skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> drastically worse results

Every single time I double check this, it turns out that American education system, while not perfect, is not that bad either.

American education system tend to have big differences - schools that have tons of money and schools that struggle for supplies or are unable to fix buildings. Schools that are great, schools that are very bad. Schools that are difficult and schools that are easy. But overall, the results are not some kind of catastrophe. It is far from that.

In fact, specifically on public/private divide there are plenty of good public schools with good results. The places middle class families fight to live at are such because everyone wants to go to local public school. This does makes local house prices higher and makes that school available to rich only. But it is still public school and not a private one.
Academy establishes inclusion standards for Oscars eligibility
> In the USA, the rate is permanent.

Variable rate mortgages exist in the US.
I don't understand your point. You seem to know that Apple denied an application that was merely stating the "widely known" fact that Apple takes 30% cut; yet you brush that off as irrelevant and "little indication that it's a change in policy"... what policy? The policy of NOT letting users know that Apple takes a cut?
The title is worse than the actual post. You dont always need Monte-Carlo. You need integration or summation (a distinction that can be abstracted away) and for some forms, Monte-Carlo is a way to evaluate those integrals approximately. As the post indicates there often are cheaper alternatives, more so when one is willing to tolerate inaccuracy.
Not using WP but have gone back to using Eudora 7 for Windows after Gmail got even slower after the redesign. Eudora is lightning fast for handling mailing list cruft; alt click on sender or subject to group matching emails.
The core expertise in a consulting company is getting the clients. Half of the consultants have absolutely no idea what they're talking about and do fine, domain expertise is 1/10th of the job, getting clients is 50% of the job, and putting together a work product that feels like it could represent domain expertise is 40%. So I'd approach the problem from "I have no expertise in consulting, how do I build some" which will be more fruitful.
I feel dev's at Google, just turn blind eye, once a PM pitches an Idea, literally every API they build is abused by ad networks, and now they want us to believe native file system access is safe, and good enough to be allowed by default. I just want this to blow up and see how the same googlers defending this feature, come and answer again.
Where? Web search is showing 3%.
Point is, you can't expect to have your cake and eat it too
Probably two flavors of the Apple 2. I assume the logo for the 2e was in italics.
Are you familiar with automatic differentiation?
Here it is: https://keycombiner.com/collections/rubymine/

Hope you have fun practicing these shortcuts!

The table can be searched, filtered, and contains all combinations from the official reference cards:

https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/rubymine/do...

https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/rubymine/do...
Yeah just if you don't like a monopoly on a critical resource, its your fault for buying it.

Makes perfect sense.
Yes.

I thought of this the other week, since it's not a stretch to think Epic will want to go after those marketplaces as well if they can.

It feels a little different, but I'm not willing to let that make me a hypocrite. We should have control over that hardware if we bought it, full stop. If that means we can't get those platforms as cheap anymore because they can't recoup their money from store fees, so be it. The world will be better off.

You can't trust any company to have your best interests at heart. You can barely expect this a miniscule amount of the time with your elected representatives, and that's their whole job. The market is for providing competition and innovation. Laws are for providing safety and security (and that includes keeping the market functioning well enough to provide those legitimately). Let's not forget that.
> "I don’t think I could make Civilisation today,” Meier says. “I’m not sure even I would play it. It wouldn’t fit in the zeitgeist. It asks a lot of the player, and takes a while to work it out. You have to play it once in order to understand what's going on. You have to be willing to spend time with it, and that’s not where most gamers are these days. Civ came out at the perfect time. The PC had got beefy enough for us to make it, but weren’t inundated with so many possibilities. If it had been created two years earlier we’d only have had four colours and it would have been much shallower.”

I could agree with that, although on the other hand there are deep simulation games being released today
It's not that simple. Will we manage at 8 billion but with double the amount of retirees to take care of?
> The really freaky thing is that you already have groff on your Mac -- it's installed by default.

No way, you're right. And of course it has a very detailed and well formatted man page. The one for troff even has tables.
The article says there is a possibility to grant access to a directory. For a non technical user who clicks “ok, whatever” on 200 cookies consent and newsletter nagging popups a day, there is a high probability they will click ok without reading it. This is absolutely not like the file input. Once you have access to a folder, you can write a decent cryptolocker.
Nobody hires consultants from a web page, but also, nobody hires consultants without checking their web page.
Asian markets continue the Wall Street sell-off while SoftBank stumbles
Illegal https://www.autocare.org/government-affairs/issues/magnuson-...

'prevent manufacturers from using disclaimers on warranties in an unfair or misleading manner. Prohibits tying arrangements that condition coverage under a written warranty on the consumer's use of an article or service identified by brand, trade, or corporate name unless that article or service is provided without charge to the consumer.'
I can find it just fine https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Apple+%5D...
That's a pretty weird thing to call bullshit on, even if the analogy wasn't a true one. I completed a Tough Mudder, which is 10 miles plus obstacles, with no HIIT or running training, only some biking (commuting) and yoga. Bert Kreischer is an overweight comedian, likely alcholoic, with no training regiment, and he completed a full marathon in 5h33m.
> You have to show that you're different

what if you prove that you're different by making your sales model different - i.e., you create a solution for a problem of theirs (and hand-hold the implementation and deployment etc), and if/when said solution is shown to have value, then you get paid?
Not sure where you're getting your information, but the majority of Firefox is written in C++, not Javascript.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series

The wikipedia article uses II for ][, // etc so look at those subsections.
I specifically asked about monitors. TVs have a huge amount of latency and post processing that’s only recently gotten better. Computer monitors, on the other hand, have long since been very fast.

I ask for evidence because I’m not the one presenting the claim and suspect it’s no longer true.
Two models of the Apple 2 series. Apple ][ (read Apple 2) was the first, followed by ][+ then //e (read 2e).

Apple was the first computer of Steve Jobs (you know, the guy who made the iPhone, the eBook, etc.). Note that Steve Jobs was a kind of visionary but the guy who actually built the Apple was Steve Wozniak.

The Apple was popular because it was affordable and, for its time rather powerful. That was possible because Steve Wozniak (and others) figured out how to build a computer in the cheapest (and most clever way).

As many HN readers, I learned programming when I was very young, on an Apple 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II
The Swift Runtime: Type Layout
Yes, we should make part-time jobs more common in our society. Just now, someone asked HN crowd about tech part-time jobs. Maybe it will be useful for you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401206
Congrats, you understand the scam.
Xinjiang Victims Database
It is easy to make things fast if you cut out 90% of the UI trimmings. No drop shadows, no shaders. No fancy data synchronization and subtle animations on every click and tap. Everything Winform style bog standard UI. And it will be blazing fast. But nobody wants ugly cross platform apps, so here we are.
Oh man don't get me started on Bengaluru. My tier 2 hometown sees more infrastructure activities than this silicon valley of India. People are just apathetic docile don't cares here. How come with an enormous budget and a rich state it's sooo bad? Doesn't matter who is in power here, same story all around.
One advantage of having multiple people do the same job is that unless both are dogshit incompetent, you can tell whether your problem is the person doing the job, or the job you're asking them to do.

If you ask a running coach to coach me and then find out that I am slow as a snail, you might conclude that the running coach sucked. But if you hire another one and find the same result then you know I suck.
I see this argument everywhere and it makes no sense. The ToS is up to the owner of the platform. It's the same reason I don't use Facebook: I think the company and what they do with my data is diametrically opposed to my way of thinking so I voted to leave by deleting my account.

Developer's do have a choice: abide by the ToS and enjoy the trappings of a user base that tends to spend more on applications be they subscriptions or one-offs than Android or vote with your wallets and don't abide by it but to cry foul and try to usurp one's will on the company that built the platform makes no sense.

Some counter arguments:

If the ToS of the app store are likened to the tax laws in the USA then failing to abide the law that requires taxes to be paid is the same thing here as Epic using their own payments system to subvert the iOS tax of 30%.

The game is like a car that drives on a road. The car is Epic's Fortnite. The road is a toll road. The road was built by Apple. Many cars can drive on this road but must pay a fee. (The analogy isn't 1:1 but work with me a bit).

After years of investment in the iPhone and building the ecosystem around it the AppStore is just one way to monetize that. A 30% cut might sound high but they did spend tens(hundreds?) of billions in R&D and this is just one way, among many, that the iPhone is being monetized, this is just a return on investment on top of the sales price of the phone.

All of the arguments I have heard from those in the Epic camp strike me as temper tantrums thrown by children.
Instead of grunge everything is covered in RGB LEDs. Literally almost everyone my age has RGB LEDs everywhere. All over their rooms and not to mention keyboards.
If we'd set an expectation that the government provided childcare, then it would be relatively easy to turn that into the government covering necessary time off for childcare etc.
For me, the author of this article is wrong.

On my system, Firefox on Windows, these constant delayed loadings of JavaScript garbage make every website laggy.
Yes, the web has become slower.

The author then himself posts that page weights have increased by over 300 percent.

Clearly, usability of todays web is generally worse.

Web development has changed from a field where competent people cared about user experience given simple and limited tech, to a field where people care about ads and using the latest fad in terrible JavaScript framework tool blah.
The Helsinki Killer Ball (1995)
You can't just "do well"! You have to dive for the lowest common denominator until you're a unicorn!
The vertical train approach of terrament (linked above) could theoretically work with that. But we'll probably have to wait for the first prototype to see if it can really work with existing infrastructure.
Close, but the logos were really styled that way, with ASCII brackets and slashes, on the cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe
> It would be way more than double the solar panels though.

We're comparing energy storage so no matter how much fossil fuel powerplants we replace - it would be x solar panels for energy storage with 80-90% efficiency (for example this gravicity stuff or hydro or batteries) and 2x for methane synthesis.
I wouldn't be surprised if they started asking for your phone number as well, as so many privacy-invading sites like to do these days.
Hmmm.

1. So the units are actually modular, i.e., not connected. Aha. If a unit jams, it's annoying but not fatal, as all the units above it continue to be usable.

2. Since the weight units are separate, then the force on the gearing (both wall and unit) is constant and thus the wear and tear is manageable.

3. The max energy stored is when all the weights are horizontal, of course. So there needs to be a transmission line built into the shaft, along with a motor/generator per weight unit. Some cleverness needed so the transmitted power is passed to (and received from) the correct units. The sliding contact where power is transmitted would also be a major possible point of failure.

4. Yeah, that's the downside of separate modular units. Each unit now needs to transmit/receive power.

5. It would seem prudent to build two or more shafts adjacent to each other. So if there is a problem in one shaft, you can go down the other and fix it. Increases reliability significantly.

6. If the units and power transmission are waterproof, water in the shaft isn't too much of an issue. You might lose ~20% of energy storage due to the buoyancy of the water, but that's it. Might save energy not having to constantly pump out the shaft.

7. Right. Definitely need a failsafe mechanism so a unit doesn't plunge down (say, when the motor/generator clutch fails) and take out the units at the bottom.

Cool idea. Good luck with power transmission.
It is designed to destroy the secondhand market, the fact it can be hand waved away as "security" is just the smokescreen.

It could be implemented in a way that preserves the ability to reuse CPUs, but it wont be.
> If you don't want a platform-secured CPU, don't buy one.

...the problem is what happens when you buy an unlocked CPU.
I suspect the OP is referring to the fact that Epic is also suing Google, because they consider the "inconveniences" that Google places on sideloading to be a form of unfair, illegal restriction. This strongly suggests that if Apple offered sideloading but still had the same fees and restrictions in the official App Store, Epic would still be suing them.
I find it strange that nobody seems to be directly commenting on the whole arms race we have with constantly upgrading operating systems, browsers, and software in the name of security or features, and how we end up abandoning perfectly good software, the sum of countless of human-hours of work, and all for what?

What would help is if the operating system was no more than the hypervisor, and we run every single application in their own VM that includes all their dependencies.
> "The Fed literally creates money ex nihilo."

that's too simplistic. the fed has wide latitude (probably too wide), but it should correlate with the (fuzzy, hard to accurately measure/model) productive capacity/velocity of the (globalized) economy, not just an unlimited well only constrained by inflation's devaluatory noose.

moreover, considering our technological progress and trajectory, i'd love to see us revisit the idea that money can only be injected into institutions (via central banks), which was a limitation of scope imposed by the practicalities of pre-21st century life. it's also a gatekeeper's gold mine on a no longer necessary choke point. we should move towards injecting money straight into the hands that create value, not into those of middlemen like bankers.
Google Has Deleted K9 Mail from the Play Store
Android applications get compiled to native code on install since Android 5 (2014).
The problem is that a title on HN's front page doesn't just represent what the author believes. It also represents what "HN" believes, to some extent.

Of course, HN doesn't exist as a person and doesn't believe anything at all, but that doesn't matter, because people receive those titles as if it does. So there are multiple ways that a title can be misleading and we have to balance them.

Upvotes alone don't solve this. On the contrary: indignation routinely gets the most upvotes. It doesn't matter whether it's true or not—people just upvote angry shit more than they upvote anything else. If we don't want the front page to be all-angry and mostly-false all day, then moderators have to intervene. Is that censorship? That's up to you—people use that word to mean whatever sort of intervention they don't like.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Here in the Czech Republic the wages at Amazon aren't so bad. Unlike many other unqualified jobs, they still attract Czech employees and do not have to import cheaper workforce from abroad (Ukraine, Mongolia, Balkan states).

What people find hard to adjust to is the company culture, basically you are a human robot.
Also, hasn't digging become much cheaper in recent years with new technologies from the oil industry? I'm sure some of that efficiency gain can be used for those shafts (they're obviously bigger than a bore hole for oil).
Wholeheartedly second this advice.
Ah right, I am a little fuzzy on the details it seems.
CloutHQ
For anyone else curious, the pricing according to gwern [1]:

Explore: Free tier: 100K [BPE] tokens, Or, 3-month trial, Whichever comes first
Create: $100/mo, 2M tokens/mo, 8 cents per additional 1k tokens
Build: $400/mo, 10M tokens/mo, 6 cents per additional, 1k tokens
Scale: Contact Us

Expensive but (unfortunately) pretty standard market price for cloud NLP stuff. The price is about $40 per million tokens.

For comparison, cloud translation costs per million characters range from $6 (Azure bulk pricing) to $20 (Google/AWS without bulk discounts). If we assume the average BPE token length is 5 characters, GPT-3 will cost about $8 per million characters.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/ikorgs/oa_api_prelimi...
Thanks for the kind words!

Yes, I would still be careful with passwords in the public beta.

It goes via SSL and you get a unique UUID URL so all-in-all it is kinda secured (plus time-to-live of the instance is only 3 hours which limits any time to hack it) but still this is not 100% secure and I would not recommend it for any kind of production use (including any use of passwords you dont want exposed).

The free instances are not (yet) password protected (other then the UUID) - this on the other hand is useful if you want to share the envrionment with somebody, just send them the link...
This is just a beginning of the public hosting so I will need to think through further improvements that would go into the hosting, security-wise and other aspects as well.

My main objective at this stage for the free hosted instances was to give people way to play with Titnaoboa or quickly test something, especially if something is not working in their local environment (say dependencies) and they want quickly re-test in vanilla environment.

If you want to add aws secrets or what not I would suggest to just download/install your local version, it is super easy: https://github.com/mikub/titanoboa#installation

Or if you need a public IP to integration just grab the docker instance and spin it in your AWS ECS or something.
Yeah, they really should've considered the SEO impact of their naming before launching ;)
Show HN: Marka-JS, see where the anchors lead to
A JavaScript lib that runs in the browser, will mark anchor elements and add icons according to the href. Good fit for technical blogs.
I am. Try the integration analogue of it on the fairly simple example i gave. The auto-diff of that is a straightforward.
For static site projects like this, I highly recommend setting up gh-pages or some other static site hosting. It's a lot of effort to expect people to clone the repo, install the dependencies, and build the project to try it out.

The no-hassle experience of running it is all the fun of building these for the web, after all!
This article isn't very good, so I'm just gonna skip commenting on it.

Yes, the web is slower, but not in a the pure measurement of "is this js bigger, and does it take longer to execute" sort of way. It's more in the, now you have 39 js's trying to run on a page that's just some text and a few pictures, whereas that used to be 0-3 js's. For those of you who use ublock origin but not matrix, matrix will really open your eyes to this proliferation.

It's mostly management decisions that get shoved down the throats of devs, but I would say it's also devs who love to throw a thousand frameworks in-between content and delivery.

Simplification of stack is a market advantage I think eventually more and more companies will start to realize... at some point in the future.
Is it possible to cut glass with scissors underwater?
All obvious places may have hydro plants already, but not all hydro plants are reversible.

The country point is interesting, so the market is countries lacking topography suited to hydro plants? How big is that market really?

And considering that pumped hydro is currently the only viable grid scale energy storage mechanism (inb4 but li-on), those countries currently either 1) share a grid with neighboring countries that do have pumped hydro, or 2) forego energy storage altogether and use peaker plants like everyone else. If you do 1 you better trust your neighbors to never go to war with you, otherwise you better have 2.

So the market is: countries lacking topography suited to hydro plants, who currently share energy storage with neighbors who they don't trust, and who for some reason aren't just building peaker plants (which are essentially just normal fossil fuel power plants) and are holding out for a non-extant technology to be developed.

I'm not much of a capitalist myself, but even I can tell that that's a bad investment.
> the reality is the ag workers particularly Uyghurs are going to suffer more after XPCC sanctions - primarily because region can't import superior US agricultural equipment

Could you tell more about "superior agricultural equipment"? I have only heard about tractors with DRM, but I assume, that you meant something else.
Well, there is: https://www.qubes-os.org/
And yet when people express their opinions outside of China, where the Chinese government does not control what they say, you still choose to believe only those opinions that fit your preconceptions.

China is not "totalitarian". There's a huge range between "fully free" and "totalitarian", and while China is more on the latter side than most western countries, it's not all the way there, and is way more to the former side than the USSR was. What sort of totalitarian regime lets people freely travel abroad where they can learn about all the things that are banned in the home country? 40 years ago you may have been right to describe China as totalitarian. Get on with the times.
That's what ARES promised 4 years ago. But their website looks abandoned. [1]

[1] https://www.aresnorthamerica.com/
ok, the ability to make apps for the iPhone should be an inalienable right.
Frankly, if you build the right thing, they will come.

And it's very easy to deceive ourselves into believing that we're building the right thing.
... um, taxpayers are the fed.

So any time the fed takes on a debt made by a business at anything other than a discount the fed is bailing out bad business decisions, and that means the taxpayer is paying for it.

If the fed just “prints money” to cover those debts the real value of the USD collapses, and that hurts individual taxpayers more than the big businesses being bailed out.