skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IanDrake: I upvoted you here to offset some of the downvoting.

While your posts here arguable lack a little tact, I think this discussion would be improved if people who strongly disagree would respond with substantive, logical argument.

I don't think you're really wrong here, but some things are worth noting:

- People are generally not rational beings who examine their lives and try to live them better. So it's not reasonable to expect a large majority of people to take the kind of initiative you're describing

- There are only so many jobs in Billings, MT. So it's not like all the struggling families in San Fransisco can move there and all expect to do better. They need to all move to 10000 different parts of the country.

- Most kinds of working class jobs do not typically interview candidates from around the whole country so it gets tricky to first find a job and then relocate. And uprooting your family and moving 1000 miles to then look for a job seems risky.
> Personally, I'm completely content with not having kids.

Sincere question: I wonder how you'll feel in 30 or 40 years. I have an extremely smart, distant-relative-by-marriage who's in his late 60s; he dotes on his two middle-aged nephews and their young families — my speculation is that, as he has developed some health problems, he's come to realize that they're all he has for his old age.
Not really; X86 still has an equivalent to device tree in the ACPI tables.

Device Tree is IMO better than X86's implementation because ACPI just gives you bytecode that you as the kernel have to trust to perform actions whereas device tree gives you a declarative view of the system.
Their success seems to demonstrate that they were right to prioritize functionality over security.
No, but people frequently do change things like diet, sleeping patterns, exercise etc. on the basis of seeing whether they work for them.

And people often harm themselves immensely through inaction in the same areas.

People also change their breathing patterns all the time, or don't, without knowing what they're doing or not doing.

You're advocating a line of thinking that simply is not how most people live their lives, and never will be, because it would paralyse us.
Oh it's absolutely terrifying - I just think it's important to highlight that in this situation there's a large power inbalance that doesn't exist in the SV example. It's likely most developers didn't walk into having an App knowing how this weird refund rule worked, so for most folks (if this is an issue) you've got the sunk cost of building the app already and have the choice of 1) putting up with Apple's arbitrary rules or 2) unlisting your app from the store and accepting that you'll never see another dime off your labour.
I guess I'm jut having difficulty defining what my team does vs. others that are on the same larger team. There's also a weird extra level on the org chart where ICs on my team and ICs on the head of the team are on different levels on paper.
PayPal does refund the variable portion of the fee (e.g. 2.7%) but not the fixed portion (e.g. 30 cents).
The amount refunded minus the continuing value to the user of the returned product (absent the value already extracted from the product by the user), of course.
Microsoft has been great these last few years. This probably goes with their XR, HL2, MRTK push. Glad to see they are supporting more of the ecosystem!
I've always found it somewhat confusing how common operations like this with identical behavior but differing syntax can have such drastic differences in speed. Another example would be `for (let i in array) { array[i]...` versus `array.forEach(...`.

For highly optimized engines like V8 and SpiderMonkey, it seems like recognizing these cases and automatically substituting in the faster behavior would be pretty low hanging fruit that could have a significant impact on existing scripts' performance.

Maybe there's some underlying reason to do with how these engines work internally that prevents such optimizations from easily being performed though.
Your graph does not tell anything about absolute values. My shitty app has grown 400% in that timeframe, by your metric it should be values at least 200$ billion?
If they are hiking prices up this much because of convenience, then they really shouldn't complain when people take a little bit of extra effort to go to the nearest big store.
Plus the junk code he gets to try to understand is actually worse than theirs. Improbable as that might also seem sometimes.
It is interesting that there was recently a petition asking for people to support the national security law, and that it managed to gather 3 million signatures. For comparison, high estimations on the number of people who went on the streets to protest, was about 2 million. Both numbers are likely to be overestimations, but it seems to show that the Hong Kong people are divided about whether China is good for them, and whether they should support the protests or not. It is unfortunate that the mainstream media only reports Hong Kong events on the surface level, and does not analyze the issue more deeply.

To those that wish to learn more deeply about the Hong Kong events, I recommend browsing Quora. There are quite some people there who say they live in Hong Kong.
Thank you for the links - you've opened my mind a bit here. I still don't think that's necessarily worthy of the word "gassing" given we're in a global pandemic and people aren't being murdered.

> Please note that Jews in Nazi Germany were considered criminals by law as well

The Jews in Nazi Germany were criminals because byzantine laws were created to justify their arrest. Detaining trespassers has been a crime in every nation in history.

What would you prefer to happen?

- Increase the ICE budget and not take away their resources (GitHub, AWS, and all the other boycotts), causing the conditions to be _even worse_.

- Abolish ICE and let potentially thousands of un-vetted people out into the country. People who could have criminal background.
Or, if they allegations are true, you could look at this as "rampant growth in data harvesting".
Tesla will carry on for the next few years,until all the major manufacturers will get to the point,where making electric becomes a new norm. At that point Tesla may become no more than Dachia or Kia.
COPY trips
FROM '/Users/mark/taxi_csv/*.gz'
WITH (HEADER='false');

> The above managed to complete in 31 minutes and 40 seconds. The resulting import produced 294 GB of data in OmniSciDB's internal format.

I’m really curious how a simple import (no indexes or data typing) into SQLite would compare. But I don’t have 700GB of free SSD space to spare.
> Third world resident here. $5k a month income would get you living like a king here

Unsurprising, because only king would be earning this kind of income per month.
If we have Americans making cheap things on American soil for minimum wage... that doesn't change the larger issue at all.
To avoid unhealthy competition that endangers competition itself, regulation is required. Humans have tendency to monopolise.

Regulations makes competition important for benefit maximization. Apple would have long bought and closed by Microsoft if not for Regulation. AMD would have had suffered end.
Look up Morris Chang. The man's a visionary and the single reason why Taiwan still exists as a sovereign nation.
I absolutely loved this when I found it. Delicious was just such a great place to find cool, esoteric stuff.

I love any sites with lists on it made by regular people. Rateyourmusic is the same. Find a band you love, find out who else has an album on their list, get digging.

Same with Delicious. I was gutted when it shut.
I think this is right, especially when it comes to capturing externalities. In that case, you're just changing the environment in which they compete.
> If we hadn't been stuck in a cult earlier in life we probably would have waited to start having kids.

You weren't stuck in a cult. Consensus figurehead reality (CFR) was vying for your attention and you were looking for an escape. Judging by the fact that it helped you defy CFR on the most important life decision (reproduction), you chose wisely.

Also the ruling class discourages reproduction due to the tactic of Parasitic Castration. Raising kids takes money--money that could have been diverted to the ruling class.
My recollection is there was a compulsory agreement saying you would not do anything of a nature related to your work, or if you did, allow the company to decide if they wanted to claim it.

Also, running side businesses was not allowed.

Of course, the normal thing to do was just ignore the rules, because most likely nobody would notice or care. I explicitly asked for permission because I wanted to see what would happen.
Not to mention a lot of their flagship platforms are MIT Licensed, as opposed to MS-PL or their other plethora of licenses.

They've also improved .NET with .NET Core and embraced (heh) the community built package manager for .NET as their platform to publish official packages and their updates making the expansion of the already rich ecosystem for .NET easy from Microsoft's standpoint instead of updating things every major release.

Microsoft is a big company, so I'm sure there's still some legacy styled management, but there's plenty of good now. Compared to Google, they're doing a lot better contributing to open source.
PayPal also keeps the fees when a refund is issued https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/20/20876570/paypal-refund-fe...
How a developer on mini-retirement built a viral newsletter on trends
> Soviet bureaucracy wanted to transform

Quite the opposite: soviet bureaucracy didn't want to transform anything, they were more concerned with maintaining the status quo for as long as they could. This is why the system turned out to be too rigid to withstand the pressures of the modern world.

On the other hand, think about how much the planned economy would benefit from the wide-spread automation and access to modern computing and communications.
It is still a whiteboard question according to the definition on the above mentioned github page - which is correct.
I'm a bit confused by what you're saying. Are you saying that it's worth buying an Nvidia GPU because of the h265 performance? h264 is what most streaming devices have the capability to hardware decode, and generally is the default target of transcoding. It's pretty rare to have a device that would force your files to be encoded in h265 as opposed to h264. For me the most common use-case for transcoding is decoding an h265 file and re-encoding it as h264. For my devices that can stream either format, I usually end up in direct play mode rather than doing any sort of video transcoding
Which seems to make sense, but I don't think SpaceX wants to develop another vehicle. That's extremely expensive. The goal of Starship is to do both, and it can do both.

It also gets debunked by replies. This will never happen.
Hi,

Raza here (one of the other co-founders). Good question! I think our visions are quite different even if our starting points look similar.

Scale has always positioned themselves as an API to human labour and their goal is to abstract the labelling task away from the end user as much as possible. So scale works really well when you can easily outsource your annotation task.

Our ultimate goal is to try and give domain experts the ability to teach ML models themselves. We're much more focussed on NLP and on tasks that require domain expertise and are hard to outsource. For people where deep domain expertise matters or their are privacy concerns, Scale isn't really an option and we're building tools for them.

On another point, Scale makes its money by charging per annotation so we think they aren't as incentivised to reduce how much you need to label.

thanks!
North Korea’s Lazarus brings state-sponsored hacking approach to ransomware
Sure but you are still just "renting" the software.
> I hate "sprint"

Me too. It sounds exhausting.
This is a strange result -- it's saying that an ice age could be caused by a change in sunlight. With made up numbers, it's saying that a change from 100W/m2 to 60W/m2 could cause an ice age, even though a stable regime at 60W/m2 would not create an ice age. Even if it just claims that a change in temp speeds the onset of an ice age that's surprising to me.
The PS1, PS2, and PS3 were insanely successful consoles that were completely designed in Japan as far as I understand, so it’s still 3/5 for the Japanese teams.
Evergreen – distributed continuous integration system
DARPA is working on nuclear thermal propulsion systems
This blew up, but like 5 comments down in twitter someone said it wasn't true.
The government of Taiwan realized that their semiconductor industry might be the one thing that the US would be willing to go to war with China over to protect. So the government has invested heavily in ensuring they maintain critical mass in semiconductor expertise, typically by investing heavily in university education and research in related engineering fields. Computer/electrical/materials engineering is pretty much the default major everyone gets funneled into without capacity limits since at least the 70s.

For example, my parents and all their friends weren't well off enough to afford private university, but majors at public university were limited by the government based on projected need with slots offered to only the highest test scores. They couldn't test high enough to secure a public university slot for accounting, art, architecture, education, medicine, and trades such as automotive repair or plumbing. So they all ended up with computer science and engineering degrees. Fully paid for by the government.

They basically treat the semiconductor industry like how the US treats its defense industry.
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Their paint3d app isn't the worst thing for non technical creatives. But it scares me when I see the big MS start "embracing" something I love.
A product or service is worth what people will pay, not what it costs.
> "think how oppressed the homemaker is!"

Associating homemaking and raising children with oppression is probably part of the reason why modern society is not reproducing.

You may receive a comment soon regarding the opportunity cost of your wife staying home. As if she is an object of economic activity who is unfashionably compelled to pause her value generation in order to raise kids.
I think main cause of issue with Scaleway's ARM offering could be their own custom Bios and not the actual hardware. I hope they had come clean with the actual technical details of the stability issues instead of just mentioning it in one line on their migration guide to x86 from ARM servers.
Other than lack of refunds and poor support for a decade, Steam was still the most consumer friendly app store. They got everything else right.
...or the signatures are fake? Petition fraud. Happens in US too, see net neutrality.
This is the kind of thing that made it easy for me to justify $39/year (for full page archives). Boring technology isn’t going to excite anyone, but it sure as hell will keep ticking along so long as someone’s at the wheel.
I would guess what happens is actual money does not change hands when a purchase is made.

Instead, Apple keeps records of what it owes each developer, and at some later date (likely monthly), it makes one big payment to the developer.

Thus at purchase time, Apple enters +$70 in the records it keeps of what it owes a developer. And at refund time, it enters -$100. So the net effect of a purchase and then refund is +$70 + -$100 = -$30.
They can be valuable to the end user, but if the core business changes, implements your wrapper itself, or otherwise doesn't like your wrapper business, you're toast.

And that's why I won't build wrapper businesses. It could be all gone in a week, outside your control. It's happened to plenty of businesses that have made os-level utilities that sit on top of iOS, for example.
Would you pay $15/mo or $100/yr for a new age forum?

(I run Remarkbox and I'm trying to find product market fit)
For a list of benchmarks by the same author.

https://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html

Caveat: these benchmarks only test the simplest of operations like aggregation (GROUP BY, COUNT, AVG) and sorts (ORDER BY). No JOINs or window operations are performed. Even basic filtering (WHERE) doesn't seem to have been tested. YMMV.
Open Problems in Robotics
I think cookiecutter could be used for any project. Python happens to be the language its implemented in. Looks neat, simple.
If Microsoft is smart, they will continue to support large productivity applications in major industries that don't fit into an app store model.

The kinds of things that work better on a full Windows 10 machine.
Ask HN: Would you move to make your vote more effective?
With COVID-19 closures and remote work flexibility, it seems likely that many people will move away from city life to be closer to family or to lower cost of living. This coincides with an election year when many Americans are deeply upset with the current government.

Would you consider moving / registering to vote where your vote has a higher likelihood of swinging an election? This could mean moving to a state that you normally wouldn't have considered, moving to a part of a state or city that has a contested congressional district, or registering to vote where you are staying during COVID-19 (assuming you meet voter registration requirements).

Consider a Massachusetts voter. In the presidential election, Biden is up on Trump by a large margin. The Senate seat and 9 Congressional districts are all safely Democratic. This voter will have almost zero influence on the federal government in November. But, what if this same voter moved to Maine's 2nd Congressional district? The Senate and House seats are toss-ups and the Presidential race is polling within single digits. Due to Maine's small population, a single vote has 4.5X the influence in the Senate as it would have in Massachusetts.

States that have small populations and multiple, closely contested elections will give your vote the most influence: Iowa has 3 toss-up congressional districts, a presidential election polling within 1%, and a Senate election within 3%. Montana has a toss-up Senate election and a vacancy for Governor. Other battleground states, such as Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have larger populations, which lessens the chance that your single vote (or hundreds of similar votes) will swing the election. But your vote is still valuable-- in 2000, Bush defeated Gore by only ~500 votes in Florida.
Now I'm more confused. I get why it "should" be $140 but I have no idea where the $90 came from.
And if you don't take UNIX to mean (only) Linux, then it was created at Bell Labs, and not by a Finn.
The jurisdiction that will come to most minds is the EU, but it has exemptions for digitally downloaded content and unsealed software.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...
Normally I read these and expect to learn nothing applicable. But the UNLOGGED table tip was exactly what I needed for the ETL project that I'm working on.

Thanks!
I'm not an expert, but I believe 4K support is required? Apple doesn't do that; they just have 16K granules (which I forsee as being problematic with compatibility as they bring these over to macOS).
someone has felt the need to ask this exact question every time delicious came up since the first time i showed it to anyone in 2003
I vaguely recall a John C. Dvorak column (yes, I am too lazy to look it up) from the 1990s (maybe?) concerning a trip to Taiwan where he wondered if they were doing an experiment to see what would happen if everyone got a degree in electrical engineering.
In Sweden you have to explicitly waive your right to a refund. Otherwise you can do it for 14 days.
None of these companies have monopolies
I've heard of this but am curious, does this also apply to people calling for boycotting companies?
I just use a shortcut straight to the subscriptions feed, and curate my own content
Ask a soldier if they'd rather be dead or blind and they'll often choose blindness; however, can society handle a million corpses or a million blind dependents they feel obligated to take care of? That's a much harder question to answer, but the purely pragmatic perspective will choose the former.

It's sad to say, but many families taking care of gas attack survivors after WW1 grew to resent or even hate the victims because taking care of the victim cost the families the ability to live their lives. What is the quality of life for a victim stuck in a long-term care facility for the rest of their life to be alone and miserable for the next 50-60 years praying for an end they know is far off?

Experiencing the horror of war and seeing the sanitized depiction in Hollywood or games must be very different. After two world wars within 25 years, EVERYONE knew people crippled and ruined by war, so they set out with the idea to ensure it wouldn't happen to their children as well. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren growing up in many places today seem to not really understand.

We need to accept that they knew what they were talking about else we run the risk of bringing those monsters back to life.
Is that not fair? Amazon is legitimately in competition with me walking to the store.
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Does anyone know why my post gets downvoted? Is it not neutral and balanced enough?
How Office Friendships Impact Remote Work Culture
When office culture suddenly becomes Zoom culture, it can get lonely. Will our workplace friendships save us?
Are there any good examples of embrace extend extinguish under nadella's tenure? I keep seeing this meme everywhere (including in this thread) but git is doing fine, Linux is doing fine. The only notable things I've seen extinguished are their own windows phone and phone hardware platforms.
Europe does have 14 days refund for online orders, without conditions.

https://ecommercenews.eu/online-returns-in-europe/
My experience is completely to the contrary. It's just the same videos over and over again. (Apparently, there are just two new videos published on YT over an average week. I wonder, how they are still thriving.) Discoverability is only by text search. If I watch a video, it gets added to the recommendations (as I ought to re-watch it instantly.) It's even worse with the new interface and the "recently added" section gone. – Apparently, my very own bubble is my own past, exclusively. Completely broken.

I've been experiencing this for years and it's worse to a critical point with the notion of recentness gone.
Yeah but they don't pretend that it is foolproof. It's the typical government "we have to do something" answer to a fundamental problem. Software defined networks are not secure from state level interference and everybody in tech that is honest knows it. And since they are not secure, and not easily monitored with strong encryption they're the perfect delivery vector for targeted malware. I wish we had the political will in the liberal alliance to say no to networking gear originating from countries like China.
3million signatures.. they would never fake that now would they?

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/420764-chicago-alderman-ca...
The sliders are for sound, not visual parameters.

This site just combines the visual effect with some sound recordings. See the bottom of https://hipstersound.com/premium.html
Or just give major league baseball players the experimental vaccines. We'd be done with phase three in a few weeks if every MLB player who agreed to play volunteered for one of the vaccines currently entering/in phase three.
Not true anymore. Check their website https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/is-there-a-fee-f...
Tech Giants Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon to Face Congress
To be clear, they are rather riot leaders who funded by US than "student group leaders".
Same here, they used to but stopped about a year ago.