skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true. Just because the US Government isn't able to run public services doesn't mean governments can't run public services effectively. My province runs our utilities as a publicly owned company, we get not only the cheapest electricity and free water, but also technological innovation and profit that goes to everyone.
feels like Covid has put a serious dent on interest in mass transit...used car sales are through the roof. and people seem to be moving out of urban areas to suburbs.
Considering someone would have had to surreptitiously home-brew a jet pack rivalling the Yves Rossi Jetman in order to get to that altitude, I would not be surprised if this turned out to be a balloon "dressed up" to look like a person with a jetpack.
(a) The average user neither doesn't know nor care about anonymity. If you are talking about "the average hackernews user", things might be different. Welcome to the 0.1%!

(b) Lots and lots of money?

(c) Not soo many annoying ads popping up, but rather ones that seem at least vaguely relevant? Will make me less angry and more sociable.
Windows 10 has improved this earlier this year (2004 = 2020 April): https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/f57tk4/dwm_multi...
Used it; love it! Highly recommended for queues, caches etc. If you just need some decent compression and higher speeds use LZ4.
>People donate to streams to hear the streamer thank them or call them out by name or interact with them, in some manner, for some amount of time.

Let's get one more accusation of reductiveness in here.

You are still viewing it through a lens of parasocial behavior. The token thanks isn't the only motivating factor. People don't donate to NPR just to get tote bags. They donate because they recognize the content has both value and costs. Those donations are part of recognizing that value and supporting future content creation. The same applies to streaming. Some donations are a means of thanking the streamer and providing them with both a means and a motivation to continue making content.

The interactive nature of the content on a site like Twitch doesn't necessarily make it any different than non-interactive content you might find on a site like Patreon.
I've been reading about datalog + deductive databases recently, and stumbled across this recent ICML 2020 paper! Had to shorten the original title, which was 81 characters. The abstract:

> Learning how to predict future events from patterns of past events is difficult when the set of possible event types is large. Training an unrestricted neural model might overfit to spurious patterns.

> To exploit domain-specific knowledge of how past events might affect an event's present probability, we propose using a temporal deductive database to track structured facts over time. Rules serve to prove facts from other facts and from past events. Each fact has a time-varying state---a vector computed by a neural net whose topology is determined by the fact's provenance, including its experience of past events. The possible event types at any time are given by special facts, whose probabilities are neurally modeled alongside their states.

> In both synthetic and real-world domains, we show that neural probabilistic models derived from concise Datalog programs improve prediction by encoding appropriate domain knowledge in their architecture.
Generally new feature leaps - it is the second release that meets expectations of the initial feature release.
Looks interesting! how does it play with schema registry?
U.S. Election Priced as Worst Event Risk in VIX Futures History
If the news orgs feel they have something of value, shouldn't they welcome this move, as it will hurt Facebook?

They are asking for payment for their service. Presumably Facebook will lose more value from this than what they are being asked to pay, otherwise why pay?

They're tipping their hand here. They know that what they have is not as valuable as what they're asking for it, otherwise Facebook wouldn't be willing to give up that value.
You're right. Being a unified county/city doesn't mean that a city will still necessarily get everything (or even most things) right. However, I think it's safe to say that SF and Oakland are doing the most of any other "city" in the Bay Area to add more housing -- though that bar is low, and it's still nowhere near enough.
I'm not framing it as free vs paid. I'm framing it as public vs private. The public sector just does some things better.

No one in Europe is under the illusion that public services are free. This is a complete strawman. But they are much more cost-effective than the alternative, a lot of the time, and provide universal services to everyone and help maintain the social fabric of a society.
So, is this available as an ISO? I currently run an Ubuntu VM in bhyve on my FreeNAS home-server to host various containers for experiments, etc... could I run this instead or is it tied to AWS?
If you enjoy sharing an address space with a malevolent agent of chaos, try accursedUnutterablePerformIO.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring-0.10.12.0/doc...
Yeah, having made the jump to 144hz g-sync, fixed 60fps looks hilariously bad.

Though my 13 year old self eeking out 20-30 fps playing bf2142 would probably disagree.
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I'm not dismissing how good it is, just how popular it is. Definitely not popular enough to threaten Docker's adoption, not even close. Docker does have problems, but Podman is not one of them.
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Which is to say the company made you guys do all the work instead of paying people to do it for you.
Clearly he went to to the great sale they had at Spatula City.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NCmDvrECS8
Ok, the misunderstanding here may be that I was using "gold standard" as a superlative among async IO APIs in general, while you're using it as a superlative among a given platform's set of IO APIs, async or otherwise.
What’s a properly designed denounce circuit look like that adds 0 latency? Also, for anything that’s a gesture (eg double-click on a mouse) you need time to disambiguate. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s something similar for the laser in terms of translating the analog signal to digital and then processing it and converting it into HID events the OS can understand.
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woah, you're totally right. My bad. I just remembered him talking about manipulation as under-actuated problem. thanks for the catch.
Oh, and

python -m http.server 12345

serves files in the current directory over HTTP on port 12345.

I'll stop now, but I love how Python module developers add these "hidden" command-line features.

P.S.: You can — and, at this point in history, probably should — s/python/python3/ in all these examples.
Ask HN: Is demand for software engineers rising during Covid-19
> I have a friend in France who is getting an art education for free.

Unpopular to admit: we need doctors / engineers / farmers more than we need another art major.

As a US taxpayer, I wouldn't want to subsidize just anyone's education. I'd rather incentivize and subsidize engineering / STEM / agricultural science.

You don't get to just get a free education regardless of what you want to study - different work/study has different value to society.
Yeah, as many others have pointed out this analysis is facile verging on just wrong.

Do universities not compete for students? Why have costs gone up so much faster than inflation? It's not just a question of there being a huge pool of money, you can buy a car with loans and car prices haven't skyrocketed.

The answer is that education is a weird "good" that's probably a Veblen good, among a lot of other reasons.
Universality, High Quality, Low Cost

Oh come on, we do not need the facilities, sports stadiums, plush housing, food options, gaudy offices for professors, and non-professor bureaucrats, and grade inflation in modern "education". None of that actually contributes to High Quality.

You absolutely could have low cost and universality and produce well-educated undergraduates by the current standard of US education.
Once the people at these news orgs ask their analytics team to show them how much of their traffic comes from Facebook, I'm sure they'll scrap the push for this law real fast. If not, their traffic (and therefore revenue) will drop immensely. Very few people go directly to news sites now. Liking a news page and then seeing what pops up in the feed is how most people consume their news (which I hate, because it fuels the headline click bait, but it's just a fact).
Count school fees and student debt too - public schools in most of the EU are good enough that you don’t have to go private the way the US does.
The trick is that your correct API never has to change to get better performance.

That would be a very good trick indeed.
Thanks!

It isn't yet integrated with the schema registry, but I think doing so would be a fairly straightforward task. My primary goal before this "Show HN" was 2.6.0 feature completeness.

I'll look into integrating with the schema registry within the next month. Thanks for the reminder!

edit: there's a few other minor kafkacat features that I'd like to implement as well, such as start and end times for consuming, and producing entire files. I think those two, in addition to avro schema registry, are the main features this is missing, but otherwise kcl is much more featureful.

Long term, I think it'd be great to add support for secrets in vault, but I'd like a bit more usage before considering integrating that.
Why would the current death rate be a better metric than overall deaths?
Neoen completes expansion of Hornsdale Power Reserve
If you want 144hz, even a RTX 2080 Ti can't hit it on 1440p on max with most games. I have a 2080S and I'm pretty disappointed with the performance, especially with Ray tracing on.

For example, RDR2 runs at around 50-60fps on ultra on my rig. Very disappointing.
Sounds like a burgeoning cable company
Bird distance. Not just crows fly straight.
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Key points:

> French renewable energy developer Neoen says it has completed the expansion of the so-called Tesla big battery at Hornsdale in South Australia, and it will now begin to provide crucial inertia services to the grid from its expanded capacity.

> The battery – officially known as the Hornsdale Power Reserve, and located to the Hornsdale wind farm complex north of Adelaide – became the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery when it was opened in late 2017 with a capacity of 100Mw/129MWh.

> The battery has now been expanded to 150MW/194MWh, with much of the new capacity focused on delivering “inertia” – a critical grid service that will be delivered for the first time at this scale by a battery, and which will help reduce the need to keep operating gas generators as the state’s grid transitions from more than 50 per cent renewables towards the state Liberal government target of “net 100 per cent renewables.”

> ARENA chief executive Darren Miller focused on the importance of showing that batteries are capable of providing inertia services and fast frequency responses to the grid, saying this would pave the way for potential regulatory changes and revenue streams to incentivise further grid scale batteries to be built across Australia.
I looked at the link because I was surprised that they had stopped. Turns out the stations are still transmitting.
Don’t GPU fences tell you which vsync you’re targeting? Or are you saying you want the actual estimated display time of the frame? I know the latter is definitely available for VR systems as it’s required. Having it available for 2d games probably would help marginally in cutting down the perceived latency although I don’t know if you’d be able to feel it.
Most creators being women is also true.
It's an important topic, yet unsexy for the general public, which is why it needs more attention.

Cost just seem to slowly ratchet up in the US, with each piece of the process/org taking their little chunk of $. I'm sure rising standard of living is part of it, risk aversion, outsourcing public infrastructure capabilities (and responsibility) to private contractors. Add to it also the important topic that we've fallen out of practice (as a country) of having large numbers of people who are capable of working on these kinds of infrastructure -- so it gets more expensive to find them.

It's a big loss. We could have 2x or 3x the new infrastructure we do, if it didn't cost so much.
How about “totally flaccid real time”?
Very different focus in Modern Robotics. I've used Modern Robotics in the past to teach a course on robotics fundamentals. It's fundamental in that it covers problem definitions, and some basic solutions to those problems. It gets a little deeper than others in that it goes into an exponential representation for certain operations.
In terms of pure economics, they should be the ones paying Facebook.
> Similar to what Google is doing with its certificate program they are rolling out.

Will Google hire someone coming out of its certificate programs who didn't go to an actual college?
You are quite mistaken on the low cost, you pay wildly higher taxes all your life, even if you never went or benefit from a University degree, let alone benefit from paying for the eduction of foreign nationals who never paid a dime in taxes and then leaves Europe for the USA once they have a degree and can get higher income at a lower tax rate there.

I find it rather annoying that otherwise supposedly intelligent people that likely frequent this site simply cannot understand basic economics, let alone accounting and have essentially no moral compass for lacking any thorough understanding for these matters.

Not even that, but your fake low cost European education that that poor commoner pays ~50% of their income in taxes to support, is also not universal at all and is actually quite corrupt, with the children of academics and politicians getting into University at far higher rates than a system that were not corrupt would allow for.

So, no, not only is the Europeans education model horribly immoral and unethical as foreigners and the ruling class's children get "low cost" education, while the working class slaves pay for it with their taxes and are stifled in their life due to that enslavement through taxes, but it is also not low cost.
Young lonely men who nobody cares about unless they open up their wallets.
One theory goes that the whole "College ranking" apparatus has created a "race to the most affluent" situation, since high tuition costs have no negative effect on a College's ranking, and if you don't spend on facilities and things to up your ranking, then you'll lose customers to the competitor who does.
Some links to Debian mailing list discussions:

https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/33417ce2bcf9b6a0efaf47...
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20190608184309.GA10146...
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/f544829dcd6c0f92ea11cd...
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20180712123524.GA25751...
If there's a CVE vulnerability that is being actively exploited on your network, you should preempt running processes to deal with it, and absolutely must take the boot+nuke approach, because it already could be affecting any host that has not already been boot+nuked?

If there's not a CVE, AWS can significantly manage the lifecycle of their machines, and have ~5% of all of their machines "unschedulable" at any one time, waiting for existing processes to complete so that they may use an orderly restart before doing a boot+nuke. A SLA of "Tasks may never run longer than X days"(x=10-30) allows them to perform orderly restarts.
Previously:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Of course understanding that this is Canada:
I don't recommend this kind of approach. It might solve the immediate problem but, does not address the cause. Having police visibility during "peak" times will resolve the issue of crime in a specific area and time but, will not solve the crime from not happening somewhere else. Also, I don't know who is working on these reports and whether or not they apply their own biases. The US already has an issue with over policing. This would definitely exacerbate it.
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Do you considered capsule pharmacy a tech or drug company? I believe they still use Django.
Right, but GPT-2 had 1.5 billion neurons in 2019 so GPT-3 was a 100x increase. 1e15 may not be that far off, especially since these operations are relatively straightforward to run in parallel.
> about everyone in my company in IT is underqualified

Downward spiral, the people who get stuff done get babied to death and decide to change jobs, the ones who are just along for the ride stay. Wash and repeat 3-4 times and you end up with a dysfunctional company.
I think this is as stupid as it sounds from the paper - https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2020/presentation/bir...

Why not "Mozilla research: We asked users for their name and address and the ones telling the truth we could identify"

TOR is fighting identifying users from the screen size of their window when maximised.

Here's the original paper which is more about how you can access the browsers histories - https://www.petsymposium.org/2012/papers/hotpets12-4-johnny....

Can you still access browsers histories? I'd have to guess no way without a zeroday. The original site is down. http://www.wtikay.com/ Firefox fixed it - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777
Most single guys that have hobbies that arent OnlyFans (or strip clubs, the meatspace equivalent), would usually be doing something like cars, drinking, clubbing, traveling, computers/gaming, or sports
I don't understand why Twitter didn't want to comply with the immediate request from the FBI. Straight up evil.
Hey I like B grade movies, but most of the ones on Prime dont make that cut. :)
It's an open question if Twitch gets anything out of non-pro-gaming streamers.

Ultimately those dollars come at the expense of others, there is limited attention and money, it really isn't something that would just exist elsewhere.

For example people also spend a lot of money on virtual slot machine games, so much so they were usually one out of every 11 apps in Apple's top grossing, back when they reported this list. It couldn't possibly be healthy for the app ecosystem, it sucks the air out of the room for other developers making creative or useful stuff. Sure it makes money, but a lot of things make money, it's stupid to reduce the effect of virtual slot machine games down to, "Well its users wouldn't spend the dollars elsewhere, and the more money to Apple the better, so it helps everyone."

The success of virtual slot machines has hurt video game developers, because financiers expect you to reproduce their mechanics, even though their expectation that it's all about mechanics is wrong. Hence many games with pointless slot machine mechanics.

Nobody needs OnlyFans. OnlyFans harms earnest creators, it ghettoizes earnest female creators especially because your agent, your manager, your friends, your family, your viewers - they will now expect that the surest way to make money is selling your body, and not by having any real talent or skills. OnlyFans and its porn stars have completely co-opted well-meaning people with this talk about sex work, COVID, it sucks to live in Bulgaria and whatever. Bella Thorne is of course a huge hack, it is preposterous she is repeatedly being given a platform by the media where the net result will be, more people will stop trying hard and gamble on being nude online.

They're not the only platform. TikTok is full of talentless hacks too, who simply win a random Internet lottery and are completely and utterly distorting earnest creativity and opportunities for hard working people. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube also reward SEO / ripping off other people's stuff much more than creating something original. This "well it makes money" bullshit has to end.
> but not evaluate them based on whether they went to school or where.

This is akin to how you can fire someone for ANY REASON, except a few forbidden reason.

Guess which reason Timmy is fired for? Certainly not for trying to start a union.
If you hit your head hard enough all those things will happen though.
You know that's not the case here. If it comes down to picking and editing interviews, it would not be possible to do so without bias.
A couple of years ago, I was talking to an experienced journalist at one of Australia's capital city papers and they said that they are extremely reliant on Facebook for traffic.
We don't need evolution and death to redesign our future selves.

Evolution is massively inefficient as a design process, and gives no guarantees about what you get.

Personal immortality is the goal.
Primarily, the police and the federal government, who both have the power to enforce the law or not based on their biases. The vast majority of police exhibit and act upon this bias, as shown by numerous incidents of sousveillance.
From a fellow 2080 Ti owner this kind of statement that you can max things out without issue is usually true with the latest flagship but falls apart once the next generation comes out and provides a higher max performance envelope for settings to target.

Expect the games demoed in the event due to come out soon (cyperpunk, cod, etc) to not play as well when maxed out as those that were released while the 2080 Ti was the flagship.
To date, there has been one documented case of re-infection. From everything we know, this very rare.

There are many reasons a person with a severe illness might have to return to a hospital (e.g. lung damage from ventilators), but this has no relationship to repeated infection from the same virus.
How do you quantify 'High Quality' other than developing connections? College was a class vehicle but is now just a method for people to party away from home and walk away with massive amounts of debt.

Read 'Paying for Party' if you'd like a sobering view at how fucked everything is (graduated in 2009 and it was so true even at that point)
New Zealand Establishes Algorithm Charter for Government Agencies
Never quite understood the need for Flutter. It's never going to be the tool to use things, so it'll always be faster/better to just to native development. Nobody is learning Dart or wants to deal with Google deprecating stuff.
As far as my understanding goes, companies of any size have the right to exercise a sort of capital strike at their discretion. The perfectly legal shuttering of The Gothamist after their newsroom unionized a while back is a good example of that (the story is a fascinating read!) (0)

I would honestly love to hear from those that aren't favorable towards unions about why it's acceptable for business management and ownership to punitively destroy jobs and value over ideological issues, but it's unacceptable for the employees to have that option as part of collective bargaining?

(0) https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/03/561830256...
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