skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If her goal was to perform research that would positively impact AI that runs in production, then taking a position at Google doesn't seem like the worst idea. Especially with since their stated principles [1] seem to fit that agenda.

Unfortunately enacting change "from within" isn't always easy. It's easy to forget that Google AI still sits underneath the megacorp.

[1] https://ai.google/principles/
LGR has made a video recently, installing one (it had an ISA edge connector, not PC/104) with a backplane in a desktop case: https://youtu.be/Q4qJf50YSVk
so if I have registered MyChildsFullName @ gmail to prevent anyone else from taking it, I now need to make sure it gets at least one email every couple years to prevent them from deleting it before my child is old enough to use it?
I'm not discounting anything. Everything adds up to a shitty experience for the viewer because people upstream are greedy.
This is your take on the day before SpaceX attempts to fly the worlds first fully reusable spacecraft to 15 km and land it? That if successful will put larger payloads into space at less than one hundredth the cost of the Space Shuttle, and enable manned deep space missions to Mars and beyond?

Just weeks after Apple unveiled the worlds fastest CPU core running on only 15 watts (with credit to a Brit architecture)?

If you look at the world through a filtered lens, of course you only see what you want to see.
2020 Bloomberg 50
So, is there a cloud email backup service? I had this happen to my hotmail and that sucked.
Sure, but Yann LeCun is a neural network expert. Should it be his job to tackle social/systemic/institutional problems? What if he doesn't want to?
But you can always find people in a shitty to do the job for cheaper than a local worker. why would local workers (=voters) want that?

The government should make rules that make lives better for their citizens,... other citizens have their own governments to take care of them.
I've heard that heavy sustained AVX3 / AVX-512 workloads have the potential to damage CPU's [0][1]. Would running/testing/playing around this software potentially risk damaging my CPU? Or is this only a risk when overclocking?

I'm not being facetious with this question at all - more genuine curiosity / responsible preventative caution for my own machines, because I'm very much interested in playing around with this if it's reasonable to do so.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22382946

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14426798
True, and I don’t expect generic manufacturers to completely close the gap between them and Apple, but I do expect there will be enough to copy that we’ll still see a step change in PC performance.
Docker not working sure was a deal breaker for me. That's the sort of thing I would expect to work out of the box. A huge number of developers use that daily and they seem like a pretty big chunk of Apple's target market for macbook pros.
Main pro for me was free network gear. Servers are more expensive that self hosting - but I don't need to buy routers and switches or some expensive HP blade server that has internalized switches.
No, I don't particularly enjoy wearing them and avoid them to prevent causing hearing damage.
I personally tend to do inconvenient things instead of justifying the least worst expedient option, but it's wrong to pretend that everyone does. From what I've read about stowing your pet, it's basically inviting animal abuse (being left to sit on a hot tarmac, etc).
Would that really explain the difference between 5 minutes on Timescale and 2 weeks on Timestream? Timeseries databases need the ability to ingest data rapidly.
Also most Americans don't realize what a wild west Mexico is for over the counter drugs. You can buy dangerous stuff like testosterone over the counter no problem.
How about this:

- Change the way we commute: Tesla

- Change the way we work: Zoom and other remote work enablers

- Change the way we eat: Beyond / Impossibe and other meat substitutes
You could use bitmap fonts to get truly sharp text. I'm a big fan of terminus at 9pt. It makes non-bitmap fonts look blurry and awful by comparison.
A real shame that Pango broke bitmap support and your choice of terminal emulator and other stuff is limited now.
10 years since Heroku acquisition – reflection
M$ used to delete HoTMaiL emails after 2w inactivity in the early 2000s. Back when the limit was 20MB.
...or they hire an american, who they have to pay money than a foreigner, and is not tied to them via their visa.
People being able to feed and house themselves and their children is arbitrary?

That “agreement” to work for the current price is compelled by the threat of hunger and homelessness. It is not a fair and free agreement when one party has all of the power.

The very very very very least a company could do is pay all of their workers a living wage.
Well that big impact will only materialize if Apple can convince developers to make apps for this platform, something they have not been doing well as it is. (with intel offerings)

They need to stop ceding the desktop game market to windows/amd/intel. When Catalina dropped it remove a lot of software, productivity, utility, and games, had many examples where they no longer ran. Worse some developers just wrote off the platform.

Even Apple's M1 debut could not line up more than two or three known developers. Most of it was from developers people had to resort to google for and even then some didn't show up in search lists.

No, Apple's problem with the Windows platform is and has always been software. Apple never seemed keen on pushing the Mac as a platform with iPhone and iPad being the focus on so many levels. Now that they have a truly impressive offering we have to hope they go recruiting developers to the platform because Rosetta won't be here forever and it doesn't solve the availability issue.
My guess is that legalization is badly implemented in NL. Isn't it more like a "look the other way" policy, so that businesses in the industry still have to operate underground? If you make a business illegal, then only criminals will do it. In the US, marijuana has become extremely boring very quickly. The industry is now dominated by artisinal bud brands, IoT vape pods, and CBD smoothies, not gangs. Perhaps NL needs to legalize all the way.

Growing marujuana, as a business, is fundamentally almost exactly the same as growing any crop.
"Base" clock dropped, but boost clocks remained fairly high. In practice performance gains were quite good (except, notably, for that time when Apple used old power control firmware and had 6C/12T processors underperform their 4C/8T predecessors).

The point of this is that the significant improvement from Kaby Lake to Whiskey Lake involved only small architectural refinement and updates to an existing process, so much larger performance/power improvements should absolutely be expected from an entirely new process plus architecture refinement.
This is a very interesting perspective.

Though, I think technology is the big differentiating factor between movies and books. The quality of CGI, special effects, resolution, cameras, etc. are constantly improving and I think a significant portion of the younger demographic fails to appreciate older movies due to the obvious age of the films.
There just isn't much evolution in how books are consumed or written. Digital books make them more accessible, but are not exclusive to new releases.

Other than technology, I think marketing and name recognition are the primary factors for selecting both movies and books because of a popularity bias. New media is heavily marketed and will likely still receive a lot more consumption.
> It's especially problematic when there's no countdown

"The company said it will notify users multiple times before attempting to remove any content."
On the contrary, I personally think the suggestion is a useful thought exercise.

There are a lot of interviews in Guitar magazine on the total rig used by particular guitarists. For example: https://guitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rig-diagram-Ma...

Of course, this includes the whole signal chain, including the pick!
This does seem like a better analogy. The visual display on this particular loop pedal is a ring, as well. I'm going to think more about this!

[edited: added word "pedal"]
Only wishful thinking from my side. As mentioned in the post, I hope that the M1 performance and aggressive apple marketing will push premium pc laptop manufactures in adopting the best performance x86 CPUs. And I also hope that AMD will seize the opportunity to get a good chunk of mobile market.

Of course, next year laptop models are probably being finished right now, and it could be that intel still found a way to bribe premium manufactures from including AMD in their premium models.

In my opinion they'll lose marketshare if that happens. But, there are most likely smart people with a lot of more information than me making these decisions.
>IMO Python has one of the more mature packaging ecosystems out there

Ouch, what languages are you using where this is true? For example, JS / NPM / Yarn are absolutely blowing pip out of the water. I guess I can imagine Java or C++ users having your perspective though
> I wish I could look back to how naive and childish I was at the beginning of my time online.

This is the video that comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoUrLbHg5z4
Being able to legally produce the cocaine and have the state's protection, open access to financial and labor markets available would no doubt fucking revolutionize the cocaine industry. It'd be the biggest thing to happen to cocaine since crack!

For example, with it legal the local police and/or military would protect your shipments within Colombia's borders instead of seizing or destroy them... for free!

I've heard something like 50% of illegal drug shipments are lost/stolen/seized by the time they get to their destination market... and it's still wildly fucking profitable to produce. Imagine being able to produce it cheaper, safer, and faster-- then cocaine becomes the rest of the world's problem. It'll push the violence out of Colombia and into the markets where it's being bought and financed... inverting the grip of terror. I hope they do it and I hope it's glorious for 'em.

The rest of the world needs to learn drugs are a health issue at most and never a criminal one. The only criminals are the ones we make...
What's another good email provider?

I am starting to feel really nervous about storing my life in Google. It's not that I wouldn't pay for these things...it's just that I worry one day I'll lose access and fall into the pit of "trying to get Google to help a single human regain access" that sounds horrible.
> If you email your employer saying give me this or I resign

If it's that clear cut it's that clear cut. Without the email I can not tell.

Timnit Gebru said she "hadn't resigned" and "had asked for simple conditions". So according to her the intent to resign was not in her email.

https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334341991795142667

It's possible to not have the intent and still word something as a clear cut formal offer to resign however. With out the email it is not possible to tell where this falls.
Never get in captivity without Internet access for more than 2 years ;)
Yeah, I might have :-)

You should be farther from your monitor than you are from your laptop.
I meant that you stated the syndication threshold as the sole reason for filler, and as I tried to explain, there were other thresholds at play.
That applies to small companies where you're significant in any way. It does not apply for ~anyone investing in stock market. The larger companies neither care what you think nor know that you exist. Your investment has no impact on it and the price you get is a result of collective belief influenced by predicted valuations.

If you invest in large companies on the public stock market, it's about the same as investing in cryptocurrency.
Lol what's up buddy! It's Tor!

SO FUNNY.

Just wanted to comment that mushrooms naturally erode wood and decomposing biomass (I used to study environmental science). That's sort of just what they do. Keep em damp and away from sunlight and they should do an even better job!
My statement is more about what I would _like_. Meaning, if Google is saying 'If you stop using google products, 2 years later we will full delete all of your data', I would spot using them today, right now.

If there is grey area, I probably wouldn't/don't care, because what can I really do?
I gave a pair of talks on the background and history here. They may help? Transcripts + video:

* https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-2019/

* https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-async-await/

I'd be re-writing what's in there, so check those out and if it's still confusing, I'll check back in this thread (there's a joke here somewhere...) later.
> Banning drug use by force is a US pipe dream. It's impossible.

Is it though? If harder drugs were legal, wouldn't harder drug use be much more common? Cannabis is one thing, the perceived impact to oneself is relatively low. Meth, a hard, illegal drug - is growing in some areas radically; so are some prescription drug use.

There is a large group of citizens who don't try things because they are illegal (because they don't want to bring legal trouble) rather than not trying those things because they are bad for health. (Humans are fairly bad at rejecting things that are bad for them - but good at numbing them). eg: Alcohol, smoke, caffeine, soda, refined sugar.
Heh I remember when they changed the 6MB limit to 2MB
You really need a screen for a projector, even the flattest white walls have some kind of texture that is prominent enough to degrade the image. Luckily screens can be had for quite cheap, at least in comparison to the cost of the projector itself.

But also, if you want high-quality surround sound, then the center speaker needs to be at ear height in front of you. The way home cinema owners arrange that is by putting the speaker behind a screen that has tiny perforations to let the sound through.
Why are you waiting until that backup service goes bankrupt? Buy a HD and backup your stuff at home.
I'm right there with you. Granted, most of my experiences in the cinema have been fine, but there are a handful of awful experiences caused by vast differences in mine and others' cinema-going norms. For me, the cinema is simply a tolerable risk/nuisance in order to get the best possible audiovisual experience. I really don't need to hear crowds laugh or gasp—that can be interesting to experience, but I find it entirely separate from my primary enjoyment of film.
> I'd still like to see the big action flicks in the theater, and if I were a teen, I'd still prefer dates in a theater rather than at home, and I'm sure a lot of people feel safer having a date at a theater than at someone's house.

I never understood why going to the movies is a common thing to do on a date, don't you want to get to know the other person and be able to talk to them?
"Siam rehab" really?

> THC concentrates stimulate the same areas within the brain which heroin, cocaine and alcohol reaches.

This is not-even-wrong, drugs don't stimulate areas they reach specific receptors. These people don't even understand the circulatory system, let alone psychopharmacology!

THC is a partial agonist of cannabis receptors. What that means is, and any pothead can confirm this for you, there's a level of high which you can't exceed, no matter how much you take in.

It's habit-forming, and can have numerous unpleasant psychological consequences, including psychosis. But concentrates aren't magic. They mostly exist for users with a high tolerance from prior use, which includes recreational addicts but also includes pain patients, whether by prescription or not.

There is no world in which the effects of concentrated cocaine should be compared to dabs, Doreen.
What are the rules on advertising jobs? In the past, I've seen positions notified internally on a pin up board in the lunchroom. Apparently there is some law that requires that.
I wonder if that's the bare minimum or if jobs have to be notified online now. I know a lot of legal things have to be notified in newspapers for example. This is usually the print edition which have less subscribers these days.

But now that companies are fully remote, how are you supposed to be notified of pending H1B, jobs etc... ? It seems like an interesting question!
They don't, but as a society we would all benefit from some way to archive at least some of that. Future historians will curse us for not leaving behind letters, photos, etc. (which is especially ironic given how much more of them we're each generating).
So many hours logged on that map in Battlefield 4 <3
Or maybe because foreigners are cheaper, are willing to work more for their pay, and even if treated badly, they won't quit, because they'll have to leave their country then.
FastMail / ProtonMail are good. But even they won't just store your mail forever for free.
Life is simply unfair, nothing has been dealt worse
The ISA bus interface and NE2000 programming are not modern--although I'm sure there's some modern industrial motherboards that still have an ISA slot.

But the design of this card is modern--everything is down to two ICs and a few other tiny surface mount parts that look more at home on a cellphone board than a PC ISA card from the 80's.

Compare with pictures of actual old ISA NE2000-compatible cards (eBay a good source) and I'm sure the BOM is at least 2x of this NIC.

Plus this is open source.
IMO this is a huge and underrated advantage of bitmapped fonts.

The problem is that you need a font at exactly the right scale to realize this advantage. The right scale is often different for every user/monitor pair and changing the scale means redrawing the font which is a ton of work.
It's cinema.
"Listen to a few episodes of Marketplace if you want the most obvious corporate propaganda imaginable."

You mean NPR's business news show? That's what business news is, right?
Facebook's Libra is now Diem; STABLE says stablecoins must get banking licenses
An important point barely mentioned in the article is how long Burry has been short Tesla for. It mentions he was short at September's Battery Day event. The stock is up 28% since then. Has he been short since it was $30? What's his price target? Why?
for sure yes; treating people like people not robots or cattle or employees, just other humans who have needs, wants, and emotions.
Are requests a valid measurement of value? Why didn't the astronomer community band together to save it?

They've funded a good number of very expensive telescopes the last 20 years, the fact they didn't fund refurbishment here sees to tell a great deal about its actual value over building new radio telescopes.
Because we got used to that. They trained us to be this way. It’s their fault. Why did they have to give us free stuff and then take it away? It’s not fair. It’s been free as air. Not free as water.

/rant.
> There still has to be consensus on using gold as money

This is a great point. The choice to value gold as currency over other rare metals is 'a cultural property of the community' and yet not 'trivial' to change, just as Bitcoin's consensus isn't.
The difference to me is that gold is a precious metal with finite tangible volume. It can be used to create goods. So, there’s value there.

But Bitcoin was designed to be a currency. Certainly the software is worth something. Or maybe nothing really. Look at other FOSS.

As far as a currency goes though? I don’t want my currency to fluctuate.

The idea of bargaining with an employer or client to pay me “more” this week versus last because the value of the currency dropped 11% is ridiculous.

Bitcoin is dead on arrival because it’s design doesn’t evade the central banking problem. A currency cannot have a limited supply when value as a production of labor is not limited.
I think we both have opinions that go in the same general direction. My point was just that "more permissive H1-B rules" doesn't take _any_ advantage away from existing American workers; a logical company would be even more inclined to hire an existing American worker over attempting to get a status for a new foreign worker.
> the simplification is a many-to-one mapping

Simplification is a many-to-many mapping. There are many characters that were either merged in the process of standardizing traditional Chinese characters or have multiple meanings which are split by standard simplified Chinese.

Here's a very small sample of a bunch of Traditional -> Simplified examples.

乾 -> 乾 (qian2)、干 (gan1) (干 is itself a merger of multiple traditional characters)

夥 -> 夥 (huo3)、伙 (huo3)

兒 -> 儿 (er2)、兒 (ni2)

祇 -> 祇 (qi2)、只 (zhi3) (只 is also itself a merger of multiple traditional characters)

> Try for example 發. I bet it's not going to be so straightforward.

I'd be pretty shocked if any literate Chinese speaker in the PRC did not recognize that character.

I think in general you're overestimating the difficulty of learning traditional characters when educated in a system using solely simplified characters.

PRC undergraduate courses will sometimes just flat-out assume knowledge of traditional characters. Indeed I have a textbook from a history of Chinese medicine class that's entirely in traditional characters. The professor (not unreasonably) just assumed we all already knew traditional characters or would pick it up in a week or two. All subsequent course material (e.g. test materials) was also in traditional characters, although we were allowed to write in simplified characters (and I think everyone in the class did so).

I'm sure there's some corner cases you could use to stump people, but PRC kids consume quite a lot of traditional Chinese material even if they're not formally taught it in school. It's more mentally taxing than just reading simplified characters, but it's still fairly straightforward.

In general it's pretty easy to pick up either character set if you're a fluent reader in the other, at least for reading. Learning how to handwrite both sets is trickier and probably requires dedicated training, but even then only on the order of weeks or at most months.

> (to be fair, many probably due to the automated conversion, and some might be an intentional pun)

I'm fairly certain the overwhelming majority are due to automated conversions.
Wait, how does guix avoid a dependency resolver? It still has dependencies for packages... are they just hardcoding exact dependencies (including versions) and relying on the "can install multiple versions of a package" property to make that work? That seems inefficient, though I guess maybe they need that for the "this hash means this exact binary" outcome?
Uh, no. Arecibo was quite a low priority for the NSF/NASA for good reasons -- there are other, better, telescopes and facilities to fund.
Performance basically. As SQL is a set based language you can often replace cursors (which are basically loops) with joins and that is orders of magnitude quicker for larger workloads.
I'd pay. But mostly, I'd pay to know the customer service would respond to me. Customer service at Google is like trying to cancel Verizon service - endless transfers.
A rational actor would consider risk of ruin.
Who are you trying to prevent from taking the handle? Seems like it's either a) adults - that have a legit use for it now, b) soon to be adults that will have a legit use for it sooner than your kid does.