skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! We are born out of LATAM so we have faster payments and a better understanding of local regulations.
Consider "Britain BC" and "Britain AD" by Francis Pryor for a start. One thing that the recent (since I was in university in the '60s) archaeology has taught us (yet again) is that no one writes history without having an angle (no pun) and the angle is often political with the result that history is very often quite misleading if not outright wrong. The notion throughout European history and archaeology that changes in physical culture (tools, pots, etc.) and even language necessarily mean wholesale changes in populations is being seriously called into question by recent archaeology and DNA studies.
Browsers eating RAM
Awsome! I believe it is an incredible business model, you guys are an example to Latin American people
> the company isn't shouldering all the cost/risk

It’s paying your salary. Not having a salary, or having a lower and/or unreliable one, is part of the risk of a start-up.

> you might as well work nights and weekends on your _own_ side project

Nights and weekends plus working days. Not just nights and weekends. Start-up means all in. Hobby means just nights and week-ends.
I think their key point was that you don't ever really know if you're an addict until you try to stop for a prolonged period.
It's also several orders magnitude more simple to say, "our car is reliable most of the time, but drivers must always be ready to take over at a second's notice (or less)".

As long as final responsibility rests on the human driver, it's just autonomous testing, not true self-driving. When Tesla owners are allowed to take a nap as their car drives itself, that's when real self driving has arrived.
EU probably won't pass up this opportunity to levy an extra tax on Apple. We already think they dodged too much with their Ireland construction.
It is simple to see what energy source is pulling above its weight and what energy source is pulling below its weight.

Go to here: https://www.eia.gov/beta/electricity/gridmonitor/expanded-vi... , select "daily" view and put in 60 days to get a more representative sample.

on 12/19/2020 -- looks to be a fairly typical Texas winter day

natural gas production was 331660 megawatthours

wind was 191415 megawatthours

for a ratio of 1.73 gas/wind

this appears to be fairly typical numbers on a daily basis over the winter -- actually on a number of days wind surpasses gas

on 2/16/2021

natural gas 692091

wind 90087

for a ratio of 7.68 gas/wind

natural gas 2/16 vs natural gas 12/19 is ratio 2.09

wind 2/16 vs wind 12/19 is ratio 0.47

so as expected during an inclement weather event natural gas ramped up and wind ramped down. natural gas just didn't ramp up enough to pick up all the slack from increased demand and ramped down renewables.

"I get that wind + solar can't cover everything, but right now what we're seeing is massive failures from gas. In a universe where we had more wind + solar, there could likely be more energy going around right now." -- Wind is failing much worse than gas from an objective power generation standpoint. All wind has going for it is the tyranny of low expectations.
I think this sort of thing has to be contextual. Is there any government or governing party anywhere that meets these standards?

Applied as it is hear, unless I'm missing something, your take means that there's no point or legitimacy to any conversation (EG a HN post) about any new UK agency (or sewage plant, school, energy plan, etc.) besides "they're corrupt, look at their other dealings."

I'm sympathetic to the moral principles. In particular, some have made the case that salacious shamelessness itself is the problem. It's corrosive.

But... Are you really at a point where you're calling quits on politics as a whole until this corruption stuff is sorted? Isn't this corrosive too?

I'm not saying that you can't put anticorruption first. It's definitely relevant here. This is a way of distributing money and contracts, after all. It is designed to not be accountable in conventional ways. Anticorruption is relevant and it's good to have people making that their top priority. But anticorruption is not the only thing at stake in anything and everything government related. There's also whatever the hell the thing is supposed to do.

Being uncorrupt, but failing to produce useful technology is also be bad. Maybe not murder bad, but I didn't think this is a useful way of thinking about it.
Because one person thinks he has it under control at this time, I don't see how advocating for wider acceptance of drug classes that have killed and destroyed the lives of millions every year is even a story that deserves a platform.

This was a good story to flag.
So it costs 99$ a month. I guess by Western standards that low but in India I pay roughly 50$ for 3 months 150mbps internet at 600gb per month. The 1 tb per month package costs 60$ for 3months.

I guess they won't be launching anytime soon in India, but I guess it can used in remote parts of India where there is no internet connectivity for miles. Still rather expensive though.
Spam is a behavior, not a person. But kf you want to demand ID, just demand ID!

There's no reason to require phone or email; let the user choose their preference.
> There is a python library that recently switched to rust (partially) and now cannot be build on several platforms.

there comes a point where we can't let dependencies on Amiga or DEC Alpha (companies/platforms that haven't existed in literal decades) hold the rest of us back. If someone wants to port rust/llvm to those platforms more power to them, but the rest of us don't need to suffer. The only platform that actually matters that was negatively effected by that change is musl/alpine because there aren't musl wheels available and you have to build the rust part from source.
Hi, those are great points and exactly the type of discussions I expect to have with the greater Elixir community over the next months. I will answer them with my current perspective.

Given that Nx has its own numerical kernel, we can import whatever we want. :) I have decided to keep the imported keywords to be a subset of the Elixir's built-in Kernel but there is nothing stopping us from changing that. For example, if exp and ln are all automatically imported in Julia, Python, etc, then it is most likely more than enough to justify them being imported in `defn` too.

Regarding custom operators, Elixir has a limited set of operators which have historically been expanded on demand. So it is a matter of looking at other communities, find what is the closest thing to a standard, and send a proposal to the language. :) If you are interested in driving this, you are welcome to submit an initial discussion comparing other languages and an initial set of operators on the Nx issues tracker, then we can discuss it upstream.

Thank you!
> Just stripping the parameters would be an absolute disaster and wildly irresponsible.

It's not worse than allowing a randomly selected subset of HTML in the emails, and nobody is saying it is an "absolute disaster" or saying that google or Microsoft are "wildly irresponsible". The mailers and people will get used to it. As they always do.
It would be nice if the "free speech" complainers bothered to defend something other than racism some time. Nobody on the right was talking about that when FOSTA/SESTA swept across the US internet.

Seemingly every time someone pops up with the free speech defence, it's in favour of slurs of some kind. It's really eroded support for the abstract concept.
Hey Gaby. We are working very hard to make our service available in Venezuela. Actually we are already working with a couple of contractors there. And Argentina is another difficult jurisdiction that we are already solving for.
My assumption on bending is no, but I'm assuming that only because I'm sure we would have seen tonnes of stories posted about doing just that if it worked. The retro gamers love curved old screens and love posting weekend makes, so that seems like a valid assumption to me.

I'll also add a reminder to check back here in a few days to see how you've fared :)
I would hope that the medicalization is somewhat ironic, but it's hard to tell. Anyway, interest in plants isn't just a hobby. Our alienation from nature maybe has something to do with why it's so easy for a lot of people to be comfortable with poisoning the environment.
> That's my point. The farther left you go the more things the state has control over.

That’s because you’re using the term incorrectly: right-wing authoritarian states were just as perilous for those who disagreed – imagine being a left-wing business owner under Hitler or Pinochet! You’d much prefer living in “left-wing” Sweden unless you were very right-wing.

The mistake is trying to use a single term to compare multidimensional properties. The degree to which power is centralized in the state is independent from economic and social policies, and you can find examples of many combinations depending on which characteristics you’re interested in (for example, the Soviet Union was good for the perspective of opening career paths for women and terrible for gay rights while Nazi Germany was bad at both, and no single term comparison is going to cover that).
Germany decomissioned almost everything nuclear. Also a politically motivated move. Now they have the highest electricity prices in the EU.

VVER reactors have an overall good safety record so far, the trouble is this one seems botched.
"But at some point, economies will recover, central banks will tighten the money supply, and interest rates will rise. We may see price inflation of consumer goods and labor too, although that is less clear."

That would be a huge mistake. There's no good reason to do this unless there is runaway consumer price inflation, but even then it's more likely that the dollar will be sacrificed. Governments and corporations need cheap debt, they benefit from a depreciating dollar. Asset prices can just stay permanently inflated. You'll have a zombie economy. I'd call this the "Japanese Model". Such an economy may be inefficient, but the alternative of letting it all crash and burn in the hopes of something better arising from the ashes is an Austrian fantasy. It's not politically feasible.
Which you pay for with your little taxes. You own the parliement whatever they pretend to say, even in communist China. They cannot go further than your taxes allow, so they will have to benefit you eventually.

The consortium of mining farms behind bitcoin however, it s not sure they ll ever feel the leash.
Could citizens set up local WANs that host local chat servers, and caches?
Canada and First Doses First
Ten Flink Gotchas we wish we had known
Has any language successfully added memory safety as a "feature" after the initial release? To me memory safety seems like a fundamental aspect of a language that is very hard if not impossible to change afterwards, without so many breaking changes that you essentially in the end have created a new programming language.
I was not able to cancel my subscription about 10 years ago, but I found that I could put the paper on vacation hold. I've been on vacation for all but one week a year ever since, one benefit is that I can still access the digital products all year round during my vacation.
Well, then it is good, I did not make a JIT (only XPath AST, not even bytecode)

Although I have been thinking about making a JIT. Building on for x86 is easy enough, but then it is useless for ARM. I would not want to build two JITs. Or four with 32/64-bits.
I am not dismissing anything. I am saying that corruption is not the only topic at hand. They're also trying to create a government agency. That is also a subject matter.
I always liked tcsh for how they did for loops. It's taken me 20 years of bash and I still always get the syntax wrong the first time. I need to figure out how to alias it.

I like the ^R trick. In bash I usually just !(whatever the string is) which only matches the last one or the more infamous !?(whatever the file/obj you were applying the command to)?
If someone can't change your behavior, they can share their knowledge with someone who can.
How hard / difficult is it to change the service address?
For example, if I go on a week long vacation to Miami, can I change the address before I get on the flight, and have it ready to use when I check in to the hotel..?
Employers worry about gaps in CV because of two possible scenarios:

- you were actively looking, but were unable to find a job during that whole time - for them it's social proof that you suck

- you're actually picky and "high maintenance"
I would like to offer an extended view from the wealth accumulation angle. True, equity builds wealth, but in a startup, since there is no floor protection, when the startup becomes worthless (can happen for any number of reasons, and often do), then one wishes one had taken a salary (and reinvested in stocks or as seed investment - ways to gain equity exposure).

One could argue that PowerBI, in this example, gained any traction at all because it benefited from the large customer base and marketing muscle of Microsoft.

To extend further on the point Nojvek makes about how PowerBI moved very little of the topline revenues of the company; this also means that the bonus accrued to the author was because _some other team moved the needle_. This grouping of risk for a mean payoff, could be a desirable outcome as well, if one has better avenues to invest the capital. It all comes down to how one views risk, its mitigation, and wealth accumulation horizon.
A rewrite is not taking it "to the next level". It provides a new version in a new language that does the same things, and if things go according to plan, will have fewer safety issues. There's nothing that binds them to maintain any of these projects. Given Google's history, it's irresponsible to not consider long-term maintenance and other issues.
RBMK is not simply “less advanced” design, it is dangerously unsafe.
Please, no. Bash (or better, sh) are just fine. They are good enough, and they are standard. I can log in anywhere and do things.
The soft way would be to set ulimit for memory to something other than unlimited. To cap the max mem limit per process
Pineapple, banana pepper, and jalapeño may be my favorite pizza.
The security information about C and curl is a bit outdated in the post, and recent research shows Rust does not solve the memory safety issue.

The "recent study" quoted in the article was published at the beginning of 2019, using older data.

Current vulnerability data shows that curl has very much limited the risk of memory safety issues. How many reported security vulnerabilities in the last two releases of curl? Zero so far. You have to go back 9 months before you find one expired-pointer derefence issue resulting in potential data being sent to the wrong connection in rare circumstances and configurations. Which is a logic error that could happen in Rust too.

To quote from a Oct 2020 study on Rust safety - "Our study results reveal that while Rust successfully limits the risks of memory-safety issues in the realm of unsafe code, it also introduces some side effects. In particular, most of the use-after-free and double-free bugs in our data set are related to the automatic drop scheme associated with the ownership-based memory management model." -- "Memory-Safety Challenge Considered Solved? An In-Depth Study with All Rust CVEs"

They study 60 Rust memory safety vulnerabilities.

As you can see not only does Rust not solve the memory safety problem, it has other issues. Additionally the old research quoted misleads people about the current status of reported memory safety issues in curl.
Yes, which means they've frozen the state out of spite and secessionism.
> Chess, Go, Starcraft, DOTA all were called unsolvable at one point and all were eventually solved.

Depends on what you consider 'solved'. AlphaStar was never able to demonstrate the level of superhuman performance in Starcraft that AlphaGo did. It got to grandmaster level, but even that was with significant mechanical advantages over humans, when what they wanted to test was the tactical/strategic thinking, not raw ability to issue basic commands (which an AI will easily win at, obviously).

That said, AlphaStar was vastly superior in performance and well-roundedness compared to any previous Starcraft AI, so it was still very impressive. It just wasn't "beating the best in the world at strategic thinking" impressive.
This is 100% the opposite of my experience.

What I've noticed from effective management - the manager/leader works with the team to set a common goal at the outset. The goal needs to be as concrete as possible, and should be changed or reviewed regularly. It helps if your goals aren't necessarily sales driven, but service driven. Then the manager works with outside agencies to either provide appropriate resources, or remove obstacles while the team does the actual work toward their common goal.

Often, okay things are created when an individual imposes their will on the group. Occasionally, great things are created. BUT, they are not maintained or sustained past the exit of that one person from the company. When they leave, the house of cards falls, because no one is invested in the project outside of avoiding the ire of that one strong personality.

Again, in my experience, when the entire group is dedicated to a vision and a common goal, the outcome is much, much better. A side effect is that everyone is happier and more invested in their work. AND, the project lives past the exit of one, two, or even a majority of the team.

Because community and culture matter, really.
Is there a version of this for those of us mere mortals without Bloomberg accounts?
Tesla and the New Corporate Game Theory
>and Vienna

What Austrian colonies would those be?
what on earth is an "AI ethics research team"???
ethics seems to be a comfort pillow which no one actually believes in but serves as a shield to the emptiness of reality. i can't think of a single subject less rational than the study of ethics. but it dictates our lives! (e.g. medical ethics etc.)
We're talking past each other here, so I'll try to simplify where I'm coming from...

It is exploitative by the company to expect you to work nights and weekends, but then all the possible benefits go to the company. If you're going to do work on your nights and weekends, then do work for yourself, not for a company that won't compensate you for it.

The above has nothing to do with whether or not it's like a startup; it's speaking only to the deal in question being exploitative.

(Side note: I don't have a problem working some nights and the occasional weekend for my job. But it's very rarely expected of me; it tends to happen when I make a commitment to delivering something in a certain timeframe and then it turns out my guess as to how long it would take was wrong. Because I'm flexible, so is my company; if I need to take a half day to help my daughter with something, nobody is going to push back on that. I just wanted to make it clear that I don't consider the occasional night/weekend exploitative automatically... just that the situation described by the OP appeared to be so.)
what slippery slope? What general case? Everything I said was specifically about this agency, this HN thread.
My favourite feature of zsh (it might be oh-my-zsh), is the tab expansion of unambiguous abbreviated paths. Say if you do:

$ cd /u/b/l<TAB>

That will expand into /usr/bin/local. If there are ambiguities at any point, it will expand as much as it can and let you fix it at the point where a decision needs to be made (pressing tab again will show you the options, like Bash et al). For example:

$ /u/b/gr<TAB><TAB>
$ /usr/bin/gr
grep groff groups
It's completely the wrong approach. If they want to subsidize news, do what Andrew Yang proposed as on of his core policies - a "Journalism Dollars" - where every citizen gets $100/year to allocate to their favourite journalist. The problem really seems to be either corruption that's causing then a lack of caring, or simply not enough politicians who have foundational thinking to understand exponentials and trickle up effects, cascading consequences; is it the population is undereducated and if they understood it and that it is money well spent, that leads to safeguarding society and democracy, and only once enough of the population understand that will they vote in politicians who will implement it?
What is the point of counterfactuals like this other than shitting on Coming to America? Rude.
> United States in transition to a low-trust society

Trust, like rainforests, is a resource that can be exploited, sold to the highest bidder, and destroyed. Leaving those who benefited from the externlities worse off.
This isnt too bad, hell annoying but I have had to deal with worse!

Even with larger companies like YouTube I 'suspended' my subscription thinking it was suspended indefinitely. It is not.

So they went to work charging again, on the day I tried to contact them about it and wow it was easily a good hour of my time just making sure i cancelled correctly this time.

Then they got back to me a couple weeks later saying they didn't know what payment i was reffering to.

I genuinely just gave up. Which is exactly why its designed that way.
Stretch your imagination a bit.

Suppose we did and HIV tests start going off like fireworks a month later. Rumors start spreading about how it gives you AIDS, and uptake craters, probably for other vaccines as well. You’re right that this isn’t even the worst outcome. We also could have rolled out GSK’s failed candidates—-or one of Merck’s two. We’d be back where we started, but poorer, with less public support, and potentially dealing with widespread immunity to the vector. Solid preclinical candidates go sideways all the time, so it could have been even worse.

No argument whatsoever that 2MM deaths is awful and tragic. However, it’s the Slateist of Slate pitches to claim that “testing is the real killer.” We had plenty of easy ways to mitigate this (e.g., masks) but, for a variety of stupid reasons, chose not to use them.
Acting NASA chief says 2024 Moon landing no longer a “realistic” target
> Your edge cases are just that. Edge cases. Nobody is going to care if they can't drive in extremely heavy snow.

The problem when you have 1.4B vehicles in circulation is that your edge cases happen dozens of time per second.

> Nobody is going to care if they can't drive in extremely heavy snow.

A loooot of people will care. Snow isn't an edge case in a very large part of the world, it comes every year and stays for weeks or months.

What we're going to have is a system that's slightly better than existing "smart" systems [0] but much worse than "fully autonomous". People who will learn on these systems will suck at driving and be in complete panic mode at every single of the "edge cases" they'll face very often

People have to understand that the PCH from SF to LA and quiet Mountain View streets are the edge case to the rest of the world.

[0] ESP/ABS, collision avoidance, blind spot warnings, auto emergency braking
I am sorry to let you down, but I used Deel to pay people in Colombia, and it works like a charm.
I would posit this is merely one of the many presentations of not being present and mindful in your environment. The same could be said for a lot of things, not just plants.
I disagree on obfuscation, and I think Orwell would too.

Orwell probably knew that if he wrote a dry academic tome, no one would read it, and that would obscure the message by default.