skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't always sunbath when it's hot outside, quite the contrary, we're actively searching for the shade. At least in the parts of Europe from where I'm from (Eastern Europe, to be more precise).
I don't know what "Standing up for Scott" means. His concerns are that he could lose his job, his patients might not want or be able to connect with him after reading his blog or about it, and dangerous people both online and in his real life would have an easier time finding him in person.

Given these concerns, I have no clue what benefit a supportive forum like this would be. We might all be cheering him on and thinking highly of him, but that wouldn't change any of his concerns.
Some problems people don't try to solve because they don't realise there's a solution available - or don't conceive of the fact that, if they spent enough, one could be developed.

If you take a time machine back to the year 2000 and talk to people who collaborate on documents and ask them what would make their lives easier, very few of them will say "invent an online browser-based real time collaborative document editing system" - many will just want more time, and consistent file naming when e-mailing back and forth modified word documents.
How could it be equal if you have to pay the lawyers thousands of dollars for a lottery ticket to see if the visa pulls through?

Or that H1B holders pay taxes for benefits they cannot receive like Medicare, social security, and a sleuth of federal gov programs?

Or that H1B holders typically have english as a second language and surely pay a productivity and optionality penalty for that?

Requiring equal wages is almost like banning it. I want none of that.
Headline: The Arctic Circle Hit 101°F Saturday

Actual details from the article: This past weekend, a small Russian town in the Arctic Circle hit ... 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit

How can Forbes justify using this headline?
I know nothing of ZDF, but right now our state public tv is also in a very bad shape.

It used to have high quality, but in the previous government period one of the ruling parties changed the management and now it's not objective at all. In fact, all the respected journalists left for other media and the reputation of the organisation is tarnished (polls show people don't trust it anymore).

Fortunately we have independent media as well.
> This raises the question: Are journalists actually required?

Depends. The alternative is bloggers.

This situation is ugly. All sorts of motives are being tossed at the journalist, here, but it may be as simple as they think they have a “scoop,” which is pure gold, for journalists (especially young ones).

That said, there are standards that journalists are supposed to meet; usually about things like the number of independent sources they use, and whatnot. It’s fairly obvious that many journalists don’t meet those standards, but they are supposed to.

We’ve all seen what happens with bloggers. There’s good ones, which are basically the same as top-quality journalists, and there are bad ones, which are nightmares that make Joseph Goebbels smirk from his lava pool.

I have been getting downright despondent over the quality of the writing in today’s journalists. I see at least three typos in pretty much every publication I read, every day. Sometimes, terrible ones, in the headline.

I think it’s a shame that the first ones out the door were the editors.
Speak for yourself. If I'm going to buy a boring car, I certainly would take a Kia over a Mercedes, even if both were free.
"Cash-strapped" is a disingenuous way to describe them. The NYTimes is a $6 billion dollar media corporation with $800million in annual recurring revenue, and the Washington Post is owned by the richest man on the planet, whose company is currently worth 1.3 TRILLION dollars.

Neither of them can afford 200k a year for either a public editor or ombudsman?
Of course they are not linearly scalable across generation, but last significant performance improvement was in Sandy Bridge. Let's compare for example i5-2500 and i3-9100, more or less similar chips in terms of the number of cores and cpu freq. Their single thread performance (normalized per GHz) is within 25% from each other. In the last 10 years we've got 25% increase in IPC. If we compare with slightly more modern CPU's such i5-3570 it becomes even more laughable meager 10%. So, yeah we are reaching the limit of IPC, if not reached already.
If a software engineer is hired by a US firm, or his products purchased by Americans, do you want that engineer to be in the US or outside the US?
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Today's PHP projects (at least the ones for which I've done consulting) are modern and clean code bases that use strict/strong typing, run static analysers and have stellar package management thanks to composer.

PHP 8 is due to be released this fall which improves the situation even more.

Symfone is the web framework that had the highest count of contributions over all frameworks in all languages.

The PHP community took a 180 degree turn from the 90's style flat files with a mix of HTML, SQL and code in the last decade. That times are gone (of course that kind of code is still laying around)

For someone who already knows PHP, starting a project in 2020/2021 in PHP is an excellent choice.
Toll! Jugend ohne Gott even got a "+" review here:
https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/pagevie...

reviewer's coding scheme explained on:
https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/pagevie...

An organisation has really "made it" when they get a special font dingbat. Not even Prince Rogers Nelson managed that...
if Siberia is anything like Canada or Scandinavia during a warm summer then the very last thing people want to do is to be outside. Outside when the frost melts means the air is full of newly hatched hungry mosquitos looking to bite and drink blood.
Rust's Compilation Units
I’ve seen several services just like this.

I wouldn’t use a cron service because of the security problems. cron running locally means I can protect the scripts from getting executed when I don’t want them run. If this service can send requests to run scripts anyone can send the same request.

With cloud hosting at $5/mo with shell access any developer who doesn’t have access to their crontabs should fix that problem.
Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has stopped the lawsuit against Nginx
it baffles me that it had to come this far. There were warning signs all over it.

The German BaFin messed up so badly that one must either fundamentally doubt theircompetence or question their integrity.
I grew up in a tiny town in the Midwest, idolizing the NYT as representative of a NYC intellectual culture that was sorely lacking around me. I used to read the Sunday edition every week at Starbucks, which was something of a novelty for the area at the time.

It has been deeply disappointing to watch The Times devolve into a highly-partisan, clickbait, unprofessional shadow of their former self - the exact opposite of what we need a news organization to be in this day and age.
CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider
> the merits of the tech

In relation to PHP, really? Sure it has come a long way recently, but there's too much still in there that can never be fixed.

I dont think what IHP delivers is some sort of "fashion": they choose to be server-side only, pretty old school. The typing discipline is not very fashionable either: old, time tested, established, but not often leveraged for the development of simple websites/webapps.
Fine, not 5 but 6 Ghz, so what? 5 Ghz is a reasonable limit for consumer purposes, beyond which heat dissipation becomes unbearable problem.
> But, having your real name attached to posts that are against certain political topics or narrives, can be borderline-lethal in 2020

It's also unavoidable in 2020 to be doxxed eventually if you have a lot of enemies, unless you take care not to publish any personal details and hide your identity with the best methods available from the beginning. But when you make it easy to identify you with details such as those on the RationalWiki page, all bets are off and it's a bit late to mourn now.
I had a similar experience in Iraq. I had saw an attack happen and then heard the CNN report about it a few hours later and it wasn't even in the realm of what happened. It was surreal.
Mercedes are completely outdated. Nice leather, that's it.
> It is surprisingly difficult to create a useful 15 minute video.

I think that's exactly the point. Makes someone think about what they want to say. At least only one person has to do it, rather than all the participants doing the same work in their heads.

Apparently at Amazon you have to write a document/essay before every meeting.
Your question suggests you already started developing it.

I don't have any sources to give but my tought process:
I belive I can learn and do anything if I meet some base prerequisites and put in time. Based on my experience you roughly need 10 years continous development to master something.

To get started in harder level math you need to understand some elementary level basics about numbers and how draw numbers on paper. I struggled a lot with math in uni and it remained a struggle for every year. But when I finished I was a fuckin math genious compared to those who just started CS.

Can I speak? Okay, now I can do public speakings. Will it be enjoyable to listen? Nah. But if you try to be better for 1 year and learn the basics you will already be better than anyone around you.

Another example is playing the piano. Can I press the white and black buttons on it? Do I have sense of rythm? Okay, then I can play the piano! Now do my current skills able to entertain? Only as a bad joke. But if I enjoy doing it and practice and try to be better for 10 continous years I will be someone who can sit down in a bar and play enjoyable jazz all night. I won't be another Strauss thats for sure - but talent is not required to do most things well. It only speeds up the process and makes the peak higher.

Doing things well requires only two thing - to start doing it and time.
Yeah right, completely impractical though.
I don't think that's fair. The first article explains the WHO position, it does not endorse it.
Yes there was in the State of the Union. Also mentioned was booting another OS from an external drive.
Of course people make mistakes, but it's a mistake to confuse a deliberate and fully informed action with a mistake. The journalist knows Scott's concerns and has plenty of time to think through things and come to a decision, and came to the wrong one.

If I was a janitor and spilled a bucket of water on the floor it would be wrong and cruel to fire me for that mistake. On the other hand, if I saw a customer come in to our store and said "Yo customer, we hate you, get out and never come back!" And then grabbed a bucket of water and dumped it on the customer... Well then I think firing me would make sense. The former was a mistake. The latter is an intentional and deliberate bad action.
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I do. I really enjoy an expresso after lunch, and sometimes one in the morning when I arrive at the office, but it's really for pleasure and not addiction. If I don't have access to good coffee, e.g. when I work from home, I don't drink coffee at all.
Portably and efficiently implementing it in the kernel still requires a fixed point (integer operations) approximation. I'm sure the authors were using "necessary" in the sense of practicality, not in the sense of "impossible otherwise".

If they used fp in the kernel, it wouldn't work on some hardware that is supported on Linux (requiring conditional compilation). If they emulated floating point, even single precision IEEE-754 multiplication would require 24bit x 24bit -> 48bit multiplies, and supporting denormals would require 48-bit bit scans and variable-width shifts. It all gets very slow in a hurry (oxymoron intended) on hardware with 32-bit integer hardware and no hw fp. They could choose to emulate some non-IEEE-754 fp format that's slightly more efficient... but that sounds needlessly complex for little to no benefit.

So, their remaining option is to use fixed point operations. It's all noisy approximations with TCP in the real world anyway, so I doubt that there's a measurable difference in throughput when using the fixed-point approximation models vs. using the floating point approximation models.

As an added bonus, they get consistent results across architectures. Though I think that all supported hardware that has hw fp uses that hardware in a mode that at least close to IEEE-754 compliance, so differences would be tiny. Some hardware supports both IBM format floating point and IEEE-754. As far as I know, the Linux VAX port was never completed. IBM and VAX are the main non-IEEE-754 floating point formats encountered outside of GPUs/TPUs.

Edit: or maybe they meant "necessary" in the "Linus will ban me for life if I submit such a silly patch" sense.
I read the article. The author (a tropical geologist) mixes up weather (temporary) with climate (long-term), among other things.

The concern of arctic residents is if the weather is hot enough, for long enough, to melt the permafrost. That has numerous repercussions, including emissions, transportation and wildlife.

For example, any highways or pipelines on top of permafrost will dislocate if permafrost melts.

But overall, Canada is in favor of glabal warming. Most of our land mass is not arable with the current climate.

Source: Canadian, eh.
I have a little paper on this, sorry for the plug :-D

http://ingomarquart.de/index.php/research/2-the-semantics-of...

uses BERT, but GPT2 would work as well.
I am working on making this a python package and a technical article on the method which works really great. One example is that I can use clustering to distinguish out syntactic information and then get a purely semantic ego graph (as used in the paper for roles).
Go fuck yourselves you habitual henpeckers
Ummm it's factually correct?

Re: "A small Russian town" lol, Do you propose that temperatures were different 50km away?

There is a massive heat wave rolling through NORTHERN Siberia right now, and it's not been confined to one town nor is this "record" the only broken heat record.

Southern Siberia, like the Altai region, hit's such temperatures regularly, but that's Novosibirsk and south.
What we are referring to here is unprecedented, so let's please stop acting as if ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE wasn't a factual reality threatening mammalian life on earth.
The town is Verhoyansk for those who don't want to click a forbes article.

I feel this is clickbait (at least the title). Continental climates fluctuate a lot. One day breaking a record could simple be a statistical outlier. A poke around the records does show that the entirety of June so far has been well above average, and that this is not normal. But I guess "global warming slowly driving more extreme high temperatures in artic siberia" doesn't get as many clicks.

June 2020 weather records for Verhoyansk: http://www.pogodaiklimat.ru/monitor.php?id=24266&month=06&ye...
Watch the other keynote from wwdc they do mention it lol
Will compare to UptimeRobot. I monitor about 50 sites for customers. Some of them like the custom status page feature of UptimeRobot, which I didn’t expect until I showed them.
> if I need people fast

Exactly, this is a real reason for not using the technologically superior.
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Why Professional and Student Filmmakers Should Consider the Videogame Industry
Not sure that's true to be honest. Speech recognition on my old Pixel 2 is miles ahead of anything I've seen on any iPhone, which are 2-4x faster.
I know how CPU's work. Core 2 might be an extreme example, but IPCs between 10 years old Sandy Bridge and Coffee Lake differs only by 25(!) percent. So yeah, last 10 years, and especially after the Ivy Bridge, Cpu Freq almost linearly tied with the performance.
It has trends for the past 40 years

> It is well known that the poles warm faster as a result of climate change. For example, the average increase in temperature on Earth over the past 40 years is 1.44°F. In comparison, the Arctic has warmed by more than 3.5°F during the same period, more than double the global average.
No, managers don't contribute multiples; managers are responsible for the contributions of multiple people (teams) versus individual contributions of each person in the team.
I'm not very informed on this topic, but doesn't this seem exactly like DACA? Where they issued a stupid executive order, and then the supreme court over-ruled them because they weren't competent enough at justifying their decision? Would that be likely to happen here as well?
> I don't see how Farmville is relevant. Mobile games and Twitch streams don't see to be anything alike.

Exactly. FB Gaming seems to be very focused on Mobile Games and other typical Facebook-Games (makes sense), not so much on Console and PC-Games.

Considering the culture of users it also makes sense. Facebook is more for casual games, who play something on the side, but don't give much for the whole culture, dedication and stuff. Twitch is more embracing the whole core-gamer-culture and youth, making it quite hard to be accessable for everyone else.
There are many newspapers that do not have as much money as the New York Times or Washington post, and many of them struggle with tight margins.

It also seems likely that there would be other costs than the salary of a public editor: typically they would have a column which costs space on paper and the results of the editor’s opinions on ethics could increase other costs for the paper (higher standards, more discarded stories, being slower to print because of higher standards, possibly higher employee turnover or hiring difficulties or exposure to lawsuits)
GitLab employee here. As much as it pains me, I have to agree with you for the most part. Performance is one of the biggest pain points for our frontend team, but is something we're actively working on.

Here's one of our epics to show our progress: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/716

We're in the process of migrating parts of our codebase from haml templates to Vue apps, which does have the unfortunate downside of requiring javascript to run. We're looking into solving this with server side rendering, but it's early days right now.

Here's the issue for that: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/215365

If either of these things are things you could help with, we encourage you to contribute and help us make GitLab a better place.
I am deeply concerned about human impact on our planet, but I actually liked that aspect of the game. We have games to provide escape, so it's not morally wrong to play a villain in a game (I guess in Westworld it gets blurry, but we don't have that technology yet), as long as you recognize that the game is not the real world.

That being said, I would love to see a (kind of educational) game somewhat similar to Factorio, or Civilization, that would realistically show the proper impact and scale of industry and agriculture to our planet and ecosystems (and also properly account for laws of conservation of mass and energy). It would probably be on a bigger scale than Factorio, with map squares larger than 1 km^2. I was fascinated by the montage in Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans, which showed how many different resources and industries are required to create solar panels (or anything really).

(I suspect in some sense, it would have to be a "hyperproject" - like Wikipedia or OpenStreetmaps, something that cannot be expected to be completed by a single organization.)
That's not what the post I replied to was saying:

> Finally, a way to remove apps from the home screen without uninstalling them

You're talking about a different problem.

The solution in your case is surely to allow the apps to be uninstalled!
How many bad doctors do you need to meet before deciding that they're also human? As the saying goes, "trust, but verify".
Innumeracy on display.
I also agree that most developers are easily able to set up a cronjob locally. However, cronjobs may easily fail to start or may not finish on time. In the future I would like to add a way for users to add retries, timeouts, and grace periods for completion, or else they get alerted.

The guy(s) at https://healthchecks.io/ do the job of monitoring the job completion but do not trigger the job itself. I'm looking to see if someone has both the needs (to start the job, and to check its completion)..

> If this service can send requests to run scripts anyone can send the same request.

I thought of that. A easy fix would be to send a token in the url query, and validate that token in the user's webapp's view..

Thanks for the feedback!
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A folder is an office metaphor, surely.
This is sad. Scott's writing is almost certainly more valuable than anything this NYT journalist will ever produce.
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Low-cost dev kit for Microchip's PolarFire SoC, FPGA with quad 64-bit RISC-V CPU
This is why it's important to choose very carefully who your friends are and who you associate with: you want people around who are going to be positive and encouraging, not tear you down no matter what you do. You also need to develop a very thick skin.

One also needs to be careful not to fall into the same trap of criticism and negativity oneself - it's just way too easy to be a hypocrite.

(An aside: constructive criticism can be helpful, although I think almost any kind of criticism too early in any learning/exploratory/discovery process can be counter-productive. Some people couch tearing you down as "constructive criticism". Again, it's a good strategy to simply avoid such people, or manage them out of your life, where you can.)
Anecdotal evidence tells otherwise :) Not kidding, in all the companies I worked for, the best engineers were way better contributors than average managers. Just consider that in many companies management is badly hit by diversity targets, they forcibly promote people to meet these targets and competency suffers.
The secure processor only does the IDing function, so while it may be able to compile information on when you used which finger and detail about that print I don't see how it could get to the main processor let alone off the device.
Literally no one here is saying that, please stop acting as if people are.
What I really wish for is a database migration ready app boilerplate & Ops.
> Why do you think a system that doesn't make it difficult to completely destroy it with one command is a bad idea?

This does not seem very charitable.

It is fine if the system warns you about doing potentially dangerous operations (which --no-preserve-root amounts to) but it must not prevent you from ignoring that warning.
I was just kidding. But you make a good point about the starting point which makes me think of an obvious extension: iterate "vs" operation for every node and keep adding nodes until it stabilizes. The set of dogs is finite so the graph must stabilize at some point. If I do "vs" for pitbull then I get boxer and I see pitbull in the graph.
For anyone that doesn’t quite ‘get’ Kafka: I recommend his short stories and aphorisms over his novels. Metamorphosis and The Castle never quite did much for me, whereas The Great Wall of China or In the Penal Colony are some of my favorites.
In my opinion if you have a meeting where a few people talk to thousands in a company you're better served by sending everybody a static video and allowing for Q/A via email. Every time I hear about meetings that could of been emails I can't help but think somebody's trying to justify their jobs.

Edit: Typo, and on a sidenote, I'm glad I hear about these sorta meetings from others, my boss does his best to keep us out of useless cruft.
At least BaFin boss Felix Hufeld admitted they messed up and that the whole thing was the biggest debacle he ever witnessed.

This is rare, and I find it respectable. But yeah, how they missed that is hard to comprehend.