skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in-q-tel (I'm sure HNers and the VC scene know that name well)

I'd bet dollars to donuts that most people, including HN, don't know that. Ditto for ARPA/DARPA.

In-q is the CIA's DARPA (formerly ARPA). They're all essentially startup incubators -- In-q sounds a lot like incu -- for technology that the government thinks would be useful. DARPA, as the name implies, is for Defense (military) projects, while In-q is more concerned with things the CIA cares about (whatever that is). They don't incubate startups in the YC sense, but find people doing research that they're interested in and give them money -- with strings attached, of course. Sometimes these are professors, or maybe small businesses, sometimes it's reaching out to big blue chip companies or defense contractors.
Facebook Releases Avatars
i wish there was also a column for Watts/CPU Mark, this matters to me and i'm sure AMD kills it here, too.
no language has nullable value types as good as c#
What's different from kotlin or typescript nullable value types + smartcasts?
As a US citizen you are entitled to so many things that most people out there could only dream of.

That's not the point though. Google is so large that it's just weird to talk about the morality of its employees in the context of the company's decisions.
Something that concerns me for conscious particles is that some of them could be suffering endlessly somewhere in the universe, but I think this is probably rare.

The ability to hold a conscious particle in its seat while keeping it uncomfortable implies some sort of system trapping it in place.

Life could be such a roller coaster, where good and bad stimuli are always being presented to the particles, and there isn't much hope for getting off the ride as long as the lap bar is down. The sensation of discomfort might in fact be the feeling of a conscious particle straining against its chains, trying to escape the body that has trapped it.
What's the equivalent competiting content delivery system to YouTube?
>>The Founding Fathers could not have predicted this.>>

Sure they could. They had the East India Tea Company.

I'm not a legal expert but it seems like the fundamentals are pretty simple and timeless. If they have a monopoly, then their private get-out-jail-free card no longer applies.
How is it that this live feed is allowed?

"Coronavirus Live Map and realtime counter - Latest worldwide COVID-19 stats and figures."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRy5_KpPxyM

And there're tons more when you search "covid 19 stats" in YT
Whatever the government decides, they rarely, if ever, provide an explanation or recourse either: the Patriot Act, Ahmad Arbury, TBTF, the assassination of Awlaki, snooping on Americans, Operation Fast and the Furious, the Pentagon's missing billions, Epstein's death, etc.

I'm as pro-democracy as they come, but the belief that the government is somehow (and always) more accountable than companies strains credulity. Companies are accountable to Wall Street, which implies they're accountable to their consumers too. Shake Shack did not have to return the funds they received recently, but they did, because of media attention.
Is it possible to run a process (and its children processes) in sandbox manually with only given permissions?
I included the "nationally accepted" bit since I'd prefer to see some incremental improvement over current models, but I don't have confidence that an international standard would be accepted in all relevant contexts. It could still be administered at the state level.

I'm also ignoring the requirement that candidates must start with a degree from an ABET-accredited institution, which seems to feature prominently in proposals from IEEE and others. Ideally I think there should be some way around that, but alternatives I'm familiar with aren't great either (e.g. FINRA).
I would pick a value of R that shows itself to have good predictive accuracy.

The way to test predictive models is always to look for their predictive accuracy on holdout data. Machine learning has this ingrained. Classic statistics does this too -- AIC is used to compare models, and it's (asymptotically) leave-one-out cross validation [1].

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with models that have millions of parameters; they might overfit in which case they will have poor predictive accuracy on holdout data, or they might predict well.

I agree with the original article that software engineer scrutiny isn't appropriate for this sort of code -- but I would argue instead that it needs a general-purpose statistician or data scientist or ML expert to evaluate its predictive accuracy. You can't possibly figure this out from a simulator codebase.

At the time the model was published, and acted on by the UK government, there was very little data on which to test predictive accuracy. That's fine -- all it means is that the predictions should have been presented with gigantic confidence intervals.

[1] http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/Nelder80.pdf
Termux and Android 10
What is better than Java?
Isn't just a classic risk-vs-reward bet for a company like Uber?
This leads to am interesting security question: how to achieve real transparency?

I mean HN could publish a ranking algorithm and claim that that is what they use. But then we still wouldn't know

(1) if that is really what's running in the background,

(2) if that is really receiving user inputs that lead to the observed outcome.

I'm guessing for most people here the programming assignment "create a fake log including these real inputs so that this story is suddenly dropped according to the ranking algorithm" isn't that hard.

I think that in the end, you end up trusting something. (Eg. Is the log fake or real?)
IF that is so, you might as well design the system around a predetermined root of trust... here, the moderators.
That's completely independent of the processor. Nothing blocks you from running a Nvidia gpu with an AMD processor.
> How do you know they never participated in any forums?

Large amounts of anecdata of people reporting (e.g. with the first post on a new blog) that they have finally found places where they can freely engage in Internet discourse; and explaining that they hadn’t been engaging in Internet discourse up until then, because any attempt previously was met with people reacting to the cultural “outgroup” signifiers in their message, rather than to the content of the message itself.

> What does hate speech have to do with minority populations?

Pretty much every country other than the US has an official legal definition of hate speech—but even the US has a definition of hate crime. Both terms are defined in terms of prejudice toward a group. Wikipedia’s definition of “hate crime”, for example:

“A hate crime (also known as a bias-motivated crime or bias crime) is a prejudice-motivated crime which occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of their membership (or perceived membership) of a certain social group or race.”

> Do people within those populations never say hateful things, even to each other?

“Hate speech” doesn’t literally mean “hateful speech.” If just say something with hatred, you’re not engaging in hate speech. If you say something with prejudice, intending injury to the victim because of that prejudice, you’re engaging in hate speech.

Keeping that in mind, you can certainly commit an act of hate speech (or a hate crime generally) against someone in the same intersection of groups as you. It probably implies that you hate yourself (or don’t consider yourself a part of such group/groups), though.
Fine if the government pays for it.
So what you're saying is it's not the idea it's great, it's the execution?

To be entirely honest, I'm not the best person to make these "analysis". I never took a cab before Uber because they were outrageously expensive. I took Uber's cabs because they're dirt cheap. All the things you mentioned are really irrelevant to me. (I'm sure you could call a black cab on the phone and ask them for an estimate....?)

And when Uber eventually runs out of VC money, I'll go back to never taking cabs.
Learned something new today, thanks.
It pains me to see such massive amounts of money wasted on a real estate ponzi scheme and a ride sharing company with a weak revenue model.

If they're going to call themselves a "vision fund" that focuses on moonshots, and has the risk appetite to lose large sums of money doing that, at least invest in actual moonshots.

Biotech, green energy, new forms of transportation like Hyperloop and improved supersonic jet designs. There are so many breakthroughs that need lots of funding and can be quite profitable if successful.

I would love to see funds like SoftBank invest more in the SpaceX's of the world less in the WeWorks of the world.
But this is a case of Chinese speech in the Chinese language. If I used the English phrase “communist bandits”, YT presumably wouldn’t care. YT is applying Chinese regulations to Chinese comments written in Chinese.
The US is doing better than Andorra, San Marino, Belgium, Spain, the UK, Italy, Ireland, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands on per capita deaths. The rest of Europe is doing better [1].

If we expand beyond Europe, the list of countries that the US is doing better than remains the same. The list of countries doing better than the US massively expands, to around 180 or more.

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
There's some overlap, sure, but each of these is different. It's like saying there isn't a milk monopoly, because another competitor makes cheese.
Not by USA or other allies. However, the Taiwan military could make it painful for the mainlanders. Or, the right bribes to the right officers might grease the skids.

However, this is thinking like American leadership: too short-term. What happens the day after China controls Taiwan? Do all Taiwanese meekly submit to their bullshit? Or do they become an extreme version of Hong Kong? It's mostly Han in Taiwan, so the depravities seen in Xinjiang and Tibet couldn't be instituted there without jeopardizing the legitimacy of the entire state. As long as Chinese leadership is fairly secure in their positions, they won't invade Taiwan.
Sega vs Nintendo, which shortly after Sony enterred the game became Nintendo vs Sony, then Sony vs Microsoft

Duopolies seem to be a natural state
While not tied to {n,}vim per se, I'd like to mention tmate which is a fork of Tmux, and you can manage voice communication with mumble.
Maybe we need a little badge for articles that are inverted-pyramid compliant and you can stop reading whenever you like
"I fully believe @dang has the best interests of the community in mind" -- which community? Censorship, I mean moderation, is preferential.
I don’t mind boasting that I’m a world class talent at part 2 of step 3
You can do that, but at some point you might be asked to explain how you manage to rent a nice apartment and own a car without earning any income. Outright tax fraud isn't really any more of a sensible risk to take if you're a career criminal than it is if you work a regular job. After all, they got Capone for tax evasion.
Still the same question.

Do you think that batch processing is the default activity in Kubernetes, or something that people find after they are familiar with the system?
what a topsy turvy world to live in where calling out bigotry is equated with hate subs. maybe on the fronts of brigading or the like, but content wise I don't see how they're morally equivalent
That's a fair point. Also, passing judgement on source code is a very easy thing to do. May he who writes/maintains perfect code cast the first stone.
Please go back to reddit, thanks.
William Barr Announces Updates to the Investigation into the Pensacola Shooting
So you need a large stream of random numbers to seed your random number generator? Seems like a bizarre chicken and egg problem... If I had a source for large quantities of random numbers, why would I even need the second random number generator?
What are you talking about? The impeachment is over. Everyone knows the whistleblower's identity -- it can't be protected. Horse, barn, door.
The US government didn't go after MS over IE bundling. That was the EU. The US targeted them over anti-competitive contracts forcing manufacturers to pay for licenses on systems without a MS OS installed.
> They simply need to be had, more now than ever in my lifetime, on every street corner, and in every shop.

Turns out, even the literal street-corner soapbox guys can be effectively shut out of their venue.
> I am incredibly thankful to everyone reading this email, because

I'm just curious, did you take the time to add the emphasis here, or did the original email have the word "everyone" surrounded by asterisk characters?
Societies, yes.

But when compones do it, they will use the lowest bar, because they have a financial interest to keep even the most unreasonable person as a customer.
Probably also more lax in TX than CA
I'm impressed they actually gave a reason, what happened to "please RTFM for our terms and conditions" and "sorry I have given all the information I have, there is nothing more I can do, appeal denied"

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223560
Tesla's tent assembly line is very much alive. That's where they make Model 3's. It's called GA4.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/15/tesla-workers-in-ga4-tent-de...
He wasn't off his rocker as much in 2013 as he is now. Sleep deprivation and possibly drugs really do wonders for mental health long term....
AWS vs. Azure: Return of the Jedi?
TikTok's play store rating down from 4.6 to 2.6 in a week
The idea of scheduled dissemination for entertainment is going out of fashion with all the streaming options available. This works well because you pay the streamer directly and advertisers aren't part of that. I like this, because the service has to answer to me as a consumer directly.

I somewhat think that the idea of scheduled dissemination for news and world events needs should go out of fashion in a similar way, as it would be less "corrupted", but don't think it will for a long time at the very least.

The idea of news is not purely about information delivery to most people. People really want opinions about news far less than raw reporting of events. Also people find comfort, meaning, and connection in the ritual of scheduled content. For that emotional need to be fulfilled, they seek content aligned with their social and economic bubbles.

It's silly, and as a result I keep my consumption of news to an absolute minimum.
Look, I am all for self-care and not overexposing yourself to terrible news all day every day. But to act like negative news is making us think the world is worse than it is is just sheltered.

The reality is the world has a lot of terrible things happening all day every day and humanity is basically not doing anything to stop it as of now. Here are a few:

(1) in the US, a lot of people don't get enough healthcare because they can't afford it, and just go bankrupt when they get cancer

(2) black people are still terrorized and murdered by police, who largely get off scot-free

(3) the US and its business partners perpetrate crimes against humanity in the middle east on a regular basis

(4) the daily gruesome reality of poverty in the US

(5) We continue our slow but sure march towards climate apocalypse which will largely affect the most vulnerable among us.

This idea that "the standard of living" is higher... well sure, if you have a certain amount of money. But many people don't get healthcare, don't have any leisure time, don't have money to travel. And yeah, there's peace here, but what about in Yemen? What about in Honduras? Iraq? Afghanistan? So what, because we have iPhones we're supposed to think everything's amazing?
> it was limited compare to what a modern government could do

That's 100% irrelevant. Compare it to what the contemporary British government was capable of doing - the very same protagonists with the same means available to them, who refused to act in Ireland - which was to prevent starvation during a the Highland potato famine[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Potato_Famine#Famine_...

Trevelyan made completely clear that "the people cannot, under any circumstances, be allowed to starve" in a letter of September 1846.
It matters to me too.

Sorta here: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/power_performance.html

Unfortunately it's hard to tell which are embedded versus traditional sockets.
Wow, that's right on track with my growth. Congrats man, you'll be in the millions soon enough.
Can someone help me? Who are the communist bandits? Are they people who oppose the Communist government in China?
Perception is reality. If you control what portions of reality the public is allowed to see, you can control their minds and their behavior.

The primary behaviors that need controlling are adherence to authoritarian dictates, and voting.
This is fantastic. I've been looking for a strategy for graph subsampling for my research on protein-protein interaction networks. It's a surprisingly tricky problem, that I now don't have to worry about as much, thanks to this library.
I would say from approximately 2008
Can't recall the quote, but some comedian had a joke about the rage exhibited by being behind someone driving 56mph when you want to go 57mph. It's funny, of course, because we can all relate.

Humans simply aren't able to exercise this sort of self-discipline. Soon enough, self-driving cars will be common and human-driven cars will eventually become illegal (due to the unnecessary carnage).
My anecdote with C++'s RNGS:
I was getting different sequences of random values using
std::minstd_rand on arm64 and arm32.

Turns out it was because the seed type is uint_fast32_t and I was passing a 64 bit seed.
On arm32 the seed was getting truncated to 32 bits, but not on arm64. It was my fault but it was still surprising.
The CCP is not the same as nazis. This is silly.
Cool. Looks nice!

Wanted: class-based CSS that only deals with layout and positioning, not component-styles.
Uber confirms it will lay off thousands more employees and close 40 offices
Good to be aware of that.
We all pay for it, one way or another. The article argues that paying for it on a systemic level has what would probably amount to significant cost savings.

There's precedent with unemployment for having employers pay an insurance premium to the state. That model seems like it might work here.
That's what federations and marketing co-ops are for. They're really common in the agriculture sector. Nut, dairy, berry, and fruit farmers buy into groups like Land O Lakes, Blue Diamond, Sun-Maid, Tillamook, and Welch's, and then those entities handle the logistics and distribution and pass back the profits.

Platforms like grubhub and doordash could and should still exist, but they shouldn't be separate VC-backed for-profits, they should be restaurant-owned.
Well the fact that they took their own life shows that they didn't need assistance. And I'm not necessarily saying never under any circumstances, just that there should be some safeguards around assisted suicide for "generally treatable" conditions....counseling, several attempts to treat, etc. Something beyond "Doc I'm feeling really down, can you give me an injection of cyanide."
whats the advantage over just using something like cu inside a tmux window?

https://man.openbsd.org/cu.1
front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223335
This is where I draw my line. I will not be using HN anymore
I agree, but it's something that under-emphasized in education.
This is actually a really interesting parallel. Like Apple/Google, Nintendo also became successful in part by tightly regulating their console in response to a quality problem previously caused by more open platforms[1].

The comparison breaks down somewhat though when you consider the size of the NES market (61.91 million units sold) vs. smartphones (1 billion+ sold). Nintendo, and the whole gaming market, may have just been too small for the justice department to pursue anti-trust charges.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System#...
Austin is comparatively better but not a whole lot. The big three cities in Texas are getting extremely expensive with ridiculous traffic to boot.
Yeah, I can't decide if that was a "this is convenient" or "I'm getting paid to hock this service." Either way, there are other ways to get RSS feeds; I run my own FreshRSS server, but there are apps for your phone/tablet that can use instead.
A great example of this is a tweet from Max Howell (creator of Homebrew) regarding interviewing at Google.

Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en
I am kind of surprised (and worried) that anyone is surprised by this. YouTube has always been known for very heavy moderation. This is only about comments but they also delete tons of videos without any explanation. If the creator is big enough they can cause some outrage in Twitter and get YouTube's "offical" attention and then maybe they will fix it. Otherwise you are out of luck. I wish there was some alternative platform creators could switch to.
Oh wow. Does this only work on FF?
Stop using youtube, better more decentralized versions exist in the form on lbry.tv or peertube. Why keep planting trees in their walled garden?
Ryzen come with bundled gpu. It's called Vega.

However you have to pay the Nvidia tax to do anything.

So a nice AMD ultrabook (which reigns on current price/performance charts) has the firepower, but no access to ML libraries.
Going public is still a fundraising event that puts cash on the balance sheet of the company.

So whether they are funded by VC's or large institutional buyers who are the majority traders on the public market, there is no difference and the companies continue to lost money.

The issue for Uber is that they need to change the narrative. They don't have the story that Amazon did, that they are losing money because they are reinvesting it back into tremendous infrastructure which will give them scale.

Uber is losing money because they grew very quickly so there were a lot of innate inefficiencies because of that. So these firings are a chance to right size the company and see if the new trimmed down Uber will now be profitable when eventually ridership returns to normal.
You'd be looking for something with a discrete Nvidia graphics card with as many CUDA cores as possible.

Recommendations...depends on $$$...high end laptops are expensive as hell. Maybe something like a 1660 Ti?

Broadly I'd avoid ML work on a laptop though due to thermals
Are we playing "what censorship is OK censorship" now? Who determines that "pretty clear difference?" Isn't the point of being against censorship is that nothing is above the interests of public scrutiny? Partial censorship seems fundamentally contradictory in terms of the underlying moral justification.
You're profoundly mistaken in diagnosing the problem as economic. It was a political choice to allow the Irish to starve.
I believe a goal of the project is to be interoperable with Node (https://deno.land/std/node) so I don't a complete replacement is something that will happen.

With inspiration from Go, the underlying implementation in Rust, a focus on developer simplicity (single binary workflow) , Deno is already a great developer experience and will only get better.
AWSLabs CDK8s: CDK for Kubernetes
Wikipedia is the way to go.

Why have the hypercorporatists and hypernationalists not replaced it???

Because fuckers in both those camps think it has to make money as a condition to exist. It's their weakness. Requires imagination to exploit.
Get anything with a nvidia GPU.
Without a nvidia GPU, it's pretty much dead
The idea of WeWork was fine (basically a modernized take on office space rental), the execution and management however was a shitshow/dumpster fire of money being pumped to keep it afloat.