skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I also find these arguments absurd. These companies have been building cars for decades and now suddenly they would be somehow out of their element switching complex combustion engines to much simpler electric motors? Unless Tesla makes some fundamental advancement in battery technology (which again as you pointed out, is not even their IP) it doesn't seem there is that much of a gap.

This appears to have a lot of similarities with the dot-com bubble where the new internet companies were thought to quickly overrun the old, "uncool" companies. It just doesn't happen like that. Plus there is a vested interest in the home countries of these car companies to see that these companies survive. Sure some of them might be ripe for losing a lot of market share, but they still have time to catch up as the world is slowly turning to mostly EVs. It's not the same as with internet companies where people can switch their search engine the next day if they so desire.
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> Are you seriously suggesting that Tesla production will increase by 100x within a decade?

Tesla scaling electric vehicle and battery production by 60% CAGR for a decade doesn't seem too ridiculous when you put it that way. And that doesn't factor in new products. Look at Apple in 2007.
why not put it behind VPN?
There is no such word "lotska" in Russian. They could have meant "lyozhka", translating to something like "lie-down", an archaic word no one uses nowadays. Anyway, the story is unbelievable and has poor sources.
It's also not random. I've talked a couple of times in my life to strangers in public transport, well, they actually talked to me, both times somehow accidentally people who I talked to were IT professionals, one was a programmer, the other one was a sysadmin and it was in the 90s in former soviet republic, hard to randomly encounter such people back then.
Fast trajectories are also needed to reduce radiation risk. Slow trajectories would expose humans to too much radiation.

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex...
A lot of working girls accept credit cards with "discreet billing" (IT/Computer services etc), and almost all accept Venmo/Square Cash/PayPal, all of which get filled by credit or debit cards. Some even refuse to set an appointment without paying a deposit online.
How is making an OnlyFans account, where the content creator is completely in control of their actions, in any way comparable to pimping? There isn't even a "pimp" in this scenario. The women have 100% agency in when, how, and what to post. To me that does seem pretty liberating.
It's pretty interesting that YouTube offers such a huge surface area for processing user-uploaded files. Some of those obscure formats should have a security flaw.

But the ffmpeg processes are surely sandboxed with seccomp or similar, so it probably does not matter at all.
One of the best smartphones of all time. Somehow I found its first firmware (2.7.x?) much more usable than the 3.x to which it auto-updated. Particularly seems to be caused by lawsuits that led to removal of slide-to-unlock—like function.
I worked nights, it's pretty nice. Most people have never thought of it like this.

You are awake both in the day and in the night. If you work during the day then all your freetime has to be spent at night.

If you work at night, all your freetime gets to be spent in the glorious day, you know while people are out and about and shops/restaurants are open.

remember you only sleep 8 hours at night, and to be fair in a US Europe situation your work hours merely overlap at night and it's most likely you work from 3pm to 10pm.

so your time spend relaxing/working HAS NOT CHANGED. The quality of you relaxing time however has dramatically improved, and so has your working time.

I'd tell anyone GO FOR IT.
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Ffmpeg saved my life when I was troubleshooting some quality issues video calls and customer was about to cancel the contract, we reconstructed the video from packet captures and ffmpeg helped us track the issue to be a H245 media reset that was happening every now and then, ffmpeg was able to detect the fps variation. All free and well documented
> explain you’re going to cancel

Actually say you want to cancel. You will be routed to a cancellation department. They are ridiculously empowered. I have a memo to do this with a few services once a year.
Would it make sense to use this link?
Which references December 1990 as the first web http server and http client browser/ editor life in cern?

https://timeline.web.cern.ch/worlds-first-browsereditor-webs...
Who decides what orthodox Islam and what is heresy?

You'll find Sunnis who think Shiites are heretics, and Shiites who think Sunnis are heretics, and both are major branches of Islam.

Of course you'll find both Sunnis and Shiites who think Sufis are heretics, and Sufis who think Sunnis and Shiites are heretics (or at least don't understand the true or secret meaning of the Koran or of Islam).

And does the Koran have a secret meaning, or only a surface meaning? This important question itself is also a matter of opinion and will differ based on who you ask.

There have also been mystics in Islam apart from the Sufis: Avicenna, the Ismailis, and Alawites spring to mind.

As a non-Muslim, when I see the members of these sects disagree with one another as to who is a "true Muslim" or what is or isn't Islam, what reason do I have for believing any one of them over the others?

Their appeals to scripture, lineage, famous commentators and the like are not very convincing both because as a non-Muslim I have no reason to believe in any of them and because you can easily find other people who claim to be Muslims making pretty much the same appeals in support of completely different conclusions.

At this point in my life, anyone who considers the Koran their central scripture is a Muslim in my eyes.

If you have a better definition that doesn't rely on appeals to scripture, to lineage, nor to the authority of some person, I'd love to hear it.
I suspect bipolarity is a feature, not a bug. It probably helped humans survive hard winters north of the equator by keeping us "depressed" and indoors during the harsh winter months and hyperactive during the more temperate months to harvest resources. Same with SADS and post-partum depression: keeps you indoors to care for a baby and avoid contracting new diseases or falling pregnant shortly after.
To me the problem isn't that Google de-prioritized these sites, it's that they did so while running their own shopping service. It's the same problem I have with Apple's work to ban game streaming services from their site- it would be a lot more convincing that they are acting in the users best interest of they weren't also selling Apple arcade. We really should be concerned about gatekeepers prioritizing their own services over the competition. I'm not saying that these sites should be restored to a place of prominence (they shouldn't) but that the underlying idea that a monopoly like Google search should be restricted in its ability to branch out or self promote its services is valid.
People who think that white men will hire more minorities and women if they focused less on merit are naive.
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> classical debates that have no end like guns and abortion.

I think this is a pretty american centric point of view. These debates don't have anywhere near the same back and forth in other countries (thinking of canada in particular) that they do in USA.

I imagine how taboo porn is is also very much a cultural phenomenon that varries a lot place to place.
I'm sure you've seen terrible behavior in corporate environments. I have too.

But I've also seen wonderfully productive, supportive behavior. I've seen leaders who uplift and who succeed by helping those around them. I've learned to pay attention to who I work for, or with, and to support the kind of people who I want to see running things.

It's a grave error to only consider the worst while ignoring the best.
Well, analogue HDTV and digital music formats were already experimented in '70s and '80s by Japanese [MUSE, Hi-Vision, CDs] and European [HD-MAC, NICAM, also CDs] researchers, so it is no surprise that similar research into digital realm are being performed [H.26*, MPEG-1 Audio Layer I to III and AAC (MPEG-2 Audio), and DVB and DAB were spearheaded by EBU and ETSI so no surprise there].
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OK, so when the catalog service is updated I need to update the search service and the cart service and coordinate deployment of these various services, or provide multiple versions of the catalog api.
He is short, and he makes the case for why the stock can’t repeat it’s past performance. (The law of large numbers, plus some other factors.)
I know of KGoldrunner. That looks to be around 10,000 lines of C++. I have no idea how approachable the code base is, but it’s definitely smaller than I expected, which is promising.

(Its README at https://invent.kde.org/games/kgoldrunneror https://github.com/KDE/kgoldrunner is over a decade out of date, but it looks like the actual code is still being maintained so it compiles, though it may not be getting new development.)
I disagree. The host cuts corners all the time so much so that it’s no where near authentic. The worst one was the Roman garum episode where he basically just boiled some fish bones and called it a day. Garum is fermented fish sauce that takes weeks to make.

I can recommend Townsends and son, that is truly a fantastic channel.
Game is solid on my PC rig... have heard issues on PS4’s and xbox one however honestly surprised on the overly negative reactions.

Great story, cool game so far for me.
That's pretty debatable. The British government never explicitly supported development of Arm technology. Acorn had a commercial arrangement with the BBC and schools bought BBC micros (including Archimedes but also others such as the PCs) but its a stretch to say that Arm was subsidized by the public.

Inmos which was a government supported CPU designer at about that time is long gone.

If anything the lesson from Arm is that it succeeded because of acute awareness of the commercial needs of its customers - e.g. the addition of Thumb to the ISA - and the need to build an international client base.
Because they dislike Jazz?

I had a fit once and put on some Glen Miller. I won't say it wasn't very good, but it wasn't something I am interested in at the time.

If anything, modern music is more spread out than ever allowing more subcultures to have their favorite music niche, something that wasn't possible in the sixties.
The source code Is available under the GPL and has been ported to everything.
This is the only one I can find. https://external-preview.redd.it/z5OQtXN0hk4z3FbsYjMO28xZl6r...

(It was posted to my Reddit account).

I will try to find some good public photos that represented reality.
Also, this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
32 hours a week, no more than 8 hours in a day, no more than 5 days worked per week (preferably 4). How you distribute is up to the business and the employee.

As productivity increases, total hours per week and max hours per day would be further ratcheted down.
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its a very good example of what is truly useful conflicting with widely held notions of whats important to make good software. basically, despite the arcane invocations, i find it gets the job done more painlessly than any alternative most of the time.
Its not a complicated concept, just a stretch of the concept of memory. Training in deep learning is done in batches. So "learning" (i.e. the gradient updates to weights) that happens due to your early batches of data can be undone by the gradient updates for later batches.

The gradient in machine learning is based on the loss. Specifically it's the direction that reduces the loss the fastest. So, not only the most recent batches, but specifically by the recent data that is predicted incorrectly. It doesn't have any "confidence" from the memory of what was predicted right previously, for example, it just currently only cares about changing to suit the most recent batches.
> Westeros is based on medieval Europe

Inspired rather loosely by remixing elements of that with other historical sources (e.g., Palestine—modern Palestine, specifically, IIRC—is explicitly identified by GRRM as part of the inspiration for Dorne.) Then leavened with a hefty dose of fantasy (part of the “realism” reputation the series has is that the fantasy elements aren’t bolt-ons that don’t fundamentally effect the rest of the setting.)

> I’m sorry, do I have to provide you with evidence that media impacts people’s perception of things?

There’s a pretty big difference between these claims:

(1) media impacts people’s perception of things

vs.

(2) AGoT undeniably has a massive impact on people’s perception of medieval Europe
> The solution to the problem of sitting in a room is not to sit in a room!

Wouldn't that itself be a form of distraction. Your subconscious will be activated but your conscious mind be distracted.
We don’t teach people a technical aesthetic. So, lacking a strong internal sense of taste, they cargo cult it from the latest FAANG scraps thrown at them. This compounds with the conceptual disaster that is web apps.

The good news is there’s a lot more to software dev than webdev.
In my defense, I originally published this as a throwaway on my Shortform (it's sort of like LessWrong's take on Twitter), but one of the admins wanted me to repost it as a main post. I agree that ideally I would have wanted to playtest this more before drawing attention to it.

That being said, I do suspect that these rules are probably pretty close to achieving the effect I wanted to achieve- the main doubt I have is whether the king's moves work, or if they need to be adjusted to get the balance right, but even there, there's a good chance that it works. I will make sure to update the article when I get a chance to test it out.
I have fond memories of spending hours making and testing new levels, and exchanging them with my friends.
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In this sense, the lock in lock-free does not refer directly to mutexes, but rather to the possibility of “locking up” the entire application in some way, whether it’s deadlock, livelock – or even due to hypothetical thread scheduling decisions made by your worst enemy. That last point sounds funny, but it’s key. Shared mutexes are ruled out trivially, because as soon as one thread obtains the mutex, your worst enemy could simply never schedule that thread again.

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A final precision: Operations that are designed to block do not disqualify the algorithm. For example, a queue’s pop operation may intentionally block when the queue is empty. The remaining codepaths can still be considered lock-free.
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I don't get it ; how could "locking a mutex" not be considered as an "operation that are designed to block" ?

Would somebody be kind enough to tell me what am I missing here? Thanks !
I liked that part where Nokia shortly before acquisition of mobile division by MS sold their Espoo headquarters for 10mln EUR and simulanously leased it for 1m EUR per year for 10 years. Headquarters were part of the deal. This way Nokia fetched 10mln EUR in cash and MS got a 10 years lease contract paying 1m EUR per year.

Coming from country where it's mostly outsourcing, one earns scraps and jumps the ship in case of turbulences, it impressed me how employees can work in their collective interest.
I think people underestimate how much of the spirit of the old internet still exists.

For example, many twitch channels have an active offline chat that isn't advertised or even sanctioned by the actual streamer. I lurk/idle in the offline chat for a streamer who gets maybe 200-300 viewers per stream and there are now about a dozen of us from all over the world who have become friends over a decade. At this point many of us have met in real life or sent each other packages.

When I was younger I was very active on a small independent irc server and it was almost an identical experience.
If you wanted to take a stab at that sort of argument, make it along the lines of men being disposable gender: hard manual work with high risk of death, lower life expectancy, women and children first, if you're not making serious money you are a failure etc.

Historically, virtually all women passed on their genes, but 60 % of men did not. (Numbers approximate)

At the same time the whole reason women had gold jewlery was because they weren't allowed to have money, so take it as you will
>You've never heard of a commercial break? Find that hard to believe.

I don't tolerate that garbage from TV (via time-shifting/fast-forwarding), why should I accept it from online sources?

And I don't. Show me a site that has ads I can't skip and I'll show you a site I won't use.
USB isn't very good for high vibration environments (e.g. inside robots) though :-/ Worst abomination of a connector design I've seen in a couple decades. I wish they had locking industrial connectors on the USB ports on the Pi ... although a SATA/m.2 would be nicer.
This thread is about the marginal utility of the money for the state vs. the taxpayer.
Finally i see others with this Thunderbolt panic issue, which causes me to disconnect my USB C Dock before going to sleep.

In my company i am the only one, but it is not due to a faulty Dock since it works with Windows and Linux.

I had like 30 crashes until i could reliably avoid them.
Welcome to 2020 where identity politics is the name of the game. It seems everything these days can be explained based on your race/gender and yet this is supposedly the most "woke" time ever. Cue the downvotes.
> If there was a time to have options at a growing, revenue generating startup it’s today.

AirBnB, DoorDash, etc. have been giving RSU's, not options, for years. RSU's are still worthless without an exit, but stock options have the major problem that you can wind up with negative value, or even extremely negative value. RSU's at least have a floor of zero.
>I don't see your point. You didn't buy the YouTube content. You're watching it for free. How about you just don't watch YouTube?

As a general rule, I don't. And if you'd actually read/comprehended the post you replied to, you'd know that.
To be fair it was a bit early technology-wise and they would have had to rip the entire thing out and start again three times since. We did pretty good out of copper in the end.
Airlines have been running their own data centers and fully understand the costs associated with managing their own infrastructure and many have decided to migrate to the cloud because they have decided it is worth outsourcing that function, it is not a key competency and they cannot keep up with the pace of innovation in the IaaS market. If they look at their IT as a complete system, the extra costs of the cloud are offset in a number of key areas, including increasing their ability to scale.

You mention of the shelf software, what do you think the organizations that build the COTS stuff (like Sabre) in this industry look like? Where do you think it is run? They’re all moving to microservices and cloud hosting too, including serverless where they think it makes sense (and a lot of times when it doesn’t, just like everyone else).

The smart ones (who understand Conway’s Law) are making these moves because they are enablers of smaller, more independent teams which we know are better at delivering software. The really smart ones know they’re paying the price in increased complexity the comes with a distributed system, but are willing to pay it because that cost is lower than the cost of the collaboration necessary to build a monolith of that size.

Logistics companies are one of the most interesting intersections of software and the real world. Most organizations are making a mistake by focusing on scaling their software too early or unnecessarily. Airlines and logistics are not, they have business problems that their existing software cannot solve in areas the COTS options do not fit in their operations.
Ask HN: How will 2021 pan out now? “Planungssicherheit” for Covid, Economy, Jobs
Apparently, there is no clear-cut plan about Covid and its future developments.
So how to have "Planungssicherheit" in this uncertain situation?

For starters:
- When will everything go back to normal?
- When will the entire world be vaccinated?
- What long-term consequences will the pandemic have?
- Should we be concerned about Corona mutations?
Given that in the twenty years I’ve lived here, King County refuses to do anything with the 520 trail and those fucking tree roots through the Microsoft campus, I’d rather they’d left it unpaved. It is embarrassing to have a bike trail in such pathetic shape, especially when it is a busy transportation corridor through a major local employer. As an added irony bonus, it’s within the city limits of a city that laughably claims to be the “bicycle capital of the Northwest”.

But we have asphalt left over to pave a gravel trail that parallels another paved path a half mile away (Willows Rd. and the Sammamish River trail). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Technology and automation. We’re arguing over how the productivity from those are distributed.
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> As a non-car owner, I ride the bus almost daily.

> The average bus rider is less capable than the average Universality educated white collar tech worker in the professional sense,

You ride the bus. Some university educated white collar tech workers ride the bus. So why even bring up the bus? Denigrating bus riders doesn't help your argument at all, it's a red herring, as is speaking of "average" people, because averages often overlook the wide range of values within the population.

> at least in terms of wage earning potential.

That's not the interesting question here, otherwise "we have a meritocracy" would be almost a tautology.

> 'The bus' (esp. not the subway) is the domain of the urban working class - full stop.

Maybe we shouldn't full stop, but rather talk about the demographics of the urban working class...

> "is more environmentally friendly" - this is irrelevant to the argument - the question is, why imbue the debate with side-show moralizing?

Because riding the bus could be seen as a sign of conscientiousness, education, and intelligence, in contrast to your characterization of bus riders, and refusal to ride the bus as a sign of selfishness and immorality. Personally, I make no generalizations about bus riders. I tended to keep to myself on public transportation and thought it strange when someone wanted to talk to a stranger out of the blue. So it would be very unlikely for anyone to have experienced an intelligent, interesting conversation with me on the bus, regardless of my level of intelligence.

> the system is crudely meritocratic

This is not the defense you think it is. Few think the system is entirely random, or on the other hand, perfect. The level of crudeness is precisely why we're constantly debating the system.
By the same token, people should stop expecting exceptional results if they used the same tools and processes as everyone else.
At this point they may as well split out food/shelter/clothing (variable) and keep the rest fixed.
I like music. I find almost all forms of music entertaining and sometimes quite moving: rock, pop, jazz, hip hop, country, classical and even occasionally opera.

However, there is one common form of music I can’t tolerate, background music. Such music seems to prevent really deep thinking in me. Music with lyrics interferes with my ability to write and any music slows my ability to do mathematics. I’ve mentioned this to my friends and coworkers, and they always give me this look like they can’t understand what I’m talking about. I suppose I prefer to sit in a quiet room alone.
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