skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take your point—these are weird times. But one, hopefully they won’t last forever and remote work will be here to stay. Two, I’ve maybe never had a workplace that wasn’t full of distractions, including police sirens and dishwashing (but let’s toss in random political conversations, free lunch food, ping pong, doors slamming, etc etc). I’m on team Spolsky where everyone gets an office, but I’m also aware it’ll never, ever happen.
> This is a super literal take. In the 80s/90s the expense-incurring activity was physical cartridge production. Today it’s bandwidth & delivery infrastructure, card processing, any myriad of things.

Are the current-day costs of those "myriad things" in any way comparable in magnitude to the 80s cost of cartridge production? I highly doubt it. Bandwidth is cheap enough that single webpages are several megabytes each, if you load everything. Card processing fees are 3-4%. My bet the breakdown of Apple's 30% is >25% "licensing" and <5% cost of provided services.
> The thing about state dependence that I don’t like is that that means the state has power over you.

This is genuinely sad-funny considering the state of the US federal government overreach (independent of sitting president), policing, justice and implementation of secret courts and police forces.

In any case, welfare states handle this quite well with a justice system largely independent from the social executive flanked by mandatory legal aid. Which, if anything, has resulted in a power imbalance towards those receiving state benefits.
Hmmm. I wonder if tax policy has anything to do with this, or the way wealthy people can shelter money in a residence. I wonder if lack of savings interest is a big driver...

In short, your analysis is grade school level.
They will quickly lose their jobs.

It is somewhat similar (but to lesser degree of course) to China: there’s no law prohibiting talking about Tiananmen Square, but you better not do it.
Not very funny or insightful.

It's not nice to say it, but RM for the moment is mostly out of fresh ideas. His obsession with lists, intersecting lists, mixed up lists, made up lists... It feels like he's stuck in some feverish thought loop. He might just be very busy with something else or in need of a break. Producing a new funny, interesting and insightful comic three times a week is probably not sustainable for anyone on the long term.
Being told your opinions are problematic and hurtful is part of the process of changing them. This is the "paradox of intolerance", without a certain degree of intolerance of unacceptable beliefs, intolerance itself spreads further.

It is really the same process as having any ingrained belief challenged, it is going to make that person uncomfortable because something they took on faith is being challenged. That doesn't mean it's not something that should happen.
But if some apps are used that isn’t possible.
I’d suggest a few all rule forcing all port 53 traffic through a Pihole, then block Samsung traffic.
Usually this happens because a totally different departments runs the marketing site, and it's just easier to have their own deployment than integrate to the main site. In some cases it's a hosted CMS.

Another reason is for cookie management. This way your cookies aren't sent to the marketing site.

I'm not sure why Amazon does it though, as I think they're big enough to run their own CMS and therefore the cookie thing isn't really an issue.
If you'd consider an (inexpensive) paid option, https://www.ckbk.com/ takes an interesting approach. They partner with publishers to put cookbooks online. Fairly powerful search/filters, and the focus on cookbook content is a good proxy for recipe quality.

I'm not affiliated with them, but Matt (cofounder) has a background in scientific publishing and is passionate about recipe sharing.
Surreal
AFAIK, most of those aren't available on domestic US flights. If you're flying internationally, it's almost always been possible to spend more to get more space and service, sometimes up to rather eye-watering levels, but flights within the US tend to be limited to economy and first class. (Some economy seats do have more leg room than others and carry a premium charge, but the OP may still be technically correct based on the "very few" condition.)
Chopper needs a very large clear not sloping area to land in, jet man not so.
You're safe, Samsung doesn't even make OLED televisions! However all OLED TVs on the market do come with smart features and adware, so maybe not so safe after all.
Python just has its own footguns, like mutable default arguments or how lambdas close over variables in comprehensions.
> In that sense, I guess I am part of the cause of its demise.

In a more ideal situation we'd be backstopping all forms of public transport right now at the federal level so that they don't suffer any diminution of service after covid is over. It's understandable - and necessary - that people don't want to travel in various types of metal tubes right now, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be an option again post-pandemic. Instead there are actual attempts in DC to bail out cruise lines.

Also love the train station in downtown Portland - it was restored to it's 1913 glory some years back. It's so much more pleasant catching a train than a plane as you show up 15 minutes prior to departure and not miss your train. Also so much more legroom. Going by train just feels so much more civilized.
Part of a solid academic education includes entertaining viewpoints that you might not necessarily agree with. Academics is the proper place to have those discussions. If your tax dollars don't support an unfettered academic discussion, they are by definition, supporting a biased agenda.
So impressed by Cloudflare’s rate of new and improved product launches.
> The Court specifically noted that the 30% fee Apple collects is "a cost passed-on to consumers by independent software developers".

This is a somewhat shocking conclusion to come to since the independent developers neither set the fee, nor process the payments. I can see why it was overturned.
> Why is the payment method based on a crypto coin?

A blockchain gives a way to make a payment and provide identity/ecrypt functions to keep the resource private while it is active.

Yes, one could create a system that attaches other authentication (user/pass or oauth), but then one has to create/connect a payment system which then uses that login information in conjunction with credit card information. To sell a product online taking credit cards requires an excess of 10 pieces of information that must be provided by the user.

In the case of compute resources, I may want to deal with 100s of providers to host my resources (blog, images, video, code) and I'd need to use an intermediary if I wanted to be efficient about it.

With something like Lightning payments, a system like this can provide resources without the need for a "signup" process or intermediary.

> can I be sure that if I upload something today worth $2/month, in 2 years I will still be paying this much or less?

What does the future value of a fiat currency have to do with the current rate of storage on something like AWS? Would those prices not go up if the currency was undergoing deflation? Would you not have paid less integer values before the deflation? Would you not pay more integer values after? Where does something like AWS provide cost protection, other than spot instances?

If you create a crypto contract and put the funds in escrow, then there is ZERO ways for the cost to go up over the life of the contract. Other than a bad actor scenario, which is why having multiple providers is the way to go.
You just painted all missionaries with a pretty broad brush.
Perhaps a naive question: aren’t all these evaluations based on the idea that reported deaths are accurate, globally? That seems like a pretty big flaw.
A prototypical Hacker News reply.
That's what happens, when you believe in propaganda.

What do you say about this,

https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/131096945905453875...
Git Good
Peter's Dotfiles
Is there? I bought a closed-platform device by choice.

I don't buy a Phillips screwdriver expecting it to work on a Robertson head because I think it should fit every case.
> Should we roll back those laws? Fraud is fine as long as the party defrauded can't find out?

I think you're putting words into my mouth.

Anyway, what's extra difficult is that when using data to build an ML model, you can actually throw away the data afterwards, like source code after compiling a program.
Sounds like you need a neural network to help you write a better title for your post
Re: state power... ”Follow our rules or you lose benefits.
What, you’re against X? Sorry, come correct or lose your
privilege to those benefits.”

How is this different than private power? Honestly, I've had to put up with far more arbitrary bs from my HMO than state or federal programs. With my state and the feds at least there is a clear statement of benefits, a clear procedure to appeal, and a solid attempt to deliver on promises.

How well does that compare to, say, your cable company? Or how well have big companies done respecting your privacy? In other words, lots of people get directly screwed by private companies, too.

I'm not trying to say that government programs are the ideal answer to everything. In the USA there is a serious need for reasonable debate, responsible budgets, and a commitment to good government.

There is plenty of potential for abuse with government over reach. But there is also plenty of abuse from government under-reach, too. Isn't it in everybody's interests to have a functioning government? One that that operates under good-faith intentions to follow it's mandate?
Successful does not imply sustainable. There is an argument to be made for doing manual strategies like whack-a-mole until you have a generic solution, but if you don't have the generic solution coming down the pike, it's time to go back to the drawing board.
Yup this is pretty much the most requested feature.. Making the dark themes completely dark is on my to-do list. Thanks for the feedback!
It's just a sloppily-written study. There are spelling and grammar errors all over the place, and it's full of unsubstantiated claims that are hard to take seriously at face value. It's hard for me to even call this a study.

> However, in many western advanced economies, those wearing masks are often met with suspicion in public, even causing panic in certain situation.

Really? Citation needed.

> Although the 1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus) caused an estimated 40–50 million deaths worldwide, many still may view personal protective equipment (PPE) and physical barrier including wearing the mask as contrary to freedom and individualism.

Non-sequitur alert! Number one, PPEs themselves are value-neutral; it's the mandate that contrary to liberty as enshrined in the Constitution (you know, the highest law in the land). Number two, mask mandates can be both effective in slowing viral spread AND "contrary to freedom and individualism;" the two concepts are orthogonal. Most people understand this, but differ in prioritizing one over the other. The author seems to suggest that the two cannot be believed at once!

Are we all supposed to just take it for granted that masks would have helped in a situation that took place over 100 years ago before so many other medical advances? I don't think that's a fair assumption at all. If so, we could just invoke the Spanish Flu as evidence for any medical intervention we desire.

Omissions like these make it hard for me to take this study as authoritative about anything, especially when they themselves admit that the evidence on universal masking is contradictory.
China now has the world's largest navy
Most economists probably would be surprised if it could actually work in general. Cash handouts do not cause the behavioral changes necessary for individuals to develop sustainable habits. Most poor people are not poor because they don’t have access to the market, but because they either don’t know what to do, or they don’t have the discipline to do what they know they should. Cash handouts can make this even worse as people become complacent and dependent on them, and the impetus to work out a sustainable solution dissolves. The implementation of welfare programs in the US during the 60s has a strong negative correlation with progress in lower income (and often minority) communities.

An ideal solution might involve temporary relief for catastrophic events that can help an otherwise mostly sustainable lifestyle, but avoid misaligning incentives in a way that makes the problem even worse.
Yes, most cable television has ads. It's also more expensive than streaming services. But I'm talking about is in the menus for navigating the service with the remote.

I tried cutting the cable two years ago and went back last year. Live sports isn't there yet.
https://archive.vn/I85Oi
I don't think this contradicts what the parent post said. There may be consequences, but the current status is unlikely to stay in perpetuity. People are not willing to socially distance for the remainder of their lives, even considering the risk of death and major side-effects.
This method works really well.
Betting on Mass Customization in a Post Moore’s Law World
I believe they were friends prior to SCOTUS appointments when they were both on DC circuit. They were really big opera buffs. But in any case they had some exceptional traits that are not necessarily common.
Interesting, thanks. I see Nim uses '/%' for integer division. [0] I can't say I like that decision.

[0] https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#types-preminusdefined-...
I wish it was the case, but quite far from it... pretty much all companies that email me keep tracking. I even asked Backblaze —- one of the nicer companies I know —about it[0], but they refused to stop tracking me.

[0] https://blog.gingerlime.com/2020/why-is-backblaze-tracking-m...
Seems to be good speedup overall relative to 2080 Ti (including FP16: see relatives 2080 Ti v Titan: https://lambdalabs.com/blog/2080-ti-deep-learning-benchmarks...). This suggests we should see another Titan card that is even more expensive in the pipeline given the FP16 performance? Or maybe TF32 performance is going to be what NVIDIA promotes in this generation (only if they have better number than FP16?)?
your example fails to satisfy the invariant. 11 is less than infinity.

you're just pasting random python snippits at me now. It's time to move on.

again, just to summarize: PDF files do not have to be zero aligned, and they do not have to be end aligned. Therefore the answer to the question "what is the first segment of Pi that is a valid PDF file" is trivially (0,infinity). That is a correct statement. The non-greedy (in the regex sense) answer to that question will be different, however.
The IETF deliberately has no power whatsoever. Whether an IETF standards track proposal in fact becomes a standard everybody implements is entirely up to the implementers. This is in contrast to many standards development organisations (and indeed whether the IETF is even an organisation is open to doubt) which are government functions and can produce de jure standards you're obliged to implement or in the worst case force may be exercised against you by those with a monopoly on its use.

As a result IETF standards are only proposed and that is as you say "the end of the road".
I run Arch Linux ARM with the 64 bit kernel and userspace on my Raspberry Pi 3 for tinkering.

GPIO, Wifi, Ethernet, framebuffer HDMI, USB all work fine.

Video acceleration was the last hardware not supported in 64 bit land, and recent kernels finally have some experimental support. I haven't tried it myself though.

Raspbian itself has a beta 64 bit for kernel for a few months now.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/latest-raspberry-pi-os-upda...
Where can I see the data known about me?
I should probably make it clear that I have nothing to do with the hiring process whatsoever. Though, it seems I could provide a referral.
Probably a reference to the individual user as an member of an aggregate “herd” that produces value for the social media platform from the perspective of the business.
That's kind of the point I'm trying to make. When governments start dictating to institutions of learning is when voices independent of government are needed most.

Edit: I should add that, while most of the people who think college indoctrination is a problem would think it's propaganda to teach gender studies in the first place and defunding it is not, the very fact that an administration has to make that decision at all means that someone somewhere is going to feel the government is indoctrinating their children.
Writing a book does not add value to your employer, enabling engineers in the world is one thing but it does not affect your day to day job or people arround you.
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“Sparc takes advantage of a newer electromagnet technology that uses so-called high temperature superconductors that can produce a much higher magnetic field, Dr. Greenwald said. As a result, the plasma is much smaller.”

So, is this ‘just’ a matter of ITER being obsoleted by improvements in magnet tech before it is completed, or is there more in this design than scaling down ITER?
There is a gathering of homeless outside my apartment I donate money to. They spend their money on alcohol and cigarettes...

and to top up their phones, bus passes, calling cards, snacks, water, coffee, lunch and dinner. Just normal things that any one of us would do with a bit of money.
Apple has had the performance per watt crown for quite some time. These chips are not very good for anything outside of prototyping, otherwise hyperscalers would run a sea of small nodes.
Very strangely enough, the original 2D keyboard still exists in the OS. If you have one of those old silver Apple remotes from the Apple TV 1/2/3, clicking anywhere replaces the crappy long keyboard with the nicer grid one. Very bizarre Easter egg
You are right, statistics often get a bad rep, especially when the sources and the mechanism of data slicing is not even mentioned. However, I think this article makes a very good show of what exactly they mean by "Europe" and what numbers make the US look worse. Do you mean you don't agree how they picked their numbers? Because the answer sounds like you didn't actually read the article, just making a general critique at statistics.
A tweet may be able to cancel careers, but cannot extinguish legal entitlements.
> If you fear this type of situation in which people in the US are dependent on the state, isn't it an acknowledgment that the self reliance and "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" ideas that are used to argue against state help are myths?

Perhaps. I personally don't buy the "self-made man" arguments. They feel too much like survivorship bias.
Thankfully they let you disable it. But mine has the internet connection disabled entirely anyway.
Yes. Or at least the concept/idea is being explored. From [1] "The hybrid version would generate electric power through a turbine within the plane. That power would be used to turn the fan blades of the single electric turbofan engine."

[2] Uses a slightly different approach "The propeller is powered by an electric motor with 65 kilowatts of continuous output. The electricity is supplied through a generator by a small Wankel engine that consumes little fuel"

[1]https://phys.org/news/2017-11-airbus-rolls-royce-siemens-hyb...
[2] https://phys.org/news/2013-07-electric-hybrid-aircraft.html
And ~8yr from now the depreciation functions for both those will intersect.

The only difference is depreciation now vs later.
By singling our trains I’m thinking you are referring to diesel electric which is not the same as hybrid. On a train the generator to motor link it to act as essentially a clutch/gearbox allowing theoretic full torque at 0 rpm.
I had a similar situation as a grad student in a wet lab. I was in classes most of the day and was forced to work in the lab during the morning and evening. As the PI was in from ~10am to ~4pm, they never saw me at work, and assumed that I was doing no work. Despite that PI lecturing in some of my classes. Fortunately, I was in a rotation for that PI and was able to leave the lab easily.

I still cannot for the life of me understand what they were thinking. How can you be so smart to get the position and not think past your own nose?
You're right about most of it, but companies by AdWords on their own brand name so that competitors won't get that spot. Basically, the first 2 results listed by Google are paid ads. So if they don't buy AdWords for their own brand the top 2 displayed results could be any similar item. So that case isn't about increased conversion, it's about not letting competitors snipe their sales by offering a lower price for a comparable item even when searching by brand name.
It's probably because most colleges are waiving GRE requirements right now.
And millions of developers pay $99/year, which likely more than covers Apple's costs of providing developer tooling, documentation, etc.
Your last paragraph is addressed in full by the OPs link. Social interactions become more and more meek and stilted because the risk of "offending someone" is always there (and I'd argue, approaches 1 over time). What's driving it is different - social pressure rather than megacorp data mining, but the effect and implications are identical and no less pernicious.

At some point there is a line beyond which if someone is "offended", the problem is with them and them alone. I'd argue policing words like "idiot" (esp. when not directed at someone as an insult) is squarely on the wrong side.
So the call to action is, "Share this website?" Fail to see any value here.

Please tell me what I can DO about it, other than share sites like this while this happens.
This seems broken, especially with 'MAGA' thrown in there, are you saying only whites voted for that candidate? Because I got news for you... MAGA wasn't even original to Trump.

According to this list since I believe people can bootstrap themselves I must be a white supremacist. Except I highly doubt the KKK are fond of mestizo people, I even doubt they even like "white" Hispanics at all. I know people who have been homeless and now make more money than I do, living on cars or purely on the streets, minorities included.

As a minority I am astounded at all the bikeshedding people are doing to fight racism, worse yet finding racism where there is none like git branches.

Edit: Also, just because someone supported Trump and is white and voted for him doesn't automatically make that person a racist. This kind of prejudice rising up today is very worrisome and way too topical in a discussion about social cooling.
Most parallel processing scales linearly with core count. But the 3090 is more interesting for machine learning because of its RAM, which it has 24GB against 3080's 10GB. With machine learning, you spent most of the time copying memory between the CPU and GPU, so being able to fit more data to it reduces computation latency.
I think the audience is expected to know about distributed systems and the fediverse. Think of it like being linked to https://luajit.org/ without knowing anything about lua, programming and so on. Some links on HN are pulled from places where certain knowledge is pre-assumed.
It happens to everyone but it’s not fun
Assuming that everyone who prefers Trump over Biden is prejudiced against the way people are born, is still bigotry.

Not treating people with respect, regardless of their views, is also bigotry.
Ah good. So all I need to do is block Cloudflare /s Sigh.
Yes, this happens. But then you make a firewall rule to route outbound port 53 traffic that doesn’t come from the Pihole to go back to the Pihole.
It gets rather elaborate.
We have been using it for a few months at work and we love it!
Grow up and delete social media attached to your identity. The people who actually care about you will still contact you.