skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not using a rigorous definition, but essentially, consider two outcomes, each affecting 100 people:

1. Every person accrues $10
2. One person, "Bob", accrues $100, everyone else accrues $1

Generally speaking, outcome 1 has higher overall benefits, but outcome 2 is better for Bob. If Bob is the decision-maker, it's in Bob's interest to pick outcome 2, even if it's globally worse.

This is what I mean by local vs global interest - roughly, "in the interest of a given individual" vs "the best outcome across all individuals."
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That's how I perceived it.
You shouldn't care. Same way I don't care about giving my data to Google. My data is precious though compared to yours, so I value it.
The grandparent comment is likely referring to the TOLA Act, which allows Australian police and intelligence agencies to issue for example technical assistance requests to decrypt or otherwise get access to whatever data they want.

As I understand it the oversight is relatively minimal and any company operating on Australian soil can be subject to such a request. Here's their government web page on it: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/natio...

It passed around the end of 2018 and a lot of Australian companies (e.g. Atlassian) were not fans of it.
And Tesla just surpassed Walmart in market cap even though their total quarterly deliveries have been relatively flat around 80-90k per quarter for almost 2 years.
That is what Kind is for.
Administrators need to design good policy, of course.

But the fundamental implicit assumption here seems to be "Students are not adults"
> So, if you restrict yourself to looking just at the API and not the implementation, it seems to me that if your library operates entirely on non-pointer C++ types (e.g., it takes in a std::string and returns an std::string), a program could automatically determine that and call the binding "safe". Would that be enough?

My understanding is that this is the idea behind cxx: high-level C++ types are considered "safe", and so functions which use these are assumed to be safe.

Whether this is sufficient is the debate you see upthread.

> But if, let's say, you have an API that consists entirely of integers, bools, std::strings, and structs and classes thereof, what additional things would you need to check to be confident calling the binding safe?

The entire codebase, because even with no parameters at all, C++ can do thing which Rust considers wildly unsafe. Like manipulating global state, possibly across functions (there are entire libraries which work on that principle).

Put an other way, a "safe rust" function is reentrant, thread-safe and does not cause UB given any input.

By this definition, it is not possible to know that a C(++) function is safe without going through its source with a microscope.
I've experienced most of the issues you described, and yet, I have to conclude that the game is absolutely fantastic despite them. The visual clarity is mind-blowing, and the UI and all the helpers make all the difference between this game and all other sims that I've, as a completely casual player, have tried before.

But more importantly, it's not a game that's defined by it's release; developers are clearly following the service model, which gives me confidence that most of the bugs will be sorted out and game polished.
Welcome to the world of flight simulation! I've been in to flight simulation for a long time, and while there are definite rough edges that need to be improved, this really does represent the next leap forward in what's available for this hobby. X-Plane with ortho scenery installed on my system has much longer load times. Prepar3d has lower framerates when you get some good scenery and a good aircraft loaded. I wish flight sim performed like AAA games. But this really does represent a significant improvement to the genre relative to what we've had before. It'll be a while before the high-quality add-on aircraft are ported over and available, as well as other types of content where hand-made airports and such are much better than the mostly-auto-generated content that comes with the game... but out of the box the new MSFS really does look so much more realistic (not just the earth but the sky: weather) and performs better than what we're used to.

So from the perspective of existing simmers, a game that seems to be pretty bad relative to mainstream AAA titles is actually looking really great compared to that status quo.

As for the download system -- yes, there's no excuse for that. I'm not sure how they got that so wrong given the abundance of prior art that does it better. The seeming relationship between Azure load and FPS/stutters is concerning and certainly a new condition that didn't exist in existing sims. Overall I do think the new sim suffers from being released prematurely, as we see so often with software now. But the reason for all the hype and praise is because the flight sim community really is excited about the potential this represents because we've been stuck with such ancient platforms for so long.
> Comparing models across multiple elections and calculating the Bayesian regret is one way to do it. The models get tweaked each election so this isn’t exact,

As long as the same inputs aren’t fundamentally unavailable (and even then if the model has systematic handling of missing data, though the validity of that comparison is less clear) you can run the tweaked model on past elections (the main problem there is since those are probably the data used to generate them, it rewards overfitting; you might do better by running them against past elections with differing sets of random dropout of input data points [individual instances of particular polls, etc.] to mitigate that.)
My experience online is most time a guy complains about their frustration in not finding someone there's like zero sympathy... except in places where one probably don't want to hang out namely misogynistic subreddit/forums.

I can totally see why some guys become radicalized when a good portion of society DGAF.
I'm on a fairly new machine (i9-9900K OC'd to 5.1 GHz, 32GB RAM, NVMe, RTX 2080 Super), and I was expecting smooth, stable frame rates at 1080p. Unfortunately, the game seems to be limited by one or two CPU threads consuming a constant 90-100% of those cores, while the other cores hover around 10-25%. As a result, I get fairly decent frame rates (25-50fps, depending on the area), but even in the best cases, it has a really annoying "micro stutter" that randomly - yet consistently - interrupts what would otherwise be an amazing experience.

I'm hopeful that an update could improve performance, especially with respect to spreading CPU load over more cores, but it sounds like a lot of other simmers are mostly content, so maybe that will never happen.
I am talking about it's ability to resist attempts to block it's connection by the ISP. Why do you conflate it with reliability of their servers?
Extant TTS is already there for fiction, if you approach it with the right expectations (more an alternative to visual reading than dramatically read audio books.) I've 'read' numerous fiction books using MacOS's TTS ('Alex') and with my kindle (3rd gen 'keyboard' model from 2010.)

These extant solutions require an effort-investment from the user to work up to fast speeds, but once the user becomes acclimatized they work great. The neuroplasticity of the human brain seems to do a great job of smoothing out the wrinkles.
Requires skills in both science and tech that only commercial farmers have, big companies don't share good.
Plus Lots of data points, proper measurements require self calibrating "field suitable" lab equipment that doesn't exist or is highly cost prohibitive.
Im actively spend 60+ hour weeks solving this.
Have been for almost three years (im solving for spacex/mars missions, but it'll work here on terra firma too)
Expect to see early prototypes in 2022.
All of those things are very different though. It’s possible you could be excellent at predicting Senate races and terrible at the electoral college, right? And you only get one data point every 4 years.
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Maybe the NEC V33 would be interesting to compare. 8086 compatible, but all done with regular logic, no microcode.
Does your note taking app support embedded files and images in-line?
Palantir knows this well
I know it's quicker off the mark at peak times, but is the cost difference enough to run dramatically more trains?
I see what you are saying- but there's a selection bias here.

When you sacrifice, do you first write a news article calling on yourself to sacrifice?
I would be screwed if google deactivated my mail account. So many accounts linked.
I'm not sure it's fair to characterize it as a slightly larger ISS. The root poster was suggesting a colony the size of a planet.
>so, after the past few years incel has shifted from "involuntarily celibate" , to "young men who congregate online and who explain their lack of romantic success through a toxic and misogynistic ideology." , NYTimes definition mid-article, not mine.

I don't know where the actual incel community hides now that Reddit banned pretty much all of their incarnations. 4chan relentlessly mocks them, Tumblr won't tolerate them, Facebook's real-name policy surely scares them away, and Twitter is just... Twitter. It was easier to define what an "incel" was when there was a big group of people rallying under the term "incel". The /r9k/-misogyny ideology lives on among people who reject the term, but the keyword is a ghost town, like Gamergate before it.

If we want to consistently refer to this group of people, the name should probably come from outside, since they recycle names so often.
Why not split the difference? A lump sum and a smaller percentage.
I'm not really involved, just a fan of their work :) I think Mir and Zcash have some similar long-term goals, like using SNARKs to scale without affecting security. We just felt that starting over with a new blockchain seemed like the most practical way to get there.
> Look up desk pads

Here is the one I have: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Gaming-Mou...

It has room for both mouse and keyboard and is plenty big enough for me :)

Also, I found out which PSU it is that I have and I didn’t need to open the case to find out after all, because it is printed on the back and visible by looking at the backside of the chassis. My computer sits on the floor a way out from the wall, so I was able to read it by taking a picture of the backside of the case by reaching my arm out from my bed.

The PSU I have is a Corsair one like I remembered. Specifically, according to the label, it is a HX650W. This one, I think: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Power-Supp...

There is a “gold certified” version of said PSU as well, but the color of the label on mine looks like the one in the link above so I think I have the “bronze certified” one.
That’s worldwide. Nobody wants cheap Android devices in the US.

Have you seen the phones sold at the MVNO’s like MetroPCS, Boost Mobile, and whoever Walmart uses? You’re in a bubble if you don’t see all of the people with less income who don’t go to the major carriers.

And you can quote websites, but is there precedent in the last 50 years that the government has ever gone after a company with 50% market share?
I think that is only viable in places where car ownership is prohibitively expensive already. A short trip is easily $10, and then you still have to get back. Do that every day and you’re spending ~$600/month. If you live in an area that isn’t parking constrained (most of America!) owning a car can be much more affordable than that.
Does that include fuel, maintenance and depreciation?
The post is on the front page now for the reason I explained upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24246018.

Please stop this now.
Ask HN: What OSS projects would you sponsor?
Before just throwing a random list of projects here, let's say your budget is a $100 / mo (just a random round figure), what OSS projects would you now sponsor? That'd make you think about what you really want to see in the tech world.
Dropshipping is like MLM, but the scam part happens after the purchase. Often times the dropship supplier doesn't accept returns, meaning that when the customer returns your product which you have no real quality control over, they get their money back but you don't. The idea that these sorts of online arbitrage opportunities exist or have any durability when everybody has access to Google is flawed.
Edit: no longer a problem!

Original comment: I've seen reports that the Steam refund window of a few hours of 'gameplay' is used up by the mammoth download time. Steam only downloads the installer, and the installer then downloads the game data. Steam considers the installer to be the game itself and starts the clock ticking.
Especially when it logs as JSON by default. That’s certainly not for humans but great for machines.

I see it can log on a more human friendly console format as well though.
I haven't used OpenSCAD yet but to me the workflow appears to be verry different from what e.g. FreeCAD is doing.

There is some overlap but it's not that big. OpenSCAD is useful if you can describe your model as an algorithm. FreeCAD is useful when you want to define your model visually.

I don't think one can say either of them is strictly better than the other because they are not quite the same.

However it's easy to see how avoiding the need for a constraint solver significantly reduces the complexity of the software.
> it became very difficult to get physical certificates beginning in the late 2000s

For publicly traded shares, yes. In private equity, we still get to play “who tore the stock certificate.”
It's not about whether or not they're adults; it's about whether they're willing to follow public health guidance about large gatherings. Many older adults throughout the country are similarly unwilling.
Yeah, why did we ever stop using it as default for everything. I grow weary of graphics and options with said graphics.
Well, TFA is about how Uber and Lyft are leaving California because AB5 makes them pay drivers minimum wage, so I would hope they are leaving California because of a real, existing threat.
Actually: https://phys.org/news/2020-05-crispr-non-gmo-method.html
Why should i care for your opinion? It does not affect my life.

See, its easy to type nonsense like this.
Add in about $0.50/mile for the cost of their car. (People can argue the exact numbers but that's about the number the IRS allows for deductions.) Which isn't a lot for a 3 mile ride but in spread-out areas, the ride is more likely to be 10 or 20 miles. Then double for round-trip.

Though, to the general point, a minimum wage driver is probably not as big a proportion of rental vehicle costs as many assume.
Oh that sounds very fascinating! Could you elaborate on that? I know little of the STEP format internals.
Its a certainty that given any prompt there will be likely one gnarly output, especially the longer that output becomes.

What I'd like to see is an estimate of the uncertainty of the output.
Lenovo didn’t piss off Trump like TikTok users did.
My brother blew what would've been a few million dollars worth Bitcoin on pizzas and some other frivolous crap back when the novelty of doing that was worth more than the Bitcoin itself.

Whenever I heard these kinds of stories, I remind myself that loss aversion is a cognitive bias that we all share.

Sure, maybe some people passed on an opportunity to invest in 1994, but the general public had the opportunity to invest in Amazon any time after Amazon's IPO in May 1997. Someone who invested $50k then would be holding shares worth $95 million today. It's not quite billionaire territory, but it's still a very successful investment by anyone's standard.
That's pretty interesting. How does the transistor count compare?
Spotify did charge more, for years, in iOS. Epic charged more for their coins in iOS than elsewhere, too. Can you point to a specific policy change or news article which supports your argument? You're saying "could" and "would" but the actual evidence is that they did.
> Never are parents offered any convincing scientific explanation for why everyone's mouth seems to go counter to all the usual biological rules of evolutionary adaptation.

Dentists (like medical doctors) generally aren't evolutionary biologists, and even if they were that also, we (humanity collectively) know a lot more about function than the evolutionary pressures that produce it.

That said, the contribution, the contribution of optimum tooth alignment over a modern lifespan to reproductive fitness is probably very low over most of human evolution.
Do you know it to be a fact that the admin's don't work overtime?

I live in the shadow of a major state university, so I know a lot of people who work there, and for most of them the idea of working a normal 40 hour week is a pipe dream.

It wouldn't shock me that they are working hours on top of their usual 50+ hour weeks to deal with covid issues.

This isn't unusual for so called "exempt" employees in the US. I once read that the average professional work week in the US is 50 hours.
>People have been raising flags about this for literally decades now and the other shoe has yet to drop in any kind of meaningful way.

The threat model I work off is "fascist government seizes power in the United States and sequesters all data for all citizens from the top 15 large corporations". Then they get to work weeding out undesirables. This would happen, I'd estimate, in the space of about a month although if history is anything to go by, the signs will have been flashing for a while.

You could just switch at that point, I suppose, and hope that something in the last 15 years of emails, chats, your entire contact network and your location history doesn't incriminate you along with the fact that you just switched.
Reminder: the vast, vast majority of the students are not in danger of dying. Median age of those dying is ~80, and CFR drops off exponentially for younger people to almost nothing. They're also going to do stupid shit anyway. So maybe it's better if they stayed in dormitories rather than visited their grandma from time to time.
Found this [1] in the Twitter thread linked in the Vox article. MIT revised upward their estimation of taxi-app drivers' income significantly after taking into account some criticism of their methods:

1. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/07/591430857...
That's self destructive behavior on a planetary scale. No species that has an instinct or culture to consume all available resources will survive long enough to do it on a galactic scale.

Also, the math doesn't work out in the sense that if a species that had this instinct reached interstellar travel a million years ago the Milky Way galaxy would already have entirely been consumed. That's the Fermi Paradox in a nutshell.

If the species you are describing exists, they must have just started eating the galaxy, because the galaxy would already be eaten in an blink of an eye on the cosmic timeline.

Lets suppose that it takes a ten thousand years to reach a star system and consume it, and the swarm needs the resources of an entire star system just to build 2 more probes.

That means that the number of star systems consumed doubles every ten thousand years. At that rate it takes no more than 50 generations, or half a million years, to consume the entire galaxy.

Note that if the number of probes the Von Neumann swarm builds is more than 2 per star system consumed, this process happens even faster.
Yahoo! Mail has one really cool feature: It supports actual browser-like tabs. So, it is possible to open multiple email conversations in parallel, as well as run some searches, and look at various folders.
Because drivers, generally speaking, are not well-informed of their costs. Generally speaking when considering their wages they don't count the costs of the maintenance and depreciation on their vehicles, because this is not something that a normal driver has to think about very hard, and they all used to be just normal drivers. But it's not very hard to hit 100k miles on a car when rideshare becomes your new profession.
Calling it now: The US government will buy millions of doses of the Russian vaccine.
The author spent 1700 hours to build these tools. At the rate of $100/hr the estimated cost of development would be $170,000. Sounds a lot to me.
If anything it will help people realize they are being toyed around by Google and there are better products out there
It's an evolution of the gender insult duality. Ten years ago it was sluts and permavirgins. Now it's thots and incels.
More likely we'll move away from seeds towards sharing clones of rooted cuttings.
Much more predictable.

Open cutting exchange is a good idea actually. Trace genetics.
I would suggest keeping around some versions :) I use git for this very reason locally when I'm futzing with settings, it's immeasurably handy for experimenters and config file junkies.
Could it have more to do with user experience than business or social reasons? ie people meaning to use dashes instead of the boolean operator and instead by mistake removing results from their searches?
Online surveys are even worse than in-person, because they are hosted on particular sites, having particular audience, leaning or biased in particular way.

E.g. Poll on cnn.com and fox.com will give you opposite results.

Also different age/wealth/profession groups have particular leanings on political spectrum and particular average level of computer proficiency.

E.g. a farmer in Idaho would likely to vote for any Republican candidate and simultaneously less likely to participate in any online polling.
Or, you can pay $1 and use it for one month via xbox game pass for PC, or $5 if you’ve already used the $1 offer in the past.

I’d strongly recommend this if you’re not very sure you’ll like the game.
Rome wasn't built in a day. Take small steps at a time, nothing wrong with it.
the distribution is everyone, as i've observed by being in russia and belarus for years.

the ratio? you need a source to show you young people use telegram on a phone and old people use real telegrams, in belarus? you need a source to show you old people vote for ussr-time dictators?

it's up to you to give the source, since you claim this telegram statistic to be a valid representation of votes. me, i know first hand it's not.
Circumcision at birth in the absence of any problems has never made sense to me; it's not common in the country where I live, and it's a little scary that it's almost common practice in the US. From the downvotes I'm getting on my parent comment, I'm guessing people may think I'm pro-circumcision, but I think it's being anti-GMO and anti-vaxx that's unreasonable from my point of view. I can't think of any good reason to circumcise boys in the absence of medical problems - other than the slightly reduced risk of penile cancer, but that's a very rare form of cancer, and even so, we don't remove tonsils from healthy children, nor do we amputate their limbs to reduce the risk of canacer.

If someone (especially the downvoters) could explain what the advantage of circumcision is, I'd be at least interested to hear it.
I'm surprised that NEC would do away with the microcode, since there is a lot of microcode in the 8086. It would be interesting to see how much circuitry it took to replace the microcode.
Am not well informed on these topics, but I think they were shut down. So Whatsapp, facebook, etc maybe refused traffic from Belarus numbers to comply with government orders?

Or maybe they just don't accept TOR traffic for security purposes
So there is no room in this world for niche products?
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