skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Wikipedia "Peak oil is the year when the maximum rate of extraction of petroleum is reached, after which it is expected to enter terminal decline."
Yes it does, because it’s cheap enough that you should get one! It’s an amazing device :)
Features
Drag and place the menu anywhere on screen.

The smart menu system detects the edges of the screen and flips the menu automatically.

Support for nested menus.

Keyboard Accessible.

Support for custom themes.

Built with Typescript.

Intuitive API with data driven behavior.

Built with the all new Vue 3.
I helped a company scope out a service like this out. I hated it so much that ever since, I simply turn away from anything that would require me to use them. Needless to say, the company I was testing it with did not continue to use the service.

If interviews tend to be a little awkward to begin with, I find these online tech screeners to be over the top awkward. And with the results, we had a hard time determining how much value they added, because it was clear that the results were sub-par.
Or that Nest, Stadia, Waze is Google
When it comes to Apple's mobile GPUs (and now M1) their main advantage is that they have a custom architecture and compiler and they're both the result of lots of experts working hard on both and leveraging existing work (in the architecture case, the fact that they started from PowerVR's world-class design, and in the compiler case, the fact that their shader compiler is based on LLVM). They're really well-designed chips. Unfortunately there's no particular reason that they would be better at ML than any other GPU, since they had no reason to consider it in the design process until somewhat recently.
It's very hard to take a suitcase full of cash across a border. It's very easy to take a private key for a wallet-account full of cryptocurrency across a border.
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> Again, short-term thinking. As a purely digital currency, cryptocurrency gets greener every year as the grid gets greener.

I'm happy to pause all cryptocurrency mining and transactions until humanity is carbon free. I doubt long BTCs will be though.
Show HN: Personal Recipe Site
I wish I could filter out every "Bitcoin dumb LOL" reply that inevitably appears in the comments. We get it, we've heard all the jokes before, thank you.
SpaceX sends a new Dragon spacecraft loaded with science experiments to ISS
Yes, but there is no mention of debugging. In the hands of Excel cowboys, this can become another foot gun.
https://dotcomagain.com/paa

bad data. paa.com is not available.
Poorer folk in the countryside will be surrounded by land that is worth less and will be taxed less accordingly. Land value tax means a square meter in manhattan gets taxed the same as an acre in middle of nowhere wyoming.

Rich folk hoarding higher value but physically smaller land/buildings in the city centres surrounded by amenities and transport infrastructure will be buried in taxes. Either they make that land work for its taxes or they yield it to somebody who will.

It'll cause better development of land too since land speculation will be removed from the land development formula. Either you make buildings people like and want to rent and you make a profit or you don't. As a landlord you'll be both insulated from declines in an area's popularity and unable to profit from an area being suddenly fashionable.
War is mostly work.
I see it making spreadsheets easier to convert into code, too. Many “business programs” begin as a spreadsheet.
> I sometimes have this thought at the back of my mind about using the same reading time for books instead.

This implies that books are inherently superior. But sometimes the author's content isn't a book length. (I see this a lot in books from Harvard Business Review where what is really called for is a dense article, but that doesn't put a book on the author's resume.)

Some arguments are intrinsically long. Building up an understanding of thermodynamics (not just a summary of its formulation) is certainly book length. Scheidel's 'Escape from Rome' is not going to fit into an article.

So I don't really balance. Sometimes I have a big book in flight and that's going to take a lot of my attention. Sometimes I don't, but I have a number of interesting articles. I aim to optimize the enrichment I get instead.
Australia? I hadn't heard that one and it's not in the article.
Since money is fungible, it's not meaningful to say that money from tax X goes to service Y. The amount raised by a ticket surcharge would be trivial compared to spending on covid.
Don't you think it could use some more animations?

/s
I could say this is my case too. Back when I bought I didn't invest everything I had but now I burned almost all my savings with no income so what I have in crypto is worth more than what I have in my bank.

Sadly I didn't sell when I could make x12 profit as I didn't expect it to drop as much as it did. Now I'd lose money selling so I'll leave it there and forget about it.
The price doesn't mean much, the 1080 is pretty old at this point and the M1 has considerably smaller transistors. Considering how expensive Apple products are it's quite possible the cost of an M1 chip isn't much lower than that of the core shipped inside the 1080. A lot of what you pay for on a 1080 is cooling, display output, and power delivery.
It's not legally Facebook though.
Thanks for sharing and for the lack of a better way to express what I'm feeling, sorry for your loss.
While that seems great, it's still a recruiter enablement platform where almost all opportunities will be vampired in the bill rate or salary by commissions.

The fact that linkedin can't provide direct-to-company recruiting and opportunity research shows the platform is largely a failure.
Skip forward to 44:00 for the discussion of the design of the cladding, then the discussion proper on direct cause & effect starts about 52:00.

The first 3/4 hour is mostly history with a political bent, which although it is interesting, it is a bit waffling.

At one point they allude to the Estonia Agreement 1995 which has nothing to do with the fire but is interesting: https://www.newstatesman.com/node/195304
I like your thoughtful breakdown. Thanks for that.

The video shots of small merchants and everyday people, with voiceover "what if everyone is invited to global economy" was bothersome to watch. I don't like their underlying characterization that the lack of frictionless banking and payment systems are what's holding back Africa and poorer parts of the world. It's just not true.
GPT-2 appears to require at least 24GB of memory, so if that's accurate absolutely not.
http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/internet/
Ah yes, the luddite approach, an age-old classic.
Allowing companies to self-certify their products' safety is the same thing as rubber stamping fraud. Issues can only be caught after some disaster, as we see with Grenfell and the preventable tragedies behind every other regulation and certification board. Individual renters can't conduct independent fire safety tests on the cladding and insulation of their (low income) housing, that's absurd. Government regulation and testing for product safety is necessary for society to function, and there are many examples to this effect.
> He's right about roasting the planet though.

...no? Diem/Libra is built on Cosmos, which is a proof-of-stake system, not a proof-of-work system. Validator nodes in a proof-of-stake system do not compete to work ever harder to mine the same resources.

There are a rather large number of such validator nodes (100+ at minimum), but that's also true of banks when you translate their Highly-Available mainframe stacks into equivalent Highly-Available commodity-PC stacks. (I.e. they're not spending any more electricity per tx than the ACH system is.)
> If you don't play by the US's rules you can't withdraw in USD.

The dollar is traded so much that I don't think they need to actually get dollars from the US to be able to use the dollar. If it's going into banks, yea, but if you're just giving people the notes, you're good to go.
No talk on lsp-mode / eglot?
AMD GPUs are supported.
It's purely impatience, I think. Since blockchain hasn't "moved fast and broken things" quickly enough, it's clearly useless and will never have any purpose whatsoever, ever.

I imagine the HN of 1910 would be saying, "The Wright Brothers flew seven years ago and we aren't flying across the ocean yet, clearly aviation is a pointless new technology."
The users in the author's fantasy have get some Bitcoin in the first place. And either they or the person who would supply it to them are going to have to get over their fear of going rogue, just like a tax avoider does currently.

Given the author is a fan and won't even risk writing about a more convincing example like sci-hub (I'm assuming out of fear that the publishing industry would come after them for advocating for their illegal competitor), what makes them thing regular folks would take an even bigger risk?
I try to minimize screen time in general and reading for me is really something I do to calm my mind. So a few habits that I developed are:

- Before bed time, I avoid screens and read novels instead
- When I have spare time, I go out and read on a bench
- I have my phone set to a black and white screen from 9:30pm on
Q. Would you mind sharing your Emacs configuration files?

Richard Stallman: Configuration files are personal and will not be shared.

This cracked me up! xD
When we started building Enchant [0], we used some tech that we understood well and some tech that was new and shiny.

Over the years, most of the new and shiny choices eventually caused more pain than we had ever anticipated. We ended up either ripping them out or working around the problems they introduced.

But I think "choose boring technology" is not a great guiding light. I've written previously about how to pick the "Right" technology [1], but I'll summarize below:

* It's not about using the right tool for the job. Sometimes, the right tool for the job isn't the right tool for you right now. It may be too expensive, you may not have the team necessary to maintain it, it may not integrate well with your existing stack
* It's not about using boring tech either. Boring tech can be antiquated already (or on a rapid path of getting there)

So how do you chose the right tech?
* Sometimes the "right" tech is already there - your existing tools may already be able to do what you need to do "good enough" for the next order of magnitude of scale. This buys you time before you need to take on additional complexity.
* The right tech is proven and widely deployed - and looks like it's still has a good trajectory going for it .. i.e. people still care about it!
* The right tech is robust - it's already battle tested and handles all the edge cases and big business needs. Security releases, zero-downtime upgrades, high availability and backups, known paths to scale, strong community, etc..

But this isn't a one time thing. When you start seeing signs that the tech is losing favor to newer better things, you also need to plan a migration or you end up stuck in the past (with poorly supported tech that's hard to hire for).

Today, having learned our lessons (the hard way), we evolve our tech stack much more methodically.

0: https://www.enchant.com - shared inboxes, knowledge bases, live chat

1: https://www.vinaysahni.com/how-to-choose-the-right-technolog...
Attention is a limited resource, both on the individual level and the aggregate. If your investigation uncovers a corporate scandal, it limits the ability of the public to focus on the government failings.
A bit of a common thread I’ve noticed in the “what’s wrong with hiring” threads here and elsewhere.
> Now if it's a local exchange for a local currency, not USD then is fine.

They can exchange in physical currency which would be acceptable in most third world countries and with the amount physical currency floating around they wouldn't need to get any from the US, no?
I see a different future. As layer 2 comes online, and capital continues to flood into Bitcoin, I imagine people having a layer 2 “checking” account which consists of Liquid or Lightning funds for instant low-fee transactions, and a “savings” account of Bitcoin. When they earn money or get paid large amounts, they will put it in savings to preserve the value, instead of losing it to inflation. Periodically they will transfer some to their checking account to pay for goods and services.
Now if only someone can fix the bug with ShadowPlay that records your screen in the wrong aspect ratio event though you tell it to output in 1080p and play in 1080p with dual monitor
Why would you list all your jobs to give that impression?
One could mine it directly and never involve KYC. Or they could use a coin that has privacy features built-in, such that once it leaves the exchange they no long know what was done with it. There are also decentralized exchanges.
2) Does Facebook (or any other for-profit company) get access to the data (now or ever in the future)?

3) So if I want to send money (from say GBP) to someone in Japan, what would happen? Is the FX exchange seamless or will I need to use some intermediary coin?
There are obviously punitive damages here. They violated their contract with him in fairly clear bad faith.
The last part of this almost certainly doesn't apply to "Diem".
It's a known phenomenon for people to gain confidence by temporarily pretending to be someone else.
I'm jealous.
:-)
Everything of scale in society is political as laws box it in.

What is fraud, defective, resource management, value stores, technology... all the investment and debate are ultimately scoped within some law(s).

Trying to emotionally separate oneself and agency from literal reality to no avail seems to be a serious psychological affliction in America.

Society is a political standoff. We haven’t had to deal with that truth in our faces as division of labor rules.

Though Adam Smith warned division of labor would lead to humans so stupid as to be indistinct from animal. There’s more to learning than memorizing facts of a contemporary economics or computers.

Real world, hands on experience, re-invention, abandonment of old ha or.

Tech addicted “disrupters” fail to disrupt self and expand in a very important way.
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My experience is that books come in two forms: ones that can be summarized by a blog post (e.g. any Malcolm Gladwell book) and those that contain content of irreducible complexity (e.g. history books or textbooks). I usually get bored with the first type of book because it just rehashes the same thing over and over again.

So, when you choose book vs article, I think this distinction should be part of the thought process. Basically, if you do give up a blog post or article in favor of a book, make sure you're getting the right bang for you buck and are not just re-reading the same idea over and over again.
Don't miss the link (in the middle of TFA) to a similar (but simpler) story about the Radeon software suite: https://www.techpowerup.com/274967/psa-amds-graphics-driver-...

Both posts ask at the end something like "why/how did they mess this up" but it's pretty obvious to me as a developer ... when software systems get big, teams and timelines get big, pressure for new features and fixes for more critical problems crowd out minor cleanups and quality-of-life refinements, and that helps perpetuate the cycle. I think it is kind of important to have a reminder of how the biggest, wealthiest, and most prestigious companies can have numerous small dumb bugs hidden randomly throughout their huge software suites, and not have the motivation to fix ones that have been reported for years. But one random but smart person outside the org can take a couple of days and figure it out.
FYI: I collect all things Facebook's Diem (formerly Libra) at the Awesome Diem (formerly Libra) page [1] incl. Best Libra Book of the Year 2020 Award and much more. [1]: https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-diem
An additional scandal is the extortionate costs for buildings over a certain height in obtaining an EWS1 Form to show to mortgage lenders. Without which, your appartment is effectively valued at zero, since you'll never be able to sell it.
Anyone know the status of the legality of similar cladding and insulation in the US?
SciHub is ultimately helping people violate copyright laws. I personally think that science should have more open access, and I assume that many who work at these payment processors share my sentiment. But I think payment processors want to avoid legal liability — legal fees and settlements (or even criminal charges) are expensive.

> When is a slippery slope a fallacy and when is it not?

Wikipedia has a section on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope#Non-fallacious_...

In my opinion, slippery slope is a fallacy when there is not a clear demarcation. If the US government says "we need to torture in exigent situations" I worry about slippery slope because it's easy for the definition of "exigent" to change when convenient. On the other hand, if the US government said "we use torture for people who have been in contact with ISIS and have been convicted of murder," then the criteria are provable facts that create a clear line. I would still disagree with the use of torture, but my disagreement would be on ethical grounds, not that there is a slippery slope.

If payment processors say "we won't process payments for platforms who knowingly host content that advocates for violence against a race of people" — then it's not a slippery slope. When a line is clearly demarcated, there is a mechanism for changes in the policy to be examined (and just because a policy changes that doesn't mean that there is a slippery slope; sometimes changes are justified!).

One could argue that the line could be capriciously moved; however, I would want some sort of evidence or justification that it might be.
Energy is the real measure of value, but it's hard to transact with. Both gold and bitcoin are ultimately just fungible representations of wasted energy. The question is whether bitcoin can rise to the level of thousands of years of tradition with gold, or if we'll have forgotten about it in a few decades. I'm guessing the latter because without the key property of untraceability, bitcoin isn't actually fungible.
I don't mind the fee per se I just object to obfuscating it (which I term "fraud" thought that might not be the legal definition).

NatWest app says £0.00 fee and some FX rate but when I compare with TransferWise, the difference is £250, which means that the "FX rate" implicitly contains the fee.

Maybe not "fraud" legally but I don't want to support such non-transparent business practices.
I don't think the output of the conversion is guaranteed to be equivalent to a hyperplane learned by an SVM.

I didn't have time to read the paper, but reading the abstract I don't see a claim that the gradient descent model approximated by a kernel machine is equivalent to an optimal fit obtained by SVM maximum margin hyperplane fitting.

I assume one likely ends up with different hyperplane fits from converting a NN/gradient-desc-learned model to kernel machine vs learning a kernel machine directly via SVM learning.
As someone who “uses” C++ as “C with classes”, this looks like line noise...

I mean, I can grok it, but I’d never write it. I’d fall back to the ‘write methods to encapsulate the behaviour’ approach instead, and I think my co-workers would thank me for it.
How do you do that? I can only give endorsements from a pre-populated list, sadly
A very bold claim considering https://cv.hexstream.expert/#education.

"Computer Programming at Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne (completed 4 terms out of 6)
2003 – 2005 (2 years) Montréal, Québec, Canada

Grade: Best of my class in programming

[...]

I introduced and explained the concept of an event loop to one of my computer science teachers.

I dropped out for personal reasons.", see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coll%C3%A8ge_de_Bois-de-Boulog...
United States vs. Kane
I mean, obviously not in the general case. Cryptography is designed to be a high dimensional space with pretty much no slope.

I'd assume that a lot of the binary decision tree / chip level optimizations are similar: almost no slope worth analyzing.
My opinion soured (~2017) once I realized the unavoidable environmental cost. The TPS limit was quite damning too. Hearing the faithful flip from currency to asset language smelled a lot like a pyramid scheme.

But who knows, maybe the offshoots like CureCoin can do some good without devastating the environment.
The GP intended $ACTUALMIMETYPE to be read as a variable — there is no $ after replacement.
Using HEART framework to measure task success in healthcare products
They could also implement some kind of diagnostic port, not unlike what already exists on the Apple Watch

https://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/23/apple-watch-diagnostic-...
> I can tell you that even as a European, I often hit a paywall where I couldn’t even pay if I were willing to go through the hassle of paying by credit card.

And even if you can pay, you have to give your full name, address, phone number, and credit card number in order to be able to pay. Then the merchant has to pay a ~3% fee to accept the payment, run your personal data through some machine learning algorithm to try and prevent someone from using your stolen credentials, and still receive chargebacks some percentage of the time.

I really wish there was a widely adopted payment system that acted like cash on the internet (instant, irrevocable, low fees, privacy preserving, stable value). Crypto actually has a chance at solving this, but nothing so far actually checks all of these boxes as far as I know.
The article addresses this particular point

> Each keyspace is a logical collection of data that roughly scales by the same factor — number of users, teams, and channels. Say goodbye to only sharding by team, and to team hot-spots!
In the US, refusing to give evidence (taking the fifth) can be used against you in a civil suit, but it cannot be used against you criminally. If you’re facing civil and criminal liability at the same time, this puts you in a tough situation, since protecting yourself from criminal liability might increase your civil exposure.

I believe in the UK refusing to give evidence might be worse, both because they have a whole different model of courts (inquisitive vs. adversarial), and because the underpinnings of US legal rights stem from a perceived short coming of the British court system.
I hope they add an import and export function to this. Ideally you could sync these functions at an org level via O365.
It's simply wrong to state every country that "matters" has KYC/AML regulations similar to those required in the US.
> cladding for aesthetic reasons

Cladding is used primarily for insulation and energy conservation. I think the concept of "cladding" is more of a UK and European thing though.

> There's significant political interest in finding a corporate scandal here.

There are all sorts of unethical scandals with various forms of unethical social experimentation. It's everywhere within the corporate world, and there are also open source projects with unethical experiments going on. You just have to look and pay attention. A lot of these groups play it off like they have done proper due process, when they have not. Then they have their PR flacks take the reigns using distracting and emotive language to justify their unethical projects.

Everyone who works on projects should read this article. Pay attention to Table 3 in particular. I keep it on my desk as a reminder of what is ethical vs unethical.

An Ethical Framework for Evaluating Experimental Technology: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4912576/
So called "privacy coins" are more private than Bitcoin, but do not (and cannot) offer absolute privacy guarantees. Zcash and Dash can now be tracked, and Monero is next.

[1] https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/introducing-chainalysis... [2] https://news.bitcoin.com/chainalysis-and-integra-win-1-25-mi...