skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a real mystery to me why people aren't up in arms about wealth inequality

You have quite a few Dutch political parties talking about this, PVDA, The green party, the socialist party etc. The socialist party (SP) actually suggests giving all employees shares in the companies they work for. But these left wing parties, while not unpopular, have the whole ultra capitalist system working agaisnt them. What can the SP do if their legislation simply causes business and the rich move to another company? It's an impossible battle. You need international cooperation for it to work, and there is no such cooperation.
If you properly utilize your hardware, on premise (or colocation in an area with cheap electricity prices) is vastly cheaper and will likely continue to be for a while. I don't see how training models in the cloud makes financial sense for organizations that can utilize their hardware 24/7.

For all others with burst workloads training in the cloud can make sense, but that has been the case for a while already.
Functional material senses human touch and pressure without electronics
Most of the really rich CEOs such as Bezos are making more as owners than as CEOs.
That’s a fun article!

I’m big on Quality. Comes from 27 years, working for a corporation that is pretty much synonymous with the word.

“Abuse testing” is very important, and almost impossible to automate. A good monkey tester will have a “sense” of where to go, as this chap indicates.

I worked with an enormous team of people like this, and they would regularly find things like sync bugs (he talks about one). Those take a lot of work (and RSI risk) to find.
The article seems oddly timed, so as to imply that a certain other Republican President's intellect is underappreciated. So, that is what I will address.

I have heard these anecdotes about GWBush, but I see no reason to extrapolate them to other Presidents. Outside of his few gaffes, in public, Bush was visibly intelligent. He rose up the ranks organically (as organically as political royalty can) and had past experiences that had to instill some level of wisdom in him (military, being an avid reader).

Trump (as we know him) was born a Semi-Billionaire, and has been 'Construction Mogul and self-caricatured TV star' for his entire life. His time as a businessman is marred by more bankruptcies than successes, and his wealth (afaik) has grown slower than the stock market. He doesn't have any other experiences to speak of and has never been in a role where he (or his work) was accountable to someone else.

Some other surface level differences include their choice of/relationship with their spouses and the extent to which their children seem to be well adjusted.

Here is where I come with an analogy. Think of a professional cyclist. Success at the top level (outside of hard work) needs 2 things. An incredibly narrow set of cycling skills and a strong willingness to cheat (doping). Do either of them imply intelligence ? I think not.

That is also how I view Trump. Trump is a meme, whose narrow set of skills (influencer) and incredibly low moral bar propelled him to a once in a lifetime viral rise. Just like a meme, he seemed to find no success before and it appears is being considered to be cringe right after his meme cycle.

That being said, some members of the Trump's cabinet are definitely intelligent. Pompeo and Bannon clearly know what they are doing (as much a I dislike them) and if anything are some of the first public officials to have recognized America's collective failure in dealing with the CCP.
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. [1]

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient."Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions, and other controlling bodies. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

I am confident that my teacher was correct. Mill even shows up in the first article :)

> That said, here in Australia we actually don’t even have a legally protected right to free speech.

Yes, in countries that inherited the UK's common law system it is rarer for rights to be explicitly iterated. This only adds to the absurdity of claiming that "freedom of speech" is a purely legal concept, mind you.
That sounds like an excellent opportunity to test both the models, and perhaps to develop a third.
It was really about them being an underdog, more than anything. Challenging the big dog and occasionally forcing them into more consumer-friendly behaviors.
That said, I still ended up owning mostly Intel CPUs (a lapped Celeron 300a running at ~514mhz in the K6 days).
yes. However that Linux will not be very useful because there are no drivers for the machine and Apple is not documenting any of their hardware to the point that people could easily write drivers.

This will be a huge reverse-engineering effort.
Buttons around the screen, plane MFD-style, would be cool, e.g. from an F16:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
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> new talent has been skipping them altogether

I'd be interested in hearing more about this. Are new graduates actually not applying?
I think alcohol works better as a counter-argument. In Germany, it is not only legal, but it is also legal to sell in 'bubblegum flavour party boxes', obviously aimed at children. It is legal to sell at checkout, so after a recovering alcoholic is tired out by all the shopping they can be tempted by a little bottle of vodka or whatever.

Despite this, and a social culture that revolves around drinking, the vast majority manage to avoid serious alcohol problems.

This essentially shows how responsible people are - even with a culture that makes it very easy to start, and very difficult to quit, most people manage to maintain a reasonable distance from an extremely addictive drug.

If you follow this argument along, I think if you legalized drugs, but also put some restrictions on their use (for instance, not allowing supermarkets to sell them, not allowing child-branded stuff, etc) - there's no reason to imagine the situation would not improve vis-a-vis the current one.

All this said, my preferred drug policy (for all drugs, including alcohol) would be something like a ban on their public use and sale. As somebody who used to take a lot of drugs, I have no illusions about the destabilizing influence they can have on people's lives. Alcohol is well known for being a force multiplier for pre-existing misery or mental instabillity, and I think even mild drugs, like weed, work in the same way.
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No, you can't do that with one photon.
maybe not relevant here but my first thought to your question out of context is scale. My house can be easy entered by anyone determined to enter it. They can bust the door down, break the windows, crash a vehicle into it. And yet, almost no one is actually trying to get into my house. Conversely, 1000s of people and possibly hundreds of thousands of bots are trying to break into any software they can that is exposed on the internet (or possibly exposed in other ways like I have no idea if every app on my PC/Mac/Phone/Tablet is scanning my network for devices with known exploits)

So, the security of my house (at least where I live) does not have to be so resilient but the security of much of my software does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPBH1eW28mo
By choosing which markets you operate in and which products you develop you have a fair bit of influence which things are in your "financial interest".

E.g. creating a company with a business model which benefits from taxing CO2 emissions (Tesla) is morally great. Whereas having a business model which benefits from cheap oil (VW) is less so. Product decisions (electric vs. fuel engines) have a large effect on your long-term financial interests.
Or local storage. The DataHoarder subreddit where a lot of similar efforts are coordinated has a lot of info about building dense home storage on the cheap
Oh yes, familiar. I'm in Sweden, I definitely make good money by Swedish standards, and also have excellent benefits through work. This is, frankly, not proportionate to the value I provide to society. I work on some nice software that certainly adds convenience to the lives of many people in multiple countries. But it's by no means critical, and I generate less value for society than anyone working in healthcare, than competent teachers, and than many other workers who make significantly less.

Plus my job is safer and more comfortable than many others. I sit in my office, I think and I type. Unlike the emergency services, I don't risk my life or health, nor does anyone's life depend on my work. Unlike construction workers, assembly line operators and many others, my office environment is free of hazards.
no reading if it is forced to use js. your ideas does not even matter if you wish me to use js to just learn what your ideas are.
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Your home is not infrastructure. Internet service, banking and online payments are infrastructure just like water, gas and electricity and companies shouldn't have the right to cut you off on ideological grounds or because your spew out so called hate speech.

Note I said internet service not a subscription to a social media service. Your internet provider may decline to provide you with email, hell the may even decline you to provide with you with DNS, but they sure as well can't refuse to route your packets or accept incoming connections.

Apple and Google were within their rights to cut off access to the App store, but Amazon were in the wrong because they are an infrastructure company. At the very least they were obliged to allow Parler enough time to transfer to new providers.
We're not talking about organizations, though. I don't agree with your premise, either. People aren't training models 24/7, so the idea that it's "vastly cheaper and will continue to be for a while" isn't true.
Just to add a nitpick here, apart from them sharing some wave-like descriptions at some levels in the theory, there is not that much in common between photons and electrons. Fundamentally they play different parts in the theory (one being a matter particle the other a force carrier) and mathematically they are represented differently and behaves very differently (one being a fermion and the other a boson). In particular the boson/fermion distinction is usually glossed over in popular treatments of QED (because it's so unintuitive and messy).
I don't have recent experience with Forth, but traditionally, Forth didn't require such a "beefy" machine as a C programming environment.

For instance here's a fairly complete Forth environment in around 10 KBytes running on an 8-bit home computer. There was no C compiler at all for that machine, and if there would be, working with it would be a lot more hassle than a Forth REPL.

https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/z1013.html?type=z1013_64&f...

What's the appeal today, I don't know. But I'm in the "curly braces" camp. If I'd be a Lisp guy, Forth would probably be more appealing to me.
How does AMD stuff like Radeon VII or MI100 hold up?
This nonsense is dispelled with two very simple points:

1 There is no evidence suggesting any war has ever increased US oil access.

2 All Middle East nations you mentioned are OPEC countries who do not individually set prices or determine customer preference.

> That make no sense at all. It is like stating

It's like stating, numerically speaking, oil was not a motive.
You can play with the numbers here [1] for France. You're right that beginners can be around 30k€ before taxes (although that's a little low), which gives less than 2000€/month after taxes.

[1] https://mon-entreprise.fr/simulateurs/salaire-brut-net
> while two light beams do not [interact]

Photons do interact! There is no two-photon vertex, that’s true, since there is no fundamental interaction between two photons. But put four photon/charged particle vertices together and you’ll get the 4-photon box diagram [1], whose contribution is nonzero.

[1]: Since I’m not good at painting diagrams in ASCII on HN, here’s a link to the Wikipedia article with the box rendered nicely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-photon_physics
Imagine what Apple does to x64 to work on ARM, Intel having Altera, could do x86 translation to FPGA gates... It wouldn't take whole programs, but it could reconfigure itself to run most commonly executed routines on FPGA.
While what you're saying is completely true, and I've been trying to get this point accross online many times, it is still concerning to me that the same philosophical literature that argues for hate speech to be limited also suggest that porn should be too. There are also arguments that there shouldn't be a constitutional right to freedom of speech at all. If these arguments are convincing, the only line of defense against them is the argument that the state (and/or the population in general) cannot be trusted to make any further restrictions - and I think that's a good argument. Similarly, in countries where speech is more limited, we can point out problems of those limitations; I think it is not a fallacy to suggest there is a slippery slope - especially in the case of governments that serve capital, be they conservative or liberal.

I'm very skeptical of the benefits of free speech. I don't think the arguments along the lines of free speech promoting truth or being beneficial to political discourse or allowing 'bad ideas' in the open to be 'disinfected' with debate are valid. But I'm even more skeptical of the state, and I do not trust it to use evidence-based methodologies. I've completely lost all faith in the whole political spectrum, particularly the left-anarchists who promote governmental and corporate censorship.
You can count the number of GPUs having more than M1 memory(16 GB) in a single hand.
It's hypocrisy to paint themselves as protectors of free speech.
Of course, the idea is to keep it secret; a "stenographic standard" seems absurd. If they are embedding this information, it will not be readily detectable by most people.
Twitter is also the service of choice of US Presidents who order drone strikes against innocents abroad.
Just a note here, it wasn't Twilio.

It was a free trial of Okta that they were using for their entire userbase.

https://twitter.com/okta/status/1348191370528256002?ref_src=...
> Its gotten so bad that there's almost a 50/50 chance of needing to reboot it every time I drive

Holy. Shit. If this is true (I no reason to doubt you, yet at least), the market cap of Tesla makes even less sense. Who in their right mind would invest in a car company that can't even build a car that work half of the time you're using it? Especially since all controls are depending on the console as well.
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> laying around

ITYM lying around, unless this is a quirk of US English. Sorry to be pedantic!
Yeah. I've managed to save £12k a year just by keeping my lifestyle at a minimum. The big one to avoid is paying for a car, which is actually realistic in Europe.
And this too: US Federal Regulator Says Banks Can Conduct Payments Using Stablecoins

https://www.coindesk.com/occ-banks-stablecoin-payments
> While her overall anatomy excited huge interest, her potential sex was little considered. Instead, the world-wrenching significance of the Forbes and Feldhofer fossils was the first proof of another kind of ancient human entirely.

> [...]

> The researchers were interested largely in her age and relatedness to other Neanderthal genetic lineages, so the fact that she was a woman was something of a sideshow.

> [...]

> Archaeology is no exception to biases against women’s interests across science and the humanities.

What horror that anthropologists are more excited about discovering a new Homo subspecies different from sapiens and whatever genetic lineage it might have, than immediately consider the gender of the skeleton as the most important thing dive into.

> Since the early days, a tendency to conceptualise humanity’s deep origins as populated literally by ‘cavemen’ has led to presumed male activities being presented as most visible and interesting.

It seems to mostly be this article that ascribes gendered meaning to terms such as “caveman” and “primordial man”. “man” in anthropology is synonymous with the genus homo, whatever the sex and age be, and even outside of that, such terms as “the little man” or “chairman” or “the common man” bestow no gendered implication.
"Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in American, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

Hermann Goering
> the alternative is to rasterize them, as what is implied by "level-set method", which means you must commit to a spatial resolution

Rasterizing is alright, since then there are no structural changes, just independent pixel values. Notice that rasterizing the function does not commit you to an output resolution, you can always interpolate it at an arbitrarily high resolution for the rendering step.
I don't think Wine can, but Crossover definitely can.
To fight apps phoning home, I agree. But even the tweet linked in OP refers to a tweet that shows how to abuse the now removed whitelisting by piggybacking your traffic through one of those whitelisted apps. On a locked down system like Android or iOS this isn't that trivial, but in a classic desktop OS use case it's easy to abuse another app to exfiltrate data.

> In essence it's about raising the number of independent failures required to result in a compromise.

Sure, it doesn't hurt, minus maybe the case that a vulnerability in that firewall itself is used.

> If you imagine the application firewall on the device has its policies managed rather than selected by the user, it starts to make more sense.

That's a requirement I guess. You don't want accountants and HR people handling popups by a firewall app. :-)
The latest XCode that supports deploying to iOS 14 devices, unfortunately.
You could use a fish, too: https://www.dexerto.com/pokemon/pokemon-fans-pet-fish-discov...
Salaries are never based on any of those concepts. They are simply determined by how much it would cost to replace you. It doesn't matter that you generate billions if somebody else would accept to do it for less.
Yes but it is by me :) https://forums.insynchq.com/t/extension-added-to-files-based...
On the M1, that's by design. If you install macOS on an external volume it doesn't have that behaviour.

On the internal disk, it's there because they carried over the iOS infrastructure, where your login password is the FDE one.

macOS also now boots before asking for your password, like iOS.

(the OS volume itself isn't encrypted and is read-only, the data volume is encrypted with your password)
Monitoring Event-Driven Architecture
In a traditional CRUD application, we usually measure Rate, Duration and Errors, how many requests, how long each request and how many errors. What are the key metrics in an event architecture for a Producer and a Consumer of events?
Can't use it because most AI frameworks won't run on AMD because they did not implement suitable back-ends (yet).
This probably is an appropriate time to Godwin the discussion and point out a certain Austrian/German leader's very different ideas were also shaped by his negative experiences of a world war. Veterans react differently even to similar experiences and cover the full range of positions on war from gung ho militarism to unapologetic pacifism. Perhaps military experience lends them a more informed perspective on what the realistic outcomes of a war might look like, but it's no inoculation against militarism.
Rights of private companies allows media like newspapers to publish content critical of the government, protects those companies from illegal search and seizure in govt retaliation, and a host of other rights that enable a free and democratic country.

Open communication is good, but not when taken to absolute extremes. Blocking content designed to radicalize people is not communication that should be broadcast indiscriminately. And no provider should be forced to host any and all content any user can think up - a balance between these extremes is demonstrably better for society as a whole.
No, what you proposed is the free speech that got defined by people that forgot its value almost completely. If you adhere to it, you have to be critical of companies that do penalize people on speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

is actually pretty good, I really wonder why it hasn't been changed to be honest and I expect it will at some point.

This adherence to corporate freedom by liberals is as dishonest as the adherence to free speech by conservatives of course. The principle would quickly be changed if the topic was gay wedding cakes or evictions by land lords.

It is just the ball in a stupid bipartisan war that is quite painful if you try to think for a moment.
Did you actually read the statement from Amazon?
They're not necessarily wrong, though. That battery will fail some day, and I can guarantee that it will lose its charge before the normal life expectancy of a car (15-20 years) is over.

If they still make batteries in 10 years then perhaps Tesla will prove to be the more ecological of the bunch. However, when I look for the price of a new battery for the Roadster, all I can find is discussions about how there are no batteries available, and if they are, the batteries are the price of a new, normal car. For the Model S, the price is much lower (about $13k + labour) but according to news posts I've found from the beginning of 2019, Tesla has already discontinued the batteries for that model.

For any car to be ecological, replacement parts need to be available for years after the original sales date. For most petrol-based cars, this has not been a problem, but for silicon valley company cars, this can be a dangerous pitfall. Batteries can suddenly fail, making the entire car worthless if there's no replacement available for a decent price.

It's a cool, high-tech car for rich people, which is a perfectly valid reason to get one, but if it really is that ecological only remains to be seen. Of course, it's still far more ecological to buy a used gasoline car and drive that around for another ten years than it is to buy a new EV purely because of the pollution that comes with producing a new car.
Love it too - this article gives me Thirty Flights of Loving vibes.
They are not. Pay is lower in Europe than in the US across all "well paid" jobs.
Can't you run apps on behalf of restricted users?
I get how these market places are used for digital goods (malware, credit cards), but I don’t understand how people can trade physical goods on those. If they have to exchange products, they must either meet in person or use the mail, either is trackable by the authorities. I see how the seller can protect himself for local transactions. He could leave the goods hidden somewhere and tell the buyer where to go. But the buyer has to be exposed 100% of the time.