skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. From a high-minded perspective, "Forgiveness has a PR problem" only if one is talking about a group that ignores the canon of religious teachers and what they've said about the importance of forgiveness and mercy, and what that actually means.

From a more basic approach, I don't know what playground Holub was on as a kid leading her to say "we're taught what we'll call "traditional" forgiveness when we're 4 or 5 years old," but I was taught based on Mr. Rogers (and my daughters were taught based on Daniel Tiger), that forgiveness still requires consequences. (See: "Saying sorry is the first step, then how can I help": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oICZVpmtL4c).
This is simply false. Good quality apps that are worth people’s time, are also worth people’s money and word of mouth.

The reason we don’t have as many of these as we otherwise could is precisely because of the incentives of this ad-driven merry-to-round.

Would the world be worse off without TikTok?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...: “Microsoft's obligations under the settlement, as originally drafted, expired on November 12, 2007.[36] However, Microsoft later "agreed to consent to a two-year extension of part of the Final Judgments" dealing with communications protocol licensing, and that if the plaintiffs later wished to extend those aspects of the settlement even as far as 2012, it would not object. The plaintiffs made clear that the extension was intended to serve only to give the relevant part of the settlement "the opportunity to succeed for the period of time it was intended to cover", rather than being due to any "pattern of willful and systematic violations".”

⇒ chances are Microsoft removed the info from their website.

There is https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols..., though. Reading https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1996412, it seems that’s what that evolved into.
Well, at least for reasonably big integers, it is.

There might be faster algos for super long integers, or minute implementation differences that add/subtract few kilogates.
I think the question is whether he deserved it or not.
I'm curious how much farther they might take the platform.

Cloudflare co-founder Michelle Zatlyn likes to say "We're just getting started".
More than 50% of bitcoins from Twitter hack have been sent through mixers
Controlling the ARM holdings the company is very different value prop than a single arm chip .

When they made those decisions ARM wasn’t available for buying, SoftBank was ok top of the world didn’t have to sell anything . A year back do you think SoftBank would consider a proposal so close to their purchase price ?
First, Y Combinator has to be in Australia. I don't know if funding a company there would be enough; suspect not. I don't know whether they have funded an Australian company.

And I'm not going to look, because secondly, even if Australia did somehow get its hooks in to HN to some significant degree, and there was no escape, Y Combinator would simply shut down HN. It's nice enough of them to run it as it is, but expecting them to play by these rules to do it is unreasonable. If they were feeling particularly friendly they might spin it off or something. (Turning it into a subscription service is probably feasible at this point, for instance.) Unlike Google or Facebook, HN is not their core business, and shutting off at this point could even be a net gain for quite a few years. The rep gain that HN afforded them is mostly realized now.

There's no way for Australia to squeeze Y Combinator through HN.
> Brexit seems to have less repercussions than initially thought

There are still agreements. Let's see in 2021. The question if the UK requires quarantine of its tourists coming back from Spain will be overshadowed by the question if the tourists get there in the first place.

> you have Germany strong arming France into giving weak nations billions

Rather the other way around.
Incredibly interesting article, I don't think it's just America that suffers from "success culture", from Europe to Asia to Africa you can find swathes of people who want to "be the best".

And it's worrying, because at some point you will do the best work you can. You will hit that goal. If you don't have any other things you want to achieve out of doing a good job at work, I could see it easy to fall down the slippery slope of depression.

Thought provoking stuff!
DNS blocking/filtering is a flimsy solution which is only effective if most people don't use it. If it ever becomes mainstream (which is starting to happen), trackers will just use CNAMEs or proxies (which is also starting to happen)
complex numbers. These numbers involve i, the square root of −1, and they take the form a + bi, where a is the real part and b is the imaginary part.

This is the shortest explanation I've seen of what a complex number is! (Reminds me of when a piece on some advancement in quantum physics in a pop-science magazine tries to explain to the reader what an atom is.)

Edit: OK, let me try then to explain what homology is: it is a way of discovering (and counting) interesting features of the space in consideration (like holes in a topological space or fixed points of a symplectic transformation) by looking at a series of algebraic structures, such as Abelian groups or vector spaces, which one can often conjure up from objects of the space (points, paths, etc.)
I think you mean the very early years 1870's and 80' unfortunately the AFL did discriminate against Black and Female Workers.
Hash maps hide lots of internal state though. I think the difference is hash maps have a clear, battle tested API and its obvious what should be promised by the interface and what should be internal implementation.

Devs aren't clairvoyant so when we're making a new type we might sometimes get this wrong. But this is a fundamental issue with type systems in general and not OOP, is it not?
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The examples I have seen tease but are not fully clear on how far GPT-3 can go on tasks that are not in principle text generation tasks.

For example I’ve seen the translation to HTML code demo. Of course, LSTMs already generate quasi compilable code. But the promise seems far better here. Countless “AI” tasks can be conceptualized as entering prompts and receiving code — playing chess, finding logical implications (maybe from tabular data like in Formal Concept Analysis), detecting outliers in columnar/matrix data. How much does GPT do? How much turf beyond chatbots and automatic journalism does it cover?
I've skimmed the paper, its answered a lot of my questions. I think the article tried to dumb it down too much and skipped over some important information;

Still not sure why the absorption points couldn't be uniformly widened by nature, but i will go over the paper more thoroughly when time allows, its very interesting. thank you.
FCC approves Amazon’s internet-from-space constellation of 3,236 satellites
I believe grandparent is referring to ARM's Mali GPU.
The problem here is that Europe optimized for passenger rail (so the rail is fast, which is good for people, but expensive per mile, which is bad for freight) and the US optimized for freight with the reverse positives and negatives.

The only country that I’m aware of that did both great on the same network was China, but they ran into capacity issues so they spent hundreds of billions to move people onto a brand new dedicated passenger high speed rail network and now the legacy slow one has more room for freight.
That's excellent!
> Koda is wrong for not wanting to take a 70% cut in revenue? I wonder if you'd be open to the idea of a 70% pay cut? Probably not right? Now what if your employer was the only employer where you live?

I don't know. Google provides so much value in all our lives, it sounds like it's fair that it should get a 70% cut in our personal revenues, too. /s
SoftBank would want cash, they need to reduce their debt load , that’s pretty much they are considering this price in the first place
Show HN: Removing non visible views from the DOM and altering their state
That's because we confer and infer specific rights in different situations there. Selling something confers ownership, and lending something confers right to use, possibly limited by stipulations at that time. Re-lending something may or may not be allowed depending on what the original lending agreement was. In the metaphor, limiting in this way is like your friend saying "here, but don't let anyone else use it, I trust you, not them" when it's lent. For businesses doing some sort of lending it's generally more complex and a contract (like what you sign when renting a car), and may or may not cover usage by other people.

I have no idea what limitations, if any, are put on the lending of digital goods by law or by the specific terms of IA, or the terms the other libraries in question offer.
> I don't think hypomania really needs to be treated with anything other than talk therapy

I generally agree with this to my experience, with the caveat that their depressive swings are managed well - via medication or other means.
What? I have a bunch of hydrangeas in my yard right now that range from light to dark blue. They are definitely not violet or any other close blue color. They are as blue as blue can be. And they haven’t been artificially tampered with. We planted them 15 years ago and have done nothing for them since. Not even fertilizer.
AMD document their ISA: https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUUsage.html#additional-documentat...

That's why third party open shader compilers like ACO could be made:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/tree/master/src/a...
I turned an old clock into a Bonnaroo Jukebox/Time Capsule
It's not hard to get into a university in the UK. It is quite hard to get into a 'top' university, and Oxbridge typically requires a fair bit of luck in addition to being very hard.

There are pretty decent apprenticeships, but only so many people want to work trades regardless. It's not exactly a ticket to wealth or status like a degree might still be perceived.
On that note, the grpc spec specifically calls for load balancing that doesn't actually do the proxying, but instead hands out assignments, with the server passing it's current load back to the load balancer service. it sounds like in this case the grpc client is using some array of xDS, but the server is using xDS along with...?
Wireless technology is a patent minefield. CPUs generally aren't because the techniques for internals are old, and internal design, manufacturing, and especially validation (where intel fell flat lately) methodologies dominate the costs and quality.

For much of ARM's recent volume use in MCUs and slightly larger embedded devices, there is credible threat from first party usage of RISC-V (see WD, Nvidia).

Access to the ISA itself can be of high value.. see x86 and s390x for prime examples. Although I don't really see how ARM could pull that off outside being an acquisition like this, and making the licensing process onerous enough that people move to buying chips from nvidia instead of doing their own designs. In such a scenario, RISC-V can become a credible threat to phones too, and the server thing pundits keep pushing for the past 15 years never happens.

So there is a lot of value here, but it's pretty hard to grow as a pure licensing play as ARM has been since there are many risks and opportunities for price compression.
Tesla Megapacks to Store Solar Energy for Switch Data Centers
I think you covered part of the problem in the second half of your statement.

In the US, part of the problem is that by making education debts non-dischargable in bankruptcy, and by the aforementioned proliferation of degrees that may qualify as 'nice to have' rather than 'increase earning potential'.

The end result is a lot of people who got a college degree that doesn't really pay for itself, and instead leads to 20+ years of debt, or 10 years of indentured servitude to a non-profit.
It's Nvidia circling back for a kill on intel. They didn't go head to head, even they wanted to. Instead they built a completely different space within data centers for them, got a foothold, expanded (mellanox) and now going for the missing piece, which will also allow them to expand the battleground with intel outside of datacenters. Interesting times and Nvidia, so far, showed they know their strategic moves.
Aren't AMD's APU's a better product for that market and will replace intel sooner or later?
>Why do you think SF housing prices have gone up x% over the last 20 years?

Draconian zoning laws dramatically restricting supply?

I love idiots screeching about big tech creating to much demand. Seriously? Too much demand is a bad thing? Hardly! How about reversing the crap zoning laws and NIMBY attitudes so supply can rise up to meet demand?

The SF housing crises was caused by a bunch of selfish people declaring through policy (zoning laws) that they have theirs and don't want where they are to change to accommodate others.

And this is supposed to be an enlightened leftist utopia? Talk is cheap until it can affect you personally is the real lesson of San Fransisco housing politics - playing out rather dramatically. Blaming landlords is laughable. San Fransisco has an embarrassment of jobs brought by the high tech companies in the bay area and instead of embracing them (by letting more housing be constructed) they resent them and blame everyone but the real root cause - severely restricted supply.
>There is this parable about building a house upon sand versus building upon rock. When the storm comes the house on the sand gets washed away.

Yeah, on the other hand if the house-upon-sound has already made you one of the top-5 billionaires on Earth before it got washed away, I guess that's OK too...
Are these even people solely majoring in gender studies? That seems to be the sort of degree that might work as a double-major with something more general and practical. Perhaps there may be even a handful of CS/gender studies double majors.
Crowdsampling the Plenoptic Function
A street view timelapse would be cool to see. Many places would have 10+ years by now.
I had one model from Asus, battery life was terrible and if you were doing anything remotely intensive it doubled up as a nice hand warmer...

I know that these probably are solvable problems, but they left a pretty bad taste...
Interesting article, but I don't see the original research linked. There isn't much content here to say the effectiveness of the pinecones on the water purification. I was also confused with the 550 degrees vs 35 degrees comparision. I'd be curious to see if pine cones can have an impact on desalination as well.
Dawg on the Wall
Unlikely to differ much, at least as of mid-twentieth century practice:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm

> "The lower down the echelon, the nearer the armies of the world came to standardizing psychological warfare organization. They did this for the same reason that they all organize into regiments instead of centuries, cohorts, or tribes. Modern war is a self-standardizing process if the enemy experience is to be copied, enemy techniques improved, allied assistance accepted, and military practice kept up to world standards. Psychological warfare units needed printing and radio sections; to service these sections they all needed intelligence and analysis offices; to distribute their materials they all needed agents and liaison. Black propaganda organization varied more than did white, but it was amazing to Americans, uncovering Japanese subversive-operations units, to see how much the Japanese organization resembled their own."

(White propaganda is material one admits one has written. Black propaganda is material one claims someone else has written. Both go back to well before the last century. Linebarger has historical notes, with examples going back thousands of years. Having been one of the people who "lost china", Linebarger also offers some opinions on why the communist propaganda was more effective than the capitalist in that case.)
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Ancient pottery pig dug up in China looks like 'Angry Birds' character
I think radio tech is an issue in the mobile space. It is heavily patented and the big players who can integrate this technology into their chips can offer much more energy efficient solutions.
Reminds me of something my Dad sent me when I was dealing with grief over someone who wronged me. It's from the Alcoholics Anonymous book, but I found the advice worked anyway. Here's the scan from the book:
https://imgur.com/a/XlkPGLp
This is what they tried to do with Nervana and are trying again to do with Habana.
So if this continues Facebook is gonna evolve into something like Etsy or Shopify?!
Survive - The Economic Collapse
(and I'm half joking here)
When you say "political views they don't like", it sounds like he wanted more or less taxes, more or less regulation, more or less public transit.

Let's be clear, he's a holocaust denier, and that's not just an unpopular "political view".

He has every right to say it to whoever will listen, but private companies should not be forced to amplify that shit.
Well, well, well. Some months from now, let's revisit all the sentiments here and see if they still apply when Apple/Google/etc make a change that hurts some startup's bottom line. I'm guessing not so much praise and enthusiasm when it happens to someone else, instead of a big bad company like FB, right? We'll see...
Not really, it helps to make a point.

Honestly, CSO folks. If you want my e-mail, try a bit harder than two paragraphs of text and a popup. Yes, I'm your target audience.
we've actually made something similar. Have a few unique workflow features for switching and searching as well.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blink/jgnbmndipgkk...
>Google is doing exactly that and seems to have a market share of 75% vs Apple's 25% [1]. What am I missing?

It's easy to have a big market share if you go for market share. Heck, if I start selling dollars for 50 cents I can probably get 100% of the global money market...
Who's your employer? ;)
Ask HN: Are LUTs copyright-able in the US?
Dear HN,

Elecrophoretic (e-paper) displays often use a .fw "waveform" file, generated by a tool, for driving the displays. This waveform file is a lookup table (LUT) of timings, voltages, and temperatures for driving a panel of specific electrical characteristics.

Since it seems this LUT is not created as a form of art (being auto-generated) and it is also a raw representation of driving properties, my gut tells me this isn't copyrightable because facts can't be copyrighted.

Are there any lawyers here who could weigh in? Can these waveform files be freely shared, and do they belong to the public domain?

Thanks.
I recommend Mind Illuminated
AMD ATI deal went through , if this got blocked , isn’t it antitrust other way around ? You are not letting Nvidia compete with AMD?
Rural "housewives" in the developing world run little businesses or sidelines (cooking, sewing, childcare, midwifery and other medicine, selling produce), and/or work on the farm. They're very much a part of the informal workforce.
Yes, but still small compared to Apple's. They make 2x or more the revenue with much much higher margins...
Anglerfish have always been the animal that top the charts for me in disgust, terror, and fascination. Really cool to learn more about the way they live.
Doesn’t intel ship the most GPUs? Just not discrete. Their iGPUs are in so many low end systems compared to any systems with discrete graphics cards
The plus side to this is that it’ll kill (some) off-platform link sharing, which kills the “drive traffic to make money” strategy, which may reduce the amount of outrage porn circulating in the English-speaking world.

Best of luck to the Aussies, and maybe we’ll catch up sooner or later.
How does this change things in California?
I'm not sure for how much this accounts, but the UK allowed polytechnics to call themselves universities. Of course, this then increases the number of people going to uni... but this might've been a bad idea. While there was a prestige issue with the name, they now have to compete on a similar playing field.

Germany's interesting here, since they had/have Fachhochschulen (apparently translated to University of Applied Sciences). Some of which were very highly regarded, and offered a different focus that suited some people. Although after the Bologna Process, this difference is less clear, too.
Haha, I went to the websites of the guys pushing for this. News.com.au

Hoo boy am I glad I don’t get value from that. Oof. Dang. Look at that. Oh boy.
(Re: RISC-V) I hope so!!!
I recognize the value I get from news publishers and try to support them. It would never in a million years occur to me that, when I tell someone "here's this neat article I read about new studies on the minimum wage", I owe the newspaper for being allowed to do that.
I could say the same thing about Flat Earthers, QAnon, and so on. Do you read the blogs? Of course not. Does that mean you can't criticise them?
Split keyboards are really popular amongst the Japanese mechanical keyboard scene for some reason. Tons of people making and selling DIY split / ortholinear split kits.
>Ideally the money should come from the elite class that is accumulating the capital thanks to automation and monopolization. A huge part of this capital is currently spent in non-productive ways like speculation, lobbying and luxuries.

The hubris in this is utterly breathtaking.
I don't get what you're trying to say. If Google stops showing news from participants, but show news from non-participants (due to false negatives causing their algorithm to fail to identify those sites as news), would that not be obvious discrimination according to the above quote?
This is a bit misleading. Using the same website if you look at North America iOS has 50% and if you look at Europe it is 75%. We have to consider this because Apple products cost significantly more. People in America and Europe are more often going to buy flagship phones than people in different countries. So people that have the money to buy new Apple products are doing so at a much higher rate than what you're suggesting.
The use of blockchain technology can indeed solve many problems in the field of voting and scientific personnel questionnaire, and optimize the user experience of the survey service; the introduction in the white paper is relatively perfect
I'm surprised to read a comment like this. It seems like an incredibly harsh generalization. I know plenty of PhDs who have a good relationship with academia, or even no relationship.

I also think it's unrealistic to expect PhDs to have a "basic understanding of statistics" unless they specifically studied it. I would be shocked and dismayed to see a PhD statistician misunderstand basic statistics; I wouldn't blink if a PhD mathematician or physicist made basic statistical errors. It's hard enough to achieve research-level mastery of one domain in five years, and many mathematicians and physicists (most?) do not need stats.

If you're talking about fields like psychology or sociology, I personally disagree with the expectations they're held to. I believe we would have less of a reproducibility crisis if research projects had statistician coauthors and peer reviewers, rather than just PhDs for whom statistics is not a core competency. That would be fairer and more realistic.

Finally, to be blunt it's hard for me to take this comment seriously when you say something like this:

> The current generation of PhDs don't know how to do any kind of real research
The value of college is not being diluted. It's the signal to employers that college degrees is useful filter that is being diluted.

Hiring in general is done poorly and I understand why. It's hard to differentiate between so many candidates especially for entry level positions where a lack of job history makes it difficult to evaluate talent. So it makes sense that employers optimize for lazy signals like completion of a degree.

In general universal education is far better for a country.
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