skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opaque and complex models used to dictate economic policy. What could go wrong? I know Trump and Covid suck a lot of oxygen out of the room, but heck, 2008 wasn't all that long ago. Remember when a bunch of sophisticated models told us that a mass default on U.S. mortgages was statistically impossible?

Taxes are about tradeoffs, not fairness. You're talking money from people under the threat of jail, there's no fairness there, only a weighing of individual rights vs. the needs of the many. Every tax policy is a compromise of some sort with varying degrees of winners and losers. This is a political problem not a technical one.
I fight this fake happiness with every fiber of my being by being polite, professional and genuinely happy when something actually makes me happy. Otherwise perfectly content being perfectly content :)

Faking it as another person said is exhausting and draining and I ain't got time for that.

These opinions are my own and do not represent those of my employer, the bottled water industry, and certainly not the cat sitting behind me.
It's great that the government is being investigated for their actions, but it's a shame that it's seemingly limited to the IRS and not the various law enforcement agencies (eg. FBI/NSA/DHS). I guess the latter gets a free pass because "terrorism" and the former less politically popular (as evidenced by the budget cuts, despite having a net positive ROI on its budget).
I agree. His background was not a fit, but his drive and willingness to learn got him through.

BTW that also seems to be the problem with tech interviewing we keep hearing about. He probably would have passed an interview with me even for the Python work. I have 3 things I look for in tech interviews and he's clearly got 2 of them. The 3rd requires his feedback on a particular role.
GovTech SaaS Startups: The Unfair Advantages and Perils
Lambda scales well... until it does not. If your traffic pattern is very spiky and unpredictable, the burst limit can be a real pain in the neck. It ranges between 500 and 3.000 Lambda instances, depending on the region, and when that threshold is reached it can only spin up 500 more each minute. This is sufficient in most cases, indeed, but it's important to be aware of the implications of this limitation before believing that you can throw anything at Lambda and it'll just scale up to accommodate any workload.
There was a very interesting article about how you can't focus 100's of magnifying glasses using light from the moon to start a fire, probably similar in principles?

XKCD explainer here: https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/
Brave indeed should not be trusted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027.
This government under any administration seems to have a real problem with obeying the constitution which tells them to fuck off. Asset forfeiture, abusing fisa courts, NSA, wiretapping political opponents, forced lock-downs, stop and frisk.

The issue is there is no repercussion for doing something unconstitutional and having a court strike you down years later. Prison time fixes this calculus fast; there should be new legislation on this ideally.
Google Workspace is everything you need to get anything done, now in one place. Google Workspace includes all of the productivity apps you know and love—Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, and many more.
Two documentaries - Kiss the Ground and Biggest Little Farm are probably a good jumping point.
Terry Goodkind, master of fantasy fiction, is dead at 72
Thanks for the catch! Should embed a version a REPL that we're not still working on.
A step toward a universal flu vaccine
I would trust a monkey throwing darts at the stock page over "cutting edge AI".
GitHub Availability September 2020
This debate has been had millions of times.

These questions test for some mixture of (1) IQ, (2) communication abilities, (3) willingness to put in the time, and (4) ability to learn.

Traditional interviews which discuss candidate experience test for only (2) and knowledge questions test for only (3) and (4).

To be frank, if you don't have the time or ability to review 1-2 classes worth of college material, then that raises some serious red flags.
And what if you stand on a mirror?
During the pandemic, fewer people have been searching for (and more importantly, purchasing) niceties. They're buying things like toilet paper. That's going to directly affect ad revenue.
I run Linux exclusively so I cannot say what the dual booting experience is like, but I assume that the biggest pain is having to reboot the machine when you need to access something in the other OS.
The mechanisms for outing and booting out this guy works just as well against people you support, like union organizers or whistleblowers or even simply those whose politics doesn't line up with the interests of the business.

Union organizers and whistleblowers have specific legal protections because they are deemed not to be engaged in political activities but in legal activities (like organizing a union or revealing fraud or criminal activity).

Businesses are otherwise mostly free to terminate workers over their political beliefs unless the business operates in a state which includes political affiliation as a protected class (like California, but notably not New York or New Jersey).
I like some of this argument. It reminds me of the story of Warren Buffet not wanting to buy a $20K car because he said with discount to present value the opportunity cost would make it cost him $100K.

On the other hand all things are not equal. Take laptops.
You might think that a cheap one that costs a quarter of an expensive model would mean that you change it more often for the same cost.

By the end of the upgrade cycle you'd probably have a faster cheap laptop than the original expensive one and that might be true but you'd also have to live with the cheap keyboard and the cheap screen and the cheap build quality of the case.

So you have to make the trade off I guess.
It's actually SUPER buried that they are NOT talking about a new taste at all, but a new taste receptor that fires when detecting any of these 3 tastes: bitter, sweet or umami.

They are calling this new taste receptor a "broadly receptive taste cell."

If these "broadly receptive taste cells" are disabled, then all of those 3 tastes are no longer perceptible. This indicates that the brain is looking for the simultaneous firing of this receptor and another more specialized receptor for each of these 3 tastes. If either signal is missing, then the taste is not able to be detected.

When you click through to the actual study in the third paragraph it's a lot clearer.

The stuff about the evidence for a fat taste receptor existing actually has nothing to do with the study they are supposedly covering.

It's my opinion that the headline is EXTREMELY misleading, for both the reason above as well as the fact that before this study, everyone associated one taste cell with one taste, so given those priors, you would expect the discovery of a new type of taste cell to indicate that a new taste had been discovered.

Here's the relevant portion from TFA with the fluff removed. Emphasis mine.

> The study involved characterizing isolated batches of broadly receptive taste cells for their electrical signaling as well as extensive behavioral experiments in which mice placed in special cages with different bottles of solution were trained to seek out certain bottles that offered tastes they like. Medler’s team showed that when mice lose their broadly responsive taste cells, the animals basically behave like they can’t taste bitter, sweet, AND umami.
> By the mid 90s the domestics had more or less closed the gap.

I completely disagree with that. I bought a Cadillac in 2012. Its build quality was lower than anything I've seen from BMW, Audi or Volvo. I'm talking about really inconsistent panel (internal and exterior) gaps and misc vehicle rattles. It's also worth mentioning the Cadillac was the most expensive vehicle of the group and very much a line that GM cared about. I have no idea how Ford is doing, but GM is still not comparable to German/Swedish/Korean manufacturers.
I really despise articles that claim that since someone posted on a website that has other questionable content, they must therefore be complicit. 4chan/8chan/8kun by nature are for "fringe" content, whether that be harmless conspiracy theories or actual bad actors.

We will never break free of the social media conglomerates with the current pattern that fringe content migrates to new websites first, but then these sites are slandered before regular people migrate there.
This looks fantastic, just from a quick download and playing around for 5 minutes I know this is going to come in handy. I don't always have a note taker open, but I almost always have a terminal open.
Grapefruit juice also has drug interactions with opiates and (I think) anti depressants, amongst other things.
5G NG radio interface is more efficient than 4G/LTE but it uses more computation in the device to achieve that.

5G made the bet that computation becomes more energy efficient in the future and I think it's very good bet.
TOS goes to google.com
Original source: https://twitter.com/EmilyKager/status/1313303791186268160
Or for people to keep the money they earn.
code.org was a great place to start. making anna and elsa dance using ~logo. dance party. also the book Hello Ruby.
No offence but going to need some links given your HN account is in the negative.
Pretty much all features are available through aws cli.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/lambda/inde...
Wait, you have access to the oral arguments? Source?
Stuck on bits can be a feature rather than a problem. Deglaze with some wine and make a sauce!
If you have some mapping from data to units of work, can't you just use callbacks to make sure the data isn't acked until the units of work complete successfully? I use kafka at work and so far haven't really run into this as an issue.

In the bit you quoted, I'd assume the local work queue has callback objects.
Acetaminophen is added to opiates to make sure there are bad side effects if you take too much.
Mostly from playing a bit with Sphinx and loosely following the space. But as you say things are always changing.

I will note that different people have different definitions of "good" in this space. For example, I've used online services like otter.ai and, while they're useful for certain purposes, they're still much worse than a human for transcribing. They're certainly not worth my time to clean them up to publish an actual transcript.
For quite some time maddog has been promoting Subutai, a kind of P2P cloud (https://subutai.io/). Voluntary computing is an old concept, even BOINC is almost 20 years old. Peertube already reached the stage where it's actually usable and people can watch the movies smoothly. So it's not unimaginable that people who care organize somehow creating a platform where you could use a GPT-3 platform by contributing your GPU time in exchange.
If he hasn't already tried it, look into the Dave Gingery series of books on melting aluminum and casting machine tools.

http://www.gingerybooks.com/

A basic sandcasting setup sounds like something your son would be absolutely stoked on.
Consumer's Reports says otherwise.
In China there was a longstanding practice of using nightsoil (i.e. human feces) as fertilizer. The health risks are great and doing it safely requires strictest adherence to hygiene protocols. Everything is boiled for safety, even lettuce is wilted in the pan. It's no surprise that ice water gets you the crazy look.

Food taboos oftentimes make sense. Sometime ago someone mentioned traditional, cyanogen-rich varieties of cassava, which are pest-resistant but require boiling for hours in an open pot. If you omit that you end up with motor neuron disease, konzo as they call it, but only after several years. So it's not surprising that superstitions sprang up around the plant, some of which are actually protective.
Yep. Inhaling carbon nanotubes has similar effects on the lungs as inhaling asbestos from what I've heard
I use both mac and windows and when i need to use command line utilities i use MobaXTerm give it a try is a really nice terminal for windows and also allows you to install other unix utilities .
I'd be curious to see the long term (1-2 year) consequences of this. Whether it leads to burnout/attrition or greater employee satisfaction.
I'm sorry, I wrote a product review for Tilley hats, but when I got to the login screen, I quit. I feel like these days there are just too many sites wanting to use social sign on.

For what it's worth, this was the review:

> No logo on the hat, because the design is iconic.

There are logos on some of the hats, at least on my T3 wanderer there is. Mark Symons says no frills but, well, there are some. They're not cheap, which "no frills" tends to imply. They're pretty good quality, and overall, the best
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The issue I see is you have people who don't know the difference between a string data type and a number. I keep see "Listen to the scientists" and "Listen to the doctors". There are many facets to solving problems. Maybe many disciplines may be better at solving it. Had you/"healthcare" contacted folks with software expertise rather than being your own experts, this would have been a non-problem.
You are answering your own question.

If you had a job that could be done by both types of people you describe, why would you pay 4x extra for the former?

Why should the guy who can write operating systems spend their time doing work that's below their skill and training experience? And if this person is ready to do this, why is the latter person held responsible for this?

>>They'll both be listed as "computer related occupations" and apply for the same visa in the same quota. Does that makes any sense to anyone?

Yes, because they are being hired to do the same job. Hiring Captain America as a guard at ToysRUs doesn't change the job description of a security guard. It just means Captain America make a bad decision to work the wrong job.
> we have, as of the 1000's, an Anglo-Saxon word "wicing" that looks nearly identical to "viking" and would have been pronounced "wy-ching."

Do you have a source for palatalization of the "c"? To know how the word would have been pronounced, you need to know whether it was native to Old English or borrowed from Norse.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_phonology :

> (Although this palatalization occurred as a regular sound change, later vowel changes and borrowings meant that the occurrence of the palatal forms was no longer predictable, that is, the palatals and the velars had become separate phonemes.) Both the velars /k, ɣ/ (including [ɡ]) and the palatals /tʃ, j/ (including [dʒ]) are spelled as ⟨c⟩, ⟨g⟩ in Old English manuscripts.

> In modern texts, the palatalized versions may be written with a dot above the letter: ⟨ċ⟩, ⟨ġ⟩. (As just mentioned, it would otherwise not generally be possible to predict whether a palatal or velar is meant, although there are certain common patterns; for example, ⟨c⟩ often has the palatalized sound before the front vowels ⟨i⟩, ⟨e⟩, ⟨æ⟩. Note that Old English had palatalized ⟨g⟩ in certain words that have hard G in Modern English due to Old Norse influence, such as ġiefan "give" and ġeat "gate".)

Modern pronunciation (or Middle English confusions) would be a good guide to that question, if the word had survived, which it didn't.

> I don't think we can rule out that the word "viking" was invented by the Norse, but based on the above information alone, I don't think we can reasonably conclude that it must have been.

How do you get from here to "the etymology isn't mysterious"?

[1] The languages are closely related enough that some borrowings were given the "correct" native pronunciation instead of the borrowed pronunciation. But as we see, this was not universal.
Hi, author here! I think it's a risk you have if your company culture encourages working long hours. We never did that tbh and people know we don't have that expectation.

We also didn't couple strong incentives (e.g. money) with this process, we always kept it at a "fun" level. It's been more than enough to keep people engaged
This is awesome! I love that the country where it is manufactured is listed as well.

One thing I have a concern about: is the country of origin related to the specific product or the company itself?
An example is the KitchenAid refrigerator. I think KitchenAid does make a lot of things in the US, like their mixers, but the refrigerator listed (according to other websites) is made in Mexico. This might be a little confusing as the listing makes it look like the fridge is made in the US.

Also the "made in" drop down specifically keeps the fridge in the list when set to "US".
This guy learn it and use it on human DNA modification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui
Sent to jail
OP_RETURN for storing data isn't new, but I signed up anyways to see how to project continues to grow.

Keep building!
Reductio ad absurdum. The hint is in the name. That's the difference between law and math.
hahaha this post is pure gold and should be the top post on HN.
Supreme Court takes on Google vs. Oracle: Biggest software development case ever
These are the only pans I use at the moment but I've been thinking about adding a stainless pan. How do you handle dishes where you're frying something, but then need to add some vinegar, a tomato base, or a cup of water to boil into the pan after frying? I use my cast iron at the moment because these dishes start with a lot of frying and then go straight in the oven near the end, but they're pretty hard on the seasoning in the pan. I've been thinking the stainless pan might be good for these so it can still go in the oven and I don't have to worry about the vinegar destroying my seasoning.
Wow, looks great. Using git to sync is super convenient -- there's so much infrastructure available to support git so it's basically no effort to start syncing with github etc.

I use dstask to manage my todo list which also uses git, it's excellent.
It did not, I dont see how COVID has any bearing on Mozilla Revenue or business...

It is just a convenient (and likely good legally) way to cover for bad management.

More than a few companies with poor management are using COVID to cover for their poor choices
On a similar note, there was a satirical interview about hiring a carpenter with an experience working on brown rounded rectangles or something like that - can anyone find it?
I despise people names, takes me forever to figure out who it is. I feel tricked into spending time reading into the email to figure it out.
SSL certs can be self signed. Bitcoin addresses are not signed by any agency so they would work under a similar security model as a self signed cert.

> Vapor also addresses decentralization in distribution of content as well.

How? All I see some way of performing a replay or amplification attack using an unspecified gateway.
China issues guidelines to Indian media on Taiwan's national day
I seem to recall Sun refusing to allow Apache Harmony's implementation of the Java stdlib to be certified, or didn't allow access to the TCK or something like that. It may have seemed at the time like trying for an official certification for Android was pointless.
It's a knockoff, but doesn't include NLU or ASR capabilities so really it's a shitty tablet on a kickstand I could have purchased for roughly the same price with more features.
It's primarily used in the context of reaching out to users who just signed up for a service.

After they're signed up/subscribed, you send an "onboarding" email with general information on how to get started using the service, and encouraging them to do things that affect whatever KPIs your boss cares about.

They can be genuinely helpful for tools that have a steep learning curve, either by serving as an entry point into the documentation or by providing contact information for support.

Otherwise, at best they serve as a reminder in case you get distracted before you finish setting up your account.
Get this existential threat scorecard for tonight's vice-presidential debate
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Facebook and Google has a privacy policy too. Even the NSA has a privacy policy : https://www.nsa.gov/terms-of-use/#privacy

In practice these documents don't really relate what the company is actually doing with your data. It's just something that has to be there on a website.
Intel Confirms Rocket Lake on Desktop for Q1 2021, with PCIe 4.0
M17 project aims to kill off DMR, YSF and D-Star on ham bands – K0LWC
I will leave this right here for your education - https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/bug-day-ariane-5-disaster
These "tennis rankings" sound awfully similar to an idea often used in kindergarten classrooms of awarding the children with gold stars or stickers for completing tasks.
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/teaching/classroom_mana...

I'm sure it can be helpful to have some kind of feedback for productivity and output but it could also be seen as a bit patronizing and or paternalistic if you're not careful.
It is interesting that companies adopt this totalitarian thinking as in Lenin's quote: "The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves."
It looks like things are going towards total control, software and hardware lockdowns, massive data collection and making sure devices cannot be repaired independently only discarded.
How is this different from them calling up a known associate and asking them for my location?

Until there is real privacy enforcement here, and it's clear that location data is owned by the person being tracked and not some third party that happens to have their hands on it, I don't see this pattern going away.
Unless, for example, you're writing software for civil engineers ...
> Will this achieve the energy density of fossil fuels?

I think non-fossil-derived synthetic fuels have the potential to become a major player in the overall transportation picture.

Liquid fuels have significant energy density advantages. Producing them synthetically should allow for removal of various impurities that cause pollution issues today. And not pulling them out of the ground would get around the non-renewable angle.

To be clear though, I think this situation is different from the big Ethanol push we've had in the Midwest the past 20 years.

Everything I've seen about Ethanol is that it is ridiculously inefficient in terms of inputs vs outputs and basically just exists as a subsidy program for farmers to ensure we have enough food supply to avoid ever having shortages.

But I think synthetic fuel could be a big thing in the coming years, particularly since all automobile infrastructure already centers around easily refillable liquid fuels.
Prob the best comment here
Just to clarify, I didn't use it as a noun. Here's what I meant:

> This difference in the interpretation of (what benefit) decentralization provides
Exactly... They'll just censor you of course - but you're right. DDG is controlled opposition.

Lenin — 'The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.'
In the book "The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer" [1], author Doron Swade argued that Babbage suffered from tinnitus [2] in his old age and that's what drove him to wage war on noisy street musicians.

[1] https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Difference_Engine.h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus
The prizes in 2014 (fluorescence microscopy) and 2017 (cryo-electron microscopy) weren’t strictly for biology but were tools for studying biology. Including them would make it 6 out of 10.
Okay anonuser123456...

> You have no right to such a behavior in civil society.

That's the justification used in every society that oppressed.

"Civil" seems like the mantra used by one side to demand control and censorship today when in the past, it was the other side.