skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it should. The law should follow morality, ethics, and common practice. If the US law is beyond that, then it is overreaching and tyrannical. But of course, especially with these leaks, we already knew that.
When you hear stuff like this, you start to wonder if Valve's management style is half as sustainable as they would like to think. Without Steam and hats/knives they'd be broke several times over with that sort of lack of focus and inability to release games outside of what seems a decadal cycle. (ETA: Which possibly makes a "locusts of gaming" analogy relevant for Valve, hah.)
Are you joking? What could Microsoft ever do that's as bad as Fallout 76?
Great comment!

Two things I noticed a couple years ago:

1. There is a quite expensive furniture maker near where I grew up -- in the more "genteel" area of course.

2. If I still lived there I'd totally shell out three grand for one of their chairs!

I've never spent that much on a piece of furniture, but it sure looks like it's worth it:

http://ericksonwoodworking.com/furniture/seating/sumi-chair-...

Your work is beautiful and I hope you find many buyers. I humbly suggest you include prices on your web site, as many people have no idea what handmade furniture costs these days, and many of those can actually afford it.
Hi, tech lead for TFP here. The wording here was unclear -- sorry! We're fixing it presently.

We are not migrating away from TF; far from it!

The change here was to interoperate with TF and JAX (and numpy!), by way of some rewrite trickery under the hood. Essentially, we wrote a translation layer that implements the TF API surface (or, the parts we actually use) in terms of numpy & JAX primitives [1]. This lets us leave most TFP code intact, written in terms of the TF API, but interoperate with JAX by way of the API translation layer. (Actually we implemented numpy support first, and mostly got JAX for "free" since JAX is largely API-compatible with numpy).

Sorry for any confusion!

We're pretty stoked about this work, so happy to answer any other questions you may have (also feel free to chime in on the github tracker or email tfprobability@tensorflow.org)

[1]
- https://github.com/tensorflow/probability/tree/master/tensor...
It's really not.

What do you think they'll do with a cookie id associated to a few events?
Isn't MinIO just a better and distributed samba/nfs server?
These are actually some really good numbers for a certain application I'm looking at (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24191307), especially with bulk inserts being so high.

A few questions:

- Why 255 bytes to 255 bytes? Does this have any performance consequences?

- Your laptop is SSD right?

- Is there any more documentation on how to use Kivaloo? (not just facts about it)
This is simply not true. You (and perhaps most people) may have a difficult time discerning between high and low quality products, but both are readily available. That difficulty may be part of the problem why lower quality products dominate. Though I think it has more to do with cheaper prices. And while it's certainly true that many higher priced items are of similar quality as lower priced ones, higher quality products do exist.

As an example, I'll use flash memory devices (USB thumb drives). I used to consult for a firm that assembled these things as part of their business for use by corporate customers. They would buy flash memory chips from various chip vendors. You can, if you wish, purchase flash memory chips that have passed stringent tests. Or chips that have been rejected by other OEM's. Guess which ones cost more? Some of my client's customers demanded the absolute cheapest possible chips. So my client provided them (with warnings). The failure rates for the cheapest of the cheap could reach as high as 20% in a batch in our testing. The clients didn't care. Sadly, ALL the clients that didn't care were American companies. Not even mainland Chinese companies would use them.

There's a few interesting channels on youtube that deconstruct various products (from shoes to toasters) to see how high quality they are. It's quite instructive at how much different price points can differ (sometimes from the same company).
The tape deck would’ve been a separate unit and could be kept anywhere you could run a cable to.

It’s clear that the poster you’re condescending to understands this.
> Not to be an apologist for Tesla here, while Elon has made some pretty explicit statements here the ordering page for cars has always said "equipment capability" and pretty accurately described it was the required equipment for when the capability was available.

Right, and he's also made explicit statements that you could FSD "by the end of 2016", "by the end of 2018", "by the end of 2020", coast to coast.
Wuhan Panic Was a Fraud Driven by Politics and for the Aggrandizement of Power
What to me _seems_ to be much more likely though is that multiple cookies are connected to a classification ID that multiple other users may also be connected to and that to identify your PII within their system you'll need to provide your user name.
It also begs the question what MS has to gain by buying Bethesda/ZeniMax besides exclusivity. Given the fact that they own the XBox/Windows gaming platform, would the revenue they get selling Doom on PlayStation really be enough to outweigh the potential of making it exclusive to drive more people to their platform?
Hey! Yeah this sounds familiar. We’re definitely in at the early restaurant sitting!

We do drink (weekends, a nice cocktail on the front porch), we don’t play video games (I used to when I was younger, but have no desire now), and we typically watch one episode of something with dinner. That’s all the TV I need. I have plenty of time that I could be watching more TV, we just choose not to.

Like, I have a ton of time to read and do my hobby projects. A ton.
For example, I have data from 1900 till 2000. I train ARMA using this data by storing the corresponding coefficients as model parameters. Now I get data from 2010 to 2020. My goal is to use these (AR and MA) coefficients in order to predict the value in 2021 (without using the historic data I used for training). I think it does make sense and it is precisely how typical ML algorithms work. So it is more a matter of how an algorithm is implemented and which usage patterns it follows.
> The rest of it is proprietary NVidia stuff.

If you're using a Nvidia GPU sure, but it's still supported so I'm not sure what you were talking about in your original comment? Windows Nvidia drivers are also proprietary.

>GUI and gaming - barely supports what Windows did 5 years ago.

You can't be serious? Linux has had workspaces for forever, a feature that Windows finally enacted in Windows 10. Native tiling window manager support is nonexistent in Windows.

The more recent adoption of things like WSL and Windows Package Manager are just a few of the ways Windows trails behind Linux innovations that have existed for years.

The GUI experience in Linux is infinitely more customizable and frankly better than any experience I've had on Windows. Far less bloated and more open in it's overall design.

In terms of gaming I haven't had a snag in forever since Wine or Lutris can do pretty much everything I need.

If you're tech illiterate I can see why someone would think that Windows was superior in terms of innovation, otherwise its pretty clear that Linux has beat out Windows in most interactive user experiences over the past few years.

If you're a developer (which most users of HN are which was what my initial comment was based on) there's virtually no reason to use Windows over Linux.
OA has done that, as 'GPT-f': https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03393#openai They also have ambitions of IMO: https://twitter.com/spolu/status/1303693595833237504

I assume it's not mentioned in OP because GPT-f came out too recently for them to interview or profile compared to this Lean-using team.
I'm only just learning Rust so I don't know much about Rust development, but what are the chances that any of the suggestions listed at the end make it into the language?
I like ZigZaggy's comment below: "...the wealth of the American economy has driven the rest of the world to create a world of low quality goods to sell to us."

This comment actually gets at my own curiosity about manufacturing.

I start with my experienced in the Restaurant industry. You have some people who open grab and go, and hope only to franchise. You have some young chef who opens in a vacant/former kitchen hoping to make his organic vegan dreams a reality. And a serial entrepreneur of hot spots. All other things being equal, they are competing on location, product quality, and marketing.

Near my home is Walmart, Target, Marshalls (second market clothes), Nordstrom Rack (second market for Nordstrom). You can shop at each and, when the fashion stars align, you can find the "same item" (IE. summer cotton beige unlined sport coat) at each location with nearly identical materials & finish, yet each is set at increasingly higher prices (competing on marketing).

What's the difference between "Eames" molded fiberglass wire base side chair ($400) and knockoff molded plastic ($80)? Quality of materials. Fit and finish. Quality control (competing on cost of goods, skilled labor, and capital asset/investments)

The capital investments increase as you go from restaurant to clothing to furniture (and beyond, ie. auto manufacturing or space rockets).

If you look at the cost and investment at the high-end, it stands to reason it would take generations to move a company from creating 'low quality' products to high quality, or you're just happy right were you are (Making Crap since 1929). Or, you step in s#!t, make zillions processing online transactions in finance, then jump into electric auto-manufacturing. haha. It seems so interesting. If you add environmental impact, jobs created, impact on the economy, and even the most boring 4th generation crap manufacturer is dramatic story.

On the book, seems the author is talking about another thing entirely--'useless' low quality items--novelty items, souvenirs. I recall reading somewhere about religious pilgrimage circuits in Europe (for hundreds of years) where pilgrims could 'buy' 'souvenirs'.

I wonder if you don't necessarily need a wealthy economy. Rather, you need disposable income, and in modern times, low-cost plastics industry, international shipping, and cultures of collecting, plus cultural 'stories' (sports teams, super heroes, music industry, arts, crafts) which give rise to creative expressions of the culture.

And why all this 'crap'? Money money money. Jobs jobs jobs. (ie. Halmark created holidays to sell more cards; not wealth, per se, but disposable income).
We need to stop looking for One Weird Fix. It’s not out there, and/or we keep breaking it by changing the conditions.

I'd agree with that. Low Tech Magazine keeps promoting One Weird Fix of "use less complicated technology." In early issues it highlighted a few simple old technologies that were plausibly equal or superior to modern complicated technologies. But it rapidly exhausted plausible candidates.

Recent Low Tech Magazine articles are good branching off points for exploring historical technologies but poor at conceiving solutions to the energy and environmental problems we face in the 21st century. They keep highlighting ideas that barely touch on today's largest energy demands or that require far too much land per person. I have a bunch of energy crisis books from the 1970s and they also frequently dreamt of a more rural existence than is now possible for Earth's billions of people. They kept invoking past lifestyles, ignoring how many fewer people there were in the past. The mismatch is even more severe in 2020 than it was in 1974.
I wouldn't call it a wart, these things have been debated pretty extensively.
Postgres usually adds plenty of performance from one version to another.

Not much on .0 versions, those are more feature packed, but all the other time.
Absolutely no.

Sleep deprivation is the worst thing you can do to increase productivity, long-term.

Actually, let me give this single, most important piece of advice: try to sleep 8 hours a day.
Given that very nearly the entire software industry has either acquiesced to or actively abets practices like these, the real answer is generally "desperate enough to be seeking a job in your field".
And surprisingly, it's always downvoted but people are still doing it.
Yes, but that is a certain English culture. One that is enamoured by the wealthy, cultured Victorian gent sort of vibe.

It's not not about money, but to the British sensibilities the American expression of wealth is vulgar.

Obviously I don't subscribe to the above notion as a real positive, but I understand it well!
If you know 10 different tech stacks you probably have immense breadth and can learn/do new things easily. That’s is incredibly valuable. There is a massive difference when you are learning a new stack for 11th time vs 2nd or 3rd time. Sometimes you need people with deep mastery of some specific, sometimes you need people who have seen everything, can learn anything, and synthesize a broad view.
Sure to get downvoted into oblivion for this, but Spotify has a responsibility to provide direct editorial oversight over Rogan's podcast.

This isn't just him flirting with the alt-right and intellectual darkweb anymore. He's out here repeating lies about left-wing activists starting fires at the same time there are actual right-wing militias setting up paramilitary checkpoints.

This has gone from Joe saying stupid stuff to Joe spewing dangerous rhetoric that may get people killed.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/16/oregon-fires...
https://www.newsweek.com/half-million-people-evacuated-orego...
How is that odd? Isn't that to be expected? The argument against Brexit made by the Remain campaign consisted almost entirely of very bad things will happen, the sky will fall, mass unemployment etc. If you don't believe that it's natural to be more pro Brexit.

Actually that last sentence may not be obvious. On his blog, Dominic Cummings made a rather important point about the UK and EU that largely escaped notice: the EU is broadly unpopular with a clear majority of the British population. The idea that the EU sucks is widely accepted. The referendum was a (somewhat) close match only because a significant proportion of the people who don't like the EU and would have wanted to leave feared the terrible consequences they were promised.

People who genuinely support the EU as a project has never really got higher than about a third of the population:

https://dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/screensh...

This is why the EU/Remain strategy during the campaign was so unrelentingly negative. The message was consistently not the EU is great and we should stay because it makes sense, the message was the UK's nominal allies will inflict great punishment if it leaves. This was a rather cynical but understandable political calculation when you see the polls. Fear motivates. It nearly dominated and caused Remain to win.
Careful, you might get what you ask for.
Never once in my life I thought "I wish I had taken notes when I met person X." I naturally remember something worth remembering to me, and never once I found out that there was something important that was said and I was worse off for not having written it down. Is it just me?
> I didn't need to tense up before opening up the news

If you frighten people enough they will vote for anything that resembles safety. The first part is accomplished, wouldn't you say?
Instead of changing the port just secure your ssh server in general. Whitelist of login names, no password authentication and no root login at all.
Thank you for weighing in with this perspective -- definitely saw a lot of this yesterday while combing through listings.
> However, my solution does not judge people differently based on age. It judges everyone in a way that allows old people to fairly compete with young people on the basis of effort put in rather than pure skills/performance output.

Fairly compete in...making an effort? Would you like to get operated on by a surgeon that lacks the skill necessary to perform his job but tries damn hard? Would you want to go to a concert where the string section has been working real hard on learning the material but can't read sheet music and are tone deaf? Would you want to ride the bus where the driver has been practicing all his life but can't quite drive well enough to meet a reasonable standard based on skill? Do you want to follow a basketball tournament where the winner is determined by their effort rather than their score? Why should anyone respect a workplace that is effectively a daycare for try-hards? How can such a workplace result in a good product or service?

My most favorable take on your idea is that you simply can't have thought it through.

Frankly, the whole premise that old people need to be "allowed to compete fairly" by arbitrarily judging workers on some other merit than the quality of their work strikes me as incredibly patronizing. It's this attitude that leads to age discrimination in the first place, not that old people somehow can't produce quality work.

Instead of fucking up the workplace by introducing perverse incentives, consider socialized efforts that can maintain a sense of security for people that for one reason or another can't perform the work available to them to a reasonable standard. Pensions, unemployment insurance, disability insurance...that kind of thing.
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C# is a much more powerful language than golang, with great monitoring and introspection tools. C# also has nuget (among others) for package management.
Very true. I think Apple's got another 10 years or so until they face this dilemma, so time will tell. Their commitment to data privacy really put them at a disadvantage in the AI race, but have made great strides with federated learning.

And you can see them getting a little scared of this coming doom with their commitment to the App store monopolistic practices (whether you believe it's wrong or not, they really can't afford to cave on this front for their long-term sake)
It's hyperbole to illustrate that looking for people with 40 years of experience in personal computer is like looking for people with 10 years of kubernetes experience. You don't see any because they don't exist.

Well, there might be a handful stacked in the place the thing was initially created (they've probably long moved on though).

HN happens to be heavily centered around the valley and Apple/Microsoft, bad luck. Consider that the rest of the world can easily be a decade behind the valley.
Carmack's pull as an individual among tech folks, is unrivaled in gaming.

I can bet that many people would willingly taken pay cuts (or more-likely skipped on pay bumps) to work for a team led by Carmack.

Almost all of the other pop-culture figures in game development such as Todd Howard, Kojima and the like are designers, producers or story writers.

Carmack is the only one that is a proper coding guy.

______

Maybe Carmack comes back to lead Windows mixed reality ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and PCVR ? True wishful thinking right here.
Thanks :) I take little credit, because nowadays a lot of this is very achievable to learn with youtube and a bit of patience.

It's really incredible how much tacit knowledge transfer is made possible because of youtube. Definitely one of the purely positive aspects of the platform and the internet in general.
How much do tools such as this one help with reuse or porting of real COBOL applications, as opposed to textbook examples?

As I understand it, many COBOL programs of current practical interest make extensive use of data management and transaction processing facilities that aren’t part of the COBOL language itself.

Can anyone share their experiences? For example, what fraction of the COBOL modules in a typical application would be able to be translated by a compiler that doesn’t handle statements such as “EXEC CICS” or “EXEC DLI”?
While I won't ask why the multiple downvotes, because that's discouraged here on HN, I will express considerable surprise. Reading over it again, it doesn't strike me as a disagreeable comment, just another point of view about one type of working relationship over another.
All: don't miss that there are multiple pages of comments in this thread. That's what the More link at the bottom points to. Or click these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24541964&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24541964&p=3
>The theft of my PII or the opposite?

Please consider referring to it as spying over theft and PII about you, as opposed to your PII?

Part of the server logs may be about you but are not yours per say.
I'm fond of V&V (verification and validation) but I have to thank my first boss for insisting on us using that term. Our job was to develop the tests based on specs and requirements, and sometimes run them. The machines were the testers unless we didn't have it automated yet. We also supplied input in requirements and design discussions because of what we knew of the system, even if we weren't technically the ones writing the software (or even, strictly, designing it).
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The premise here is that meetings are chock-full of valuable and dense information. This is not true. Most meetings are, in fact, a waste of time.

There are also various linguistic theories that argue that actual information density (in spoken/written language) is significantly less than 95%. So the corollary here is that remembering 95% of a meeting is a waste of cognitive capacity. The better strategy would be to bullet-point and solely remember the most salient and important information. The author's efforts seem like an interesting "memory game," but there are better methods[1] for learning how to remember stuff, if, for whatever reason, that's your end goal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Haraguchi
Thanks very much for the input -- definitely saw a lot of the "too good to be true" stuff yesterday as I worked through the listings.
Rust 2021 – Ethical Development
Yes, the 2.5% number is best case for a complete upheaval of how things work right now. That’s a waste of effort societally speaking when literally 100% of electric generation can be replaced with renewable energy.
Obviously people are not going to install an app that is only intended to track them.

However, app makers will put this tracking company's SDK into their app so that they can get a hold of the generated data. But that data is then also shared to the tracking company, and used to build up a complete profile about you.

And, of course, you just know that it'll come bundled in shitty Android ROMs as some darn home screen widget that you can't get rid of, so it'll constantly be "running".
Which of those categories does rayiner fall into, in your opinion?
Being good at computers and being exposed to a hacker ethic (whatever is left of it) doesn't guarantee your politic views (1) logical (2) anti-conformist (3) anything else, tho there are probably correlations. Add to that a forum dynamic in which those with the biggest rant to exhaust are the most likely to comment... hckrnews won't be terribly different than any other online forum. My biggest point, I guess, is that there is no "comments here" on most forums. Or at least there is a huge range. P.S. your assumption about age isn't warranted. I'm sure many comments you've ready are from teenagers.
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nobody wants to be trapped in your web app purgatory
They are making up their own reality. The people under their sphere of influence are absolutely positive NYC/PDX etc are burning to the ground.
Memory capability and behavior is variable. I can remember and keep in mind vast swaths of code, but I am capable of forgetting someone’s name in seconds.