skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia is notoriously useless for learning anything even vaguely mathematical. It's too bad there's not a "Wikimath" for people who aren't mathematicians.
Yeh, ao let me tell you a story: 2008/2009 happened. My house dropped over 70k in price because crisis. So nope
Given that China invests gigantic sums of money in the US and has vast segments of industry dedicated to selling goods to the US, it is not very clear to me how you've concluded that.
Then why are establishment politicians not out for the little guy like Pelosi speaking at the final Zoom the article is talking about?
Vamos a la Playa!
> This is just naive and irrational.

Ignoring the unnecessary ad hominem, this is as irrational, as baning leaded fuel or asbestos. Plastic will be the defining geological remainder of our human epoch. We are physically destroying the planet and our own healthy for the sake of wire buckles. [0]

You claim this to be naive, yet this is the very proposal currently approved by 560 members of the EU parliament, in the new European Union Single-Use Plastics Directive 2019/904 [1] [2]

Arguably the original proposal was ridiculously watered down so that only a short list of single-use plastic products are banned (likely due to industry lobbying).

However, make no mistake, a ban is coming it is not a question of if but of when. The quicker the Coca-Cola's and Pepsico's and Nestlé's of the world wake up to this, the less they will hurt their bottom line with the overdue reckoning of consumer backlash and health related class suits.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Plastic+endocrine+disr...

[1] https://time.com/5560105/european-union-plastic-ban/

[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/LSU/?uri=uriserv:...
I would have thought that level of image recognition was already here, even close to being packaged up in Python packages. You think we're not there yet?

With half decent radios, the brains of the bot could be stashed back at HQ, which would really improve the amount of computation available.
Wow, I can't wait for this. May actually enjoy writing Java if this and Records get merged in. Absolutely massive for decomposing functionality.

Too bad it doesn't appear to be coming in 15 :(
As long as the markets value ARR at a 3-10x multiple, subscription businesses will continue to appear :)
>which represents a fringe of American society in my experience.

*fringe of the HN demographic
> Can anyone show me a single news story from anywhere in the world where this has happened?

Yes, absolutely. The New York hospital systems were in bad shape during the initial outbreak, for example: https://www.foxnews.com/health/nyc-hospitals-overwhelmed-by-...

Check local NY news websites during that timeframe for more examples: https://abc7ny.com/nyc-hospital-queens-coronavirus-news/6070...

Also note that hospitals have suspended or delayed procedures that can be held off in order to allocate more capacity to Coronavirus patients. Hospitals are notoriously revenue-hungry operations, so taking voluntary measures to reduce certain procedures to make room for Coronavirus treatment is not something they're going to take lightly.
The reason N95 masks aren't a good example is that there are manufacturers in the US, and were, already. Prestige Ameritech is one, and it could easily have scaled up very quickly, but couldn't afford to do so and then scale back down within a few months (they've been through this). So, they needed someone to guarantee that they'd be able to sell enough to be worth the investment of building out capability. There were a bunch of stories about this company back in the beginning of the pandemic.
This was a while back. In version 3.5 (5 versions after the change was made!) the message was just:

SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'.

This doesn't give the "did you mean" hint, and while it's perfectly understandable for someone who's gotten as far as learning exceptions in Python, that usually comes a few chapters after "hello world". It's definitely enough to throw a newbie off. And even if they're a veteran of other languages, they might have been exposed to a wide variety of error messages like this that commonly indicate a problem elsewhere, and having never yet successfully run a python script at this point, the prior for an error in configuration is much higher than for the tutorial being wrong.
Not sure I think it was “Monster”. But agreed. I can’t focus or relax when music with lyrics is playing never mind pop or rap music.
The Starbucks story involving his father is incredible. Schultz had actually left Starbucks and started his own coffee chain (Il Giornale) when the founders of Starbucks didn't want to expand the number of stores. They mostly just wanted to roast coffee. When the chance to buy Peet's came up, they decided to buy that instead and put Starbucks up for sale. Schultz was actually super passionate about Starbucks and jumped at the opportunity to buy it. Then one of his investors from Il Giornale tried to undercut him by putting in a higher bid for Starbucks. Bill Gates' dad was apparently a highly respected lawyer in the Seattle area and Schultz went to him for help. Bill Gates Sr. called the investor and gave him some tough talks and the investor withdrew his bid. It's incredible that senior Gates did that out of a sense of fairness and righteousness.

Source: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wondery/business-wars/e/677... (This is the start of the series. The story itself is a few episodes into the series)
I would hold Facebook completely blameless regarding what people read on it if they allowed the option of non-algorithmic feeds. The argument I hear against this that a raw feed would be overwhelming. This argument is bunk - no matter what, if I have more feed than I can read, then some of the feed is not getting read. The only question is who gets to decide what I read, either me or somebody else. Give me all the ads you want but let me have control over who's content I see - I suspect this can never happen because it would reduce the hours people spend on facebook too much.

If facebook is saying 1) you can't have the real feed and 2) only we can decide what version of the feed you are going to see, then they own that feed and subsequently have responsibility for it in the same way an editor has responsibility for an opinion column - you are actively publishing some things over others, and are responsible for those choices.
They should start making yoga pants from recycled plastic, if they don't already.

It is deeply ironic that many people who advocate for better plastic consumption, probably own yoga pants, which are made of plastic. Kind of off topic, but, my point is it is more than just Coca-Cola driving the plastics industry.
Replacing "racism" with "racist speech" is indeed more accurate, though I'll leave it unedited to keep the context for your comment intact.
Old cynic:

This all sounds like buzzword bingo and vaporware.
It is one possible future.
It also highly depends on the definition of "our time"
--

We are joining arms with Arm to create the leading computing company for the age of AI.

AI is the most powerful technology force of our time.
Learning from data,
AI supercomputers can write software no human can.

Amazingly, AI software can perceive its environment,
infer the best plan, and act intelligently.

This new form of software will expand computing to every corner of the globe
This is true to an extent, but in no way is someone worth $200 billion amassing the wealth the same way someone earning and saving $2 million over a lifetime.
Hey all! Just wanted to pop in and say thanks for looking and to rglover for putting my stuff up. A very welcome surprise with all of the freelance inquiries (I am available). :) Cheers!
'People need to open their minds ' – Tom DeLonge on his career as a UFO expert
Where would you draw the line between Guild and contractors? I once worked with an extremely talented closeknit small contract company in Canada. When offered jobs at my company, they basically laughed and said they are well compensated. So not generally what you think of when you hear 'outsourced contractors.'
Legally you are right, but I think it's a congressional inquiry so lawmakers are looking to see the flaws in the laws application in real life.

If there are flaws, then it needs to be patched or abandoned.
The thing is that it's both. In more appropriately neutral language we would say that any tax creates incentives and disincentives, and as a society we should be very mindful of what incentives and disincentives we are creating.

I would actually argue the government has a pretty bad track record when it comes to creating good incentives and "good" disincentives, so usually a better approach would be to try hard and avoid creating incentives or disincentives at all. Proponents of things like VAT, or other very broad, general, and hard to avoid taxes usually see it in those terms.
Thanks for explaining! Trees are amazing.
Erik Torenberg on individuals over institutions [video]
OK, so in three equivalent years, 50% of what needs to go will be gone - and that will give "herd immunity" to the unburned parts - 'till those get large again, say in 5 more years.
One really good cause for making a donation or charitable gift is the Internet Archive. Preserving the world's knowledge is a worthwhile endeavor especially when people here lament the lost hacker zeitgeist of the 90s Geocities Era Internet.

IA isn't raking in large amounts of $$$ like Google, and a rare good actor like them really could use some support from one of the many fortunate users on this site who won the RSU lottery by simply doing what they love in this unprecedented decade of technology fueled personal wealth.
Damned for using a unique name (CockroachDB), and damned for using an innocuous one.

PS PebblesDB was a research project and is dead as far as I know.
I think you're right, and that it's very clear that research funds have been systematically misinvested for the past 40 years.

IMHO it's because there has been a false belief that energy consumption is tied by a constant factor to GDP. We knew this was BS even back in the 1970s, but perpetuating that economic falsehood was extremely beneficial to entrenched energy interests and lobbyists.

If we were 15-25 years ahead of where we are now, because we provided the same tax benefits to solar and wind investors in the 80s that we give to small-time oil investors to this day... the entire world would be so much better positioned.
>we never use the last drop because it is too far underground.

But that "last drop" is rhetorical, because competitive energy sources substitute along the way and a great deal of the fossil fuels never gets used once it's no longer cheapest.
I am sure there are plenty of companies that would support what some consider racist content. Heck, remember segregation was popular back in its day and the poeple who voted against desegregation are still alive.
FTC Preparing Possible Antitrust Suit Against Facebook
Judaism has a similar approach - anonymous charity is the highest form of giving.

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/256321/jewish...
Denial. When people ask how can software engineers in companies like Facebook feel no sense of responsibility about what their building, is that they just trapped in a mechanism of denial.
There is NO WAY that someone can otherwise be a well-educated computer scientist and at the same time think that anything Facebook does is acceptable for our society at large, or that it’s having any meaningful positive impact on society.
And no, save me the “I can keep up with my family and friends around the world” bullshit.
ARM has a design center in the USA, which means they are under obligation to prove that their technology isn't illegally exported.
Benefited from a price that's 30% higher than it could have been?
"Where Are You Going to Go?’

" ... We are causing this,”

Yes, we are causing this. And as an essential worker (trucker), who rents (not in California), all I can do is vote, converse, and post the occasional snarky comment.

If my rental and community burned to the ground, I would obviously move, and I'd give serious consideration to moving somewhere that is not doing ... this, at the moment, since the moment is a renter's most relevant investment.
Why? It sounds like you're misunderstanding something, perhaps what "reward" means in a biblical context.

This passage teaches people not to do things for show which is what many of us do in order to gain esteem and puff up our egos, often with still further gains in mind. This leads to enslavement to our egos, the approval of others, to things, and generally our constant grasping and our desires. Such false charity is pointless; it only leads to spiritual death. Allow your good deeds to remain a secret between you and the omniscient God. Charity is not loss. True charity produces spiritual "reward" by starving the monstrous, tyrannical ego that enslaves us to death. I would go so far as to say that it is even better for the giver than the receiver. The ego is Man's idolatry, and we cannot serve two masters. Thus killing the ego frees us to worship God and to live. The ego blinds us. It is like sitting in a bus at night with the lights on. All you see in the windows is yourself. Shatter the mirror and you will be freed.
Beeware – Android and iOS Apps in Python
How Self-Driving Cars Will Transform the Retail Industry
Yeah, originally, the showcase was designed to fit in Instagram, which would've clashed nicely with a lighter background. At the same time, things are already quite busy with the text, so I didn't want to complicate it too much. I originally had just the white versions that got lost, so putting them on a background of sorts helped a bit, but I need to make the gradient behind a bit brighter. That will happen once I update the site again with the new logos I've made. :)
YouTube TV used to be $35/month but they kept adding content that I don’t want and cranking the price up. Now it’s $65/month.

I find Sling to be the best value now. YouTube TV turned into cable.
I'm not the one you asked, but I think the underlying issue is that the Unix security model is built around the assumption that software shares the user's intent, and is treated as exactly as trusted as the user. Computers at the time tended to be multi-user, so the focus was on protecting users from other users. While there was a risk of overtly malicious software, preventing remote code execution attacks and teaching users not to run trojan horses was mostly sufficient (for Unix users; the broader population using Windows often installed malicious adware in the early 2000s).

In a modern environment, software should not necessarily be trusted to act in accordance with the user's wishes or best interests, and there's often a financial incentive for software creators to do things users wouldn't want them to. In the early 2000s, the most visible issue was Windows software that displayed advertisements outside of the software, often not obviously connected to the software. It would often monitor the user's browsing habits and such, leading to the name "spyware".

Spyware of that sort was universally considered malicious, but modern smartphone apps often send far more sensitive information, such as location and address books to their creators. Those provide a simple example of a situation the classic Unix security model doesn't address very well. I am the only user of my phone, and I obviously want to be able to read my address book and get my location from the GPS. I do not want the latest and greatest app for sharing pictures of my lunch to track my location to show me restaurant ads, and I only want it to know about people I have explicitly connected to within the app, not my whole address book.

Android's security model addresses that to a degree, restricting some capabilities until the user explicitly allows them. Some of these, like filesystem access aren't handled very gracefully, and it's possible for an app to refuse to work until granted permissions it doesn't really need (this is against policy for inclusion in the Play store, but enforcement is imperfect, and software can be installed from other sources). One workaround seen in XPrivacy is to feed fake data to apps.
There is a term "whataboutism" which is applicable here and which is used for negative description.

While China may be more than guilty in their own ways, and even earlier than USA, it's important to stick to the agreement, to avoid them losing any value. If USA can't hold their part, they hardly can expect that from others.

Having that, it's also important to have effective mechanisms in place to deal with breaking agreements, so partners wouldn't have, as the only option, to resort to breaking their part themselves.

In other words, WTO should be better structured to deal with those who broke rules. It should hardly matter if that is Liechtenstein or USA.
And it's interesting how certain media outlets, specifically The NY Times and Washington Post have promoted this extreme view of lockdowns -- they seem to be fanning the flames even in light of scientific opinions that cast some doubt on their original editorial assertions.

This article[0] encapsulates my feelings pretty well and how there seems to be a vested interest in some of the various players into prolonging and magnifying this situation. The money quote:

"Perhaps all of these terrible consequences could be justified if lockdowns were preventing the mass coronavirus deaths that Neil Ferguson predicted in March, using the now-debunked Imperial Model. Indeed, it was this model that prompted many Western politicians to panic. Programmers who later examined the code deemed it “totally unreliable,” a “buggy mess,” and found that it could not be replicated and that it yielded wildly inaccurate results. Why governments relied upon Mr. Ferguson’s model to enact such extreme policies, given that his disease modeling had been grossly exaggerated many times in the past, is a topic for another day.

Not only were the lockdowns premised on bad science but, contrary to the premature declarations of publications such as the New York Times and politicians like Governor Cuomo, suppressive measures do not work. In fact, the Lancet recently published a study in which the authors concluded that “rapid border closures, full lockdowns, and wide-spread testing were not associated with COVID-19 mortality per million people.[1]"

She's referring to the Lancet, not a Fox News opinion piece.

And another key quote: "Many epidemiologists have observed that the virus follows the same trajectory nearly everywhere, regardless of government restrictions: it climbs, plateaus, and then retreats within about six to ten weeks."

And the suppression of the Sunetra Gupta research is also telling.[2] Important context: "She rejected being bracketed with libertarian lockdown skeptics, saying her opposition came from the left. 'I personally think that only thinking along the lines of eliminating coronavirus, without giving heed to the consequences on the disadvantaged young and globally, is a dereliction of our duties as global citizens'."

Life could get back to normal(er) but there's too much inertia resisting such a radical idea. And there seems to be some sick subset of people that actually like this current state of affairs. I'm willing to bet that if this weren't a US election year, massive lockdowns and outright media-fueled hysteria wouldn't have happened. To be clear, I'm not saying the virus wasn't a big deal, but the actual data reveals a much different reality than the one advertised.

[0] https://www.aier.org/article/whats-gone-wrong-with-left-libe...
[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...
[2] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/the-londoner...
Well in the absence of a contract using the software counts as a breach of copyright. Apparently the French court has ruled that if someone intends to use GPL licensed software and doesn't adhere to the terms they should be sued for breach of contract first and breach of copyright second.

It could have been the other way around, that failing to adhere to the terms in the license means there is no contract in the first place.
You'd struggle to find anyone in a freshman CS class a few weeks in who'd fail Fizzbuzz, excepting those who weren't going to last more than a year or two before switching majors and never coding again.
I have the only relevant definition of what it means. But then again you know that and are commenting in bad faith. Which I should have expected given the content of you other comments.
>Sure, you could hypothetically ban all the "frivolous" applications, but I don't think people fully understand how the R&D for silly things subsidizes, and cross pollinates life-saving innovations.

>The real trade-off isn't plastics or landfills, it is landfills vs. modern oncology.

That is a false dilemma. You might as well start adding uranium to baby powder because "Uranium Co spends so much money on cancer research the real trade off isn't uranium baby powder or regular baby powder, it's uranium baby powder or oncology".
"int* p" really grinds my gears
Yes. So far performance was worse in experiments, and the durability improvements are questionable because it is extremely difficult to get a clear understanding of the durability semantics of direct IO. If you can find a pointer to clear documentation of what those semantics are I'd be extremely interested in reading it.
Regardless of intent, infringement happens. Someone making the above statement seems to think “infringement” means “plagiarism.” Also, a DMCA takedown request isn’t “being slapped with a lawsuit.”

Using language that makes one amenable to takedown requests might be fine. But it’s no defense for infringing on others’ copyrights by posting their IP without a license.

OP, take parent comment’s advice and find some appropriately licensed music.
How many generations deep does "your family" run? Do you really think people with multiple billions of wealth were living beneath their means?

(I agree with your point if they are upper middle class or even have 10-50 million dollars of wealth). But when you are part of the top 0.1% of the population, there is no way you are living beneat your means to be self sufficient in retirement.
Sounds good in theory. But in reality the fuel rods need to be mechanically separated from their cladding, which is brittle, irradiated and whatnot else. Then chemical reprocessing of the fuel itself, and reassambly into whichever form is necessary.

It's not like you could take a used fuel-rod and throw it into some breeder to have energy. Not to speak of the old cladding.

I mean, I'm not against it, but it's not that simple.