skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're winning on both sides now no matter which option you go for.
Guess I'm not keeping my 2070 super for long then
The Wikipedia page[1] on affirmative action says that it includes "promoting diversity", which means artificially adding diversity by discriminating against majorities, which is consistent with my personal experience and the way I've heard other people use the term, and is consistent with he argument that I was making.

Meanwhile, you didn't even attempt to provide nuance to my interpretation of "affirmative action", nor did you try to counter my argument in any way whatsoever. Seems more like you're in bad faith by trying to use a vague claim like "overly simplistic" without providing any sort of support.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action
Unions aren't anti-capitalist, they explicitly work within a capitalist framework to ensure better pay and working conditions for their workers.

Unions deal in money and don't seek to change that, unions recognize and don't challenge ownership of the business.

What about them makes them anti-capitalist, except that they seek to shift the balance of "who, of all the people working on a business, gets paid what for the operation of a business"?
Nit: the microwave networks themselves are a standard feature of a lot of exchanges, such as SIX and CME. There is some posturing between companies building receivers that you may have heard about[1], but that is largely because companies are building towers so close they are causing interference.

The tower location does not have much of an effect on latency because the microwave network in this case always terminates at NYSE. If you build your microwave tower a few feet closer to the transmitter (Chicago), then you have to run a few more feet of cable to the colo.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-08/the-gazil...
I read that this is more intended as the VM you run inside Proxmox, that you then run your (docker/k8) containers inside.
Very cool. I'm wondering about whether RTX 30 Series cards are compatible (interfaces, form factor, etc.) with Quadro RTX 8000. Thoughts?
I put a Raspberry Pi Zero inside an Apple iSight camera: it cost $5
How do you consider the improvements they didn't make (even before llvm was released) to gcc ?
One of the main villains, and two of the supporting characters are white.

While the director and screenwriter were black, the film's producers and editors were white, and the rest of the crew itself was made up of the usual assortment of Hollywood crew members, without regard to race. (I have several non-black friends who worked on the movie in the camera, prop, makeup, 2nd unit aka "stunt" unit, and VFX departments.)

If you're going to be racist, at least have the intelligence to look up the cast and crew and IMDB before you spout your Trumpian nonsense.
I think they mean DRM is the reason we can't have open firmware. Not that DRM is the reason we can't have sophisticated PiP features.
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The promotion part is exactly what I was saying with the "recommendation systems". I was saying the platforms didn't take action initially AGAINST the conspiracy stuff.
They still operate. Among the things they do: secret shoppers at sports stadiums to confirm that the vendors selling alcohol are carding.
It’s more the reverse. We built suburbs and ripped out streetcar lines because automobiles were becoming more popular. It has also been suggested that GM intentionally played a role in this transition.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
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I think that with a lot of work we can make a real scene that looks like those renders, but none of those look like a "normal" real photo.
What OS do you use?

And does the mouse being a ps/2 input vs USB make a difference?
This does encourage optimising the OS or application part (eg double buffering and taking another frame is slow), but it doesn’t measure two significant sources of latency:

The latency in the hardware before the signal makes it to the usb (for most keyboards, even specialised gaming keyboards this is like 30ms, which is 2 frames).

There is also the latency from when the monitor gets a signal to when the pixels have perceptually finished transitioning. This can be 10s of ms too.

So even if the OS has 0 latency, and the monitor measures that, you could still easily observe a latency of say 60ms.
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I'm pretty sure it isn't illegal to seek out an employee with strike-busting knowledge.
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There’s a reason why the citizens of California passed Prop 13 in the 1970s.
Or did we conveniently forget?
Some good answers in the stuff others have posted (Especially the accessibility one).

You don't provide many details of what you do and do not have at your disposal in terms of skills, tech stack, access to log files etc so this is a non-expert cut and paste from SO [1]. Yeah I know (StackOverflow) and it doesn't even relate directly to your problem ....But if you read the long bit below it might give you a bit of blue-sky thinking.

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The next is determining what behavior constitutes a possible bot. For your stackoverflow example, it would be perhaps a _certain number of page loads in a given small time frame from a single user (not just IP based, but perhaps user agent, source port, etc.)_

Next, you build the engine that contains these rules, collects tracking data, monitors each request to analyze against the criteria, and flags clients as bots. I would think you would want this engine to run against the web logs and not against live requests for performance reasons, but you could load test this.

I would imagine the system would work like this (using your stackoverflow example): The engine reads a log entry of a web hit, then adds it to its database of webhits, aggregating that hit with all other hits by that unique user on that unique page, and record the timestamp, so that two timestamps get recorded, that of the first hit in the series, and that of the most recent, and the total hit count in the series is incremented.

Then query that list by subtracting the time of the first hit from the time of the last for all series that have a hit count over your threshold. Unique users which fail the check are flagged. Then on the front-end you simply check all hits against that list of flagged users, and act accordingly. Granted, my algorithm is flawed as I just thought it up on the spot.

If you google around, you will find that there is lots of free code in different languages that has this functionality. The trick is thinking up the right rules to flag bot behavior.
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[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6979285/protecting-from-...
Displayport usually has something like 50 % higher bandwidth compared to the HDMI standard of the same vintage. Which makes sense, since home video folks are fine with like 15 pictures per second and 4:0:0 chroma subsampling, but that doesn't really work for computers...
with just how little power unions have in America, I'd wager it's more likely the former. especially in tech spaces
Unreal engine looks pretty convincing with proper camera setup: https://youtu.be/zKu1Y-LlfNQ?t=118 .
I disagree. Unions tend to favor seniority-based promotion over merit-based promotion[0] for obvious reasons (unions can't tell how much merit an employee has without deferring judgment to company managers/execs, but unions can tell how long someone has been working without deferring judgment to anyone).

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2523767
No need for name calling...
Learning to segment images without manually segmented training data
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QnX is correct.
Sure but the mind is reinforced by its constant embodiment. If you woke up in another body, or with no body, then that identity would seem difficult to maintain.
Isn't it somewhat similar in concept to the Container-Optimized OS that is being offered by GCP ?
Its not really full end to end latency though. I think, at best it can measure when the the monitor thinks it received the signal from the mouse and when it perceives the new image. Latency in the monitor itself can't be measured, can it?
Is it primarily a biological or cultural phenomenon that most creators of this content are women and most consumers of the content are men? Honestly, I don't know if that's true, but from what little this intersects with my news feed it appears to be true.
It was the 20xx series that had insane pricing (in a bad way). nVidia had no competition and priced things at the highest markup the market could take, segmenting it by ML, cloud, mining, gaming etc.

Not sure what their competition now in each vertical, but apparently they believe that they need a lower price point.
Or one driver who shares it with/sells it to the the others.
Yeah, Wayland is one of the main issue here. Things are going really well generally speaking with the Wayland transition, but Nvidia is single-handedly delaying the wide-spread transition from X to Wayland across most distros, which is super unfortunate, because it's a very important part of a desktop Linux experience. Using Wayland day to day on my XPS 13 with regular Intel integrated graphics is great in terms of perf and battery life. There's a much larger conversation to be had about X vs Wayland, but broadly speaking Wayland is just better and not bogged down by design decisions made 20 or 30 years ago.

The other key benefit would be driver management. Updating your drivers right now can be a nightmare. If the drivers are open sourced and upstreamed into the kernel this becomes a non-issue. I do understand why Nvidia doesn't want to do that though. A lot of their lead right now is not just hardware based, but software based. They have a choke-hold on the ML ecosystem and it's a huge cash cow for them. Giving away that secret sauce in their drivers, so that AMD could make their cards seamlessly compatible would probably be a huge mistake from a business perspective for Nvidia.
I wonder if any of the "in-silo, ready to launch at a moment's notice" ballistic missile platforms could be repurposed to carry a bunch of communications satellites. In the event of a wipeout, it could be a way to quickly get back in the game.
Entire volumes could be written about that exchange alone
I feel like your comment gives voice to what I wanted to say in the thread about why doctors hate their computers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24336039
I can provide a little background on this. In general yes I would recommend that you just use an ASG and roll out a new AMI. However that approach can be very expensive and time-consuming at truly massive scale (1000's or even 10's of thousands of machines).

Bottlerocket is built in part based on our experiences operating AWS Fargate, which obviously has as one of its needs the ability to patch a colossal number of hosts which are running people's containers, without downtime or disrupting their containers. Bottlerocket is designed to ensure that this is both efficient and safe. We aren't the only ones with this need. Many large orgs also have tremendous fleets, and its unacceptable to cause significant disruption by rotating at the host level.

Another aspect to consider is stateful workloads that are using the local disks. Bottlerocket lets you safely update your host if you are running something like a database or other stateful system where you don't really want to move your data around.

Not everyone will need to use this updating mechanism, but I think it will be very attractive to many of the larger organizations with a lot of infrastructure.
Does the amazon brain actually think that the person standing 10/20/50 feet closer is the better person for the job? My first impression was that these phones were being run by people blocks/miles away, but they are actually only a few feet closer.

>> That means a phone in a tree outside Whole Foods’ door would get the delivery offer even before drivers sitting in their cars just a block away.

That seems ridiculous. Plus or minus what, a minute? There has to be a better way to select drivers.
Pretty much all security is relative.

However, it's not just about the better lock, but the apparent value of what can be stolen.

You can have the best lock in the park, but if you have a brand new top-of-the-market ebike and all the other bikes are rusty shitheaps with mismatched pedals and tape hanging off the handlebars, yours is still going to be a prime target.
Having to research this stuff, get specific apps, and plan out a route is a horrible experience. Compare to ICE cars: universally compatible with stations at almost any corner or highway exit, and all you need is cash or a credit card. Until someone who isn't tech-minded can use EVs for trips like these, don't expect them to get mass adoption.
> SR71s' speeds were classified

Even after the transatlantic world record "fastest air-breathing manned aircraft" flights in 1976? Especially if they were flying below the record speeds (depends on the exact numbers, going by wikipedia, the record was for approx. 1905 knots, which of course is lower than the figure in the story)?

(But, yeah, I've heard plenty of people, including other SR71 pilots in interviews, question the validity of Shul's stories)
Right now I use Linux, unfortunately a series of corporate games left QnX without a window manager and mostly useful for embedded work. But if someone were to do a 64 bit port of it it would be an awesome workstation OS even today. And that's just the UI, under the hood it was very impressive as well. Extremely elegant and well thought out.
It is, however, illegal to engage in, or create the impression of engaging in, surveillance of union activities.
That innocuously named subsidiary could also team up with Uber and Lyft to skirt AB5 in California! Think of the monetization possibilities!
I think you're demonizing gov't intervention in education, but you can't expect a democratically elected Congress to not try to prevent China/Russia to overtake them in science/engineering. College fees are insane, and loans are almost predatory, yes. But if banks don't give you a loan to go to school, shouldn't the government intervene?

Also, I don't want VC backed colleges "competing" to maximize revenue/some arbitrary metric if colleges will go the way of Uber/Lyft.

The ROI idea is great and may be a good compromise. You may lose some non-STEM majors though, and I think that's a bad thing. Maybe the different colleges within a uni (eng, math, lib arts) should have different tuition.
Question: Will this be an AMI that can be deployed as an ECS cluster recipient on EC2? End Question.
Yeah, we considered that! I've driven Mines Rd. from Livermore to the Junction. But I didn't have a full enough tank of gas to feel comfortable going that way.

Me too. All my favorite driving roads and areas to explore have been affected by the fires.
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No. There are three problems with defined-benefit systems, especially as a form of civil servant benefit:

1) There is far too much risk involved. No one really knows how long a person will live beyond retirement 40 years from now;

2) The systems, as they are in place today, result in retirement income that far exceeds expected returns from investment or growth in GDP over the preceeding 30-40 years of work, and are unsustainable by taxpayers _by definition;

3) The taxpayer - who should be the adversary when negotiating pensions and salaries for public servants - gets no place at the table during negotiations. It is in the best interests of both the leadership of civil institutions and the employed civil servants to increase both salary, pensions, and benefits far beyond any rational economic analysis.

Eventually these policies result in places like Flint or Detroit. My expectation is that Illinois is likely to join them in about 10 years they are so far in the hole.
> Thankfully, we can just have all three :)

Not at this time. There are some hypothetical options like the LG 27GN950, but it has poor contrast and uses Displayport 1.4 compression, which is only supported in the latest graphics cards. VESA and friends really made DisplayPort 1.4 as close as they possibly could to false advertising without actually committing it (because the only relevant new thing in DP 1.4 -- DSC, display stream compression -- is technically optional and no one claimed they'd support DSC while saying they support DP 1.4, which is pretty much the same as supporting DP 1.3, since nothing of note changed).

And now we're looking at DisplayPort 2.0 which can already barely support uncompressed 8K at 60 Hz and is basically maxed out by 5K/6K 120/144 Hz. And it's unclear if the presently introduced generation of GPUs even supports it, or if we're going to use effectively-2013-Displayport until ~2022.

Note how the marketing material only talks about HDMI 2.1; DisplayPort isn't mentioned once.
temporal.io is home of the Temporal Workflow project. It is not about temporal queries, but about writing resilient distributed application. The state is maintained in an event log and supports rollbacks, thus the name.
Actually your example of police unions is a good one. What do they excel at? Protecting bad cops.
Low latency > high throughput in a real time context.
I think you might be interested in what Richard Wolff has to say.
There was a crash in March/April. The stock market has since mostly recovered thanks to the Fed printing money any time there is a dip in the S&P500 while the economy is doing incredibly poorly. What we are seeing is the result of the stock market no longer representing the economy but simply being correlated to it at certain times. Think about it this way: every company is struggling to some degree and we are at record breaking unemployment, and yet here we are with the same index prices as we had in February. To me that doesn’t sound sane and my personal prediction is that if Biden wins the election the printers at the Fed will be slowed down, which will tank stocks and index funds. This will be unfortunate as many people won’t understand that printing unlimited cash to keep Fortune 500 stocks looking good eventually just results in insane inflation and then everyone would lose their investments. If Biden wins I might just buy a few puts on SPY for maybe February or March 2021 as I think a stock crash will be coming.
there’s a mental disorder vibe to using tickers instead of normal company names
What percentage of your purchases do you make with credit cards?
You could try MailChimp. I've used it for a few gigs
The 12 pin connector has an adapter for two 8pin cables. This is a non issue unless the connector just bothers you for some weird reason.
Is there any reason to believe latency within the monitor itself wouldn't be relatively constant? Or would you expect large variances in monitor latency? If it was a pretty narrow distribution they could simply add on that constant factor. I'm not sure if they do this though.
No school of good repute will give you a degree without having some attendence, so I'm not sure this is an important distinction, although certainly two years or community college can save a bunch of money in some states if the circulum is well aligned with the four year program you transfer to (or it you figure out college isn't a good fit for you). Excluding honarary degrees, which are usually given to people who don't need a degree to be hired.
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So did every other vendor. We have two CoreOSes, Flatcar, Container-Optimized OS from Google, Bottlerocket, k3OS, etc. Fortunately these aren't just different in name; there's a lot of experimentation going on around different ways to do updates, security, etc. I hope we'll eventually see some convergence after a few years.
There was a window cleaner trapped in an elevator between floors who used a squeegee to stab the plaster and escape.

When I last worked it out - he had about 7 minutes to escape the area of collapse. Intense when you're half way up a skyscraper with no working elevators.
they honestly posted a job, they honestly got backlash, they honestly decided it was a mistake, they honestly refused to answer follow-up questions. What part of that is not honest?

Honestly, I think you simply don't like that they don't agree with you 100% and act as you would have them act, and you should honestly admit that, and honesty would require that you stop accusing them of being other than honest on the basis of what you outlined.
Yeah, I read the stories, but I also read their side of the story and it seemed like they got pretty screwed with the vendor.

Like I said, I'm cautiously optimistic and I'm also lucky enough that losing out on my $100 deposit isn't a financial issue for me.
I wonder why Instagram is not doing this; free tier are your profile photos premium are paid ones. But there should be a line between non adult and adult, YouTube chose not to host porn and I think they did the right thing.
It's worthless as a "certification program", but the actual knowledge is valuable

You need some way to get your foot in the door and prove your chops. Some bootcamps like Lambda school are doing a pretty good job about that