precisely without adversely risking the space commons might not be a terrible development in terms of space arms race.

Um, lowering barriers for using weapons is obviously a bad thing: it means they are more likely to be used, and cause a response by the adversary. So unless you mean that this beam-tech should be freely shared all you're doing is increasing the risk to the commons.

But my larger point is this: the incredibly costs of space weapons only make sense if you think your adversary doesn't have any counter-move, this is what I meant by my supposition that USSP thinks space warfare is advantageous.

To illustrate: remote detection can be counteracted by masking and decoys, both of with are much more mundane than ASAT capabilities but will work pretty good for a fraction of the cost and without any risk at all to the commons.
Appreciate your response. This sounds exactly what SOAP is like, then, and also what OpenAPI/JSON schema are attempting to do (only SOAP/WSDL also adds auth, transactions, discoverability, language mappings, schema evolution, and a couple other things). My post surely wasn't meant to defend "REST" or Swagger of all things :); more like, the industry has delivered one middleware standard after another in the last 20 years since "web services" became a thing, and arguably even earlier (CORBA). So it wasn't quite clear for me where this enthusiasm was coming from all along. Please don't be offended, but your answer confirms my suspicion that GraphQL is introducing an age-old concept to a new audience that was raised in the naive "REST all the things" mood of the last decade.

From the other answers, I get there's additional practical functionality like generic sorting and filtering in a GraphQL endpoint, though as a fullstack but mostly backend guy I'm puzzled how that's supposed to work without pushing the query criteria including sorting/offset/limit down to a DB in a hands-off way without a backend team implementing it.
> by "reduction", it seems be means a vectorized function that takes a double[4] and sums the 4 values

"Reduce" or "fold" is a standard term for applying a binary operation (like +) to all elements of a vector/list/more general data structure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_(higher-order_function)

> Not only is there a instruction for doing exactly this in most vector instruction sets

Is there a single one in AVX for adding all the components of a vector register? Is it fast? How does it associate the computation? If there is such an instruction, GCC and Clang seem reluctant to emit it: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/vkaeYi though I might be missing some magic flags.
So JavaScript processors?
about:config - privacy.firstparty.isolate = true
The phrasing implied that Damore willfully created that harm. It's a simpler explanation, at the time of authorship, that he did not expect the reaction it got. It seemed to be an attempt to explain his logic in an inoffensive way, in fact.
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PS5 console and games reveal date – mid-June
I used to use Telegram and I really enjoyed it, but it's a bit limited in its professional uses. I'd use it for chat again for sure. I'd love to find something a little more 'work friendly', though.
Sounds like a keys.pub integration is necessary for cryptographic identity attestation and verification, since Keybase was acquired by Zoom.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995792
We don’t “know that hiring is broken.” We know that some people find the process of finding a job frustrating, and that employers struggle to find the right people to hire. I attribute those problems to more demand than supply for competent candidates, and no reliable and quick way to determine how a candidate may perform in any specific role. Given those conditions, proxies such as credentials, experience, sample work, and whiteboard interviews get used instead.

The biases you list aren’t even unconscious. Poor spelling and grammar indicate either sloppiness or inadequate education, not qualities anyone hires for. A person who can’t put their own CV together doesn’t give a good impression regarding attention to detail, checking their work, or mastery of the tools and domain.

How do you think a potential employer might determine if a candidate “can create a great product for the company?” Why assume that creating a “great” product is even the employer’s main priority? How might a recruiter or hiring manager judge and rank multiple relevant qualities for hundreds or thousands of candidates?

A process that seems less than ideal and frustrating for some people isn’t necessarily “broken.” It may be the best we can do given the constraints and ambiguities of hiring and job hunting.
Do a social experiment. When you are at a store and they ask your email for your receipt, try giving then your email, and compare their expressions and the time they need to input it in the system if it's gmail or your own domain.
It was only a "PR mess" because his co-workers leaked the memo to the eager press and Google fired him over what was basically a paper attempting to explain why women might be underrepresented in engineering. If a famous company fires someone over something so trivial, of course the media will be all over it. Had none of that happened, none of us would be still discussing this because it's not like the paper's particularly groundbreaking or anything.
C++ templates were an attempt to put a real macro system into the C matrix. Over the last decade it’s finally become usable. But the baroque representational absurdities of C and it’s related languages make it always feel like standing on your head under water.