skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only in California do you have to pay twice as much as the average on electricity and also deal with these blackouts. Thanks environmentalists...
UK as well, we bury all (well technically damn near all) our sub-station to residence cabling and we are a wet country.

Power outages are a once ever few years or more thing.
Show HN: Tableplop – Svelte/Sapper multiplayer virtual tabletop for TTRPGs
You didn't just write that the UN is a "political action group" and compared it to the NRA?
Hi HN! Tableplop is a side project launched in March to make it easier to play tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons remotely. My aim was to make a tool that's easier to learn and use than the existing options.

The stack is Sapper/Svelte + Express + PostgreSQL, the most interesting part of the project is probably the scene which syncs a map, tokens, drawings and fog of war between players in real time with canvas and websockets.

I would appreciate any feedback, especially about making it easier to use quickly and reducing friction.
1. TPUs haven't really beaten newer GPUs significantly in performance.

2. Wafer scale integration and other advanced packaging approaches are qualitatively different types of computing advances that CMOS scaling, which provides better, faster, smaller, cheaper and at the same time, due to Dennard Scaling, reduces power.
Does applecare cover scratches on apple watch?
Then we need you to sign off on it again after we change it next week, and the week after that.
Why were 2, 3, 4, and 6 banned?
If the Royal Family was shy about things not acquired peacefully,
that'd be interminably awkward.
Apple should start allowing side app stores. I hope this is what comes out of this battle
I have to admit, you've convinced me. I'm not a gamer, so I didn't have much experience with this.

My frame of reference was streaming services, where more platforms meant fever content on each, and having to pay more to watch everything you wanted. But if it is indeed this was with games, maybe multiple appstores could be the way to go.
This button could easily be added by a third party protection case using the GPIO that is available on the pogopins at the back of the phone.
Few years ago before Apple implemeted Night Shift, F.lux used to use an ability for non-paid developer accounts to compile and run an app on their phone to distribute. They provided a source code for a small program that serve as a shim to F.lux. User need to compile this code with Xcode and put it on their phone.

People followed tutorial videos downloading Xcode, making a developer account, figure out how to get signing profile works, etc. just to get F.lux installed on their phone. Searching for "Flux iOS 9" on YouTube yields some video with over 100k views. In some community there are people who are willing to do it for you (by VNC into user's machine) at $10 per installation.
Really questioning this. The things available in vanilla js, html5 and css3 are immensely powerful and extremely well documented for those who care to dig into it
That's when it became boring.
So would you in C if you do not redeclare the variable inside of the block. Also in JavaScript (although in JavaScript the type is not declared; in C it is). I don't know how it is working in Python, though.
It even excludes the ABC and SBS. This is not about journalism in any way.
USA: Donald Trump plans to drop charges against whistleblower Edward Snowden
Who cares about that? Steve Wozniak also gave away the design for free at first, does that mean that apple has no copyright protection on their computers?
>People normally pay tips for a good service

People in the US and Canada (where this article is about) pay some tips unless they're pissed. I'm not saying this is ideal, just what it is according to my experience.

Again, the topic is about if this is a 18% price increase. My point is compared to the common practice pre-Covid, it's not. I have no argument about if it's going to decrease the service quality or not.
I don’t know, I guess you can have different definition of PRO. Yours is more about a fleet of devices that’s easy to maintain for a corporation or a school.
Hmm. You're right, not if we are restricting ourselves to rectangles. But if we make A u-shaped, with B nestled in it, we'll be in business!
What was the reason for the dome over the city?
Why does Texas not have these power problems? They have their own separate power grid and in my lifetime I can’t remember ever having rolling blackouts due to demand spikes.

It seems like California suffers from policy problems rather than technological ones.

Why doesn’t California embrace nuclear power? Traditionally most of France’s power has been nuclear and it has worked fine for decades. Interestingly the initiatives to switch to renewable energy specific excluded nuclear and hydro. Politics seem to get in the way of good policy. Rather than pleading to conserve power, why not generate more of it? When people are starving, the solution isn’t to tell everyone to eat less, but to produce more.
Please list the articles and their retractions.
Also, once there are billions of value to be extracted, specialized chips will appear just to train those models (e.g. wafer scale analog processors, could easily be 3 orders of magnitude more efficient than GPUs/TPUs).
I’m unconvinced that there should be repercussions beyond the App Store tbh. While Apple get to set the App Store rules fine you get taken off there, but then what’s the actual criteria for this all out permanent ban? Just not reinstating your app in a compliant form? What if you decide the deal sucks and don’t want to go back on their store? Then you just get permanently banned forever? Presumably it doesn’t work like this if you try to upload an app that breaks the rules and they catch it at app review - sorry, you broke rule xyz and if you don’t have a compliant app up within 30 days we’re permanently banning you from developing for any of our platforms. I don’t get why breaking App Store rules matters beyond the App Store at all.
You seem like a really good person. Thank you for being you :-).
Laos is the most heavily bombed nation in history.
Feeling of Loneliness During Spiritual Awakening
> Assume that an agent scales up some profitable carbon-emitting activity, and to make the math simple they personally double global carbon output. By virtue of the fact that we're in a superlinear externality regime they now have to pay $N in taxes while causing damage much greater than $N.

I don't understand why you focus so much on "who gets the total above the threshold". It's not a valid question, because you can rearrange the actors and then it would be someone else who tops it off. It's a meaningless question.

Let's say you have 10 agents with emissions e(1)=e(2)=...=e(8)=1 and e(9)=e(10)=4.

Threshold is 10.

If you add up going from 1 to 10 - the 9th agent crosses the threshold.

If you add up going from 10 to 1 - the 6th agent crosses the threshold.

By changing the order of the addition you can blame the externalities on anybody you want :)

> the most straightforward way to do that is to set a cap at the level you don't want to exceed and divvy out the credits as you see fit

It's an independent system that needs to be maintained and supervised, meanwhile we already have tax office and the whole system of state institutions focused on making sure people pay taxes. Besides measuring emissions is hard, measuring fuel usage is easy (we already do it for taxing purposes).

> to avoid exceeding your desired limit you just set the limit and ban exceeding it

Then you have to somehow decide who gets how much. It turns a self-tuning economic system into a centrally planned economy and introduces politics into it.

> the timescales involved in updating the tax code leave plenty of room for exploitation

I see no problem with changing oil tax weekly in the transition period. I doubt we'll need more than 5 corrections.
I would expect an entry level person to be able to verbally answer basic questions such as:

- Explain why an NN with n nodes across multiple hidden layers can model a more complex structure than an NN with n nodes but only one hidden layer.

- When using an NN, when is it appropriate and not appropriate to utilize a cross-entropy cost function?

- Why can a single perceptron not approximate an XOR operation?

- Why is neural network (NN) training data divided into three sets: training, generalisation, and validation? What is the purpose of each? Must the three sets be mutually exclusive?

Etc.
This is a wake-up punch to the face for every indie game studio considering iOS.

I mean if Apple kicks out Fortnite and rejects access to the Fortnite team, that seems like a reasonable retaliation for Epic breaking their rules.

But no, Apple is happily throwing hundreds of thousands of unrelated indie developers under the bus, who started building their next game with the (previously praised by Apple) iOS Unreal Engine and are now unable to release updates and security fixes because Apple is actively preventing Epic from building such fixes for the Unreal Engine.

Roughly 10 years ago, I used to be a happy Apple user and developer.

Clearly, the current Apple leadership considers iOS developers to be nothing more than expendable minions.
Literally every other country in the world has a fully public education that does just fine.

I think the only well known non-US private school system (off the top of my head) are UK commonwealth secondary boarding schools, and those schools are more well known for their abuse than their academic strength.

Pretty much any other country (for example, France, Japan, China, etc) are generally built on a system of publicly funded schools
A few years ago the company I was working for ran an advanced SQL course for a few people who were interested. I was skeptical going in, but the chap who ran the course was the real deal.

One particularly memorable example he showed was a real world implementation of Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm using recursive CTEs. While it was very impressive I did spend most of the demo thinking "I'm so glad I don't have to maintain that"!
Will I be fined if I decide to make my own software without a license?
There are alternatives to backprop like direct feedback alignment (1). They specifically focus on making the computation more parallel and thus more scaleable for the reasons you mention.

(1) http://papers.nips.cc/paper/6441-direct-feedback-alignment-p...
So the news sites can add a single "*" to their robots.txt.

Problem solved.
They burn thousands of times the cost on bullets. Its not that big of a problem.
Isn't it super easy to resize images? I wrote a program to resize images after watching a computerphile video on the subject and it took like ten to twenty minutes to get something that seems functionally identical to "real" resizing. If you can read your image as a two dimensional array of bytes you can resize easily enough.
Google is making sense here. The evils they are fighting against helps doubleclick. See Google plus (G+) it can drop and abandon things. Big.

What do you think?
>If the service quality drops - customers will go elsewhere.

Wouldn't that be incentive to provide good service?

I ask because some of the best restaurants in the world do not expect you to tip - ie. Danish restaurants Noma and Alchemist.
> But Apple needs to fund the App Store. XCode, payment processing, reviewers, it all costs money

This is the investment Apple has to put in to make sure there are apps on their platform.

Their "funding" for this is iPhone and iPad sales.
Ask HN: Why are both Microsoft and Oracle interested in purchasing TikTok?
TikTok is facing US sanctions and severe criticism (at least by the tech community) for privacy invasion.

In spite of this Microsoft and Oracle are allegedly looking to purchase the US operations - why?

I'm unsure if this is a business decision or something else.
Cummings explicitly claims not to be an expert, and decries the fact that he can't seem to find anyone competent at the higher levels of the civil service anywhere.
Hello fellow New Englander,

Regarding $11,500 - for six months of training, that seems to be a reasonable rate given the region and competitors costing anywhere from 0-25k$. If the school offers any sort of guaranteed job/interview after completing the program/has good graduation/hired rates i think that makes the 11.5k a bit more digestable.

Before you commit to purchasing a spot in class there i think you should be aware that there are free programs through schools like Platform By Per Scholas/freecodecamp in NYC/online.

Whatever educational institution you end up going with, here are some questions I think you should ask before jumping in:

-get a copy of the curriculum. Start asking IT people you know what they think about the curriculum in regards to your goal of becoming a FILL IN THE BLANK. Even if you don't care what these people have to say, you will get more comfortable with this kind of technical jargon stuff talking to people/awkward IT people who know more about this stuff than you. How does the curriculm stack up to free resources like Freecodecamp and others like that?

-how many people drop out of the program? what happens if you need to drop out (health reasons, money reasons, unexpected blah blah)/or you arent keeping up with the curriculum? Is there a way to prepare for the curriculum with pre-school starting work? Do they take your money and tell you to piss off if you have to drop out? Or do they offer money back/work with you if you have to drop out?

-Can they provide recent graduation/hired/how much money are people making rates out of the program with time since graduation info? You can compare this to other schools.

-What is your timeline? If you do a 6 month bootcamp for 11.5k, would you be happy if you had to continue to learn on your own/interview after the bootcamp ended for another 6 months? Would you only be happy with your purchase if you were hired within a month of the bootcamp? What really is your timeline? I think this timeline and salary expectations really determined whether my peers and I were happy after our bootcamp experiences.

If you are an average learner like I was, I found the bootcamp experience overall positive, but its no magic bullet, as some people, like i did, really needed 2 years to learn stuff it didn't matter that i worked my ass off for 6 months studying night and day longterm. Bootcamp for me 3 months -> studied/interviewed 2 months -> took a job for 8 months in the right direction -> did another school for 3 months -> got a job in the right direction for 1.5 years -> ultimately got a job i am happy with.
... already buried under 50 ft of rock.
Who Wants to Get Hired?
Remove the 4 year lifespan then things will get interesting
You just want to know what seemingly-safe category to stay away from :p
An interesting backprop alternative here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09049

Essentially inspired by spiking neurons, it can be implemented in neuromorphic hardware.
Is it intent? Authors write how-to books to make sales, not to pass on information for the good of humanity. Does that mean that all technical works are barely-disguised spam?

I'll grant that they probably do like the idea of passing on what they know, but I very much suspect the same thing of the tech lead who was asked to write a blog post by their marketer.
I am the opposite. I love the whitespace significant syntax in Python. I indent my code in languages like C and Java anyway, so why bother with braces. Also, a missing brace takes a long time to find, because autoformatting tools go crazy and the error isn't usually quick to find by the compiler so it fails tens of lines below where the brace is actually missing.
AFAIK, you can install 3rd party apps to Xbox without paying MS. If that is not true, it should be fixed.
Is your comment based on personal evidence or otherwise?
I'm trying to move my daily driver from macOS to Linux.

(Why? Privacy, more control over how technology interacts with me, and because at a really deep level, I know this is the expression of my authentic self. I don't like to 'blindly accept' things from others without questioning it, and I like to create. I also love to learn. All this is balanced with the desire to just sit back and enjoy a smooth experience like anyone else, half the time.)

I'm slowly researching and trying out open-source alternatives to my daily must-have apps like Notes.app, which is a great example of, so far, why this is so challenging. But I'm trying to adjust and see what can be good enough. (Web apps is not an acceptable solution, due to basic privacy expectations.)

It's reasonable to expect I have to adjust my methods somewhat, but I do need such alternative workflows to be as feature-filled and performant as what I currently use.

Like most, work requirements like Office (and Acrobat) are my greatest challenge. Perhaps macOS on KVM for near-native performance with Office + Adobe for Mac in it will be good enough?
Don’t look at code, because it bakes in so many derived values and simplifications that it’s hard to recover the original ideas. If you can find the original math, and walk through the derivatives (seeing zeros crop up and get simplified away), it starts to make a lot more sense.
Selfcharging EV?
There are some functions that just aren't readable without heavy commenting.
Since those are even more popular than React (given that React builds on top of that foundation), the point about using a popular tool for good ecosystem and documentation still holds for me.
Or the third option, it doesn't get sold and it doesn't get banned.
> the App Store search is broken so discovery isn’t what it was.

More often than not, I can't find a named, non-popular app, even when searching for its exact name. The only way I can find it, is if they have a web-page and an direct link to their appstore entry on that web-page.

So ironically I have to search Google/DDG on the open web to find the apps I'm looking to install on my iPhone.

"Broken" doesn't fully convey just how mismanaged the AppStore is.
> A lot of the lambda like services don't do great with doing realtime stuff

Another way to handle this is by delegating the management of long-lived connections to a separate infrastructure layer. Then it's fine if the app runs/dies all the time, since it only needs to run when there's client activity. Some options are Fanout (disclosure: I'm its founder) and AWS API Gateway.
> Then queues the op. Once op is sent and ACKed by at least one of the servers the op is dropped from the queue.

Unfortunately, it's a lot more complicated than this.

First, you can't wait until just one peer has ACKed -- you need to wait until all of them have. Any peer that hasn't ACKed could still send an op based on the one you want to delete, and then you wouldn't have enough information to merge the new op.

Second, you can't just wait until all peers have ACKed an op, you need to wait until no new ops depend on that op. An op could depend on an op even though it has been ACKed by everyone.

Third, a peer could go offline for a while, and then come back online. But if you are waiting for all peers to ACK an op, you might never get a situation where all peers are online at the same time.
> Why is that horrendous?

Hmm. Imagine that you never had to consider any kind of unstated, fuzzy mathematical wrangling at restaurants, hairdressers, hotels, in taxis, at stores, etc - your entire life every financial transaction was straightforward.

If you came from that environment, this arrangement would seem horrendous (and annoying).

I understand that there's some cultural exceptionalism involved - there always is - but for most of the (rest of the) world this kind of intentional, onerous, relentless, and needlessly complex obligation is some combination of bewildering, disrespectful, and anathema.
I'd draw a parralel with civil desobediance.

I'm aware this case is between two behemoth, the point to them is not civil rights but future revenue and there's a lot to say about each side's behavior, but on the principle it's the same I think.

The important point here I think is they are bearing the consequences of their act (not that they have a choice either), so it's not like it's unfair to Apple or Google. On a scale of "breaking the rules", it's closer to sitting on a forbidden bus bench than looting stores.
You can't post like this to HN, regardless of how you feel about others or whom you happen to feel it about.

This is a bannable offence on HN, so please don't do it again. It's also completely unsubstantive. Fortunately that's not how your account usually posts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here's a code snippet using SRFI 49, for Scheme. (A 2003 formalisation for a macro system that had been rocking around for a few decades, for a very old Lisp):

define
fac x
if
= x 0
1
* x
fac
- x 1

Python's keywords are sometimes shorter, but they are familiar to most Lispers, which some of the founders were.
fwiw I don't think framing everything in as a sign in the sad story of a society on the way to 'X', is a particularly productive way to think about this kind of story. I could be that this is just a personal story of an individual who is internally consistent, and changed a view based on discussion and new information.
If there's a way for US national security authorities to get teenagers to think something is instantly uncool and stop using it, it's by allowing it to be acquired by Oracle.
This assumes that UBI communities don't create value.

But the city is not for free. UBI is just enough to pay for a basic life. If you want to eat great food, have a nice house or want to impress your friends or send your kids to a good school, money is needed. Money, that comes from taxable activities.

The advantage of UBI is that there are no homeless people, no beggars, no petty crimes, no robberies. There is no excuse for robbing somebody because it clearly is a move to get luxuries. Punishment can be harsh, including expulsion from the city.

Thus you have a friendly city where people can create value the most efficient way.

All the people who don't create taxable value still create value. They create the network effect of the city and they manage the focus of the production processes. Somebody has to be an early adopter of a new restaurant or a new service. Who is better suited than somebody who has an entire day to spend?

After all, money that is spent in the city is not lost. The only problem is spending money on external goods which can be managed by taxing imports.
Regarding indentation versus braces:
In the beginning, I always thought python's only weakness is that it relies on indentation for code structure and I feared that some day my code will be messed up because of that. However that fear quickly disappeared as soon as I got my editors set up correctly... and the mess up never happened.

Still love pythons syntax in general.
Yes, it really sounds dodgy to me that the Treasurer is arbitrarily choosing companies that are subject to this law, and arbitrarily choosing which companies benefit from it.

The ABC and SBS don't qualify as news businesses. That says it all really.
The number is an estimate. But even their gvt isn't contesting their existence, only their purpose, conditions and activity.

Furthermore, there are very many articles on the net discussing their locations, for example Business Insider which names 500. Did you google "uyghur detention camps google maps"? I did ...

Why are you so strangely opposed to the idea, by the way?
Harfbuzz creator seems to be in political emergency, needs help ASAP
Age of Personalized Healthcare
However, access to good transportation geography no longer assures continued importance for a city. Consider Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo...
You can't post like this to HN, regardless of how you feel about others or whom you happen to feel it about.

This is a bannable offence on HN, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html