skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we're going to spend more money and create a tunnel. But money doesn't grow on trees for local governments; if they spend it, they have to take it.

Perhaps the government needs to exercise fiscal discipline. Perhaps the government can't afford a new rail.

What does 'afford' mean to you in this context? The money is always (well, almost always) going to come from taxes, a municipality or other local government can reduce services and infrastructure spending (opex and capex, roughly) and lower taxes, or increase services and infra spending and raise taxes.
The main advantage I was thinking was less “I broke my machine and I need to rebuild it” and more “we had everything setup on our jump server but it wasn't documented and now we can't figure out how to rebuild it” or “someone — totally not me — forgot to clear out the admin credentials after they were done and didn't think about it since everything worked”. Ephemeral servers are a great way to keep people honest about things like that.
because she donated like 10-15% of her money. what percentage does jeff donate?
Very cool! Where did the prefix 33 come from?

I like the "86ing" my spam.
I wonder if you guys can get 86mail.com
Just a fun thought.
It's very country specific. I know USA and France, this is a big thing.
I've been using https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer and it helps with some of it - one monitor would wake from sleep sideways
This point is incorrect. If they’re releasing the game for current gen, it should be playable on it.
Thanks for being proactive on behalf of your users.
Search, find, filter, copy, files thoroughly,recursively
Big Fines and Strict Rules Unveiled Against ‘Big Tech’ in Europe
Ask HN: I have a game idea, would someone please make it so that I can play?
I know the most likely response will be "There are lots of tutorials, make it yourself" but I'm going to ask anyways in the hopes that someone is feeling kind.

What I would like to play is a Tetris/Arkanoid/Galaga based game that seemlessly transitions through all three game types by collecting different power-ups, I imagine flipping the play area vertically to transition from Tetris to Arkanoid, possibly after clearing 4 lines at once or clearing a special block. Then collecting the laser powerup in Arkanoid to transition to Galaga where the remaining cubes become ships. Finishing the Galaga waves would end the level or possibly another powerup triggering a transition to back to Tetris?

It has been on my mind since the Show HN post of the rotating tetris game last week.

Thanks
It's also how about every other WaPo or NYT article that turns out to be right works. Anon sources are the core of journalism, good and bad.
It doesn't need to be web-based, of course. This isn't anything you couldn't do before — it's just much easier to setup and has fewer points to get wrong (ever see a jump server whose owner forgot to change the port 22 0.0.0.0/0 allow rule?). It's especially nice because it works for everyone in every context without needing anything setup so you can safely use it for examples, training, someone working with a loaner machine, etc. even if you normally work with a custom configuration.
> As mentioned by others on this discussion, video games are largely consumable media with products that don't extend beyond the screen.

And the same has been said about the TV. That it would never be mainstream.

My point is that video games is in its infancy. It has potential to be an art form, especially if VR/AR takes off once we get powerful enough hardware.

> There's a reason people still perform live in front of audiences when it would be more reasonable and convenient to play lossless recordings at home.

And there is a reason why people still enjoy playing video games even if people stigmatize it as a time sink. It's not about efficiency or productivity.
Lol no you can’t! I mean except for fast food but it is ridiculous to compare that to a gun (or sexual exploitation).

If visa/MasterCard learned that you were using their card to buy drugs and guns for children, they would terminate your account and contact social services.
It's my understanding she donates a lot more than Bezos does. Consider the fact she has agreed to the giving pledge, giving away half of her wealth to charity similar to Buffett, Gates, etc. Whereas Bezos has not agreed, and I'm not aware of any time when he has donated billions. That may be the difference but I'm not sure as I haven't really seen any Bezos donation headlines that were negative, or any that I could remember at all for that matter .
That's an extremely heartfelt appeal by someone who seems like he is at the end of his rope.

I have never heard of Ivermectin before and I'm certainly not a specialist.
I think the solution is clear... we have to blow up the moon.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to make objective, but if you spend lots of time alone and don’t feel lonely, and if other people spend lots or even little amounts of time alone and do feel lonely, those are objectively different emotional experiences. Why isn’t that worth understanding?
According to the press, Jeff's giving has historically been underwhelming:

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-amazon-how-much-d...

Do you have any examples to the contrary?
The last arguments about why you would want a static graph and even it's drawbacks and complaints sound basically similar to why you would want to do functional programming
I don’t know about full automation, but I can confirm that in large f500 companies, Gartner holds a lot of weight. Most follow their recommendations. I’m guilty too of using that argument: “According to Gartner...” to give weight to my position when talking to C-level folks. I wish I didn’t have to, but lots of folks trust their recommendations.
*BSD also don't use GNU coreutils by default.
I always get shaken up when I remember that at every moment, I'm just experiencing a single snapshot of time. Makes me appreciate things I otherwise take for granted. Thanks for the read!
Also anecdotally, during the outage, test messages from my non-gmail account to my standalone/non-enterprise gmail accounts consistently bounced; test messages from my non-gmail account to my G Suite Business-associated account went through.
which is still effectively nothing for her, since even 1% of her money is enough to do whatever she wants for the rest of her life.

Honest question: besides charity, how can you possibly spend your wealth after it creeps past the billion or ten billion mark? Buy an archipelago?
The purpose of DNG was to replace all those proprietary formats. It's stated in the introduction to the spec.

If you want to store your proprietary "Active D Light," according to the spec: "DNG allows proprietary data to be stored using private tags, private IFDs and/or a private MakerNote."
It's more like she donated 5-7.5% of Jeff's money.
I haven't seen anyone else mention this yet, so maybe I'm completely out to lunch, but it's possible that Periscope had similar issues that PornHub (et al) had to deal with recently but, due to all of the reasons they mentioned in the article, are choosing simply to shut down rather than invest in heavier moderation.

If you look at the top streams worldwide on any slow news day, a moderate to high percentage will be OnlyFans models doing self promotion. Periscope bans nudity, so there is a non-zero human cost to moderate this. And with declining numbers in general, the amount of moderation needed goes up relative to the overall userbase.

I'm also convinced that there is a Periscope "underground" where people anonymously share and promote truly illegal content via private streams (where the only "private" aspect is the URL). In the past, Periscope may have been able to turn a blind eye because it's not visible through the app, but with increased scrutiny on illegal content, the easiest and cheapest way to deal with it is to shutter the service.
Or how a section of liberals want to defund/disband the police, tear down any link with the past(if the past involves a white male), cancel everybody to the right of Biden and so on. Again, it works both ways.
The title should be edited from "use" to "used" imo.
As a Canadian, Vancouver resident, and software developer, I certainly don’t approve of the discount all software companies get here, including ones based here. Not only do companies pay out 60 cents on the dollar, they can also qualify for large refundable tax credit subsidies from provincial and federal governments.

In other words, there are plenty of your “home-grown studios” here, who benefit from the manipulated market created by the multinationals that came before them.

Salaries won’t rise to meet parity until labour gets organized, but as a previous commenter pointed out about labour laws and overtime pay, it’s a massive uphill battle.
It's L2 autonomy, so the driver of the car is still expected to be the driver of the car. Liability doesn't change if a car crash occurs while Comma's system is engaged.

Although, this could be tested in court if OpenPilot (Comma's software) ever does something like refusing to disengage and causes a wreck.
In this context (vs Bash), I argue that awk is pretty readable and perl is somewhat readable.
ps4 pro or base?
Yes, gross revenue is larger than net income. Particularly when manufacturing is involved.

The $10B Google money is basically pure profit. It costs Apple nothing. Maybe a few million in lawyer time to negotiate the fee each year.

Hardware sales generates enormous revenue and also very large profit. I believe more than half of Apple’s profit is still hardware sales. But they’re working very hard to increase their services income.
"base your entire life out of the Gartner trade rag magic quadrants."

You just described the CIO of a billion dollar revenue NYSE traded company I was with briefly a few years back. The CIO had no degree and thought the Gartner organization could do no wrong, so they were his guide and trusted confidant. It was a nightmare, a total disaster. Everyone in IT there were so used to constant chaos no one seemed to notice or mind. Yikes.
I think the question really was: why didn't you stop after the first time?
$10 billion climate change fund commitment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/11/1...
How Is UC Davis Tracking Covid-19?
This is hilarious that a random player/dev is able to ship a patch faster than the original developer. Really wouldn't want to be a member of the team that gets an email with a link to this repo..
I agree. Otherwise, we would have to accept that a lot of people are addicted to coffee.
Definitely double the prices right now. Since there is a free version that is generous, it won’t be “selling out”. I’m sure it felt right back years ago, but think of how much the product has improved since then. You can grandfather all current customers in (or just a year) if it makes it feel better.

I am impressed by that video from 99designs. How much did you spend? Do you have a link to their profile?
> you struggle to identify the most common word to describe it

In case of temperature control, the magic word (acronym) was "PID" which I learned from a friend who set up an open-source bbq controller:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/heatermeter-open-source-bar...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller
The economy has become impersonal. In the past, there was one county bank, one regional college, and usually one large employer in town. If someone never paid their debts, the bank manager wouldn't lend them any more. If they didn't do well in school, the dean wouldn't admit them to the college. If they didn't show up for work, the foreman wouldn't hire them back. Did people accuse these decision makers of "keeping" unreliable people poor? No. Today there are many banks, but if you don't pay back a loan, your bank tells the others and you wont get another from any of them. There are many universities, but the all have similar admission criteria, etc. The fact that computers instead of people make these simple calculations isn't a problem. My concern is that algorithms will be used to create affirmative action for things that were never possible before. Some people will start paying higher prices on Amazon and not know it. Groups that organize politically will be able to tip the scales in their favor by claiming the unbiased algorithm "keeps them down" or that the biases people develop against them must be offset by opposite biases in the algorithms. Whereas before every outcome was the product of decisions that every human being got to make about their voluntary interactions, now the reigns of power in the economy are centralized in the hands of whoever gets to design the algorithms and the economy is superseded by a zero-sum political struggle. That is the biggest danger of algorithms.
Jeff has given very little ever.
For instance he donated $690k to wildfire relief in Australia earlier this year. Every little bit counts clearly, but it's the equivalent of me giving 69 cents.
I'm not bagging the guy for it, I'm just saying that there's clearly a difference, and that's why it's treated differently.
> Vote for people that want to reduce regulations.

But those are the people who are usually focused on removing consumer protections more so than removing regulations based in corruption.
That story only documents a $791M gift. The $10B is a fund he's dedicated but still owns. Obviously it's still almost a billion dollars, but well short of his ex's mark.
The main use is for group conversations with family and friends. A close followup is for sending/receiving photos and videos from people who don't have an RCS capable device (or if it is RCS capable it doesn't play nicely with Tmobile)
He literally just said they wouldn't hesitate to kick you out on the street if they had to
1. This isn't the article's headline

2. The weak password wasn't how they were hacked

3. Solar winds was just the vector, the actual payloads were targeted and advanced.

Their insecure password may be disappointing but it's not relevant to the much more important story about who used them to compromise very sophisticated targets.
Tech Companies Shift Their Posture on a Legal Shield, Wary of Being Left Behind
They know full well what they are doing or they are naive. It’s so important to know the terms before you commit. However, another ace is living in at at-will-to-work state so I can just quit once I realize I was bamboozled. I’ve done this. I’m not proud of it, but my time is mine. I have goals. Help me achieve my goals and I’m all yours to help you achieve yours. Sad to say but there are founders/CEO’s that know engineers are itching for an early-in to a “rocket ship” and will manipulate to get momentum. Don’t buy it. Do your due diligence. Research. Ask about the terms, the equity, the stock, current value? Dilution? Who’s invested? Who has what stake? Who’s on the board? Prove to me it’s a rocket ship... sales? When do you recognize revenue? How? Opportunity pipelines healthy? All of these things are proxy to an engineer yet all of these things effect the engineer joining the company as employee <50.
That mechanical keyboard is so cool haha
Undefined behavior isn't undefined because somebody didn't have enough words to nail down a definition. It's undefined by definition.
Please keep your propaganda on reddit
Strong enough, AKA more than zero.

India is attempting to do an Asian Tiger FDI development model as a democracy in the age of social media where political organization is easy. Reality is, _zero_ countries have totally developed under democracy. Ever. Modern India is the first to attempt. You need a certain level of authoritarian / state controlled industrial policy and violent enforcement initially to entice FDI with stability. Conditions and bargaining power naturally improves after gaining increasing leverage once investors has commited sufficient sunk cost + creating supply chain inertia. Democracy and corporate/colonial trauma has caused India to squandered many opportunities to industrialize due to lack of infrastructure, redtape bureaucracy and grassroots organization. Meanwhile, increasing complexity in manufacturing mean instead of abusing peasants you're abusing engineers with professional degrees. Automation is around the corner, India doesn't have many chances left. Their trump card is potential market size and tariffs, but that's predicated on actually developing enough consumers to middle-income in the first place. It's a bad hand.
Lol, no thanks.

Sadly, many will use it, unaware of the significant bias sure to come with the "savings", right along with abuse of trust placed in the service.
I will say that I am very excited by the tftorch.py effort from @sillysaurusx: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1311925180126511104

The idea being that pytorch can just be a high-level API executing lower-level tensorflow under the hood.
Yeah, that's why I tried to mention right up front that it isn't (yet) audited. I didn't want to give anyone the wrong impression. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, too, where it's hard to justify the expense of an audit if few people use the library, and it's hard to find people to use the library when it isn't audited.

Here's the tracking issue for a first security audit: https://github.com/brycx/orion/issues/21.

Near the bottom of that issue, an employee from NCC reached out and said that they may be interested in funding an audit for Orion, though it's been a couple months and that hasn't gone anywhere (that I know of).
President from Austin Powers: "Would you miss it?"
I recently used TF 1.0 (former Theano author, current PyTorch user) and found TF 1.0 to be hellaciously difficult to grok and seemed to include a lot of unnecessary abstractions.

There was existing TF 1.0 code I was trying to extract gradients through (nsynth-wavenet). I spent over 8 hours on it unsuccessfully; I asked for help from a friend at Google who worked on TF and he couldn't figure it out either. I emailed the original author of the code and he acknowledged that he didn't know how to do it either, and he had an old notebook he could dig up that kinda would work with a lot of fixes.
More meta question: I don't feel like this kind of request is typical for HN, but is there some community where it would be typical or more welcomed? Like a "brainstorm interesting random project ideas" community of some sort?

I feel like I saw a few things like that in an earlier era of blogging (maybe together with the emergence of the "lazyweb" concept) but I'm not sure where the brainstorm/request/seeking collaboration/etc. communities are concentrated nowadays.
Linux nowadays has better support for games so I don't think that is a solution :)
Reading this again, I think it’s worth pointing out to you a couple of things:

- A lack of emotional response is just as subjective as a presence of emotional response.

- Those of us (including me) who lack common emotional responses are more likely to miss normal social cues, and thereby less likely to have objective interpretations of social scenarios.
Ex-Googler here.

Yes, apps are highly distributed. Yes, roll-outs are staggered and controlled.

But some things are necessarily global. Things like your Google account are global (what went down the other day). Of course you can (and Google does) design such a system such that it's distributed and tolerant of any given piece failing. But it's still one system. And so, if something goes wrong in a new and exciting way... It might just happen to hit the service globally.

When things go down, it's because something weird happened. You don't hear about all the times the regular process prevented downtime... because things don't go down.
Funny how you always see this comment in this type of thread
I played it Day 1 and it runs reasonably well on my RTX 2080, nothing spectacular tho. I've had like 3 crashes in the 20 hours I've put in yet. I enjoy the game a lot, even with the bugs but what really let me down were the life paths.

I started a corpo character, got some fancy tech and a lot of cash 5 minutes in, then I ride a cool flying car around, I felt good and liked my choice. 10 minutes later I'm in a bar and 2 people come up to me that I have a meaningless dialogue with, they steal the tech and cash and from that point on I'm just a regular street kid?

It made no sense to me, I played on for an hour and then restarted as a street kid.
It has the vibe (aesthetics), like most modern "cyberpunk" works. The tech, hacking, drugs, and weird AI were mostly the setting for the main themes of corporate power and how technology enabled new forms of control/manipulation.

When an article compared William Gibson's visions to Second Life, he rejected the notion explicitly[1]:

But as Gully Jimson says, in The Horse's Mouth,
"It wasn't the vision I had."

Neither is Second Life.

Chia and her buds build their treehouses in
corporate ghost sites. That's the difference.
Interstitial. Gotta be interstitial.

I've only seen the first few hours of Cyberpunk 2077, but so far it has the potential for some of the social/political themes. The "Corpo" prelude depicting a corporation abusing its power to "repo" parts of someone's body was a good start, but so far the game hasn't returned to that theme, instead focusing more on the tech/combat.

Unfortunately, the trend over the last few decades in cyberpunk has steadily shifted towards aesthetics. The only true counterexample I know of (and by far the best cyberpunk movie ever made is Sleep Dealer (2008). Its aesthetics suffered due to a very tiny budget, but it was shockingly prescient in its depiction of the "gig economy" and drone violence.

[1] http://williamgibsonblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/#8519138918500...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZr8A_9VZBw&disable_polymer=...
Also see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25439073

I am definitely interested in a higher-level Pytorch API that uses TF as an execution engine.
LOL, tech companies destroyed silicon valley now they are moving to Texas to do it again
Part of CyberArk's functionality is also rotating/updating local accounts on systems as well (including root).
Aside - I'm not an expert but systems like MailChimp will get very worked up if your list has lots of undeliverable addresses on it. This can trigger an audit of your list which prevents sending, etc. These audits seem to take quite a while, in my very limited experience.
Polymart to add real-time chat
I've played a lot of games. What do you mean by "nearly unplayable"? I'm certain you don't actually mean that based on what I've seen of the game.

Of all the obvious criticisms of the game, it's that they couldn't build out the world to meet the narrative hyped by trailers.

Frankly, I have no clue what the generation of consoles have to do with the problem—the game looks great, at least for a release so early in the generation.

Fuck the studio for their labor practices but the product ain't the problem.
And the parent post’s point is that there are people whose job it is to specifically share that information, and so we should let them do their job. They are the domain expert in this particular task.
The new Macbooks can run arm64 Linux.
GPU underutilization depends on what, exactly, the model you're training is. It's not unreasonable to hit 80% or more of CUDA core usage on non-recurrent models like convnets, given sufficiently fast data pipelines and a reasonable batch size. Transformers and other recurrent functions hit 100% CUDA core utilization for large portions of each epoch, with the low-% usage on the comparatively short weight update at the end. As well, the current rule of thumb is that at the same price point (so a Xeon 4114 and a Nvidia Titan RTX) the GPU completes each epoch in 10% of the time as the CPU given the same compute graph... So it's highly unlikely that training will be anywhere close to as fast on a CPU as it is on a GPU.
Here ya go https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/how-a-robot-got-super...