skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd honestly start with cloud options if learning is the only reason you're building the computer. You don't want to dump a bunch of money into depreciating GPUs if you're not going to end up using them.

GPUs are only really required in ML if you want to do deep neural network stuff. You can do plenty in CPU on reasonable data sets using any modern laptop.
Perhaps people only read the title? I too found this really disjointed. The author says the whole thing is "extreme satire" in the header, but it doesn't read that way, so I found myself increasingly confused as I attempted to read.
It always comes down to feeding the right message to the plebs, doesn't it?
Your idea of what is the norm is being driven by what is actually the exception because that’s what we see on the news

Actually, my notion of this is driven by seeing a dsignated "Safe Space" on a college campus, and a "Free Speech Zone" at the University of Houston.

Don't make assumptions about other people.
The key thing here is white supremacy is endorsed by the state in the US
And TV reviewers will continue to gloss over this and focus on pointless test patterns.
It is 2020, I shouldn't be selling the concept of marketing attribution to you. Not when there are 8000+ Martech tools solving all problems that marketers could have, ask, or imagine. Why should you look at Marketing Attribution at all?
These scientists don’t know what they are doing... just like with COVID... hope there is no cure for COVID...
Our computers are limited by their rock-based architecture
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But there isn't only one way to order it. Some OS' (I forgot which) had convention dictate that the positive confirmation button was in the rightmost corner, with other lesser buttons to the left. In this order, "Cancel" appears first, but further from the corner.
The 25/10 structure has been O’Reilly’s standard split for at least a few years, no negotiation needed.
We have many similar vocational programs in the US (ours are usually 1 or 2 year), but they have been historically stereotyped as being inferior options that are suited only for people who are incapable of studying at a university.

It is typical for grade-school teachers and advisors to discourage everyone but their least-performing students from considering those options.
Really? People censoring themselves is the problem?
Whenever I take a peek at social feeds I see people saying crazy things, insults, conspiracy theories, hate, etc.
Usually I end up the feeling that the larger the audience and concurrency of engagement, the less people censor the them selves, it usually even make them see extra things that normally they won't say.
If there was any real dirt on Trump, it would have been released by now. All we've gotten is pathetic stuff, like the 'grab them by the pussy' nothing-burger, which is only marginally more offensive than Trump eating his steak well done.

Trump is about to get four more years. If you have dirt on him, there's no better time than now to make it public.
I saw a related Stackexchange post the other day: https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/52772/everyone-h...

Tl;dr:

Q: Should I write something if I kinda want to?

A: Write it. Even if it's just for you.
Json is not about markup and shouldn't inject surprise objects into the middle of strings. You wouldn't use json for this.
Startup Opportunities Emerging from Covid
Advertise what? That makes a difference.
> Also, a nominal hour to cover 93 miles by rail, and just three trains a week, is just laughable.

The service frequency is laughable but an hour to cover 93 miles doesn't sound too bad. Plenty of intercity train services in the UK are slower than that. e.g. London Waterloo to Brockenhurst is 92 miles and takes about 1hr30 making three stops
> Then why even go through the motions of making life easier for app stores right now?

We can only speculate. Maybe it's a reaction to the legal issues they're facing right now, both from the DOJ investigation and the Epic lawsuit? Or maybe it's a more cynical plan to kill competitors by letting them think it's smart to invest in a competing store now, only to claw back control in the future and force them to lose customers and go out of business?

Maybe the upcoming changes don't actually make life significantly easier for third-party app stores (AFAIK they haven't shown what the changes actually are), and this is just a BS move to make them look better in the short term.

> In an ideal world, what would you like Google to do here?

Google? Nothing. In an ideal world, tech giants wouldn't be allowed to self-regulate anymore. Google could do whatever they want, but sane and reasonable regulations would keep them in check.
Works for me without JS.
I'd say that american software developers affording private security as a result of a company they founded is a pretty recent phenomenon. I'm sure there is an n<10 of early precedents, but the underlying point is that the response to these oppressive systems is likely to be uncivil.

Indeed the Varian rule was coined by the FT journalist McAfee as you mentioned (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian_Rule), though as a counter example, presidents don't really count. Politicians can be wealthy but, like criminals, they're never rich.
Crypto scams are not dumb. The people that send are dumb. It is the easiest scam to pull off and I used to do it.

Post a page saying you double btc because you stole too much and people throw btc at you.
Well, a subset of the state.
Making Solid Oxygen (2016) [video]
> it is substantially worse than prior art in countless respects

The prior art being? ASN.1 libraries don't have a stellar security track record either.

Flexible data interchange is _hard_.
Stick with Google Android or Go with Hauwei HarmonyOS
That's a great argument, because everyone knowns judges and lawyers are widely respected among geeks for their deep and nuanced understanding of technology.

/s
> (looking at the companies who buy Google AdWords on their own brand - if someone's searching for your brand on Google your website will already be the top result - a click on the ad is not a true "conversion" in this case and is just wasted money)

Except that Google lets anyone else advertise in that slot above your brand. And as we've seen some companies can confuse the customers and steal them away in such an ad.

If we tacitly accept a search engine allowing such phishing expeditions in those ads, then this kind of spending is the necessary and only step companies can take.
I share my ideas in open. Lots of things I want to build but little time & skill.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/ideas

https://trello.com/b/alB1ryRP

https://www.notion.so/Ideas-0b5a4e8a88f34fe29a1f33dad02e5332
it doesn't solve OPs problem of worrying about offending someone

The solution is to not worry about them. If they don't like it, too bad. They're not worth knowing.

There are plenty of high-quality people and friendships to be made in the world. We don't need to cling to low-grade friendships just because they're people we already know.

In extreme cases, offended people have SWATted their targets causing all sorts of physical damage and emotional distress

You can't live your life worrying about what someone else "might" do.
"However, hard evidence points to a different reality. This year, the Heterodox Academy conducted an internal member survey of 445 academics. “Imagine expressing your views about a controversial issue while at work, at a time when faculty, staff, and/or other colleagues were present. To what extent would you worry about the following consequences?” To the hypothetical “My reputation would be tarnished,” 32.68 percent answered “very concerned” and 27.27 percent answered “extremely concerned.” To the hypothetical “My career would be hurt,” 24.75 percent answered “very concerned” and 28.68 percent answered “extremely concerned.”

In other words, more than half the respondents consider expressing views beyond a certain consensus in an academic setting quite dangerous to their career trajectory."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/academics-...
you're proving my point perfectly.

i didn't say anything about being an "unrestricted asshole", racist, insulting or attacking anyone deliberately. i simply stated that if you're not in line with the PC terms dejour of the week, you run the risk of being ostracized. you're not a snowflake if someone attacks you and you defend yourself. you have every right to.

however when someone calls you sir, cause you know you're a guy, and you jump down their throat cause they aren't recognizing your non-binary lifestyle of feeling like a girl that day, that's being a dumb ass and an example of how the world is today.
Could you clarify: are you saying "long-lasting immunity for SARS-Cov-1 survivors" against SARS, or immunity against Covid19? I assume the former, but it's ambiguous to me, sorry.
I think you're largely right, but it's a very tough sell, particularly because of the opportunity cost. It's easy to make the case that learning is valuable in its own right, but it becomes much tougher to say, "learning is valuable in its own right so we should spend more money on it instead of spending that money on pressing and immediate issue X".
I would be incredibly nervous to use anything written in bash on a production database. It’s one primary advantage is portability but I don’t see how that’s useful for this case.
> I wouldn't bat an eyelid to discover that `/` had type `int -> int -> float`

I'd bat both eyelids, that's the kind of surprising design decision that would turn me away from a language. To my knowledge, no major programming language does this, and there's wisdom in the principle of least surprise.

edit: I am of course mistaken, Python does exactly this. Corrected by chrisseaton again!
Despite notices and reminders, their failure to file affidavit that explicitly asks the NGO(s) to stating that they "do not engage in religious conversion" itself is the proof.
So your argument for trains is that they centralize power and control? Seems more like an argument AGAINST trains.
Interesting article! I think college enrollments will continue to decline over the next several years. It's just become too expensive and there aren't enough high paying jobs to support it.
Okay, the University of Houston also has wheel chair ramp accessibility everywhere as well.

How many people do you see on average using it though? Are students in wheel chairs the norm of the campus?

Ala - how many people do you personally observe at the "safe space" - or do you even go there?
Self hosted GitHub Actions runners in Kubernetes
having like 100+ people not educated in certain topics, all with their own opinion is where it kind of breaks.

Why have 100+ people? Why not have a small group of high-quality friends, instead of a large pool of low-quality friends?
In the 1970s when my wife and I were in High School there were some gender biases. My wife (from Syracuse NY) had been cooking, cleaning, sewing, etc. because both her parents worked. She wanted to take shop instead because she was studying for the physical sciences and math. The high school administrators refused and forced her to take Home Economics. She was not pleased...
Maybe it depends on the email habits at your office. In mine, the signal-to-noise of email is so low that it's nearly worthless. (If this were an email, it'd probably go to the whole department)
Why is it that Facebook ignores white supremacist content and targets Amazon labor union content?

For example, SaaS companies aren't going to create white supremacist technology, but they will sell to white supremacists.
It's truly a shame that SAML has become the "enterprise" standard when OIDC is superior in every way.
Interesting. So maybe that's where apples 30% margin comes from. Retail stores charge that so they figured a virtual retail should charge the same. Except it has a much lower operating cost.
Worrying about offending people is like trying to make something idiot-proof. It's impossible, in part because there are simply a bunch of malicious people who want to be offended to use it as a weapon or pretense against someone they don't like for whatever reason (or worse, "just because").
What a weird premise...
Where exactly are these chilling effects? most social networks devolve quite rapidly to a slur party where people say stuff they would never say to actual people IRL.
Apple collects > 100% to cover the VAT and sales tax (sticker price does not include them).
> But aside from that, where is this much greater complexity coming from?

Did you read my post? Because I explain how it's permeability and corrosion make it challenging to build long lasting containers to store hydrogen.

It's not the same technology to store methane. Methane can be liquified and kept as a liquid at room temperature. Hydrogen cannot, it must either be kept as a gas (drastically reducing it's energy density per liter) or cryogenically cooled. The scale at which it is produced, stored, and transported is not even remotely close to natural gas.

Show me where you get this figure that 700 cubic kilometers of hydrogen is produced yearly? And even if it is, using it for energy storage is much more challenging than using it for things like chemical production because the latter doesn't involve storing hydrogen for long periods of time.

The amount of hydrogen produced yearly doesn't hold a torch to Methane. 3.9 trillion cubic meters of natural gas are consumed yearly [1]. This works out to 2.7 trillion KG or 297 billion tons. By comparison, 70 million tons of hydrogen are produced annually [2]. We produce over 4000 times as much natural gas as hydrogen annually. I have no idea where you getting this idea that the hydrogen economy and natural gas economies are remotely close to the same scale.

> This is not Power Point technology of the kind you find in pro-nuclear arguments.

You're right, pro-nuclear arguments don't need to hand-wave away severe technological limitations. Because it actually works, and there are real-world examples of it working.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/282717/global-natural-ga...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production#:~:text=....
Flight is typically 4DOF: (throttle, pitch, roll, yaw). There is no horizontal or vertical 'strafing' ability.
My 3-year-old Samsung TV is ad-free, because I don't give it network access and never accepted the TOC
I'm just guessing here, but most investors in this space are not happy with a "small-medium company" and would probably push for a sale instead.
Per watt, Raspberry 4 is probably peak CPU of our civilization. But 64-bit is only viable if you buy the twice as expensive 8GB model and have use for the extra bandwidth.

I'm building hybrid clusters of 4 (2GB) & 2 (the older version) on 32-bit so I can run my PaaS at record flops/W/$:

https://github.com/tinspin/rupy
No, not at all. I won't use Mac-only software. ;)
> What else would it be for the vast majority of people?

Its supposed to be to attain an education, but judging from the communication capabilities of many college graduates education was clearly not the top priority.

> Humanities are a mess just for the reason that they take tuition and time from students and leave them hanging out to dray, after they graduate with no direct job prospects (i.e. a way to make a living).

If you wanted job prospects you would instead focus upon a professional license, which is not education. In addition to better job prospects it's also cheaper and substantially less time consuming to attain.
If jailbreaking could be done the same way I can unlock the bootloader for my Android device, you would have a point. Unfortunately it requires using security exploits, which Apple is doing its best to plug.
That doesn't sound right. Perhaps there could be a stream of vaccines rather than a one-off.

Also, if you can get enough people vaccinated at one time to provide herd immunity, perhaps it wouldn't be necessary to have long-term immunity, as the pandemic could be ended there and then.
what is elastisearch? IDK ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

EDIT #1:
you're cool. but i really dont know what elastisearch is. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And a google "search" hurts at the moment.

EDIT #2 :

> multiple people respond and say that Lucene basically does the same thing Google does and that Lucene is poised to surpass Google's capabilities in the next few years. It's been long enough since then that we can look back and say that Lucene hasn't improved so much that Google is in danger from a startup that puts together a Lucene cluster. [1]

[1] : https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
If substantial privacy was as valuable as you suggest, it would be more popular. People love getting something for nothing, so why isn’t it happening more easily?
Not only an ad problem, but the sliders reminded me of a really bad UI feature I see everywhere: ambiguous highlighting when there are only two options.
Working in a large corporation I can confirm that it doesn't work. Outlook blocks all images and external content by default. There is a button somewhere to unlock the email but you'd never click that for spam.
Meta: it's tricky to disagree with someone that presents a issue and adds "there will be denial about this."

Suddently, dissenting with the idea makes you feel like a denier. Either clever or mean.
Airtel is so big they use roaming for their customers. If you have a SIM from Bengaluru and go to Delhi you'll see the little R indicator. That suggests the Airtel business in each state manages at least parts of their network independently. And so the MitMs could be deployed non-uniformly.
It's not illegal to be a monopoly.

What's illegal is taking advantage of your monopoly position. Microsoft was a monopoly? That was fine. Microsoft forced people towards Internet Explorer? Trouble.
How was he not trading?

His company always trades the stock.
Collaborative Enterprise (At Last)
A flu pandmenic was probably cause by an influenza virus, hence the name.
If I have a really remote location and I need to do on-premises inference, am I better off buying one of the gaming GPUs or are they far behind the T4, etc.?
I think it poses minimal danger to the vast, vast majority of people. For people who are doing crime, though, probably it's best not to use search while logged in or from their own IP.
Can we change the title to "App for Music for Concentration Tells Us Why Music Is Helpful for Concentration"?
how many Blacks were ever friends with Klansmen? How many Jews were friends with Nazis?

Pointing out extreme cases doesn't make anything in the original statement untrue. It just means those are extraordinary cases. The world is not absolute.

It's impossible to bridge that gap if the other side sees me as an animal, or a monster, or an enemy agent actively working to destroy the country, if not the world

Do don't. You try, and if it doesn't work, you move on. There are seven billion other people in the world to be friends with.
Note: this is blue solid oxygen. There's also a bunch of other phases, up to red and metallic [0]. And, by the way, don't try this at home - LOX kills.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_oxygen
Sorry I was referring to the relative performance, I edited my question to be clearer
It's already happening in China with the Social Credit System.
Oh come on. When you meet your friends, you meet them in groups. When you talk to them, it's usually to sub groups or one to one. There's the nice colleagues from work, there's the childhood friends, there's the friends for drinking and banter and there's former girlfriends or love interests.

Each of these have different interests, a different shared background with you, and are used to different communication modes and different contexts. The idea that you should always talk to everyone at the same time and show them a single monolithic self is just silly. Life doesn't work like that and being a politician is not a job I signed up for.
The US was largely founded on white supremacy and it has been part of the state institutions for two hundred years. It didn't disappear at the end of the civil war, or in the 1960s, or in 2008.
Banks do that, but retail stores don't… yet. I think we accept a higher bar for authentication and security for a bank than we do for a retail store.
I find the layout about distracting.
Oh, that's excellent. The same group doing the RPi4 UEFI stuff also does a version for the Pi 3: https://github.com/pftf/RPi3
Largely the first but also a smattering of the second (in the form of less serious cases in people previously exposed to SARS-COV-1), from the one (iirc) study that looked into this.
I just find it counter intuitive, that's all. The expectation is that high level scripting languages have BigInt enabled by default (since that's what Ruby/Python do). Not so with JS.

The expectation is that sorting an array of integers in place:

[1,3,2,4,5,7,6,8,9,10].sort()

produces an array with the numbers in ascending order (since that's what Ruby/Python do). Not so with JS (try it out).

A agree there is a perfectly logical reason for every quirky behavior, but I've been surprised (in a bad way) so many times by JS's counter-intuitive behavior that I now have a mental collection of gotchas where JS deviates from expectation.
> I realized that I can't actually say ANYTHING interesting on this platform without offending someone.

If you really don't get value out of a platform then it's definitely a good thing to withdraw, but personally... I find there are plenty of interesting things I can talk/post about without flipping any major rage behavior. And I have lefty, liberal, and conservative friends, religious and anti-religious friends, friends who are interested in high/intellectual culture and friends who are not.

I do sometimes offend people. Anything that prompts people to evaluate themselves or their models of the world or their particular value-set runs that risk. Sometimes I have things to say that are likely to do that. Like, for example, the suggestion that maybe a personal capacity for diplomacy has as much to do with the ability to hold wide-ranging conversations as much as the foibles of platforms or people do.

Some topics are especially difficult, but there sure seem to be approaches that minimize the heat-to-light ratio in discussions.
It would be better if the just admitted they don't have a clue, and masks look like they make sense. Lockdowns seemed to make sense, until Sweden showed that they probably were not necessary. I would respect them more for that.
There is now beta (?) builds of a 64bit raspberry pi os (formerly known as raspbian) available: https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/

Not sure how well it works, but it is a thing now
> with about half the average IQ points

And character limits.
gardening work, not the easy stuff like weeding, but the installation of big bushes, the building of raised beds.
Go-Fed: Past, Present, and Future
I think parts of this message are very important, but the presentation makes it seem less interesting than it is. At first it looks to be just another "Social Dilemma" style "tech evil Zuckerberg bad" clone. Then it makes a connection to global warming, which, though it might be accurate, I think is an unfortunate link because that issue is more controversial than it should be.

The difficulty is that unless you make these kind of platforms illegal, people who engage with them in ways that enhance their reputations will have an advantage over those who choose not engage with them. And most people will always choose to use them, not only because they're convenient, but because people love an opportunity to enhance their own image in public.

For these reasons, I think it won't be possible to convince most people to exercise their right to privacy. What we should do instead is try to make society as tolerant as possible, so that there is no penalty for how you present yourself online. Urging people to exercise more privacy in fact has the opposite effect, because we hear fewer diverse viewpoints, and those who exercise their privacy come under greater suspicion.