skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like you could just as easily say "Simple. As soon as Google changes their cut to 20% for Android-exclusive apps, developers will move to that store to make more money. Users will follow". They won't. Users won't leave the walled garden, just as people on Android didn't leave it for Fortnite (the most popular game in the world at the time). The App Store comes with the phone and is safe, has customer support and nearly no malware. Any other App Store would require multiple extra steps to install, along with a bunch of "please don't" prompts that Apple would build in to make sure that the user knows what's happening (just like what happens on macOS with unsigned software). It would end up being too confusing for the masses, and they'd just find an alternative that was willing to sit in the App Store (or the nightmare, not use the app at all and go unhappy).

Amazon already tried this exact thing on Android, where the barriers are a lot lower. They've never had success with their app store outside of their first-party devices. Why? Because it's too dang hard, and I'm willing to pay an extra buck for Minecraft if I don't have to track it down in another app and worry about malware coming through the wall.

I'm all for a switch to install unsigned software, but only for development stuff. The App Store serves as a good barrier for 99% of users who just need to turn on their phone and use the darn app. The other 1% just need Apple to put a hidden switch to disable the protections ala csrutil in macOS and we'll be fine.
As a writer, I think you also need to decide: are you writing to be read, or to help people? They're not the same thing. If you're writing to be read, you'll go for low-hanging fruit, say things most people would agree with, and show a passion that matches whatever the popular passion already is. If you're writing to help people, you may have various messages that are unpopular or don't appeal to the average coder.

Unstated here, but also important, is that fame brings fame. There are a lot of folks writing schlock but are quite popular because they're the people that everybody thinks are supposed to be popular.
I'm not making a value judgment or suggesting that you don't know how to run your website and achieve the results you want, in general, nor am I saying titles aren't impactful (including in the way you're worried about). On the contrary, I think HN is moderated well and that its community moderation features and "algorithms" in general are well thought out.

I'm simply taking issue with the word "editorialize" in this context, because that's not what this is. There is no "spin" here. This title is solving the same completely innocent problem I'd have if I wanted to submit a link to apple.com after a new $PRODUCT was announced, i.e. that the interesting thing about the linked web page isn't obvious if my title is just 'Apple'. It's fine if HN doesn't want me to title that submission e.g. 'Apple Announces New 24" MacBook Pro', but that can't be because it's a case of editorializing, because it isn't. This does not strike me as substantially different.

I feel like you think I'm saying non-neutral editorializing and framing should be allowed in titles, which is absolutely not true.
Absolutely. But the question isn't how ordinary people would perceive it; it was how Rowling intended it. Rowling's goal was to say that trans women are not women. She used a dogwhistle instead of saying that directly. But what other purpose could she have been trying to accomplish there?
They absolutely do.

My church includes quite a few international students, and they always pay full sticker, a price that close to zero American-born students pay. And then often extra fees on top of that. It's staggering.
S1mone is about an actress who quits a movie and is replaced by a CGI puppet, not completely dissimilar from situations in the production of Back to the Future 2 and All The Money in the World. The main character of S1mone also conceals the fact that she isnt real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Money_in_the_World
And if not already, then it is definitely becoming so.
> The statement is only raised for the purpose of preventing action from being taken or change being made, in regard to investigation into and prevention of unnecessary deaths of black people.

Have you considered the possibility that a lot of people agree that action should be taken, and that statistically-speaking, that positive action will reduce unnecessary deaths for all people, regardless of their race or ethnicity?

If a software bug is reported to affect a certain subset of users more often than others, but upon investigation, it turns out the bug is a duplicate of another more fundamental bug that affects all users relatively equally, are we preventing action (or discrediting that subset of users who reported the bug) by marking it as a duplicate and giving priority to the fundamental issue so as to fix it for everyone?

Just as Black Lives Matter supporters often claim that the phrase is misunderstood by those who question it, All Lives Matter is misunderstood by many who think it takes something away from the black community. It's not a denial of anything, but rather a recognition that the problems actually do statistically affect everyone, and singling out one race (when all are affected) actually does more harm than good when it comes to ending racism.
> Now imagine women in metoo telling men to shut up about sex assault because metoo is only for female victims?

This is a very bad example, as there's always a "what about male victims of sexual assault" faction that only appears when a women makes an allegation and doesn't actually do anything for male victims of sexual assault.

> "Respect all lives", "End police brutality" doesn't make the case for black lives weaker at first place.

Those are fine. It's the specific confrontational wording: a group of people saying "we matter" confronted with "no, you're not special, stop saying the word Black, it makes us uncomfortable".
Good faith reader here, can confirm - you pretty clearly were only suggesting some general effect applying on average, not to every individual case.
Getting the Most Out of Lightweight Transactions in Scylla
I've just bought a Lenovo laptop on a rush because my XPS 13 died (as usual, it works fine again now that I have a new laptop to replace it :)

It's nice and all, but it has a 3cm wide useless black bezel below the screen that screams "I should have a 16:10 display!!!". At least this one has 3 USB ports, a full size HDMI port and a camera cover...
Yes.

(And I can also confirm the effect that at intersections where full public transport priority usually guarantees a green some drivers do react a bit... surprised on the rare occasion when it doesn't work for whatever reasons)
Could you point to a more ML cost efficient build? I’m having problems finding good info resources
Be nice if US Citizens could benefit from it for once instead of just having to suffer the consequences.

Cheeto is garbage but he occasionally does what’s necessary, albeit accidentally.
Spending time collecting data is for improving our understanding of an individual's immune system. Sharing that data helps educate those who are unfamiliar with, but have complete ownership of their body.
I personally think that any such standard would be inferior to any general purpose programming language.

Independently of my opinion on the standard I think the best implementation platform for it would be temporal.io.
I thought the 80+ Certifications were about how efficient the PSU was at not converting electricity into heat, ie. loss? Perhaps I was wrong?
Apple's behavior is superfluous to marketplaces and your security. That's why they can promise security on macOS even though Steam is allowing users to buy and install games outside of the Mac app store. They even allow random unsigned software to be downloaded and installed without thwarting their security.
Is this example a little better? http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co...
The purpose of democracy is to ensure no single person enjoys too much power permanently, essentially differing from authoritarianism.

But tell that to the political leaders of several democratic countries and see who'll tell "I've been in power for too long, let me resign". Even if they die, nepotism is ripe that their family members are guaranteed to fill-in the space.

At least in US, presidents go after 2 terms, even though two party system sucks under several aspects.

There are prominent democratic countries in the world where opposition party has never won as ruling party has ensured it by biased policies.
That's what I read here. People got upset because he said Kubernetes was bad software and gRPC was a bad choice.
Most Ryzen consumer motherboards have a limit of 128 gigs of RAM and 16-20 direct to the CPU pcie lanes. Is 128 gigs of ram and x8 pcie lanes for dual GPUs, a bottleneck for ML workloads?

I can see the lanes not being an issue for the next gen Titans, that will likely use pcie 4.0, but that is months away.

Asking as someone outside the ML field.
It could be that humanity has jumped out the window but hasn't hit the ground yet.
So that you can have a kitchen.
>The Hacker News comment section tends to be factual, rational, and logical.

To a fault, perhaps. Humour is frowned upon, while overly pedantic comments are upvoted. Far too many comments uphold the stereotypes about engineers. I wouldn't expect a standard conversation about children to be possible here, both for good and bad.
Sunlight on laser-etched metal purifies contaminated H2O w over 100% efficiency
I've subscribed to the FT for over a decade and I think you are giving them way too much credit here. They took a very clear anti-Brexit stance and that coloured their publishing. They have done the same with Trump to a frankly embarrassing degree.
> It's worth noting that if your ML work is entirely CUDA based (as often happens), you likely won't benefit from a Threadripper CPU

Perhaps for the actual ML part, yes, but a ton of work must be done first to organize and filter the data, which is where all those cores would come in handy.
Ask HN: Is ArXiv-Sanity.com Down?
I have been trying to access the site arxiv-sanity.com since yesterday, but I'm not able to open it. I read it regularly to catch up with the latest happenings in the world of deep learning.

Does anyone have any idea if it has been moved or are there any other such sites that can be followed?
I wonder what their carbon badges add to a site's footprint. Seems a bit counterproductive.
That is exactly my point; the failure of our system is not because Americans are unaware of the concept of public healthcare.
Sure. The type-error example shown here is easily fixable by languages which utilize static typing and therefore make invalid code uncompilable, but it has the advantage of being easily understood by almost all programmers.

A more contrived example would be a situation in which some piece of data (e.g. a worker's monthly timesheet report) is passed between modules of a programming system, but the receiving module, upon performing validation, discovers e.g. that the employee was working during a holiday.

Handling that situation is hard, since there are multiple ways of handling it, each of them valid in its own specific context. If the employee is in another country where that day is not a holiday, we should proceed without any other actions. If the employee has an agreement with their manager that they are having crunch time, then the system should proceed after applying overtime payment. If the employee is on a flexible time schedule, we should proceed and log this somewhere else; if the employee has no justification for that overtime, we should abort and signal an error; more examples follow.

In other words, when we signal the condition, we do not have full information about what should happen to it. We have the question "What should we do with this timesheet?" and the answer to that question is "It depends."

It is possible to model this situation by a condition type named e.g. EMPLOYEE-WORKING-DURING-HOLIDAY, and instances of that condition type being signaled inside the programming module. We create a dynamic environment where the proper handler routines for EMPLOYEE-WORKING-DURING-HOLIDAY are established, and we call the module's validator function inside that environment.

This process fully decouples the act of signaling a condition from the act of choosing whether to handle that situation and also from the act of choosing how to handle that situation.

One can (and should) document the condition type in the design specifications, and also describe functions that are allowed to signal it.
"How's it going?"
Stocks are forward looking into the future. Making big profits now was not moving the stocks up, and now companies like Ford are not even making much profit anymore.

All that ICE infrastructure is massive bound up capital, that gone be a negative in a couple of years.
Astronomers found a giant “wall” of galaxies hiding in plain sight
On Ubuntu you still have to explicitly enable it - and unless I missed something in my last couple of Ubuntu installs you are never prompted to enable it during installation. If you want to opt in, you have to do a dpkg-reconfigure and even then the default is still "No".

This is not privacy-hostile in any meaningful way.
I’ve found that it’s really nice for things like image augmentation, and running RL environments in parallel. But maybe I should be doing augmentation in Dali.
Hmmm... Maybe.

It seems to me that birth control itself was developed for the needs of rich countries. And, the UN pushed it into poor countries because they obviously needed it too. That did help reduce unwanted pregnancies. But, until the reduction in child mortality and the mass move of couples to cities, families were still motivated to intentionally have lots of babies.
>Solar-trackable super-wicking black metal panel for photothermal water sanitation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0566-x
Mozilla Puts Its Trusted Stamp on VPN
O'Neill is literally a professional troll, to the extent that whenever there's a tragedy people make sport on twitter of predicting exactly what his contrarian take will be.
you wont win the argument even if its grounded in reality. just wait for all the mind-bending points people will bring up to refute reality.

and prepare for the down votes
The grading rubrics for interviewers usually gives the candidate points for even mentioning particular algorithms, and I would hope that any decent interviewer would help you walk through trying to recall something. It's meant to be a design/application test, not a memory test
Children do not thrive in stale, lifeless institutions that treat them like machines to be programmed with knowledge. They require opportunities for creativity, play, exploration, and also nutritious food and exercise.

Miserable, sickly children do not grow into intelligent, resilient, persistent adults who can claw their way out of poverty.
>= 120Hz is great for everything, not just games. Moving your mouse (or scrolling) on a 60Hz monitor after you've used something higher is like looking at a slide show.

For example, on a 60Hz monitoring, try panning around a Google Map and reading the labels. They just become a mushy blur. On a higher refresh-rate display, you can read the labels as they move. (I always found this to be an interesting demo: https://testufo.com/persistence)
the cyber domain is like the plains of WW1 right now. Everyone's got a machine gun, but tactics havn't evolved yet.
So yeah, a lot of people are going to get mowed down. But there's an opportunity to make personal cyber security easy and marketable so governments have to be more targeted with what they do.
What you're saying about CanSino is purely false and smells of propaganda: https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/07/07/cansinos-covid-19-...

It's not even a serious candidate due to lack of efficacy and actually dangerous side effects, so far.
Consolidated platform makes many things easier: guidebook, "welcome to the home" onboarding, auto-remit of state taxes, ability to fill empty weeks, etc.
Yeah ultimately the benefit of water cooling is just to route the heat to where you have room for a bigger radiator. If you squish a big enough radiator on top of the cpu and have good airflow through the case there, you can generally get about the same cooling performance as most sane liquid cooling solutions.
>There is more than one dimension in American culture or politics

Yes, but that's neither here nor there, if most of public discourse falls along two, at best three, lines.

>To try to compress American culture to one dimension is rarely useful and often a disservice to peoples' actual opinions or beliefs.

On the contrary, it's a very useful proxy, and the only sane way to make sense of a stream of 40% opinions towards one direction, 40% towards another, and some opinions all over the place... You prune the statistically irrelevant ones...
I think the issuenis two fold for priveledge - one is that connotationally it sounds like an attack and has occassions of being used as a cudgel. The very name has an implicit "undeserved" applied to it and guilt. Even without any selfish evangalists the terms are pretty needlessly confrontational when they need to be winning others over.

Pointing out "we don't experience it that way" is a very good instance of the concept of privledge. It is good communication period given that they would lack your baseline that the "nice polite old lady" down the street screams racial slurs at them whenever they pass by. Lacking evidence they would have little reason to think that.

But dismissing a point of view entirely because the source is privileged? Bad. Heck even if the view was laughably naive and wrong like "children work in sweatshops instead of going to school afford candy ans junk food since that was what I did when farm working as a kid" is good to know where their points of view actually came from.

When it comes to privledge sometimes they may really know more and not simply have social status denied to others. Someone with an upper middle class upbringing may result in being ignorant at what bread, milk, and eggs are supposed to cost but know that credit card debt should be avoided whenever possible and how to diversify investments and maintain properly liquid buffers for emergencies. Someone from a poorer upbringing obviously wouldn't have the investing skill set due to lacking the prerequisites let alone the education and experience.

It isn't fair but it is real and knowing that is the first step to fixing it. Pretending sensible investing is just a bigotted social construct of priveledge doesn't help while promoting financial education does.
It all gets terribly murky very quickly. For example, we often claim one of our strengths is that we have a highly educated workforce - but this is circular; people take this path because they know there's good work at the other end of it. If we ripped out those MNCs, that highly educated workforce would vanish quicker than you can say J1.

There are other benefits to being in Ireland. We have a common-law legal system, which is more familiar to Americans than most continental systems. We mostly speak the same language. We're still in the EU, etc.

How much of a presence you need here to make it work, I'm not entirely clear on. But it does seem apparent to me that once you're maintaining a presence anyway, it knocks down the largest barrier to actually building on that presence.

For example, it's widely assumed that Apple are only here for the taxes. I think they were originally here as a low-cost entry into Europe. But however it's worked out, last I heard Cork was the only factory (or perhaps the only factory outside the US?) that Apple actually owns. I'm typing this on an iMac that was assembled in Ireland. Apple are a success story - even more so because they're in Cork, rather than everything but everything being built in the Dublin bubble (a separate but very real issue).

And taxes aren't the only incentives; I used to work in a building that was sold to DEC (by the Irish Development Agency) for 1 Irish pound - which would have been $1.45 when we left the pound in the 90s. Not sure what it was worth when we sold the building, but .. probably still a close approximation of pocket change. And again, it paid off - it sounds like a story of us "bending over for the yanks", but the site passed through DEC to Gateway to HP to HPE. What started off as a factory for Digital is now stuffed full of developers for HPE. We haven't just had decades of employment out of that deal, but the value of that employment has been constantly rising. Ireland's modernisation is the result of thousands of such stories.

But as for a race to the bottom, it sort of is. Factories are being built in Central & Eastern Europe today, for most the same reason they were being built in Ireland in the 70s and 80s. Just as we were trying to undercut France, Germany & the UK to get our leg up - they're trying to undercut us to do the same. I do think there's a point where we need to "pivot" to actually acting like a modern economy, and let other nations take our rung on the ladder - instead of having to lay claim to one even further down.

I do agree with the idea that our modern economy shouldn't still depend on being a pseudo tax-haven. I just don't think "hit them as hard as we can" is the right solution, especially while we're still riding on their backs.

(To make this look a little less rant, I'll cheer it up with a fine example of a PDP that does not say Maynard on the front)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECtape#/media/File:DECTape_un...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32614724@N06/3045263847
The trick with George Washington is he was the only president in the history of the United States that didn't want to run the country. Virtually everyone wanted him to lead after the war, and he obliged.

This is perhaps a sort of tyranny implied in competitive democracy. That in order to be elected takes an immense amount of work and resources, and why would someone go through the hell of running a campaign if they didn't yearn for power?
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For what it is worth, the best online socializing I have seen my kids do was in zoom calls after formal lessons had ended and the teacher had left.

These after parties could sometimes last an hour after formal lessons had ended and I could hear kids talking and laughing together in an organic way. Something I never hear when my kids video chat with one other friend "head to head".

So, my recommendation is find a way for kids to interact in organic groups.
Tentatively agree. It's a very abstract description with no concrete examples I can relate to. I've never found problem with try/except, which may be blindness to something genuinely useful (like the 'wow' moment when I saw FP using functions as 1st class objects), or not. I'd like to understand more.
It's price segmentation. If you NEED the slight increase in power (and specific features like float8 at full speed) then NVIDIA charges significantly more for that. Gamers are more price sensitive than ML developers.
Is this from Xinjiang? Are they just conflating Tencent with the CCP, or does Tencent have some involvement with the camps there? IIRC, the Chinese government is attaching private business operations (e.g. factories) to the camps to use the prisoners as labor. Is there any authoritative source for this footage?

I trust reddit accounts about as far as I can throw them, and given they're just incorporeal information, I can't actually throw them at all.
GitHub was down again
The Latest commits don't appear in the commits tab
I'm actually not 100% sure now that I think about it, but I think what I do is figure out from the intonation/context whether it's intended as a generic greeting (in which case I'd repeat it back) or as an actual question (in which case I might respond with "oh, not much, what about you?" or similar).