skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> TikTok technically isn't required to share data with China

That can change in a few months. China is drafting Data Security Law whose “broad scope and extraterritorial reach pose particular risks for foreign companies as well as media organizations and their personnel. Most importantly, the Draft Law grants sweeping power in the name of national security to relevant Chinese government officials to access the data itself and regulate (including the powers to prosecute and investigate) data controllers regardless of whether they are located inside or outside China.” [0]

China also just implemented National Security Law in Hong Kong that is also extraterritorial and requires hosting service to provide information to China, regardless of where they are located [1].

[0] https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/insights/client-alerts/2020071...

[1] https://twitter.com/alvinllum/status/1280184488857710592
Time to learn that minimal additional effort != best solution.

When you drink a soda, minimal additional effort is to throw the can away, but if you think about consequences you'll probably make some additional effort and recycle it.
That's fair; I hesitated to call it buggy, because a well-understood bug that's documented and easy to work around or ignore and which nets you some benefit is only barely a bug at all.
This thread will 100% devolve into a binary USA v. China worldview clusterf*ck. im going to try to use less emotion but that might be impossible.
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these are disingenuous comparisons - or maybe truly I simply can't comprehend such a fundamentally different worldview but I hope not

Chinese tech companies at best have competing allegiance and at worst are indistinguishable from CCP in goals

Trying to compare the violations of privacy the US has unfortunately perpetrated against us, the citizens to the actions and goals of CCP/Xi is dishonest

both in the goals of the espionage both states carry out and in terms of the fundamentally inseparable CCP control of corporations to achieve state (and a single increasingly dictatorial leaders' [1]) goals.

Douyin and other Chinese tech companies actively:

- facilitate an ongoing genocide [2]
- carry out state sponsored corporate espionage and forced tech transfers for the direct benefit of CCP via an inseparable government/corporate relationship [3]
- suppress and spy on their citizens with the goal of elevating Xi and the CCP, silencing dissent, and controlling over 1 billion people in a way that is fundamentally incongruous with 'western values' and not remotely comparable to the goals of US Government surveillance however misguided [4, 5]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/26/xi-jinping-chi...
[2] http://archive.is/wdZ36
[3] https://www.csis.org/programs/technology-policy-program/surv...
[4] https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-tech-giants-have-a-secon...
[5] http://archive.is/SUyhH
That does not address it. It is true that heat has to be removed to maintain the lower temperature. But the rate at which this has to be done depends on heat generation and quality of isolation. If temperature inside is 1e-100 K, energy cost of only bit flipping becomes negligible. Energy cost of refrigeration depends then on how good the isolation is. With better and better isolation, the cost goes down, the only limit is zero.
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Simple test, do Europeans eat more fish than Asians, Africans?

I find it highly likely that such fish recipes emerged from places with direct access to the world's spices and that consumed a large % of the world's fish. If I had to guess, it would be East or South East Asia...places that have a long history of preserving fish.

From my understanding, even at Rome's population peak, India & China both had larger populations. Due to religious practices, I suspect a larger percentage of those populations consumed fish regularly.
Jetbrains uses this in their IDEs https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/json.html#ws_json_schema...

It's how it autocompletes JSON / YAML files automatically
Yeah but my comment was more about the fact people here are talking about mortgages and things. Not really the same kind of poor.
Obviously we are not free from all retaliation just as we are not free from all murder. I am addressing the position "Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences!" where "consequences" is actually "retaliation". It totally does. It's not about 1A or laws, it's about moral judgment. We (majority of Americans) don't want retaliation for any speech. If you need laws to stop this - we will bring them onto you. We actually have enough laws to fight cancelers right now but the judicial system appears too corrupt (though just few days ago, a lawsuit against WaPo trying to cancel a kid had been successfully settled).

And in your example it's not a retaliation - you can only successfully sue if you have actual damages so if the speech caused damages then the lawsuit is a consequence (just like in the similar example in my previous post about fraud).
I know people hate PGP, but why don't at least some reporters link signed articles? Writing is such a low-volume activity that the inconvenience isn't a meaningful gate, as it is for say email.
The 'off world vehicle' comment was made by Eric Davis, a man who has been talking about UFOs for several years and has ties to parapsychologists and the like. I hate to shoot the messenger, but I take his claim with a good pinch of salt
People are asking about using it as a monitor in the comments. Grocery stores can do wireless power but the comments are complaining about them being too big or small.

You can easily have a non backlit black and white display, like the one on an f91w or LCD clock.
Reminded me of the time when it was possible to brute-force a Hotmail password brute-forcing via the Windows Messenger client connections
Ask HN: Best way to Pin / Group windows together?
I'd love to keep the bottom of my gVim window pinned to my Terminal window.

Creates my ultimate editor basically.

Is there a program to group / pin these so that they move around / resize together?
Yeah I would say it's not ridiculous to ask for, but would be ridiculous if the judge granted it.
While this is excellent advice for consideration of others, it changes _nothing_ for drunk uncle or out of work cousin that there are "reasons".

Maybe government can help, depending (likely the underlying motive of the quote. i.e. promotion of social programs over "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" rhetoric). Or maybe government can not help but will try anyway at great expense and possibly make things worse.

We have seen both scenarios. Thus I'm always personally suspicious of any ideology that regards government as a universal and infallible solution to all problems, and any ideology that regards government as perpetual failure at effectively and efficiently solving anything.
The 175B GPT-3 model itself is about 300 GB, in FP16 weights.

Server GPUs that consumers can rent capable of running Tensor cores to handle FP16 weights cap out at 16 GB VRAM. (the recently-announced Ampere-based GPUs cap out at 40 GB VRAM)

tl;dr a local version of the 175B model will not happen any time soon, which is why I really really wish OpenAI would release the smaller models.
You can check out Loom too. https://www.loom.com/
I'm saying I've been in exactly that position in many companies. Spent all of my social capital to get password hashes fixed, or a hacked DB audited, or circuit breakers, or rate limits, alerts, admin and monitoring tools, etc. It's really easy to preach here on HN. Saying it's an uphill battle "out there" is a drastic understatement.
I used to live in an area of liberals and all they did was talk about killing white people. I don't know if they are the minority or not.

See how ridiculous that is?

Preppers !== racists, they're prepping for a specific or any disaster.
I shop at Woodman's, and can't imagine how a robot could navigate the chaos. It's an experience. For instance huge families show up and push multiple carts through the store, then load everything into a pickup truck.
This might have been true back when boots routinely had cardboard in them but when it comes to necessities and near-necessities the poor people versions do 90% as well at a fraction of the cost. It's all the other stuff you spend your money on when you're poor that screws you.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/28/election-interfere...

Whatever the feelings about the source here (I note all their submissions get killed on this site), it would be useful if somebody could point out where their figures are flawed (note they don't just refer to Breitbart, but other conservative websites) - because in the light of the recent clear suppression of conservative websites revealed in the recent "glitch" (1), it's deeply worrying for those of us concerned about free speech.

(1) A thread attempting to discuss that episode here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23912150
I suppose the problem is that digital products don’t degrade. Buying a used DVD for example is a choice to save some money for a product that’s worn. Lending is an interesting one though.
The takeaway of that article is that cleaning surfaces to reduce the likelihood of contact transmission (which is close to 0), may detract from practices that reduce the likelihood of airborne transmission (which is close to 1.0 if you're near an infected person).

That's a perfectly sensible approach if you're in charge of a school or a retail business. There's a cost vs benefit and lost opportunity calculation.

In our personal lives, taking 1-3 minutes to wipe down all groceries isn't going to cause you to suddenly forget wearing a mask or staying home as much as possible, unless you have extremely bad executive functioning.
Except that its origins in the U.S. have had fairly significant knock-on effects like the dominance of English online. The perceived censorship-free nature, receding as it may be, perhaps can be attributed to its origins in a country with a constitutional prohibition thereof.

Unfortunately it’s not so clear humanity is unambiguously better off with it. Social media is certainly stress-testing society.
Macenzie Scott? Never heard of her...
Even if shrinkage is a small issue, how do you ever know what your inventory is without physically counting what's on the shelf?
That depends on what you consider a digital purchase. DVDs, CDs, and game cartridges are nothing but physical manifestations of digital data, and everyone was allowed to loan or resell those. Books arguably are, too, and have hundreds of years of established legal precedent.

Why should this newcomer (downloads) be treated differently without specific legislation?
I wonder what does this query compile to? In terms of C-code equivalent?

SELECT cab_type, count(*)
FROM trips
GROUP BY cab_type;

From execution time it seems to me that this is a straight sum() of 32-bit integers. "cab_type" has two distinct values and if stored 32bit value for "green" is 0 and "yellow" is 1, straight sum of these integers will produce the desired outcome and explain performance. That said the same performance will not extend to key that has three or more distinct values.
I like the article though I guess the title doesn't align with its contents.

To speculatively answer your question- pick suitable metrics and run them on your data. Maybe IOU (intersection over union) is a good one.
App developers commonly use Google or Facebook logins to port over “social contacts“. Not doing so puts you at a big disadvantage.
Much of the security afforded by systems without too much market share is that they are not seen as a juicy enough target. But any juicy target in the hands of a regular user (not an enthusiast, not an expert sysadmin) will be exploited. The more flexibility the user has, the bigger the chances they will pick convenience over security making the system even easier to exploit.

There's no system that will make everyone happy so the interests of the many for security outweighed he interests of the few for tinkerability.
Side note: is there some reason why the columns in the tables are ordered most-recent, least-recent, second-most-recent?
An important limitation here is that it needs to be valid Ruby syntax as well, since this was added without/before official Ruby typing support.
Every product relies on an external ecosystem for it to be useful. The lesson is to that if you're buying a product that isn't already highly successful, don't get too attached. Incidentally, the vast majority of the world already learned this lesson, it's the reason why most people aren't early adopters, nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, etc.
There was site someone made that automatically redirects to your next meeting. Does anyone remember what it was called?

(Update) found it: https://now.me/
That's actually the official company website of this product.
Checking that something is a String is pretty weak and uninteresting.

How about checking that a given string is non-blank?

That tends to fully leverage Ruby's dynamic nature.

But then again people are overly fixated with compile-time, Java-like signatures.

See clojure.spec for a success story.
What happens to teachers when home-schooling turns out to be better?
And Google is only supporting Pixel phones for two years now which sucks. The Pixel 2, for example, is still a perfectly fine phone.
Poor people don’t go on airplane vacations or own houses. Poor people don’t have bank accounts. You don’t know poor people. You know people who live beyond their means.

Poor people are in Section 8 housing or various other housing vouchers.
I guess I just don't ever use YouTube that way. People embed videos in their blogs or on Twitter, and that's where I see them.
The Problem of Food Wastage
I'm assuming this is much more cost effective than networked cameras pointed at the shelves, pressure plates, or other less futuristic methods?
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> There would probably also have to be very careful accounting of how much money went into the creation of a media work

Probably won’t be a big issue because (for example) the film industry is known for being very transparent with its bookkeeping processes.
What about us FIBs who load up our cars with cheap liqour.
If you want to have the conversation that there should be laws breaking up creation and distribution and making exclusive distribution illegal, then go ahead

There are laws for this in some industries in the United States.

Movie studios aren't allowed to own theaters anymore. Beer companies aren't allowed to own bars anymore. Car manufacturers aren't allowed to own auto dealerships. Most television shows are decoupled from the distributors, which is why you see things like a big extra Sony or CBS Television Distribution logo at the end of a sit-com rerun.

I'm not sure that what's happening with audiobooks rises to the level of the problems we used to have with "tied houses" (bars only allowed to sell a certain brand of beer), or movie company vertical monopolies of the past.
I believe one of their guiding principles was that they wanted all the syntax to be valid Ruby, because they did not want it to become a separate Ruby interpreter. So they were pretty limited in the syntax available to them.
Last time I checked it had five tiers.

Like, really one non snarky example is all I'm looking for. As someone who does know the internals of hotspot fairly well and read the post.
The point is not to "escape" complexity, but to manage it.

Of course, these type of "I hate the word simple" comments are always besides the point. They could be the whines of frustrated, incompetent programmers who continually produce overly complex solutions to relatively simple problems and call it a day. We all know those programmers exist.
mmhmm?

No really it's an app, beta only though
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I only wrote the "Q: ..." part – the answer, including monolog, is output generated by GPT-3.

The way it works is you first give it a few sample lines, and those do include both the Q and A parts, and then GPT-3 generates consistent output based on the pattern of your samples. But all the answers/monologs in my comment were 100% GPT-3!
> You have no savings to rent a vehicle

Come on, U-Haul is like $50, including some mileage.

> cost of living is pinned to these minimum wages

That is true. That's also reason #3245 why UBI is a stupid idea.
But there's an inbetween here. I can license my OSS work or have support contracts and fill my pantry with food just fine without selling my soul.

This isn't a binary choice between going homeless and dealing with the proverbial devil. There are plenty of options in the middle.
Mackenzie Scott has a name, and the title/headline should use it, instead of her “status” as Bezos’ “ex-wife”.
They’re not the author’s customers until they buy the book.

It’s like choosing to make an iPhone app instead of one for Android.
> This particular virus being novel and so contagious means there's really no hope of stopping its spread, right?

How do you explain the infection rates in Japan, Korea, or Germany, which were never high and remain very low. Or France, Italy or Spain, which were VERY high and have since been well contained?

Yes, we can keep this under control. It takes discipline and care, and some amount of sacrifice. But it can be done. We're just doing it badly.

But no, not "everyone" needs to literally stay home forever. Wear a mask. Stay 2m from other human beings. Stay outside. In particular avoid "static" indoor environments like restaurants (or bars, cruise ships, theaters, etc...) which have been the source of the bulk of local outbreaks. Work from home as much as possible.

Don't write it off as impossible to contain when it's not. We can do much better, and there are tens (or maybe hundreds) of thousands of lives that can be preserved still.
The 10th Schemaverse Championship Tournament
The Schemaverse is a space-based strategy game implemented entirely within a PostgreSQL database. Compete against other players using raw SQL commands to command your fleet. Or, if your PL/pgSQL-foo is strong, wield it to write AI and have your fleet command itself!

Every year, we host a championship tournament for The Schemaverse at the DEF CON security conference in Las Vegas. As one would expect, this year DEF CON is looking a bit different and being run as a virtual conference.

Normally our tournament was only open to those present at the conference, but since we're remote this year anybody can compete!

If you've played in the past, or if you've never heard of it until this post, I highly recommend giving it a go. The Schemaverse does an incredible job forcing you to work creatively and efficiently, pushing your SQL skills to different level by applying them to a unique challenge. Winning players in the past have used anything from pure plpgsql to perl, python, ruby, and elixir to name a few.

The tournament is August 8th to 9th, but you can start playing around right away in the public database. There are also containerized versions that you can setup yourself to practice in private.

Happy to answer any questions you have below.
https://schemaverse.com
There are lots of people who have used Linux for years but have never actually gone through this exercise. It's not very fun to have to do it for the first time when an important system fails to boot.

It's great that the modern Linux install process is so easy, but one drawback is that it also makes it easy to gloss over how the system is put together.

I just meant that it can be insightful to put together a toy system from scratch, so that you can learn (at your own pace) how chroots work, learn the conventions around manually recreating your root hierarchy in /mnt, learn what systemd services you actually need because you need to manually turn them on, rather than having a bunch of stuff you don't understand enabled by default, etc.
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> by those measures there are no poor people in the US

That doesn't feel like a meaningful metric when there are as many as 17% of mothers with young children experiencing food insecurity [1]. Perhaps that's due to COVID, but 11% of households were food insecure as recently as 2018 [2]. Around half a million Americans are homeless, and 35% of them are shelterless [3].

Are all of these people "not poor" and are they "middle class"? This all to say that how we think about poverty should focus more on the outcomes that people actually experience (access to food, shelter, healthcare, etc) than key economic indicators. Claims like "the War on Poverty is over" and "there are no poor people in the US" don't seem to match up with the lived experiences of many Americans.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/05/06/the-covid...

[2] https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...

[3] https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...
Absolutely. It’s not only bad habits they were taught, but the huge amount of things they weren’t taught.

I was taught how to budget, how compound interest works, and so on by family members.

I used to do rental property maintenance in places where people didn’t know to use a dish strainer to prevent sink clogs, nobody ever taught them. Now, spread that out over hundreds or thousands of other things they’re not aware of. There’s tons of useful knowledge that middle/upper class people pass down t their kids that poor people have no clue about.
I looked into Mastodon a bit but didn't quite understand it and saw clusters/servers for fringe groups that I didn't really want to be associated with.
Did you know that Marx invented the concept of ideology?[1] Do you think he was just being ironic?

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones."[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_German_Ideology
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
If we're talking broke, we're talking $1k cars and $100-200 bicycles.

My first car was $800 and I bought a few motorcycles over the years for around $400 each.
Terraforming Mars might not be that hard after all
Cute Laundry Shop Couple Stylishly Models Clothes Left Behind by Their Patrons
I'd be happy to pay something, like 25 cents an article, or even a buck a month, for you know 60 articles or something. But for me to subscribe to WaPO, and NYT, I have to pay something like 240 bucks a year, when I get most of news from news aggregators.
I don't consume audio books so I certainly don't pirate them but most of the cost of piracy is frontloaded into 5-10 minutes finding a decent resource and then is as easy to use as any other resource.

This actually mirrors the time where someone who was interested in audiobooks would take to find a source to shop for audiobooks, create an account, confirm the email validation, enter payment info and start buying.

As a test I entered stephen king audiobook into my torrent client's built in search engine and got 210 results any of which can be added with a click. The worlds most well known piracy site is even better listing a torrent with 70 people with 68 different audio books by king among many other torrents.

Piracy is trivial enough a 7 year old can do it.
Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit (2014)
Webkit Quirks: URL-Specific Behaviour in the Browser