skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a longer response that explains why parameterizing the project around language isn't so straightforward. Nor does it necessarily make sense because the thing that SE brings to the table is English expertise.

All of the work in polishing an epub is the chore of transcription and then nitty gritty details like correctly tagging things like roman numerals and embedded poems and following some sort of standardization guide.

The thing that Standard Ebooks does, aside from being decisive over its standards, is then require the epub to go through a review process by its creator who is a domain expert in the craft. This expert bottleneck is a big reason why SE book quality is so reliable. Accepting other languages drastically changes and perhaps even relaxes this bottleneck and changes the whole organization.

In another comment, I think you suggest that it might be time to try to persuade him to accept non-English books:

> Agreed, it's worth bringing up again on the mailing list; will do this week and post here a link to my message.

But it's not really up to persuasion. Because it takes more than an idea to expand the accepted languages. It requires at least one reliable expert in that language who can stand up a completely new set of tools and standards and then steward that project to fruition. And that's such a big undertaking that it's really a whole new project, not just yet another egg under SE's wings, but a whole new chicken coop.

Suggesting that Standard Ebooks move to support other languages is 0.0000001% of the work towards that goal. People do that all the time, then claim "okay, I'll fork the project", and then fizzle out.

Another example is that whole swathes of code in https://github.com/standardebooks/tools, SE's core workflow, become useless once you're targeting something other than English. By browsing their style guide and that repo, you'll realize that SE's value really is its focus on English. It's more of a suite of English tools than it is a epub editing kit, as the latter is the easy part.
I'm surprised to see how controversial this comment has been.

It's seems intuitive to me that as we are able to solve genetic defects with modern medicine, we'd begin seeing more and more of them. I imagine even bad teeth, or poor eyesight would have greatly reduced one's likelihood of surviving and reproducing in our not so distant evolutionary past, let alone something like Type 1 Diabetes, or a chronic heart condition.

That of course is just speculation though. Does anyone know of any studies indicating one way or the other? My quick search wasn't able to turn anything up.
I wish there was a way to find tools, products, SaaS services.

There are so many cool tools and micro-SaaS on the internet but I always browse by and when I need them later on it’s impossible to find again.
I've long believed that most programming jobs should be taught in an apprenticeship format - these bootcamps, overpriced CS programs, etc. just don't compare to the learning that happens when you sit with an experienced developer and start to solve real problems. Lambda School seems to be a for profit organization that is primarily interested in making money, and this "Fellows" program is just an extension of that.
It has been removed: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/ape-escape-ps3/

You linked to the NZ version.
This is a useful answer, especially because I don't think most people consider or make this decision mindfully. Sabbaticals can be an important option not only to advance your professional development but also to avoid burnout.

And I always hear people who consider it, but nine times out of ten (or probably more), they drop the idea for a copout reason (I met someone / need to save money for X / this job is too great to leave)
(Googler, opinions are my own. I also work on backend payment systems there).

A fun technical piece here is that this expands on the Google Pay for India app, which is built on Flutter for android and iOS[0]. As well, it's great to see Plex officially announced, though it was talked about ~1 year ago here[1].

[0] https://developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/google-pay-picks-f...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21523335
You acknowledge there are a very large number of complex factors that determine a market price. There isn't a way to neatly summarize that. What kind of explanation could you possibly want?
Samy Kamkar – webscan: web-based network scanner
If you can sustain that income for 10 years (and lets assume, some moderate growth in income, but even at a static 200k) there is a good chance that you don't have to work another day in your life that you don't want to. To me, that is pretty rich.
Derek Lowe just published a blog that addressed this (and other) questions: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/11/18/va...

To quote his summary:

> Bottom line: the coronavirus can’t undergo the wholesale changes that we see with the influenza viruses. And the mutations we’re seeing so far appear to still be under the umbrella of the antibody protection we’ll be raising with vaccination, which argues that it’s difficult to escape it.
It's a classic rent vs buy conversation - if you're sure about what you want, and confident that you needs will not change drastically in the short-medium term, it makes sense to buy your own infrastructure. Else, rent someone else's.
> the right-hand rule is itself an arbitrary convention

This may not be true - if magnetic monopoles exist, choice of handedness becomes linked to choice of magnetic sign convention.
NVidia's advantage is the tensor units. Not just software but also hardware.

MI100 finally brings hardware accelerated matrix-multiplication to the table (bfloat16, FP16, and even FP32 matrix multiplication).

Now that MI100 has matrix-multiplication units, now comes the part where that is distributed to the software. (Hooking up TensorFlow to use them).

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Without Matrix Multiplication units, there was really no point even writing software (aside from maybe preparation of the eventual rise of AMD's matrix-multiplication routines).

But 6800 XT won't have matrix-multiplication units. Only the CDNA architecture has those. So I'm not entirely sure if 6800 XT would even be an adequate competitor to deep learning applications, even if ROCm supported it entirely.
no serious company wants to be 'the biggest client' of a company. You'll find all the scaling issues.
On the other hand it's very easy to not include certain costs in this project to make it seem like a success. Did they really negotiate with AWS, Google Cloud and evaluate the project against those rates? Did they include all the costs associated with this? How about the opportunity cost of not focusing on their product. Whenever I read posts like this I always doubt how accurate they are.
It changes the perceived room temperature even less than actual temperature!

As you say, air has little mass and very little thermal mass, solids have a lot more thermal mass so the equalized temperature after briefly exchanging all the air for cold air is basically the same as the original.

But physiologically and psychologically, human comfort levels are based not on the air temperature and convection or conduction with the air but on the mean radiant temperature, the temperature of an ideal enclosure of uniform emissivity and temperature that creates the same radiant heat transfer rates as whatever non-uniform surfaces are in the area.

Sit with your face in a sunbeam in a cold house, and you'll feel like it's pleasantly warm even if the heating of the sunbeam is doing less than the motion of cold air wicking away heat. Open your garage door on a still winter day, standing in the warm air with one wall removed, exposing you to sub-freezing temperatures, and you'll feel cold even if the air is still warm. Stand in the high-temp air blast of a torpedo heater in a cold shop, with the ceiling, concrete floor, walls, and other equipment still frigid, and you'll feel cold even as the hot air melts the plastic bits on your clothes. Blast the AC in a hot car, and you might be breathing air at 40F/5C from the vents, but you'll still feel hot until the vehicle interior trim is cooled by the air.
> so that you no longer seem genuine.

I've heard this criticism of NVC, and to me it doesn't make sense why this is blamed on the method and not the person. Manipulative people will use any tools to manipulate.
>>>No if you tell me that the SK's military command was seriously advising to restart the war then I would tell you that either this is BS or that some generals should have been sacked (and perhaps they were).

With the caveat that I wasn't the one there, so this is second-hand: Yes, that's how it was communicated to me. The Korean 4-stars were advising restarting the war, and the sole American 4-star to have any say in the matter was the only voice of sanity. I dunno how much of that conversation made it to the South Korean President, so I don't know if he fired anyone afterwards. I'm not sure what the formal process is for the ROK-JCS, USFK, CFC, etc... to make a recommendation to the Korean President, as well as the US President, as well as the United Nations Command. All I know is that if left to their own devices in 2010, the ROK JCS would have invaded the North, knowing full-well what the consequences would be.

Things coming down to only one, single, yet influential person saying "that's a bad idea" should highlight that maybe we don't have sufficiently robust institutional controls in place to avoid a bloody conflict indefinitely.

>>>The worst thing that could realistically happen in Korea is a collapse of North Korean regime.

I'll absolutely agree with this though. There is a very poor understanding of the morale and motivations of most of the NK flag officers. We don't know which ones will outright surrender. We don't know which ones will say "Fuck it, attack the Imperialists!" We do have a reasonable understanding of the Kim regime's priorities: regime survival. So the status quo is preferable to the almost-guaranteed chaos that will ensue should the NK commanders suddenly find themselves in a power vacuum, especially if caused by a hostile foreign actor.
Maybe we can both at least agree the normative claims I’m making are true absent a monopoly finding.

Anti-trust only applies if there’s a finding that Apple is a monopoly. The jury, so to speak, is still out.

If Apple was found to be a monopoly, then there may need to be some restrictions placed on how they operate.

But I think controlling how your own product works is the presumed default, even if that product is wildly successful, as long as that success is through actual product merit, and not done deceptively or through illegal collusion.
>>For instance, my favorite tactic when someone is pushing hard to sell me something or negotiate is the "Appeal to the authority" (i.e. "Let me first talk about it to my wife (or co-founder) about it."

In the UK, some sleazy sellers of things like double glazing won't even start discussing the sale unless both husband and wife are present to prevent this tactic.
Truly innovative, outside the box, hacker thinking. If Uber and Lyft can violate labor laws, why shouldn’t everyone?

I can’t wait for the next innovation. Maybe Big Tech will give people free room and board (and no pay) in exchange for multi year contracts. Maybe Lambda School can set up a market where companies can sell these contacts to each other.

Don’t worry privileged developers. I’m sure this will never affect you. Traditionally in the US we only enslave minorities.
Show HN: Mastermind.Vision 2.0
That’s awful. Fuck their very existence.
Croc Needs Your Help
On the recurring HN topic of "how to transfer a file across the room/building/country", croc often comes up with glowing comments. I've certainly had a reliably positive experience with it.

The project is now starting to become a victim of its own success, as the ongoing costs for the public relay server have grown sixfold, to USD30/month, borne solely by the project lead. Zack has asked for sponsors[0] via GitHub for USD1/month or USD5/month.

It would be a shame if this success caused the demise of such a useful service.

[0] https://github.com/sponsors/schollz
Learn More Than One Programming Language
Show HN: Server-less full-text search for Google Cloud Platform
Unfortunately, from the reviews, it seems like those are really not well performing in ray tracing scenarios. This doesn’t bode well for these cards, but also for the consoles that use the same technologies. Console hardware doesn’t match 1:1, but it has been pretty close in the last generations’s four consoles.
CrowdStrike is building its own servers to move off from AWS as well.
Second point is spot on. Not many companies have the engineering capabilities. Dropbox has so much potential, but their business vision wasn't great to say the least.
I don't think it was that simple. There were some massive gaps in the mini-upgrade cycle which didn't correspond to gaps in Intel's CPU lineup.

More recently though, it seems like Apple got the memo that people love these things. Hopefully we'll see a consistent flow of ever-improving minis along-side the MacBooks.
I could add from my experience.

> IDE: How do you estimate which one is going to be best /after/ you invest in the training?

I had put off using a paid IDE for years. However the recommendation for IDEA tools kept growing stronger among my network. So I just took the plunge with their JetBrains (for Java). And what worked for me was I was full on using their IDE. Including running the app/web-server from within IDE. The great thing is they have 30 day trial period and so I learned most of the right way of using it. i.e., keyboard short cuts, navigation etc., Towards the end of the trial period I could sense a clear increase in my productivity. From then on buying full version was easy decision.

With their DataGrip product it was something similar. Good thing is their trial version allows 30 minute sessions. I kept on using it for a month or so until I was annoyed with repeated restarts so bought their full suite of products (the difference between two tools and full suite is something like ~10$/month).

> Laptop.
MacBook's keyboard + Trackpad has been a game changer for me. Especially the trackpad. It's incredibly easy for me to navigate using trackpad. From exclusively Linux for ~12 years I've gone full on Apple ecosystem over last 3 years. Now not just Laptop I can also vouch for their bluetooth keyboard, trackpad and iPhone-11, and AirPods Pro.
OP said they have a professional development budget, so it's presumably from an employer. Cute non-answer notwithstanding, I don't think their employer is going to allocate professional development resources for therapy.
> otherwise all our reviews are removed (by which I mean all our positive reviews which are all we have) and are replaced by negative / fake reviews.

Did they tell you this outright?
It’s still a tech sector story. I for one wish to be remain informed of latter-day indentured servitude thriving on a pedagogical Ponzi scheme. No matter how much it makes my skin crawl.
Yeah I’m sure most of these businesses have reopened by now
Did you read the article?

> Historians say drinking was heaviest in the early 1800s, with estimates that in 1830 the average U.S. adult downed the equivalent of 7 gallons a year.

> These days it’s about 2.3 gallons, according to federal calculations. That works out to nearly 500 drinks, or about nine per week.
>Do I trust DEA agents, people who signed up to actively punish and criminalize disproportionately minority and addicted people?

I can't read minds, but I think an equally likely formulation might be "people who signed up to enforce the law on the criminal organizations that perform most drug trafficking"?

I think most petty drug enforcement (of the kind that targets users, rather distributors) is by the states, not the federal government, and therefore much less likely to be done by the DEA.
Republicans' initial refusal to certify Detroit votes 'mind-boggling'
> design is inherently subjective.

It's a really common misconception among technical folks that "subjective" == "arbitrary".

Design is inherently subjective, yes. But that does not mean that all design choices are equally good when goodness is measured by pleasing the greatest quantity of users by the greatest amount.

Ice cream flavor preference is subjective too, but if your ice cream shop only sells "sawdust sprinkles" and "frog's blood", business isn't going to go well for you. Or, perhaps closer to home, the choice of keywords in a programming language is entirely subjective. The compiler does not care if you use "while" or "rkdhx" for loops, but good luck convincing programmers to adopt a language that chooses the latter.

Designers have laboriously learned the aesthetic principles that align with how our visual system works and with the expectations users have coming from our shared culture's graphic history. That's what they mean when they say something is "right" or "wrong", and they have a lot of expertise to back it up.
Also, AMD has still to introduce a DLSS-type functionality, while nVidia’s has matured and is a great performer and looked with 2.0 and above. The advantages of being first to the market.
There are not a lot of those companies which are that big.

You also might not want to manage that many it experts for your infrastructure or you are not able to get them.

Also if your companies product is very technical, i would argue that those companies are much better equiped doing it by themselfs then others.

Nonetheless, it also doesn't need to be all or nothing. You can easily combine a MultiCloud approach.

Build only the stuff which is easy to build and costs a lot on cloud yourself. I would say Buildsystems or compute instances are good candidates.

Like i could imagine putting netflix authentication system on a cloud provider while doing the compute stuff in my own data center and building the CDN myself.
"Socializing costs" is a widely used term to describe the phenomenon of the public taking on private costs for some real or perceived benefit.
Yikes!

"Your Income Share under this Agreement is 17.00%, subject to adjustment for underreporting or overreporting of Earned Income, as described herein."

I think developers need to strongly consider organizing...
Not sure what you mean.

Sometimes you need to "complexify" to put an expression into a form in which you can do something, then simplify it back. You can even generate new terms out of nothing (because b = b + 0 and 0 = a + (-a)) to obtain a specific form. The simplist example I can think of is completing the square:

To get minimum of x^2 + 2x + 2:

x^2 + 2x + 2 =
x^2 + 2x + 1 - 1 + 2 =
(x+1)^2 + 1
because (x+1)^2 >= 0, minimum is 1

So it's important that equivalences like ax+bx = (a+b)x can be applied in either direction - not just in the left-to-right, simplifying direction of factoring, but also the right-to-left direction of expansion.

BTW If always "simplifying", the process is contained, and the possibilities are limited. But because of expansion and generation, it is unconstrained, and can be anything.

I think of "definitions" as defining the meanings of new syntax - in effect, they are lemmas. Can you elaborate on what you mean by them?

BTW the option to automatically apply simplifications would be useful in an assistent tool. But what I'm aiming at is a facilitation of each tiny tedious step - so it's not quite as tedious, but you aren't skipping anything.
How would a mere mortal could possibly divine equations like this?

There is a method behind it. The formulas are derived from the study of relatively simple ODEs, in this example f'(x) = x.f(x) + 1 and g'(x) = x.g(x) − 1. The latter was solved 100 years prior by Jacobi. While the solutions are non-trivial, they are fairly compact, accessible to a high schooler. The presentation linked from the blog is pretty good at unveiling the magic.

This is to say that, with proper guidance, the kid down the street can too become as cool as Ramanujan.

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ramanujan/ramanujan_whittier_...
Yes, DDoS would be illegal in most countries. Picketing in the sense of peaceably assembling on public property outside the business and not harassing innocent bystanders or blocking egress or ingress of workers, customers, or suppliers would generally be fine. The online equivalent would probably be something like posting your complaints on social media.
Sure! This page does a good job of explaining the ISA: https://lambdaschool.com/isa
SVN: "Not enough options!"
Git: "Way more options!"
You: "Too many options! I want more options!"
> But look at China, where they have very little drug usage, due to extremely harsh penalties, and extreme social stigma.

How do you know these are the reasons?
I don't know why they want to lock it down. I don't understand why they lock down iOS either. I also don't know why they are moving further on locking down OSX over time. I'm only observing what they are doing and extrapolate. I don't care what they are saying because it's worth nothing. I rather watch their actions.

I really would love nothing more then buy the new Apple Arm Macbook Pro but I can't risk investing in this ecosystem when, to me, it's quite obvious where Apple stands on this.
I agree on at least one of the books mentioned in other comments ("crucial conv..."), and the other one ("non-violent...") probably also. Thinking about situations differently has also helped me greatly, and I wrote many of my thoughts here http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854585518.html
(tech simple, non-salesy site, dumping ground for my ideas.... The parent w/ more "social emotional growth/maturity" thoughts is http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854753026.html ).

That, plus the fact that we have to know our boundaries, and respect those of others, while being kind. It gets easier w/ practice, but the practice is hard.
original source is down. archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201118135839/https://egpu.io/f...
> I was seeing about how the Apple/Epic fight benefited literally no one and it was just two companies arguing about who got to take all the money... it's very clear from this program that the overall pressure on Apple has been making a difference.

Very true! This new change by Apple, although obviously a PR move, is still evidence that these legal fights against Apple are working.

This is a very clear example of why the lawsuit against Apple was a good thing, and why people should continue to put on more pressure against Apple. Because it forces them to make changes like this.
A bipartisan panel in Michigan's largest county unanimously certified its presidential results, a stunning reversal hours after Republicans had temporarily blocked certification based on dubious claims of voting irregularities in Detroit.

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/11/18/don-lemon...
Are you aware that purchasing marijuana this way puts you on a list that prevents you from passing a NICS background check for firearms? How do you feel about that?

I’m amazed at how many of my friends have MMJ cards or go to recreation stores and have no problem with their ID being scanned — fully unaware that they’re permanently rescinding their 2nd amendment rights so that they can get a little high.

This (IMO) is why Biden is unlikely to support federal legalization of pot, by the way. They want to keep it on the books with decriminalization and unenforcement policies so the ATF policy stays in place.

Anyway, my broader point is that buying marijuana, even in legal states, is not at all the same as buying beer or tea. You’re not made a second class citizen by buying tea or beer.
The point is that within the firm, there can't be that much disparity in pay - if the CEO wants to make several million dollars a year, he needs to justify that by paying his employees an appropriate amount.

If we're talking knowledge work, the work product is the work product, and it doesn't matter where it's generated - the person in Libya has as much right to earn $200k as the American.