skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To run inference on GPUs, people are typically using TensorRT or a similarly-optimized engine. That can make a big difference in cost tradeoffs vs. CPU. Ultimately, if you can keep a GPU reasonably well-fed, the GPU can come out much cheaper and lower latency. If your workload is very sporadic and infrequent, YMMV.
Yeah, there's something really discouraging about any sort of inversion of work that businesses push onto customers.

Self checkout lines. Dealing with interactive voice menus. Waiting on hold. Whatever.

It's like any time support doesn't fall neatly into one of several predefined buckets the burden of dealing with any ambiguity falls onto the consumer.

Maybe it increases their profits. Maybe it decreases our quantifiable costs. But it's exhausting.

It's not directly analogous but software folks often talk about the merit in using external libraries for anything that's not a core business concern. But I'm curious what grocery stores or airlines would consider their primary business. Are they in the service industry or are they trying to just be food or airplane logistics players who lament their current requirement for a customer-facing physical presence.
Should be able to guess which given that we're talking about gargling it for its antiseptic qualities.
The classic Mac OS concepts of resources and handles were brilliant. They were hamstrung a bit by C and Pascal, which didn't provide tools for ensuring you interacted with handles appropriately; I have to imagine that a modern language might handle this better.
I really want my app to function in Firefox. I've done everything in my power to circumvent it but it's impossible before they fix it. What else can I do? Apparently it's not enough considering the downvotes.
Are you talking mainly to things like consumer goods being bought more and more specifically because there are more people? Or systems that are basically N people paying for M people like Social Security (where N = number of workers and M = number of retirees) where N and M need to roughly stay the same ratio?

Or something else?

(More generally - I find your comment intriguing, please do go on!)
The little things Apple misses from Steve Jobs
I'd argue most tech workers are in the mundane economy as well. If it were not the case, leet code and open offices would not be a thing.
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There are these RSA-brand tokens that show a new TOTP number every few minutes. Occasionally people find an unsecured webcam pointed at one of those somewhere on the internet...
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I guess to take this one step further, if these extensions become ad platforms by themselves and replace ads that facebook puts in your feed w/ their own ads, what would happen?

uBlock origin (basic) - blocks facebook tracking, does not track you, inserts non personalized ads.

uBlock origin (premium) - 1$ / mo. Blocks all ads.

As an example.
Because how do these kid even get skills if the required amount to pay them prices them out of the market. You'd probably hire a drop out if you could pay much less in wages, but I see a lot of people avoiding that apprenticeship path.

They didn't have this issue in the early 90 cause inflation had so quickly outpaced minimum wage there really wasn't one. So in 1979-1985 when he was paid somewhere near 7-11 a hour I'd guess and paying $270 a month. I'm guessing it was worth it to his teach him. Now in some cities it not worth it for example in SF to hire a kid to do basic SDR or work around the office.
This is fascinating. I think of grapes as needing tons of light. Can this really be profitable needing to provide Italian summer levels of light in your parents basement?
In my case the symptom lasted for 3 days. In my wife's case, 1 week. In both cases the recovery was 100%.
No, it wouldn't. It would just be your non-refundable downpayment. Plenty of other things have non-refundable up front payments in the USA and other countries.
I had some symptoms in mid-March as well, and actually on my birthday noticed I couldn't smell or taste nearly as well as normal. It was very apparent because I work as a barista, so naturally I rely on my sense of smell quite a lot, and I had really enjoyed the same green tea the day before and the day of my smell loss; it just tasted incredibly flat. My birthday meal and birthday wine were just a waste on me. My wife and I were tested for antibodies about 6 weeks later, when our son was born, and neither of us was found to have antibodies. It wasn't until around the first week of April that I first heard loss of your sense of smell was a symptom of COVID19. In spite of the antibody test, I suspect I had the virus. About how quickly does the antibody count drop if you develop specific antibodies to COVID19? I read somewhere that some people recovered from their infections without developing antibodies tailored to COVID19 and it was thought that these individuals overcame the virus due to their body's already existing store of antibodies for other types of Corona virus. I can't remember where I read that article now.
Thanks for sharing, definitely agree that having roommates helps a lot with the face to face interaction throughout the day!

Curious, do you still reach out to those close coworkers during lunch in some other medium? Or have you found that to be pretty challenging?
Some jobs may not have directly attributable monetary contribution but still are needed.

But let’s assume we can attach a net dollar amount to each job and the company let’s go people that don’t contribute as much as they cost. Even in this case the company still loses out from the intern. That money still need to come from somewhere, most likely from profit derived from other employees.

The point is “the intern increased the company’s profit by 500k annually but only gets paid 40k” is not the problem it’s made out to be. That 500k wasn’t created out of thin air. There were other employees in supporting functions that made it possible. That extra 460k goes to pay for them too, as well as for the employees that aren’t as productive. Those are the risks the company takes on.
non-backward societies take the successful bet than everyone bearing a bit of the cost is an overall win for the society.
Hi everyone, I wanted a more convenient way to check HN throughout the day and I always have Slack open so I built Digest to do just that :) let me know what you think!
I agree. When a program is given the --help option, the usage information is the actual output.
> I'm not convinced you actually read through either of those sources, especially considering that none of your quotes actually ever appear in them.

Of course I didn't? That would require me to spend several hours to go through those reports, hence I refer to other who have.

Why don't you answer the replies to each report instead - of people that have actually had the time to go through them and reply?
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.

Also, please review the site guidelines. They include: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Technology could also crack the bitcoin network, which seems more likely than people finding out how to produce gold more cheaply. What’s the actual risks of a series of successful double spend attacks? IMO, several countries have the means and could easily become motivated, alternatively hackers could have significant financial incentives or just do it for the lulz.
>Now if Apple can make this more accurate, then great. But if this saves even a few lives, then the fact that 9 out of 10 warnings are false positives still seems extremely worth it, no?

No, not by a long shot, because physicians are a pretty rare commodity, care is expensive and sending nine out of ten people to the doctor for no reason is a huge drain on the system and public healthcare resources.

if you see this as success I don't think you're familiar with the concept of opportunity costs. For people who don't have any symptoms, have no history of heart conditions or other underlying risks, running around with an EKG on your wrist is absolutely ridiculous. All it will do is inflate healthcare costs with little improvement in outcome, which is already the primary disease of the US healthcare sector. And of course apple's and the healthcare sectors primary motivation to sell these things to begin with.

Not every cardiac condition even requires immediate attention by a physician, I wager most of the anomalies that show in the 10% are benign arrhythmias that would have been picked up on a yearly routine checkup in due time.
Mine were a gift, so I don't know where they came from. You might be on to something, thanks!
> “I can taste strong spices,” she said, “but still no lemon or herbs.”

Hah, that resonated with me. I've had anosmia since birth, and I had a moment this week where I was chewing on rosemary to gauge what its impact on my dish would be, and thought to myself "I really don't get herbs".
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please make it fucking stop!!!!!
What we really need is a web-of-trust. I've been saying this for years. I know who I trust on GitHub. We even have our public keys there. It's perfectly possible to sign a release with an SSH key, even if GPG would be better.

It won't solve all the issues[0], but it would solve many of these obvious, unskilled attacks and I'm getting kinda sick of the blasé attitude in OSS.

[0] For example, an honest software developer can get local malware that could modify a file just before it is committed and signed.
If i understand it correctly (which is doubtful), in section 2, the cellular automaton conjecture is dismissed because 110 as a computer suffers from exponential slowdown.

>"To prove that 110 is NP-complete, what is needed is to show that Rule 110 allows efficient simulation of Turing machines"

But if the universe is a 'computation', then the efficiency of it doesn't really matter right?

Similar to creating a Blender rendering, it doesn't matter how long each frame takes to render compared to any other frame, as long as the observer sees a smooth sequence of images.
It seems like you don't understand the main advantage of these types of security tokens.

Rogue trigger of a security token isn't really an issue when using the recommended U2F standard.

U2F uses the domain as part of the challenge-response in U2F so that phishing\spoofing attacks can be defeated.
GitLab Pages also apparently needs a TXT verification record for the subdomain as well, otherwise it'll serve a 401. (GitHub Pages does not seem to require this.)
Feature Request for Instagram/Netflix?
I guess if you remove all other data points/context and only stick with the words "jobless" and "living with parents" I guess "so what" is a valid question. It would be a valid question for most issues where ones has barely any other information.

But if you read a little about the price that japan (and this demographic in particular) has been paying and what they think about it, I'm pretty sure you won't find anyone asking "so what".

Your point on how USA (and other countries) should be making better use of their living arrangements is valid. I don't think it compares to the situation Japan or most deeply densed urbanized countries in Asia.
How do you handle streaming when all of the services refuse to stream 4K on any computer? I think Netflix does HD bit Hulu and HBO are like 720p. It's like watching a torrent from 2005.
PayPal? All I've ever seen in there is TOTP and SMS
That would help.

I'd also make the teachers be the moderators for their class, so they can take responsibility and handle requests to un-post stuff.

(I wish I had multi-user auth and album-level permissions ready for you!)
Loads of countries have something functionally equivalent to reikin - just they call it a "background check fee" or "credit check fee" or "administration charge" or "inventory fee"
You can see hundreds of her works at https://www.wikiart.org/en/georgia-o-keeffe
"A data device critical to the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s trading system had malfunctioned, and the automatic backup had failed to kick in. It was less than an hour before the system, called Arrowhead, was due to start processing orders in the $6 trillion equity market. Exchange officials could see no solution."

You know, just from a human perspective, talk about a bad day.

It's like seeing the cruise liner heading for the port too fast, knowing it is going to crash and cause immense damage, and realizing there is absolutely nothing that can now be done to prevent the damage.

Except, in this case, it's just way worse.
I'm not wrong. Different apartments give different offers just like everything else in the world.
SQL is then the programming language. I am aware that this differentiation is outdated; but if one sees a scripting language as something to write a small, self-contained job and a programming language something bigger more thought through and interoperable, (and with a fair bit of hand waving), I think that analogy fits.

Of course here we do not only have a program but tabular data and operations on them.
Was until 2017, only the highest earners is fully public now. You can search on everyone, but the person can see that you have checked them (cleared every year).

There exist services where you can pay $5 per search to avoid this the history.
Great tip, thanks! Macintosh C Programming by Example suggested the shareware "Inside Mac Desk Accessory," but I'm not sure if that's available anymore; this seems like a good alternative.

I've also noticed that the original documentation for OS 8 and 9 is still available on the web—http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/doc.... Do you know if there was there ever a web-based version of the earlier Inside Macintosh?
The population of Japan is shrinking. A lot. The population peaked in 2011 and is down about 2 million since then. Outside of Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya, Japan is emptying out.
Japan does not have too many people.

India, though...
Ikea sells both Sonos and TE wifi/BL speakers.

You can test them side by side in the store, next to Ikeas own brand.
I have lost smell and taste completely for 3 days, to the point it started in influence my eating habits. I felt hungry, but I'd feel full as soon as I started eating, so I was eating around 30% of the usual intake.
I've found that with most things (not everything), rejecting artificial urgency is a good heuristic. Sure, there are exceptions when you really do have to act now, but most exploding deals aren't worth taking.
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Agreed - feel like I rarely see any YubiKeys outside of my coworkers' laptops.
Pelican does have support for random pages.
If also doesn't stop you from copying your own pages to the output directory after generating.
In that sense it is more of a markdown or RST to HTML converter.
It has great blog support but doesn't exclude other uses, such as documentation generation.

PS. I liked your post about the returned parrot.
They would also need to to root the TV as well, as it will refuse to work without said modem being functional. This is a losing game, and it seems like the only recourse is regulatory.
I think I'd like to watch someone produce live on Twitch, collaborating with the audience as one progresses. Something like what Dr Mix does, but live and original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0djbmrnEBc&t=178s
> if these extensions become ad platforms by themselves and replace ads that facebook puts in your feed w/ their own ads, what would happen?

This is literally what ISPs do these days.
Drone / smartphone SLAM? I expected it years ago but have not yet seen it implemented in any kind of scale.
Since you're feeling judgmental ("How can you utterly fail to see a problem..."), let's take it the other extreme.

Suppose a device is released that has a 30% false positive rate: two-thirds of the people it identifies have an actual underlying condition that requires treatment.

Presumably you would not be opposed to this. (If you do, you'd seem to be opposed to any effort to catch conditions early.)

So then we're at a discussion about what the correct percentage of false positives is for a further diagnostic - in this case, likely a holter monitor, to identify if it's an actual issue, which is not that expensive.

You believe it's obvious that ten percent is an outrageous number. But if the next step is a fairly inexpensive diagnostic, and the subject matter is a potentially lethal condition (often the case with hearts), it's not obvious at all.

What's your acceptable "brightline" of maximum false positivity to warrant additional diagnostic? Fifty percent? Twenty percent?
I'm going to risk going against the zeitgeist and expose myself to a bunch of downvotes right now.

But what you described sounds reminiscent of the PCR test we have for COVID right now. I at least hope many are aware of this here.
There is a paywall
I've never heard of TCP, I don't think it's marketed in the US at all.
Donating it
We should start hacking them and flashing open software on them.
That goes contrary to basic tenets of law in most of the world. People who are charged with a crime start with a presumption of innocence, it is the responsibility of the prosecution to demonstrate that they broke the law. In the US, the standard required is "beyond a reasonable doubt".

On the other hand, civil penalties (like fines) don't have the same burden of proof, which is why you often see them in situations like these. They are easier to prove. They generally only require a "preponderance of the evidence" to prove.
This does look promising, thanks! There's clearly a wealth of information available on the web—the trick is just tracking it down...
If I can take a shot at this, there are broadly two: the quantum mechanic explanation and the relativity explanation. But we seem to only be talking about relativity.

Relativity explains a couple of counter intuitive things that we actually see:

1. Apparently there is no particular velocity that can be called absolutely stopped or special in any way: every velocity is just as valid as every other.

2. Observers moving at different velocities disagree on 3D distances and time intervals between events.

3. But they all agree on the spacetime distance between events. Which is to say, there is a simple formula that resembles a distance formula in 4D where one of the dimensions is time.[0] We know that using this formula, all observers at all velocities get the same result.

gravity is not being discussed but relativity addresses it as well.

So relativity explains actual (but counter intuitive) observations. If we had the simpler Newtonian universe then we could fly around at unlimited relative speeds and time would flow unambiguously at constant rate and be completely unconnected to distance/space. But by direct observation, we see we don't live in such a universe.

If causality could percolate at unlimited speeds then we would not observe any these things and the formulas for relativity would not work but the formulas of Newton would. For one, there would be infinite frames of reference for which you arrive before you depart and these frames of reference could use faster than light travel reverse casualty.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime#Spacetime_interval
For a "universal" perspective on relative sizes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEHCCsFFIuY
I have one of those you don't need to _press_ it seems the conduction of the finger is "key" (haha, sorry). But yeah I agree if you are pressing it _hard_ it will likely damage the usb port especially considering it doesn't have the housing around the contacts which I would say might protect the port a bit better, probably translating the force not to the contacts.
Privacy is a necessary property of Democracy.

Exploiting private information has also made some companies very rich. There is an element of fairness of distribution here... If you take from me what I have not willingly given and you make huge profits, you should share your wealth and/or invest in my community.

I agree that people who live in a democracy are privileged. Whether they will be wise enough to contribute depends on their education.

But education is a hard problem. Instead of citizens, we often find foolish purchase-zombies. "Why vote? It's all so corrupt, what can we do? Let's go to the sale instead!"
Trello is what it is. You can pay lots of money for JIRA or something.
All that's happening with or without Palantir. We have Big Data, we have data scientists, we have ML/AI....it's going to be used for all of these goals no matter what. The genie is out of the bottle.

Blaming Palantir here is a bit like blaming Colt or Smith & Wesson. They're just one of many companies that are providing, or could be providing, or with they were providing, these same services.

And the services themselves, and the science behind them aren't inherently evil. It's not like the math behind their models is special "let's oppress society" math.

Blaming Palantir for the things the government is doing is as effective as blaming Boeing or Google - whose services are also used by the US Government for various (nefarious) purposes.
This is true, but the balancing act between when to push back and when to say yes is VERY minute for many situations. Unfortunately, this comes with experience and many don’t learn it (if at all) until later in life.
I could still "taste" the burning sensation, but the "flavor" (savoriness?) was gone. Hard to explain.
He never heard of a solenoid?
It allows users to easily separate messages intended for the user from output which can be consumed by other scripts.

$ tens.sh --verbose 5
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Calculated 5 results

$ tens.sh --verbose 5 > results
Calculated 5 results
Yeah, but when they go ahead and capture 100% of the value by never giving bonuses or raises they're incentivizing mediocrity, both in the form of brain-drain due to the most innovative employees seeking greener pastures once their resumes are updated and in the form of employees who may have otherwise had the potential to go above and beyond never feeling any external motivation to do so.
Used to have some (actually, I still do, in a drawer) but gave up on them several years ago after random mysterious failures - just going dead after a few months.

I hope for their customers' sakes they have solved their reliability problem.
Scraping != Scrapping.

One is acquiring data on a large scale, the other one is throwing data in the trash.
Same thing here. Very mild case. I had a .5 degree fever for a day (normally I'm 97.5 in the morning and 98.4 in the evening). I coughed like three times. But the sense of smell was completely removed for 4ish days. I have some eucalyptus/tea tree/menthol shampoo that smells _very very_ strongly. When I couldn't smell that anymore it was the craziest sensation. No other symptoms to really speak of. This also appeared later.
this was made by an acquaintance: http://martinnadal.eu/fango/
Yes, nobody said throw away application logs. That's dumb.
Not in the US: 'Artworks of Georgia O'Keeffe are not available in your country on copyright grounds.'
This advice applies directly to software. Bring in more dependencies, bring in more custom tooling, and you're bringing in more maintenance burden. There will be bugs. Make sure you really need that shiny new framework.