skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reduces cost to produce a specific good. I would think it would be measured similar to other technology advancements that do the same. Good for society, bad for the craftsman that were made obsolete, overall net positive.

This is purposefully not counting in the effect of being able to fake people and the damage that does to society, but I think that was implied by the previous poster specifying looking for the more positive side of the technology.
Apple hosts blocked by Google Safebrowsing
you can't deduct home costs unless you want to get visited by the IRS. If you are running your own business it's fairly easy, if you're working for someone else as a direct employee DON'T DO IT. you will get audited and have to pay those taxes and penalties if you're lucky and don't get charged with tax fraud. It's not worth it. If you need to set up something expensive make your employer buy it (new computer you are borrowing, laptop, audio equipment, whatever) and give it back to them when you quit/get fired/done with it.
> Nah, commenting out is better in case decisions are reversed.

But worse in all other cases. If your decision process is such that that weighs in favor of cluttering your codebase with dead code, that's a problem.

And, actually, since the commented code almost certainly isn't being maintained and uncommented for testing as the rest of the codebase evolved, it's probably not even better in the case that decisions are reversed.

> Once it's deleted, there's no way to get it back

There's rewriting it in light of the actual requirements and current state of the rest of the code base.

> Version control isn't reliable.

Neither is unmaintained, commented-out code dragged along with your code base. If your VCS isn't the vastly more reliable of those two things, that's a problem you ought to address.

(Of course, at the time of Mario 64, the calculus might well have favored a different approach.)
Thiel spends over $1M on Kris Kobach in Kansas
Impact of individual exposure histories to coronaviruses on severity of Covid-19
It is easier to handle 4 children than one as well. The realization came when I wasn't able to hold 3 children with just two hands and had to rethink my approach
Depends on where you are. Lawnmower density decreases as population density increases. Scooter density is the other way round.

I'd ban them immediately. The noise and air pollution is insane. Have the government co-finance replacement electrical scooters if it helps.
But that isn't a standard part of tmux, right?
Title modified due to length, actual title: "Potential impact of individual exposure histories to endemic human coronaviruses on age-dependence in severity of COVID-19"
Junior-senior pair programming is different from managing one report, though the line is quite blurry. When I had a solo report it felt much more like a junior-senior pairing than being a manager (especially as it was their first eng job, and teaching them the basics was most of what I did).

Ultimately as a manager you're also evaluating their work and are in a position to decide things like if their employment continues, if they get promotions/raises, etc; that is what makes it distinct. Feedback in a junior-senior pairing is much more purely about helping them grow.

Dang though. 50% of your time to code... I'm an IC (as much as I want to be an EM) and that sounds really nice. I regularly have whole days where I don't get to code (in part because, as a potential future EM, I'm expected to mentor; I have 7 regular 1-1s, for instance).
If their chart is correct, the 30cm mirror show a 20db improvement in SNR at 200Hz compared to 20cm, same curve but 20db lower gain.

That is an absolute crazy scaling, I'm not entirely sure how that's possible, though I have a suspicion. If it's an actual scaling law that can be exploited, I would expect you can extend this to entirely practical audio volumes on a shoestring budget.
In Kernighan and Pike's "The Practice of Programming" there's a chapter that covers the implementation in different languages of a random text generator using markov chains. It's a nice exercise and a lot of fun to play with.

I'm guessing that not many people have read that book, because I'm seeing here and elsewhere even technical people talking about GPT-3 as if it's heralding the imminent advent of SkyNet. I get that transformers have a somewhat longer attention span than markov chains, but it's still a statistical language model. It can't even do the kind of planning or reasoning that early AI demos like SHRDLU could.
Sounds like a nice perk. What does that have to do with needing to "grow up"?
That would indeed not be the correct inference to make, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23969103
In the late 90s my state moved from local property taxes funding local schools to paying into 1 state fund and paying back out per student, along with base funding for each district and what the district could levy in their county. It was a massive boost for most districts but a major loss for my district. We went from 2 art teachers, 2 music teachers, 2 PE teachers, and a guy who did ceramics across schools to 1 art teacher and 1 PE teacher. Since then, more cuts have dropped quality even further.

This is a warning as much as a boon. When re-allocating funding more equitably, be sure to not let the process stop there and call it success. Monitor and respond to outcomes like boosting funding to equip all schools with the right set of arts and opportunities for their students even if 1 school in town is artsy and the other technical but students can go to either. Be prepared (and have a community that is up) for raising taxes to cover these costs. Recognize that well educated and employed kids today will be paying your medicare and social security (if you or those programs make it far enough). When these kids are growing the stocks your retirement is invested into you'll want them to have had the opportunities your tax dollars can provide.

I like paying for schools because I don't like living in a national of stupid people and the more smart people out there able to leverage their talent and abilities via remote or on site work the better we will all be. Maybe that means the FAANG employee living in Iowa needs to make 95% of their downtown Seattle counterpart, maybe not. There is a balance to be found to increase opportunity without depressing existing and future talent too.
When I worked at Boeing, we even had them on the windows of offices that weren't being used for government projects. The company's commercial business was also a target for spying so they were very protective in general.

To this day, the company's laptops don't have cameras and they have a whole process that you have to go through to use a camera anywhere on company property.
It's so annoying that this gets misrepresented in all the news stories and discussions about this. I guess the non clickbait headline - "Google will let people WFH for 11 months regardless of offices reopening" is just not as appealing.
Because of the sector based error correction. I remember some earlier 8-bit disks has 128 byte sectors. Some newer flash SSDs have 1k-4k physical sector size for ecc coding efficiency so in those cases they will internally do a read-modify-write to handle a 512 byte logical sector size.
supposedly inReach wasn't included in the down time? Wonder if due to better infra or just highly (and rightfully so) prioritized once things went south
This type of model can only generate mediocre output. It is trained on a large corpus of text from around the internet, with little quality control.
I can only speak from my layman's understanding of US law. In the US, there's a doctrine prosecutorial discretion. Basically the police and prosecutors can choose whether to arrest and charge someone for a crime.

> "Maybe in places where code law is mostly binding, there’s a lot more pressure on the legislature to keep the law books up to date with the current norms of society."

In the US, where everything is so entwined with politics, there's a lot unenforceable laws still on the books.

For example, the US Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in 2003. Last I checked, Texas still has a law on the books criminalizing sodomy. Sure Texas can't enforce it, but the conservative majority in the legislature won't actually repeal the law because politics. Similarly, when the US Supreme Court ruled that banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, Texas had to recognize same-sex marriage. But there was no law allowing same-sex couples to divorce. So there was this weird limbo wherein you couldn't get divorced if you were in a same-sex marriage.

America is weird.
Derivative work and complete corresponding source has not been tested w.r.t. Google's monorepo (or similar situations), because under the terms of the gplv2/3, Google doesn't distribute any software.

There's an entire class of tooling to make sure that GPL-tainted software isn't distributed (https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#restrict...), but because the class of software that Google distributes under the GPL is limited (can you think of any?), this is workable, and such things can be isolated.

That doesn't work if the definition of "distribution" is broadened significantly. Then the derivative work questions (which aren't as cut and dry as you claim) do suddenly matter a lot more.
Likeness is a legal concept.
Not Silicon Valley or FAANG, but I'm a MechE that makes "non essential" consumer products. We're officially WFH until 2021, with lab access available as needed. Most of the time that I'm going in to the office is when I'm getting things from our 3D printers, modifying parts using the machine shop or other large power tools that I don't have at home, or running tests. It probably works out to 1-2 days/week on average, but varies greatly depending on what's going on. We also have the opportunity to bring small lab equipment home with us as needed.
That is still a choice. It may just be that your boss is ignoring your input and making the choice for you, which is a different problem.
I have definitely used Magit in situations where it was the only use of Emacs, working on the version-controlled content itself in content-specific tools such as Xcode or even MS Word.
I imagine that it has rangefinding capability, and throttles the output based on distance to the target.

It probably doesn't know and doesn't need to know whether the target is human.
With a sufficiently effective language model it would be fairly easy to bridge this model, by letting the text direct humans on the other side.

Hypothesis: <AI writes this>
Results: <human observations>
<repeat>
Previous discussion of source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23498185
I know lol and I prefer it that way and keep more of my money. What don't you understand about that lol.
I can confirm what Danny says here.

It's a shame the original article has such flaws in its argumentation, because at the core of it I think there are some good points. Notably, other people don't have to blindly follow Google's example and reasoning. In fact, as discussed here, there are good reasons not to. For one, because Google is so highly integrated (with Borg and its monorepo, not to mention custom approaches to security), it's harder to use AGPL software without risking linking. Most other users outside Google would just apt-get a package or the like. And of course the business risk to Google is large simply because of their scale.

You can even disagree with Google's decision not to use AGPL, but they have openly explained their reasoning, and I think that adds to the discourse.

Disclosure: I used to work at Google, and was fairly actively involved with open-source activities in different capacities while I was there. I am also on record as sharply criticizing Google when I believe that is warranted. This is just not one of those times.
It has nothing to do with a German umlaut. It is a diaeresis, and its use in English is perfectly valid (if uncommon).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#English
There is evidence that social distancing helped. I'm not sure about masks specifically. https://qz.com/1816060/a-chart-of-the-1918-spanish-flu-shows...
Well, there goes the neighborhood...
In case anyone actually tried to install yuzu and got dependency issues, it appears the newest version currently targets Ubuntu 20.04, not 18.04.
I wonder if at some point we need to create legal requirements that all deepfakes have some kind of human-invisible (or visible?) fingerprint for identification, restriction on frequency range, etc. We have crypto export restrictions, why not put handcuffs on this as well which has the potential for probably larger scale harm?
Literally every single private company in the US is required to prepay their pension obligations. When MAP-21 changed the formula for how much prepayment is necessary, FedEx stopped offering pensions to new hires. I think UPS only offers pensions to union employees now. I think the sticking point for USPS was that they were also required to prepay the retiree medical benefits that they offer
Interesting, it starts maybe a bit dull (and uses "micro-optimization" wrong IMO, I tend to use them for stuff that doesn't optimize a lot the runtime of a given function), but gets better when it talks of an issue with profiling in debug mode, and then of a thread contentention issue.

A note about that specific library: why isn't texture generation used more in videogames? Nowadays, a game contains tens of gigabytes of textures and models (~80 GB or more). Certainly there is a point at which it becomes worth it to procedurally generate the texture instead of storing multi-megabyte images for every object in the world. What would that point be?

Are GPUs fast enough to generate textures on-demand nowadays, in the pixel shader, for instance? An additional benefit would be that mipmaps might not be necessary anymore, depending on the algorithm.
Huh, seems I read "workout" as "generic exercise" in your previous post, but I guess you meant high intensity stuff exclusively. I'm pretty sure most athletes have stuff to do that doesn't really have this sort of limit -- like cardio or technical work.
Only if your decide you need a lawyer.
This is as true of any information channel, including your eyes and ears.
USPS has a legal monopoly on letter service, save for "extremely urgent material". All private document delivery must therefore be Express-class. It's not reasonable to compare FexEx Express to USPS First Class.

USPS Express and FedEx Overnight for documents are essentially the same price, even though FedEx has a higher standard of service. (Which is not surprising, because FedEx runs the backbone of USPS Express.)

FedEx and UPS parcel prices generally beat USPS above a certain fairly small weight, even at retail prices.

I'm happy to have USPS around, and I do a lot of business with them as they're the better option in certain circumstances, but let's not pretend their pricing is particularly magical.
I am a lot more interested in the answers to questions like:

1. Why was there lateral spread across low-criticality devices fitness devices and avionics devices?

2. Why was there lateral spread across manufacturing, customer support, and PII regions?

3. What assurances are there that health information wasn't leaked?

4. What's the general security position around avionics, marine, and health data at Garmin?
The pandemic was just a ‘scamdemic’ – until truth hit home hard
As far as I can tell, your example calls a unary function on each element of a list of lists. It's solving the variadic part of map, but not the part where I can call an N-ary function with each element of N lists.

Basically, instead of your example I would like to do something like this:

> cl_map (+) [ZipList [1,2,3], ZipList [4,5,6]]
[5,7,9]

> cl_map (+ 3) [ZipList [1,2,3]]
[4,5,6]

> cl_map max3 [ZipList [1,2], ZipList [3,4], ZipList [5,6]] where max3 x y z = max x (max y z)
[5, 6]

Can this be done? What is the type of cl_map?

Note: If this doesn't work with ZipList, that's ok - the important part is being able to supply the function at runtime. Also, please don't assume that the function is associative or anything like that - it's an arbitrary function of N parameters.
Just tested the "less than a million" prompt: it works, kinda.

https://gist.github.com/minimaxir/14c4de89ed9ecc7a170e7e1ca0...
Snorted stem cells temporarily reverse Alzheimer's in mice
3x is a wide margin. I remember seeing numbers at my last contract job that suggested it was close to 1.75x and was using that number in the process of getting hired directly. I knew the companies costs to hire could be under that 1.75x value but still be a pay bump for me especially as I didn't have any benefits through the contractor saving them costs with no return to me.

For the contracting agency the value of my labor to a third party is how they make money. Seemed simple enough to me but not a racket I wanted to bounce around in.
That is why the single handed "fred" branch shall be the beacon of all truth.

Until it is accused of being sexist, or too western.
Perhaps our artificial representation of neurons are simply much less energy efficient than a biological neuron?
Is this format good for also CRUD-like/mixed workloads?
There are people who believe in fast-pitch softball too. Doesn't mean they're right.
This is great. Are you looking at supporting SSML?
I've seen this claim elsewhere but IMO it's ridiculously misleading. It's technically true that USPS is mandated to fund pensions for people that aren't alive yet. However, they're not required to actually start putting the finds away until those people grow up and start working for USPS.
Thiel wasn't an attendee, he was one of the people running the conference
I find that low level anxiety has helped me to be prepared for the pandemic. I always worry about "what if", and that means that the possibility of (say) being without an income is already accounted for in my mind.

I don't have kids, but I've always worried. How the hell can you afford them? Have plans for them all the time? Never be able to leave the house without them, etc etc etc. Whereas some folks go into things just knowing "it will work" or "they'll find a way". I've watched friends and relatives raise kids; they somehow always manage to find a sitter, or the grandparents step in, or whatever. There are daycare options, schools, etc (in normal times). These are things I don't account for. When I think of having kids I think of being 100% responsible for them all the time, so the actual situation in the pandemic more closely matches my fears than it matches the "old reality".

I think of it a lot like planning for retirement and not expecting social security, or a pension, or an inheritance. Planning for the worst case scenario, I guess, but that "worst case" always seems like reality -- and them I'm pleasantly surprised.
it's "product sans"
yeah, mainly because its generally getting more difficult to distill ideas and keep people interested, highly applicable to communications in engineering
Graphistry uses parquet as a more stable and thus persistent storage format when folks save data, and arrow for ephemeral internal data where we're ok (and somewhat enjoy) version changes, as that just means code version upgrades. There are performance differences in practice such as parquet having more per-column compression modes built in, making it attractive for colder storage, and arrow for in-memory/rpc/streaming/etc for similar reasons.

RE:Feather -- Arrow itself isn't necessarily a full file format -- you can imagine memory buffers being all over the heap with giant gaps inbetween b/c diff cols generated at diff times -- but in practice folks will indeed serialize to disk consolidated buffers (pa.Table -> write stream -> file). If we couldn't do that, RPC wouldn't work ;-) My understanding of Feather is it standardizes ideas around this consolidation, but we are able save to disk (within versions) without it. We found it more predictable to stick to ~Parquet for storage and Arrow buffer passing for streaming, but now that Feather networking APIs for accelerated bulk transfers may be stablizing, there may be speed advantages to using it over manual buffer streaming (and still stick w/ Parquet for persistent files).

Arrow<>Parquet conversion is super fast b/c of the co-design around similar concepts: both using record batches of dense binary column buffers means implementations can pointer-copy, memory map, use bulk copy primitives, etc. for zero-copy or at least highly accelerated interop. Python RAPIDS GPU kernels can therefore selectively stream in a few parquet columns across many parquet files through a single 900GB/s GPU, compute over them, and write back out to arrow or a new parquet.
Of course but it also serves as a proving ground to some reluctant old fogies who act like "it will never work". Not everything about coronapocalypse has to be negative. Maybe when the next pandemic hits people will be working from home more, more acceptable of masks and distance, etc. The next one in a decade or so may be even more virulent and deadly, so this may be a time to learn for all of us especially us stubborn people in the USA.
Pico-8's Zelda Wind Waker behind the scenes thread on how it works
Perfectionism → Inconsistency → Depression