skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned about .invalid last year and had an immediate use for it where we needed a syntactically valid email to match a schema but didn't want it to be deliverable.

I discovered quickly that some other systems wouldn't accept the placeholder emails such as notused@email.invalid. Too many systems try to be too smart about the syntax of emails (+ subaddressing is another minefield).

Had to go back to using something like notused@invalid.toplevel.com
> As long as the extrapolations for nuclear are prone to extreme outcomes

The extrapolations for coal are prone to very extreme outcomes, believe me. :-)

> nuclear is more unpredictable

Citation needed, I think. The impact of coal on the climate and human health is still an open question, and given the scale of its use, a small change in our estimation of impact yields very large changes down the line.

I can see arguing that a "safety factor" should be baked into calculations based on how confident we are in the models. If you can say X +/- 50%, maybe we should just assume it's 2X, just to be safe (or whatever), but iff you can say X +/- 2%, X seems like a pretty good baseline.

However, I think you greatly underestimate the uncertainty of fossil fuels , and greatly overestimate the uncertainty of the safety of nuclear power. I mean....how exactly would a nuclear power plant cause 50k deaths? Or irradiate New York City? Obviously no nuclear power plants (or any other...) are being built in the middle of Manhattan.
> Hacker News is not an encyclopedia or doctoral thesis.

I think you took my comment about a school paper the opposite way than I intended. I'm not saying we should be professional, I'm saying we should be respectful to those we are communicating with. That means not presenting yourself as absolutely right and others as wrong without evidence. School papers often (depending on type) want you to take a position and argue it assertively and as if absolute. That's not how sane people discuss things.

I'm not saying that people have to source what they say, but if they are going to make a broad assertion of fact, they should at least be able to back it up or accept that they don't have a lot to contribute that's useful.

That doesn't mean keep your mouth shut if you can't site a source, it means state it as opinion so people feel like they're part of a discussion and not a lecture. If a lecture is what you want to give, have sources, or be authoritative enough by the nature of who you are that your opinion matters.

If mthoughts2018 had sprinkled a couple "from what I've seen", "I think", or "to me"'s in their original response, they probably wouldn't have even been asked for a source. But if you present yourself as authoritative, it's only natural for people to ask where you got that authority from if it's not obvious.

Edit:
As a simple example, if you're presenting yourself in a way that you wouldn't to a new acquaintance at some mixer, maybe that's a sign you're not being a good discussion participant. If I was discussing something with someone in that situation and they asked me how I knew what I was presenting as fact, I would try to point them towards things I had read, even if I couldn't source them exactly. What I wouldn't do is tell then to figure it out themselves, because it's obvious, and I shouldn't have to explain myself because that's just a rhetorical method to keep me from spreading the truth. How rude would that be?
/s needed perhaps.
A link to the tweet that gives the context: https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1309051345408851969

The moment the partnership [0] was announced, Microsoft is slowly owning it and now has exclusive access to use it as a service on their infrastructure. This is what is meant by the terms of the 'partnership' which is unsurprising. [0].

It is now ClosedAI - Just yet another DeepMind.

[0] https://news.microsoft.com/2019/07/22/openai-forms-exclusive...
> a single channel of information

You mean one channel out of hundreds?

> controlled by one of the worst governments on Earth,

As opposed to our current channels of information, that are controlled by billionaires that also couldn’t care less about Americans?
This is mostly just a problem in the minds of the general public.

Individual nuclear fuel rods get significantly less radioactive over time as short half life byproducts decay. Which makes both reprocessing and long term sequestration cheaper. Storing them for ~100 years is relatively cheap and can be funded ahead of time, so punting the issue seems quite reasonable IMO.
That's not really a compelling counterargument. The idea is that goods and services brought to market in the US are materially improving the lives of Americans. It doesn't matter really what the home state looks like. If it did, Americans would have never started importing Saudi oil. Or Rwandan tantalum for capacitors. Or Nestle chocolate, which is farmed by child slaves in the Ivory Coast. But don't worry, in 2019, they again, for about the 10th time, promised to stop using child slaves. [1]

This is basically America telling the world to accept American companies, no questions asked, no matter how big or manipulative. Criticizing other countries for their protectionist self-serving practices. And then literally the second a foreign product gets big and interesting enough forcing their sale to a US domestic entity. This is what America is complaining China does.

The worst part? Instead of trying to find some basis in law as one does in a rule-of-law jurisdiction, they just pulled out the national security™ ban-hammer, which cannot be challenged in a meaningful way. That's straight out of China's playbook. If rule of law is the china shop, national security justifications are the bull.

They just ceded the entirety of what was left of the high ground.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/hershe...
I think of Mitt Romney who last reportedly has $87 million in his IRA. You can't contribute more than $30k/yr to an IRA.

How do you get an IRA with close to 8 figures in it?

Same trick of filling your bosses locked office with balloons. Slip the balloons (worthless stocks) under the door and then blow them up from the outside.
I would think basic computer literacy should be included in "the pursuit of STEM" itself, but instead it turned into having masses of students who have next to no interest in, and can barely turn on a computer, being forced into "learn to code" classes...
Most hardware systems are binary drivers that manufacturers don't want to open up in the first place. Think nvidia/broadcom
Ars Technica is generally pretty good about linking to the actual rulings. For this particular matter, they summarized the ruling but didn't link to it unfortunately [0].

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/judge-will-rule-...
Anyone thinking they're going to get into Yale law by being in any of these categories is in for a rude awakening.

Undergrad is one thing, grad and law schools are something entirely different. You want a shot at Yale Law, you'd better be bringing something extra to the table. Maybe you did research into a novel, niche and esoteric area of finance at the London School of Economics before working in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street for [insert big name here] fund? Maybe you've been doing UN Observer work in the Congo? Maybe you helped Norway work through the technical hurdles of exploration in the North Cuba Basin?

But dropping out of a vagina that happened to be in a Penthouse on 5th Ave? I can tell you right now, that's not going to get you very far. You'd be surprised how many people are born to wealthy parents. Neither is being non-white likely to help you much. It may also surprise you how many non-whites there are in the world.

But be of good cheer. All hope is not lost for the ludicrously wealthy, or the non-white. Are you ludicrously wealthy and/or non-white, and a principal engineer or project manager on the Grand Renaissance Dam? I can guarantee, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale want to speak with you.

Getting good LSAT scores along with bringing something to the table is the quickest way into these schools.
The KGB already did this in 2016 and the White House conveniently doesn't care and actually vehemently denies anything happened. Now, in the lead up to an election, suddenly they care about foreign intervention of elections? Or is it more likely that Donald Trump is just trying to tally as many "wins" as possible in the lead up an election like any politician would? The CCP already compromised our technology supply chain not even 2 years ago [1] did the White House do anything then?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
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How are the suburbs going to boom when many suburban folks want to keep mandatory single family zoning and do away with inclusionary regulations like Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing? If they can’t build up to support more the economy will stagnate, diversity will remain the same, and the burbs will continue to be an area of swing voters.
Of course, while it doesn't solve the entire problem, there are ASCII characters for things like "group separator", "record separator", and "file separator" that could be used for establishing structure in output. But they're not used often, and so we just parse plain text.
This is awesome! I've had a similar history very recently and am trying to write a forth with a type system (I think I've found a way to do it with nearly zero overhead) for Civboot.org I have a few notes about it on the github page, and I've just made it through the jobesforth tutorial. Learning asm ain't easy!
Just curious -

$60k for 40 acres and a home

What state are you in and how far from a big city?
*Subsidiaries.

Bytedance has TaoTiao inside China, which shares TaoTaio user information with the CCP, the same way that Apple has Apple Guizhou, which shares iCloud data with the CCP.

Neither Bytedance, or it's TikTok subsidiary, exist inside China, so there's no reason to suspect data sharing with the CCP without evidence.
I cannot believe people are downvoting you. The NSA and associated gag orders have made a joke of our right to privacy. FISA courts are a dog and pony show, only 12 out of every 34k warrants are denied.
Three of the plants you mentioned were 40+ years ago, right? Seems a bit outdated to point to in 2020.
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Love it! I always feel weird pasting my data into random sites
I’m of the opinion that no one should avoid taxes, so if you’re asking just about government employees, then the answer is still yes, they shouldn’t be allowed to.
> The IRS is the law. If you have specific questions, hire your own advocates.

This is such a mean, nasty thing to say to me. What's wrong with you?
Should this type of problem be caught reliably during QA or were there any rare conditions that triggered it?
If they successfully do that then isn't that in fact the exact democracy working as it should? If you turn it around, you are endorsing the US government cutting off free speech specifically to manipulate people's voting opinions towards its own perception of what is "good". That seems almost exactly the opposite of the spirit of the constitution.

Perhaps an appropriate response here would be to detect this manipulation and highlight and educate people about it. Possibly create regulation to outlaw specific types of highly problematic aspects of it. But I find it hard to simultaneously accept that it's both so subtle as to be undetectable and unregulatable and yet so terrible it warrants arbitrary restraint of free speech.
Well we can’t do anything about employers, that’s why relying on employers as a social net is ridiculous (what’s the % of people that have parental benefits from their employers? Surely a minority)

This needs to be managed through the government. Quebec has done a good job at it. And yes, it can be used by either the father or the mother without any problem.
For some language pairs, maybe. The problem is that as you translate between more distant languages, you find that something which is contextual in one language is textual in the other, and vice versa.

The neural networks are great at faking it, and they'll make up text that looks completely reasonable all day long. If that means inventing subjects and choosing random verb tenses, that's what they'll do. If you pick closely-related languages, you might be able to get a near perfect translation just by putting each word through a dictionary, and the neural networks can disambiguate things and smooth over the problems in the output by looking at local context. If you pick distantly-related languages, you might routinely need context from paragraphs away, or context which isn't present in the text at all but relies on some kind of human experience.
IMHO biggest variable is company itself. If it’s not setup as remote & distributed-first, then you going to suffer. Same with what you actually do. Developing a product is much easier alone than a service in a consulting company.
This reminds me of Handel[1], a hardware description language where you built circuits using Standard ML[2], which is similar to OCaml.

[1] No page for Handel unfortunately, but its successor Handel-C has a page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handel-C#History

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML
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The US is a democratic government with the rule of law, as seen in this very example with a judge blocking the order.
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Minor nitpick, but the KGB didn't exist in 2016, that would be FSB. Unless you are referring to Belarus, which does have a KGB.
You really think that stops China?
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Google translates “口水鶏” as mouthwater chicken, which still lacks some appeal :)
If have two top-of-their-class candidates, being a minority pushes you over the line.
I would guess that too, but it would be nice to hear from someone who actually knows.
There are likely certain security features in the documents themselves that would identify whoever leaked them.
I dont get why. If you want the upside of businesses of scale (profits) why would you not get the downside of criminality at scale?

This is a moralistic version of privatize the gains and socialize the losses.

Im not even a big law and order guy, but the "go easy, boys will be boys" take seems baseless.
Just watched that, thanks, it was fascinating. I'm sort of confused though -- didn't this guy basically prove that the carrier for Ebola could very well be reptiles and specifically Boa constrictors? The wikipedia on Ebola mentions bats and monkeys, no mention of Boas at all!
bytedance has 70k employees right now
I mean much lower-level things.

Email's early versions weren't strongly privacy-protecting.
The US National Electric Code does allow for GFCIs (RCDs) and AFCIs (AFDDs) in breaker panels -- they are sometimes double-width devices (especially if they are double-pole isolators) which is why they're not commonly used that way, but single-width versions are available.

You can also get circuit breakers with integrated GFCIs (which is what we call RCBOs); those are usually double-width devices in the US (For example, with the Siemens "QF" product range [1]), however, again, single-width versions are available (For example, with the Square D "QO" product range [2]).

Because a GFCI needs to measure current flowing in both directions, it has an inherent need for a neutral connection too. This is what the flying lead is for. The circuit neutral would be terminated into the GFCI instead of the panel neutral bar; the flying lead is terminated into the panel neutral instead.

I'm also not assuming a ground; a neutral-bonded lamp body sitting on a conductive surface which is in contact with the mass of the earth would still be enough to immediately trip a GFCI under the same circumstances as my previous post, regardless of whether someone is touching it or not, and if it is turned on or not (assuming the switch is in the line conductor).

EDIT: However, this all goes to crap if the lamp only has a 2-prong plug, yes.

I agree that some aspects of US electrical installations are exceedingly bad compared to over here. For example, it is stupidly easy to shock yourself removing a live socket from a wall over there, compared to it being a basic impossibility over here -- yes, I know, safe isolation and all that, but name me a sparky that hasn't done this at least once.

[1] https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-b8b6a/images/stencil/1280x12...
[2] https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-b8b6a/images/stencil/1280x12...
I'm wondering this too. The article claims some of the connection are proxied. However if it's a big site that uses a set range if incoming IPs, I feel like blocking could still happen at the TCP level (and maybe catch a bunch of other unrelated sites if it's on a shared hosting solution).
In this case I interpret LGPL as "Please don't maintain your own fork (with bugfixs) in your company internally, contribute to my repo directly", which make sense.
There's also the fact that the CCP has been known to do things like catfishing or otherwise trying to gather data about US servicemen and women in bulk.

The information on TikTok probably isn't valuable, but we know how rich Facebook has gotten by building social graphs. The same is true of many social apps.
I agree with the App Store statement. If this was on the App Store, I would pay and try it out. Instead I downloaded the source code and building myself right now.
Connected to someone else on video all day? That sounds like my personal hell.
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Neither. HN is just not dancing with your liberal agenda of harassing our President. . . .
How about something like one of those flippable "open/closed" signs on your office door?
It doesn't need to "prove" anything to be said to "exist in the natural world".
Internet discussion of FI (or FIRE) have become a bit of a trap. The vast majority of discussions define FI in the negative, by the lack of work. This is fine for most people who are years or decades away from FI, but as they get closer they realize that you can't define your life by not-working.

My suggestion would be to stop viewing the FI threshold as some sort of life changing event. You won't suddenly check your bank account one day, realize you're over the threshold, and suddenly feel fulfilled and free of your need to work. In fact, I can tell you from experience that it's a bit of a non-event.

I suggest you continue working until you have some idea of what else to do. Leaving your job is technically fine if you're truly past the FI threshold, but only if you have something else to do. You'll fine that there are a lot of hours to fill in a week without a job.

Traveling can be great, but unfortunately filling year after year with travel is likely to greatly increase your spending. Ironically, this can actually move you back under the FI threshold for a lot of people. It's a common mistake to calculate FIRE thresholds based on frugal spending when you're occupied by a job all week, neglecting the fact that you're going to be spending more, not less, in early retirement.
Really wish there were more affordable full size split keyboards.

I love typing on mechanical keyboards but would love an ergonomic option.

Yes, I know there are keyboards like Kinesis and Ergodox but it's hard to get them outside US.
Yes, but ultimately the feature engineering on the content will be used for creating more sophisticated/granular/detailed user segmentation.

Because third party data brokers partner with a variety of publishers, the segments they create from the data and make available to advertisers are generally fairly generic. NYT's internal team only has to focus on their own content, so it's perversely leading to even more precise targeting capabilities than the previous situation.
Mouth liquid fowl sounds quite appetizing
Looks great, thanks!

Having to guess command names however isn't great in Boop.
I had a positive view on Cloudflare until recently. I started using it for my project about 3 months ago. I was impressed by the available features and even started planning to spend more in the future (I have only been on the free plan).

You can set-up a lot of things and even have a load-balancer. I was also impressed by the smooth and easy onboarding process.

Unfortunately, after starting to use it I realized that my site was extremely slow for everything that is not cached. Cloudflare was adding 250ms of latency to every request to my server. I certainly did not expect that much.
When you try to send a support ticket, they aggressively try to make you not do it. My support ticket did not receive an answer for 2 months.

I stopped using it last week and will certainly not look back.
The isolation is to keep inmates from murdering guards ("most dangerous, uncontrollable inmates could be isolated from correction officers and other prisoners for security and safety"). Dread Pirate Roberts is a keyboard jockey with no priors. It seems unlikely he will attempt to murder guards.
In what way is professionalism tied to anything?

Why not masturbate while on a Zoom meeting with the camera off? This is a thing.

You could take it ad absurdum further to at your desk at work.

Because these are markers of people who might be qualified for the specifics but are unqualified for the in-specifics.

Tattoos have a legacy of a marker. An argument it's your body and your sexuality are irrelevant. Professionalism is understanding your work culture. Having tattoos has changed but it still exists in some situations. Just like Zoom will eventually change things as well.

It's unprofessional because its unprofessional when it's unprofessional.
Are there actually real limits on government in the US? If the Democrats and Republicans agreed that they wanted to do something, would anything stop them?

The US government is already unconstitutionally doing what you say that judicial review prevents, and the partisan (by design) Supreme Court simply refuses to take the case. So much for judicial review.

There is no check for power, only balances of power. And power in the US tends to agree on such things as much as power within the CCP.
Are you pretending you can say anything you want on US owned social media? I still remember when Facebook censored an anti-wingsuit post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12419313
The review said the owners treat the staff like slaves [1] and that was just one of many bad reviews. It's not exactly simply writing a bad review.

Regardless, I do agree it's excessive, but each country has its fair share of strange laws and regulations. For example, as a European everything related to firearms in the US is just as incomprehensible to me.

[1] https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1309817382559391745
Ross Ulbricht definitely owes a debt to society, but I don't think he falls into the category of "the most dangerous, uncontrollable inmates."

Is this guy going to stab a CO because they disrespected him?
It is both interesting and new.
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What's the latency for integrated GPUs?
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Out of curiosity, what throughput do you have that would require GPU labelling?

The most resource heavy bit is text rendering I guess, but that could be cached per class-name and reduced to a memcopy. Otherwise drawing rectangles is pretty quick on a CPU to the point where I'd imagine the memory transfer to the GPU is probably comparable to the draw ops?

I've got OpenCV down to around 10ms per image (single thread, python) without the caching idea I mentioned above.
Asking "how is this different" is not dismissive. It's just a question. How else should one ask for a useful comparison?
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24605386
I'm open to hearing about this. Link?

Edit: oh, you are saying in China. Isn't that whataboutism? Maybe I'm doing the same thing?
I agree we should, but banning foreign social media actually makes that even less likely.