skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yep, group think is as strong here as anywhere on reddit or facebook
UBI can be many things though. You can have some super low level of it and just remove marginal tax effects, or a bit higher that removes the marginal effects of companies firing people to save money but society loses much more money by that action.

Both those numbers are way below the level needed to.mske people not motivated to get even very crappy jobs.
I installed the optional Windows Update and I am not able to reinstall Flash anymore.
The Electric Year: In 2020, We Charged Toward Electric Vehicles
During the cavalcade of horrors that was 2020, the electrified march of progress continued, albeit a bit slowed by the global pandemic. Read on for some of the highlights of EV development in this crazy year.
Why would anyone think otherwise? Organic isn’t about greenhouse gases, it’s about keeping toxins out of food.
I haven’t used it yet, but read through the papers.
Performance != resource usage in this case.

They optimized for hitting 60fps without any concern for the resources they were using as long as it fit in that budget

I agree that using this amount of resources in the browsers of visitors shouldn't be taken lightly (they could be on battery for example).
Portabella (https://portabella.io) is privacy friendly project management. Think Trello/Asana but end-to-end encrypted with no third party tracking.

Hasn't made any money yet but I think it's on the brink

I've also worked on Block Hooks (https://block-hooks.com) but that's very early days. I expect as the Celo ecosystem grows I'll get customers.
Good on you for sticking with it. I too tried launching a similar service in this market, you’re right, the “big boys” marketing is everywhere and drowns out smaller service providers. Keep going, good luck.
Fine tuning BERT (what most people in practice do) is so much more efficient. You can do it in 8 hours on a 2080ti.

They need to mention that the total number of people training large transformers from scratch is very very small. If wager that the total number of different, uniquely trained (not using previous weights - which reduces compute necessity by massive amounts) language models in existence is in the low hundreds

I'd claim that these mass language models serving as the underlying encoding backbone behind more specific systems actually save energy and compute compared to the previous methods (needing far more data and thus more energy spent on getting it combined with less efficient representations like tf-idf causing many classifers to perform very slowly and thus burn lots of energy)

Also, much of the recent research in this field is about model pruning, quantization, and any technique you can imagine to reduce training and inference time or memory requirements.

All in all, big language models are a net positive for the environment. The effeciency gains in any number of fields from increasingly sophisticated NLP systems far, far outweighs the costs or of training them. Foundational research in environmental conservation will be accelerated by effective NLP semantic search and question answering systems. That's a single, tiny example of the potential for benefits from large language models.

Pick a better target.
Depends what you want to use it for things like https://ruffle.rs/ is getting better all the time and works with quite a few games now.
I was pleasantly surprised that it's performing fine for me in firefox on a pixel 3a.
That's not really accurate... I transferred off the Protobuf project three years before quitting Google, based on feedback I received from management suggesting they didn't think my work there was worthwhile. By the time I left Google, there was a new team maintaining Protobuf, and my reasons for leaving were not related to Protobuf.

I didn't leave Google to create Cap'n Proto. Rather, having left Google and being free to do whatever I wanted for a while, I created Cap'n Proto mostly for fun, to "scratch an itch" by trying out a different design.
Most of them are a little more than minimal, almost all of the ones I've seen are running full buildroot Linux with tons of shell scripts gluing stuff together and the main app in C++.
Because it would make China liable, and for the majority of individuals, their stance on China as a good actor in global matters is now linked to their American political allegiance. It is hard for many folks to reconcile both.
Perhaps the Octocat is following interplanetary hygiene best practices during their visit to Earth from the Octoplanet. [1]

1: https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/planetary-protection
For me, when working in-office, Friday was the least productive day, followed by Monday.

Friday you are less inclined to start anything big because you've got the weekend coming up. Monday you are getting back into the flow.

My WFH has been weird because I'm basically unsupervised. I've found that my work productivity has fallen off a cliff.
Police should be able to pack heat and use it pursuant to local laws. They should be able to fly whatever planes they want but in compliance with the same laws (including ones about intercepting communications) as everyone else, They are a civilian police force so they should get the same rights as other civilians. The double standards are the root issue.
The present guidelines are still substantially worse than the UK’s though. Door dashers are still put ahead of the elderly outside of nursing homes.
Everything is connected, our blessings and our curses are joined at the hip, and the average american voter understands these interconnections better than nearly every outsider.

Attributing it all to stupid-americans-and-their-prejudice-against-socialism is as much a disservice to yourself as it is to them.

I could illuminate a few of these connections here, but I would be swiftly pig-piled and banned, so you will have to discover them for yourself. Good luck!

edit: Actually, publish and be damned! We had a great many Germans at a chemical plant in the southeast--always telling us how stupid and backward our country was. UNTIL! the waves of refugees came. Now those same Germans fall over themselves apologizing to us. "We didn't know!"
The commentary talks about the decision making process for the opening sequence specifically about how risky it was to just have absolute silence for such an extended length in a feature. It was an absolue brilliant choice and really helps deliver the effect of how far way the camera moves.
This analysis is obviously garbage, but links to a much better post https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...
FWIW, this is how my imds-filterd (https://github.com/cperciva/imds-filterd) works: Traffic for 169.254.169.254 is routed into a VNET jail. That way I can have a web server which proxies IMDS requests while staying out of the way of any networking being done on the host system (e.g. anything else which might want to bind to port 80).
Depends on the home.

We own a condo. Mostly, we're paying a condo fee every month and that stuff is all just taken care of (along with our heating and AC).
ok, but then your free time isn't +50% because you're spending that extra day on labour to now compensate for the lost savings.

Don't get me wrong, both myself and my wife are both working 4 day weeks after the birth of our son (culturally, that certainly helps the discussion), and that extra flexibility let's you choose the option that's best for you, but there is an opportunity costs trade off between them all...
Because presidents keep refusing to veto (presumably because they will look weak if they veto something that gets enough votes for an override)
The headline says "lied about" but I think it should be updated to "lied to a judge about" - that's perjury! Nothing in the article about them being charged :(
Oh I have so many that failed, but I don't think I'd be where I am today without them.

- BillDivider: a SaaS to help housemates divide bills and other expenses

It was my first side-project, I wrote it in Django with Bootstrap. It barely worked, and I gave up due to the cost of running it.

- Jobs? Ok!: a job board

This was probably the dumbest idea I had business-wise - I would scrape jobs from other sites, and ask people to pay to post their own jobs amongst the scraped jobs.

On the tech side of things, it was my first time using React and GraphQL, and I really enjoyed it. Oh and I used DynamoDB for highly relational data, which I wouldn't recommend.

- Appointment Scheduler: a SaaS kinda like Calendly

By this point I sort of had an idea of how to build, I started using infrastructure-as-code (terraform), and building new ideas was just a matter of having one, and copy pasting assets. Tried selling the idea to consultant friends of mine, but they were happy using Outlook.

- Room Booking Co: Same idea as Appointment Scheduler, but for meeting rooms

This one I basically built to test the Google Calendar API. Turns out it's extremely limiting for interfacing with public calendars.

- Online Or Not: a SaaS that performed contract testing on GraphQL endpoints, pivoted to an uptime monitor

I feel like this idea had legs, just launched too early: basically it would snapshot a "good" version of your GraphQL response, ping it every X hours, and alert when the response changed.

I actually took sales meetings on this one, built features that potential customers said were must haves before they could use it. Punchline: those "potential customers" ended up ghosting me.

All of those projects led me to where I am today: running https://PerfBeacon.com - (PerfBeacon helps you keep your app/site fast by automating Google Lighthouse checks), and https://MaxRozen.com - where I write weekly about React, and have started selling a book on useEffect.
Docker on Windows exists in two variants, one of them uses windows containers.
> I ended up getting on the phone with a support person who fully acknowledged that the shipping info was wrong but to my shock completely dismissed it as not being a problem ...We went back and forth a few times to make sure I really understood his response and there's no doubt that he did not care that they were displaying false shipping info.

You have as much agency and incentive to fix the problem as the support person. Most arguments for why the support person should spend their time and energy trying to fix a problem outside their authority, and their reasons for not doing so, could equally be applied to you.
It’s not a race to the bottom. Taxes on reinvested capital should be zero, you don’t eat your seed corn. Eating less of it than another country doesn’t hurt them or you.

We should tax distributions that aren’t reinvested, and do it progressively.
Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly pt.3 – Arithmetic and Logic
The study is very interesting, thanks for the link.
I think, it is hard to draw the conclusion from it that increasing your income above a certain threshold does not increase your happiness in the case considered here. (They say something along these lines in the discussion section, too.)
All the study says is that "if you are a person that earns more than a threshold, you are typically not happier than a person who earns approximately the threshold salary" (very stylised).
This is not the same as saying "all else equal, if you'd earn more than the threshold salary, you would not be happier". So, in this kind of thought-experiment, where you get additional money that is free from, e.g., the typical downsides associated with it (e.g, more work, longer hours, more responsibility, or other things like that), you would not expect this to be applicable.
Hence, if you're a person who is in a position where they can simply generate more income through, e.g., licensing deals, it does not seem unlikely that more income will actually make them happier.
Is it really true that government jobs pay less than their private counterparts? In Canada government jobs are actually provide far more compensation than private ones but I guess it might be different for USA.
To be pedantic you can. They would have to ship the locations along side the video.

Of course part of the art is that it is real time (ish). That may be harder to do with video. (But I guess it could be a live stream)
The whole internet's full of VPN service but there's still a big market for it. There's a service I used a couple of years ago that allowed me to basically connect to the internet through this particular VPN without having any data plan. I don't know how they did it but it still seems weird that the service worked this way on the contrary to what I understand VPNs actually do or how they work. After a little bit of googling, finally got the name it was called Your Freedom
Forgive me if this is a stupid question or a bad place to ask, but I still occasionally go back and play some of the old classic flash games from the internet days of yore. Pandemic, Nekogames Parameters, Alien Hominid, etc...

Will there still be a way to play those games once all the browsers and operating systems pull the plug on flash?
Police are a critical component of any government. This crap is why they get no sympathy when people start talking about getting rid of them.
Virtual windows XP machine?
Really cool! Do you mind sharing how much of this money was reinvested into the business (a breakdown of the expenses)?
I’m honestly (and pleasantly) surprised that organically-raised meats don’t have a significantly higher greenhouse impact than conventional ones. I prefer organic because, at least in Germany, the animal welfare standards are higher for it. I don’t actually care if the animal feed itself is organic, because I figure the chickens and cows really don’t care.
Coinbase Sued for Allowing the Sale of XRP
Having a site that is less busy might be helpful....all the motion on your site makes me want to click away immediately.
More likely the truck-driving model would change. Instead of having one employee who goes where the truck goes, you'd have employees who reside in or near shipping destinations and meet up with the trucks for loading/unloading/fueling/maintenance/etc. On the one hand a given number of employees could service many more trucks along a single route, decreasing labor requirements, but at the same time covering large numbers of routes may take more people, or companies may focus on a narrower set of routes, offering more opportunities for smaller shipping companies. Odds are the number of people doing truck-driving related work would stay roughly the same, but the total volume of shipping would go up.
Firstly, I think it's a lot to ask that we believe Zyxel put a backdoor in their products and then just forgot about it.

But even if we choose to believe that, it's not wrong to say that it was secret. "Secret" typically means "without the knowledge of others". If I forget the secret combination to my safe, it doesn't become "not a secret" because of that.

In your example, Mozilla has presumably made public that they are using remote updates. So it can hardly be described as secret.
Wow, thanks for this comment. It hadn't occurred to me that you could interact with it. Neat!

I wonder if I'm just odd, or if people not realizing it's interactive is widespread.
Wait until the author discovers bitcoin's energy costs.
Antitrust litigation and Caps on personal and private equity fund wealth.

Bezos and the staff at amazon are not hero's even if their platform was very useful in this pandemic; they stand on the shoulders of giants and were only able to build their platform because of the kind of economic system the US built.

There is exactly zero expectation that even if the current group is honest and decent people, that once those staff are retired, die off, or move on, that their successors won't imoverish, abuse, mame, posion, threaten, intimiate, assassinate or kill the next generation of garage geeks inventing world changing technology. Quite to the contrary, that is exactly what monarchs do, and exceedinly rich capitalists always tend to eventually become robber-barrons and monarchs. One only needs to look at the scope of E-bays' cyberstalking campaign to see the threat companies like Amazon represent.

Furthermore, the US and EU governments use antitrust only when there is no other resort for the market and when the companies' entroachment into government is not sufficient to purchase political favors in order to cement their monopoly which many brand-name companies have done.

We need to view income as a form of power and need to cap personal and private equity income as a form of power the same as any law. You can start with a ridiculous number, say .1% of GDP for a company and .005% of GDP for an individual, which comes out to 200bn annual revenue for a company and .005% for an individual. For the company, once they hit that number, they get antitrust laws enforced. For the individual, if they hit that number in net worth\asset valuation, you impliment an absolute tax (no further income can be acquired, you pay all earnings in tax). If they want to keep the game going and not pay it to uncle sam they can give it away or just not save that much and instead spend it.

This does not have to be rocket science.
I built an Alexa skill and put a lot of work to take it from hackathon project to polished product but even now it only gets 6-10 unique users a day. I keep chipping away on it but no idea how to market it further.

For the curious - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sharman-What-Animal-Am-I/dp/B081GV8...
>I've fallen back to pretty much relying on name brands as my placeholder for product quality

I've fallen back on a combination of brand, country of manufacture, price, and to some extent if the company has its own retail presence outside of Amazon and other online or meatspace big box stores. For example...

If the brand is good, the item is expensive, but it's made in China and sold on Amazon, I try to avoid. There's some risk it will be money wasted on something that will last just 3-6 months.

Conversely if all of the above are true but the item is cheap, I'll buy it from Amazon, enjoy their fast delivery, and simply build into my expectations and budget that it will need to be replaced in 3-6months. This is what I've come to with headphones, for example.

On the other hand, if the item is made in (not just designed in, but made in) the US, Japan, Korea, Germany, or some other Western European countries, then it matters less what the brand or retail venue is. For example, buying a room fan, power tool, or similar, I'll look for one with a motor made in US/Japan/Germany/etc.

These are the best signals I've found to be available atm.
Chrome is dropping support imminently (at the end of the year). It's been showing a warning and date about it for quite a while (if you still have it active).
Transistors have gotten more efficient, but that doesn't mean CPUs' TDPs have decreased. At least for desktop CPUs they've mostly stayed the same or even gone up: the Pentium 4 "PresHot" from 2005 had a system power consumption of 233W whereas the i9-10900k from 2020 has a package power consumption of 254W.
> The last data I saw said an average of more than 10 years of expected life lost.

That isn't just data, it's data plus a set of assumptions. Won't you please further this discussion and share it instead of making vague allegations about right-wing conspiracies?

It's well known that Covid-19 is by wildly disproportionately more lethal as age increases[1] and it's also well known that older people on average have less life left than younger people.

Also please note that deaths of despair is a broader category than suicide[2]. Someone who drinks himself to death isn't counted as a suicide, even though it's a person taking action that ends his own life earlier than it otherwise would. Alcohol consumption has increased markedly during the pandemic[3].

Caring about 2nd and higher order effects isn't a right-wing conspiracy theory, it's just a sensible, intelligent, and compassionate thing to do. We should expect better than kindergarten tier reasoning from our leadership.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...

[2] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-same-number-of-people-...

[3] https://abcnews.go.com/US/alcohol-consumption-rising-sharply...
Human mind (aka brain) has consumed little over 6000 kWh energy when it's 35.

From the paper they cite

algorithm kWh-PUE
---------- -------
ELMo 275
BERT(base) 1,507
NAS 656,347

NAS was Transformer (213M parameters) for neural architecture search 2019.
They didn't have kWh numbers for GPT-2.
A government known for its austerity measures is going to mitigate its citizens' financial issues? I find that hard to believe.

I'm not going to engage with someone over the internet about the weighing of people's quality of life years or which side of the fence I come down on there. My post was merely pointing out that extrapolating a suicide rate for 2Q 2020 to the total suicide death number was in error.
Show HN: Tracker for Deep Work
It's not the amount of pay. It's that results (good or bad) don't really impact your salary. Nobody missed a bonus for the project failing and nobody would have gotten one for it succeeding.

The consultants have even worse incentives. The better they do the less they get paid. Meaning, it's better for them if the project drags on than delivering something on time.
It's sometimes necessary on Linux due to bugs in out-of-tree drivers or desktop managers.

A recent thread that turned out to be a lightdm bug: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/kl9map/cant_run_...
Actually the Fraud caught on camera in Atlanta was shown to have swung the election, if you overlay the surge of Biden votes that occurred when the poll watchers were told to go home yet counting resumed. The problem is there is not institutional effort to investigate the irregularities. The problem with Election fraud is that plausible deniability & passing the buck is too easy to accomplish for any party not willing to prosecute the obvious crimes being committed.

The election fraud is obvious & you know it. Even if you think its not enough to swing the election, we still have a responsibility to investigate.

George Catlin does not need to be a political scientist to state what is obvious. People do not need to "stay in their lane" to participate in political discussions that ultimately affect them in one way or another
It doesn't get marked for every game that is playable. They have a list of games that are officially supported by Proton but there are so many more that work well that you can play if you enable the option in the Steam settings
I speak Marathi, but haven't ever lived in Maharashtra. In Hindi, it wasn't uncommon to hear "ek number ka ...", but to me the context was always a negging directed at the audacity of the joker, and never as a rating of the joke itself. I also haven't heard anybody use "ek number .." in Hindi in any form in a very long time. It's possible the phrase evolved different contexts and implications in the two languages.
A common misconception is that EU somehow works out better because of free healthcare. Fact is, the US is the better option the vast, vast majority of the time even including additional cost of living and healthcare costs.

Spending $1.5k on healthcare a month in exchange for double or triple the salary is worth it, by a long shot.

This isn't a religious debate, it would be great to be a developer in a friendly and beautiful EU country for me personally, but not if my salary is slashed to the bone to do so.

The EU is not competitive in the tech market at all, and especially not for senior level contributors.

According to Payscale, Senior Developers in Sweden earn roughly the equivalent of $70k USD. That's the biggest shafting I've ever seen.
I prefer Inferno, which is Plan 9 done right.
Ruffle.rs and Gnu Gnash are decent emulators, plus Newgrounds had its own player you can install. If you have flv files you can upload them to the internet archive and if you set it up properly, they will be playable with ruffle.rs in the browser, no plugin needed.

https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/22/flash-back-further-thoug...