skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved this part:

What if a man comes home, and says to his wife:

“Susan, you didn’t take out the trash!” he says.

“Brad, you have never taken out the trash once in your life,” she replies.

Would it be fair for him to turn, smugly clutching a copy of The Economist, and say, “Susan, this is not about me. I can’t believe you are doing whataboutism”?
Its been like this for about the past 5 years since AMDGPU was added to the kernel. AMD cards are better for everything except compute where they failed to support the 5700 series.
They don't have monopoly. On (smart) phones or on computers.

And they are probably happy about that.
Does anyone recommend a good out-of-the-box local proxy that allows changing user-agents, doing DoH, and managing https connections ?
True. However YouTube isn’t a publisher, according to them. They want the Section 203 exemption, but they are acting as a publisher. If they want to be indemnified from libel liability, they can’t pick and choose what to publish as that is a tacit endorsement of what does get published. They can have it both ways.
this is quite amazing and also inspiring! thanks for doing this and showcasing typesense.
The judge only struck down the county's ban on outdoor dining. The state-determined ban Ghaly was commenting on, which prohibits outdoor dining in the county based on specific metrics indicating ICUs are at risk of overload, is separate and still in effect.

(One might point out that this is a very strange legal technicality, and... yeah, kinda.)
The county was asked by the court to submit evidence of their claim that outdoor dining contributed to cases, relative to other allowed forms of gathering, and failed to do so. It sounds as though the county could have prevailed if they had been able to demonstrate that closing outdoor dining kept people home in a way that prevented cases, relative to closing other businesses.

Why any more proof than an "it's simple" shrug is required apparently has to do with the limits of emergency powers. They are apparently not able to make any arbitrary pronouncements.

If the county was right that closing outdoor restaurants in particular was one of the more important measures to rule, then they have cost lives--or will cost lives if the state's measures expire--by failing to successfully argue the case. They knew that this was coming their way.
Perhaps I'm wrong about Google asking her to change it versus just telling her it's rejected. That's just how I read Jeff Dean's document posted here the other day.

Assuming I am wrong about that, I'm not sure it changes much about my comment. Presumably Google has the authority to ask for a publication to be pulled, and responding with an unprofessional email to a wide list is not ideal. On the matter of not agreeing on an end date, Gebru raised resignation and Google picked the date.

I just put it in context by thinking about myself. If I acted the way Gebru did when I was upset by a professional setback, would I expect to be fired? Yes, unequivocally.

You mention her having a research career - but she's not in research. She works at Google. Her job, however they try to fancy it up, is to sell ads. Explaining to people that language models are racist and energy inefficient is not a good way to sell more ads, which is why Google wanted her paper pulled (I assume). If Gebru wants to be an academic she should work at a university. If she wants to work at Google she should realize her job is to sell ads. If her paper made Google look good (here's what Google is doing to combat the racism latent in our competitor's language models) then I have zero doubt Google would've been pleased by her work.
Did they broadcast those ultimatums publicly all over the company and make a die-on-this-hill stink about it? In a way that forced the company's hand?
there is no end. crypto will continue to swallow up all the world's capital and you'll be furious at how many leading zeros there are in your BTC-priced paycheck.
Gore conceded 37 days after the election. And only after the courts struck down his final challenge. And Hillary Clinton still calls the 2016 election illegitimate.

Pot meet Kettle.
NULL can be its own type, but the union between the set of integers and NULL is equally valid. However, that new set created by this union is not just integers.

To represent a type that can be NULL or an integer it should be a different type.

Like I said the problem again is mostly your data is not always contained to your language. If you export GPS coordinates some systems may treat this composite type incorrectly. So even if you have a strong type system people will just be lazy.
Neighbours are usually more wary of each other than they are of far away people. It's precisely because their interests conflict so much.

Part of America's reason for success is her relative isolation.
Well,it is a set cover problem so you can use ILP and mip is actually much faster than z3. I'm sure it's possible (though maybe not easy) to use more geometry. I don't see how to make a simple linear program though.
Florida’s justification for raiding whistleblower Rebekah Jones is looking shaky
We need a file system abstraction implemented in a webworker. Do you know if it or something similar exists?
Your way of thinking fascinates and terrifies me.

A lot of people are saying things I don’t agree with, so it must be a problem with the “algorithm”.

Maybe it’s just that the majority of the people here feel a certain way.
> There's plenty of physical space in Cali, if anything, the opportunity might be in Sacramento and in-between.

It’s the places that everyone want to live in that are crowded, and there are good reasons apartment blocks aren’t going up in farmland (this isn’t China where people are told to live outside the fifth or sixth ring road just because).
Flynn was indicted for lying about his call with the Russian ambassador which happened to have been recorded. Also, a pardon means that even Flynn admits his guilt.
Georgia election officials who were caught illegally shredding ballots have called the claim misinformation. Okay. That makes sense.

https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1331279506519289867
The left taking another step towards civil war.
Kubernetes CRDs = Pain in Multi-Tenant Clusters
And often it only works on the 2016 LTS release of ubuntu because they depend on specific packages that happen to be on that version of ubuntu and any support requests get ignored with the response "We support ubuntu 16.4".

At least when you use proton you can whinge at a whole community of developers and typically one of them will care enough to fix it. These days I find for a lot of the games I play, proton is literally flawless to the point if you didn't tell me, I wouldn't know it isn't native.
Also, average viewers like us just don't care about visual and auditory nuance.

My living room is a comfortable place optimized for living and conversation, and every now and then the TV gets rolled into the middle of the room at a comfortable distance from the couch and chairs. My speakers are $50 analog Logitechs under the TV (and most people don't even have that). If you're not targeting this kind of scenario, your great works won't be noticed except by awards committees and aficionados who are willing to spend the cash and time to set everything up "just right".
HN has definitely been less sympathetic to her (or apologizing for Google) than most media outlets, but I don't see how that stance is necessarily "right wing."

> What are the exact reasons Google stated for her dismissal?

She sent and email saying she'd resign.

> and would agree to a date of resignation that would give her working colleagues time to adjust or takeover her responsibilities or whatever if they couldn't agree.

She sent an inappropriately critical email to too wide of an audience. This isn't someone you give another two weeks of email access to.

I'll grant you that it's not 100% clear it's a "resignation," but in a way, it doesn't matter; neither she nor Google wanted to continue their relationship. Complain about Google all you want when you leave, but don't send an email threatening to resign and act surprised when you don't have a job any more.
Gebru's account is that she was first refused the feedback, and then offered only a recitation of the feedback, not the written account. She offered to rewrite to account for the feedback, and was denied. Dean doesn't dispute this.
I guess one of the lessons that will be taken away, among looking-for-bias inclined people will be:

"Never attribute to bad judgment and rash decision making what can be explained by race."
Well, there’s still 21 days to go.
The 25% fee goes mostly to DD, not to the driver who delivered. DD and other app's value is removing the friction of ordering and paying. Of all the participants in the supply chain- farmer, cook, business owner, delivery guy- the ordering app (tech) took the most outsized piece of the pie.

To be fair though, not all tech is similar. I don't think people mind Amzn charging the seller 5-15% and paying the delivery guys whatever it takes. I hope food delivery apps become more reasonably priced- or then maybe Amzn comes after their margin!
Because they put approximately 0 thought or care in to supporting linux. There are hardly any linux users who would have got the game anyway compared to windows and half of them will still buy it and reboot to play it.
Aside from what a sibling comment mentioned about fuel sloshing from the flip maneuver, Raptor/Starship use autogenous pressurization (i.e. some of the gas produced by the engines is tapped off to pressurize the tanks), so there could have been an issue with that, too.
Water joins gold and oil for first time as traded commodity on Wall Street
> I often find the latter more compelling than the former.

We might find one compelling, but what matters is which is more accurate (or maybe neither of them are).
The End of the Facebook Crime Spree
This is not a black and white issue. Although I am not a supporter of censorship on the internet, I do agree with others here that misinformation on social media is a present threat democracy.

There are tree pillars to our democracy: government, the media and voters. The role of media is to stay independent neutral and to inform the people, the role of voters is to seek information, and actively participate in the democracy. Nowadays, social media has largely taken over the role of the media, and self-feeding recommendation algorithms have only exacerbated the problem. Nevertheless, the greater problem and the true cause of our current division is the failure of our education system. People are simply not trained to think critically, and seek out arguments that oppose their own.

Unfortunately, fixing our education system will take many years, or even a generation. It may be putting the horse before the cart, but for now I think the simpler fix is at the level of social media. Have any of you noticed how greedy the YouTube algorithm is? I watch one video on conspiracy theories, just out of curiosity, and suddenly I have like half a dozen similar recommendations on my homepage. This can only have the effect of boxing people into their own belief system...
wow, that's the "non proliferation" argument. it's the first time I see it applied since the cold war. I guess I should have expected it. it's the nuclear warhead equivalent argument when you're justifying a monoply
Extension stores have a policy of only allowing the use of permissions one really needs, which they have been enforcing with automated scans and manual reviews. Why couldn't they require the use of declarativeNetRequest for extensions that only need those features?
I've seen bad negotiators in my days, but "give in to my demands or I'll resign after you reward me for my good work" is definitively near the top..
> One Pfizer trial participant told CNBC that after the second shot, he woke up with chills, shaking so hard he cracked a tooth. “It hurt to even just lay in my bed sheet,” he said.

No way in hell I'm taking this.
Short version: "Give us $500M and it will go away"
Google doesn't want to be 4Chan and they are well within their rights to maintain their reputation via censorship, especially given the bad actors they are dealing with.
From the parent post:

> they're now at least a decade behind.

The original claim was that competitors are a decade behind spaceX and Electron's capabilities are comparable to the technology spaceX had a decade ago. The Falcon 9 comparisons are to highlight the decade delta.

edit: grammar
There is support for it according to the changelog:

https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/blob/master/Change...

Although it does seem to be broken currently

https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/issues/156
turns out people didn't want to swipe right on the same website their grandma uses

good lesson in there that some domains just don't mix
The US Democratic party.
The OP specifically said "in the absence of evidence we need to ask ourselves which is more likely..." - and suggested (strongly) that a lab outbreak is much more likely than the alternatives. I was trying to point out that a) once the virus is in humans it's easily spread and b) though the lab's research may have led to the pandemic, it doesn't necessarily follow that there was a "lab outbreak".

Here's my understanding on what (probably?) happened:

1) Bat(s) carrying the novel coronavirus were taken from Yunnan or Zhejiang province.

2) They were brought to the lab in Wuhan (WHCDC) (~500+ miles away).

3) They were experimented upon, dissected for tissue samples, etc.

4) Some/all of these samples were disposed of.

And some time later, the Huanan Seafood Market (near this lab) was likely an origin point of the epidemic.

Now, the actual disease release could happen at any of the 4 steps above. Someone who captured the bats could have been infected at that time. Someone could have been exposed during transport of the bats. Someone could have been infected during experimentation. The materials could have been improperly disposed of, tainting food/water/clothes/whatever. Would we consider all of those "lab outbreaks"?

Also, I want to point out - "a city which hosts a top-tier biolab with the world's foremost experts on bat-borne coronaviruses" - we may also expect such a biolab to be located in an area where bats, and bat-borne viruses, are more likely to be, no? Where else would be a more logical place to put it? :)
I’m a big fan of taxing both capital gains and dividends at ordinary income rates to help restore fairness and progressivist to the tax code.

But to do this you absolutely need to index capital gains for inflation. That’s the reason they get special tax rates in the first place, because when inflation is high a significant part of capital gains are illusionary and you don’t want effective rates to reach over 100% in real use.

So don’t tax profits if reinvested. Task them as income if returned to shareholders (or used as excess compensation).
Even from a PR standpoint, he should have said nothing. Covid is raging, Facebook is getting sued, a bunch of people will be off of work for a few weeks not thinking about Google... Just let it blow over.
It sounds like they've got SN9 just about ready to go, too, so they should be able to put the data that they gathered to good use quite soon.

Seems to be a great benefit of this method that SpaceX is following with Starship: if you build hardware fast and cheap enough, you can afford some partial failures since you just put the lessons learned into the next flight in a few weeks.
I’m a great fan of all of the “this is fine” sort of phrases for engineering failures. “engine rich” is a new one for me today, joining things like letting the magic blue smoke out of electronics and rapid unplanned disassembly.
Also (too late to edit my previous comment), this assumes fusion converts all of the deuterium mass to energy, but actually it's only the change in nuclear binding energy between D + T and n + He-4, which is 17.6 MeV per reaction, or 2.8e-12 Joules (note minus sign). So this assessment above seems to be off by about a factor of 10^24, or 1 trillion trillion.

To get all the energy out of a deuteron, you need an anti-deuteron. This is dramatically less practical than thermonuclear fusion because we have no credible source of meaningful amounts of anti-matter fuel.

The linked ucsd page is pretty solid.
Do you work for Stadia? How is Cyberpunk doing on that system? I'm hesitating buying it there instead of on console.
This seems unlikely to me because most good chefs seem very interested in interacting with their customers - in many cases it's the one redeeming factor in an otherwise brutal industry.
If states were sovereign, then they could secede, and we already settled that issue. The U.S. Constitution is the law of the land; see the Supremacy Clause.
Why anyone would look at the litany of mistakes that is npm and Node, then look at Deno and all of the same developers learning nothing except how to implement its "hurr durr URL loading code is cool" approach to security and think "this a good idea" is beyond me.

I appreciate Deno because I can ask job interview candidates what their thoughts are about it, and when candidates for senior positions don't point out any of the billion obvious reasons it's a stupid project for stupid people, it saves me a ton of time. Otherwise, it's a waste of time and effort, and all you have to do to convince yourself of that is look at the contribution history of the most prominent contributors on github.

I have never, not once, in my life as a developer wanted a project to die so badly.
Without even getting into the brute facts about the 2016 election: there's a world of difference between Hillary Clinton being a sore loser as a private citizen and Donald Trump being a sore loser in the office of the executive.
Seems like they should just be able to roll this tape:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/12...

Many people not wearing masks. Distancing and putting others are risk.
ROFL: Nailed it: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/12/ftc-s...
Don't even have to shut one down.
California is extremely neoliberal. I can’t imagine a place that is much more...
> changing user-agents

$ chromium --user-agent "..."

> DoH

chrome://flags/#dns-over-https

> managing https connections

wat this mean?

https is meant to be opaque
By that definition, Tuberculosis which kills 1.5 million every year. Doesn't quite satisfy the bet by itself but a few lopsided months could easily be 1 million in a 6 month period.

Regardless, I don't think the lack of disease prevention was the intent of bioerror. The article says that bioerror is supposed to have the same outcomes as bioterror but I believe the implication is that it is also caused by a single human or organization.
These numbers can't be correct as there is no mention of iMessage who's the biggest chat app in the usa.
I know of two cases that aquitances were involved in. One person was suicidal, and doing it multiple times per month. I don't want to get into details but the shortest way to explain it is the person was psychotic and believed they were part of a cult of dead people and Ayahuasca kept them "alive".

The other person was a compulsive liar and kept on jumping from cult to cult until they landed in an Ayahuasca christian sect saying they were very experienced trip guides. After a few months of "secretly" doing it I assume to understand how it worked to be able to deliver on their promises they got discovered and kicked out.

Psychedelic mania or psychedelic psychosis is a thing. I don't think any substance that affects your perception in such a way will ever be free from that nasty side effect. There's people that actually binge smoke DMT multiple times per week because they really believe they are in contact with spirits and start acting that narrative with life changing consequences. The incorrect social circle or antisocial tendencies will turn that person into a monster living in hell. And if you don't know about smoking DMT let's say that making sense of the experience requires a great deal of... interpretation. Of the psychedelics it's one of the ones that will on most cases hardly create anything that is even mildly similar to reality in the "breakthrough" world.
As an immigrant engineer I feel this is actually good because it shows that the market in the US is bullish on new technologies. I believe this is what has led to most of the major inventions in the past 100 years to come from the US.

In my home country (India) it’d be impossible for a company to reach such valuations based only on research and prototypes, which in turn leads to low salaries for STEM people, culminating in brain drain.
Exactly. Conspiracy theories are now being weaponized by the right (via YouTube) to whip up anger and violence.
Yes they did. Democrats cried about Bernie Sanders getting defrauded of his election by other Democrats.

https://evidence2020.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/strong-evidenc...

Hillary is still going around claiming they stole the election from her.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/26/four-years-later-bitter...
I wonder where it's going to end.

Once you have started taking sides, started to take down videos you fund spreading incorrect points of view, you can consider to extend it. Videos that doubt the efficaciousness of masks. Videos that say the quarantine is a plot by world government of reptiloid aliens. Videos that promote the idea of flat Earth. Well, this is a dead end.

How about videos that Taiwan is in fact independent from China? Videos that allege that unelected bureaucrars have more power than elected officials? Videos that suggest that there is trouble with voting counting during US elections?

You can easily end up doing way, way more censorship than strictly required to keep your resource legally clean (hate speech, copyright violations, etc). If I were Google (YouTube, Alphabet, whoever is responsible), I would stay as far away as possible from this kind of censorship, purely because of the cost of doing it, and the constant getting into hot water when not censoring enough, or censoring too much. Being a neutral pipe could be plainly better for the business.

Edited: typos.
The court has already unanimously declined to interfere in the election in the PA case. The TX case isn’t going to be suddenly different.
The true reason for dropping Flash was to prevent web based apps from challenging Google and Apple's store apps, as they couldn't monetize those.

Flash was a true enabler and was supposed to be replaced by HTML5 which has never fulfilled its intended purpose.

Security was never a problem as that could be dealt with by having access source code and fixing the bugs in it, and that didn't stop Google from continue to ship it years after it got deprecated.

Its even more amazing how Mozilla couldn't succeed or abandoned their effort to create a flashplayer, yet ruffle.rs is creating a Flashplayer in both the Rust language and the web assembly system created by Mozilla.

It apparently never occurred to Mozilla that they could write the Flashplayer in C and compile it in Web Assembly.

Expected behaviour from a company ever so reluctant to bite the hand that feeds it.
2/4 of those are Chrome