skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, latency matters a lot.

We had a virtual meeting where we almost insulted each other with my manager. For the context, we are real life friends, and even though we sometimes have heated arguments, as it was the case here, it never went that far.

After we calmed down, we talked to each other and realized that lag played a huge role. She thought I was constantly interrupting her and I thought she didn't listen to me. In reality, it was just a network problem and latency was over a second, but we didn't realize it as we were too busy arguing.

Virtual meetings are fine when people take turns speaking and no one is interrupting. But when you are debating, brainstorming, or working together on a problem, even a small amount of latency makes it terrible.
Chime does too. And it feels very clumsy.
Nvidia stereo 3d only works if the compositor is disabled in Xorg.
Ah, I always figured flagging put it in be a queue for review by a mod. Didn't know it happens automatically.
ML for the Working Programmer is an awesome textbook to use to learn programming. It is free to download on the author's website:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/pub-details.html
I'll never forget the conversations I had with Uber drivers during my many trips there. Many were natives who were pushed further and further out. "Even out of Oakland" they lamented.

I imagine the non-transient population, as you describe, cannot wait for them all to be gone, and the city can get its soul back.
> SF literally created the first zoning laws in America.

This is not true. The first was either in Modesto in 1885, LA in 1908, or NYC in 1916, depending on how you define things. Definitely not SF, though.

Doesn’t really change your point, I just want to correct an urban legend.
It's even crazier if you start comparing the energy used for training massive AI models vs. the paltry wattage required to keep a human brain operating.
yeah, that svn->git conversion was a one-time thing, and not fully kept in sync automatically.

A bit unfortunate as recent releases have fixed one of the main for smlnj/reasons to use other compilers in that it now supports x86-64.
That’s what I did (and with one USB cable swap and a button press on the monitor, I can switch keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, and camera between them).

But the key for me is I do that because I have a work laptop and a personal desktop and I want no question about the ownership of things I do on the desktop.
I use the Ozone build of Chromium, available on AUR - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-ozone/

It's a painful first compile, but the only issues I've hit have been a few menus in the extension debugging screens that are too small.
You just need to master fusion...
Linux does support transparent hugepages.
Working for a global tech company, with a line manager and team in another continent I've grown very used to having Meet calls. I've also worked here for most of my working life - so I've grown up with having virtual meetings and I'd say even when in the office 90% of my meetings would involve someone from another office, country or company. So it does actually feel very normal to me, in a way it almost feels more strange _not_ being on a call.

Wonder how the younger generations opinions on this differ to the older generation?
For what it's worth, we're serious about replicating GPT-3. books3 is just one piece. You will notice I never claimed equivalency to GPT-3's training data.

books3 may be 10%, but The Pile is building the rest:

https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/13204141418954874...

https://github.com/EleutherAI/The-Pile

https://www.eleuther.ai/get-involved

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/735217892517216366/...

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/735217892517216366/...
For some reason people seem to be assuming that more lately (i.e. that "flagged" means mods did it). I'm not quite sure how to correct that notion. I suppose we could hyperlink "[flagged]" to an explanation...but would people click? It's not as if this isn't in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Explanations don't seem to help much.
According to this, in 2008 UN researcher determined the 10% threshold was $61K in 2000 dollars. It’s now 2020...

https://www.mic.com/articles/2636/compared-to-the-rest-of-th...
I usually make the zoom window small and place it right under the camera so looking at the person is indistinguishable from looking at the camera. This doesn't solve the problem of making eye contact with individuals though, you can only make eye contact with the current speaker.
> even my non-tech acquaintances know about this scandal.

Baudrillard talks about this regarding the Watergate scandal. The word scandal implies this is a one and done thing, you've seen the thing, and there is absolutely nothing else to see. This was an outlier.

But was it? I think this one story itself is a canary in the coal mine. Extrapolate this to the long tail of stories for which their potential suppression won't make enough waves, and this is a much much bigger problem than what your non-tech acquaintances might hear.

This concentrated of a narrative shaping power is certainly not unprecedented but is something we would normally associate with totalitarian regimes. And even then it would be easy for people to assume the suppression from state channels. What we have today is a much knife-edge mixture of truths, non-truths and missing truths, coming from hundreds to thousands of micro channels with people's faces attached to it. I think the grand total of its effects will indeed be unprecedented.
It's a matter of scale. As the article says, the current Democratic Party Alliance for suppressing damaging stories is so broad, that even though you can publish your story, the chances of reaching its intended audience at scale are slim.

Also - if Twitter gets to decide whats get published on their platform, they are an editorial organization - something they've vehemently denied they are in the past.
New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars
England's experience with it should probably serve as a warning too. We had a law change that meant office blocks could be converted to housing without planning permission. Having lived in 1 that was converted into studio flats at the higher end of the market I think they really become houses of last resort, some of the units in the UK ones ended up being smaller than a single car garage. Obviously there are chances for better conversions if the country has housing standards that are enforced but even the ceiling height, like you say, gets oppressive after a few months.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/mar/02/will-these-be-...
I only read the headlines, but I find them immensely funny, and a good (sarcastic) commentary on current events (from a different bias than most media). A few recent examples:

- With Mic Muted, Trump Corrects Biden With Tweets

- Intelligence Experts Concerned Media May Tamper With Election By Asking Biden Questions

- Hero: Man Stranded On Desert Island Still Obediently Wearing His Mask

- CNN Pre-Debate Poll Shows Biden Clearly Won Debate

- World Turns To Christianity After Learning There Are No Politics In Heaven
I wonder how it would be like to work there, because that already sounds like a sweatshop from my worst nightmares.

(There are only 96 five-minutes bathroom breaks available during 8-hour work day, to share between all employees.)
> In the grand scheme of things, it's a really forgettable language.

Strangely enough, for me that is one of the major plus points. A forgettable language (which is not the same as a language which you forget how to use) is one which gives you the tools for the job and then gets out of the way.

Some other languages feel like prima donnas with their shiny brilliance and complex possibilities. I'll take a small, dirty, simple, and performant back-seat one like Go every time.
Not at all! Your comment was super specifically on topic.

The generic one which I detached was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24890238 - detach means it's no longer a reply to your comment but is rather a top-level comment that can therefore float to a lower location on the page.

There's nothing wrong with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24890238 either. It was just more generic. Also important to understand: the moderation decision is not primarily about a comment, it's about the entire subtree. I don't want people to feel blamed for what they posted, especially when it was other commenters who ended up going further off topic.
welcome to the land of communists and communist sympathizers
Just like C then.
> Taking this as some anti-conservative war from the tech industry is super misleading.

Very wrong, but we both know that. Not the brightest war for leftie tech companies to be provoking though.
I know you put the Intel disclaimer in there, but I just bought a laptop with an AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS and am loving it. It has me pretty hyped to get an AMD processor for the first time for my desktop when the 5900 launches in November. But the laptop chip has far exceeded my expectations.
You can't get medical care efficiently and accounting for your specific situation. Sure, you can have a limb set after a mild injury without extra information. But anything long term or needing specific management will get complicated.
Repudiable media outlets will generally avoid writing stories about unverifiable claims. But once you deny the claims, then repudiable media outlets can bypass the need for corroboration and write stories on your denials, while also detailing the claims you are denying, which just further spreads the content of the claims.
That isn't the only thing that happened. Probably the 1 in 3 odds were too low given the data available, because the polling demographics were not adjusted for education. If you randomly sample 1000 people to represent several millions, you also collect demographic information to ensure that you properly weight the responses based on how skewed that demographic is in your sample compared to the total voting population. In 2016 they weren't correcting for education, which turned out to be a huge hidden variable. This is explained quite well by 538 themselves:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/polling-101-what-happened...
If your system depends on the Web always being available, then you're going to have times when you can't do anything because you can't access your data. When the Web isn't there, your data does not exist.

I'm usually an early adopter, but I had some severe problems with the 'Cloud' very soon after I stated using it. I then went the other way, making it my policy to store as little as possible on the Web. My mail is still stored on the Web, but if I could work out how to easily back that up or store it totally locally, I would.
I am not really talking about the purchase of specific tools at this time, obviously you can buy expensive garbage and the most expensive stuff is not necessarily the best. I am talking about a systemic failure to properly invest in tooling and productivity that results in tooling being undervalued. Put another way, if I gave you $1k/yr to freely spend do you think you could improve your productivity by 1%? If I gave you $10k/yr to spend could you improve your productivity by 10%? If the scale is not high enough, if I gave 100 engineers $1M/yr to spend do you think you could improve the aggregate productivity of all of them by 10%?

One more way to put it is that the fully-burdened cost of a standard software engineer is something like $200k/yr. At $3k/seat Xilinx Vivado probably cost less than 1.5% of your yearly cost to your company. If your company paid you $30k/seat, or 15% of the cost of each engineer using it, do you think you could make a system that makes you (and probably everybody else in your company using it) 30% more productive than using bare Xilinx Vivado (either a different product, making your own, configuring or working around problems in Vivado)? If so, that would clearly be an economically sound investment for your company even ignoring the much more significant second-order benefits of increased productivity. Do you think anybody even seriously considered the idea of spending $30k/seat to make you more productive since everybody I have ever talked to would consider that an absolutely ludicrous throw-you-out-of-the-room amount to spend on a software engineer even though it is in fact a mere 15% cost increase and would thus only require a similarly modest productivity increase to be economically sound. Given the way people normally talk about such a thing you would think it is increasing costs by 10x so would need to result in a 10x productivity increase to make economic sense, but that is just plainly not the case.
I think I read the same piece a while ago, or something very similar to it. I'm not entirely sure what to think of it, I'd have to do some in-depth study to really have an informed opinion and chances are the effectiveness depends on the country as well; I'm not sure if generalizing "all sanctions are {good,bad}" across all countries is a good idea, as North-Korea is not the same as Iran. One case where sanctions and other pressure probably helped is ending apartheid in South-Africa.
Unfortunately that doesn't scale, and requires everyone to have their video camera on.
everything with virtual meetings is right, except for the dogs who want to hijack absolutely everything.

"oh, you're going to get covid!" - "work virtually."

"oh, well i'm working virtually, but the meetings feel weird." - "fuck off"
> Edit: This story was flagged which is unbelievable.

You just wrote a comment about the big tech left being a happy joiner in conspiring to commit election fraud.

Which part of it is not believable?

We've got the US version of the CCP in big tech going to work overtime on press and speech control / suppression to intentionally try to throw an election in favor of their preferred candidate. Over the prior few years big tech more than hinted about what they were going to do. This could all be seen coming a zillion miles away.

The long-term outcome of their extraordinarily dumb choice is obvious and it will have immense, horrible consequences politically (the Republicans will do a lot of damage going to war over this in response).

There's a recent op-ed in the Washington Post saying that the Biden bought-and-paid-for scandal should be lied about and proclaimed to be a foreign intel operation regardless of whether it is or not. That side will do anything to get rid of Trump at this point. There is no length big tech won't go to, to assist and play their part. They're betting the downside risk is minimal and the upside is Biden wins and they'll face zero consequences (the FBI will immediately cease any interest in anything the Bidens have done, absolutely nothing will come of it, all evidence will be washed away forever - instead of eg the FBI following the money trail back to Joe Biden for his cut of the proceeds).
that's not a bad sustained!

Check this out: olympic (cyclist) sprinter powering a toaster! it's intense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ
A MacBook Pro can have an i9 and 8 cores, isn't that better than the i7-1185G7?
Twitter did not decide that in good faight. First, because they are used as a public platform, like it or not, and as such they are not expected to moderate anything. People follow or block what they want. And second, because they are biased in their censorship and are not forthcoming about it.
Someone who is just getting by doesn’t have the option of simply moving their family.
They do more than gatekeeping and aren't the only ones doing 30%.
That actually seems like a really good idea — I’d love to see more housing in the “downtown core” areas of SF, which are like 95% office space.
I've got a 2018 i7 mac mini that I upgraded the ram to 32GB myself and it's a very capable little machine (got it when I needed to do Unity Mobile Game development, but it keeps up with pretty much everything).

I do wish I would have gotten a bigger internal SSD (I bought it with 256GB, but have now moved most of my files to an external SSD and it's a constant struggle).

I've also now purchased an external GPU to drive my 2 4k monitors at home (it can do 2 4k monitors of text editing itself without struggling _too_ much, but it does run about 15C cooler with the eGPU), so it's hard to say if an iMac wouldn't have been a better purchase, but the nice thing about the mac mini is I can easily throw it in a backpack when I need to travel every couple of months.
> Honey bees are uniquely industrialized and failure to eliminate the Murder Hornet threat to honey bees will have HUGE implications.

We have honey bees in Japan. While I agree it will have huge implications, it’ll hardly be the last of them.

That said, I’d rather murder hornets go away everywhere.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24887333
How does this compare to 2001 when the dot-com neutron bomb his SF? Lots of empty real estate and huge construction projects continuing or starting (due to low interest rates and long lead times)?
> censorship: the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security

There's no sane way to interpret twitter's actions as anything except censorship. The fact that they're legally entitled to commit this censorship doesn't make it something else.
That makes sense, I agree with you. Though I still think there’s something to be said about the mobility of desktop computers today and saying outright that they are not mobile might not do justice to them.

Edit: Especially with the rise of the Small form factor PC culture.
Hollywood Target Finally Opens, 12 Years After Work Began
Unfortunately, that requires the end user to update their hardware. We have to live with the reality that people are not going to have low-latency setups, and design with that in mind. Everybody wins!
> But people read “90% chance” as “definite win”. I don’t actually know what anyone should or could do about that.

538 are aware of the problem, and combating it with a cartoon fox (and better visualisations).
I don't think partisan "party X sucks" posts are helpful.

Sean Trende's book "The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs and Who Will Take It" made the point that there are no permanent majorities in politics, because losing parties adapt.
> "Techcrunch submission form"

I get https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/20/submit-a-guest-post-to-ext... as the first link
Not disagreeing with you just curious why they would largely only pollinate fruit trees?
What example configuration machine from a decade ago can match (or beat) a current-gen maxed-out Thinkpad or Macbook Pro in raw performance? Those laptops are quite speedy compared to something from 2010
You’re acting like it’s a constantly sliding scale, that’s it’s impossible to make a decision about what’s good and what’s bad, so no one should make any decisions at all. I disagree emphatically with that position.

Denying the Holocaust = bad

Tiannemen square protests = good

Making these decisions is not impossible and saying we just can’t decide does not track with me as a valid argument.

People can tell the difference between Tiannemen and terrorism when you give them the info to do so. You don’t need to show someone nazis and Holocaust denial so they know it exists.

I understand the position you take, so don’t be so condescending about “well what would a Chinese person think”. You’re entirely missing my point.
Plenty of people live with feature phones and do whatever they need on their computer, nothing obliges them to buy an iPhone.
“in a lot of cases this is virtually impossible” is not more or less the same as “we’ve done it before...we’ll do it again”
The alternative is that people who have any kind of sensitive issue (which is most mental health issues) won't see a mental health professional at all. There are many people in my social circle that I cannot imagine seeing a mental health professional in general. You add on the risk of the actual discussion leaking and it would be impossible to even convince them to do so.

That's the kind of damage leaks like this do.
Content moderation is a form of censorship. Censorship isn't always bad. You can look up the history of the term if you want (hint: it shares the same origin as the term "census").

A closely related phenomenon to the pathological applications of censorship is the abuse and redefinition of language for political purposes like what you're doing.
> what they considered to be Russian disinformation and propaganda

was it?
Just weeks after the council’s approval, two lawsuits were filed. While independent, both complaints made similar accusations: that the city had violated rules in granting Target several variances, that the structure was too tall, and that the proposal failed to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act.

California's dysfunctions are impressive: https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing
> Nice ignore the part where they realized Mir was useless.

> If Mir was so good and superior they would just keep developing it. Isn't that obvious?

No, that's an arbitrary conclusion you've made. There are multiple reasons why a project might be killed, even if it's a good one. Canonical killed Ubuntu Touch but now it's gaining traction again because we have things like the Librem5 and PinePhone. Premature if you ask me but it makes sense as a business decision.

If we look across industry, would you say killing Google Reader was because it was inferior to others? I wouldn't.
Interesting that this one is showing up here. I pay to subscribe subscribe to Matt Taibbi’s opinion piece/investigative thoughts via occasional emails. This was a good read, but other recent ones have been better. Perhaps this one was free?
Is there a way to submit to it? Also, is there a way to download the entire thing?
The way I work is I have two desktops, one at work, one at home. I used to also have a laptop but when it died I bought a large tablet.
If so, then I'm glad I qualified that part with "It may very well be the case that" (and "plausibly").
> It's an example of positive daily human interaction.

I find adults smiling to be gaudy and disconcerting, ever since I was a child. My wife included, although I like most of her so it's ok. Children don't bother me though, as it seems sincere.
> The empty Walgreen's shelves can be seen at the Walgreen's on the corner of Eddy and Van Ness Streets.

It won't be a problem much longer – that location is going to be shut down permanently.

Shoplifting has been a problem here even before Covid. Shoplifters know the law (<$950 is a misdemeanor), they know the police likely won't make an arrest, and even if they did, they know our DA likely won't prosecute.
This will (proportionately)happen to downtown Palo Alto when Palantir moves out, though that will probably be good for downtown. They had too large a percentage of the available real estate.

The city council ought to find a way to stop this kind of monoculture though I’m not sure how it could reasonably be done.
> one is writing code that is abstracted over types, and another is a clever trick called template metaprogramming

I don't use either of these tricks much. Metaprogramming is especially bad, pretty much unreadable once written.

There's a third useful thing people do with templates - pass integer numbers to compiler. Unlike meta-programming, doesn't hurt readability.

There're instructions like _mm_shuffle_ps or _mm_srli_epi16 or _mm_extract_epi32 which encode an integer into machine codes. Instructions can encode memory references like `ptr [rax+32]`. And even without low-level trickery, it's sometimes useful to compile the same code multiple times, with changes somewhere. Templates is an easy way to express that in C++, here's an example: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59495197/126995. A nice related feature is `if constexpr` from C++/17, such branches are resolved at compile-time and therefore free.