skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a pipe-dream.

There is no energy grid anywhere in the world t1hat has ever run only on intermittent power sources.

As for the hypothetical BMW factory, what are the workers meant to do while the power is low?

You have to be honest that cost of such setup would be significantly higher because you need huge amount of storage, or large overcapacity, or both.

Lastly, zero people died from radiation at Fukushima - the tsunami killed 15,000. Why is anyone surprised that a natural disaster can damage a building? Do we have tsunamis in UK and Germany?

The story is completely overblown.
> it is possible that Apple’s chip team is so far ahead of the competition, not just in 2020, but particularly as it develops even more powerful versions of Apple Silicon, that the commoditization of software inherent in web apps will work to Apple’s favor, just as the its move to Intel commoditized hardware, highlighting Apple’s then-software advantage in the 00s.

I think Ben is missing something here: that the speed and specialist hardware (e.g. neural engine) on the new SoCs again give developers of native apps the ability to differentiate themselves (and the Mac) by offering apps that the competition (both web apps and PCs) can't. It's not just about running web apps more quickly.
New Platypus attack can steal data from Intel CPUs
While I love this, and I totally appreciate the work and effort... why ISA? I mean, why not jack it up to be a clone that works with newer PCs?

I get that it is a clone, but it might have been even better if we could use it today. (of all the old junk I have, I no longer have a mobo with ISA, VLB or AGP slots)
"There is a notable difference between the opinion of scientists and that of the general public in the United States. A 2009 poll by Pew Research Center found that "Nearly all scientists (97%) say humans and other living things have evolved over time – 87% say evolution is due to natural processes, such as natural selection. The dominant position among scientists – that living things have evolved due to natural processes – is shared by only about a third (32%) of the public."

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_support_for_evolution
This will lead to people posting lower quality comments and one liners to increase their engagement, reach and therefore following.

No it won't.
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I would love to see PostgreSQL integrate with something like Jaeger, specifically to have spans for triggers. Database triggers are terrible to introspect and debug.
I really wish Apple sold its hardware independently from its software. They make amazing hardware, and their latest silicon releases practically make me want to buy their computers again.

Their software is shit though, and their walled garden, and insistence on using apple programming languages and IDEs for development, practically ensures that third party software will either not exist or be shit as well. There are only a handful of software shops that make decent software for apple, and they are all fully specialized on apple and therefore do not make software that plays nice with collaborators on other computers, nor used on a cloud server, etc. And if there actually exists better software from third parties that competes with apple software, you can forget about it ever being fully integrated. "Hey Siri, navigate to city hall using Google maps". Yeah right.
25c won't even remotely cover the cost of distribution alone, and I doubt that post-Corona many businesses will have a need for reception areas any more.
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No offense to the brilliant engineers out there, but after going through many migrations in my career, I believe that brilliant engineers are the last people you want anywhere close to the project.

Also, you should budget 25-50% of your project time and effort on getting the legacy system "ready" for a migration.
Fermi estimate: there have been 10000 experiments of 10L each for a year. That gives 10000L-years. There are ~10^21 liters of water on the Earth. Let’s say life took a billion years to start. 21+9-4=>10^26x.

Let’s say the labs are 99.999999 “efficient” compared to the oceans. That carved off 8 decades, meaning Earth’s experiment was still a million million million times bigger.
Platypus: Hackers Can Obtain Crypto Keys by Monitoring CPU Power Consumption
This seems very, very much like a first generation product, but I hope future iteration of their M-chip SoCs support more RAM, more ports, eGPUs, etc.

I'm pretty sure they'll support more RAM and more ports and more displays in the future, but I'm worried about the eGPU support. Pulling a GPU into the SoC might make them think they've got that covered, but it won't be enough.
The parents point is that you can identically reproduce the state of knowing what an 18th century polymath knew, today, just by learning a tiny amount of each subject.
Ben’s blow at Sketch seemed a little excessive to me, but that is the painful path that Evernote has decided to follow to survive. Although the target market is designers and sketch is not multi platform, being full native is hard.
Is it me or does a blogpost saying that in order to get root I enter a bunch of commands in my terminal seem a bit aloof?
The slides explicitly mentioned PCIe support. They just don’t make any M1 machines with standard slots yet.
You include a good countervailing point in your comment, which is that our experiments are largely confined to what we think are ideal conditions. Evolution (or, whatever you want to call this abiotic Darwinian selective process) searches the space of possible designs randomly, which means it can happen on "improvements" that would be hard to predict a priori.
Also, removing -dev packages and compilers is one of the usual hardening steps, to make it harder for an attacker to establish a foothold and build tools.
I have personal experience from those two fields. Perhaps other fields are different. But trust me, you do not need a PhD to get observing time on 4 meter telescope.
People already follow others to downvote. I suggest the opposite: Remove all usernames and points, making it more like 4chan. I think that could be quite valuable.
That metabolic pathway diagram is utterly insane.
Reading a newspaper requires buying the newspaper. Reading an electronic newspaper requires buying a computer or a phone and an Internet subscription, that's orders of magnitude more.
> A lot of HN users do have a blog you just need to find it.

That's true, but blogs come and go, whereas HN will be around until the death of the internet.
No one should be inherently excited about SMRs for the technology alone. The excitement is it's a way to hack around political failure.

- Renewable are great, but our current political economy just likes them because they don't require coordination and are marginally cheap. But when trying to do a completely renewable economy, those benefits dissipate when we need electricity storage or arbitrage/rationing on a huge scale, and that requires good good old coordination and politics again.

- Regular nuclear power plants are great but the anglo-sphere can't do them for the same reasons they can't do subways.

- Tiny nuclear power plants aren't intrinsically better at all, but perhaps can both have reneweable's ability to accommodate our shitty political economy, and maintain that ability all the way to 100% no fossil fuels for electricity.

There's nothing great here, just a last ditch to throw technological band-aids on social issues.
That assumes you have a local news source. Many don't.
On the Media is a great program about media and the making of news. They had a very interesting episode a while back about the economics of local news as well as how critical it is to the health of our society[1].

Once you stop paying people to sit in board meetings and town council sessions and listen for interesting stories you suddenly see a lot more corruption. It would be great if people could focus less on national/international news and more on what's going on locally. Local news helps tremendously by reporting on, contextualizing, and digging into all the local government/business/other activities that most people don't have time to focus on.

For my part I've found a few (verified) local outlets run by local citizen that I subscribe to and I think it would be good if more people did the same.

I would not deal with the organizations in the article though as by admitting they are "for profit" they have already made their values and incentives clear. If they are siphoning off a large portion of their proceeds to go into the owners' pockets there is no way they can produce a quality product. This is not unique to the news industry.

1. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/local-news...
This is not really a CQRS issue. This is more of a system capability around how you wish replaying events should be handled.

If you design your system around idempotency you should be able to replay events and get the same result.

Not sure it was what you wnted to hear?
But wouldn't the public also enjoy seeing the athletes breaking the records beyond what is possible without any supplements? I must admit that I like music that has been done under influence as it feels more stimulating. But I wonder if there are other areas then, where such culture is acceptable? It seems like it is widely accepted that bankers or stockbrokers also give themselves a boost (you never read about stop and search around the financial districts)
Could you give examples of where exactly in the ML process/lifecycle you're hitting these issues?

For example: "When training a [type] model with X characteristics, the GIL causes Y, which makes it impossible to do Z".

We're building our machine learning platform[0] to solve problems we have faced shipping ML products to enterprise, and are interested in your problems as well.

For example, we've faced the environment/dependencies/"runs on my machine" problems and have addressed these with Docker images. Our users can spin up a notebook server with near real-time collaboration to work with others, and no setup because the environment is there.

The same with training jobs: they can click on a button and schedule a long-running notebook that runs against a specific environment to avoid "just yesterday I had X accuracy on my machine". The runs are tracked, the models, parameters, and metrics are automatically tracked because if we rely on a notebook author to do it, they might forget or have to context switch and it's an added cognitive load.

Some problems we faced were during deployment, too, where a "data scientist" writes a notebook to train a model and then we had to deploy that model reading their notebook or looking into dependencies. Now they can click on a button and deploy whichever model they want. It really was hindering us because they were asking someone else's help, who may have been working on something else.

- [0]: https://iko.ai
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What? That is totally false. Musk has been criticized for his bad public speaking for years. Here is an example: https://smallbusiness.com/selling/elon-musk-in-an-awful-pres...

Musk tweeting some guy is a pedo has NOTHING to do with his public speaking skills. It wasn't in a public speaking setting.
And I have doubts there too. Wouldn't it make sense, though? The news is not obliged to only cover issues relating to the majority, but society as a whole, and there are more people who are not (white && straight && male) than are. Granted, that's mostly because of the 'male' part.

In what category does a discussion on literature or philosophy fit? (white && straight && male) or !(white && straight && male)? How about new Apple devices? Tech jobs? Which subgroups of the population are hardest hit by the pandemic?

I have a suspicion that the majority of the content covered on mainstream radio is actually gender, orientation, and race agnostic.
My point is that this is not a problem for the nuclear plants. The recent heatwaves did not create a technical problem for the nuclear plants (well for cooling droughts may have but the high temperatures did not).
I was searching for something like this.
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Yes, they should break up Apple in a software and hardware company.

Same for NVidia.

It's the only way to actually own our hardware.
Please no. We'd be better off hiding usernames by default than this.

If you really want to read a user's comments, you obviously can, as you found out yourself. But let that be a manual exercise, or bookmark their page, or whatever. Keep the focus of HN on content, not personalities, please!
i think they can all be mirrored, naturally (light or water isn't chiral). none of them exists in one form more than the other
There are some users here who frequently share great insights and “binging” their histories has been a delightful experience.

I think HN is fine the way it is but if anything I wish I could express my gratitude and encouragement to those users.
This is fantastic. Writing notes has always been a bugbear of mine, because 1) my handwriting is terrible and 2) writing notes takes me out of the lecture.

It seems like this is more than fast enough to keep up with the lecture and have something to review properly after the lecture is over.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

Quarter-million people killed, 7 million houses destroyed. Thats enough to wipe a small coutry, like Czech Republic, off the map.
The end user being the programmer?

I find it humorous that so many programmers still can't see past the end of their nose when it comes to designing code for application testing.

An application is deliverable. That means testable and deployable with a consistent, repeatable process. Anything short of that is not an application, it's a prototype.

Yes, it takes longer to deliver up front, but it removes the long tail of maintenance. Getting a low quality product out of the door makes for a bad user experience and garners you a bad reputation.

The test suite _should_ be a first class citizen.
All it means is that counties aren't a useful way to think about the country, politically. They're arbitrary plots of land.
Rosetta 2 allows you to run your x86 mac apps on Apple silicon. It's like the PPC->Intel switch again; your software keeps working regardless of the hardware underneath.
Indeed, the US pursued cultural export to Europe and Asia very aggressively, as a deliberate, planned policy [3] after the war. E.g. the Marshall plan granted convenient access to American film, pop music, and later on television to the Western European market [1] [2]. After the US built a huge culture industry, it was much easier to maintain momentum.

[1] https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/9701

[2] The World Audience for America's Story, US Advisory Commission on Information, 1949

[3] Coca-colonization and the Cold War, R. Wagnleitner, 1991
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One thing to realize here though is that this isn't the language that is solving your problems here, it is architecture and methodology, probably combined with being able to leave some performance on the table.

Libraries and tools could replicate this in C++. A lot of people love erlang/elixir and have success with them, but I think it's a mistake to attribute it to the languages themselves and not the beam VM + the ecosystem around it because it misses the deeper understanding of concurrency techniques that work.
D'oh. My "5 to 10 points" was off the top of my head based on some numbers I saw being thrown around last week but I didn't bother to double-check. Thanks for keeping me factual.

I wouldn't say "the models are radically wrong" but I think it's still fair to say that last week was disappointing in several ways for the Democratic Party, even with Trump losing.
Windows supports various bio-metric logins and provides rather generic API. Some manufacturers use that to provide login based on veins in a finger, not fingerprints. Apple could have implemented those API.
This is one of many confused articles based on Venkatesh's research. The point of the original work is that drug gangs, despite being criminal organizations, have a ladder hierarchy and low wages at the bottom, just like many other "normal" jobs at conventional institutions, like mcdonalds or academia.

Subsequently, many people have written silly articles like this one saying that some conventional organization is like a drug gangs because it has these totally normal features. But we knew that already -- that grad students get paid less than full professors is hardly news. The inclusion of drug gangs just produces a snappy headline and reduces understanding.
I wonder what HN would be like if it was the opposite of Twitter - all comments have to be more than 140 (or 280) characters in length.

Does any existing forum do this? Could be interesting if users were only allowed to write mini-essays to each other. Not sure if that would increase the information density by encouraging more thoughtful comments, or decrease it because people would uselessly pad their comments out to hit the threshold.
They seem to have a lot of pull in the UK - they've had a lot of success in blocking the new Heathrow runway
Yes, the atomic bomb, while monstrous, does show that scientists understand the world (and, unfortunately, how to destroy it) better than anyone else.
Very cool, I just dropped your link in our company slack and it's now used not as a productivity killer, but an inspiration booster.
Not my first rodeo with CQRS, so I didn’t really learn anything new here, but I was really impressed with how well he laid everything out - particularly the links to other terms that, as a newbie, I felt other resources left me scrambling through a dozen browser tabs to find.
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SB16s were fairly common so I'm not surprised about that. The Niche cards or later ISA SBs (thinking AWE) tend to be a bit more valuable.

It's been a while since I looked at the market, but I know that Gravis and Ensoniq cards tend to be a bit more valued since they were less common but in many ways superior to the SB offerings.
Fair enough, but I don't put Ubuntu in the same class as Debian, because while they may share many base packages in common, I do seem to remember them patching the kernel more than Debian, and usually stuff that would break my kernel dev too. Hence another reason I'm not on Ubuntu.
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I think this is due to the general-purposeness of our wetware. We are born into bodies that we largely do not know how to operate. Through a process of trial and error we learn how to use our muscles and bones to move us through the world. It's not surprising that the same wetware easily adapts to controlling a car or a nation as an extension of itself.
What I think it means is irrelevant. It only matters what Darwin thought it meant. You are not inside the head of a person who lived generations ago and loved Victorian novels.
Completely agree. Everything you see in that video was carefully choreographed and purposefully put into view for a reason. With the marketing resources Apple has, I don't think it's too conspiratorial to think that they put the iFixit tools and old Apple II computers there for the sole purpose of them to be talked about on social media.

The sleek, clean, uncomfortable workspace is just convincing enough for the average user to seem like a real lab. It's perfectly on brand with how Apple wants to be perceived.
fgets reads until the next newline character, or at most size-1 characters. For arbitrary inputs, a loop like that sets ret to TRUE if the given prefix (i.e. LANG) is found at the beginning of any line, i.e. starting at the first column – or for longer lines, if it is found starting at the 50th column (or 99th column, etc.)

I don't know enough of the format of the .pam_environment file to tell whether that may lead to unexpected results.
Even Cornel West parrots Athenian era warnings about majoritarian tyranny, mob rule, etc.

I have near religious faith in democracy. I'm so out of step. I don't know why.

My enthusiasm for democracy originated in my workplace experiments. Ideas gleaned from Peter Drucker, Deming, and probably some others. I just needed an efficient, effective way to get my coworkers to step up and contribute their knowledge and expertise.

I really had no stake in the outcomes.

At the time, my role was often called "facilitator", which I've never liked. I now prefer Michael Lewis inspired label of "referee".

Any way. Democracy in the workplace was like magic. Consensus forming just happened. It took a while to build the trust. My job was mostly to ensure the group honored and delivered on its own decisions. I squashed snipers and saboteurs. It made me very unpopular. Until I was tasked with resurrecting the next zombie project. My team mates missed me after I was gone, belatedly realized that I had empowered them.

I think about how to replicate that success all the time. Still no clue.

Edit: Just pulled up his wiki. Hoppe wrote a book called Democracy: The God That Failed. Explains your down vote. Haha. No worries. The world needs its Eeyores (Austrian flavored libertarians). Helps keep us humanists on mission.
Automator, or IOS Shortcuts, that’s exactly the kind of thinking the Touch Bar needs.

Add that, plus the ability to map any menu command to a Touch Bar button, and it would be vastly more useful.
It's interesting to think about gaming specifically. Genuine platform exclusivity is rarer and rarer these days, as the underlying engine market has become more and more commoditised. It is relatively cheap to port a game built in Unity or Unreal engine from PC to Xbox, PlayStation, etc.

Mac has always lagged because the market wasn't big enough to warrant investment. Catalina wouldn't have cratered your gaming library if there was enough incentive for the developers to update the game. Now that iOS apps (read: games) can run on Mac with relatively low effort, and we already see PC games being easily ported to iOS (eg: Fortnite, legal challenges notwithstanding), I feel that this is the best thing to happen to Mac gaming in years.
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CORS is security theatre - like taking your shoes off at the airport. I've been blocked on a CORS issue for 2 weeks now. Please avoid if possible.
You're talking about the Hatch Act I presume. The UCMJ doesn't get into that that I'm aware of.
Maybe because ISA is very simple to implement?

You can support a subset of PCI with a fairly simple fpga implementation, but even the antique pci with its 33/66Mhz bus can be tricky to design with correct signal integrity.
Not if the design community fully embraces Figma and opts not to go back to sketch. I'm already seeing this transition at my company, and I have a hard time seeing management OKing a switch back to Sketch once they iron out their collab issues.
I appreciate you replying in a non-hostile way.

I was thinking more the stories, I guess it's optics, my news is now feels like it's filled with "man bad, woman/minority strong"

https://imgur.com/eTSi7g5
https://imgur.com/avshrtK

Compared to what was previously on the homepage:

https://imgur.com/tXKpnMZ

It feels like my homepage used to be news, now it it's more heavily biased towards minorities and women.

I'm honestly burnt out on reading about women and minorities being victims and men being bad, I want to go back to reading stories about things.

I guess it bothers me and maybe I'm picking up on background radiation as to why 'that guy' got into power despite me feeling like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gRAQUmskI