skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, if there is one thing I hate about the tech industry is how everything becomes a subscription. A dollar here, two dollars elsewhere, and at the end of the day you own nothing and gave full control of your work to FAANG. Games, Adobe with their Creative Cloud (not even an option to buy their suite), password managers, etc. I just want to buy version X and use it for years, I don’t care if I don’t get the latest AI-infused update for it.
So... is Apple going to develop drivers for all possible peripherals?

For USB you have libusb I guess (not sure if that covers all us cases), but Thunderbolt is a full-on PCIe bus isn't it?
Is it just a matter of degrees though? Lots of people have ruined lives (sometimes ended lives) due to alcohol as well. We expect people to use alcohol responsibly, and there is social stigma and other consequences when it's not used responsibly. But we accept that people are free to choose to use alcohol if they want to. Why don't we have the same attitude towards other drugs?
>Those who reported 24-48 hour outages were probably victims of this rather than the rolling blackouts.

I couldn't find specific instances of Texas load shedding devices having issues. However, there were instances of things like circuit breakers failing open in very cold weather. This was probably another cause of these very long outages.
I wonder if Cuomo is going to refund all the people who bought his book "American Crisis: Leadership lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic"?? By all accounts, his leadership wasn't too good.
A Rover, an Attitude, and the Illusion Your Internet Is Not Possessed (2020)
Maybe they don't "need" one, but they have contributed in a very meaningful way to the web dev community so I feel that this is a harsh take. Check out Lottie, Mavericks, and their contributions to the React ecosystem.
"now" meaning when? Today? 2019? 2020?

"A group of 34 of America’s biggest cities suffered a 30 percent total increase in homicides in 2020, according to a new survey published Monday"

5.3 + (5.3 * 0.3) is not approaching 5.1.
Good. This is exactly what I want. Make hash crunching meaningless on a gaming GPU and tell the people mining black market money to go buy an ASIC if they want to mine. Also stop selling on Amazon and Newegg and push the supply to physical stores. Computing tech need to come together and make amazon agree to banning scalper selling. Either it's sold at price or lower or not at all.
How far does this mindset extend? Would you support spoiling food to increase demand for more efficient food production? Destroying homes to increase demand for more efficient home construction?

> Wasting electrical energy is only bad because it came from burning stuff. But I don't think any fossil fuel power plant was closed because people used less.

Coal plants are indeed closing because they are no longer profitable. Natural gas is the main “on-demand” power source, and plants raise and lower production based on demand. Increased power consumption will delay the transition away from coal, and keep natural gas plants running more often.
Bitfinex vs. the United States of America
If I recall correctly; they already do this by really limiting mixed precision performance on the GeForce line. I believe Titans typically where excluded, but otherwise for full FP16 support you needed a Quadro or Tesla card.
Exactly my point. I'd venture to guess that Marriott (another hotel company that actually owns their properties and thus arguably has more at stake) has a tech stack vastly more complicated than Airbnb's, and yet Marriott would never announce they're building a "tech hub" in any city.
Yes, we could all go on automation enabled early retirement. Or with all that extra labor and capability we could reach the stars.
There's an effort currently being led by Facebook to create a gradual type system for Erlang call Gradualizer, which should also make its way over to Elixir.

https://github.com/josefs/Gradualizer

https://github.com/OvermindDL1/gradualixir
>so many healthy lives are locked up in the government/small/large business group plans

Well, that and the fact that many young individuals who don't have health issues, aren't making much money, and aren't covered by employer plans are often opting out of paying $7K/yr or whatever for health care.
The issue as I see it is that pretty much nobody is looking at decarbonizing a grid, money be damned.

Unless your power production is run by the government, generation is done by companies looking to make a profit. Solar and wind companies don't mind in the slightest that they're screwing up the business model of nuclear. The fact that their production is intermittent isn't important to them -- it's already accounted into their business model, and nuclear's lack of ability to deal with that and grid stability is somebody else's problem.

If you think nuclear is the solution here you must be prepared to pour many billions of tax money on supporting its existence even though it's currently unprofitable. China can do that, because China's government has the long term control and lack of concern about public opinion to get such things done.

Politicians in democratic nations in general lack such a luxury. They know that they can get kicked out of power before their first plants get built, and then the successor either pulls the plug on the project entirely, or keeps whatever got built, but almost definitely nowhere near close to the full capacity needed.

You'd have a hard time skipping the renewables, because you'd essentially have to forbid them. You'd have to go there and make a law that you can't build solar even though it would produce power that's twice as cheap, or take craploads of tax money and subsidize nuclear. I suspect neither is going to look very good in the news.
Why can't large grocery stores be built taller to grow vegetables horiz/vertical airoponically on an upper level? No need to raise disgusting "pretty" vegetables that are picked green, artificially-ripened, and driven thousands of miles.
This would be very exciting to see pass. Not that Psychedelics are a thing for me, but there is a lot of promising research with some of these substances. Many have been shown to have a lot of beneficial effects... if used correctly.

Right now they are illegal because they were misused. Many also sound scary. Are used in too high of dosage. And very frequently cut with extremely dangerous stuff.

It'd be like making ibuprofen and acetaminophen illegal with severe jail time.... Because someone took much while it was mixed (cut) with sodium hydroxide. Sure it sounds like scary stuff to the lay person until you remember that's Advil, Tylenol and drain cleaner respectively.
Yep. Safari is good, but it's not magic. I suspect psrecord doesn't catch Safari processes because Safari sends them off to launchd because they get launched via XPC, while Chrome's subprocesses are "true" children.
i think one thing the author is missing is that power is much easier and cheaper to transport than either food or water. the best places to grow food are not always near people and a lot of unused land has reasons for its state. installing solar power to create production in the desert is vastly cheaper then pumping water there, and then transporting the food back to populated areas.

i can think of about 50 other inputs the author failed to include, i don't think it's as simple as comparing square footage efficiency.
More likely if we all call our congresspeople and let them know that we want it passed.
> Peyote, an endangered plant, is excluded to protect traditional Native American spiritual practices.

Hm, this seems like a mistake. They should create a separate framework to deter the use of peyote. Like a killing endangered species framework.
Exactly, and producers (of all stripes—it's just easiest in tech) hate customers like us, and try to position their hatred and sidelining of us as for our benefit. I just got an ad from a reputable publisher touting as an advantage the fact that their newest digital textbook would not be sold, and could only be rented.
Django's GIS extensions use c_double, that's a large surface area.
Would you rather the service not exist? Some business models just don’t work without a subscription.
Its not question if miners can/will crack it at some point (yes, they can). Question is how many miners will order the cards on day 0 without knowing if they can be used? The intention here is only to deter them enough that gamers have at least slightly better chance of getting these cards, and especially for launch-day orders.
Like I said, there are various life stages where your email address changes. A lot of people sign up for things with their employer-provided email address as well.

Phone numbers really only change when someone moves to a different country or absolutely can't port their number, which is rare these days. They change much less frequently than phone numbers change.

Source: API logs from an auto insurance backend that I maintain
New Drone Software Handles Motor Failures Even Without GPS
I like watching dash cam footage.
I was going to say, either the author is operating in bad faith, or they’re wildly uninformed about this subject. There is a massive report of proposed regulations that even I now know about. That the author is claiming that the “left” can’t propose specific regulations makes me think that they really just have an axe to grind and should be generally ignored.
Well, 3 things...

1st, this isn't a movie. getting entertainment from a real life person's drama can be inappropriate and dystopian in certain contexts, and this very well looks like it could be one of those contexts.

2nd, if an individual chooses they can share this story with their friends. an individual could feel very ashamed/embarrassed, and this comes across like the media airing their dirty laundry. it could really injure someone psychologically.

3rd, they only mentioned the Indian man's name but not the guy from Delaware which comes across as borderline racist.

Anyway it appears they took the names down from the article.
I worked as a contractor for a sort of startup inside a big company, so the pay was good and immediate.

The problem is when we got successful everyone tried to pin us down with the existing bureaucracy, and everything that made us great was a reason we should be stopped. Autoimmune response.
It's nice that Nvidia gets to artificially restrict what I can do with their products after I buy them. I had this problem years ago...I bought a USB video adapter to enable using a second screen while my main screen was running games...they had code in the driver to disable things like physx if a second display was detected.
Microsoft Office 2021 is on its way
There are seemingly limitless productivity gains to make once you jump off the bandwagon and stop hiring for "what people already know." Unless you're suffering dementia and working remote from a nursing home you're going to be able to pick up a new framework in a week and set off running in a month. Hell in a year you'll have forged new experts that can then jump ship for a higher rate! Avoiding all of the warts and pimples of mobile software engineering is easy once you take a leap of faith. Work with your brain not your fears.
That "guideline" is a just a convenient way for them to nuke a thread when they don't want to moderate it anymore. They let a lot of bill discussions continue on. You have 23K karma, you can spend a little.
She both did and did not until we observe :p.

And even that is not correct. Events happening propagate with speed of light - the event horizon. We can predict we will receive information of something happening, bit that's just prediction about future events, regardless of the location.
> and there has been legitimate investigation into their benefits.

I'm pro-legalization and all for rigorous study of these compounds. That said, the recent headlines about psychedelic research have started to diverge from what the research actually says.

For example, recent headlines claimed that MDMA was shown to be beneficial for certain types of therapy. However, the actually study wasn't designed to show if MDMA was helpful, it was only designed as a proof of concept to show that it wasn't harmful. The study protocol involved something like 20 therapy sessions, only 2 of which involved MDMA. Most of the measured benefit happened before any patients took any MDMA at all, and the data didn't show any measured boost around the MDMA sessions. They also gave MDMA to every study participant instead of only half, meaning it was impossible to determine if the MDMA made a difference relative to non-MDMA controls.

The only thing they really measured was that MDMA didn't produce any immediately obvious problems, such as causing patients to withdraw from the program. Safety studies like this are an important first step, but they don't tell us if MDMA is actually helpful.

However, all of the headlines around the study proclaimed "MDMA shown to help treat PTSD". All of the internet comment sections were filled with people wondering if they should take MDMA to treat their PTSD. Really, the only thing the study showed was that traditional therapy produces measurable improvements in the condition, and that MDMA didn't interrupt those improvements.

I'm worried that the exuberance to paint psychedelic drugs as miracle cures is going to backfire in a few years if the eventual study data doesn't live up to the hype.
I see. You need to also consider the pool of black college graduates with qualifications for the job and what percentage of total pool they represent.
1) concatenating. Not always possible in complex cases.
2) I don't think it's that hard to write 'select posts from user where user = ?'
3) I prefer functional to oop. In my small apps writing a function with a transparent SQL have worked fine.
World popolation is around 7.8 billion, and is projected to peak around 11 billion. Given that of all agricultural land only 23% is used for non-feed crops (producing 82% of global calorie supply) that doesn't sound like an existential problem, even if you assume that climate change makes much more land unarable than it makes arable.
How the Economic Machine Works: Ray Dalio [video]
I am always an advocate of logos that can be represented in black-and-white or 3 shades of gray at most. In addition to looking good when printed in monotone, they also are easy to engrave in granite/concrete - here's the Worm logo in Granite. Try that with the Meatball.
https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/background/...
Native Americans already have a legal way to use peyote in the context of spiritual practice.
Most major companies have to build a high reliability, highly-scalable website operating globally. Lots of people know how to build these things [except of course for contractors that the US federal government hires], and most of them don't have "tech hubs" in any major city unless they're ... you know ... actual tech companies. Why do we consider a glorified hotel company like Airbnb a tech company? Just because YC invested in them?
I have no idea what JFrog does but I once listed "proficiency" in their products on my resume, and that is a testament in itself to their business acumen.
> allowing payloads of up to 10 milligrams for sunlight-powered low-cost microflyers at altitudes of 50 to 100 km.

Interesting, but as-yet impractical.
One problem with ITER is that it’s only point is to demonstrate ignition. It’s completely unfeasible as an actual power plant. I’m not saying it’s not useful, but rather it has a close to 0% chance of producing a scalable power plant, whereas some of the other smaller scale operations are less likely to reach ignition, but if they do so more likely to result in a viable design at scale.
Not sure I understand the question. Humans are more productive because their tools(tech) got better.
So Amazon improved traffic flow during shift changes, and this is construed as "anti-union" activity? Seems a stretch to me. Either that, or Amazon has a real evil-genius to think of something like that.
The Four UI Elements of the Apocalypse
I don't think anyone is proposing continuous fuel (even fission reactors typically don't work like that - you have to shut them down to swap out the fuel rods periodically). The idea is that you inject (say) some deuterium into a blast chamber, it explodes like a miniature thermonuclear bomb, and you gather the explosive energy in vaguely the same way a internal combustion engine (like in cars) gathers energy from fuel-air bombs in its engine cyliders.

And we already know (roughly) how to build that, it's just that the version we know how to build is so ridiculously, impractically huge that you could fit a small city in its blast chamber... because it runs on actual, non-miniature, thermonuclear bombs. The difficulty is scaling that down to something that doesn't have a upfront cost measured in multiples of the world GDP before it starts generating power (in quantities measured in multiples of current global electrical consumption, and likely multiples of global energy consumption period).
GitHub History Vandalism as a Service
> Texas regulators and indeed other regulators need to pursue more rigorous winterization in the southern states.

Exactly. I'm not sure that even the new NERC regulations for winter weatherization go far enough. They seem to bring NERC standards closer to Texas'.
If you include wear and tear in that calculation, then it’s definitely true. A couple years of austerity and socking a bigger salary into investments is less stressful and a surer bet, even if it pays off less some of the time.
Great points. Worth noting that Tylenol is extremely hepatotoxic in quite low doses (relative to the therapeutic dose). Several grams can kill you.
I agree with the post (by ggm) desiring that Python 4 were instead called something else; I think Python 3 should have been something else too.

I would also really like Python 4 to take a different approach to strings; more similar to Python 2.

The native format for strings should be a byte vector, with additional tags denoting if it has an encoding and if that encoding is validated. Coertsion of data type between byte vector and validates string should be automatic, but only performed in contexts that require a type.

Additionally the native type should be either UTF-8 (matching the 96% on the web as of 2021) or WTF8 (Like UTF-8, but encodes invalid byteforms in escape sequences so they round-trip) from Rust.

https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-who-uses-unico...

https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
A lot people miss this point, so thank you for bringing it up. It drives me nuts that it's so prevalent out there!
But the RTX 3060 hasn't launched yet?
The borrow checker in D can be used incrementally, like functional programming, on a function-by-function basis. It can be used where it makes sense to use it. (If only the GC is being used, the borrow checker isn't needed.) Being incremental, it won't require redesigning the program to make use of it.

I don't know how pervasive its use will become, but I expect its use will steadily increase.
“owning” land is illegal?
> Look deeper into what Ethereum actually is,

I don’t have an opinion on this but if you’re making a point, you should be the one providing evidence, not telling others to look it up.
Nvidia says the crypto mining hash rate limiter cannot be hacked
To start with, drug tests normally only happen:

A) when getting hired
B) if you show up to work intoxicated
C) after any serious accident

So other than at hiring, which the person can anticipate the timing of, the drug tests are effectively only done after failing such a test to begin with. The average factory doesn't care about hiring people with a record, either, so long as it's not too serious or likely to impact work.

Your test is one of those things that sounds like a good idea until you realize that the people who are needed for some big customer's order are too tired, but still able to work and you don't have anyone to replace them. Rolling the dice on that kind of stuff enough times until a failure happens is what gets factory floors in trouble.

That poor guy just wanted to get home to see his family for Christmas and busted ass to get one more dumpster of trash dumped even if it meant messing with the dumpster while the forklift was on too much of an incline. I don't truly know what he was thinking, but we can make an educated guess that he'd probably done that kind of thing before and doing things the right way took more time and effort than his poor, tired body had left in him at that point.

You don't appear to be aware of all the bad incentives that aren't going anywhere and are advocating something that will cause more people in more factories to roll more dice that will have more injuries. and hoping that the same tired, overworked, short-handed people will make a fuss over these rules instead of rolling the dice as they have so many times before if you just try to warn them or give them tests which they could skip to save 5 minutes they could've been working and then go home that much earlier.

Most of the ways to fix these problems require more staff and/or resources, shorter and more stable shifts, etc. all of which costs more money. Then those labor costs make them less competitive with factories in places like China where they may be trying to compete with literal slave labor in a race to the bottom. The factories already do look at incidents, as well as close calls, but there's only so much you can do when your grand ideas are paired with awful execution thereof.

The best ideas come when you understand their job and help them do things in a better, safer and, ideally, easier way.
Sure it is necessary for some business models but the parent comments example, Adobe, has successfully used the non-SaaS model for decades.
Or we could hire leagues upon leagues of middle management positions to prop up our employee count.
You're asking the wrong guy; I consider React one of the worst mistakes in technology, and it's the main reason Airbnb's website sucks (I speak as a superhost who has to use the thing a lot).
My school had this system too.

The thing was, when it rolled out (2007), everyone was thrilled with it because it replaced a mainframe that you had to telnet into. That mainframe had hours of operation, i.e. you couldn't look at the course catalog at night because they shut down the mainframe to save power.

Oracle makes a ton of money because what they're competing with is just incredibly terrible.
I still think that declaring that waste is a waste.

That is potential future fuel.
takes like this just make me more bullish, makes me realize how ignorant the general population must be currently on blockchain if someone so technical can have have such an ignorant take on the ability to spend crypto. look up swipe, crypto.com, UTK, many others. it is very easy to spend crypto anywhere now, and paypal will enable it even further in the very near future. it isn't too late to hop on the crypto bandwagon my friend, dig in a little deeper and you too could be financially independent this year. (I went from 40k to 600k in the last 7 months on top of my already robust savings from working big tech for the last 6 years).
From here, it shows that CA is double FL on per capita deaths. (you have to set the states in the widget)

https://www.bing.com/search?q=per+capita+covid+deaths&FORM=A...

Also, the average age in FL is 42 vs CA at 36.

Here's another one that's completely different.

https://boogheta.github.io/coronavirus-countries/#country=US...