skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My AC is broken and I’m a broke student so I either keep the windows down or die a heat death in these months. Though it’s also kinda chill once you get used to it. The only thing is that my left arm is now noticeably browner than my right arm.
You need the bread around the sandwich too, i.e. if you learnt statistical mechanics solely through Landau I think you'd miss some of the intuition in terms of heat and work and so forth (It's in the book but blurred behind the russian-ness). Bra-ket notation really helps me focus in big equations when battling attention span (certainly not present in my library edition of L&L)

Jackson's book is surprisingly practical considering its reputation (I wasn't expected any discussion of Galerkins method for example)

MTW is great although a little odd by today's standards (how many books talk about tensors as machines with slots and holes)
Old-style Python sdist/egg is exactly the same and it has the two issues mentioned in my original reply. Python sdist/Ruby extconf/mkmf also has an issue of executing code from the package itself to install a package and can be a huge security issue (which Python wheels were supposed to solve).

The reason this has never become a problem in Ruby world is because Ruby community is centered around Rails, of which a requirement to deploy on non-x86_64/ARM64 is pretty much non-existent. Ruby itself doesn't even support non-glibc (e.g. compiling Ruby on musl requires a patch).
What do you mean by “non-alcoholic entertainment”? Events where alcohol isn’t present?
Alcohol has psychological effects and peer pressuring people into experiencing them seems pretty not cool.
There is a ton of demand for top talent and India is not going to fulfill that. India may have higher number of engineers but the ratio of decent talent at NON-FAANG companies is very low. The reason for this is in India Engineering education is forced by the parents and that's why there are too many engineers but good ones are very few.
I corrected it hundreds of times so it had plenty to learn from. If you don’t have this bug when swipe-typing then I guess it’s much less likely to be fixed for me in an update, oh well.
I feel like most places have vast systemic problems. It's just that they are problems unique to each place, at least, in their own way.
Compare Google and Apple's privacy policies. Autocorrection and autocompletion is far easier if you're willing to hoover up vast amounts of user data to train your models and provide personalisation. It's a similar story with Siri and Google Assistant.
A thought just came to my mind. Let's say 30 years ago, I said to a colleague with whom I shared accesses to some Unix systems, "You know, I can use 'ps' to see what processes you are running. If I know the details about certain flaws of those binaries, I may be able to run a custom binary simultaneously on the system and figure out some of your data!" Would he/she be surprised or alarmed?
https://nypost.com/2016/10/21/the-puritans-really-loved-havi...
Cyclists are leading the way though. Maybe we could get a statue to honor them along some important (bike) path?
> shouldn’t every baby boomer sitting in a million dollar home that they bought for 10k or whatever be forced to pay a tax as well?

Yes.
They were both joking! Sending out an executable to attend an event is the exact type of action DEFCON hopes to prevent.
It isn't just you that affects the learning.

> if the word is in the dictionary, then don’t change it

Actually the thing that bugs me the most is that when there's a word that is in the dictionary that's long and complex and it doesn't suggest it, even when I have the right word. It just isn't underlined red. Or a one off error with these words and it has no idea what I'm trying to spell.

They have a long way to go. These systems aren't just ML btw.
It's not just search. Google Photos "slurps" photos at 10-20x the rate of Photos.app with clear indication of what's happening and what's being uploaded.

Photos... just sits there. To get a new photo to my desktop it's faster to open Google Photos on my desktop and download the photo from there than wait for both Photos.apps to finish syncing.
Please don’t equate owning a single home to owning millions of shares. The notion that these types of wealth are all the same and should be under similar rules is toxic.
Intel leak part 1.5, apparently contains Intel's HDCP root certificate
While you dont have to explain yourself for not drinking. I am intrigued as to why you chose this no drinking rule for yourself. Care to share?
Come on, they run not clean at all. Have you smelled a brand new diesel engine during winter? Or even a bad self-polluting hybrid?

Personal automobiles are part of the problem. Perhaps not the biggest problem but a big one in cities.
The Deer Hunter
I really don't like this quote: it reinforces this weird idea of what a "real man" is and that a real man should get drunk from time to time.

If someone doesn't want to drink or get drunk, so be it: don't lord it over them like they haven't performed some rite of passage, and it's especially disrespectful towards people who have had bad experiences with alcohol.
The article's presentation of the research is completely wrong. There aren't any new side channels here. All the paper purports to show (albeit in a somewhat self-aggrandizing manner) is that the mechanisms for Meltdown and Foreshadow were incompletely understood when originally presented. But there's nothing knew in the notion that speculative execution optimizations are responsible for most side channels, nor that they played a role in Meltdown and Foreshadow. "Spectre" is a play on words--it alludes to speculative execution.

There aren't any major new exploits detailed in this paper. They introduce a slightly new gadget for exposing data, but it can be and is mitigated by existing techniques (e.g. retpolines). The only noteworthy aspect is that, as it regards SGX, the mitigations haven't yet been generally applied. But new ways to break SGX are a dime a dozen these days.

Interesting and rigorous work, but there don't seem to be any real implications here. It's more like a more concise restatement of researchers' present understanding, using the benefit of hindsight and some additional footwork to fill in some small gaps.
I’d think the CPU and disk time is relatively negligible in this task and Dropbox is the real bottleneck. Viewing the pictures and scrolling in VNC or X should only take a few seconds, not minutes.
I think it's just an accidentally fubared link. It's still published: https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/26/from-the-fledgli...
"it gives me painful heartburn"
See also: dares as a psychopath test[0].

The article touches on alcohol, too: Hintjens’ The Psychopath Code claims psychopaths avoid getting drunk—or high—with others present.

[0] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/05/05/dares-costly-signals-a...
What I learned from leaders’ behaviour off-camera
Would this be something that intel shares with partners?

Seems unlikely.
30 years ago the global economy wasn't running on shared servers. But even back then, if you also mentioned that that "data" was their bank transactions and the password to their account, I'm pretty sure they would be alarmed.
It isn't. Taxation is there for essentially one purpose - to free up physical resources to create public goods with.

Billionaires don't have the physical resources required. Which means you either get to tax somebody else as well, or you get inflation.

A nation with its own currency has no need of the money of billionaires. In fact it makes them out to be more important than they are to suggest you do.

Beardsley Ruml explained this decades ago - Taxes for Revenue is an obsolete concept: http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/RUMLTAXES.html

Look after the unemployment and the numbers will look after themselves.
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

Sylvia Plath
>The missing piece of the puzzle

>the software was compromised by domestic terrorists and the threat was real

The missing piece to me is that she says, specifically, that it was under attack by white supremacists.

If you know anything about WS types, they are profoundly anti-intellectual. Anyone who has the technical chops to compromise software would almost certainly be labeled a secret jew/antifa/etc. Frankly I find "white supremacists threatening to hack my unreleased federal platform" as absurd as Budweiser claiming mormons are going to steal their trade secrets.

Perhaps the reason her zeal was encountered with groans is not that she is brave and strong but rather because she made a mistake, and now procedure requires people to go through tedious motions. They groan because in the public sector they can't simply sack her for incompetence. From what she writes of Matt's response, she completely misinterprets things like this all the time.

I posit that this is a natural reaction of ordinary people to a woman who is simply not capable of interpreting reality correctly. No doubt the FBI will agree, and she will claim they are some secret sympathizers. Her boss is an idiot, the fbi are secret terrorists, the list will pile high to the sky. People like her live their whole lives never encountering reality.
Is there a better article than this? Maybe I'm just tired but this doesn't seem to be very coherently structured.
The point being if someone in NY works 9-17, someone in UK May be happy working 13-22
It says in the article...
I don't know. Even if it is ultimately unviable it does something no one in the US has dared to do for a long time. Which is to actually go after the wealth accumulated by the rich. I think the US will see more of this kind of thing over the next few years and it will be incredibly popular with the millions of very poor Americans looking to get back at the rich. The leaders of the US would be wise to handle such things carefully if they want to keep capitalism alive.
> Why do you think the USPS shouldn’t be pre-funding pensions?

Cleat me be clear, I never said that; nor, did I say, that this is some sort of black and white dichotomy between prepaying and not-prepaying for pensions. I said this instance is undo burden for ANY organization. What workforce in the world retires, and then lives for 75 years? That's the only way that would be reasonable. So people are retiring at 40 and living to be 115 so often it's a financial burden on the post office? Or wait they're retiring at 93 and then living to be 168 by the millions?

> Maybe Congress rightfully saw that the USPS pension fund would be insolvent if they weren’t forced, by law, to properly fund it? Most public pensions in the US are insolvent.

No. What you're doing is making up some shit; posing it as a relevant or equal when it fact you have no idea. Don't do that. Either go look up the fucking facts and post them here and pwn me with reality like an adult or keep it to yourself. Do not play devil's advocate for asinine shit.

It is like you interjecting into a conversation on science to say, "well, maybe Newtown only gravity upside-down? Some photons are yellow."

> People don’t seem to like it when we kick the financial can down the road. And people don’t seem to like it when we prepare.

And concluding with "People don't seem to like it when science is right. And they don't seem to like when its wrong."

I'm not trying to be rude, but it almost feels like your post was made by GPT3.
Okay then, copyright on them is just unenforceable.
How Microsoft is adopting Rust
Show HN: Go-memdev – A Go package that access to Memory Devices information
> This is a totally legitimate, efficient, and reasonable method of taxation.

No it's not. It's a totally arbitrary proposal aimed at a small portion of the population. Why does it target billionaires? Why not all shareholders? Why does having the foresight to invest in quality businesses mean you should be taxed so highly when it pays off? Are they going to pay back 60% of losses to those billionaires who were holding shares that have gone down?

> will remain extremely wealthy after the tax is levied

But may loose substantial control of the businesses they're invested in. Musk would need to liquidate over half his Tesla shares.
Taking my child swimming, going to my allotment to dig up potatoes, and the everyday life-things I do all days (such as reading books/watching TV, doing the laundry, cooking food, etc.)

Nothing special, but the weather is nice and I've got a model coming to pose for me later in the day, so it should be a fun weekend even with nothing too special happening.
That's the problem. I have forgotten that detail of the story. I tried to find references to this story online, but Google has failed me. Maybe you'll have more luck. It seems like all of the search results come up either related to his presidential bid, or his obituary. I remember that the company in question is now a household name, but I don't remember exactly which one.
Geez, people are really going the extra mile trying to justify something that 100% happened because Trump heard about how the TikTok Teens ruined the Tulsa rally.
Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages
Side-channel attacks are an inherent property of computing hardware. You can never fully "disguise" a computation as a different one or as no computation.

You can just lower the signal to noise ratio by various means, so you gain some time until better statistical methods or clever tricks filter out the signal again.
Not OP, but I have (virtually) the same rule. I’m averaging about 3 beers a year, and only when I really, _really_ feel like it.

I don’t have a specific reason for it. The one reason most people seem to accept is when I say “I don’t like the feeling of losing control”, although that’s only partially it. Another one that comes up is “I don’t need that to have fun”. Although I grew up in France and Belgium, I don’t like the taste of either wine or beer.

I completely agree with OP though: I don’t frankly care when people judge me for not drinking.
Revenue isn't a good comparison and is more of a distraction than a usable data point.

Presumably, if Google is servicing paying customers instead of paying advertisers, then google has much less work to do. Their revenue can decrease without their profit decreasing.

They don't need to manage engineering to store cookies and track interests. They don't need infrastructure to store profiles. They don't need cpu cycles to correlate interests. They don't need lawyers to fight off regulators. You can easily imagine other things they would not need for those customers.

How much would paying customers need to pay so that google would make the same amount of money? Revenue isn't even an upper bound on that question.
Reminds me of how it capitalises "El Niño" as if I was talking about that climate thing, when I'm just trying to say "the kid" in Spanish.
You can't be AI leader when every AI leader is staying away from you by 10ft pole. When Ian Goodfellow joined Apple, there was literally rain of criticism on him from ending his career as researcher to bowing down to money. I don't know of any researcher who does want to have continued research career willing to join Apple. They simply don't allow that kind of freedom or publishing results. While Apple has some strong points in imaging (thanks to their 1000+ people team) and wrist rejection, virtually everything else they do that requires AI sucks and lags behind competition, including, Siri, maps, autocorrect, spell check, iCloud, search, calendar, spam detection, recommendations etc. For most of these things, most people don't even count them as real competition. Google on the other hand is able to achieve very competitive performance through software and AI without such large team on phone camera and frankly quite pathetic hardware.

These kind of reality distortion pieces aren't going to help them. They have $100+B, in cash, they can easily start reputable open research lab that can rival FAIR, OpenAI or DeepMind. Even a smaller companies like Intel and Adobe is starting to realize that this is necessary so they can tap into expertise on demand. At minimum that will be totally worth for a talent pipeline that can be motivated to do "rotation" or "sabbaticals" into product groups from an open lab.
At this moment that bank is the entity that keeps this data. Their challenge is, however, that the data gets outdated. But if they give other parties the ability to access that data, then the consumer will have more motivation to keep it up-to-date, and the bank will now have access to more accurate address data.

(Note that the bank is an example - it could be another party.)
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A fair concern - this really depends on legislation like GDPR that only allows for the data sharing with the consumer's explicit consent.
I would love nothing more than for this to be true. It just isn’t.

A fancy new office building doesn’t change the fact that Ford’s culture, poor salaries, and bureaucracy will scare away top talent.
The regulations are indeed shit. The conditions of the tests do not correspond to anything realistic.

Just look at the curve of the WLTP test on Wikipedia : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Harmonised_Light_V...

Who drives like this? 1 minute to reach the high speed on the high speed test for example. The speed is never maintained, it's either accelerating or slowing down.

Today you see hybrids cars with tiny batteries that are close to useless just to meet regulations. In practice these hybrid cars smoke a lot, because it's cold and the battery is cold, because it's warm and you want AC, because you need to not drive too slow in the traffic, because the battery is already empty.

When the diesel gate happened, the French minister of the environment decided to test many cars on a track. They never published the results.
Back when Toronto regularly had smog alerts, I could only bike commute (on major arteries) with a mask on.
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"Caffeine"

( https://sliders.fandom.com/wiki/The_Java_Jive )
We know by demonstrations that we can make settlements in Antarctica and underwater, we just don’t have any reason to do more than science and military.

Venus, you could only settle by bringing in everything from outside unless and until you can convert the atmosphere in a large way into building materials — Mars at least you only need to convert it into fuel, because you can do at least some of your construction from rocks.
TikTok has some offices in the US. A lot of TikTok investors are in the US. How much has to be in the US for US rights to apply to it?

It's not about British running things (as in other people's lives). It's about British people having rights to run their own lives.
There is actually a compatibility mode[1], although not everything is supported:

"Starting with .NET Standard 2.0, the .NET Framework compatibility mode was introduced. This compatibility mode allows .NET Standard and .NET Core projects to reference .NET Framework libraries. Referencing .NET Framework libraries doesn't work for all projects, such as if the library uses Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) APIs, but it does unblock many porting scenarios."

I don't know if there are downsides or if the compatibility will be removed in the future.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/porting/third-p...
The most convincing reason I have seen for drinking is the one given by Aldous Huxley in The Devils of Loudun: to escape our "sweaty selves". In short to achieve a small escape from the constant experience of being ourselves.

A somewhat similar take though more strategic it is said the ancient Persians either debated drunk and decided sober or debated sober and decided drunk.
I don't agree. The headline contains valuable information. It says that, whatever you might think is the risk of dying once you got covid-19, on average those who died have their life shortened by about ten years. Which is not the same as dying in a traffic accident or in a war, where you can safely assume average lost lifespans of 30 or 40 years.

My only issue with this title is that can- which is wrong and makes the title meaningless. The news is that on average it does cut lifespan of ten years.
Not this someone.
Direct link to research: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.02307.pdf
I choose not to drink because I am a homosexual, and I'm afraid that I might not be able to resist my urges to touch little kids in the pub after work
How does a site which can index text inside a document usually work? Is it similar to Linux grep?
They're different from built-in elements at least in the fact that they're not built-in - that is the problem with React, which works with a list of built-in components that are treated differently from React components. Which means React needs special treatment for Web Components.

Whether React should or should not be doing that is irrelevant; what's relevant is that as a developer, you need to be aware that you can't "just" use Web Components in any framework.
>Not only is getting drunk pleasant

As someone with asian genes I have this thing called the asian flush [1]. As far as I understand it my body breaks down alcohol too fast resulting in all the waste products flooding my body.

Basically, I'm allergic to alcohol.

Alcohol makes me feel like shit, my heart starts beating in my chest, my head goes red, I get huge headaches. I always thought: why do people like this so much? Then I found out I'm allergic to alcohol.

It kind of sucks because so much socialising in today's world is based on alcohol. It took me 25 years but I've finally managed to accept the fact that I literally just can not drink alcohol. It took me 25 years to be brave enough to stand up to the social pressure of drinking. Geez.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction
The article says “in-car air pollution” and does not once mention toxic emissions from BPA, flame retardants, lead, chromium and other materials used in automobile interior construction. Is that a solved problem?
> you didn't pick these people, you're not marrying these people, you're working with them on a temporary basis then moving on

To be perfectly honest you're reinforcing the practise rather than arguing against it like you think. The whole point of everyone getting drunk together is to get to know the "real you". It sounds like the "real you" is quite mercenary, bitter, and reductive. No wonder you don't want to let down your carefully-crafted facade.
I find it interesting that you think this is noteworthy. On a global scale half of the adults don't drink alcohol. In the US around a quarter of all men and a third of women don't drink.