skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yet another Nvidia thing that would work everywhere but is blocked in software because greed. Remember how raytracing was supposed to only work properly on RTX but when people got mad suddenly it wasn't only RTX cards? And now we are even seeing it on the old and slow PS4. Next they'd likely do something crazy like require unnecessary hardware in screens or something. Oh wait..
Worker's incentives seem more along the "do whatever those with resources say to trade your mind and body and time for survival"
To be cynical, that's what it looks like when the status quo chooses its victims. This time it hits close to home for everyone because we're all familiar with this sort of loss.
Right, so there's no way to do this:

> In other words, the parameter should not be a float, but a more constrained type that allows floats only in [0,1]

It's a value check, not a type check.
> Side note: One of Facebook's board members apparently enjoys the company of white supremacists. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444704 Will Facebook employees be allowed to talk about that? If you work at Facebook, how do you feel about that?

Are we just going to allow people to throw around such loaded statements based on flimsy correlations and association?
> I don't write fronted software anymore, but writing for every browser means adhering to the standard.

Yes, which you’ll find if you do Safari adheres to quite well. Finding examples where it doesn’t is easy, just like on chrome. Which is why we have media queries and poly fills because it’s simply impossible to have a unified platform without one entity owning it. If you found out Chrome doesn’t render the same on linux as it doesn’t on windows, would you call this not adhering to the standard?
Your $50/hr with employment is more like $75/hr with overhead accounted for.
Can you tell us how does the potential reservation impact the availability? I started a checkout for a .com.au domain on namecheap. When I restarted it a day later, the domain was marked as unavailable. After contacting namecheap support, it turns out I could buy it after all.

To be honest, my initial reaction was "I've been godaddy'd" since the messages don't indicate anything different.
The control systems for airplanes often have a significant number of mathematical proofs.
Lets be honest here, it's always been the isralites conflict with everyone since over 4000 years ago!
At GoSecret.io you can use our upload feature (similar to Firefox Send). We haven't open sourced our code but we definitely are considering it in wake of Firefox Send getting shutdown. Please ping me if you're interested
Because a flexible 'format' or 'model' or whatever with which you can construct insecure systems or (hypothetically) secure systems, is not really useful, it ends up being inherently insecure.
Ah, just the right time to publish about numpy - right when everyone is moving over to Julia because of numpy's warts.
AFAIK Netflix (and YouTube and others) already do this edge caching. They partner with telcos, as you said.
It's turtles all the way down, baby.
> It isn’t sufficient to say “X is a metric of health/ethics, if I think more of X is healthy/ethical and you think less of X is healthy/ethical.

The starting point of this conversation is to say that it is neither you nor I who decide the appropriate amount of X, but that by measuring the compromise human society reached in term of balance between X and Y, we can determine that society wants e.g. 0.654 of X for each unit of Y.

If you accept the predicate "Society's behavior defines what is ethical" then you get a moral framework that is interesting (but that is not mine, personally, as I refuse that predicate). It gives you a coherent framework that is the closest you can have from an objective morality: it is an inter-subjective one. It is also changing in time.
People prefer to not need to do that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident

That's the one you're thinking of. Brazil, 1987.
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Many energy providers do this and they can provide back pressure to devices like smart thermostats.

https://nest.com/energy-partners/

The industry for residential distributed energy resource systems and smart pricing is fairly nascent as far as I can tell though.
> What if prices for power go way up during the night

Individual energy providers do not control prices. The market does.

If there is market demand for energy at night, then people will fill in the gap to provide it. Anyone pushing up prices at night will have competition from someone else who will undercut them. They'll be forced to drop prices or lose customers.

Batteries are inefficient, expensive, and do not provide an adequate amount of electricity for most purposes. Consider a UPS, they're about 90% efficient at most, and for all that 10% of wasted energy, you get to power your computer for about 15-60 minutes if the power is lost. The batteries only last a few years.

Also, a bigger argument against solar (at least, photovoltaics) is that they use up rare earth metals, have limited lifetimes (<25 years), and then become non-recyclable toxic waste.

Concentrating solar energy is more promising as a sustainable solution, but requires large infrastructure and the right climate to be cost effective.
Well it's a right same as voting and I'm against double standards so either one needs to get rid of ID requirements or one needs to get them.
I'm a fan of Rand but can admit that she was quite capable of an epic screed. The premier example is the notoriously long and tedious John Galt speech. I feel that I deserve a merit badge for reading it all.
Strange that the blog doesn't have https redirection.
I don't think that's accurate:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
wait so should this app be able to work with something like the RTX 2070?
In psychology (and many other fields as well) the variables are very fuzzy which complicates things as well. It's not just a correlation-vs-causation/causation-from-correlations issue, it's also often an issue of even knowing whether one thing is really distinct from another, and if so, how.

This complicates experimental designs also, for what it's worth, in that it can be difficult to determine what a manipulation is acting on, and whether it's acting on what you intend it to.

This is in part why there's such a huge interest in mediation modeling, although you're back to the misspecification issue. It's difficult to know what you don't know.
I think that's one of the ideas behind the Tesla power packs - acting as a power reserve over time.
Well from my comments it should be obvious that we don’t agree :)
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> how would one _not_ take a political stance?

A non-political stance would be one which has zero side effects on anybody other than yourself. As soon as the actions you make and the decisions you take have an effect on somebody who isn't you, it becomes political.

Actually _taking_ a non-political stance is an exercise left to the reader.
21 here: anecdotally, almost all of them. Having a @yahoo.com address is pretty uncool, though.
I don't think they're necessarily chasing grid power at first anyway. They seem positioned to tackle mass market electricity last, after addressing smaller higher price markets.
>>> English never had a cuisine

Fish & Chips was derived from Portuguese chefs in Goa India
*For certain definitions of everyone.
That is unusual :)
Correction: they never brought up politics to you. You don't know that they weren't political in their discussions with other colleagues. Perhaps it is worth considering why that might be the case.

People whose existences are deeply politicized (and they do indeed exist) are not often excited to have political conversations with people who say things like "'existence is political' thing is just a bullshit phrase."

I'm not trying to be a dick, but it took me a long time to realize that there were conversations I was not being made a part of because I was not receptive to, or dismissive of, those conversations.
Can you post an example of your edit 2? Seems like it'd be interesting to watch
A truly sensational accomplishment which the MSM simply can’t bear to concede to Trump and Kushner.

I got a chuckle out of this clip of John Kerry which certainly has not aged well;

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1306377971863871489?s=...
What's TSMC's secret sauce compared to American fabs?

Cheap labour?

Government handouts?
I'm so glad I never was a snacker - just from the cost savings alone (never mind the savings in the size of my waist too)
If you're building a professional secure environment, forward secrecy is a tradeoff that you need to tune (and OpenPGP gives you the tools for doing so, viz. subkeys and expiration), you absolutely need federation, and identifying contacts by phone numbers (as Signal does) is a zillion times worse than leaking email headers.

It's not possible to make Signal secure, the flaws are on the protocol level. To fix it, you would need to change it until it is no longer Signal.
Secure your boot process: UEFI and Secureboot and EFISTUB and Luks2 and lvm
Unrelated but I have reported phishing domains to Namecheap and they have completely ignored all abuse tickets for over a month now. How should I proceed here?
Relieved to know I can still trust HNers to always take hyperbolic statements literally
Never officially. But I think once they started to migrate components into Firefox it seemed obvious that the experiment was a "success" and that it was on the path to replacing gecko (starting piece by piece and maybe eventually making a switchover).
Thanks for your perspective, it helps.
Marginalidade Social EM AÇÃO
I guess it's how they have to implement it on VS. I tell you, CLion with Resharper++ or Rider with R# compared to VS is like night and day. Visual Studio takes 1 min woth R# to start and analyze a Unity project and the UI lags. Rider OTOH does it very fast and there's no noticeable lag with background tasks.
Wonderful. What an amazing amount of work to implement a terrible idea.

See https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html for why we shouldn't be using PGP in 2020.
There's an interesting trend of what content gets published in peer-reviewed journals vs. blogs/github/etc. I suspect there is an audience segment that strongly values peer reviewed pieces that are equivalent content wise to introductory material in a variety of formats.

I wonder if github should add a "Review" feature to provide a similar content authoring experience.
Public roads are significantly cheaper to utilize, paid for by gas taxes. Using toll roads involves that has tax and then some. And the tolls don't always produce better quality considering the money and resources invested compared to usage.
I feel attacked. I still have my aol email, HNUSERNAME@aol.com
folders / files / editor / search has worked well for me for years.
>which pays out retirement benefits

. . . maybe . . .
I think we've had really good views of Jupiter for awhile. The Great Red Spot was identified over 300 years ago and tracked consistently for over 100 years. But Jupiter is huge so it's fairly easy to see in relatively good detail.
What I'm saying is that you can buy LTS from Oracle, Red Hat, Bellsoft, or Azul -- that's how all of them make their money off of OpenJDK -- but not a single one of them offers it for free (and neither does Amazon, whose JDK staff is smaller than or similar to Bellsoft's).
Can't you just try the diet and see for yourself? That would be a lot more reliable way to determine the effects of the diet on your health than waiting around for decades for research that may not ever be properly conducted and which in any case would have been conducted on someone else. If you try the carnivore diet then you can just see the results for yourself in yourself. What's the downside to eating nothing but eggs, sardines, and ground beef for six weeks?
There are various exemptions for subassemblies and other non-end-user products. Those may not always apply. However, in practice, a product that's sold in small quantities and does not in fact emit egregious electromagnetic interference is unlikely to attract enforcement attention. So a fair bit of skirting of the rules does go on.
No, I certainly wouldn't think of my coworkers as mercenaries for hire, as that's a very simplistic worldview that I don't subscribe to. My net concern is: Will me working at FB be a net good, neutral, or bad for society? I'm fine with neutral, I just don't want it to be a net bad.
You sure?
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung...

> Servo is an attempt to rebuild the Web browser from the ground up on modern hardware, rethinking old assumptions along the way.
I have reported a large amount of phishing domains and never received a reply, they also never got taken down.
To me this is more akin to whether you are allowed to paint or bike. It’s getting up one day and riding to your favorite trail only to find the owner decided to charge for it since it’s so popular. It’s in their right to do it, but a pretty bad faith move.
Ask HN: Where should I look for work?
Hi HN. I'm a software developer/devops engineer/jack-of-all-trades and I'm tired of this industry, but I'm not ready to leave yet. I like software.

I read there are two types of companies: process oriented and results oriented.. but I think it's more like this: companies that manage upwards, and companies that manage downwards.

Companies that manage downwards do what we traditonally think of as management. They abstract orginizational complexity and shield their team from politics as much as possible. I've worked at one of these companies.

Companies that manage upwards don't do much abstraction. There might be a hierarchy or it might be flat. Either way your job is to please the highest up people that you can so you and those around you can climb the ladder. Most companies seem this way. I've worked at 4 or 5 of these. It's not always black and white, but most companies are mostly this way.

I'm looking for a company that works as a team. Maybe people move up, but people do their job and support their reports when they're in a management role. They abstract away orgnizational complexity so I can do my job better. I can also go home after 40h because things are planned and executed, not held together by the blood sweat and tears of whichever sucker has the limelight (and therefore pressure) of some higher up.

How can I find companies like this? Are there good or bad flags I should look for in interviews? Are there specific industries that hire salaried software or devops devs and work this way?
Network Utility has been deprecated in macOS Big Sur.
That person STILL deserves a modicum of dignity and stability. Most people in this category don't really care if they move up any ladder - they just want to exist and not be facing constant economic crisis and near-homelessness.
Well sure, but I'm making the point that a standard American sandwich simply isn't excessive. That the notion/caricature of a regular American lunch sandwich being unhealthily large is simply incorrect.

Of course you can get some mega-cheese melt if you want, just like you can get a triple quarter pounder if you want. But I don't see anybody who sees those as examples of a normal portion. Within America they're seen as excessive. They're not representative of a normal American lunch.
The OpenPGP community would do more for security if they listened to serious cryptographers and began recommending better solutions.

See https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html for more on that. And it isn't hard to find lots and lots of cryptographers agreeing with the thesis.
Seemed to work out pretty well for all the scientists in Operation Paperclip. So historically, maybe it does pan out.
Shields I meant shields. Blech
The recommendation system is not "dumb" in the opinion of its designers. Perhaps it is performing exactly as intended.

In the same way that online advertising needs to display millions of ads to reach only hundreds of people, the recommendation system may not be intended to work at 100% efficiency.

YouTube "recommendations" work as far as I can tell. If you take two people searching for some subject area on YouTube, and only one of them knows how to search past the initial "popular" recommendations, each person will produce very different results.

If neither person is a skilled searcher (most people are not), they both end up with the same results. Those videos receive thus more and more views. Videos with millions of views help Google sell online ad services. If views were distributed more evenly across all videos, would that make advertisers more interested or less interested.

What's the point of a recommendation system that does not recommend a new video in the same category. To promote certain videos to attract large audiences and thus draw more interest from potential advertisers. More advertisers bidding on fewer popular videos would seem to favour higher prices paid to Google.

Some of the best videos I have seen on YouTube have less than 500 views, some even in the single digits. I found them through automated searches, not "recommendations".

Google makes information accessible with the belief that relevance is directly proportional to popularity. The company was founded on this idea.
"those people are full of crap" is a pretty direct insult. You shouldn't make that kind of accusation when you're not able to substantiate it or even willing to stand by it.
Ask HN: Binge eating disorder? How do you deal with it?
Any books, recommendations or other things to help ?
They are not paid by Mozilla, but there are still paid contributors.
> Cinnamon with Mint is very stable and tuned

Unfortunately not. Muffin, the compositor is based on a really old version of Mutter, and it’s missing a lot of performance work and fixes that make latency lower and output less likely to hitch, hidpi works better, etc. They need to just drop their fork and use the upstream version. They haven’t added anything significant to Muffin to justify keeping it—-the differences to gnome are done with other packages.
Unsure what the GP was referring to, but the article suggests that the pressure comes from activists spamming work feeds:

> “What we’ve heard from our employees is that they want the option to join debates on social and political issues, rather than see them unexpectedly in their work feed.” [said Facebook spokesman Joe Osborne]

Others have organized to skip work in an act of defiance, affecting colleagues who are not engaged in their political cause:

> a group of employees staged a virtual walkout in early June to protest Facebook’s decision to leave up a post from President Trump about social unrest

Not exactly a "gun to your head" type of forced, but nonetheless these are actions designed to foment a political clash with other employees to engage with certain political causes when they may not want to concern themselves with that at all. What makes this particularly problematic in the workplace is that many employees rely on work feeds and teamwork to earn a livelihood for themselves and their families, so they cannot realistically avoid it.
What is a good non-email use case for the PGP format?
Predicting Skill Shortages in Labor Markets: A Machine Learning Approach
Take the lowball 6 million deaths under Stalin from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Sovi... and divide by 72K/year. That's 83 years worth of the cited death statistic in the US.
Unfortunately I have encountered neither in the real world, although I have defeated both in CTFs before.
I think the difference is that, in the ant example, it would appear that the ant can teleport if you are looking at it from a 1D perspective, while in the 3D ball, the ant would be moving through space in a continuous fashion. Now since we know that ants cannot teleport, the 1D perspective does not align with reality. I think that's the distinction between being able to unroll certain movements from higher dimensions into lower dimensions. Now the question is, do we want to define chess movements as continuous or teleportation? If it is defined as teleportation from the beginning, then unrolling it into 1D would not change aspect of movement. But if we define it as continuous movements, then unrolling it into 1D would break that rule.
Weird Blur Effect: https://i.imgur.com/vyKOc2p.png
Sure because the alternative is death

Me shit posting is not a life or death situation so a bug here or there is fine
The writing is on the wall at this stage. The current Mozilla have no will to keep maintaining Gecko, which in their eyes is seen as burning money which could be spent on "Product".
Check out civboot.org

Even if there's not some kind of secret agenda, the increasing complexity will make it so most people can't use a computer anyway in the horizon. I want to do something about it.
Hyper-Bowl would describe typical US portions. The good thing is, that its also common to get "to go" boxes alongside so you can reasonably eat twice for one purchase.

It is very rare (on my personal observation, I have no stats here so its anecdata) for anyone to walk out of a ready-made food outlet without the soda and chips.

I have also felt at times "pret" was a bit stingy. If I get a turkey and brie sandwich, I want the brie to be visible, not hypothetical.

Katz' deli, I didn't have a boy in the army to send a salami, but the thickness of the meat layer in my salt beef sandwich was .. unreal. I think, they do this because its now expected. In most salt beef outlets I've been to which didn't feature in films, they are a bit more reasonable.

There is an Aussie food called "a halal snack pack" which is a heart-attack in a styrofoam box. Its a box of gyros/kebab/doner/shwarma meat, with all the trimmings but no bread: healthy, since less carbs. Oh wait, its poutine too: they put fries and cheese in there...
>That seems outrageously generous.

Probably, but until we actually get some A14 die shots I don't know how aggressive Apple has been with caches and the like with some redundancy that can be fused off for yield. Again though all the numbers are napkin math and trying to give some fudge factor in both directions, so conservative on the number of chips total (I didn't try to calculate exactly how many full squares fit I just took off an entire outer radius) and generous on the yield. Mainly I was trying to reason about the question of "even if everything goes great, and even if it's something smaller not a monster desktop GPU or the like, is it still a non-trivial cost?" to which it seems like the answer is yes. If it's actually a smaller yield that just makes it get even more expensive, but yield itself won't be a silver bullet.
> Of course, but that shouldn't be an argument to completely dismiss attempts to be less biased.

I agree, and I explicitly took this position in my initial reply.

> You achieve lesser bias by constantly doubting and questioning your priors.

This is what Zinn was trying to achieve by introducing the parts of history that don't make it into the textbooks.

> You establish authority and trust by actively communicating to your reader or interlocutor legitimate doubts people should have of even the position you're offering.

I'm not a Zinn or a history expert by any means so this is a bit above my pay grade. All I can say is that from some of Zinn's essays I've read, one of his main points was that you need to be critical of the history you're exposed to and try to understand what the text is trying to accomplish. In Zinn's texts he makes what he's trying to accomplish very clear.

> There is no greater smell that you should be concerned about someone's biases than when they present nothing but certainty and when they craft arguments that deliberately elide contradictory or exculpatory evidence.

You're absolutely right. This was the major idea Zinn introduced to history in academia.

It honestly seems to me like you agree with the central thesis of Zinn's writings. A lot of the criticism I've been reading in this post mirrors the same criticism Zinn had of academic history when he first began writing.