skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 24, live independently and don't have any children. I am very enthusiastic about remote working because it let's me live a life outside of work.

Living in a place ~70 miles from London, commuting eats up to 4 hours of my day. That's 4 hours unpaid that I could spend on hobbies, socialising and maybe even just doing absolutely nothing. Commuting to London also costs a ridiculous amount of money - which I would rather invest in my future.

For me, it's about balance. Sure, I'm expected to work 8 hours a day. But when I'm working 8 hours, and commuting 4, what life do I have to myself other than eating, cooling off from working and eating, and sleeping?

Before quarantine, working, eating and sleeping were my life. I was miserable. Due to the obvious health concerns we were then allowed to work from home.

The additional free time made me realise how much of my life I wasn't living for myself, I picked up my hobbies, I exercise more and am overall much happier. Due to that, I am lot more productive. I don't think I'll ever go back to that lifestyle, as I would rather live than just exist. I feel like I deserve a life, and I don't think I'm alone in that feeling.

What I guess I'm trying to get at is, it should be on an individual level, an individual balance. And I personally believe, on an individual level people want a life that suits them rather than the company they work for - and that's how I believe life should be.

Capitalism seems to suggest the one size fits all, be in the office during working hours, or you won't succeed is the only way to succeed - and it's painfully ignorant to how people actually may want to live their lives, and doesn't reflect what we're capable of as a society.

Of course, this is my personal opinion, and the above may suit an awful lot of people. But there are also an awful lot of talented people in the world that have commitments that don't allow them to make 12 hours a day sacrifices, and cannot afford to even consider moving to Silicon Valley (or in my case London) to access opportunity.

I am happy to accept there is value of socialising with colleagues in person, but that shouldn't be a necessity to offer your skills to the world.

We have the Internet, and I believe we should use it to create a more decentralised economy where more people are able to reap the benefits of capitalism and invest in their families, their local communities, businesses and their futures.
Sample of 1, but driving alongside a Cruise car in San Francisco last year was absolutely terrifying. It was coming up on bicyclists going the same direction, ahead of it, and kept swerving back and forth by four feet or so, depending on whether it "saw" them or not.

It was unable to either pass the bicylists or lurk back far enough that they could go about their own business. Meanwhile it disrupted the flow for all the rest of us regular drivers.

This is not the easiest roadway situation to "teach" an autonomous-driving system, but it's been a known issue for a long time. Not sure why Cruise couldn't get it right.
> We intend to get rid of pagination

Please don't. Or just make it optional. Infinite scrolling is evil.
Live stream I was watching died and won't load anymore.
Remember the long view - patents cause people to hurry to publish and share their ideas publically. Why shouldn't they be granted liberally.

In a few years, the temporary monopoly falls away and the benefit passes to everyone.

I think they should work to make them even cheaper and easier to file.
As mentioned in the article, solar power is insanely cheap. So while you are right that a kWh of solar is not, on average, as valuable as a kWh of semidispatchable coal, the insane cheapness means that at some point, it is economical to massively overbuild renewable and decommission fossil fuel plants. You provide no evidence for the implausible claim that solar causes emissions to go up: your argument is only that the emissions reducing effect is muted, which may be true.

Also, while storage would be helpful, it is not the only way to enable a renewable transition. Additional transmission is enormously helpful: as the sun goes down on California, the wind is picking up in the Midwest. And don’t forget demand response: if smart thermostats received price signals (maybe we should precool this house...) that would alleviate the evening ramp-up issue.

So I claim we’ll need less storage than “a whole day’s usage”. But the learning curve applies to batteries as well! This storage won’t cost as much anyway.

The whole issue of intermittency is overrated. While a single solar panel might generate intermittently, the solar fleet across a whole state generates more predictably.

I am predicting that grid emissions will come down a lot over the coming decades. Partially I’m predicting the past: they’ve already come down, a lot!
How can HN downvote such a man? I knew we were racist fascists all along...
We need a term like dog whistle, because the phenomena that it references is real and worthy of discussion.

On the other hand, I agree with you that it is most often used to make false allegations, short circuit reasoning, and shut down discussions.

I think the solution lies in advocating for skepticism and a decent standard of evidence, not abandoning the term. Maybe I'm being naive.
Update: It's back on track. Refresh your pages fellas.

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Thought I was the only one. All videos are being met with a 'Video unavailable" warning.

I highly doubt this was a scheduled outage. Really looking forward to see what caused this.

edit: yes confirmed - https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/
Yes, youtube and youtube music both were down at the same time just now.
The people who flocked to Elixir thought it was gonna be the new Node / Rails. They're now finding out it's definitely not gonna be either of those things. It remains to be seen if they love it enough to stick around, or will we see a silent churn to the new hotness or even back to Ruby.
It seems more relevant for movies and tv, where the camera often points to the gun very noticeably. I enjoy showing off as a prophet simply paying attention to that.
> People who are into RISC-V and other side projects/open stacks obviously have not worked on mission critical problems.

"People who are into RISC-V" nowadays includes folks like Chris Lattner, who has worked on more mission-critical problems than most everyone here.
I've been working on this for close to 2 years, including in quarantine: https://phot-awe.com

It's a video editor with some really cool effects/transitions. In quarantine, I've been re-vamping the UI to make incredibly easy to create videos.

I hope to have another version in about 1 week where creating videos will feel quite seamless ;)

(Adding media into your video project has been hard - which is what I'm fixing right now.)
> would turn into serving up cute cat videos

Cute cats, per se, is not the problem. Did you know the "Cute cat theory of digital activism" [0]? Literally, the first online cat meme posters imagined the freedom and productivity that cats would offer to digital liberty.

> trying to prevent people from yelling at each other based on fake news

This turns out to be a much bigger problem that couldn't be solved using cat memes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_cat_theory_of_digital_act...
It's down for me. Tells me my channel "has no content". I have a live stream scheduled in less than 24 hours - keeping my fingers crossed this is resolved quickly.
Glad I deleted my account last year.
Yep I love Elixir too. Just, you know, I try to only sip the kool-aid.
But you could have a few 100w (or 200w) solar panels installed on the roof of your house which either charge your home battery or offload that to the grid. And just charge your car when you want.

It is true that you lose some energy every time you store or transfer it, but if we install solar panels on every roof (so we get excess energy from solar) and also find a way to store energy cheaply for a long time, that should be enough to completely switch from fossil fuels, (well, mostly)
There's nothing more handwavy than electricity storage
It's become too frequently used. You don't even need to read the article to have noticed it in play in way too many movies and shows.
Interesting, I can play videos if I have their link but it won't pop up the video selection grid. I don't get the video unavailable message, at least not yet.
The NYSE Will Reopen the Trading Floor
Exactly! You get it. I find it so hard to believe that there is supposedly zero overlap between HackerNews comment posters claiming "there is nothing morally wrong with sex work" and people who in reality when pressed with the exact situation would say "I am against my little sister performing sexual acts for money"
Video works but comments and subscriptions are 400 edit: in Croatia
it is so dead
even youtube music was down.
>(For context, I see globalization as a means of maximizing profits, not about politics)

Globalization is just a euphemism for hegemony. First it was the British Empire, then the American Empire.
It's a problem because it sells itself as something else. I don't care that it's partisan, I do care that it's partisan but bills itself as something else to millions of eyeballs.
most of it was FPGA work but in some cases DSP processors. Even when you have floating point support it is much slower than if you use fixed point. As for MATLAB, modeled plenty of filters in it for fixed-point math.
Red Hat Bugzilla
I wonder what specifically causes downtime like this. It'd be neat to get a peek under the hood.

It'll probably be resolved within a few minutes, but I'm curious what happened.
On Linux, as of Firefox 60, Firefox now uses Linux namespaces to isolate the various processes it starts from the rest of the system, where supported. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox#Linux This is the same approach taken by Chromium. I can't say anything for certain about other operating systems, haven't really looked into it.

I suppose that doesn't answer the question of whether pdf.js specifically runs inside one of the sandboxed processes, but it seems very likely that it does.
You only need to be more efficient than the competition, and there’s a shared incentive to push out products faster than you can maintain existing ones. Over the long term it never makes sense to use ruby; only in the short term when it provides a marginal improvement over the competition does it pay off.
> American's dream for a open and democratic China is long dead.

There already is an open and democratic China across the Taiwan straight. And the USA has a looong history of rather ambivalent relationship with it, starting from the Chinese civil war (to the surprise of many, US has sided with Mao for quite a number of times)

For long, US policy was to purposefully keep the Republic of China weak, vulnerable, and dependent.

Were the US even 1% genuine in their commitment to seeing democratic China, they would not be consistently setting up Taiwan to be undermined politically.
Nothing works in India too
Huh? How many products are sold at macys which allow its consumer to go perfectly bankrupt due to purchasing?
How many products ask for permission to ask for visibility into your bank account info? Your personal travel history? and disclose insight on how they are using this info in a way you can understand.

When devs start signing their apps with their full name and information where they live, lets talk.
But they will work without tips. Nobody is making you tip. Why not just pay for your meal and leave?
My recommendations are not loading in "old" or new youtube. Visiting a watch?v=xyz url loaded the video with no description, channel info, comments or related videos.

Edit: back to normal? (with disable_polymer=1)
No, those are made from skin, entrails and bits powerwashed off chicken bones.

Edit: come to think of it, there’s probably chicken penis in it, too
Ugh, last time I worked on a project that did this the API ended up designed by "an architect" to provide data that the back end didn't have and the front end didn't want. It was an unmitigated disaster.

Outside in drives a much more effective requirements discussion as you work your way down the stack. If the front end asks for data that's "too complex to retrieve" then that's usually obvious from the mock up and it is cheaper to change it at that point before code lower down the stack has been written.

It leads to much cleaner API design and better negotiations about what should go where since the written code of the layer above effectively drives the requirements for the layer below.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23186995

Then advertise as such and don't pretend otherwise.
I tried pasting a direct video link on an alternate browser just to check if something was wrong with firefox. That didn't do it for me either. I dunno if the geographical location matters in this case but I'm on the east coast of the United States. This must be a nightmare for youtube engineers.
just in case you didn't see below, this is for you to choose the location of your CC Files Sync folder. Not that it's syncing your hard drive to the cloud. the label is unclear, and I've filed feedback with the team to update the string.
This is absolutely pinned. I prefer to imagine that since we haven't noticed such comments on the regular means this power is not habitually abused to float a particular opinion/angle to the top of threads. That policy is not guaranteed to be enforced, so I'd prefer a visible indication (eg. via an icon, akin to Reddit) indicating the comment has been pinned. Transparency for the win.

Of course, a truly Evil™ company would have both options available: a visible icon for transparently pinned comments, but also the ability to invisibly pin a comment to influence readers. There is no real foolproof method, unfortunately.
Surprising how it was able to recognize my crude sketching of tables, chairs, barns, etc...

Now, here's a challenge: try to draw an airplane that doesn't get recognised as a penis!
> Remember too that AMD and Intel won the contracts for Aurora, Frontier, and El Cap (the three exascale machines for the DOE).

This isn't very surprising I think. AMD cards often have higher FLOPs than NVIDIA's, and I can imagine that they run HPL really well.

I can't wait to try these systems. I want to see what the OpenMP performance there looks like for normal applications.
australia wasn't working up until a minute ago
Although I guess they "burn" their excess on-site, doesn't it make sense for solar panels to send power to a load at all times?

If they didn't, wouldn't that unspent energy make the panels even hotter and shorten lifespan/reduce efficiency?
YouTube experiences problems with loading content
VGA monospaced text always looked kind of exotic to me, because I started out looking mainly at the Amiga's Topaz font. Before that, the TRS-80 font, which also seems to have been quite different. And after that, the Macintosh's Monaco and Courier. I always hated Windows Courier New and much prefer Consolas. My favorite is, or was, Computer Modern Typewriter.
I successfully tested it on an Android phone just a few minutes ago. It did not load immediately.
Cool! I've noticed a similar way of counting that's still quite common today in China. They point with their thumb to each segment of their four fingers to count up to 12 on one hand. The other hand tracks the number of 12 counts, which lets you keep track all the way up to 144 with both hands.

Not quite on the level of the Romans, but still a solid improvement over how I've done it my whole life!
Edit: it seems to be working now.

Trying to watch a video gives me a blank page plus the video player which either plays the video or says that the video is unavailable. Comments, Recommendations, and Related videos are all gone for me. Embeds seem to work, although I haven't tested them too much.

I looked around and can't find an official status page unless it is nested under one of the Google Cloud Services[1] or G Suite[2]. Down detector is reporting it though[3].

[1]: https://status.cloud.google.com/

[2]: https://www.google.com/appsstatus

[3]: https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/
Starting videos from a page of search results that I already loaded still worked, but metadata (video info, counts, comments) didnt load; server error 400.

-edit: It's back now-

-edit: I'm in Europe/NL-
Can you explain what is morally wrong with buying or selling sex?

I’m not “trendy”, it’s a deeply held philosophical belief about individual freedom.
https://imgur.com/gallery/wisVCsc

I'm ashamed to admit I've spent an hour on this site...
Yes. Like with the Patriot act. They are attempting now to add additional oversight if used to investigate an elected official or candidate.
> Given that the primary problem that a wind turbine seeks to solve is environmental

That's ridiculous. The problem 'building a wind turbine' seeks to solve is "How do I turn this money into more money".

In market societies (eg most of the west) functionally speaking, the % of 'green power' delivered by environmental projects is a rounding error; it's essentially all delivered by people with capital attempting to obtain more capital.
I managed to get out of this by just explaining that I didn't have the money to pay the subscription anymore. They seem pretty sympathetic to that.
Checkout https://www.wfhcave.com

Hypothesis: As many of us work from home, there are several different things we all do. Be it cooking, hobbies, writing etc. WFH Cave is a place to share your projects and help inspire each other. I currently have around 30 users, mostly friends and family.

Feedback that would help - what is that would stick here. Currently it feels like a normal photo sharing site. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Nope, nothing works. Nothing loads.
It doesn't make sense for them to be sending power to the grid if they earn negative dollars doing it.

No, there's no cost to just not drawing power from the modules. They would become slightly hotter, but that's not a big deal.
I'm ashamed of this but here: https://imgur.com/BjBdpSz
I played tic-tac-toe and it thought I drew a windmill...

Interesting project, is there a way to assist it in training I didn't find on the interface to tell it I played tic-tac-toe?
On one hand congrats to the person who registered the channel name "status" - anyone Googling "youtube status" right now might land on their channel.

On the other hand if Youtube is down then anyone landing on this person's channel won't see content, so they won't be able to ride that SEO wave after all. It was a good effort, but came up short.
are you using chrome OS with chroot? or did you properly run linux?
down.
I personally use Authy for 2FA and have run through theoretical disaster recovery plans if I was to lose my phone/account/email locally, internationally etc.

Generally it starts with getting a new/burner phone then getting a SIM card to be able to at least get the 2FA for SMS / Phone working for accounts you enabled that recovery option; Then working back from there.

I also use a Password Manager in conjunction with Authy and store my recovery keys in a fireproof/waterproof box. Said box has USB keys, spares phones, other currencies and many other things and is considered my first thing I would grab if i had to grab 1 thing from my house.

That being said, not everyone practices this and no one thinks it'll happen to them...

Edit: To answer your question, We don't know your question. Google has hundreds of products that all use a gmail account for validation...
Dishonesty about motivations is one of the oldest human traits. Look at religion :)
I hate when I click into an HN story's comments and the top comment is someone complaining about the site's design.

(This is not a personal attack on you, and I'm not trying to downplay the poor design, just that...I come to HN to read about the content of the stories, not their design.)
Lol so true
Not rare at all. 32-bit "pointers" in a 64-bit process is relatively common, even, as it's what ART does on Android ( https://www.anandtech.com/show/8231/a-closer-look-at-android... ). And Hotspot has a similar optimization: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/HotSpot/CompressedOops
It's back up for me. Looks like they got it back pretty quick, hope theres some kind of postmortem.
Working again for me now - UK
Interesting. Wordpress.org also had issues earlier today. I doubt it's related but hey, who knows.
> I don't see why that would be the case

Well, the extensive use of “method_missing” appears to be staggeringly difficult to optimize short of a tracing jit and it’s also the core idiom of many popular frameworks. Of course it can be faster—if you remove the slow, unique features you can optimize it like any other language.
Virtually all energy on available on Earth is Solar-derived. Plants all use solar power, carbon sources are all ancient stores of solar power. There's enough solar energy for several of our civilizations (4-5 orders of magnitude more, by a napkin calculation). Roughly 1/50,000 of Earth's surface covered in solar panels would suffice.

> do they still require fossil fuel energy to create, not to mention maintain and rebuild

That's not really particularly relevant. What is crucial is that they produce more energy than they consume. This is an important figure, EROI (Energy Return on Energy invested), which should be >1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment#Ph...

Photovoltaics generally have been well over 1. There are still sustainability challenges with the technology, but I think they're minor (relative to current alternatives and carbon technology).
I drew a naked woman and it told me "quite inaccurate"
And it's back.
For your viewing pleasure: https://imgur.com/BjBdpSz
The point of the actor model, at least in OTP, is not to have the actor model as a unit of computation (as was imagined by Hewitt, et, al) but as a failure domain. Erlang was not designed to be an actor system, it was designed to be a robust system and they later discovered that what they had built was more or less the actor model (if an impure version) and it was easy to communicate the architecture's computational capabilities and mental model as actors. Actually I think if anything it's led to a fair share of misunderstandings, and truly misses the important and unique aspects of Erlang processes.

In the sense of being failure domains, OTP "actors", or processes, ARE composable. With very little boilerplate, that is built in as primitive BIFs in the standard library, I can bundle failure domains together and orchestrate them using links, monitors, and supervision strategies, with the ultimate failure domain being a single erlang VM operating inside a cluster of erlang VMs, all supported without third party libraries as a part of the way of doing things.
Damn near, if not entirely, everything has monetary value to someone. Someone is going to want the premium features without putting in the work; they can buy coins from the people that do put in the work to buy the premium features.
"/r/Politics is for news and discussion about U.S. politics."

How is it misleading people? is /pol also misleading people?
I love history as a subject but it’s one of those fascinations where the more you dig in the more you learn that the picture is complex and nuanced, which shouldn’t be surprising society now is complex and nuanced why would the past be so different.

As a subject though it was badly taught in my youth (no idea if it’s improved).

We learnt about the Romans then basically nothing till the victorians and the WWII.

Might have perhaps been worth mentioning oh the empire in a UK school you would think.
5nm will be a more budget-friendly option for TSMC customers in 2023. This is a conservative proposal, not something bleeding edge.