skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said no such thing; you inferred it. What I'll actually say is that rightist (libertarian, fascist, and theocratic) ideologies have massive ethical deficits. In particular, libertarians cannot manage common resources, fascists attack social behaviors, and theocrats commit perversions upon the laity. I don't claim that my path is the only ethical one, but I do claim that many people are on incredibly immoral paths and yet claim moral high ground.

Also, what exactly would you like me to open my mind to? Please keep in mind that this thread is about QAnon, a cult. What am I being closed-minded to, and why is it bad that I am not interested in adopting QAnon claims?
But I do not have an extra office in a dedicated bedroom. I live in central Tokyo.

The delta in house price for ‘extra bedroom’ in the place I live is around $250,000.

There is just no way my company is going to even consider reimbursing me for that.
Oh bullshit. Know nothing's of the intricacies of the field love to pretend that the experts are dishonest or idiots. It is so tiring. I'm a neuroscientist, I know nothing of this field, so I keep my damn mouth shut about it. People who've read a few pop physics books should also shut their damn mouths.
SoftBank is reportedly preparing to sell ARM to Nvidia for more than $40B
Just stay in 0.X.X
> Freshpaint collects behavioral customer data from your website and app, and sends that data to hundreds of analytics and marketing tools in one click.

Oof. I'm sure there are many people who want this thing, but I really of wish our economy weren't structured so that pouring over a million bucks into the N+1th surveillance ad-tech thing seemed like a good investment.
I dont think the conclusion is super useful. So i Will give you a better one. So far little indicates this is more than an emergency.
Can anyone with more Chromebook experience explain how much of the “OS” is going to continue to be updated with this new change? Chrome OS is very web-centric, so… does continuing to update the browser have a major impact to the life of these devices? Or is it literally just the browser?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24454958
I wonder if a better idea (in principle) would be to have some kind of hardware implementation, sort of like a finer-grained memory segmentation.
Spotify pretty reliably finds me one or two interesting tracks in my discover weekly. That still leaves dozens of tracks I don't particularly care for (although I generally don't actively dislike them) but I still think it's a decent result.

I guess the obvious problem is that for books the equation is different. If you get recommended 20 books and after reading them you only ended up really liking 3 of them, then you'll feel like you've wasted a lot of time reading books you don't care for. Meanwhile if you listen to 20 audio tracks in the worst case scenario you'll have wasted an hour, and you can do that in the background while you do something else.
The lootingv and riots are mostly far right nutjobs trying to create the appearance of chaos.

The fires are occurring in largely Republican areas of the west, on federal land mismanaged by a republican administration. And cancel culture is worse on the right side of the aisle than it is on the left, see e.g., what has happened to every former Trump ally.
The history of warfare has gone back and forth between offense and defense being stronger. In the castle era, defense was stronger, which led to military and political strong points. But a castle can't project power very far, at best half a day's ride. Hence, strong barons, weak central governments.

Better cannon changed that, and gave the attacker an advantage.

Still better artillery and fortifications, plus heavy machine guns, gave the defender the advantage again, resulting in WWI, which was stalled with everyone in fixed positions for some time.

Then came tanks, and offense started beating defense again.

Arguably, guerilla warfare has given defense an edge again. It's a defense based on hiding and disappearing into the general population, but a defense nevertheless.
Porque no los dos?
There are a few languages that nobody uses and also everybody seems to complain about.
That mindset doesn't cover sizeof(a) properly.
> This is what Nvidia was looking for since out of the big 3 US semiconductor manufacturers, it doesn't have its own IP on CPUs. Now it will soon be able to control ARM to its advantage against the competition.

In all fairness, consider the market from Nvidia's perspective: they've spent a few decades being a stone's throw from Intel eating them. They started as one of many add-on card manufacturers and have turned into a dominant player by innovating, iterating, and being ruthless.

Some here might not remember how cutthroat the early-GPU days were. Nvidia survived.

Now, an opportunity to become a technical peer to Intel at the CPU level? To control their own destiny?

They'd be insane not to take this opportunity.
> He predicted Christ Church hours before it happened and even said it will probably be a mass shooting this time outside the US.

Hold on, what did it predict exactly? Did it say "there'll be a mass shooting in New Zealand, on a specific day" or just "something violent will happen somewhere, maybe"?

You're being taken in by a very old technique; make many, many, very vague predictions. Look at the daily news every day, either personally, or farm it out to your fanbase. Cross-reference the daily news with your library of predictions, and take anything that could possibly be read as predictive. Rinse, repeat. Nostradamus was a well-known offender (or, rather, he made the predictions, his fanbase did the rest). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postdiction#Skepticism
The crucial difference is that with the banking system you only really need people to trust that their accounts are correctly tabulated. For voting you need people to trust that everyone’s votes are tabulated correctly. It’s an entirely different problem
Some people I have talked to are seeing this in their workplaces. They are having to tell the engineers not to work too hard so they don't burn out. Seeing 2+ hours a day of extra work.
> No human looks at an American's data before getting a warrant.

Prove it.
http://cns.physics.gatech.edu/ChaosBook/extras/CNYang.html

"In the next ten years, the most important discovery in high-energy physics is that 'the party's over'."
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Depends on how much leverage they used. If it was all cash on hand the that’s a poor ROI, if they only put up say 8b then that‘s a nice return over 4 years.
I hate to ask for a citation, but where are you getting that 1% number? It seems made-up.

I would guess that more than one percent of office workers will be permitted/encouraged to go remote, but I think that few companies will go remote. There is no reason why remote needs to be a company-wide Boolean selection.
> Yes, we do, and we will.

The point is we should be doing something now and adopting lab based meat when it actually arrives, instead of doing nothing and hoping it comes. The catastrophic impact of climate change is coming on the scale of decades - we really don't have time to wait.

> which people like yourself said were never going to be "the answer" for a hundred different reasons

What a weird thing to write. You don't know anything about what I think of electric vehicles or my wider views.
To be honest, 90% of the code takes 90% of the time and the remaining 10% takes an extra 90% of the time.
I personally don't have a problem with that kind of link. I read comments one line at a time. The screen reader says:
"article on my block you can link click here to read it? "
I then press k to focus the link and enter to activate it.

What drives me mad are things like buttons or lists on a form that aren't even visible to the screen reader, date fields that pop up an inaccessible calendar just to fill in a text box, but the text box is read only so you can't just type the numbers, and so on. It's not the lack of image descriptions or even headings that is the problem with modern sites, it's that some are completely unusable with a screen reader.
We need a research satellite around Mars to better understand long range forces. The immediate problem is being bound to Earth distance experiments, including astronomy from two long range reference points. Also need a Venus or Sol orbit solar satellite with a massive capacitor on it for doing obscenely high power experiments.
Sounds like something blizzard would do.
How do I learn to code in 2020?
Hey HN,

Im a university educated startup founder who has 0 knowledge of software / coding, and it is something I have always wanted to learn. (Many regrets here)).

What are the best free resources for someone like myself, to learn to code from square one. Im looking for something free, and that you can do over 4-8 months to build a solid foundation.

Thanks in advance, and stay safe out there.
Why do you need to buy a current Mac Mini? A Mac Mini from 2014 does the same job. And how is a i3 not enough? Unless your time costs a lot of money it doesn't really matter if your code compiles 20% faster or not, does it? And when your time is very valuable and you make money with your software, an expense to make that happen seems rather trivial, right?

Also, if you are an organisation you're not going to cheap out on your tools (at least not where I'm from). So your multi-thousand workstation that delivers multiples of that in revenue is really not that big of a deal.

There is one, and only one case where it's a problem: if you don't make money, but do want the latest and greatest and access to a commercial platform. And in that case it sucks that your values and wishes are not aligned with the commercial interests, but that's life.
Looking Under the Hood: HTTP Over TCP Sockets
I'm fully in the camp of C plus powerful analysis tools, plus a high-level language (Python or Scheme).
How is being anti-social justice as a philosophical stance exclude one from working within the bounds of a CoC?

Social justice as an ideology is deeply flawed and runs counter to liberal democratic principles. Every CoC I've seen is just rules for engaging on an open source project. Clearly one could oppose a philosophy and abide by the terms of a CoC. A CoC isn't about policing people, but about civility and rules of engagement for a specific thing.

I would like clarity, as it seems like you are saying that that CoCs are exactly the ideological purity test and purge the detractors like to claim they are, but that seems uncharitable.
> Larry and Sergey are entirely responsible for that mess.

how so?
> The $40bn is partly in Nvidia's (arguably) inflated stock.

This is SoftBank we're talking about. Do we really want to bring up inflated stock as one of their concerns? ;)
There are 7 billion people on the planet. Even if only 0.001% are capable of working on VMWare, that's still nearly 100,000 people.

High salary Silicon Valley engineers are not nearly as special or unique as some think they are.
But if you're WFH, you don't need to live in central Tokyo, you can live anywhere. You'd probably save money by gaining an extra bedroom and moving out of central Tokyo, no?
> Do you want him in the office, where he is guaranteed to spend 0 hours taking care of kids, or at home, where it's not guaranteed?

I want him wherever he feels he’s more productive. If that means he plays around with his kids 2 hours a day then more power to him.
“Apple’s hardware”?!
Is it not the customer’s hardware? We aren’t talking the cloud here, these are devices that the individual customers have already paid for. Apple should have little say in how a customer wants to use their own hardware.
Sentator Warren has made most of her career lashing out and taking action against out of control corporations. Google just happens to be the corporation most out of control (Alphabet really).

Politicians are supposed to represent their constituents. I only wish my senator was as passionately outspoken as Senator Warren.

It's ok for lawmakers to dislike a specific corporations and make specific laws against that corporation. Matter of fact, many on HN (self included) would be well represented by a politician introducing law to specifically disband Alphabet.

> The government has a lot of power, and often for good reason, but that power can only be respected when it is wielded dispassionately, not to settle personal scores.

Than how should the people settle scores against these companies? Do you recommend torches or pitchforks? I thought law makers representing the people and passing popular laws was a more democractic way?

I don't know if you work at google but no one (except a few extremists) had suggested anything more than a profit loss for your company.

To clarify further, I have severe disdain against google due to their arrogance pattern of very dangerous and harmful anti-consent activites that undermines the very concept of individual freedom.
It’s not a “mistake”. This article is complaining about a misinterpretation of C’s functionality. Arrays are not “real” data structures in C: there’s no such thing. The array-ish syntax that’s available is just a some syntactic sugar on top of pointers. You could say that having the sugar at all is a mistake. Or that C is incomplete without first-class array types. This is a cute hack, but at this point (far more than 10 years ago) it’s probably better to move on to Rust if you don’t like this aspect of C, rather than proposing to hack the language.
I think a big part is just being somewhere different. Most days I spend at my desk but some days are more about researching and I go sit outside with my laptop (stopped because fires). I'd happily go to a coffee shop if it weren't for the pandemic. It is nice to just have a new scenery and change things up a little.

I should also mention I don't mind commutes that are: walk to bart, read, get off bart, walk to work, work, reverse. I DO mind commutes that are: drive for an hour, sit in traffic, avoid that asshole trying to cut into my lane, and listen to podcasts. (I like podcasts, it is the driving part that is frustrating) It is substantially more stressful.
I just found my "Introduction to Programming" book the other day, in surprisingly usable condition.
I can't tell if you and OP are seriously suggesting we write our votes on a slip of paper and drop it in the slot.

"Public process" ultimately means a small handful of people can actually observe the process, so we're right back to trusting our officials.
I think the point of the NPR piece is that the recycling symbols started intentionally and have continued to be for marketing.

I don't think it's viable to recycle paper products meaningfully, but they're also made from farmed trees and burn so I don't object overmuch to them. Worst case they sequester carbon...

Glass is tricky and probably cheaper to make fresh right now but it's not that big a difference to recycle it. You'd only need a marginal incentive, or for sand to somehow become more expensive.

Metal is really worth recycling economically, energetically, and technically. Glass is worth keeping separate since it can be recycled pretty easily. Paper products frankly just burn em as biofuels.

Plastics... well... I just kind of wish they didn't exist except for special applications where their unique properties were necessary. They are space age, high performance, specialty materials and we use them like they're paper cups. Use PTFE for specialty tubing, great. Use rubber tires for cars, great.

Use plastics where the properties matter. Don't use it for cups... it's just so sad...
> He was American, but his allegiance was to al Qaeda and he was planning to murder civilians.

"not enough evidence for me to believe it" said someone on HN with your handle.

Show us the evidence (a demand you seem to be fond of) and prove that in a public court, that's called due process. I will believe it then.
Niklaus Wirth would concur - that was similar to his argument for pascal - strings contain a size.
nobody's saying they're idiots. But it's not like the structure of how contemporary scientific discovery gets done isn't ridden with questionable processes that should make you doubt that the system is aligned with producing good science. There is nothing fundamentally different about how physics gets funded (TLAs like NSF, NIH giving out grants via committee), and how physics professors get promoted (H-factors and hiring committees, playing politics at conferences, choosing strategically to work for certain PIs, the truly smart grad students and postdocs burning out and quitting).

Most of my peers from high school went into high energy physics (one works at JLab, another is a professor at an east coast college; the others quit or went into... other fields, like finance). Although I am no longer a practicing biochemist, when we got together we complained about the exact same things. So yeah, I don't know about the intricacies of what happens in physics. But that doesn't mean I don't have real insight about what's going on.
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It's cute. It's nice that they make them so easy to block!
This is not ideal. Ideal is everyone at home or everyone in the office. Half half leads to people being left out.
The difference is that its much easier to resolve banking errors than... "election errors"
Sure. My argument is that it takes more than even people losing money (a pretty high bar already IMHO) for the trust in a system to be eroded beyond the point of outright distrust. For better or for worse, familiarity and trust correlate strongly, but technical security and trust don't correlate much (see people ignoring security warnings because kitten photos)

Take, for example, elections in Brazil. They've been electronic for decades and people trust its accuracy. There hasn't been a single known case of tampering even though the country has a notoriously corrupt political landscape (see every scandal and impeachment since the 80s)

I would even bet money that if the US rolled out nationwide e-voting somehow, within 5 election cycles the majority of americans would say they trust it in polls. Based on familiarity alone.
>You want someone that can easily talk about the pros & cons of using different data structures or algorithms to solve problems.

uh, not really.

In my world majority of performance issues comes from N+1 queries, I don't need people who can do crazy things with trees. I need people who write testable code, actually write tests, care about security and take responsibility for their code/refactor.

Of course you can argue that N+1 query fits algorithms part, but very often algos mean leetcode

But, since "you guys" always talk about data structures then I'd want to ask - how often do you use something fancier than literal basics?
I don’t think it is possible, not without changing some parts of the C’s specification. At the very least you’d need to be able to somehow encode the length of the buffer in the pointer to it. (There is no semantic difference between a pointer to a simple, fixed-length variable and a pointer to an array.)
Here is a similar article on powerful members of a scientific community seizing control of the mainstream view and inhibiting scientific progress:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225
How exactly is she screwed? She owns an apartment building. She can likely liquidate for multiple millions even in a down market and live in luxury for the remainder of her life AND pass on a ton of money to her heirs.
I'm being facetious but also maybe not: why don't you take a 40min bus trip around the neighbourhood and return home before you start your WFH schedule?
Every time a particle physics article is posted, I come in and point out that Einstein was considered a fuzzy haired crackpot at the time and that particle physics is essentially a fraud that has SO MANY contradictions in experimental reality that the entire thing needs to be thrown away.

I get downvoted ENDLESSLY.

But that's cool. I'm going to keep on pointing this out. The downvotes make it that much sweeter as the foundation of particle physics continues to crumble every single day. Once we embrace the Universe as Nick Tesla discovered it, then things like the "impossible" EM drive and the fact that D-Wave quantum computer is not instantaneous computation will begin to make sense.
I think it's more about having CPU IP more than what CPU IP they have used in Jetson/Xavier to this point (though it is a helping factor). HPC also loves ARM these days and nvidia makes huge cash on that already.

Smartphones have largely been ARMv8 for the last 5 years. Raspberry Pi is as well these days.
The locale is not important.

The important thing is that it's time that is literally impossible to re-allocate to either housework or work-work.

Any makeshift substitute won't have that property, and you'll be pressured to skip it in order to do more housework or more work-work.
The real estate is not a cost if you have an office setup at home anyway. As a computer programmer, why would I not? Cleaning and maintenance of that office is just part of what I do.

Almost any commute is going to outweigh those factors.
I worked remote for 3 years. It was great at first (10ft commute, woo!), but I wouldn't choose to do it long-term. All those relationships I'd made with co-workers slowly withered as the team changed, and by the end we just didn't work as cohesively together.
It wasn't a failure per se, we still shipped software, it was just clearly a lot less effective (both for me career-wise, and for the team as a whole). So I would strongly prefer a job that's in-person at least a few days every week.

Some caveats: this was before video conferencing, slack or FB Workplace so maybe things are better now. And, it might be different when everyone is remote so YMMV.
That was my point. If you live in a central part of a major city because it's convenient for work and you want to live there, having to WFH indefinitely is probably going to be costly compared to being able to easily go into an office (unless your company will pay for a co-working space). You're right that they won't pay for a larger apartment.
There is bound to be some sort of financial engineering going on too.

Doesn't Son have a stake in Nvidia so maybe this is to help support the Nvidia share price?
Power-over-Fiber
Since this is hacker news, here is a cool Paul Graham essay on the subject http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
You write, "You then have to type the command plus file name, and the only thing that helps is tab completion."

I can see your point because for many years I used cd, ls, mv, etc, to do all my file management and all of my browsing around my local file system. When I switched to software (Emacs's Dired subsystem) that let me specify the file to be acted upon without my needing to type the name of the file, it was a distinct improvement. (I usually use the page-up and page-down keys to find the page containing the file name I want, then use the mouse to specify the file.)

Thanks for your reply.
The name "Zenz" appears sixteen times at that link. No thanks!
Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse – Read by Benedict Cumberbatch
It's not just HN and reddit. It's anyone who's not living alone in the woods. Class consciousness is thankfully becoming more prevalent, and these days how could you not notice: the rich get richer, the 99% is worse off, the planet is being destroyed, there's no accountability, and electoralism is failing.

There's a large swath of pro-capitalism sentiment on HN because it's overwhelmed with people who've "won" the game at the expense of everyone else. I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't thousands of millionaires that read this site at least once a week.