skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that organization should be considered unfixable and just thrown away to be replaced wholesale

what?

> Fax is evil and should have been dead a decade ago.

why?

Paper document facsimile is a useful facility basically as long as people fill or sign things out by hand or with stamps, and with Japanese even just coding people's names correctly into a computer is a task that requires both specialized skills and tools.

These sweeping statements just strike me as ignorant and devoid of empathy.
Yes indeed. It’s one of those spiky problems with human nature.

It ranks up there with the problem of dealing with seductive disinformation.

For everyone pointing out that nothing happened in Moab there’s someone else with a Remember Moab bumpersticker[1].

[1] Neal Stephenson reference.
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It is either the case that the parent likes to add random facts into conversations such as "the word communist contains 9 letters" which has nothing to do with the conversation, or the parent clearly felt that the phrase being perjorative was tied to it being censored.

Let us assume the parent was being on topic and relevant. Therefore they seem to indicate the censoring was due to it being perjorative. As most other perjoratives are not typically censored (per my comment), that would imply that the "Communist Bandit" perjorative is somehow special.

Is it special because it's somehow especially worse than other perjoratives, or is it special because it offends a foreign state's political party?
As I read it, "this" refers to "a monopoly on communication/speech", not "a monopoly [of any kind]".
You must have excellent karma. Mine was deleted after ten seconds. I simply wrote: "Just testing if comments containing 共匪 will be deleted" to a Rick and Morty video.
Please remember that democracy is a way to control a shared resource by the opinion of the majority, and it makes the minority submit to the decision of the majority. A democracy is more free than a tyranny, but it's not freedom incarnate.

If 1.5B Chinese people totally democratically voted to ban particular words from usage worldwide, and were very serious at enforcing their decision, would you conform?

I'd very much appreciate if no society ever chooses things for me, as long as the choice is not of a conflicted shared resource that needs to be handled uniformly to even work (like property laws or traffic rules).
Any app distribution platform carries with it a risk of hosting user-hostile software, so it is certainly not immune. Fortunately there are fewer incentives for trying to sneak such software into F-Droid which results in fewer (if any) straight up lies intended to trick users into buying misleading software or exposing their data for the sake of ad revenue.

This is of course the same issue we all face when opting to pull in an OSS dependency for our own projects (from npm or docker or rubygems or rust crates or...): we need to decide on our own how far to trust the software maintainers.

The android permissions model offers some degree of protection in both stores from hostile software. However, unlike the Play Store which offers only a couple of tags (contains in-app purchases / contains ads), in F-Droid any known "antifeatures" (i.e. association with paid services) are listed explicitly in the catalogue.

As for abandonware (or other software that F-Droid drops for practical concerns), users could still acquire the code and build it themselves, which means that a developer stepping away from a piece of software does not mean a user needs to say goodbye.
> The Nintendo NES came out in 1983. Didn't they have control of all apps allowed to run on their machine?

They didn't.

The security of the consoles from that era was based on trademarks. The hardware would refuse to execute software unless it could find the manufacturer's name at some predefined memory location. Since these were trademarks, game companies had to obtain permission in order to use them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade

The judges ruled that people had every right to reverse engineer existing games and produce compatible software for those consoles regardless of the manufacturer's wishes. The trademark violations were the manufacturer's fault since they made it necessary for games to work.

The world was a much better place before the DMCA.
Is shorter or zero severance unethical? We all enter into this employment contract knowing it could end abruptly from either party. If money is tight, they could afford longer severances for all if they cut 4000 instead. Does that not seem unethical toward the extra 1000 cut?
45 offices closed. Holy hell.
Good luck with that. Their services are essential to my life and I don't think they're doing this dramatic draconian version of censorship everyone thinks. Never seen this kind of hate from the HN crowd towards amazon or apple's manufacturers and warehouse workers working in deplorable conditions, which is far and away the worst thing a company could be doing. Not whatever this is.
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Hi all, I wanted to get some feedback on this little trivia game I made to test knowledge of the Coronavirus.

The game is 10 questions followed by a results screen. I made it in React!

Any feedback that you have is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
That's true in more than just in the self-driving car space. Even at companies like AAPL and AMZN where ML focused researchers/engineers work on production related tasks, I've seen their value production is dubious at best.
you missed the point. these people are targets.
While they work as hard as possible to have communication monopolies in their respective spaces.

I agree with you though, the inherent problem is that they are private spaces and should act like it. That means developing the ability to interoperate with other private spaces (some sort of federated protocol would be required), and not having monopolies on distribution (being able to acquire iOS apps from 3rd party channels, for instance).

By extension, if anyone is considering legislation to enforce freedom of expression on social networks, I'd propose a different track—break up the largest of the social networks (namely Facebook at this point) and force them to interoperate.

That seems a lot more practical than forcing private companies to hold up public standards of free speech.
Which case (and GPU) did you go with?
Generally the comments have pretty bad stuff in them, or at least they did before I blocked them.
This is not true. You're buying into the propaganda, sadly. Both powers care little about democracy. They care about their interests. No need to get nationalistic or even involved in the situation.
There is a similar story in Judges 19–21, the story about The Levite's Concubine[0]. The main difference is the lack of supernatural elements in this story. Instead the outcome is civil war among the Israelites.

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Levite%27s_Concubine
The logistics. In the best of times it takes at least a week to let go a few thousand employees. I can think of about ten things to take care of. Now multiply that with number of countries, the local laws to be handled. Add another multiplier or two for being a public company. The PR angle. And finally the unprecedented COVID-19 situation we are in, which compounds by adding a few more variables, the least of which is remote coordination.

All said and done, I’m actually impressed they got through this in under a month.
> Are you sure that writing tests makes science better? Or are you just assuming that?

It is perfectly acceptable to write code without tests. Proof-of-Concept or Minimum Viable Product are a great place to write code without tests.

It is less acceptable if other people will run or use that code. It is even less acceptable if anyone (including oneself) ever updates or extends the code.

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You could take this analogy to scientific instruments. Imagine you make a novel particle detector. You get a scientific result with your detector.

A colleague uses your detector, but they don't clean it properly before use, and they use a power supply with lower voltage. They don't detect any particles! Was your science bad? Would the "science be better" if there were clearer instructions and pre-requisites?

Now imagine another scientist makes a copy of your detector from the description in your paper. They get some stuff wrong because your description was ambiguous. Was the science bad?

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By the way, all of these things are real problems with scientific investigations, and not just in the software realm.
This reminds me of the Drake equation. A sound formula for the probability extra terrestrial life..but half the parameters are wild guesses that can differentiate in orders of magnitude.
Except that China is 7 times japan.
my bad for assuming that it goes without saying i guess? or that most people except us here can't tell the difference?
> I'm sure you could call a black cab on the phone and ask them for an estimate....?

You could but sometimes the driver is end up 30 minutes late and you have no way of knowing where they are.

Sometimes the driver shows up, sees your ethnicity and drives off.

Sometimes the driver takes inefficient routes to make more money off you.

Sometimes the driver checks your destination, says its too far and goes away.

There were many problems with the "call a cab and cross your fingers" service in many counties that Uber helped solve
I also use (and enjoy) YNAB. I have some manual accounts and some automatic. I suppose what I'm working on isn't even technically a budget so much as it is a forecast. But of course it'll still be only as accurate as the data it receives.
I'm surprised the 1650 super is ~ 30% cheaper than the 1660 super but it looks like current prices pretty accurately reflect original MSRPs

* https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/evga-nvidia-geforce-gtx...

vs.

* https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-gtx_1650-super-t...
Isn't that the answer to most problems in the world? Getting that in place in the real problem, isn't it?
What made you think I was talking about Trump? I just said "authoritarian".
Hopefully easier to build, upgrade, and reconfigure. In a post CV-19 world where the 'open-office' configuration needs to be rethought, major changes might end up being prohibitively expensive
How would you reduce the polarization of the population between upper and lower classes?
Certainly. I think the "it works on my machine" attitude is reminiscent of the problems associated with the replication crisis.
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You can very easily pair an AMD CPU and an Nvidia GPU.
At least for fdroid you can update apps silently. You need a rooted device, flash [1] and install the f-droid privilege extension [2].

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged...

[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged...
The core of the idea is "make it frictionless for people to hire cars without having to talk on the phone to Danny Devito." I think the idea is actually meaningfully different and if I'm going to take a black car, it's going to be via an app, not a phone call.

They also executed well.
This is one of the most famous accounts:
https://www.secureworldexpo.com/industry-news/8-steps-huawei...
The AMD GPU acceleration layer is called ROCm .
Zero support - not even with the brand new Google libraries like JAX.

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute
Just because we elect morons, don't assume all of us are morons. Lots of people could do factory work for the right wages, and lots of capital is floating around that could build new factories. Sure, we're deficient in certain specific skills, but skills can be learned and processes can be designed around their lack.
Kinda weird that they're moving from NY to places that are almost as hard hit as NYC, or soon will be. Boston, Chicago, Miami? I mean, wouldn't it make more sense to go to Wyoming or Idaho?
It's almost like they have to make difficult decisions like everybody else does.
Slightly different topic, but Google also suspended our company's adwords account, I believe for using keywords related to COVID-19.

The business is an American manufacturer that added capacity to manufacture PPE to make up for the lack of Chinese supply. Since we were supplying direct to the market, the prices of the PPE were in-market from before COVID times, or cheaper. We weren't out to make a killing, just to fill up some manufacturing time and help folks out. We had the equipment, the people, the facility.

However, we didn't have a great way to reach people who needed it - healthcare was not our normal industry - so we decided to put it up on Adwords.

Within 24 hours, the account was suspended. We appealed it (thinking it must have been a mistake), and a month later, they told us they reviewed it and maintained the suspension. We told them we were only promoting PPE to help people in health care find supply and they didn't care. We've never had suspension issues before.

The whole experience left a very negative taste for Google. With their extreme dominance in market share for advertising, they no longer need to cater to customers' needs. (Maybe they care if you're a multimillion dollar customer, but certainly not if you're an everyday SME manfuacturer.) And there's not a lot of alternatives to turn to for that type of advertising. There was no recourse, no discussion, no reasoning. Just the Google blank wall.

We wound up manufacturing lots of it anyway to hospitals in need, but Google actively tried to stop distribution of American-made PPE during the pandemic.
the case for national paid parental leave -- that's right, parental leave, not just maternity leave -- is that it's a standard feature of developed countries.

the US will start to see more and more brain drain to other developed countries until some basic aspects of the social contract here are corrected. we'll also see fewer highly-skilled immigrants wanting to join our workforce.

there's no reason for highly educated people to stay here or immigrate to here when their quality of life will be significantly worse than elsewhere because our basic suite of mandatory and ubiquitous social amenities are entirely absent.
> It sounds like Youtube now has filters against harassment in order to keep things a minimum civil

Is that really what's going on? Do they delete normal English "uncivil" words, or do they delete words that are deemed sensitive by one particular group -- and a large and powerful government at that?

I have no objection to platforms trying to keep things civil; but I do have an objection to giving the CCP special treatment.

I don't know the cultural significance of 公匪; but the fact that 五毛党 is included in the list makes me more inclined to believe this is the second.
Simpsons did it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qibFvDOrOjI
Musk rarely gives estimates, but targets (used to motivate people, for instance, and to overcompensate any unexpected issue or mistake).

I'm looking for his most ambitious and oldest targets and so far, most of them have been reached/exceeded. The most important one being the 500,000 production vehicles run rate for 2020 and 35 GWh battery production for Gigafactory Nevaga. Multiplying that duration by 2 or 3 would bring us to 2027 or 2034... If you can find an even bigger and older target, please share so we can re-evaluate.
By default with gcc and clang on Linux, random_engine will use /dev/urandom.

I use /dev/random and configured it with rng-tools. With rng-tools you can configure the sources of entropy for rngd.

You can add a hw random number as entropy source there. Just do not add more entropy than the size of the entropy pool or your system performance will suffer.

Some people discard a number of generated values to make it harder to guess the internal state of the generator. discard_block_engine can be used for this too.

Anyways, if you want to test your random numbers try https://webhome.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php
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Worse yet, what many consider a standard of living increase such as air travel, cheap energy, and an abundance of material goods shipped from all over the planet are actually contributing to the climate crisis.
"Immutable characteristics"? So religion, sex, race, and sexual orientation are fair game then?

You must have missed the part where half of our society has declared these things as social constructs. They are mutable by definition and people can and do take advantage of this mutability. (Note: I'm not making an argument for or against mutability of these traits -- only acknowledging the arguments existence).

How about we outlaw inter-group conflict? Imagine a world where Democrats and Republicans are not allowed to disagree. That will solve all of our political problems.
It's never popular to whine about down-votes, doubly so when comparisons to censorship are made.
> they're often just students or backpackers etc making a couple of bucks in the afternoon while getting fit

I did this in lieu of going to the gym daily a while back ago. Adds a bit of gamification and social interaction, although takes a bit longer for the same intensity. I can't imagine having to live off that wage though.
Nothing, these are just examples that all happen to involve Trump because it's reddit so everything controversial involves Trump
You won't ever see a youtube competitor. Youtube is running with google's proprietary search engine and has a decade and a half of content a competitor simply wont have. It will always be better than its competitors and some nonsense ban on a word won't stop anyone except 10 or 11 people on hackernews.
Can't we hate, and express that hate? Why can't I say "I hate Scientology, I hate Scientologists. Brainwashed bandits, they are! Hate them so much!". It seems a lot of things we want to express include hating. Isn't speech a lot about getting things off your chest? Can the frustration build up and explode and be worse that just expressing what you hate?
I think many of the statistics need more context, for example looking at death rate vs population density is interesting.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-19-death-rate-vs-po...

Obviously Monaco and San Marino are outliers. It looks like Sweden and Spain did a worse job; UK, France and Italy are comparable to the US; and the Netherlands seems to be doing a better job at it.

I chose population density, because it seems like a metric that would greatly change the step required to combat a Pandemic. But I think it would be a better comparison to show US states instead of the US as a whole.
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Yeah pretty much all of HN's lines about how it's much better than other communities go out the window.

Perhaps such conversations can be had productively, but I've yet to see it.
Perhaps there is an innocent explanation? Or are HN users not smart enough to decide for themselves and indeed tear apart controversial views on the burning topic of the day should the arguments presented warrant such treatment?
> I'm desperately confused why so many people think this is a bad thing for the common person.

Because it's not sustainable. It's the food market equivalent of stripmining. At some point, the restaurants will collapse or quit offering delivery this way, and you'll be left with less restaurants and more expensive delivery (if any at all), and Doordash will implode. Longer-term, the owners of the company are the only ones benefitting here (worth remembering that when startups talk about an exit, it usually means the top employees dumping the company and getting away with riches; the company is going to eventually die, as intended to).
The thing that mystifies me about the electric car move is it was such a bold move into such a different area with seemingly no justification and failed incredibly quickly. It went from conception, to manufacturing to discontinued in 2 years.

This is a company that essentially has exclusively been selling different iterations of air blowers. I get why a hoover company thought branching out into hair dryers and fancy bladeless fans, I just fail to see the steps between that and a fully blown electric vehicle. They seem to have the Apple business model where they're selling a premium version of normal products and its an amazing money spinner, but their forays into technology outside of their core competence seems very strange.

Oh and also it's a very strange title, because Dyson is a privately owned company, so whilst its news that the amount spent was £500m, it's obviously going to be his own money, he owns the company.
A quick way to add tests when code has database or HTTP calls
The study seems to confirm the economic benefits associated with paid parental leave.

> On the flip side, some studies have shown less positive effects, such as encouragement of employer bias against women of childbearing age in lower-paying or part-time jobs.

It makes 0 sense to not have paid parental leave by law. Government assistance in the form of medicare assistance etc. should be provided to lower income parents or those that don't have access to employer sponsored healthcare. Apart from the economic and ethical argument, if we want the next generation of Americans to have happy, healthy childhoods, it seems imperative to provide as much assistance as possible to enable that environment.
The US doesn't care about China being open. They care about maintaining domination.

The US has no issue replacing democratic governments with dictatorships as long as they keep their influence and power. If China was a democracy, we would see the exact same rhetoric.
Some days ago I checked https://opendata.blender.org/ and noticed that the RTX 2060, RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 are all equal when it comes to performance in the Blender benchmark.

Also the RTX 2070 Super might be the cheapest performance card at the moment.

Charts like these can save you a lot of money. But it will depend on the usage of course.
And limited to x86.
Ha. SF described in a single line. :-)
Unfortunately not on the newest consumer cards yet. Their CUDA competitor is ROCM which isnt available on the Navi 10 cards i.e the Radeon 5600-5700 series. I've been watching the space closely and it seems like support might land relatively soon though.

(Performance as compared to CUDA on cards that are supported is not great however)
Every system and market is different. You will need to determine if licensing and piracy are significant issues (sometimes they are a good problem to have, it means people are using your tool!) Some languages and ecosystems are harder than others to secure.

If you have $1m in sales and $1m in unlicensed usage, do you have a problem?

In general though you should focus on building value, not building walls around your product.
Third solution: take those people who consider some speech harmful off your platform

Twitter has a choice to be a platform for as many people as possible, or a platform for as much speech as possible. They have made that choice, but aren't too consistent in communicating it.
If you chronically underpay and exploit people of lower class who aren't dumb as bricks then you create a class of lazy people and criminals who act that way because they are aware that they have no other choices.
This is the reason I really hope we see an uptick in distributed applications.
Then don't participate. People will form communities and stick with the groups they like and enjoy, like they always have.

If anything, the issue with social media is that it's too vast and anonymous. Things still work just fine in the physical world.
I agree on the basics, but society provides 2 things: a very comfortable salary to get good and services, but even more important than that: it alleges boredom

The practical world is full of interesting problems. Gifted humans need to really feel useful (to put their gift at use) more than they need the matching income.