skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tried remote storage and its slow like you mention, but once I ran it on a ryzen desktop with a hdd for storage the whole thing is incredibly fast and works great.
Computer Science. But it was quite qualitative and involved a fair bit of human research as well.
I always imagine that the first alien life forms we find will be incredibly simple maybe single celled or primitive multi-celled organisms.
I've done two tours in the US: the west coast and the southern tier from CA-->FL-->NY. The latter was a life changing, eye opening journey into the heart of America. Being a "coastal elite", I gained a level of empathy and cultural understanding for "middle America" at 13mph and in crashing with strangers via WarmShowers.org I can't imagine any other 67 day trip could provide.

I recommend this experience to anyone who will listen, though it's not for the feint of heart...pretty dangerous riding alongside traffic (i.e. insta-death is a swerve away) for starters.

If we can lower the bar to this kind of socially transcendent experience -- starting by making it safer sans cars/trucks -- I firmly believe this has the power to connect America in ways she needs so badly these days.
Isn't that what's meant to happen? If your kid starts talking about converting to Islam and becoming a jihadist, surely parents should alert the authorities. The interesting thing is why that wasn't the example they used, given it's the biggest extremist threat the UK faces by a country mile.
You give Florida as an example. If we scaled up New Zealand's population to Florida's their total COVID-19 fatalities would be about 100. But Florida's policy approach has killed over 20 thousand people already, and shows no sign of stopping.

You list as a downside of New Zealand's approach unemployment. Scaled up, New Zealand would have about 600k unemployed people. But Florida actually has 650k. So that seems like instead of avoid unemployment, an economy devastated by pandemic but unwilling to lockdown has shrunk anyway.

So so far your cost is twenty thousand extra friends and relatives dead, and your "benefit" is fifty thousand extra unemployed.

Did you actually perform a cost/benefit analysis? I don't think you did.
In seccomp the only syscalls available are read, write, exit, and sigreturn. There is nothing to miss
Irrespective of its legal status, LG is proof one does not need 75,000 employees, nor any perceived "brilliance", to provide a world-class, non-commercial information retrieval service. It can hold its own next to many university libraries' remote access facilities and it puts Google Scholar to shame. It is command-line friendly and offers bulk data. Unlike Google, LG does not try to guess what the user is searching for and answer questions. One encourages traditional learning, the other is incessantly trying surveil its users in the name of selling online ad services to third parties.
Re-read it; the letter from the chief residents (who are residents in their final year of training, in some departments it’s everyone in their last year, in others selected leaders) was _protesting_ the allocation. The letter explaining the error was from hospital leadership, which does not include the chief residents.

The email sent by a chief resident was simply passing on the administration’s explanation.
At the time the validation models were not very mature so they moved everything up to higher metal layers with big-ass drivers and designed for worst-case. I'm sure Intel has a much better handle on it now (they ain't dummies!), but back then the orders were "don't let the ring(s) throttle the cores".
Microsoft uses VS Code to create awareness of the MS brand and ultimately get people on to Azure.
Yes an investor has lower risk than a worker. A worker depends on continually selling his labor-power to survive. He can't do that if he gets sick or injured, if he gets laid off, if his area of expertise gets automated out of existence, etc. When an investor makes an investment all he risks is maybe eventually having to become a worker (only a real potential for small investors and small business owners).
Over Bitcoin's history, each peak was several times higher than the previous peak. Of course this pattern can't repeat forever but there's room for it to repeat one or two more times before Bitcoin would pass gold.
I tried nextcloud for a couple months earlier this year and found it to be overcomplicated poorly engineered junk. It was super unreliable on iPhone. Simple things that should have worked perfectly, like uploading or downloading files, were very unreliable. There’s a certain class of software, usually written these days in a PHP, python, or JS, where there’s a big focus on making it “easy to use” or having a nice UI that usually accomplishes neither and you also have to contend with the underlying software being bad.

At this point, the only solution I’ve found to the kind of self-hosting stuff nextcloud provides are various utilities built on top of SSH — like rsync (which works perfectly) - or samba (which works OK). I haven’t found anything that really works well on iOS.
Yup. The official docs contain a lot of references to Azure (cloud) as well, e.g. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/python-on-azure
An+insight+into+how+the+Ventures+Platform+Fund+works
It's still easier than Bitcoin. It will only go away if people stop using it.
> I would say the author provided all the evidence for you to draw such a conclusion, but never insinuated as such

I respectfully and strongly disagree.

The conclusions about Martin as a person I gather from the historical evidence in the article are "Martin clearly knows little about history and obviously wanted to engage a little bit in the 'Fremen mirage' [as the author, Devereaux, himself would put it], but he's also a blowhard overstating his own knowledge and authority."

That Martin is "irresponsible", and his story "harmful", etcetera. That's all entirely what the author puts forward on the last few paragraphs... And something he didn't do in the first article in the series, and in the few other essays by him I've read. He keeps it fairly neutral, and focused on the history.

You see, the charitable interpretation in this case would be "don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence". In most of Devereaux's essays that have become popular here, he sticks to that one with reasonable consistency, but he clearly made an exception this time.
Thanks! I am asking since I am not sure it this is aligned with some of my childhood memory. Back in my days as a pupil in China, I don't have to bind the book but still need to buy two things for each new textbook:

1. A plastic separate "binder" like thing, which can be attached to the glued together side of the book. Since the textbook are glued together in factory, this additional binder makes the book more solid.
2. A plastic protect wrap to cover the book back/front covers. I used to hand-make these wraps from a very large paper as well, since it looks more "personalized" and cheaper.
Journalism is the act of hunting for truth. I don't think any reputable outlet goes into an investigation knowing what the outcome is going to be. Journalists are good at looking at evidence and identifying possible outcomes and many times their assumptions turn out to be true after rigorous research, but this is different then knowing what an outcome of a story is going to be.
>OTOH, Facebook has told people that posting pictures of competing VR hardware is a TOS violation for guns

Could be a mis-trained image classifier that triggers on black pistol grips.
Successfully pulling off such an attack, of course, is quite difficult.
FWIW, it went from $17k to $3k in a year.
Not sure of that. The most critically acclaimed games e.g. RDR2, Horizon Zero Dawn etc. have very deep and intriguing stories while maintaining the world as “open” as possible. Even the Witcher is another example. Cyberpunk sounds like a case of massive overhyping and under delivering. Some fanboys here and there are unwilling to face the reality, but most reviews I’ve read seem to be sober and corroborate the above point.
> stabilize the plane

Stability has a different meaning when applied to aerodynamic characteristics than they way you mean it (i.e. consistency). Stability in aerodynamics means if you push something off-center, it will return to center. Unstable means it will go further off-center.

Unstable is like balancing a pencil on its point. The slightest perturbation will cause it to fall over.

> Do you have a specific citation for this?

Aviation Week 19-Sep-2019

" The MCAS activated twice, and the crew countered with electric trim. Unlike the JT610 pilots, the ET302 crew
flipped the stabilizer trim motor cut out switches, which stopped the MCAS from moving the stabilizer. But after
reporting not being able to manually trim the aircraft, they flipped the cut out switches on again. The faulty AOA
data was still feeding the left-side FCC, activating the MCAS again and putting the aircraft into a dive."

(The airplane was already in a dive when they turned off the stab trim.)

> It seems you're generally suggesting that the instructions provided by Boeing were sufficient for the plane to remain airworthy without further mitigation; this was contradicted by the ECAA and others. Is this what you're suggesting?

Yes. In fact, on the flight immediately preceding the LA crash, the same MCAS problem was experienced, and the crew returned the trim to normal with the electric trim switches and then cut off the stab trim. They landed safely without further incident.

Exactly what Boeing's EAD stated to do.
I subscribe to the NYT, but it's not the only thing I read. The retraction was plastered all over in the press.
As a full stack developer, I need to run the server side components on my development workstation.

Not specifically interested in M1, but its obvious that ARM (Graviton2 and successors) is going to be cheaper for the AWS stack I run.

So I am looking for an ARM workstation at 8 or 16 GB RAM minimum to learn more about Ubuntu on ARM.

Sent my Red Hat son an M1 Air for Christmas as I believe what the author says about M1 performance and utility.
Shareholder voting is not that complicated, it's just a simple majority vote weighted by number of shares held. My suggestion is a modest extension of that, to address a specific problem.

Can you come up with specific ways it might fail? I can definitely think of issues that would have to be addressed, but so far all the critical comments in this subthread could apply, unmodified, to thousands of unrelated ideas, rather than just this one.
A Doc About Wuhan's Lockdown Was Too Real for My Dad. I'm Glad I Watched
Hi everyone,

I've been working on a platform to enable anyone to affordably sell digital products online. In particular, Flurly charges no monthly fee & only takes 1% of each transaction, which is 5x cheaper than competitors like Gumroad.

I hope this can be useful to online sellers in the hacker news community. I believe more money directly to creators is net good for the world. Some may wonder how I plan to make money on this. It's a fair question. My current plan boils down to two key factors:

1) Cost efficiency. By utilizing technology platforms like Stripe/Firebase/Vercel/Algolia/Sendgrid, I can amortize the cost. Or in other words my costs grow with revenue/usage. This way, I don't need to buy physical hardware servers, or negotiate deals with banks or write my own database, or spend time on SRE. Also since it's just me, I don't need to pay for employee health insurance, benefits, etc.

2) Volume. Hopefully by lowering the cost of doing commerce, more people will buy and sell, increasing the overall volume of commerce. Since the commission is on the overall volume, hopefully I can recoup some revenue/profits that way.

Please let me know if you run into any issues and I'll look into it right away

Thanks!
For me it was just the convenience of being able to have most of my cloud things in one place (like calendar, reminders, contacts, notes, etc). I suspect it's probably not the best solution for each of those individually, and I'm definitely curious what other options are out there, but it's quite a convenient drop-in replacement for a lot of Google's cloud offerings for people who are looking for alternatives. Also I should note I don't actually ever use the nextcloud UI itself, I don't disagree it can feel a bit clunky sometimes. I use 3rd party clients and use my personal cloud to sync everything via webDAV and cardDAV.
It sounds like it to me as well. We had the same bug with content editable fields and changing then index of the selection, which is where the cursor appears.
>Such is “work.” Play is just the opposite. Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced. This is axiomatic.

Work and play are both voluntary to different degrees. You can survive without working, although your existence will likely be miserable. You can also survive without playing, but again, your existence will also likely be miserable. Play is something we prefer to do voluntarily, but if you don't force yourself to play every once in awhile, your life will probably be unhealthy. In that sense, it is not voluntary.

Even if I didn't work, I still have to do things that I don't want to do in order to keep my life at the level that I want. I need to clean where I live, keep myself clean, keep my body healthy by eating healthy food and exercising. Work is just an extension of that. It's a choice that I make in order to sustain or progress my life at the level that I desire.

Calling work non-voluntary reveals more about the author than it does about the system they describe: that they feel that they have no choice. They have a choice, but the choice is unpleasant. That is not the same as no choice. Declaring that you have no choice is a result of the inability to confront the weakness to acknowledge the unpleasant decision.
That's not an expression of an intent to make race the story next year. It's his believe that race is a core issue hurting the American soul these days, and that he is committing the paper of record to cover the topic in proportion to its significance.

Edit: I previously included a paragraph here pointing to this issue being brought up even though it's one among many as evidence for race being a top issue. But reading some past comment of yours, you seem more reasonable than I expected, on that issue and in general.

Our disagreement may just be smaller than it appears, or concern "the media" more than the issue of race. If one were to stipulate that BLM was a major story, and maybe even that some of the President-unelect's words and deeds can be interpreted as not entirely lacking a resemblance with something that may, in a certain light, be considered to possibly fall under the umbrella of "being a racist", or even just that he was frequently misinterpreted in such a way by a bit more than half of the population... then race is, de facto, a major issue. Add to that some coverage that's been criticised as tone-deaf, and my starting point of considering the Times to not be the worst, and I think there's a good-faith interpretation of Banquet's intentions.

If, instead, you believe journalism in general, and the Times specifically, have been circling the drain for decades, it may sound different.
John Le Carré Missed Nothing
Thought this was awesome, until I find it's based on the lessor of the two Borland products, C++, and not Pascal.
I mean, not even that. The cost to buy a software engineer and get them hired at the place you want to attack is really not that high. Once inside it’s generally possible to get things in (“the guild server was failing so I SSHed in and fixed it”).
It seems to me that switching from immediately stopping the kind action (e.g. greening someone) as soon as it's not reciprocated to stopping the kind action if it is habitually not reciprocated could address a lot of those problems.

You could probably also put a maximum age on your game state. E.g. if it's been more than a week since this person failed to reciprocate, then treat this like an initial interaction.
was it that slow?
Lol. Articles like this remind me of Silicon Valley where Pied Piper app is built for engineers rather than "Regular people": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYBcLMiR9b0

and then Richard going in to the focus group trying to explain it science-speak rather than ELI5.

It seemed like this article's intended audience is regular people and it missed the mark. First question I had was... what is SAR?
Counter-Intuitive: State of Vibration Exists Simultaneously at 2 Different Times
Is it me or is the title of this extremely hard to parse?

I was trying to understand the phrase "falls on report"

The capitalization actually made it worse although I suppose it's standard title case with some words typically excluded. I've never grokked the exact rules on this.

But it's "falls" that is the problem. What falls?

"VMWare Stock Price Falls On Report Its Software Led to SolarWinds Breach ..." would have made much more sense.
> Unlimited storage (almost 40TB)

Huh? One of those is finite and the other is not.
Experimenting with Git Storage
very well articulated, thanks.
The European Union has the scale of the US and arguably more diversity given there are a few more languages spoken and each one is associated with a different culture. And that's only a part of one continent, and there are more continents.
I mean, in NYC, don't walk slowly in the middle of a sidewalk, hold doors for people, don't blast TV and music at home, and don't walk on the floor like an elephant with heels first. That's all I got.
Depending on what you rebase to and what the usual workflow is for developers. Those that rebase from remote frequently (guilty) won’t notice, but those that do merges might.
Yep, and depending on power and focusing, can ascertain better resolution and more clearly see object definition as opposed to blended colors
MIT disciplining professor with ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein
Every other jurisdiction that I’ve owned property uses comparable sales to establish fail valuation. In New York, where I live now, jurisdictions do a comprehensive reassessment when market changes start creating structural inequities. Exemptions are for elderly, disabled vets, etc are expressed as a capped percentage of valuation, backed by an alternative revenue source.

An owner with an identical property should be paying identical tax.
The original question was "Why is it reasonable for management to be political activists but not the workers?"
The reasonable labor law is generally about what contracts are and are not permissible and enforceable. For example, minimum wage means I cannot generally hire someone and pay them less, even if both parties are willing.

Beyond that, well on a spectrum with that, there are numerous ways to circumvent private property - for example, government may mandate (or maintain an informal policy) that workplace theft is not prosecuted, like they do with regular theft in some US cities. That can swing the other way too, they could make wage theft ok, for example. Doesn't make it reasonable.

If I own a company and employ no-one, for someone I then hired for a specified purpose to try to wrest control of the company away from me is not much different from a corrupt government or mafia trying to do it without a contract. The magic attached to the contract that would give employers such powers would make contracts all but meaningless.
Yeah, that's irrelevant. One M1 core is not going to use its entire package power either, because there are other powered cores in there like the GPU.

Look at the chart again. One Ryzen core active, 37 watts total package power. It doesn't matter what the per core wattage is, because you can't get that one core without the package.
“Thank you for bringing smarter, better information.”

Thank you for being modest, but the information isn’t “better” than yours, just more precise and more “messages from the front”. Both are equally valuable.

There has been an ongoing issue in mathematics between documentation and communications.

Documentation is rampant. It is a necessary part of the process of determining whether something is correct, rather than almost correct. It’s a technical requirement of the process, much like desks and chairs.

Communications is almost an afterthought to the community, but is math’s basic value to society. Here I define “communications” as imparting the basic insights to anyone who isn’t either developing the proof or reviewing the proof for correctness, I.e. the entire planet minus 10 or 20 people.

Communications has relatively little to do with documentation, although documentation can and has masqueraded as communications. The current mathematical enterprise has put 95% (99%?) of the effort on proofs to expand the mathematical universe, and precious little on communications.

I’d argue that should be reversed at this stage in the development of mathematics. But, as a nod to the established order, I’d propose that 50% of the effort of professional mathematicians be spent in the development and improvement of the communications side of mathematics. No better time, given the maturity of media technologies.

My two cents...
They do exist! Here’s filament that can be used to print them: https://tcpoly.com/product/ice9-flex/
This is super interesting. Tons of people agree that machine learning needs a better grasp of causality. Something underdiscussed is that our data doesn’t generally include the information needed to automate causal inference and discovery in the large.

It’s the reason your A/B testing framework tracks which variables were the randomization units. Most tables don’t have that kind of provenance in a machine readable structured format. After all, a DAG connecting any rows in any tables at your company is a hell of a prospect.

It’s nice to read about causality tracking systems like in the article.
Explosion of Neural Rendering Research in 2020
happy nextcloud admin here - sticking with v18 for now since I have no use for office-calendar things. File sharing links and the video chat working just fine, using it for small team meetings and it works well enough. At some later date, I might look at some of the many, many cloud transfer protocols supported under-the-hood (as seen by looking through the installed php source files).
I am interested too, why is the title of a book so secretive?
The reason people are making these comparisons between CPUs that are basically in entirely separate market segments is because of apples marketing suggesting that the M1 beats everything, rather than just other low power CPUs, and people taking said marketing at face value.
Let AI Draw You
Absolutely, the M1 is extremely impressive and the best performer in its class by a long shot.
Not to mention you’re less likely to get hit with ransomware. Nextcloud pwnage seems much more likely.
Research in the academic sense is computer science research. "Vulnerability research" is a term of art that means "discovering and qualifying vulnerabilities". Most vuln researchers aren't academic. The term itself goes back decades and predates widespread academic offensive security research; nobody at COAST would have thought to call themselves "vulnerability researchers" because vulnerabilities weren't their focus.

I'm honestly a little lost about what the dispute even is here. Obviously, the term "vulnerability research" is old, and means pretty much what I said it meant in the previous paragraph. What's the confusion? It sounds almost as if you're trying to say "vulnerability research" means "academic security research". Obviously, it does not. Are you just trying to say it should mean that?
I don’t think you can infer how busy hospital staff are from this article even though hospitals may have fewer patients in them.

Not all hospital beds are equal. Can you put a covid patient in a bed next to a covid-free patient? Probably not.

How many staff are off ill or self isolating?

Can the covid staff treat non-covid patients? If so, is there a PPE robing/disrobing overhead to this?