skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this down voted? I hate it when people do that and offer no explanation. Totally useless input, even harmful. HN should force comment on down-vote.
> 1) Women in absolute aggregate seem to not like CompSci.

Based on what? They don't end up there, but we have evidence (based on decreasing enrollment in degrees) that they USED to be "more interested" (If you use that as criteria). Do you think they generationally are just more aware of what it really is now?

How would that happen without ALSO becoming more aware of the absolute vile GamerGate-type shit women have to face, from the smallest "let me assume you don't know anything" to the "let's make rape jokes" to the "Can a woman have confidence she probably won't be groped"?

If you start with the premise that women "seem to not like CompSci", you've already assumed the problem and normalized a lot of factors that don't have to be normalized.
Except they know about the issue, were pointed to it multiple times, even by me and are always quick to proclaim that 'Israel has the right to defend itself'.

Dave Rubin for example has had several offers from some prominent left-wing commentators to debate the issue, among others, yet he's always busy or some other excuse.

Sam Harris definitely knows about it as well, (has even spoken about BDS itself, just not their censorship), Ben Shapiro too, yet besides "Israel has the right to defend itself", (which is not the issue), crickets.

This is not an issue like whether they have played Animal Crossing, this is an issue where several states already are in violation of the First Amendment, an issue, they claim, is above all for them.

This is wilful ignorance because it would require leveling criticism at some of the same people they usually praise, instead of the usual college students and Twitter mobs, that's the issue.
This kind of bad PR will push Apple to using their own chips in future laptop form factor models.

Sadly because unless there is a miracle to secure licensing IP from Intel in the process this will remove virtualization options for Windows from the platform.
You should also try Trove's newspaper archives. See https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/
So many truths shift on how we paint the timelines. This is a very important angle to consider.
“X laptop which is cheaper than a MacBook benches higher”

This is not news, this has always been true. People keep buying MacBooks, it’s been one of the best selling laptops for a decade. There must be some other reason why people like them.... Maybe benchmarks don’t matter to most people? Really makes you think
You know I have to agree with you that AWS UI is more responsive, the UI in GCP is a bit heavy on the JS and sometimes can make the CPU spin. However due to all the reasons stated in the article, I would take that downside any day, twice.
Roaming ‘robodog’ politely tells Singapore park goers to keep apart
I think instead of drawing any unnecessary conclusions about MacBooks or this particular Acer laptop, it simply shows just how much ground AMD has gained in comparison to Intel.
This performance is just impressive, not just at this price point, and as far as I’m aware AMD chips are now beating Intel chips across the entire CPU lineup
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Resource allocation is more concrete and direct than discussions about how society ought to be arranged, although you’re right that you allocate resources in order to achieve a desired social outcome.

Discussions about how society ought to be tend to be vague and aspirational: “society ought to be more just” is more vague than “we should spend more money on these programs”. The latter might serve the former, but it’s also specific and actionable, which is why I draw the distinction where I do.
How do the displays compare? Or the trackpad? How will the Acer hold up after two years of use? Raw speed is only one factor.
Having fun with IRC, making a simple bouncer, offering $10 per detailed bug
Having fun with IRC again lately, group is making a simple bouncer

https://github.com/toc-irc/jbnc

Simply connect to the port with a password and a bnc account is made for you. Yes we know it's open to abuse; all IP addresses are hashed through our webirc setup in gateway mode, so users are still unique. We'll add flood checks later; i'm sure a million connections making always on connections would crash it, I got it to crash at 7,500 connections

This is all experimental as to have a foundation to build off of; other bouncer projects are great too (kiwi, znc etc) we're just looking to have fun and create.

But the other stuff, such as bugs between bouncer and client and things not forwarding right/crashing for other reasons we are

offering $10 per detailed bug (with description and suggestion on fix), and $20 for fixes coded

I believe the budget is up to $2,000 - so for contributors we'll consider a bonus if the 2k isn't met

We're in #jbnc on irc.bitcoin.com / irc.imperialfamily.com

Long live IRC!
Drag and lift are related. Wings work by literally displacing lots of air towards the ground.

If you go slower, you need bigger wings (also no one really wants longer, slower flights in cramped airplane cabins).
I see "OPEN SOURCE PHOTOGRAMMETRY SOFTWARE" above the fold when I open up the site.
(Replying here since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23125720 seems to be dead.)

> Because the public is so stupid they can operate in broad daylight. You don't seem to get that the vast majority of the population is computer illiterate.

No, I get that just fine - you're not actually arguing that they have a conspiracy; you're arguing that they don't need one.

> why would you go from having quake 3 with level editing, mods, free maps skins, etc, in big budget AAA games, to not getting that, and having the game client server locked to company PC's like diablo 3 and overwatch?

I wouldn't, partly because I'm not a moron, but mostly because I prefer Warcraft 3; the last good FPS[0] I played was Wolfenstein.

0: unless you completely ignore the "shooting" part and count minetest.
You really need the MaybeEmotionSensorFactoryFactoryFactory to avoid getting NullPointerExceptions when applying to psychopaths.

An AbstractEmotionSensorSensorFactory would be required to unwrap that.
I think the outrage mob in this case is entirely justified. Damore has had plenty of opportunity to apologize. As much as he had a chance to not say anything at all. Political debate is one thing. Misogyny is another. He created a hostile environment. He got fired. I'd be fine knowing this ruined his life.
What D’ya Know About the Cali Cali and Danny Mowlds
And yet we were all educated without internet and computers!

Let's put it this way

1) motivated parents with poor school funding = most likely success

2) unmotivated parents with great school funding = demonstratably bad outcome
Please note the shifting goal posts. At the start of this comment thread you were saying that Damore's memo was certainly unscientific, and now you are arguing that there needs to be a higher bar for action than the fair assumptions that Damore made.

Keep in mind that Damore is a single person giving feedback to a diversity course. He doesn't have the resources, time, or mandate to survey Google's employees to test whether or not this general trend holds. Perhaps, before acting on Damore's recommendations it would be a good idea to do some tests on Google's employees to see if general trends hold true in their specific subset - but that is a really different claim than the initial claim that Damore was unscientific.

If Damore had written that smoking causes lung problems and therefore Google should start taking some actions to stop employees from smoking, it might be merited to do further tests to see if the link between smoking and lung problems holds true for Google employees as it does for people in general. It would not be merited to call Damore unscientific because he had not yet done that research prior to making his suggestion.
I've been lately working with a lot of F# (thus its compiler and Rider IDE) and my take on “more powerful machines for development” is that it's quality of life improvement. When intellisense (or whatever it's called in different circles) works instantly, as well as go to definition, find usages, etc: it's just so much better than waiting even a second for those actions.

There's another side in need of compiling large projects regularly, which I didn't encounter much, but if my newest MBP with i9 took around 20 minutes to compile haskell-ide-engine, I imagine what compile times you can hit potentially in bigger projects and how unbearable it could be on any less powerful machines.
There are. People just have to nourish them. With content, presence and donations. And rather than one big youtube alternative, it's probably better having many places focusing on types of video, eg. Twitch or Dlive with live streams, that provide better experience in that area than youtube. Bitchute is in an interesting place
where that'll often be where banned people from youtube will be. With enough nourishment from people, the video makers might not even go to youtube in the first place. These alternatives can chew into youtube as small goblins rather than one big one.
Transforming your blog visitors to subscribers
Google says that the majority of its employees will work from home until 2021
I do think a vaccine will be made available and likely sooner than anyone is predicting, but it will not be mandatory and if states or employers try to make it mandatory they will held up in lawsuits for years.

I could see a future where, like the flu vaccine, everyone is encouraged to get a SARS COV2 vaccine and there will be reasonable compliance.

Hospital systems were only really crushed in there places, Lombardi, NYC, and Spain. Only in Lombardi Italy did hospitals actually run out of beds (go over capacity). Even in London today the hospitals are under capacity. I am not saying this is a good yard stick to go by, I am pointing out that outside of three locations most hospitals are sitting virtually empty. Therefore it is unlikely health systems would be crushed.

As far as millions would die, again I would say look to the mortality rates outside of the three outlier areas (Lombardi, Spain, and NYC) and the mortality is far below 1%. I can see a future where COVID kills as many people as the flu. I don't see a future with a crushing mortality rate.

Viruses rarely disappear entirely, but the mortality rate is not high enough to be so afraid of it. It spreads fast, but not as fast as measles, whooping cough, or TB, which spread faster, kill more people, and also kill children. We try to eradicate those diseases for a reason. Covid is nowhere near their level. If we set the bar this low, we will be stopping the world economy every decade to fight viruses that bubble up and kill comparatively few people.
Roman Imperial Porphyry, the coolest of all the stones
The phrase somewhat predates 2020:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the%20new%20no...

With some pop culture antecedents as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Normal_(TV_series)
tl;dr - yes, you can make a surface ship submersible, but it's done at the expense of typically increased construction cost and reduced dynamic performance when operating in either domain (i.e. surface or submerged).

I'm not sure what you mean by 'circlular', but I think it's safe to assume you mean a circular hull cross section vice a round circular deck (like a floating helo pad or SpaceX launch barge).

First, there have been some examples of surface ships that transition to submarines (e.g. 1). China is apparently working on a large Surface ship/submarine for their Navy.

Surface and submersible vessels have very different hydrodynamic and hydrostatic properties and forces to contend with, which drive them to have different shapes. I actually did work on a recent project that explored this topic a bit. Generally, for any vessel, the shape depends on what you want the ship to do and hull form/type selection is very much a science-backed art form of Naval Architects.

You can certainly build a ship to fully submerge, the question is, particularly at larger scales, is it worth the added cost, risk, and hydrodynamic compromise - or are you better off just building two different vessels that are specifically designed to operate in one domain (I.e. on the surface or submerged). That answer is highly dependant on what you intend to use the vessel for. It may be worth it for your application, but in general the answer has been that it's more cost-effective to just optimize vessel design for one operational domain rather that two.

Regarding hydrodynamic trade, while both ships and subs strive to minimize total hydro resistance (drag), hydro resistance has subcomponents that affect vessels differently when operating on the surface versus submerged. Surface ship shapes strive to be hydrodynamically 'optimized' to minimize form, skin, wave (critically), and even air resistance, whereas submarines aren't generally subject to wave action or wind and thus typically focus on minimizing the dominant form and skin drag forces. Surface ships are generally more power efficient than submarines at equal displacement and speed through water.

If you want to make a ship submerge, you also need to add significant structure to withstand hydrostatic forces at depth. Submarines are inherently structurally sound enough to operate at the surface, but function hydrodynamically poor at the surface because of their shape.

Surface ships and submarine shapes primarily differ in structure due to the significantly different pressure forces they need to contend with. Submarines have a circular cross section because, next to a sphere, cylindrical hulls are the most structurally stable pressure hulls. Surface ships can actually have relatively structurally 'weak' main decks, operating almost like floating buckets that are mostly designed to stay right-side up. The weaker main deck makes the ships cheaper to build, but probably more critically, allows easy access to whatever payloads the vessel is carrying.

1. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/9726/the-usmc-is-inter...
Generally officers of a company in modern times, just put personal information as being their accountants or lawyers address.

Most companies will use an accountant, and they're all set-up to take mail for companies they work for.
I'd be happy to help with this in any way I can. I run startyourownisp.com, email in my profile.
This post talks about a specific type of input that the sort command takes.
I understand the sentiment. Although, the article you link is more of a ad hominem attack than criticism.

Communities must be wary of giving into the Semmelweis reflex. Often times, the perceived "outsiders" tend to have interesting perspectives.

Another example to consider is Fermat vs Descartes - Fermat was a relatively unpopular figure at a time when mathematics was confined to closed-group elitist figures like Descartes. Nevertheless, he provided more elegant perspectives to problems which Descartes thought couldn't be done better.
I can't bypass the paywall, but I infer from the title and some of the comments that at least part of the problem is the proliferation in the number of books being written. From what I see, the solution is pretty simple - build and use book summary sites.

Now, obviously you don't just want to read "Cliff's Notes" versions of everything - that leads to shallow thinking. However, many of the nonfiction books that I've read can have 80% of their value summarized in far less than 20% of the number of words that they use, and a wise person would judge whether or not a book deserved this treatment before applying it.
Heeeyyyyy it was Odin! Thank you so much!
Not only are they better built, they also run macOS.
Both those examples are cases of what often tends to happen with new terms. They're capitalized and often hyphenated (rather than making up a new word).

But over time, you end up with something like "Open Source Big Data products delivered over the Internet" which gets pretty silly or you have hyphens all over the place which look pretty ugly. Where I work, our style is to generally eliminate both whenever possible.

I guess WiFi is properly Wi-Fi but hardly anyone uses that these days.
This is blackjack we’re talking about, not poker. There’s no “reading the opponent”. The opponent is the dealer who hits on a sixteen or less and stays otherwise.

For the people with a flat bet (on a card counting team) there’s no decision making at all. They simply follow basic strategy which prescribes exactly what move to make in each situation.
Even the police can't arrest you without probable cause. Until it is illegal to count cards any such arrests would be on shaky legal grounds.
What tech stack did you use?
Compiled. It was Odin.
Open source?

Where's the license?
That's a fantastic analogy.

Climate science is no more political than quantum mechanics or Einstein's theory of relativity. 97% of climate scientists agree that global warming is real and that humans are causing it, and 9 of the 10 warmest years in recorded history have occured since 2005. Yet oil corporations and polluting factories with ulterior motives have managed to convince the politicians and the public that there is a debate, that some layman with no scientific background is as equally entitled to speak to the matter as a professional climate scientist who's spent their whole life studying the discipline, and that it is a question of politics.

Once it becomes a "political debate", all logic and science goes out the window, and the individuals/institutions with the vested interest in muddying the debate win out while the public loses out, and everyone just ends up dumber. You're not even allowed to debate or talk about it anymore because now it's "politics", and in America politics is super-sensitive and you shouldn't talk about it because everyone is entitled to their own dumb opinions.

That's why I'm such an advocate of freedom of speech, and not just in the legal sense. So long as you can support your view with facts and evidence, anyone should be allowed to speak, including in the workplace. Unless you're failing to perform your job's duties, one should not be fired simply for having a contrarian political viewpoint (so long as it's not openly hostile, like being racist). The second we censor people based on their views, we lead towards this totalitarian dystopian state of society where nobody feels comfortable talking about anything remotely controversial or interesting (unless it's about some Game of Thrones episode). Politics in the U.S. has become extremely partisan because people don't talk to others with differing viewpoints anymore and everyone retreats to their echo chamber safe spaces.

> “The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.” -Noam Chomsky
Letter to the MIT community: Immigration is a kind of oxygen (2019)
I don't see how people posting memes of a in support of or in attempt to make fun of largely controversial president equals extremism.
> Do members of the IDW avoid criticizing Israel because they support Israel, or because they think criticizing Israel would make it too easy for their opponents to label them as antisemites?

That I do not know for sure, but isn't their trademark to speak openly regardless of what their opponents would label them as?

It's easy to attack college students. If they're afraid to criticism Israel, they can't claim to stand for free speech regardless of what they opponents think, as they often do.
I don’t disagree, but as much as this is said manny legacy workloads handle this poorly, and many new workload do just as badly.
And scary side thing to consider.. how many corona-virus vaccines have been developed and deployed to date?

Even after SARS (another corona virus), there were a bunch of candidates and some preliminary successes but none actually made it to market because interest (aka funding) subsided. The same over and over again.

As of Jan 1, there were zero. People predicting "we'll have one in a year!" is based on hope and other models, not corona-oriented vaccines. :(
The first website to publish his memo (Gizmodo) removed all the graphs and citations, meaning that a great many people who read the memo did not read it in full.
Might want to put UNIX as one of those top level points.
Well, I consider this a pretty accurate description.
There is no reading of opponents in black jack. The player making the flat bets is keeping a count in their head based on all the cards revealed during play. They signal the "big money" teammate when the count is high, to come place some big bets.

So they are working hard keeping that count, but they are not directly playing as if they know anything. The roaming fake rich guy is.
I think this is missing the point of the research. The point of e.g. ALBERT isn't

-Next Sentence Prediction
+Sentence Order Prediction
+Cross-layer Parameter Sharing
+Factorized Embeddings

The point was what each of those things do, in terms of theory and experimentation. Factorized embeddings are needed because of the portion of memory used in embeddings, NSP isn't useful because it's too easy, etc. Consider a paper like this Smoothness and Stability in GANs [0] from ICLR the other week. You could summarize it as Wassertstein loss + spectral normalization + gradient penalty. Or you could summarize the same work as a generator's convex conjugate + fenchel-moreau duality + L-smoothness + inf-convolutions. Both would be missing the point. Research isn't code. Ideas, their motivation, their demonstration, their explanation, and their testing are represented in the form they are for a reason. Natural language + mathematical language + tables + graphs + references, etc.

It's why we aren't having this discussion in terms of diffs versus comments we're replying to.

[0] https://iclr.cc/virtual_2020/poster_HJeOekHKwr.html
I really wish there was a short way to ask for links without sounding confrontational but maybe this preamble will suffice for this message. Do you have any links about these refutations? Thanks.
Getting Database Credentials from AWS Secrets Manager in Spring Boot
Yes absolutely. Discussing what's your favorite tech stack to me sounds like discussing what's your favorite shoes

No one cares besides you. And in the end it probably doesn't matter which one you pick from a purely logical point of view :)
How much more efficient is this than running it in software?

I'm asking, because if this thing can render magnitudes bigger/more detailed worlds than a PC and it's basically copy protected because it's "in hardware" this should be the wet dream of the industry.
Remembering What You Read
White nationalist as in Stefan Molyneux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux#Alt-right,_rac...
I wonder how many AMD equipped Macs are there in Apple’s lab and how they perform. I know there are hackintosh out there too but Apple please do some validations and let there be choices.
For a $1B endowment, Mr Musk could fund 20 seed rounds a year — personally.

Mr Musk won’t put 2.5% of his money where his mouth is. If he genuinely thought there was a problem to fix, he’d fund a demonstration of the solution.

The US government already spends $2B a year funding small business innovation across a range of industries. What more can we do?
That’s a fair and nuanced argument. I will caution though that “they should be in prison” goes from a frustrated response to actual policy quite quickly for some demographics.
For transport back to Earth, possibly not. For solar power satellites, it has lots of metal and silicon. For rocket fuel, it has some water and lots of oxygen. For large space colonies, it's a convenient source of bulk shielding material.