skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whole teams moving icons around for months and bikeshedding over whether they wanted 8 or 10 spaces between labels and fields, and still no functioning app.

That sounds more like UI; I don't think this is what the author means by UX. Whether you have 8 or 10 spaces makes no impact on the architecture, but deciding that users should be able to change video quality does. If you try to decide on an architecture first, you will often constrain the UX of your product. If you don't realize that your product needs X feature, but your architecture doesn't support X, you're screwed.
Well, we still have the largest and deadliest army in the world (by orders of magnitude) and the US dollar is the world’s currency. So, while our diplomatic influence may have waned a bit, the US still exerts the lion’s share of hard and soft influence around the world.
Many scaling problems in databases are because the computation is not done in the database. Outside of exotic cases, good database engines are rarely computation-bound in a competently designed system. By pushing computation outside of the database, it tends to increase the consumption of database resources that actually are bottlenecks, typically effective bandwidth (both memory and I/O).

As a heuristic, moving computation to the data is almost always much more scalable and performant than moving the data to the computation. The root cause of most scalability issues is excessive and unnecessary data motion.
The supply of capital-B Bitcoin is 21M, but at any time, anyone can create Bitcoin2, which is an exact clone of Bitcoin but with a fresh chain. Any Bitcoin2 token has exactly the same utility as a Bitcoin token in principle - the only difference is that, for now at least, lots of people are mining Bitcoin and no one is mining Bitcoin2. If there comes a day when a lot of people think there should be 42M bitcoins, instead of 21, what would stop them from just starting a second chain? Granted, these "a lot of people" are not a "central authority", but is there really a difference when it comes to the question of bitcoin's total supply? As long as those people have enough compute they're willing to put to work mining Bitcoin2, there's nothing stopping them from creating more tokens that are just as useful as original Bitcoins.

And, of course, they could freely choose to make Bitcoin2 have a trillion tokens instead of 21M, or whatever number they want.
"oh look the peasants are ripping each other to shreds, how delightful! Jenkins! Fetch me my binoculars!"

EDIT: Translation: Yes, it is quite obviously the rich that profit from the current "culture war" while the working class, regardless of their political views, are pulling the short straw.
It's more comparable to cannabis, maybe worse though?

Don't think it's on the same level as cocaine.
I bookmarked the article and will consult it next time I’m reviewing instance types for a cluster.
I don't understand, this was repealed very fast and now you are trying to use slippery slope argument to say democrats are going to somehow regulate how many hours of TV you can do in a day?

Are you living in 2014 still? When has anything like the failed soda drink ban happened since then?
Democracies or not, regardless, I think the key for citizens is to have both a scientific mind as well as a fighting spirit. Lack of either would be a disaster.

So that it's pretty costly for the ruling class to push ordinary people around. Not that they can't, I mean they still control the army and police so technically they can still do whatever they want, but in reality it's going to be very expensive, financially and politically to push people around if ordinary people possess both qualities.
So your friends did the hard drugs anyway even though they were illegal?

I think you kind of support the case of why not make them legal.
5800X is faster than 10700K and 3700X is better value than 10700K. It's pointless to buy Intel.
I understand these seem to be sensitive and 'political' issues in the US. I just do not understand how any of this labeling and segregation can be productive in a workplace.
I've been dabbling in crypto since the lockdown (all red, but I've had fun) and this space is like the wild west early days of the internet, with even more scammers. We're past the heady ICO days but now, all the scams have moved to Uniswap.

And I might be guilty of being elitist, but I rarely, if ever, see founders with A+ tier credentials (Ivy league education, FAANG/Investment banking/Mckinsey et al) starting crypto businesses.

Most coins are also like penny stocks - the trading volume is so low that a single whale can cause big shifts in valuation, making pump and dump schemes extremely easy.
Another echo from those old days: this news about Amazon was broken by a writer named Lauren Gurley.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a famous union organizer who fought the Pinkertons more than a hundred years ago.

Coincidentally, the new novel The Cold Millions by Jess Walter portrays Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the Pinkertons in Spokane in 1909.

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

(A quick search shows Lauren Gurley is a prolific writer on labor issues but doesn't mention any connection to the earlier Gurley - the names might be just a coincidence)
If only there were a way to make it harder to get without making it illegal. Unfortunately any way I can think of would lead back to the black markets being viable.
This is a good point, but in Canada's case it was self inflicted. They had a strong desire to limit the number of people in the market for, I think, very opaque reasons. Assuming it's just so politician's friends can become rich by being first movers.
> In practice, we often treat the bias as an exogenous factor when it is not, moving it outside the scope of our responsibility

Thanks the comment and this explication, you clarified the conflict that incident for me.

While I think the sibling comment is correct that LeCun and Gebru would agree on the proximate causes and mitigations of the adverse outcomes of that particular super-resolution model, the issue was (seemingly?) that focusing on the proximate causes can be read as absolving researchers of their responsibility for those outcomes, and avoids discussion of that responsibility in any instance.

Which is a entirely fair criticism of the field as a whole, though it may have been a bit lost in translation to the particular avatars in that instance.
It's likely a combination of the sunk cost fallacy and loving the syntax and maybe the enablement for quick iteration (and all 3 aren't specific to PHP at all).

I have the same opinion about Python btw. Just today I had to install a complex toolkit for flashing ROMs and you can guess that thing absolutely didn't work on the first try and I learned much more about "pip" than I ever wanted to.
It doesn't really seem like a war that can be won, the harder you crack down the more expensive it gets and the more incentive gangs have to try and make it.
You know full well there are plenty of situations where that's not an option and that almost no one fully appreciates what happens when they press agree.

The whole culture around closed smart phone apps is completely rotten.
New Amazon EBS general purpose volumes, gp3
Thanks, Bethany and we fully agree obviously!
Asking as a non-astronomer: my understanding is that other telescopes in this class are synthetic/multiple aperture, and not single-aperture like Arecibo (with a small number of exceptions, like FAST).

Is there any science you can do on extremely-large single-aperture telescopes that you can't do on comparable synthetic/multiple aperture telescopes?
Without arguing about what is worse, i think it is important to look at the stats of Alcohol damage in the US for example:
https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/impaired_driving/im...

In 2016, 10,497 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for 28% of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.1

Of the 1,233 traffic deaths among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2016, 214 (17%) involved an alcohol-impaired driver.1

The victims can be total strangers, on the road for example. Also, this above citation is just regarding traffic accidents, there are of course other impacts.
One has to be blind to not see that this is already happening.
I always found it a bit hilarious, what’s the de facto difference between something being legal, and it being decriminalized to the point where you have stores selling it? Not a rhetorical question.
The other cartels disappear, and "goon vets" will probably form their own if they aren't already double-dealing, but they will all be a lot less extremely as faking domestic consumption opens a legal grey area.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/23/how-organised-c... would end up like this if everything averaged out, but while the USSR was basically turned into neoliberal hell, the trajectory in Colombia is much much more optimistic so I suspect the outcome will be far better.

It's Mexico and Central America I'm more worried about than Colombia.
But it could be feasible to pay them more than a poverty wage. Something where working full-time would reasonably cover housing and food costs (and ideally healthcare as well) without needing government assistance.
Doesn't look like Timescale supports Postgres 13. Hmmm.
It's because you don't live in the EU. Millions of people have had instant money transfers for years now.
> My employer can try to persuade me not to join one

Yes, and isn't this therefore an example of 'tactics that are ok for a company to combat unions'?
I was very tempted to get the new XPS 13 but the Intel CPU + the reported QA issues made me reconsider.

The problem is yes, there's no AMD equivalent it seems. Maybe T14s but it's not available in my country right now.
I've always wondered this-- in the game dev field, what're the standard options for server frameworks? Are Unity/Unreal the major players there too?

Like in web dev of course we have a million frameworks like Springboot, Rails, Django, Flask, Express, etc, but those aren't used for games like Call of Duty and Destiny and Fortnite etc-- they use something else and we never hear about that stuff at all in the "mainstream" software discussions.

Really interested in what's used there.
In the past, I believe the U.S. would not have allowed this. And the U.S. has some very "persuasive" mechanisms to not allow Latin American countries to do things, in explicit or implicit, overt or covert ways.

I am no fan of the Trump administration, but honestly they should have tried this while Trump was still in office, they would have had more chance of getting away with it. For whatever reason "drugs" never really became one of Trumps hot button issues (which kind of surprised me; it used to be a right-wing trigger, but apparently is no longer?), and the Trump administration didn't see to care at all about traditional U.S. foreign policy objectives (for good or ill; in this case it would be for good), or anything that wasn't one of his hot-button issues.
As somebody who has been involved in various diversity efforts for years, I'm honestly not that upset about all of this. There are real problems associated with discrimination in the US, for example in the criminal justice system. Likewise, there is discrimination in less high-stakes areas like tech.

However, the main problem with Timnit and her colleagues is that they come into every situation assuming racism even when the situation is ambiguous. Likewise, if you disagree with her or want to have a nuanced discussion, she'll accuse you of imposing intellectual labor on her and in some sense you are racist for forcing her to engage in discussion.

Again, so while I appreciate how she is purportedly working to make my life better in tech, there needs to be a real awakening as far as giving people the benefit of the doubt and allowing for discussion without shaming. Google has accumulated many people with this type of attitude who have created a culture of intimidation. You can see all of this happening in real time as her colleagues come to her defense knowing little about the situation and assuming that she was fired because she was black.
The mysterious part would be a joke. The actual reasoning, which Yarvin himself has explained, is to unify the underlying data values between booleans and c-style return codes. In C and unix, the convention is that 0 indicates program success and any other value indicates some kind of program failure. It's strange for the fundamental success code to be false when cast as a boolean, so it makes sense to either change the success codes or change the booleans. Changing the success codes would actually be pretty incoherent - what would you do, 0 and >1 values are failure and 1 is success? - so it makes more sense to change the booleans if something is going to change

Not saying I agree it's worth the trouble. Even Yarvin agrees it wasn't worth the trouble. But he didn't just pull this idea out of nowhere
Ahh I got it now. This is great answer and would make a lot of sense. The tech industry is very male-driven and plagued with a lot of issues, so I’d only imagine these groups as essential part of many employees survival / wellbeing.
Also I’d argue that these are people issues and not US political issues.
Yeah, California is pretty similar. A related point that comes up a lot is that if you give notice that you are quitting effective on date X, your employer is entitled to say, ok we accept your resignation but it’s effective immediately, or some earlier date. Sometimes an employee will have a quitting plan that is like, they will do x y z while still at the company and then quit after a drawn out period of several months, and the manager would prefer to just move on.
The nice thing about being Stripe is they can decide what the terms are. I'm sure they thought this through.
That "special money" had a name called "the scrip" [0].

Here's a really short video of what used to be a "company town" in Appalachia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCxG_SCnQE

One of the host's grand dad was paid in scrip until the 1970s.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
Alcohol wrecks plenty of people's lives for sure even today, and yet... it probably wrecked more people's lives in the US when they tried to illegalize it.

You have the people's lives it wrecks as users (probably not all that diminished when illegalized), and then you can add to it the people's lives wrecked as a result of the criminalized industry.

But that's why they made alcohol illegal in the US for a bit in the early 20th century, because they worried it was wrecking people's lives. (And it surely was wrecking some people's lives, as it still is).
This study provides absolute estimate:

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...

10 out of 1000 men, and 14 out of 1000 women; those are excess cancer deaths which can be attributed to moderate alcohol consumption (one bottle of wine per week)

> The UK’s Million Women Study reported an excess incidence of 15 per 1000 cancer cases for each additional alcoholic drink consumed per day, 11 due to breast cancer [14, 16].
The US sends massive amounts of aid to columbia, both cash and military support. That is premised on the drug war.

It’s premised on not going full Communist. Everything else is just window dressing and everyone knows it.

Flip it around, imagine Columbia was Communist and drug-funded guerrillas were fighting the government. Who would the US be backing? Clue: the US happily backed a bunch of poppy farmers against the Soviets...
Should Red Hat be afraid of SUSE's Rancher acquisition?
Sorry, not intending to have my reply read as a support one way or another, just wanted to make sure to draw the distinction between alcohol and hard drug use. I see some people advocating for complete legalization claiming that alcohol use has terrible effects and is legal, so other drugs should be as well. I can only imagine those people haven't watched what a year of meth can do to a person, or that cocaine use is strongly correlated to other hard drug use as well, etc.
Right, the foreign demand is not going away. I only see it causing the price to increase. But sure enough, there will be organized chrime getting dope to where it needs to be.
Is there any chance at all that this gets rebuilt? Is anybody even putting the costs requirements together to do it, or is this just a total loss?

This is so unbelievably sad to see. It reminds me of seeing Notre Dame burning last year.
Organic farms use pesticides: They are just limited in what pesticides they use. This isn't a secret or fraud. Unfortunately, the pesticides allowed can easily be worse for the environment than the chemical counterpart. Fertilizers have the same woes, and folks can still not take care of the land.
What else do you want?

Be weary of "rockstar" scientists. Science is for the most part about incremental insights, and shouldn't make you famous.
Damn this sounds so advanced coming from the USA. COVID massively disrupted reusable bag effort here in CA, USA.
Not saying that's not impressive, but you had me thinking for a second that Nvidia was already going past AMD's previous top end card. But that's actually the 5700XT, which is 4.5x as popular as the RX5700 non-XT. The RX5700 is not as widely available in the first place if my understanding is correct.

But yeah Nvidia in general has got the market for gamers pretty much cornered. People will go for Nvidia all the time if the price is the same ballpark. But it still has ways to go before it comes even close to its predecessors in the RTX 2080 and the RTX 2080 Super, both of which are about as popular as the RX5700XT.
> While criminalising hard drugs is not ideal, legalising them and thereby making them more easily available will have a devastating impact and destroy too many lifes.

The problem is with demand creation driven by the process, not with the supply part of it.

The whole opioid epidemic is a classic example of accidental demand creation for the drugs and trying to fix it in steps by crushing the supply. But the actual medical use prevents the supply from being completely locked down.

In the US, I'm waiting to see what the Oregon experiment looks like - where they're trying to tackle the existing demand instead of worrying about demand growth (i.e help existing addicts, instead just of preventing new addicts).
the Javascript tag is misspelled in this article too:

Karen on Python mocks: threading.Timer
An Elixir Phoenix's page live-reload never took more than one second even on a fairly weak i3 laptop for me. And on my desktop Mac it usually takes 0.2s.

Not that big a deal at all.
"rebuilt from scratch" means "as if the production server just fell into a woodchipper and I'm taking a new one out of the crate now"

You cannot do that with databases because the data needs to come from somewhere.

I'm sure you could implement some kind of echo server in SQL somehow and yeah that is a "database" that could be rebuilt from scratch with no loss but that's obviously not the kind of thing we are talking about here.
Alcohol is very significantly less addictive and less harmful than "hard drugs".
There is a huge difference between unions in the US and Europe. When you organise a union in the US, you often do it in order to have some rights that employees in Europe already have. So normally there is little incentive to form such a union in Europe among white-collar workers.
I wonder whats going on with the cable when it fails.

It seems to be snapping/frays at first, but then it seems like it was pulled out of its base
Thanks for the feedback! I can see what you're saying. I'll look into shaving off some elements to make it more minimalistic.
She was in a position of privilege to hire people. Did she hire any black women or men to help with the lack of diversity she refers to?
Why? There's a lot of stuff getting developed with web technology as the platform of choice. Not because developers want to, but because major stakeholders are pushing for it. It enables cross-device deployment without gatekeeping by platform holders and crusty IT departments. Making the platform worse just makes these applications worse, it won't turn them into pristine native applications.
> So saying that making anti-white comments is degrading our culture is a dog whistle? Got it. I'm sick of this whole schtick. Its impossible to argue with people who have set it up so that everything they disagree with is racism.

Yes it is a dog whistle. Racist dog whistles are not necessarily racist in and of themselves, it is often a choice of words such as the hyperbolic "degrading our culture" which match up with the language of media put out and consumed by people of a particular belief.
> The fact that the US has had an outlier position in terms of Geopolitical influence for the last half century is not a guarantee of this being true in the future.

In fact, we should absolutely look at this as a historical fluke. We were the only major world power that didn't have significant WWII battles in our own territory destroying our industrial infrastructure. From 1945 on, we were #1 primarily because most of the European and Asian powers had been destroyed by the war. That effect doesn't last forever.

The US does have a lot going for it. We have very ample natural resources, natural borders that are cheaper to enforce, and a large mostly culturally unified population. But that default presumption that US is #1 at all things is naturally fading as WWII recedes into the past.
If the US gets national legalized weed under an aggressively centrist Biden administration, and then the likes of Phillip Morris gobble up much of the industry, expect the situation abroad to change really fast.
>bonds pay a risk premium - crypto, gold, etc... don't generate income, which by definition makes them speculative.

What about staking? In this case, you're providing a service to the network and being compensated for it.
AMD Is Making Progress on Open-Source Firmware – Initially with OpenBMC
Ah that was my fear, not because I feel like I'm a terrible software engineer and I'd be asking for PIP by joining Amazon. More just because mortgages etc, I'm very anxious money wise.
There's points in here I could spend time refuting. e.g. I would disagree that 'add[ing] tesla to the sp500 = instability'
It's not necessary to spend to verify, the Bitcoin protocol allows a signed message to demonstrate ownership of the private key for an address.
> So you seem to be essentially saying, you think we know pretty much everything already

Not in the slightest. I've explicitly said we have "a reasonable understanding of nutrition" and not even vaguely implied that we know everything. Am I misunderstanding you that poorly too, and is that why we seem to be in such disagreement?
Alcohol is a hard drug.

It's deceptive because it's legal but it's killed more people than any other drug. It's ruined more lives than any other drug. It has one of the worst withdrawals of any drug.
Didn't stop Google from firing two employees in regards to union organizing. It doesn't matter what they did, if the NLRB is backing the employees, the company is in the wrong. Having to wait for a government agency to respond to your case of being wrongfully terminated is a PITA as it is. The fact that they determined the employee was conducting protected behavior which Google actively disagrees with just goes to show these companies are so large they're more than willing to just eliminate union organizers and wait for the government to tell them they broke the law as opposed to ensuring they follow it in the first place.
No, the key difference is: Facebook isn't putting more effort into fighting anti-black discrimination; it's changing its algos to ignore anti-white racism that it is already capable of detecting.