skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But that isn't how the real world works. Who here doesn't have any previous contact with amazon? What if the package contains something very illegal (drugs etc) and the police are watching it?

That reminds me of a similar scenario: a few years ago the UK enacted a new law (or was about to?) that forced people to decrypt any data they had if the courts asked them to. Burden of proof that they don't have the cryptographic keys was on the person in possession of that data.

So some people who were against this law considered sending some hard disk that might or might not contain encrypted child porn and similar nasties on hard disks to the relevant ministers addresses, report them for possession of dangerous data to the police, and then wish them good luck proving they don't have the keys. (Or, more likely: walking back on the law.)
K-9 Mail removed from Google Play Store due to listing description
There’s testimonies of actual Uighurs who have described what goes on in these camps- are they now CIA plants?
You might want to recommend the Keras APIs for TensorFlow for people learning DL. The fastai and PyTorch libraries are also good when learning.
video of what's going on in belarus : https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/ip14z2/bela...
I guess that's because money is more fungible and doesn't spoil?

And it's also more farfetched to assume that a company would hand out free money without any explanation as swag?
Oscars mandate inclusion standards for best picture contenders
I use a note 3. Not sure what your talking about. It's super zippy.
"Hitler did right by killing all Jews. All Jews must be wiped out from this earth." - what should happen if someone posts this?
Prison labor creates perverse incentives to create more prisoners. We've all seen how that played out in the USSR.
Your link is dead, here's the Web Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200623192321/https://medium.co...
Thanks for the kind words!

DataSpeeder is intended to give devs and db admins (who live in the world of power tools like PhpMyAdmin and MySQL Workbench) the ability to provide a simple web GUI for non-admin end-users to view/modify data. So it was intentionally designed without admin-level functionality like editing the database schema directly.

Thanks for the link to your tool, I will look into it.

Actually, one of the (many) features that I (with my coder hat on) would like to implement next is exposing the data via REST APIs. But I (with my manager hat on) need to focus on the specific features that users say are most needed for their deployments.

By the way, let me know if you see an organic way that our tools could work together and complement each other. Partnering would be cool!

Thanks again.
He or she is probably just mad their preferred hate speech isn't as viral as they'd like. It's right to denounce violence from the fringe right, but likewise one would imagine the same denunciation would go for far leftist violence which mostly hurts the neighborhoods they light up.

It's a strange way to support a cause by causing property loss to the people who can least afford it (not that anyone would deserve it). But it's like people are blind to this violence because it hurts the narrative.

Show me the property damage militias have caused vs caused by ANTIFA in concerned neighborhoods.

Honestly, denying it is a detriment to the movement it purports to support. People see this and get turned off.
When I was younger, my friends & I would carry this game around on our pocket USB drives so that we could quickly launch it up on our school's computers any chance we got. Good times. It's a surprisingly intricate game, but I mostly just like to blow stuff up.
Tips for the Perfect Script for Social Media Videos
As if how much risk is acceptable were a matter that could be objectively and scientifically decided.
What about a mortgage in another state? This always trips me up.
Security is not an area where you want to be sloppy with your choice of words.

It is not clear text. It is encrypted and Apple has the key.

The reason the distinction is important is that if it were clear text NSA/FBI etc could gain physical access to the servers and read the backups without Apple's knowledge or approval.
I assume the weight would be at least partially some of the dirt they dug out of the hole. Cost is the name of the game.
Because Facebook actually deletes far-left extremism. And much “far-left” extremism are actually right-wing troll operations.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/02/tech...

Meanwhile the Charlottesville white supremacy rally and Kenosha militia were allowed to plan their events on Facebook.
This proposal would likely be a lot more economic if they could reuse existing holes, like abandoned mines. However, mines tend not to dig down vertically and the cost of retrofitting and maintenance would be non-trivial.
> abortion on hundreds of thousands

There are 10 million Uyghurs in China. Abortion on hundreds of thousands is quite literally the abortion of the whole population. And hundreds of thousands will be able to attest to this. I have no doubt that China violated a bunch of human rights to enforce the 2 child policy, but calling it a genocide of the Uighur, and then exaggerating or filling in the data by imagination is rich given that it was harsher before and nobody voiced a peep just because it didn't apply to minorities.

I don't like what China is doing, it's probably entirely justified to sanction Xinjiang and the camps. Nobody should have their freedom restricted just because they were born different and believe in different things. But at the same time propaganda outlets manufacturing consent is also disgusting.
Same as should happen to people who say "death to all cops" and the like? No single group should endure these epithets. Either you allow them all or you allow none.
It's okay, you can admit it, if you bought an item, or two, or ten for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8L7bdwVaA
On the BBC Micro-era pre-hierarchial DFS, there was a single level of single character directories, so files were called things like “d.file”. $ was the default directory rather than the root.

The Acorn/Norcroft ARM C compiler used c and h directories which effectively swapped the file extension around, so sources were named like c.main, and #include would try swapping name and extension for compatibility. It was about as Unix-flavoured as was possible on the Archimedes...
This is exactly what I was hoping this thread would disprove. But so far I think you're probably right. Private interest just doesn't seem to be seriously willing or able to tackle the big issues.
I'm not sure if your comment is directed at me or used for rhetorical effect. Either way it's confusing and a little bit offensive.

The first thing is that there's a signal here that you believe there's something defective about introversion (i.e. that introversion is something to be reformed). To those who don't know, it's just a neutral personality trait (one of the Big Five--low extraversion) with its own pros and cons. There's nothing wrong with it and it can be happily embraced.

The second part is that you seem to have the common confusion of conflating introversion with poor public speaking (or at least an aversion to it). They're unrelated. Introversion just means interacting with people expends energy. The actual aversion to public speaking comes from lack of skill, anxiety, and awkwardness. I grant you that those things might be more prevalent in introverted people because it is easier to keep to yourself and not build those skills, but they're still two different things.

Finally, saying it isn't high pressure comes across as somewhat lacking in empathy. People feel different ways about different things, and invalidating those experiences is not helpful.

Personally, I have improved my public speaking a lot over the years by forcing myself to do talks, toastmasters, host meetups, etc. Now I'm pretty good at it and comfortable with it, but there was a ton of pressure and anxiety around it before. Even though it's better now, that doesn't make those experiences less real for myself or anyone else.
A better example would be Americans arguing Turkey, Greece and Italy should do more for emigrants coming from Middle East/North Africa.
People are downvoting you because what you said is so nonsensical, there's not even a good place to begin the conversation. None of the vaccines modify your genome, so they can't "patent your DNA". And aerogels have nothing to do with vaccines.
No word on the proliferation of Antifa-affiliated groups on the platform though, fresh after their cold blooded execution of a peaceful Trump supporter during mass rioting in Portland. [1]

Alternative title: Politically biased engineer quits because his company won't censor his ideological enemies.

[1] https://nypost.com/2020/09/05/antifa-shooter-michael-reinoeh...
Ah, that's disappointing, but oh well.
> A friend of mine's sister just visited XJ and said it was fine.

How is that anecdote considered relevant? Did she inspect every acre?

I think you'll learn more from this video than your friend's sister: https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/chinas-vanishing-muslims-...
Apple accuses Epic of “Willful, brazen, and unlawful” conduct
> unit testing.

Did you mean integration testing?
> mountainous territory, particularly in the Midwest.

I suppose I'm nitpicking here, but this is an oxymoron. The Midwest doesn't have any mountains.
Product managers add features and/or speed up development by using more resource-hungry runtimes up to the point where the users still tolerate the performance but barely so. Once the product has enough traction and switching costs, the user would rather tolerate the mild pain of slowness than the more acute pain of switching and adapting to a (so far) faster competitor.

This is very much like the idea of the optimal price point where the customer already cringes but still buys.
Anyone know what tech stack the original Wikileaks was built on? There's not much on Google, it seems, other than much later when the Panama Papers were released.
12km isn't too bad actually for alignment unless you're using really high frequency (>10Ghz) equipment. Even then though you probably don't need specialized equipment other than maybe binoculars and a voltmeter[1]. I've taught beginners to align 24ghz radios at 12km by hand.

[1]The voltmeter is for quick feedback on the signal level as you aim. Many high-capacity wireless radios have a connection point on the back that will adjust voltage to match the current receive signal level (measured in dBm). That's usually the fastest way to watch the signal level as you aim, especially if you're hanging off a tower while you do it.
Feature Flags in Angular
Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
There is 280x difference in price between iron and tungsten.

https://www.metalary.com/tungsten-price/

2000 tonnes of tungsten is 60 million USD, of iron is 200k USD.
I'm pretty sure that having kids contributes in the _opposite_ direction to the maintainability of our planet and our species as a whole. Why do you think it's a service to humanity when population growth is a growing problem, continuing to get worse, which exacerbates issues like conflict between groups, resource contention and climate issues.

I want to emphasize that a sustainable average number of children per family is not zero [0] but around 1-1.5 for a sustainable population size in 100 years, according to the linked article. So given that you presumably live in a developed country (well educated, and don't need children for labour), and have a human's normal biological urges to reproduce, it's not immoral to produce children, but it's certainly not morally commendable.

[0] https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/yes-overpopulation-problem/
"New" medicines have been tested for years before they're used on a large scale.
Have you actually used the GUI version of WordPerfect?

I was forced to use it heavily for a year of pure writing for a previous job. It's incredibly unpredictable. It's like whack-a-mole. You make text in one place bold, and all the sudden some of your footnote text on a different page becomes bold.

The people at that job who were really good knew all of the tricks, digging into the codes that WordPerfect inserts to address various issues. But even then, it was an extra step, and I never became as productive in WordPerfect as I had been in Word.

Plus WordPerfect has been on maintenance mode with Corel for decades at this point, catching lots of bugs and half-implemented features.
I had a similar scam happen to me in Istanbul:

A shoeshiner would walk in front of you, 'accidentally' drop their brush. As a decent human you pick it up and hand it to them.

Then the guy insists to give you a 'free' shoe shine. After he's done, he demands payment.

The first time that happened to me, the perpetrator ruined my suede shoes. (I didn't even mind losing the few dollars for the unplanned shine otherwise..) A few days later, on the second time I didn't pick up the brush.
I believe the argument for new storage concepts is that renewables will drive a need for large amounts of new energy storage capacity, batteries are expensive, and that not everyone is situated near a suitable geography for pumped hydro.
One adverse effect after X amount of time, hopefully this doesn't get any worse... :(
China might be committing light genocide but please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar, regardless of whether or not you have an issue with ethnic cleansing. Freedom for Hong Kong is an inflammatory idea on Hackernews, we are trying something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Perhaps we can find a reason in the article "Why the world is full of buttons that don't work"[0]:

"They're sometimes called "placebo buttons" -- buttons that are mechanically sound and can be pushed, but provide no functionality. Like placebo pills, however, these buttons may still serve a purpose, according to Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychologist who pioneered a concept known as the "illusion of control."
"They do have a psychological effect," she said in a phone interview. "Taking some action leads people to feel a sense of control over a situation, and that feels good, rather than just being a passive bystander."

[0] https://www.cnn.com/style/article/placebo-buttons-design/ind...
But didn't you know about this before making a decision to have kids?

Almost every parent says this.

This is like a person gambling all their money. Then, they complain when they lose the money.
how much software in the world is written in C++, vs written in javascript, and how much of that is actually relevant, in that it contributes something meaningful to society?
If the child care situation is solved, productivity will likely go up. My team is distributed across Europe and Asia with key members working from home. Before Covid, I didn't notice any performance difference compared to past teams that were all local. Performance has suffered to some extent due to the child care situation so I've had to make adjustments in expectations around deliverables. Time spent not commuting is typically spent working. It's hard to wean myself away from work. Meetings are harder though.
I love Gravitricity. I'm the founder of a similar startup called Terrament. We are also building gravity storage underground, but our patents are extending this idea to use autonomous, modular weights. This enables us to maximize both height and weight, which is the simple recipe for cheap gravitational energy storage.

We are also working on a seed-round of investment. It's an exciting field with plenty of room for competition. And it's so important for fighting climate change! We need to build this asap.
https://www.terramenthq.com/
Nope, you don't get to "both sides" this.

The far left exists. There are genuine Maoists and Tankies out there, unquestionably. But they have no political power, no majorly successful political candidate or party, and ultimately no impact on today's discourse.

The actual left that stands up to the far right powers that are running things in countries like the US and Brazil does not participate in hate speech.

Intolerance of hatred (whether it's misogeny or racism) is not itself intolerance or hatred, any more than being Anti-Fascism is an ideology like fascism itself.

When you see Leftist terrorists or Bombers in today's 21st Western society, then come back to me about leftist hate speech.

Until then, get out of here with your both-sidesism
I didn't say that parenting is voluntary.
"light genocide"?
Tungsten costs around $30k/ton, so you'd be looking at a cool $15M for that 500T cube.

Lead goes for around $2k/ton, so this might be a more feasible compromise.
Abstract:

> We explore the application of transformer-based language models to automated theorem proving. This work is motivated by the possibility that a major limitation of automated theorem provers compared to humans – the generation of original mathematical terms – might be addressable via generation from language models. We present an automated prover and proof assistant, GPT-f, for the Metamath formalization language, and analyze its performance. GPT-f found new short proofs that were accepted into the main Metamath library, which is to our knowledge, the first time a deep learning based system has contributed proofs that were adopted by a formal mathematics community.
Yeah, I just wrote this down to remember for later. What a quote.
Would be hilarious is their marketing reports counted "hide this ad" as "interactions"
Not to mention Sweden is more locked down than the US - _0_ gatherings over 50 people allowed. 0.

I'm astounded there's still people doing the 'debate me!' act about it, most gave up by July in the US, we had already clearly chose a more intense version of the Swedish 'strategy'
Yea, neither could I. Hence the thread. It really does feel like the worlds greatest minds are all just busy trying to find creative ways to sell ads and it's kinda sad.
...yes? Sounds good. Calls to violence should not be tolerated.
The problem with being able to go back and revote/nullify is it makes counting very complicated to do with non-attrubution.
There have been what, three cases of people being infected twice? And they barely got sick?
What exactly is the 8x claim?

The thing I've seen is very limited (NVIDIA GPUs offer up to 8x more half precision arithmetic throughput when compared to single-precision, thus speeding up math-limited layers.[1]) which is probably true.

The problem with performance improvements is the diminishing returns part of Amdahl Law: an 8x improvement in math performance will just mean the math part becomes less important in terms of absolute performance.

In any case, I've found NVidia's claims in the machine learning area to be pretty good. Like most claims you have to read carefully to see exactly what the claim is, but that's not uncommon with performance claims.

[1] https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/performance/mixed-preci...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law#Relation_to_the...
Discounted Cash Flow
What’s the difference between forced labor in China, vs prisoner firefighter in California?
Hey PLA commenter! Great to see you here making sure that the discourse around this issue becomes muddied, and opinions framed as 'logical and critical thinking dissent' are given as much air time as others. I am really glad you mentioned other issues that were unrelated to this discussion and using emotional language such as:

>various policies of ripping children away from travelers and imprisoning them.

We thank you for your input and hope you enjoy working for a brutal authoritarian dictator :)
My girlfriend gets a random package from Amazon about once a week. The products have not been purchased from her account. When she contacted Amazon they didn't care and just told her to reset her password. We suspect it is this. We either keep the items or donate them.
That really depends on the particular assisted living facilities, and the state of your particular parents, and in support of the suggestion that a company offer "taking care of someone" time universally rather than just to those with kids, I'd prefer not to have a corporate officer determining at what exact level of deterioration my taking care of an elderly parent becomes involuntary.
So... much... churn...
Speaking of pine, it's harder and harder to find decent firewood that isn't mixed with pine. We mostly cut our own from felled trees on the lot, of which there is no shortage, but sometimes it's handy to buy the odd cord and boy has the quality gone downhill.
There's risk in every major life decision, including having kids.

I hope I'm not coming off as anti-children but while parents couldn't have anticipated the pandemic and its impact, they need to react to the circumstances. If their home situation requires it, then they should switch to part-time or even quit temporarily.

I also agree with giving parents "extra slack", though again there are limits. At this rate the pandemic will remain with us for another year. The onus is probably in company leadership to make the necessary changes and not have colleagues start to resent one another.
My policy is to never take anything from any person on the street. Flyers, comic club tickets, CDs, cans of soda, I don't want the interaction.
> If you want legal protection to prevent being you fired specifically because you don’t want to work more than 40 hours a week, I’d 100% support that.

Correct, it is this which is what I want to happen. I wouldn't care if you chose to work beyond that. I want protection for people who need to raise kids, deal with personal medical issues, and the right to free time for mental health.

But in addition, I would also add that one should not be discriminated against for wanting to only work 40 hours a week, especially in a salaried job. There should not be peer pressure and possible loss of promotion if others around you work 60 hours and you only work 40.

For hourly jobs it's psychologically much easier between peers because everyone knows they are getting paid based on how much they work. However, I would stipulate that for hourly jobs, the wage should be set such that 40 hours of work is enough for the average person to have a reasonable quality of life in the locality. Setting the wage such that a supermarket worker needs to work 7 days a week in order to make a living isn't fair, but if they want to work 7 days of their own volition, that's fine.
Doesn't this also enable restoring to a different device?

Most people will want that and not care about the underlying subtleties, so it's not just for the government.
But having child is your choice.

It's so strange to complain that government doesn't cover the cost of your child. You choose to have your child. I'm sure you plan to support your child.

This is like me complaining that government doesn't subsidize my Tesla.
One involves imprisonment with no chance of release with potential torture, the other is allowed free after their jail term. I don't understand your comparison?
Quite a few similar companies are looking at compacted earth mixed with concrete to reuse some dirt and rock that is excavated. See also https://energyvault.com/
I certainly know people who buy based on location, but I don't know if it's a large enough portion of the market to matter.
Having kids is not a job.