skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a student at Brooklyn Tech H.S. and I launched The Thinker as a "Newspaper for Free Minds". Our goal is to put a new spin on old ideas. For instance, we examined the George Floyd protests through the psychological lens of Gestalt's Principles, resulting in an unexpected conclusion. We aim to do the same to many other conventional news, including the pandemic (which we analyze from an educational, economical, and psychological perspective), protests (i.e., we asked protesters to clarify what "Defund the Police" really means), and Schools (i.e., do traditional schools condition children negatively?).

All this, and for what? I subscribe to a simple philosophy: the Truth has the power to change the world. I hope to do exactly that with The Thinker. Please let me know what you think. Thank you.
> I don't know what year that tweet is from

Oct 27, 2019. So not long ago.
I think it is worthwhile to examine why westerns chose to use the symbolism of black and white hats.
To some extent probably, but I wonder if that's as true as you assume.

I'd guess that many people in vaguely Christianized communities would be familiar, to some degree at least, with passages like "Daniel in the Lion's Den", "The Sermon on the Mount", "The Plagues of Egypt", "The Good Samaritan", and so on, without being able to tell you the chapter and verse (or even book) in which they're found.
Nothing really has changed in the last two years in terms of training cost. I think the author is making unreasonable extrapolations based on changes in performance on the Dawn benchmarks. A lot of the results are fast but require a lot more compute / search time to find the best parameters and training regimen that lead to those fast convergence times. (Learning rate schedule, batch size, image size schedules, etc.) The point being that once the juice is squeezed out you aren’t going to continue to see training convergence time improvements on the same hardware.

Also, because you cited our GPU benchmarks, I also wanted to throw in a mention our GPU instances which have some of the lowest training costs on the Stanford Dawn Benchmarks discussed in the article.

https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud
People didn't "panic", but the markets and industry did certainly react to his ideas and behavior - the pharma company he ran (Valeant) tanked and he was ousted as CEO.
I agree.

Also: My kingdom for rsync with progress bars.
Yes, driving the SUV to the farmer's market emits far more per kilo of food than shipping a container from South America to North America.
> I would not be surprised if by the 2060s (40 years, ~2 generations) that Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans get rolled up into being 'white'.

Hispanics are predominantly White by the standards by which race has any meaning at all (though also several other races are represented), Hispanic is an ethnic rather than racial category.

> Hispanic data is not well represented in my quick googling.

It's not going to show up in data on race because it's not a race.

> More hopefully, people will simply not care and diversity will be celebrated, not denigrated as we've awoken to since George Floyd.

The people marching in parades with Confederate flags haven't awoken to anything. And each of America's periodic awakening on this issue has been accompanied by exactly that kind of reaction and a hardening of White supremacist ideology. It may be a shrinking minority each time, but it's also increasingly committed, or at least renewing it's commitment each time.
The crucial numbers:

> Low to moderate drinking (<8 drinks per week for women and <15 drinks per week for men)

'Drink' doesn't appear to be a standard amount of alcohol; the numbers are from self-reporting, so I suppose it could be a half of shandy, a stein of doppelbock, or anything in between.
Hundreds of elephants are mysteriously dying in Botswana
Yep, class of 2019, jit to actually have a physical prom and graduation
I’ve been sketching out ideas for a tool that tries to solve the online discussion problem, too. The conclusion I have come to is that you need to actually have a minimum word requirement in addition to a limit. I like the idea of rounds but have always felt structured debate was easily game-able. I think there also needs to be some form of moderation, whether managed or community, whereby interested volunteers can help guide the course of the argument if it starts devolving. I would love to try this tool but I don't use twitter ):
Religious flamewar is not allowed on HN. I'm sure there are good reasons for why you feel this way, but you can't post like this to HN. It destroys the commons. We ban accounts that post like this, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Haha, I never expected to see Kinnie on HN.

My wife's parents are American immigrants from Malta. I tried Kinnie when we visited Malta. Not personally a fan. I think it's an acquired taste.
That's for the branch name. A bunch of the places in the diff are for other uses of the word master. Like if you have any pair of items and one of them is primary.
All about the upcoming Playstation 5
I've read other studies that suggest as you go higher up the IQ ladder, people are more likely to partake in drug/alcohol use. I'd be willing to bet they've stumbled upon the same phenomenon here but they've got the causation backwards.
Missing the forest for the trees is a very human thing to do. The real problem is that we stubbornly ignore the forest even when we know its there.

e.g. Many environmentalists think that, if we can just stop building pipelines, fuel will become more expensive and people (usually other, poorer people) will drive less. This attitude helped prevent a key pipeline in Canada (Energy East) from being built. This pipeline would have sent oil from Western Canada to Eastern Canada, which currently imports a significant portion of it's oil by tanker from foreign countries. Now Alberta oil is being shipped West, put on panamax tankers in Vancouver, sailed through the Panama Canal, and then up to the East coast of Canada. There it is bought for the same prices as foreign oil by Canadian refineries. All that's happened is some oil companies are making less money per barrel because of transport expenses. This wasteful route hasn't impacted fuel prices in Eastern Canada at all.

The forest in this case, is that people need to buy smaller, more efficient vehicles or EV's, and build communities that require less driving. However, I have no doubt that I will get an earful from someone for daring to suggest that an oil pipeline could be a good thing for the environment. To be clear, I am specifically saying that the Energy East pipeline would have been more environmentally friendly than shipping oil from Western to Eastern Canada via the Panama canal.

Too much of popular environmentalism is utterly unscientific and harmful to the environment. It's not just the "eat local" fad.
I wonder if you couldn’t have both: a sign in authority that verifies people are people and have not signed up for a site yet, provides tokens, and then other sites can use those tokens to let users create anonymous accounts. The sign in authority would need to have an iron clad privacy policy and some sort of no knowledge guarantee between themselves and other sites. Is this possible?
It’s Time to Reassess the Developer Career Ladder
Perhaps you and I have lived with this miracle too long to be properly appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.

-- Ronald Reagan
As far as I can tell, this isn’t adding anything to IP sharing: the package manager just attaches a persistent UUID to every request. In fact, it is more private than IPs because it can’t be tied to an ISP or geographical region.
I have anecdata too: the most enthusiastic drinkers I know are in their 40s and 50s.
I don't have any experience with Tower, other than having heard the name. From their feature description, I can say that Fork does not have multi-user or team management functionality, if that's important for your use case.

I'd recommend giving it a trial run. For me it ticks all boxes for personal and professional use, I'm very happy with it. The managing of a large number of repos could be better, but I do OK with a single "hub" folder to keep all repos, with nested folders and symlinks.
I don't have an argument. I have a simply question: With regards to the collateral damage from the war on Covid 19, what are the estimates of suffering and death - both short and long term?

That's it.
They reacted to his public acknowledgement of private policy, not the policy itself. He was just parroting this McKinsey memo from 2010 [1].

R&D in the United States is dangerously neglected.

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/pharmaceuticals-and-medi...
Yes but that aspect of Moore's law for CPUs expired over a decade ago. It's the whole reason we got multicore in the first place.
Jenna Marbles?

Poor woman was practically having a mental breakdown on video.
Wrong, it applies to EU citizens, regardless where the data is stored https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/
Voice of action is a Marxist propoganda website
> abnormality detection (for instance: in medicine), agriculture (lots of movement there right now), parts inspection, assembly inspection, sorting and so on

none of these is anything someone can run from their bedroom because they have very high quality and regulatory requirements and require constant work outside of the actual AI training.

This is actually reflected in the margins of "AI" companies, which are significantly lower than traditional SAAS businesses and require significantly more manpower to deal with the long tailed problems, which is where the AI fails but it's what actually matters.
> International trade when done with effective reciprocity and managing the trade deficit

This is exactly what protectionism can help achieve. Without it, you get banana republics, wholly owned by foreign multinationals.

It's telling you ignore the parent posts Asian tiger economies as examples of successful protectionism, and instead address the ridiculous strawman of "never engaged in barter-trade or any kind of bilateral exchange either with monetary instrument or goods/services"
I think it’s about the network effects. Your not eating meat won’t make a difference, but if you tell people about it and why and the idea spreads, collectively you all might make a difference.

This is why these sorts of people tend to be known as liking to talk about their lifestyle choices. They know they don’t mean much, but if they convince 5 people and they all convince 5 more, etc, it will spread faster than some viruses we might be familiar with.
These days Harward denies entry to Jews based on quotas.
First observation of branched flow of light
"Big pull requests" that are unannounced are always problematic because who wants to be the person saying "all of this work you've done is wrong"?

In such situations, it's good to get buy-in from other people before attempting to do such a thing. Make a proposal for a big change and discuss it. There's still a chance that, in the implementation it doesn't work as nicely as believed initially, but at least now it's less likely that the idea will be rejected wholesale during code review.
Please, Jacques, this is pure flamebait. Please don't.
Structured data can be imported to graph databases like Apache Jena or RDFox, and then recursive queries can be done with alternatives.

Here is an example using RDFox: https://imgur.com/ziZdIzA

My fridge has "noodles, tomatos and butter",
But I know only one recipe which calls for "noodles, sauce, oil, optionally cheese".
However you put alternatives in the database, if you have tomatos, you can make sauce, if you have butter, you don't need oil.

RDFox correctly says I can still make :spaghetti.

Query:

select DISTINCT ?recipe where { :fridge :item ?x. ?recipe a :recipe. ?recipe :requires ?y. OPTIONAL { ?y :alternative ?z }. FILTER(?x IN (?y, ?z)) }
> You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’”

That's a great example, because that verse is saying only punish an eye for an eye, and not a life for an eye. It's a verse requiring proportional punishment. (On top of that it means the value of an eye, not an actual eye.)

So quoting it that way actually does remove necessary understanding, which is making the OP's point.
When you, in the specific sense, grow older, maybe, but not when you, in the generic sense, do.

I know plenty of older people for whom alcohol in general, and beer specifically, remain enjoyable.
So, here is something not so glowing then. I've got two of them, both 12 bay versions, an older one and a newer one. The old one would handle drives larger during the initial configuration than it would handle during a rebuild and this bit me quite hard.

Eventually I fixed it by using an old 36 bay chassis running linux to do the rebuild but it should not have taken that, if I had been stuck on the Synology setup it would have caused loss of the array.

The experience with Synology up to that point was good enough that I did in fact buy the newer and larger model, but even there there were rough edges, for instance that the model as listed could not handle all the drives it was supposed to work with without upgrading with outrageously overpriced memory.

So, after many years as a Synology customer that's my experience, I would still recommend them but I would definitely ask if the buyer is planning on maxing out their kit and if they do to ensure 100% compatibility between the parts before committing their data to it.
Cancel culture is not really a thing. But I agree there’s lots of good reasons to be anonymous or use a different name. I think we’ve also clearly seen that a Real Names policy hasn’t exactly prevented bad behavior on Facebook
There is still some "fun" left in macOS, but it's harder and harder to find.

Three examples: Enlarge the network icon for a Windows, or unknown computer, and you'll see the monitor has a BSOD on it.

Enlarge the icon for Mail and you'll see the postmark on the stamp reads, "Hello From California."

Enlarge the icon for Pages, and there's a fun little travelogue.

There used to be an Apple program that had the famous "Misfits" text on it. I thought it was TextEdit, but it doesn't seem to be there anymore.
As I see it, everyone has a limited psychological budget. If they use up that budget unplugging appliances, they're less likely to e.g. protest in favor of cap and trade.

On a societal level, we also have a collective "attention budget". Every news story about plastic straws is one that's not discussing a carbon tax.

A sufficiently strong carbon tax, by the way, would ultimately have the effect of causing everyone to buy more local food, at least in proportion to its carbon impact.
I also don't care whether I know your real name, although I'll take you more seriously if you provide it. The main thing I want is the ability to block/mute someone and have it stick. Perhaps everyone should be able to have a secondary/tertiary account, but I also want to be able to easily see that it is not their main account, and perhaps mute everyone not using a primary account.

Reputation is a large part of how civilization remains civilized. There are advantages to not having your reputation follow you around forever -- sometimes people make mistakes and need a fresh start, but there are also advantages in having consequences for bad behavior.

For commercial social platforms though, at least in the short-medium term, allowing anonymity is good because it creates a greater incentive for outrage and conflict, which drives engagement. This is IMO at the root of many current problems in society.
Main differences from the usual social network.

- KYC based account registration. Legally verified names.

- Blockchain powered (de-centralisation). Censorship resistant. Many interfaces to this website.

- Earn money. Users get paid for content directly. More likes, views translate to payment.

Early stages of voice.com but the ideas have potential in a hard to crack market.
Verimail
Verimail is a bulk verification tool and REST API that verifies email addresses. For every email address you provide we will perform multiple checks and tell you if it is safe to send emails to this address or not.
Looks like the recipe ingredients are not structured any further. That means that it is going to be difficult to extract amount and unit from the text.
Domain is a unit of parallelism in Multicore OCaml - it's effectively a heavyweight thread. The intention is that you tend to have as many Domains as you have cores you want to use in the computation.

Deferred relates to concurrency rather than parallelism, that you can have multiple overlapping computations. You can have concurrency without parallelism. OCaml has ways you can have parallel computations going on that don't hold the interpreter lock and I think some of the concurrent libraries can utilise this.

Multicore OCaml splits parallelism and concurrency, the former is via Domains and the latter is with Fibers. The paper I linked in my other comment on this thread touches on this a little but kc also has a short write-up of how you can use effects to write a scheduler for multicore's fibers: https://kcsrk.info/ocaml/multicore/2015/05/20/effects-multic...
Extracting and selling data stuck in the mountain ranges of pdfs and other useless formats in every large corp, org, govt dept on the planet.

Do it for a couple publicly available docs and then contact the org saying you offer 'archive digitization' so their data ppl can mine for intelligence.

Most of the time and resources of 'Digital Transformation'/Data Science Depts goes to just manually extracting info from all kinds of old docs, pdfs, spreadsheets containing institutional knowledge.
> Too much of popular environmentalism is utterly unscientific and harmful to the environment. It's not just the "eat local" fad.

Because paying higher prices is okay, especially if you can afford it and others can’t.

But the real problem is excess consumption, and the solution is eating less overall, which no one wants to do. Reducing quality of life is the forest, but who wants to do that for future generations’ benefit?
Edit: can’t delete my post but realised I have no interest in being a part of this conversation so deleting the text
You can run Synology DSM on non-synology hardware. Works like a charm, obviously not supported by the manufacturer but there are some use cases where this can be very handy.

See:

https://nascompares.com/2018/09/27/xpenology-how-to-install-...
Norman Finkelstein
Expanded use of Apple ECG App [pdf]
Vita-Cola is again alive and kicking, and I am one who actually loves it. I am sure this is not just nostalgia, because, even though I was born in the GDR, I was 9 when the wall fell and maybe had 3 glasses of Vita Cola before.

"crime, corruption and complete incompetence" are often cited as the reasons for why local brands disappeared, along with "nostalgia" for their revival. I personally believe people just wanted to have the stuff they could not get before - or "curiosity" to put it in one word. Once that was over, people went by taste again and yes, there are actually customers who just like a higher acidity, less sugar or simply a different taste.
I'm impressed! Others here are too, I'm sure.

And lucky you. (Seniors this year got a raw deal.)

PS. Great use of "jit" in a different context.
Ditto. If there is no email sign-up I will not sign up.
How You Get Your Berries: Migrant Workers Who Fear Virus, but Toil On
I believed this until this year. Then I saw it happen to a friend who is prominent in his niche industry but otherwise unknown.

He was disgraced via Twitter and forced to step down from the firm he created for making some offensive jokes.
If you want to cherry pick isolated issues in an attempt to downplay how much better performing modern BMW's are overall I can make a huge list of performance cars that have notable issues

* E36 M3 upper shock tower cracking

* E46 M3 subframe cracking

* C6 Z06 valve guides

* 996 and 997 Porsche IMS bearings

* GT-R transmission failures (had to have mine replaced)

* W204 C63 AMG head bolts

Happy to provide more examples.
We use Dynatrace at my dayjob, it’s not “cheap” by any means but it’s cheaper than New Relic and hot damn does it work nicely with kubernetes.
Costs something in the ballpark of $75-70/mo per 16GB of RAM on monitored system, user monitoring and synthetics cost extra.

It’s a tool that easily saves us the ~15K/yr spend we have with them - I still feel like we are getting fleeced a bit but I review the field annually and it’s still the best tool from a value perspective. Unless you have need to purchase 50+ host units there’s not really any contract discount, so you can try out their pay-as-you-go offering and see if it works for you.
In theory, this could still work if one of those two words put in by lazy developers was a JIRA ticket number where all the details are described in length. Atlassian stack (JIRA, Bitbucket, etc.) even allows you to make those clickable links.
That’s highly variable depending on if we can contain it, as other countries have done. Taiwan, South Korea, and Vietnam are pretty much back to normal. New Zealand did a real, strictly-adhered to quarantine and now is fine.

The US is probably in for a lot of pain because it refuses to acknowledge that throwing more bodies at the economy, irregardless of safety or sanity, isn’t going to fix things.
It's a bit more subtle than that, in that it depends on what you consider production-ready. It was originally intended to reach a level of robustness and soundness that the author considered production-ready, but which I personally didn't.
Ok, here is an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Racial_views_of_Donald_Tr...
You misrepresent what I wrote. I didn't say hydrogen was cheap. I said the PER ENERGY CAPACITY part of hydrogen storage was cheap. And it is! It's like 200x times cheaper than the same aspect of battery storage. So if we get into a situation where the per-energy capacity costs are really import (such as, long term storage), hydrogen beats batteries.

There are, of course, OTHER parts of a hydrogen storage system, whose costs scale with the input and output power, not the stored energy. And these other parts (and the lower efficiency) make hydrogen uncompetitive for diurnal load leveling.

But hydrogen is superior to batteries if the goal is to store the energy for considerably longer periods. It is TOTALLY about short vs. long term.

As for whether hydrogen is "incredibly expensive": for the things it is suitable for, it is cheaper than the alternatives. Try to optimize a CO2-free power system using just wind, solar, and batteries in Europe, vs. one that also includes hydrogen storage. The latter is cheaper! It's also cheaper than a system that includes new nuclear power plants

> In what world is $800 to $1,400 per kilowatt hour per year, "so damn cheap"?

Your units there don't even make sense. BTW, I hope you aren't taking ratio of energy capacity to power-related costs suitable for diurnal storage and applying that to a seasonal storage system. The latter charges up and discharges over months, so the ratio is very different.
The CARES Act was a compromise, the refusal by the House to enforce subpoenas was a compromise. Even their choice of presidential candidate is a compromise of sorts, see Biden's "nothing would fundamentally change" comment to donors. Where do you see obstructionism on their part?