skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your comment. To expand on your point, a healthy society has a good mix of subsistence, volunteer/gift, exchange, and planned transactions. And when those are strong, theft is reduced.

I made a video about that about a decade ago:
"Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and Theft"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vK-M_e0JoY

Hoping more people understand that over time.
> A decision handed down from "the top" is authoritarianism

Actually not so; it is only centralised. The democratic process is pretty clear that the people want education decisions handed down by an authority "at the top".

A decentralised approach to eduction would let parents make on-the-day decisions about where to send their children and probably have some sort of market-based approach to how education was funded (maybe even parent-pays). That approach has been mostly rejected politically.
All of those scenarios combined are much more manageable than Mars.
If classes are not an option due to SIP, Glo.com is like the Netflix of yoga classes and it's got superb teachers.
That's not exactly how it works. For example, Go, the board game, is not particularly relevant to Google, owner of DeepMind. Yet they spent considerable resources in creating and training a succession of systems that excel at it. Besides some applications, big technology companies see AI partly as a future investment, partly as very good publicity. My guess in any case.

Then again there are the general problems that are relevant to everyone, like natural language understanding, question answering, image recognition and so on, high-level tasks for which solutions have broad applicability. Rather tautologically, such tasks are always relevant to anyone who can perform them well.

In any case, if this was not the case there wouldn't be any motivation for academic teams to find ways to train with smaller computing resources, as the article reports.
Not that I know much about flywheel engineering. But machines tend to become more efficient the bigger you build them.

With flywheels, I don't see the bearings as difficult. I mean it's sure a challenge to keep a few tons afloat, but nothing unsolved. I'd assume (but don't know) that you can scale magnetic bearings a few orders of magnitude with their properties staying the same.

On the other hand, the faster you spin flywheels, the more energy they store. And here comes the limitation: The material they're made of has to sustain all tearing force. So at some point you'll add mass instead of spinning faster.
That same modern healthcare is making the covid death rate much lower than it would be otherwise.

We've had plenty of people hospitalized who were not so sick and elderly that they depended on modern medicine to stay alive. Without modern hospital care, more of them would die.
The app sounds good from the comments, but can you drill a bit more as to how you're filtering out the adds ?

Is it a remote proxy to filter ? Local lists of blaclist etc.

Some more info would be cool

Edit : The comments are so good I'm more suspicious! :D
That's a relief. Thanks, I'll check it out!
There are basic things StencilJS are missing, like source maps. Development has seemed to slow down on it as well.

There's also no types for web components. So, you can't statically analyze your code and know you are indeed passing in the correct property types.

There are wrappers for Stencil components for React/Angular/Vue, so you can ensure typings, but it goes to show the developer experience is far superior at the framework level.
I use a registrar called Njalla[1] for many of my domain names and they are soon also launching a VPN option. They are privacy focused so they provide whois privacy, crypto payment and login via xmpp/e-mail only.

In their faq they state that they have previously worked on projects such as ThePirateBay... (this is a legit business and service though).

I hope I get to try their VPN soon. Other than that I usually just use a systemwide tor proxy. It's actually quite entertaining how my netflix feed randomly changes based on the current exit node.

[1]https://njal.la
Makes sense. I would note that people with celiac are much smaller than the group of people with IBS. For instance, I have a negative celiac test, no bowel inflammation, but do have IBS. And IBS in these cases is often linked to stress.

So while the app is inapplicable to your case, you’re overgeneralizing from your case to all cases.

(I would of course encourage anyone with IBS issues to get a gluten test. It’s important to rule out!)
> 95% of cigarette filters are made of cellulose acetate (a plastic), and the balance are made from papers and rayon.
I'm surprised we haven't run into this before now. JS performance on android has been stagnant for a while now, yet we still see the same awful JS-heavy applications.

This doesn't bode well for the end of Moore's law. That is Moore's law in the performance sense, i.e. guaranteed future single-core performance increases [even if small], not Moore's law as in the the doubling transistor density.
$20-$30 trillion in damages for 2020-2022 is a reasonable estimate (taking into account hits to economic output, budgets, stock markets, some reasonable number for lives lost & human suffering). China could come up with $2-$3 trillion as reparations. $30t is likely a bit high (and $10t would be too low).

The global economy is unlikely to shrink more than 5-7% this year (call it a $4 to $6 trillion contraction). I believe the IMF and Worldbank are both around 5% contraction as their guesses. It will likely resume growth in 2021. Most of the major stock markets are being propped up and haven't suffered horribly. The big damage has been in lives lost, suffering caused (in numerous ways), and the social financial cost in budgets (blown out budgets, debt, unemployment, etc.). There will be ongoing unemployment costs for years post vaccine, which I've assumed in the $20-$30 trillion figure.

That 1/10th figure is not the problem. China could come up with $300b per year over ten years. The problem is they'll pay those reparations over their dead body, so to speak.
well, you don't actually have to have your models fight their models. there's lots of things to try that aren't the SOTA rat race.

like, if you want to show relative improvement of some new variation of an RL algorithm, this could be a good way to do it. or if you have a new environment that you want to solve for yourself. right now if you try to train anything in a moderately interesting environment on a PC, it takes just a little too long to get results -- makes the whole research process pretty painful.
Personally I'm just a tourist that posts here now and then (maybe a bit too much lately). And I have posted on Reddit more and for longer. I'm not some kind of smug HN insider that gains personally by it being seen as superior in some way.

And this site is way better than Reddit. In terms of maturity, intelligence, site rules, etc.

Though I don't really get what you seem to be upset about regarding the armchair detective work. The cops led with the same general theory. The victim actually _was_ american (correct me if I'm wrong here) but he did business in foreign countries.
When executive leadership has utterly failed, it’s probably better to replace them. The fact that their “1M” in options is worthless is a net positive as it lets the company drop dead weight and save money.

Handing out bonuses for retention is simply looting the company rather than being part of any efficient long term strategy.
I also use my AWS free tier EC2 + wireguard for hopping over geo-fences. It is free, and my traffic is encrypted from my device to the remote EC2 server.
In a ML setup your GPU is going to be the workhorse. I'd spend less on the CPU and memory and spend more on the GPU. Throwing something together REALLY quick (I'm being lazy and not checking) I'd go something closer to this https://pcpartpicker.com/list/T9Ds27 because of the graphics card. But getting a Ti would improve a lot just for GPU memory. You could get a lot done with a machine like this though (I assume it would be good for gaming too. Disclosure: not a gamer).

tldr: upgrade GPU, downgrade CPU and ram to keep similar pricing.
Delian on GPT3
People pay good money for your advice.
Others ignore the free advice.
Link to proposals:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-import-conditions

https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposals...
Seems worth doing
Ask HN: Is Google Hiring? (and other big tech companies)
Does anyone know what Google's current hiring outlook is? I know they slowed hiring a few months ago. So are they still reducing headcount growth? Are they only considering really exceptional or specialized candidates?

I know several people who have applied with internal referrals (included myself) and been denied with semi-automated emails. This is surprising considering some of these people have been fast -tracked in the Google interview or have gotten offers from other competitive tech companies (FB, Amazon, etc.)

This seems odd, so I was hoping someone on HN could shed some light.
> I am not qualified to evaluate the evidence in this case; I just don't have the biology background.

A "background check" does not change this fact, nor does your point actually negate the comment you are responding too. No one here is arguing that you must listen and believe everything that someone has written in a paper, but things must be proven and disproven.

"Background checking" in any form is not science. It might help you make a decision. But that does not make the decision a scientific one even if you consider it "an informed" decision.

To be completely honest, it has become silly that things like this need to be said and reirerated so often on HN.
No worries, it's a common response and I clearly have a knee-jerk reaction to it.
Can you go into any detail why vue components are so large in comparison to every other example in the `Estimated Bundle size` chart?
That's great, but for how long should we trust our previous experience regarding this? With plenty of recent examples from a relatively tightly government controlled country should we worry that a publication may pursue unusual goals?
Bitcoin ATM/local bitcoin -> sell for monero/mixer -> buy monero.
To quote Feynman: "I just saw a car with the license plate <some random string with no meanimng>. The probability of that happening is far lower than being hit by lightning!

As to the laboratory being close: it wasn't accidentally located in Wuhan. The city is the regional centre for a region that only recently expanded into somewhat pristine nature. With ongoing and constant encroachment of natural habitats, there is far more contact between wild species and humans than there is in Europe/North America, or even other Chinese regions.
> So the US has to go into the production business for cocaine, heroin, etc.

Pharmaceutical companies already produce everything you could imagine and more. I can't stress enough how much of a non-issue this concern would be in practice. (Also we already produce an impressively wide range of opiates for medical use.)

> Any country that doesn't legalize globally - which will be most of them - will still remain a target for the cartels to sell into.

So you're saying we shouldn't try to move in the right direction because our actions alone wouldn't immediately and completely solve the problem? This is an incredibly defeatist point of view.
I don’t know where you are, but I don’t see the country spiraling out of control at all. I suspect a lot of what’s going on is simply exaggerated by the media for dollars. Don’t get sucked into their narratives.
This forbes blog piece contains a compilation of refutations attempt for the said theory
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/06/07/controver...
Is the rest marketing bullshit because of insurmountable technical challenges or is it because you have to __trust__ the VPN service? I.e. if I were to somehow think up a business model that included some novel level of transparency, could I provide a VPN service that could honestly claim to provide privacy and security to its users?
> VPN providers are something you should have especially high standards for.

We need to implement standards of practice for this, let find a legal head to see how it can be done.
Personally I don't worry about it, but I wouldn't blame other people for doing so.

A browser is a very complex tech stack and it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if there were vulnerabilities exploitable with a MITM. An airport would be a natural place to try and attack computers, lots of people with lots of money many of whom are doing things like moving that money around and many of whom won't think twice about connecting to an unsecured public hotspot.

There's also all the other apps on your computer, how frequently do you think electron-app-foo-bar updates it's chrome version and what are the chances it's using one outdated enough that there are known openssl vulnerabilities against it?

I don't think third party non-HSTS traffic is that much of a concern these days, both firefox and chrome block http traffic from https pages by default.
The trust you have to give AWS or other cloud providers is not that different than the trust you give any number of vendors (email service, phone service, etc.). You have a contract with them that says they won’t do those things, and if they ever get caught doing them all the on-premise enterprise they’re spending a lot of effort on getting on board will dry up instantly.

Amazon can copy your business model just fine without looking at your servers. Most of what’s on your servers is probably irrelevant from their perspective.
If you own a prefix and announce some bad routes that cause all your traffic to be blackholed due to misconfiguration on your end i dont see how it’s bgp’s fault.
Here's the Cliff Notes version of the argument in this paper:

1. SARS-CoV-2 has a number of unique and unusual genetic features, when compared to close relatives, many of which explain its high virulence and infectivity among humans.

2. A series of research papers published by a group of virologists, dating back a little over a decade, demonstrate (1) a progressively increasing understanding of viral features which make coronaviruses more infectious and virulent in humans, and (2) laboratory capabilities for successfully creating chimeric viruses (e.g. moving one specific protein sequence from a bat SARS-like virus to human SARS virus) to test their hypotheses.

3. Each of the unique and unusual features of SARS-CoV-2 appears somewhere in this line of research.

4. Researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, located in the city where the outbreak began, were intimately involved this line of research.

Taken together, the publicly-available evidence indicates that a select group of virologists had the domain knowledge and laboratory capabilities to create chimeric viruses which possess each of the unusual features of SARS-CoV-2, and that select group of virologists was concentrated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology located at ground zero for the pandemic.

The authors feel that, in light of this preponderance of circumstantial evidence, the hypothesis that the biogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 involved human intervention should be seen as the leading (i.e. most likely) explanation.

They do not make any statement about how the virus first infected a live human and spread into a pandemic, but conditioned on their biogenesis hypothesis being true, one would then assume an accidental lab release from WIV as the most likely explanation.
I guess, but I can treat my raspberry pi like a normal computer. And I still don't what having a modem has to do with anything since my computer in the 90's had a modem.
My theory is that the assailant was impulsive and/or stupid.
- Cheap small scale electronics: imagine raspberry pi-like devices with a sticker form factor, and very cheap, energy efficient enough to be powered by the sun. Can't think of a useful use-case, but kinda cool to shrink things like that

- Differential privacy

- Quantum computing

- Programs that can replace programmers

- ML for biotech

- Automated fabrication

From a more social perspective, in order of least to most abstract:

- Software that helps improve public infrastructure, logistics somehow - eg identifying ways to minimize small amounts of energy waste on a wide scale

- Tools that help local municipalities and citizens cooperate together

- Tools that give the disenfranchised a greater voice
So tracking your bounce-rates/conversion rates to know if your marketing budget is spent wisely is unethical?
If you VPN service, only provide VPN, then a (free tier) AWS server in a foreign country + wireguard would do the same. Sure, AWS could log the outbound traffic for that account, but AWS only has an email address from me, not a credit card like a VPN service. Feels like the exposure is far less.
What is it with the H3? The only thing you'd need it for is fusion. If you are capable of fusion you can breed it by that.
Check out Tachyons or another atomic CSS system. It makes CSS so much easier to use (especially in single-page apps written in JavaScript). https://tachyons.io/ "Create fast loading, highly readable, and 100% responsive interfaces with as little css as possible."

See also: https://css-tricks.com/lets-define-exactly-atomic-css/ "Atomic CSS is the approach to CSS architecture that favors small, single-purpose classes with names based on visual function."

Or from: https://acss.io/
"CSS is a critical piece of the frontend toolkit, but it's hard to manage, especially in large projects. Styles are written in a global scope, which is narrowed through complex selectors. Specificity issues, redundancy, bloat, and maintenance can become a nightmare. And modular, component-based projects only add to the complexity. Atomic CSS enables you to style directly in your components, avoiding the headache of managing stylesheets.
Most approaches to styling inside components rely on inline styles, which are limiting. Atomic CSS, like inline styles, offers single-purpose units of style, but applied via classes. This allows for the use of handy things such as media queries, contextual styling and pseudo-classes. The lower specificity of classes also allows for easier overrides. And the short, predictable classnames are highly reusable and compress well."

Mostly though, Atomic CSS is a state of mind or design pattern. So you can do it from scratch without support from something like Tachyons etc. -- but it helps.

You might even find it fits right in with your "cobbling" style of development. As an example, if you want to make some text red, you add the style "red" to it. If you want a border all around something, add a "ba" class. If you develop using HyperScript (like from Mithril) to define your UIs, code might look like this: h("div.red.ba", "This is red and has a border")

I refer to the Tachyons style sheet as essentially a menu of options: https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons/blob/master/css/tac...

In the rare case something is missing I do an inline style or add something to a single supplemental stylesheet written in a similar way.

There is also a verbose version of Tachyons without the abbreviations, so "ba" would be "border-all" (though I prefer the abbreviations): https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons-verbose/blob/master...
This depends quite a lot on the domain. In some image processing tasks you can actually be cpu-bound during dataloading. So either you get tons of RAM and preload the dataset, or you use more cores to queue up batches. You still need a good GPU and generally I'd agree to prioritise that first.
The Freud Moment
Maybe with a definition that you can only "win" a competition that was agreed upon ahead of time. However, a quick search on hn shows that "win" colloquially also can mean beating everyone else at some metric (or in some cases, on a subjective basis). eg.

"Chrome won" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14420972, despite the lack of an actual competition for internet browser market share

"Linux and open source have won, get over it" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23673867

"Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals with a synthesizer" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20527069
I think there was a scene like this in Austin Powers.
Mexico is in a civil war.

There are a few factions - but this is not a drug war - it is in a total civil war. The difference is: the ability to control government. Taking over towns, expelling the police, trying to murder top police cheifs [1], negotiation of prisoners [3] -- all examples of what happens when a society is divided - in civil war. They are not fighting over pot farms.

Killing 24 people in a rehab clinic isn't reported much in the US due to politics [2], but, this country needs international help NOW. The US is purchasing drugs at a massive rate on the I5 corridor and is now a drugged out enabler. I wouldn't expect help from the US. The cash stakes are huge: some cities import drugs in metric tons in the US and avoid prosecution [4].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/world/americas/mexico-cit...

[2] https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-07-01/24-peo...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne8k9w/mexico-confirmed-t...

[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/no-charge...
I’ve tried that but all the content providers seemed to know I was using a VPN. Any tips?
Its a bit rich to call bullshit on something I didn't say.

I wasn't saying they were comparable drugs. I was saying one is overprescribed for pain level that could be managed by something less drastic.
Not necessarily. It’s possible that the necessary info was merely accessible through info that was posted on Slack.
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Interesting. It’s starting to sound like there might have been a deeper relationship there.
> It's particularly infuriating when the waiter comes up and does the "and how is everything today? Good? Steak nicely done?" routine while I'm trying to enjoy my meal or talk with someone.

As a surly grouch, I'd say that it's worth the annoyance for the cases when they get your order wrong. It's the compliments for finishing my food that I can't stand
The readme is well written! I like how you show examples and comparison to alternatives
Well, sadly, the damage is done. And it has certainly exposed our unpreparedness, broken/outdated protocols among agencies and exposed deep divisions in these United States. Just imagine if this is a test case, we’ve really exposed ourselves. I am quite certain our adversaries are watching and learning.
Other countries have done far better than the US. We could have done the same.
What are you suggesting is a delaying tactic? What is the thing being delayed?
I do the same, but again using remote AWS (free) servers. Which is funny sometimes, I realize that some website are suddenly in german because I am using my Berlin server, instead of my US one.
> The premium fee gets distributed in proportion to the channels I watch.

Minus how big of a cut for google?
Remember the whole rationale for the options in the first place was so management had something at risk.

So they failed, abysmally, and the company is now in chapter 11. And what they had at risk was nothing. The company probably would have had superior managment if it had /no/ bonus scheme. The incentives between owners and managers are not aligned.

More to the point the owners are represented by agents (fund managers who vote etc) who deal with other agents of the owners (company managers) and the whole incentive alignment thing breaks down pretty badly. How to do it better? It's a difficult and complex problem that probably doesn't have an easy 3 sentence internet forum answer.

But here's a very partial observational one:

It's harder to do it worse than paying bonuses for destroying the wealth of the owners.
It's a .docx file.

Potential for malicious macros?
Claiming that NewPipe is stealing is like saying that using WINE is stealing from Microsoft.