skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make governments compete in a free market like companies. It's an interesting idea, and compelling on its face. But that leaves open the question of how a government could ever be expected to invest in it's people. The incentive for other countries would be to not invest as much in education of their own, since anyone could up and move to a country with lower taxes immediately once they finished school. Or they wouldn't invest in healthcare, since you could just "move" to a country that has healthcare, get treated, and then move back to your low-tax country immediately after.

I expect we'd end up with a system pretty similar to the one we have now, with each country demanding a certain "investment" from the prospective citizen before they be granted the benefits of citizenship (e.g. certain number of years spent there) or that they are bringing something valuable to the table (e.g. in-demand skills or qualifications).
Just to be clear, you’re not the OP here.
> I'm not sure if this is intentionally obtuse, but yes "tech" as a slang term doesn't mean "technology", it describes a type of company largely known for the prowess and scale of their user-facing software. This includes such entities as Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and Amazon, but is not inclusive of course.

Except I would argue that Apple is known more for its hardware than its software.

Also, I believe most people don't give a second thought to Netflix's software. It's the content they think about first.
First-Ever Russian BEC Gang, Cosmic Lynx, Uncovered
Mask sets will still be required for each chip (to my knowledge), but they are significantly cheaper on older processes like 130nm.

The process design kit (or PDK) mentioned in the article takes care of "configuring the machiines". The PDK provides describes how to construct low-level primitives (the instruction set, if you will) for the specific fab. Designers then layer on their logic circuits using those primitives.
This is a little bit sarcasm, fine but there news is professional business.

Random bloggers generally don't have credibility, they can in some instances check facts and even break big stories and so so in a very credible way, however, there's little incentive and they have no power, because they don't make money and mostly don't have an audience. More importantly, nobody cares about them. If they want to speak to 'The Minister of Defence' about an important event, the Minister will not respond. When the BBC/CBC/CNN needs that interview, the Minister will likely, if there's something on the agenda.

Because they don't have credibility, sources won't trust them which is the most major source of difficult-to-get-at information.

Wikileaks and other teams had to build credibility.

And of course the fact that news rooms cover a massive array of subjects.

Resigning the entirety of news to 'some checks on Google' is glib.
You didn't click the link did you :-)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3070 Specs Detailed
3.6 roentgen. Not great. Not terrible.

Very cool project. Always impressed the level craftsmanship some people have.
In practice, it’s nowhere near this simple. Even if a platform has “unlimited” capacity to store and serve content, the real estate available in places to advertise/surface this content (homepage, suggested/related content, etc.) is finite and generally tiny by comparison. So right off the bat you have a nontrivial task here to solve that will involve bias, algorithms to determine why a piece of content should be shown over another, etc. And that's just the beginning.

The bigger, more abstract, more difficult task is implementing the above as well as all other aspects of the platform in such a way that it fosters the sort of community you are envisioning, attracts the sort of user you're building for, and this is incredibly nuanced. If you want the platform to appeal to, say, creators of animated or short narrative content who are interested in friendly conversation and critique, you aren't likely to do this if they visit the platform and find nothing but fringe political content and the perhaps less-than-friendly conversation this may attract.

Ironically, building a platform that appears to be fairly unbiased and balanced that puts the control in the hands of the user generally involves an immense amount of curation and control behind the scenes to achieve this. And similarly, failing to put tons of work into this, opting to let the users decide everything organically, etc., will likely find your platform's content and community dominated by whatever group is able to rally the most like-minded users to join up the fastest. You're at the mercy of the mob, and most likely, you won't enjoy what they've brought with them.
I don’t know about Chernobyl specifically, but so-called low background steel from before 1945 is harvested specifically for use in radiation sensing applications. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

I think most of the radionuclide contamination comes from Cold War atmospheric nuclear testing.

Some low background steel is recovered from sunken battleships!
Ideally each community runs their own servers. Something like https://joinpeertube.org/en/ can help with that. So for example someone would run an electronics and repair instance that only has those kinds of videos. Those are then all discoverable by the Fediverse.

This way also controversial instances can exist and people can choose to follow them or not. What's controversial in one country may not be in another. One size fits all doesn't work.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. In economics, the value of competition is well understood and widely lauded, but the power of cooperation seems to be valued much less - cooperation simply doesn't seem as fashionable. But the FOSS world gives me hope - it shows me a world where cooperation is encouraged, and works really, really well. Where the best available solution isn't just the one that was made by a single team in a successful company that managed to beat everyone else (and which may or may not have just gotten into a dominant position via e.g. bigger marketing spend). It's a true meritocracy, and the best ideas and tools don't just succeed and beat out everything else, they are also copied, so their innovation makes their competitors better too - and unlike the business world, this is seen as a plus. The best solutions end up combining the innovation and brilliance of a much larger group of people than any one team in the cutthroat world of traditional business. Just think about how much effort is wasted around the world every day by hundreds of thousands of companies reinventing the wheel because the thousands of other existing solutions to that exact problem were also created behind closed doors. Think about how much of this pointless duplication FOSS has already saved us from! I really hope the value of cooperation and the example set by FOSS can spread to more parts of society.
TFA doesn't really summarize what's available very well, so let me take a shot from a technical perspective:

- 130 nm process built with Skywater foundry
- Skywater Platform Development Kit (PDK) is currently digital-only
- 40 projects will be selected for fabrication
- 10 mm^2 area available per-project
- Will use a standard harness with a RISC-V core and RAM
- Each project will get back ~100 ICs
- All projects must be open source via Git - Verilog and gate-level layout

I'm curious to see how aggresive designs get with analog components, given that they can be laid out in the GDS, but the PDK doesn't support it yet.
This is great. People need to be careful about inferring certain details from headline numbers. I think hospitals are also incentivized to test and label patient Covid if they can, since they'll be reimbursed more. In any case, it seems like the reason fatality rate is decreasing is that at-risk people (i.e. old, obese, respiratory issues, etc) are taking more precautions and being smart. The young continue to be stupid.
> Do we really want a single Kafkaesque, politically-biased entity controlling which books can be published?

Have you met actual book publishers? And while KDP is pretty unfiltered, it's also kafkaesque and has its own weird little spam and infringement problems.
Check out Jack Creenshaw's columns. And his book "Math Toolkit for Realtime Programming".
For a Result<T, E> the returned type will either be an Ok(T) or an Err(E). Not both, so it's not a composite type like golang with defining a Tuple of (T, error). So you can then do a match statement like this:

match maybe_error() {

Ok(t) => {}, // we succeeded

Err(e) => {}, // we did not succeed

}

Result itself is an enum with Ok and Err variants. [0]
Some functions use Option<T> which will either be Some(T) or None.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/index.html
Why not inline WASM for deployment but host human readable Python source in a URI? Accept liberal input languages but be conservative in the browser output.
But once you've accepted unchecked exceptions (and paid the cost of the having them), it just doesn't make sense to only use them only for bugs. For example, it is better to

try:
x = json['foo']['bar'][i]
catch OOB:
handle error

than to

if not (json is a dict and
'foo' in json and
json['foo'] is a dict and
...):
handle error
x = json['foo']['bar'][i]

even though in the former, unchecked exceptions are used for non-bugs.
Storage isn't the problem. It's transmission.

Reliable Bandwidth isn't cheap.
Was it a missing dependency, or something else?
Ask HN: What makes a good technical leader – any recommended books?
I just became a technical lead (spiced with a little product manager) for a team who is working with machine-learning/deep-learning technologies (I have ~6 years of background in this field). I feel like I am performing well, but there is a lot of room for improvement on: how to plan for the future, how to communicate success, how to assign engineers and researchers to tasks, how to define tasks, etc.

Do you have any recommendation on what should I do, read to become better and better every day? I want my team to be successful, and to show the improvements we make to the company.
that's great. Honestly blogs really help and this is why I believe blogging is one way of giving back to the community and I have been blogging for about 2 years now but I have been on and off. I need to start contributing actively
- Empathy, sympathy, and a willingness to see other points of view. Not politics per se, but just asking "what does $PERSON feel right now? why?" on the regular

- Communication skills -- too many to list, but uber-critical for most jobs / relationships / contexts. Only 10% of my job is actual tech; 90% is communication

- Cooking -- you're gonna have to eat for the rest of your life, so get some basic skills

- Basic understanding of cars -- still going to be a thing for the forseeable future and worth knowing a little bit about

- Basic understanding of computers -- like cars, this is a tech that's going to define your life, likely for the foreseeable future. Most of HN are tech focused, but if you're not, understand it as much as possible

- Basic understanding of housing tasks -- too many skills to list, but you're gonna have to live somewhere as a renter or owner for the rest of your natural life, so learn a bit about how your plumbing, electrical, drainage, etc. works.

- Basic finance -- you're gonna have to buy shit for the rest of your life. Understand how mortgages, credit cards, interest, inflation, etc. works. Learn enough to be confident and skeptical, since there is a lot of snake oil and obfuscation here.

- Make something with your hands -- candles, woodworking, cooking, welding, pottery, whatever.

- Something physical -- sports, gyms, running, even if just long walks with the dog. Take a weightlift course, or do some soccer training clinics, or just read a runner's mag sometimes, whatever.
Very similar to what you just said, I suspect that a driving factor in the state of open source in hardware is that anyone working in hardware almost be definition has a large corporate backing, since producing hardware is so capital intensive (compared to software).

If that is basically a given, why publish anything for free, when you can instead charge 10k/seat in licensing?
I created something I believe is exactly like this a while ago, one called xrest [0] which resolves the API endpoint routes from the file tree structure at runtime, and another called restree [1] which generates the routes before runtime by generating code.

[0] https://github.com/rajnathani/xrest

[1] https://github.com/rajnathani/restree
Perhaps I’ve oversimplified a bit. GDPR has a paragraph that’s often called the “coupling prohibition” - Article 7(4):

> When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.

It somehow says a whole lot and not much at the same time. Since every member state and everyone who has to comply needs to interpret what GDPR means there are various “recitals” that offer official guidance. One of those is Recital 42 - Burden of Proof and Requirements for Consent[1] which says:

> Consent should not be regarded as freely given if the data subject has no genuine or free choice or is unable to refuse or withdraw consent without detriment.

So a person must be able to refuse consent “without detriment” and the company is meant to provide an equivalent, but necessarily identical, service to those who do not consent.

What that means exactly is, of course, the subject of much litigation. For example is it a “detriment” to require a subscription fee to those who do not consent to information sharing? So far one ruling (Austria) has said no, provided the fee is reasonable while another (UK) has said yes, the equivalent service must also be free.

As far as how the coupling prohibition should or will apply to a company like facebook - where harvesting user data is the entire business model - I think that is yet to be clearly determined. As are most of the nuances and technicalities in GDPR.

Edit: I should also note that consent is just one avenue to legally allow a company to process user data under GDPR. It’s not the only avenue.

[1]https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-42/
Regarding the contractors, that sounds like outright fraud. My hope would be that eventually the bill comes due for people who fraudulently claimed funds, and they either pay up with interest or face criminal charges. Unfortunately some high profile folks will get away with it - just like they get away with dodging taxes.
Capacity factor misconceptions in the energy sector
How are you licensing the content?
Storage is a problem too if you're anywhere near YT scale.
Original 2016 paper [1]. After the last glacial maximum, wooly mammoths went extinct on mainland Asia and North America about 10 kya but mammoths survived longer on two isolated islands.

This paper explains the extinction of the penultimate population 5.6 kya on St. Paul Island, Alaska (once part of Beringia). The extinction was caused by drought* conditions.

I wonder if this drought was specific to the current interglacial period or whether it is a cyclic event that occurred in each of the recent 100-kyr interglacials.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/113/33/9310

* Edit: corrected mispelling, thanks richrichardsson
Could this be suitable for a camera sensor? I don't know anything about hardware, but I am intrigued by the idea of exploring new camera sensor ideas.

Edit: Nevermind, another comment says 10 mm^2 per project. That's probably too small for the type of camera sensor I have in mind.
From the paper:

Acceleration Composite = 1 × AP Courses +
1 × College Courses +
4 × Grades Skipped

"The average age of high school graduation was for Cohort 1: M =
17.8 years (SD = 0.62); for Cohort 2: M = 17.7 years (SD = 0.76);
and for Cohort 3: M = 17.2 years (SD = 1.02)"

According to figure 2 (pg 5), only 52 of 1497 (= 3.5%) students graduated from high school at an age ≤ 16. So it seems like this study is measuring very modest levels of acceleration, most of which probably comes from AP courses. I don't think this study tells us much about 20 year-olds with PhDs, or what would happen if we put an 8-year-old in a high school literature class, or if we separated everyone into different tracks an a young age, or a lot of the other things people are discussing in this thread.
So this is where 12factor comes in - unless the application is operating at lower than layer 7 (and with some of the newer offerings even layer 3) there’s not much technology centric stuff going on. Everything Slack is doing is happening at the HTTP / gRPC / Websocket level, and it’s hard to make the case for self managed hosting.

The idea of requests going to an application server on a TCP or HTTP connection with the application server being able to access a database or datastore is now common enough for all the PaaS providers to have abstractions for it, with the load balancing and database/data stores being managed. If customers aren’t happy with the auto scaling logic that can be overridden, but it seems like everything else is pretty rock solid.

Slack’s USP isn’t to reinvent load balancing, distributed configuration or database management, so if I was running it and had a clean slate a PaaS seems like a better bet.
> https://lbry.tv/

Never heard of them. Will probably disappear in a year.

> https://www.dailymotion.com/

Pirated cartoons

> https://www.bitchute.com/

Never heard of them. Will probably disappear in a year.

> https://dlive.tv/

For when you're too much of a bigot to go to facebook gaming after getting kicked off twitch
It seems there's an error when you click on MA
Maybe the poster forgot where it was hosted, and they had to search for it so they could post it here. The code could have been in a CVS repo or SVN repo or in GitLab vs Github or even CodeCommit. Let's be honest, do you remember where all of your repos are hosted? ;-)
Internships and direct, intra-personal headhunting isn't new, and is absolutely a part of HR & hiring.

But those interns were interviewed, no doubt.
The adjacent thread was not about how to interpret your comment.

It’s completely besides the point that these platforms have custom styling with regards to the web in general. The point is that people are publishing enormous amounts of content on these platforms despite not having the ability to control what that content styled like. Ergo, lack of styling is not a deal breaker for people to publish stuff on a platform.
This article addresses how the very last surviving mammoths died out due to climate change on an isolated island in the Bering Sea. I think it's accepted at this point that mainland mammoths were hunted to extinction by plucky and clever bands of homo sapiens.
> Intel LakeField is basically going with a "BIG.litte" architecture as well (x86+atom)

Current Cinebench R15 benchmarks [0] of real world Lakefield based hardware put this CPU 10+% lower than a 2013 AMD A6-1450 8W 'Temash' CPU [1]. Let's say it's the same ballpark. Unless it's a benchmarking fluke or early hardware issues Lakefield is nothing to write home about.

[0] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Exclusive-First-benchmarks-of-...

[1] https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-amd_a6_1450-143
When I was a student (over a decade ago now) part time status only deferred my financial obligations if I was in my last semester and about to graduate.
YT moderation is genuinely baffling.

YT has policies against animal cruelty, but a search for "electric mouse traps" shows a bunch of live animals being killed. (There are a lot of these).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0D4rJ6zNuM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh_QXnJcP7M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwKN8h1du8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgh9Bs4TFdY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SIlYiiCGLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_a8Pcd8k9s
It’s complicated, no doubt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colo...

The point I’m trying to make is that because these things are complicated, I think that discourse around them is valuable. And “we” - members of a relatively democratic society and citizens of a relatively democratic government - are a part of that discourse, although I suppose we can choose to remove ourselves from it if we want.

As I’m pretty sure that every person has moral beliefs of one kind or another, and politics is a tool for enforcing consensus on human society (even if it’s a negative consensus not do do something - like, not limit speech), thus, on one level or another I think it’s fair to say that every person has a series of moral and political beliefs - an ideology.

So if someone doesn’t want the government to place any restrictions on who can buy what, that is a political ideology they would like to see established in law.

I suppose maybe certain Buddhists or people with a very well developed philosophy of deliberate disengagement from human society may not fit the bill.

But otherwise, I stand by my “we” statement which, I hope it’s now clear, isn’t a rhetorical trick about consensus, unless that consensus is that human beings live in societies and believe things and societies figure out ways to create rules based on some of those beliefs.
Maybe watch the talk first before commenting? All these questions are answered in the talk.
Well in this particular case the YouTube humans surely have the ability but won't do anything about it. It feels pretty much the same, if you're at the receiving end of the stick.
That doesn't really follow. If we are burning down a house to get rid of ants, the house didn't really get destroyed by ants.

And, it's quite obvious from the reality on the ground right now, as I said a month ago when it was becoming obvious, that pandemic by itself would have basically no effect on the economy.

1) Most working age people face very low risks. Shutting down plants because someone there got covid makes about 5-10 times more sense than shutting down plants because someone got the flu, but 5-10 times of almost 0 is still almost 0.

2) Even with constant fear mongering in the media and from the govt, people do not care. I've gone to sit down restaurants 4 times in the last couple weeks. 20 minute wait, we left to another almost full one; almost full; 60 minute wait and we left to get takeout; 20 minute wait. They are overflowing. Local tourist town was extremely crowded last weekend. Parks are crowded. There are traffic jams on the road going to/from the mountains (Hwy 2, WA state). The demand would totally be there if it were not for the lockdowns.
I think it’s fascinating that rather than disease or inbreeding felling them, they died of thirst due to a prolonged drought that made the only water source salty over time and by then there was no land bridge escape route.
Never expecting this on HN. Good job!
I don't see myself paying $8 a month for watching short videos. There already is an overload of free short videos available and that's the same price as a basic Netflix subscription.

This may become a textbook example of the benefits of MVPs, or at least of shipping something quickly and to see how it goes before literally investing billions (inc. swanky offices, star execs, and sky high pay for celebs) in something that does not have a big enough market.
That's what I am saying, the tech channels are the same way. There are an abundance of tech channels out there, once one gets accidentally deleted from Youtube, people will just pick another.
As a guy who's 1/8th Jewish, I still don't feel comfortable clicking on that URL at work for fear someone might get the wrong idea on what it's about.
I saw the dreaded Cloudflare "one more step" page and closed the tab. I'm highly doubtful Cloudflare is kosher.
The precise ambiguity of talking about numbers
Human Brains Are Different: It Has a Lot to Do with the Connections