skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I am starting to learn about myself: I don't care if nobody wants it, I still want to build it. Not a great trait for making money as a startup, but it's an itch I just have to keep scratching...
More on this topic: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jul/24/smartwatch-...
TLDR; Famous Painted door test: https://briandavidhall.com/the-painted-door-test/

A painted door test lets you gauge interest in a new feature, product, page, or piece of functionality … before you’ve built it. It involves updating your site with a link or callout that promises the new feature, then measuring clicks to see how many visitors would try it if it existed.A painted door test lets you gauge interest in a new feature, product, page, or piece of functionality … before you’ve built it. It involves updating your site with a link or callout that promises the new feature, then measuring clicks to see how many visitors would try it if it existed.A painted door test lets you gauge interest in a new feature, product, page, or piece of functionality … before you’ve built it. It involves updating your site with a link or callout that promises the new feature, then measuring clicks to see how many visitors would try it if it existed.
If you prefer I can provide examples on how Windows, macOS/iOS, Android resources work for their native language SDKs, or how Java and .NET embedded resources work.
Does it matter? There are also millions of people who could murder you or burn down your house or kidnap you and force you to withdraw your money from the bank. But just like a bank worker stealing money, these are all serious crimes and easy to get caught so we're pretty safe.
If the US doesn’t close their consulate in Chengdu, things are going to get interesting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23936665

Original title was too long. It was:

China orders closure of US consulate in Chengdu following Washington’s demand to shut Chinese outpost
Yes.

Though it could easily be a pipeline-to-the-school problem.

Maybe the best whites went to another school? Maybe only the best Asians came to the USA?
This one I made couple years ago (and haven’t checked in years) is still running for free thanks to Heroku and Cloudflare: https://github.com/jlxw/geoip
This is a really good point.

Everything I've built on my own has been something I wanted. In some cases they were more complicated than I thought so I never got to the customer validation stage, but that wasn't quite the disaster it could have been, because cash wasn't the (only) motivation.

Except...when it was, and yeah, my bad. So on the one hand I look back and kick myself for not first probing the market, but then I also remember that I did probe it, found there wasn't one, and didn't really care.

It can be a fine line between building a "me-too" product and something that no one wants.
Link to previous HN post which has a list of all ebooks Springer made available for free:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23520545

Has quite a few of the books mentioned in the post and the comments here.
Related:

China orders closure of US consulate in Chengdu following Washington’s demand to shut Chinese outpost in Houston

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23936652
ISO C surely, C based SDKs on macOS and Windows do support embedding resources since 16 bit days.
I have already seen that video. I think not having a first doesn’t have to be discriminatory. The courage to not be dissuaded by that is actually a positive character trait.

See this interview https://youtu.be/3RG5pXTpLBI 18 minutes in. He was short and was failing out of spacewalk training so he figured out a way to make it work.
There is a trend towards larger models in the state of the art of deep learning research. The total cost of the on-chip memory on the NVidia GPU is still a good value proposition compared to current custom deep learning accelerators. This cost to get to large on-chip memory, combined with the flexibility of CUDA for other types of scientific applications, makes it harder for such accelerators to compete with Nvidia in such large academic research clusters. I hope that this situation changes over the next couple of years.
I predict this supercomputer will be a flop.
Twitter hackers accessed direct messages for 36 accounts
Just let those programmers play around with Redstone in Minecraft before you hand them an FPGA. They'll understand it very quickly.
Where did that happen?
Not a surprise, is it ? Even I could have predicted that ;-).
I wonder if they automatically turned off log in with twitter to other websites. Seems like the bigger hole is that they can use these credentials for any people using twitter to log in using oauth.
Ransom paid to hackers who stole data from at least six UK universities
In addition to what everyone else has said, UF has over 50,000 students, making it one of the five largest universities in the USA, iirc.
Sure, but then it isn't guaranteed to work everywhere there is a compiler for the language.
There is just so much benefits for employees, employer, city, public health. And it's stupid that we couldn't try it at scale until we had to.

Obviously, we still have lots of jobs that can't be done from home. But, even they would benefit from less people going to office everyday.
Touché :D, but to be fair the Clojure-Team (i guess Alex mostly) put a lot effort in it to improve the situation.
I go back and forth on this. I think you can always find people in your life with whom you could have these conversations with. Especially at work I think you'd have a high chance of finding someone with whom you'd actually want to discuss these things because you respect them a lot given their work ethics and personality. They'd have different ideas and thoughts than you but wouldn't try to "convert" you in any way.

I don't know... I think discourse with real people in real life is still worth something.

The only thing I simply won't discuss with anyone, either online or not, is theology. It will never lead to anything good. I think everyone has to find their own way there.
> There's lots of road cyclists out there with $750 useless watches now. I can tell you that after this event the odds of me ever purchasing a Garmin device that relies on anything 'cloud' based have even further decreased.

They work offline. At least, as much as I use mine it still functions, there may be more advanced features.

> Meanwhile my fully offline or local-workstation-hosted GPX based tracking method continues to work normally.

You can still get the gpx files right off the watch. Apart from that, this is the classic Hacker News argument of "why do the normies rely on these cloud services it's trivial to <insert giant complicated setup here>".

It's awesome that it works for you. My parents, one of whom in his retirement hacks on code that combines local drone captured data with local government LIDAR data and parses it for more accurate maps of his lifestyle block, don't have time for those shenanagins. The expectation that everyone does is folly
More competition means more innovation and lower prices.

The compiler abstracts the instruction set for most people.
I was quite amazed doing static compilation with Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo C++,....
Yes, I heard of that, but there is also the effect of thousands of arbitration at one time.
https://www.google.com/search?q=multiple+arbitration+attack&...
So this finds the country based on some cloudflare-populated info of an incoming request (which sounds like it solved OP’s problem which is good), but if you want to use MaxMind’s database to find the country of any public IP I built the following a few months back:

https://github.com/Risk3sixty-Labs/geoapi
[1] Sort of. It's a tab on the Notifications screen that only shows replies/likes/mentions from other Verified accounts.
I had her rewrite words directly from a book.
But it was a highly disciplined environment to do it. Only 30 minutes at a time each day.

Then i had her put simple words together - syllable by syllable. It was shocking how quickly she learned.

But the key to it was DISCIPLINE.

It was not something she could avoid or say that she did not feel like doing it today. I was cold and unemotional about it. Because its as basic a skill as breathing in the modern world.

As she got older, we spent the summers reading 2 novels each week (Jack Vance). Then as she finished a chapter, i had her bring it to me and summarize what she read.

This is how she learned complex vocabulary. Through practical use. She got A's in anything related to language from the beginning of school.

Coincidentally -- its the same way how i learn new computer languages, by diving into real projects immediately.
I find that the costs of all the things outlined in your list are either:

a) Things I would be paying for anyways as part of maintaining my residence

or

b) Vastly outweighed by the savings in time and vehicle wear/tear by not commuting to and from an office 5 days a week. If we use a figure lower than the official IRS vehicle cost reimbursement, $0.50 per mile, and my commute is 20 miles one way. That's 200 miles a week, same as $100.00/week vehicle expenses, or $5200/year.
Even more to the point, the kernel major version number represented an implicit ABI compatibility for drivers.

Windows 4.9 could load drivers for 4.0. 5.2 could load drivers for 5.0. 6.3 could load drivers for 6.0...

Windows 10... can still load 6.x drivers, but it bumped the internal version number to 10.0. It is worked around because without an explicit "I'm Windows 10-compatible!" manifest, the OS just lies and reports an internal version of 6.3, along with the ProductName string remaining "Windows 8.1"
If you don't know where you're going no wind is unfavourable either, and you get these much more often :)
You can still copy data from the Garmin watches manually. For a lot of the watches, this is mainly affecting the ability to use Garmin Connect to view your aggregated data.

It IS frustrating - I have a Fenix 3, so I can relate. But it is still tracking the activities and the service will be back up, so saying that the watches are useless right now is rather hyperbolic.
Seems like it has about 700/5 = 140 GPUs. And they are about 0.4kW each. Let's say it is 50% utilized for a year. That is 140 * 0.4 * 0.5 * 365 * 24 = 245280 kWh.

Let's say electricity generation creates 0.5 kg CO2e per kWh. So 122640 kg CO2e per year.

For comparison, driving a cars creates about 0.2kg CO2 per km. Or 0.32 kg per mile. So about the same as driving 122640 / 0.32 = 383250 miles per year. Call it 38 cars.

Edit: Corrected the above CO2 per km figure to fix a factor of 100 error.

Obviously there are a million things wrong with this analysis. For example, we don't know if they're going to use the machine to do climate modelling that will lead to a headline in the media that causes the green party to be elected ;-)
Canadian cities have suburbia, and public transit. Many have buses on main streets, which are typically a 2 or 3 block walk from side streets.

Suburbia doesn't mean "have to have a car", it is just many like having cars.

This sort of speaks to the prior poster, stating that many here are from big cities. Suburbia isn't low-density. It's only low-density compared to 'downtown'.

Try living in actual, real rural areas. Where I live, houses are a mile apart! Yet bizarrely, we have fire stations, police, high speed gigabit internet, and more.

And it isn't super expensive either.
Also +1 from my side, I still look forward to have a proper plugin support in place.
You are correct about (6)! Apologies different user!

7/8 together. A Google scholar search of "software virtualization" or "software virtualization para virtualization" returned the following (plus many more) that refer to software virtualization in the same way I meant:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1168918.1168860

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4709159/

https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/handle/1957/9907

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~demke/2227/S.14/Papers/p2-adams.p...

Finally I dopishly wrote "full hardware virtualization" when I meant "full virtualization", but for posterity here is VMware doc on it vs paravirtualzation vs hardware-assisted virtualzation:
https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/e...
Well, in NL you were allowed to squat a property if it was vacant for more that a certain amount of time. Then the local Liberals (Mark Rutte) outlawed squatting and it’s basically like the parent comment described.
Most HN readers probably regard the concept for being contracted to work for a certain number of hours (rather than achieving certain outputs) with inherent contempt anyway so they're not going to be upset about turning one into the other.
There are ~330 million active twitter users, which means 330,000 users per employee with access to admin accounts.

That ratio is massively high compared to a large corporate (i.e, a global bank). In a typical global bank lets says there are 100,000 employees, with about 25-50 IT people with the rights to admin accounts (from first line support to third line engineers) that's only 2,000-4,000 users per IT admin person.

Based on that, I'm surprised that it's only 1,000 staff members in Twitter with admin access, and not the whole company.
As my Dad always said, the graveyards are full of indispensable people :)
It's little bit like the tragedy of the rich people's kids: No matter how brilliant you are, many people would simply assume that you have been given the easy route thanks to daddy.

Surely it is annoying and may make achievers to prove themselves over and over again, I don't think that it is big enough of an issue to dismiss programs that are designed to tackle real issues in the society. It's just that people should know where to stop and don't try to implement these in communities where less than perfect but good-enough status is achieved.
Could you elaborate on how those goals have become massively easier to progress on? is it because your mood and energy are better/greater?
The Rust promotion has unfortunately changed lately. I've noticed too that they not only tell everyone how great Rust is (which is fine) but started bashing other languages (which is sad and not doing any good for the public image of Rust).

Rust is from enthusiasts for enthusiasts. If the Rust community wants it to become more real / main stream, they need to look at how the Go team focuses on supporting devs for getting things done correctly with long term stability.
The article is behind a paywall, is there a TL;DR?
This is terrible. You watch everything through the glass of competition and money. I would hate to be raised in your family.
Hmm strange ... I guess I was lucky or that it varies widely? Or maybe the effect I am noticing is eg. that is easier to ignore "office politics" when you literally can mute a meeting.
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it's not a giant clunky complicated setup - it's a 15 second process once a week of transferring a gpx file from an android phone over to a PC running this:

https://www.gpxsee.org/

If I really wanted to automate it, I would use some sort of tool to do the equivalent of a cron job to scp the files from the contents of /sdcard/bike/*.gpx to my desktop PC.
How does MaxMind prevent someone from releasing an open source version of their database? If you are about to answer "Copyright", remember - you can't Copyright facts. This has been upheld in the Courts system many times.
Honestly my immediate thought was, doesn't it kind of already? Just kidding
> Understanding other people

I used to do that too - with religion. Then I stopped because I believe that there are fundamental differences between rational and irrational people. The volume is on the side of the irrational ones, so I gave up.

I am better off avoiding these subjects now, as nobody ever convinced anybody.

> Therefore she made up her mind without doing the least research. That's stupidity

I am French and our news (following official governmental information) told us that masks are useless, then dangerous, then somehow useful, then life-saving.

Someone who is not that interested in the subject may have heard one of these opinions.

I am in the same boat when it comes to climate change and Brexit. There are zillions of opinions, but none of the ones I heard are clear cut.

I have a PhD in physics so I love numbers and equations. I am also painfully rational and yet I hear that the climate is warming globally, but this doe snot mean that this is visible on the small scale of my city, and then that in average the temperature of seas is raising, but the sea during my vacation is still cold. And why it matters that +2° here or there makes a difference.

Same for Brexit: this is an economic disaster, or a godsend - depending on whom you listen to. But nobody gives actual numbers. When I look at the EU budget, I see that the UK is a net payer. So UK leaving is bad for us, good for them. Except that it si not, because something.

I am not an expert in climate and in economy. And I do not want to be. I am open to having a well bundled rational set of information (and consequences) - it is just that I do not see them. For things like Brexit or climate change, they should be stuffed into my eyes daily.

When people start to wave hands instead of giving a few accurate and unbiased numbers, I conclude that they simply do not know, or are not sure.

BTW, the best, understandable argument about climate change was given to me by, who else, xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1732/, https://xkcd.com/1379/ and a few others.
Thought so. Thanks!
This sounds great in a utopia where everybody is quiet and considerate, delivery drivers don't throw boxes and crates around, people don't get drunk and smash bottles in the street or have arguments.

Having lived next to and above commercial properties I can say it doesn't improve quality of life, it drastically impacts mental health, stress, and sleep. There's a reason that we have commercial districts and residential districts.
I (like many others it seems!) have also built a geolocation service however mine is built on top of MaxMind's DBs that are mentioned in the post. Its on a few boxes running OpenResty and now handles 130m+ requests/day. Was really fun to build!

https://github.com/jloh/geojs
https://www.geojs.io/open/
You’re talking about the average European small town...
> The Occam’s Razor explanation for this is that the popular narratives are popular because most available evidence supports them.

That seems like a bit of abuse of Occam's razor. Narratives are popularized by the general media, not scientists. Just compare how popular the idea that IQ is meaningless and not heritable is amongst the general population and the media compared to those who actually study the topic full time at universities.

Universities and people in them are not immune to pressure. Wasn't Hsu fired partly because he funded research into police shootings that ended up getting a politically incorrect result?

Authors of unpopular results (Rind et al anyone?) often get attacked a lot, their research subject to a disproportionate level of scrutiny and it's very career limitting (or is at least rumoured to be, which is plenty of a chilling effect).
I’m more into applications of technology, and security is a focus. For instance, doesn’t meterpreter use Ruby? That didn’t make the list, but I couldn’t say why. Maybe it’s not as easy to learn? I’m just grasping at this point.

Would you say it’s worth looking into C++ due to legacy codebases?
If you find that bizarre, why isn't it also the case when the starting pay is different when the same company hires someone in a different location?
>Some people actually like cars/driving

I live in a small town but in a very spread out relatively densely populated country. Still with the closing of the old bakery and little grocery store due to the people who ran it retiring I have to go to a nearby city or supermarkets on the outskirts for stuff.

I'm not saying this out of spite or annoyance because of that. It's not that far. Hell i'm even moving soon. But I do see it for what it was. A good thing to have around.
It made for local economic activity, it had locals meeting up and having talks there, not driving all the way out if they were missing something minor and very local events were advertised there.
There's no reason, 0, nada to do spatial planning to purposefully have people driving more and longer.
It's not good for the environment, it's not good for the people, economically, what have you.
If you love driving you can do so without a reason.
And no by advocating for having spatial planning that allows for local small stores people aren't pushing for everyone to live in a big city either.
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Yeah, even both Google and FB pay engineers pretty terribly in London. I was once asked to move there, and I refused unless they accounted for cost of living changes. They didn't, so I stayed working at my original office.
Success is getting what you want.

Happiness is wanting what you get.
Interesting, so basically you are making Cloudflare's geoip service public for free.
Why not? It's a business relationship; both parties are in it to come out as ahead as possible. Why would a company pay a remote worker $400k/yr in Oklahoma when they can just pick from a country-wide candidate pool who will do the same job for a fraction of that?
> ( ) by that logic, 2000 was the final year of the Nineties

<rant>
I'm annoyed by this argument, which came up again at the start of this year in dumb Twitter discussions about whether 2020 marks the beginning of a new decade.

2000 was not the final year of the Nineties. 2000 was the final year of the second millennium, and of the 20th century, and of the tenth decade of the 20th century. The Nineties were the years 1990-1999, the tenth decade of the 20th century were the years 1991-2000. These are different ranges, but we also use different terms to refer to them. There is no logical problem. There is only a problem with the assumption that these different terms "should" refer to the same concept.

So did 2020 mark the beginning of a new decade? Yes, it marked the beginning of the decade we might call the Twenty-Twenties. It did not mark the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century; that will be 2021.
</rant>
I would have said 90-100 at E5, right? The stock grants are pretty terrible too (relative to the Bay Area, at least).
> They seem clearly bogus in that they're by English-speaking press and happen to rate all the English-speaking universities top.

USNWR only ranks US universities. It’s not a world ranking. It doesn’t even include foreign in passport only Canada.
Does it matter how many people rights were borkend and how famous they were?
It is standard for kids to walk to school. Every elementary school student does it starting grade 1.

If there is a taiphoon passing or blizzard you can give your grade 1 kid a ride. Otherwise it is looked down upon
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