skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The economic incentives of selling gadgets less often obviously don't line up with making Apple more money...

I disagree. Longevity is a big part of why I buy Apple products. Laptops that last 8-10+ years and the fact that they hold enough resale value that I can sell it used when I need to upgrade are massive selling points. Likewise the fact that I get 4-5 years of useful (supported) life out of the iPhone versus 2-3 for Android phones.

> I don't think that's the case for laptops and other devices where there are serviceable alternatives though; I see a lot more old ThinkPads in use than I do old MacBooks.

My MacBook is 8 years old and will likely be in use for at least a few more years. Pretty much every Mac I've owned has lasted for a decade or I've sold it while it was still running. As I said above, reliability is a big chunk of why I started buying Macs.

Apple's single standout reliability on MacBooks as far as I know is that keyboard issue.
Hey HN! Thanks for all the great feedback on our library yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901834

We just launched interfaces for 12 of the most popular models in ML:

- Real-time Sketch Recognition
- StyleGAN2 Painting Generator
- Hotdog/Not Hotdog (Yes, we had to)
- Pose Estimation
- DeOldify (Colorize old b/w photos)
- RNA Localization (Biomedical)
- Skin Cancer Detection (Biomecial)
- GPT-2 Text Generation
- Emotion Recognition
- MNIST Digit Classification
- Titanic Survival
- MobileNet vs InceptionNet Image Classification

What models would you like to see next?
Fake Addiction Treatment Centers Continue to Litter Google
Now, more than ever, it should be clear that further political integration in the EU would be an absolutely terrible idea. Look over the pond to see what a disaster it has been in the US. You can't effectively run a country of 325 million people with widely divergent viewpoints in a top-down fashion.

When people imagine a more politically integrated EU, I bet they don't imagine that government run by whoever they consider the kookiest people in the body politic. Imagine that EU integration proceeded apace, and Duda, or Orban, or Johnson became the popularly-elected President of the EU. (The current EU executive structure would never be adequate, of course, in a more politically integrated future.)
It is a lot easier to win the hearts of the people when you don't have to tax them to give them whatever will interest them.
You do realize that reducing costs means dropping parameters. So what you are suggestion is reversing the very technique that enables this result. Color me doubtful.
I'd tack onto the first point: obsolete technology everywhere. Worked in the public sector for a short while and the amount of outdated tech being used is astounding. Some of the solutions being discussed as "new" have been outdated for decades.

Having to deal with overwhelming bureaucracy in exchange for working on what everywhere else would be legacy systems really killed any desire to stay.
The word regulation tends to be used to mean rather modern and very sector-specific rules

That's not really a modern thing. For example, the reason why Lange Messer (a type of medieval sword, which are nominally "long knives") exist is because sword production was regulated.
I assume they meant “turnover”. Amazon is notorious for burning through employees quickly.

And if employees quit voluntarily, the company doesn’t need to pay severance, may reclaim hiring bonus or RSU’s, and it helps them politically/reputationally in aggregate (by being able to claim low lay-off numbers). Of course then you might wind up with those other than your worst performers leaving, so it’s not great in the long term.
TLDR? Why does this matter?

"As a reminder, Intel CET is a hardware-based mitigation that addresses the two types of control-flow integrity violations commonly used by exploits: forward-edge violations (indirect CALL and JMP instructions) and backward-edge violations (RET instructions).
"

Why are these important
How many of us really are...

You see so many people in interesting jobs that have an origin story of something that happened to them, a friend, a sibling or neighbor when they were a kid. I just write software, so my stories are perhaps a bit less compelling than the oncologist down the block.
Thank you - I was having a hard time understanding why the video was a successful demonstration. Re-watching with the diameter of the cutting wheel in mind was illuminating.
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Tesla's Musk qualifies for $2.1B payday
> E.g., it's generally preferred to have an MIT degree rather than a list of MIT MOOCs taken because there is a certain amount of elite signalling that comes with the degree even if the skills learned are the exact same

From my perspective, it is also much preferable to have an actual degree from Plymouth State University, or even an online degree from Southern New Hampshire University, than a MOOC "degree" from MIT, and I strongly disagree that the "skills are the same" in practice, evne if that might be true in principle. It's not just about elite signaling, there are huge differences in rigor, workload, and personal responsibility with an actual university education versus a MOOC.

MOOCs are fine to supplement a bachelor's education, but if I saw a resume that only had edX/etc, they'd better have good work experience or a great project portfolio.
Why to ask questions – especially when you think you know the answer
We like ascetics going in the wilderness to live in caves. So, without kidding, go you! But some screenshots of that would have helped the article.

I wonder if the Stallman setup of getting emails wouldn't be about the same given the amount of proxies used.

I actually had an intern implement something like this long ago. We had a web crawler and what better way to test it than to hook it up to email then rewrite links so it emails them too. It was OK for a few days.
Maybe I've just been lucky with where I've worked, but I've often seen those people get significantly rewarded for their anti-fad efforts--both in terms of money/promotions and respect from their colleagues.

I've seen the opposite too, but not as often.
Margaret Cavendish's book, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World, is available from Project Gutenberg at [0].

[0] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51783
I’ve worked with good recruiters. They do a ton of work at the beginning of the hiring funnel.

If you got an onsite interview, you probably didn’t even notice the first few filters that the recruiter applied to you. Those early filters eliminate at least 90% of applicants.
My exact point is that this is a fun "semantic" game. From a technical standpoint, the entire merkle tree is bitcoin, because that is the root data structure, however you want to "brand" individual forks/branches they are always going to be inter-related. The fact that forks already exist today seems to clearly undermine the idea that there are "only ever 21 million bitcoin" because even just taking "Bitcoin Gold" and "Bitcoin Cash" into account alone represent an "additional" 42 million possible bitcoin. (That's before you take in the dozens of other bitcoin forks, and the larger picture of how generally non-scarce cryptocoins are in the general forest beyond the bitcoin tree.)

It doesn't really matter which fork is "dominant", the artificial scarcity seems extremely artificial in a most brittle way and not that scarce from a respectable technical viewpoint.

You can certainly try to build a definition of "dominant" based on mining "hashpower", but that's a social/economic/political/geopolitical minefield much more than it is a technical factor inherent to bitcoin's underlying data structure, because the underlying data structure is forks ("dominance" is a lucky/expedient edge case).
The naming, "US Digital Service Academy", seems to suggest that it will be tied to the US Digital Service - which would be great. I think that might be the only government organization that I would actually be excited about working for.

Side note, I really hope the tour-of-duty model becomes more popular with techies, and more encouraged by employers. I can see it having numerous bidirectional benefits
Google has a google specific "Inactive Account Manager":

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en

It allows you to setup access to your account if you've been in active for a while, presumably that could eventually happens ... sometime after you die.

I started setting it up but when faced with writing an email that probably only gets sent when I'm dead to my wife / kids ... I kinda didn't want to keep going.

There is also a delete option.
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Probably the model built around the lower-specced CPU has a "lesser" motherboard + power supply, that might draw less power on idle (so, better battery life) and be smaller/ligher, but would render the motherboard unable to output the spike currents required for the higher-specced CPU, nor the sustained current required for DRAM refresh of that much memory.

The model with the better CPU necessarily has a more power-hungry motherboard feeding it, and so can also feed current to 32GB of DRAM; but this likely comes at the expense of on-idle battery life.
When a big company slows you down – Changing your perspective can be the key
Wohoo! What a site!
Just a language that isn't yet used widely in production. I remember when Python was like that, there is even a relevant xkcd strip: https://xkcd.com/353/

Gosh, I remember when JAVA was like that!
You might be interested in this. https://www.sawstop.com/
I think you only need 1 DB, not all of them.
Again this is not a joke. More information written by other Developer Advocates.

https://blog.usejournal.com/the-birth-of-developer-avocados-...
I think we would have to discuss the examples given by propublica[1]. Almost everything I saw was a matter of opinion.

"Your democracy, your freedom is being stripped away from you, and if you allow that then everything this country stood for, fought for, bled for is all in vain"

"the democratic party wants to rig our elections by forcing all voters to vote by mail. Vote by mail WILL lead to fraud"

"“Flooding the nation with ballots that can be stolen, sold, discarded, and forged—THAT’s the path to Leftist victory in November.”

“You think coronavirus is a crisis, wait till you see the voter fraud epidemic we have here in California. And mark my words it’s heading to your state like a diseased bat out of hell.”

“If you mail in your vote, your vote will be in Barack Obama’s fireplace.”

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/outright-lies-voting-misi...
The trick will be whether the code generation works well enough most of the time, but if it generates some 1% weirdness that becomes a needle in the haystack. It seems to be it will be great for product manager/business person prototypes and potentially helpful for "hyper auto-complete" for a developer, but likely not for automating mission critical code.
The energy required to use GPT-3 is a small fraction of the energy required to train it.
Windows 95 (4.0) tells 16 bit apps that it is “3.95” because enough old apps had problems because of broken version checks. So it’s not without precedent for an OS to lie to old apps about version numbers, and in this case the version has been 10 for 20 years, so there are probably a fair few that assume the major part must be 10.
I said you personally, that is, as a violated consumer suing a business.

If you don't want to waste your own life fighting over your proposed vague law in court, you have no business to impose that on others.

All too easy to propose a crap solution when it won't be you paying the price.
Sorry if the choice of words was inappropriate, I agree that “should i have to” is not correct. I do not want to put a burden on any developer who puts their work out for free, I was merely trying to discuss the dynamics of what’s happening here.

I specifically stated that I do not want to raise any issues as that would be entitled behavior.
Except the original comment wasn't that. At all. It was a genuine question because a lot of us aren't familiar with these tech giants and how they're structured.
Of course you don't. But European citizens care about economic growth, because it provides work and creates wealth and tax revenue for European citizens.
I'd assume Mary Sue characters existed from the dawn of human existence. We just don't remember them because it's relatively bad storytelling. Even if people enjoy it, stories with Mary Sue characters rarely stand the test of time. Ready player one, Twilight, etc etc.

Early epics are noted for their flawed characters. Gilgamesh's bloodlust, Odysseus's disdain of the gods. Iccarus's hubris. King Authurs infidelity.

We better remember characters who were flawed. 'Perfection' is strangely boring.
Does "scheduled on the same node" imply you are running everything on one node?
YMMV I guess. My Mac longevity has been less impressive, MacBook Pro I got for college lasted 4 years and then went totally unbootable, and the Air replacing had its audio inputs/outputs die around 3 years. I dragged that one out for a while longer with bluetooth headphones and replaced it when the 2016 MBPs launched, which as you mentioned have keyboard problems. Otherwise still solid, so maybe this will be my first 8-year Mac.

My iPhone SE 2016 is >4 years though, so I'm doing above average on that one at least.
Verisign gets patent for domain name blockchain user addresses [pdf]
Sure, my point is just that the developing world is going to use a lot of petroleum in order to develop. Mining was just an example of where it's used. No one commenting has refuted that, and the people talking about electric mining trucks don't know what they are talking about and have probably never been to a mine before.
This is a good summary:

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a254728.pdf

"In retrospect, it is possible to see that bank confidence had begun to
erode as early as the latter part of 1988. In the fall of that year, new
patterns of bank lending to the Soviet Union appeared. Previously, it
was typical for banks from many nations to participate in syndications for loans to the Soviet Union. Beginning in October 1988,
though, a number of very large loans were negotiated with purely
national syndications-that is, all participating banks were from a
single Western country. Western governments played important
roles in arranging these syndications, and usually the loans were to
finance exports from the lending country. At the time, a number of
Western governments were intent on providing material support for
the processes of economic and political reform perceived to be under
way in the Soviet Union. By intervening with banks on behalf of the
Soviet Union-either directly through loan guarantees or through
less formal encouragement of bank lending-these governments probably helped the Soviet Union to achieve better terms from the banks
than it could have gotten on its own. By mid-1990, bank confidence
had declined sufficiently that banks would lend to the Soviet Union
only with explicit guarantees from Western governments."

To answer your question though, I believe it was primarily Western European countries providing or guaranteeing the funds by 1989.

At the time, Gorbachev was seen as a reformer, and the West was willing to grant him some rope in the form of hard currency loans, but that would have evaporated if he had pulled a Prague in Warsaw or East Berlin.
Ha! That was easy to implement.

This looks really cool: https://books.j11g.com/search.php?id=218

I made it so that the more pages a book has the thicker it will appear.

Thanks so much for this code!
Maybe I'm just a bitter pessimist, but I don't relish the idea of Schmidt telling more people how to think.
A TimescaleDB engineer here. Current implementation of database distribution in TimescaleDB is centralised where all traffics go through an access node, which distributes the load into data nodes. The implementation uses 2PC. Abilities of PostgreSQL to generate distributed query plans are utilised together with TimescaleDB optimisations. So PostgreSQL is used not just a dumb storage :)
Well compensated, delivering value and respected.
Windows 8.1 onwards also do in Windows land, with it returning the Windows 8.0 version number (NT 6.2, build 9200) for apps that aren't enlightened for newer versions.
Broadcast vs targeted.

Very different.
A friend used to work for a porn hosting company doing account maintenance and general sysadmin. He said that's how he learned how to use Lynx.
Although I wouldn't be surprised if there's data to support what you stated, I also thin it's possible there are other confounding attributes.

Many government employees are motivated by different factors. Somebody who is motivated by pay would likely gravitate towards the private sector and starting their own business. Somebody motivated by service may be more apt to apply to government jobs. For instance, I would seriously doubt mathematicians who work for intelligence agencies are lower-skilled; this is probably an occupation that selects for other traits.

I am also aware of a LOT of former government employees who start their own companies but it's not clear how much of their success is due to skills vs. network effects.
I mean... "The Department of Innovative Technology" is kind of what the USDS is. It's ran by very competent people, and do short "tours of duty" with competent SV engineers instead of long-term, safe, bureaucratic jobs. Here's a podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvXN7fRTVds

I think you're misinformed on the topic, but that's OK. I assumed it was a typical government agency until I got further information, and then I changed my mind. Will you change your mind?
I just graduated from a top ten computer science program in the world. The department recorded all the lectures. By the time you got to the upper level classes completely booked 200+ person lecture halls would have less than 50 students show up because everyone watched online. The recording system allowed you to watch at 1.5 or 2x speed and skip to the next slide when someone asked a stupid question. The math department had a similar system for the calculus courses except they modeled the schedule around MIT's and just posted the MIT lectures that corresponded to each class.
Compare https://github.com/nhagen/react-intercom/blob/master/src/ind...

with https://github.com/PatrickJS/angular-intercom/blob/master/an...

And that's the small one. There's also https://github.com/CaliStyle/ng-intercom

As another example, consider HTTP. Angular provides its own special HTTP class. With React I just use the standard Fetch API.
> If you wanted a palace and someone built you the foundation, would you deride it as being nothing like a palace and in fact a step AWAY from a palace?

Depends on whether it's actually possible to build a palace on top of the foundation. If I know the foundation is going to crumble under the extra weight of the walls, then yes, it's a step backwards.

This is a fantastic achievement, and I think people who are saying it's nothing new are kind of being obstinate. But there is real debate over whether GPT is a foundation we can build on.

It's not as simple as just saying, "generate the code, and then we'll come up with ways to make sure the code is correct." Fundamentally, that might require us to generate the code differently than GPT does. GPT's foundation might crumble under the weight when we try to put walls on top of it.

This is particularly worrisome with GPT because it's still a very active area of research, so we don't know for sure that GPT's weaknesses aren't intrinsic to its design. We could end up devoting a ton of time to pushing GPT to its limits only to find out that the entire process has to be scrapped and that we'll need to start over from the beginning.

I think people have a tendency to see something new and either only see the capabilities or only see the weaknesses. There's been some really startlingly impressive things coming out of GPT-3, in particular the 'infinite' text adventure someone posted a while ago. But all of those projects have also had substantial weaknesses, and the weaknesses are forming a pattern across all of the projects. There are certain tendencies that GPT seems to universally have around recycling content, going off on weird asides -- stuff that should have proponents at least slightly worried, even while they rightly praise its advances.
Getting on top of my unsaved files full of notes in VS Code
User agents have been garbage for decades. Keeping Safari’s one like it is is probably a good idea, who knows which websites could break if changed.
Noscript and pi-hole do a good job of providing me with a distraction free browsing experience.
In order of ranking and total enrollment (sourced from us news)

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3,130

2 Stanford University 3,444
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3 University of California--Berkeley 2,337

4 California Institute of Technology 536

5 Carnegie Mellon University 4,112

6 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor 3,247

7 Purdue University--West Lafayette 3,428

8 Georgia Institute of Technology 4,252

9 University of California--San Diego (Jacobs) 3,141

10 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign 3,736

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering...
Yep, bolt cutter would go through that aluminum like butter; or use a car jack or long lever to bend it in half.

A layer of this on top of steel bar would help guard against power tools. My bike lock already has a rubberized coating; embed ceramic balls in that.
It doesn't. There exist far more sophisticated techniques to reduce the size of a neural network while minimizing loss of accuracy.
That is not entirely true, but the devil is in the details. As an example, the Federal government employs thousands of physicians at the VA and, depending on specialty, they are paid significantly more than this. Last time I checked, they capped out at $400k:

https://www.va.gov/OHRM/Pay/2020/PhysicianDentist/PayTables_...

Anyway, the point is that the federal government can and does pay significantly more than the GS pay scale to people who are federal employees and enjoy federal pensions. Whether or not the feds will choose to pay that to those who work in technology remains to be seen.
India doesn't have any semiconductor fabs. If they're not making it in-country, I can't see how it's "homegrown technology".
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Yep. A lot of the Big Ten schools along with universities like Washington, Texas, Florida, etc. have been the drivers in overall production of engineers.

I think what they probably meant talent pools for some companies in the tech industry, or something similar.
Sadly it makes it harder to find a job as a software engineer in which I can work for a company or in a position making a positive impact on the world (as amorphous as that may sound).

Any interaction that I've had with a recruiter when considering looking.

Me: "I'm not interested in working on ad tech or a bank, etc. I'm interested in privacy companies, green technology, conservation, etc."

Recruiter: "I have a job with Investment Bank X that I think may be interested in."