skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all.

1. Do you miss these conversations? Back to the in-office time, when do you usually have a spontaneous chat that is interesting and also meaningful to your work? (eg. After a conference)

Yes usually when I've learned something or am working on something that excites me, if i see a coworker i respect or am friends with, i usually strike up a conversation about that topic.

2. In remote work, have you tried to restore these moments? What did you do? Is it working well?

Hard to do, don't really have any real cues as to what frame of mind the other person on the other side is. Are they busy with something that is pressing? Do they have to pick up their kids in 5 mins?
Lobbyists + political donations means the politicians have lots of incentive NOT to do anything about it.

The environment may matter to Democrats, but as a party they could also drop it without losing many if any votes; after all, it's not like Democratic voters who care about that issue can go to the GOP, and they likely also won't stay home since there are other issues they care about.

Let's be clear here; when only one of the two parties in power even accepts that something is even a problem, the other can do whatever is most expedient about it without consequence.
Random number generation powers many quantitative applications that perform expensive Monte Carlo experiments and like. Even minor speed ups here are very interesting IMO.
I wonder how many others also find "retouched" photos have a bit creepy, almost uncanny-valley quality to them, especially those of people we've seen in reality with our own eyes. I've also heard stories of others buying a recent camera, and seeing there was something subtly off about the faces in the pictures it created, later finding out there was a "face beauty" option that was on by default.
Who is downvoting this correct statement? Grow up.
> Everyone in the discussion is well aware that the 2nd. law

Probably not, but it is good to know that you are.

The paper is not about a device that harvest energy from the thermal variations of the environment. There is no mention of macroscopic thermal variations in the press release or in the abstract of the paper. Also, the graphene is inside a ultra high vacuum chamber, that is a weird place to put a device that that depends on the macroscopic thermal variations of the environment.

From the abstract:

> However, there is power dissipated by the load resistor, and its time average is exactly equal to the power supplied by the thermal bath.

My interpretation is that the resistor is dissipating some power (from the graphics ~1pW), but it is also absorbing the same amount of power due to the 2nd law. It is not a Carnot engine that produces work from heat.
As luck would have it, I actually saw (and heard) a murder of crows today. A dozen or so flying low over the rooftops, cawing as they went. The first thing that popped into my mind was, "It's a murder!"...
No, you build communism when you transfer the asset to the people or the state.

The supremacy of the sovereign over commerce has nothing at all to do with communism. Under US law, the Congress has nearly unlimited power to regulate interstate commerce, which by modern standards can be applied to almost all commercial activity. US policy tuned this down considerably from the 1960s onward.

You’ll find that if you actually read about what some of the illustrious founders thought about regulatory authority, the average modern conservative in particular would be clutching their pearls. Hell, George Washington mustered a small army to collect (ie seize) excise taxes from hillbillies in Western Pennsylvania!
Wow. The level of detail there is crazy.

They even have an equation governing the supply of car power units.

See Appendix 9, section b.
I've been using https://vercel.com/ for a while now.

It has built in gitops and a very simple deployment model. Works really well with custom domains and cost-wise it is great as it doesn't break the bank for my side projects.

It includes CDN capabilities with CloudFront-like honouring of cache headers, etc as well, so I haven't found anything lacking even though it isn't as feature packed as something like AWS Lambda.

For things like queues, databases and memory stores I used other managed services.
I think Manhattan provides a strong counterexample. The 2nd Ave subway line cost $2.5 billion per mile. The cost to add elevators at 70 stations is expected to be $5.5 billion. A lot of signaling equipment is from the 1930s.
India's Paytm Launching “Mini” App Store
Jonathan Swift, Political Animal (2019)
This is a general random number generator, in the sense that it takes an integer N and gives you a random integer in [0, N). It's also a stateless random number generator, except for any state that the underlying [0, 2^64) generator it is built on top of keeps.

This suggests some questions that might be interesting.

1. For a given application, N is often fixed or at most has a small number of predetermined values. For what values of N can you find a hard coded [0, N) generator that is faster and still reasonably simple?

For example when N is a power of 2, then you can just call the underlying generator and then AND with the appropriate mask (possibly after shifting if the low bits of your underlying generator are not suitable).

If N is a power of 2 and not very large, and the low bits are good, you could take your underlying 64-bit number, split it by masking and shifting into multiple numbers in [0, N), return one of them and save the rest in an array. On subsequent calls return the numbers from the array until you are out.

If you were generating random bytes, say, this would cut your calls to the underlying random number generator by 87.5%.

For small N that are not powers of 2 this could still work. If N were 1000, say, you could treat the 64-bit random number as 6 numbers 10-bit number plus 4 leftover bits. If none of those 6 numbers is in [0, 1000), loop until you get a set of 6 that does have at least one in [0, 1000). (This will happen about once every few billion calls). Return the first one that is in [0, 1000), and store any others in an array to return on subsequent calls.

2. Can you write a random number generator generator? You call it with an N, and it returns a random number generator for [0, N) that is at least as fast as the fast general generator from the article?

I've looked at some special cases, but only for small N and small random number generators. Specifically, generating a dN with a dM, and aimed at something a human could do, by having a state diagram that a human could print out and follow as they roll the dice (or flip coins). For example, here is how to roll a d5 if all you have is a d8, and how to roll a d8 if all you have is a d5 [1]. Kind of neat, and great for a human, but wasteful for a computer, and if you try anything big the number of states grows rapidly. Even just rolling a d19 with a d32 has 325 states.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/XuDprvs
Krugtron the Invincible, Part 3
Huge equity stakes. Huge. Not "align incentives" level stakes. "Google's chef has $26 million" stakes.
> a group of owls is called a ‘parliament’

never heard this before but I love it
Are you saying that the students bear no responsibility, or that it’s our current attitude that teachers can somehow coerce people to learn?
Benchmarking static website hosting providers
What is a strong IC? What does the abbreviation stand for?

Also I feel compassion for your situation. Isolation is a serious issue and could contribute to symptoms of depression.

In my case, WFH is godsend... I have multiple zoom conversations with colleagues every day and always find time for less formal, human exchanges which contribute to the sense of connection.
There should be no “best school.” There should be no “good schools” and “bad school.”

There should be universal, excellent public education (just like there should universal, excellent healthcare).

Why spend so many words arguing that an entrance exam is the only way to protect the “best high school” when you could be arguing that we should move to a world where TJ is viewed as the minimum standard?
Their "constituents"? Who do you think they are? Are we not talking about America? The constituents are the companies, not the voters.

Seriously it is frustrating watching the US from outside. Watching how American just let themselves getting screwed over again and again and again. Only to ask for more. The paranoia about government and the praise of capitalism is so strong in America that people will rather embrace crony capitalism with a warm hug than do anything that means you risk getting called anti-business, job-destroyer, socialist, communist or whatever.

There is not democracy in America anymore. It is the same "system" as Iran. Sure you get to vote, to retain the illusion of choice. The mullah's deciding on who gets to run has been replaced by the 1 percent, the donor class. You are allowed to vote on whomever they approve of.
You beat me to it. I had it in my clipboard.
I think you have that backwards. They sell what they've made people want to buy with their advertising.
> >Among young people, rates of suicidal thoughts, plans and attempts all increased significantly, and in some cases more than doubled, between 2008 and 2017, the study found.

This tells me that there wasn't a significant increase in the rate of actual suicides, or they would have mentioned it.
Social Media is worse with its instantaneous feedback factor.
The Left, the Right, the Middle, the whatever are not singular entities with a single mind an purpose. To me such generalizations really do not help people discuss such topics.
In America that only applies to poor people, and especially black people. To the rich, it does not apply. Rather you are responsible for THEIR problems.
This seems like a fairly accurate model of North Korea's approach to international relations, but not most others. Would you say that they've found the optimum strategy?
Probably one of the biggest non-medical failings for handing the CoViD-19 aspect of this crisis is that no layer of (at least the US) governemnt at all has dictated where the buck stops; who must eat the losses.

My personal view is that the natural birth rights in a social contract for a functioning society must include basic needs being met. People have to exist, they need shelter, food, medicine, etc. If these are denied they are not part of society, and thus the more brutal laws of nature apply. I don't like those outcomes, I vote accordingly.

If someone is rich enough to rent things to others, by definition, they have more than they need. This includes landlords, banks, anyone that holds a legal title to something someone else is physically using to live.

Losses and deferments should be taken by banks, land/property-owners, and generally the 1%. You know, the people that bribe politicians with campaign funding.
“ A Honda Formula E program has already been ruled out”
Yes, I agree. They are fun to learn. Pride of lions, school of fish, covey of quail, troop of monkeys. I wonder sometimes, who came up with these names.
"At the end of reasons comes persuasion." - Wittgenstein

Article acknowledges the headline (stated as fact) is an opinion in the subhead ... and an editor allowed the rest to be written.
Study findings “do not support belief seasons influence mood to a great extent”
Pluto is a dwarf planet now.

Old definition of 'Planet' is still in play. Because Pluto doesn't meet the definition of 'Planet', it is now called a "Dwarf Planet".

Ultimately, it comes down to the scientific issue of Pluto, Charon, and Eris. Its hard to make Pluto a planet without calling Eris a planet. Pluto also interacts with Neptune and Charon in unfortunate ways unlike other "proper planets", like Earth, Mars, or Mercury.
It is dangerous to place too much hope in any improvement coming from just following new fashions, if we lack insight into what really went wrong before.

IMHO that is the single most important sentence in all of that.
Numpy (and CuPy) provide dense matrices. They're super awesome and certainly very useful for many kinds of problems, but they are not useful for storing adjacency matrices for sparse graphs. That is the point of the paper and the purpose of SuiteSparse and The GraphBLAS.

Dense matrices are great, and their implementation is straightforward, a dense chunk of memory contains every element in the matrix, for an N sided square matrix, the storage requirement is N squared. Finding an element is a simple matter of indexing math. For large adjacency matrices, this is horribly inefficient, and the bigger the graph gets the worse the cache and memory locality as most elements end up being zero.

Hypersparse graphs, like say a large social network, may only have a few hundred billion edges, but trying to fit that in a dense adjacency matrix means requiring quadrillions of mostly empty elements. This is clearly impossible, so sparse matrices are required to store a large graph.
Yeah, frankly I think it’s because we do a horrible job of maintaining a basic level of economic security and opportunity for huge swathes of our population. Western European countries generally do a much better job of that.
Majority of CNCF projects are not aimed at business logic developers, they shouldn't need to understand any of this. This is for DevOps folks supporting these business developers.
Just charge your normal rate then, you already lost some money to begin with.
If you accept the previous rate, you won't be happy working with him and probably lose better potential clients that would be will to pay you your normal rate.

If you own the IP, you do have the upper hand. In case your clients owns it, he would spend more money/time migrating to another developer, just negotiate with him and explain that you underestimated. If he doesn't like it, his loss.
From the full article abstract:

>The findings of this study in a general population sample participating in an online crowdsourcing study do not support the widespread belief that seasons influence mood to a great extent. For, as far as the seasons did influence mood, this only applied to highly neurotic participants and not to low-neurotic participants. The underlying mechanism of cognitive attribution may explain the perceived relation between seasonality and neuroticism.
I think he meant "in context." The implication is that Tesla lives of subsidies while the oil industry doesn't. This story shows yet again that the oil industry is getting major subsidies, and the complain about subsidies for Tesla rings hollow.
> Descriptions of the well-known and remarkable effect, which was discovered in the context of research conducted at the Hawthorne Western Electric plant, turned out to be fictional.

> Workers experienced a series of lighting changes in which productivity was said to increase with almost any change in the lighting. This turned out not to be true.

> ...a series of changes in work structure were implemented (e.g., changes in rest periods) in a group of five women. But this was a methodologically poor, uncontrolled study that did not permit any firm conclusions to be drawn.[4]

> This interpretation was dubbed "the Hawthorne effect," although the data does not support that view.

I guess that's par for the course.
No, next.
Also "Privatise the profits, socailise the losses"
https://twitter.com/vinifortuna/status/1306707615926423558
Glad someone noticed :) Almost felt too silly but then I just decided to add it anyway.
I would not really consider it off the ground yet, I launched on ProductHunt (#5 product of the day) which gave some initial users, and from then on mostly been cold emailing people. (Every site has some issues, so I can just point people to a free first report and its already useful)
Actually I find marketing/getting traction harder than building it in the first place.
How is this relevant? None of those areas you describe are uniformly academically excellent.
ki-re-i photo booth has a feature to auto clean up feature but it's paid option. I've used the machine without the option.

BTW the name "ki-re-i" is maybe comes from "kirei" (means beautiful).
OP here. If parameter s is big, then the branches can be taken quite often, but they also happen up to 2^63 of the times, so it's essentially a single bit bias that is measurable via timing (maybe, if you're very lucky). If s is very small and incongruent then there's the timing channel can leak values, but it can only happen every order 1/2^64 attempts.

Of the two I'd be more concerned about the former; biases of that size have led to things being broken before. Technically the latter means the security is less than the 2^64, which isn't very strong for cryptography purposes. But the channel is so hard to measure I wouldn't lose sleep over either, but it is the kind of the team that will get caught in some compliance testing.
Usually it does at the city/county level. The states usually are the only ones with the legislative power to duck payments.
So, right now F1 has hybrid engines. Is there a power mix they can't cross before they infringe on Formula E? Or is it just literally, has to have an engine on board? Racing teams have never been shy about running right up to the edge of defined rules, and also running wild in undefined areas.
I suspect the author would agree (about the term venery). They even make an aside to explain in the article. They probably selected and used it to demonstrate its archaicness in relation to the other terms.
Hahaha, you really bought this?

It's only personal responsibility when it applies to individual, poor or minority issues. A big oil company causing societal level damage and seeking bailouts? Printer goes brrrr.

Oh the amount of self hate people must have to keep voting for this crap over and over again.
The shiny MacBook Pro screens make lowering the brightness impossible.

I’d totally throw mine in the bin (well, sell) if I could run macOS on a machine with a good antiglare screen.
> Whether you can make a car that is good or not is a factor of budget you can spend on engineering teams

This has been true since the 1970s.
The best two, to me, are a cackle of hyenas, and a conspiracy of lemurs.
Kubernetes is just an orchestrator. It's not a platform
This is ON-shore wells. Just imagine the cost of closing offshore ones.
Why is corruption a problem specifically in a society held together by words? In what kind of society wouldn't it be a problem?
Show HN: Side Incomes as a Developer
Comment your side incomes related to programming.
Add used platforms and figures if you are comfortable with that.
> At least we can do it on RPi now.

Couldn't we already do it on an RPi with linux/kvm+qemu?
Yes, it's basically a popularity contest these days.
Same. And it's much more descriptive than "a flock of owls" (the author's preference), given that owls don't flock.
An infinite tax deferral would be too compliant to fit in your tax cheat rubric as deportation would have to a consequence of a criminal tax evasion charge and conviction in a court.

Revenue services are not worried with how much you pay them, they are only concerned with compliance.
No, unless you're a senior figure who's name will be published there is no reason why any employer would care. If you have the skills why would they?
Yes, psychidelics are more dangerous than alcohol. /s
So cool that you routinely don't do the dishes, laundry, rubbish, childcare or gardening because you're way too in the zone.

It's cool af if you're young and single and you can just go and go and go on what it is that you're totally wrapped up in. It's shite when you grow up a little and other people have expectations of you and you constantly fail to meet them.
It's amazing the level of scrutiny this social media company gets.

Sure, social media has created new issues. Let's say you don't buy into "the doing something for the first time in history and not getting it right all the time" narrative and you take a "this is all deliberate" bent.

1. Oil and coal companies literally kill thousands of people every year and destroy the planet we need to live. Indisputable evidence of coverups etc.

2. News Corp deliberately spreads misinformation for Murdoch (a large part of Facebook's claimed evil is that they spread news corp)

3. Name a war crime without a major government feeding arms to both sides. In how many of these cases is it your government?

Seems like people don't like getting fed a real reflection of the people, corporations and society around them, more than the crimes against humanity (often literally) themselves.
I was on mobile so difficult to give adequate sources at the moment.

My point was they were essentially MITM'ing all traffic in google data centers. I fail to see how that "makes the US more secure".

"The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.

By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it keeps a lot."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...

Hacking private companies and spying on Americans seems outside their charter IMO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency
Given that it's a work of fiction, it's literally dystopian!
You're right that I wouldn't have been a great sitter. Primarily because I don't understand them enough. Also psychiatric help is proven and should be the first step in dealing with mental health issues. There have been studies on the use of mushrooms to help in these cases. Some of those come from prestigious unis. However, only a trained psychiatrist can help a person prepare and go through such experiences. I'm not the right person. I'd be just helping someone get high on an illegal substance. As a friend I advised him accordingly with best intentions.
Former Apple iPhone engineers making a less intrusive phone.
>Under US law, the Congress has nearly unlimited power to regulate interstate commerce

As intended: Jefferson chose the term "pursuit of happiness" rather than "estate" (unlike Locke's earlier formulation) in the declaration of independence because all of the founding fathers viewed commerce and property as a function or construct of society, rather than a natural right in itself.
"terms of venery" is still used as a phrase to refer to those collective nouns for animals. Even wikipedia mentions it while describing "collective noun": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun
You should have a quick read through the document, that's just one rule.

The rules seem mostly focused on computations rather than hardware.

I'm not that familiar with the hardware-level stuff they're talking about, but it seems likely that there are situations where a CPU is preferable to a GPU under these rules.
Exactly: experts do not decide what a group of crows is called, regular people do. And I have never in my life heard anyone seriously refer to a murder of crows, except in the context "Hey did you know this cool piece of trivia? A group of crows is called a murder!" Furthermore if you actually used "murder of crows" in a real context people would likely be confused. Therefore, I conclude "murder of crows" is not really part of the English language.

Another way of thinking about it...imagine you are writing a textbook about the English language for people learning it as a second language. You want to instruct them about how to use English in the real world. Would you tell them to refer to a group of crows as a "murder"?
I'd say the squad of squids is still pretty important!
This is called "Baldwinian evolution" [0] after the biologist James Baldwin. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_effect

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mark_Baldwin