skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I generally accept bias. It's just the way things are.

My complaint about the NYT and many other news sources is absurd combination of a hyper-specific and rapidly-changing set of beliefs, along with brutal enforcement of those beliefs.

My challenge to you: write down your beliefs on a controverial topic (on paper). Wait 6 months and pick up the NYT. My prediction: they will be in the process of canceling someone for those same beliefs, and you will shred the piece of paper out of fear.

OK, maybe that's an exaggeration. But I wouldn't be shocked if it was too close for comfort.
Or a handshake domain :(
Apple released a new platform security guide today. [1] According to that, there is a "fallback recovery OS" that can be accessed if you "[f]rom a shutdown state, double-press and hold the power button." I wonder if this one works if you zero the disk.

It also answers my question about the distinction between OS recovery and 1TR:

> Note: Apple uses the term One True recoveryOS (1TR) to indicate a boot into the primary recoveryOS which is achieved using a physical power button press. This is different from a normal recoveryOS boot, which can be achieved using NVRAM or which may happen when errors occur on startup. The physical button press increases trust that the boot environment isn’t reachable by a software-only attacker who has broken into macOS.

[1] https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...
>liquidity issues

Yes, there was. Robinhood was not meeting the deposit requirements of their clearing house which is why they required a huge cash infusion from Citadel.
That's probably true in places with sensible construction costs and timelines. But around here it's going to cost me $250k to fix the envelope of my house. If it reduced my energy usage to zero it would take only 70 years to pay for itself. But it won't do that and I won't live that long, so...
Rep. Pressley Introduces Federal Job Guarantee Resolution
Thank you very much for the valuable feedback. Noted. You have some strong arguments and points that we will definitely consider in our model. Much appreciated.
I have always interviewed under the influence of the same drugs I take for recreation. It's really the only honest way to assess a real chemistry fit. I enjoy a 95% conversion rate, interview to offer.
> some engineer deems

How dare the engineer decide what's best for the engine?

Literally every automatic has the ability to shift into first gear as needed. Hell, my automatic 4-banger Dodge Neon had first gear and that thing couldn't tow a tricycle.
This is at the intersection of my research interests. I'd love to see what happens if you run it on a large debate case with slight variations of the input prompt queries.

I love to see all of these articles about legal summarization - but it's always covering abstractive summarization! I want an effective highlighter model. To be fair, I did build a system for using transformers to do extractive summarization in an unsupervised manner, but the results aren't that great. I'm sure that Lawyers would find something that could highlight the most legally salient sections to be extremely useful if it's reasonably accurate.

I really did figure that we'd get effective word-level extractive summaries before we'd get effective abstractive summaries but I guess that intuition was wrong...
That's just a detail, they gave the money knowing they would have to then buy it.
It seems to me that parent was referring specifically to serving corporate interests, where indeed there is relatively little difference between the parties.
There’s One Big Problem with Electric Cars They’re Still Cars
Please keep nationalistic flamewar off HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks. It really is the voice to text that is the concern. I noodled around with an interactive fiction game concept a while back focused on a nuclear showdown.

I wanted to build it into an red analog telephone. The phone would ring and you would hear a message from various government/military types.

As tensions rise, the phone rings more often, possibly multiple lines light up forcing you to catch/miss vital information or opportunities.

Inevitably, things go pear-shaped and you try to (prevent?) a first strike/retaliatory strike.

Truthfully, I don’t have the skills to build the device, but plotting out the narrative, writing the dialogue would be fun.
What was the GH account name where someone forged commit times to make it spell out "BAD METRIC"? I'd like to see that one in 3D :)
Speaking of easter eggs... I'll just leave this here: https://twitter.com/carlesnunez/status/1362159214479761415
Ask HN: How do you stop screwing around and focus?
I have a lot of things I want to learn. A large number of these things are not easy, in fact many are considered difficult and not friendly to beginners.

Every time I try to start learning something I end up giving up. There are various reasons for this. A lot of the times, due to a very weak background in anything, there are a lot of prerequisites to learn. Often this is some math. I know what I want to make, what problem I want to solve, etc. but I have to learn some mathematics before I can be productive. Even worse I often need to go back and supplement my terrible math education and relearn concepts prerequisite to the math. Eventually I feel so far away from the actual thing I want to make and feel like it will be forever till I get to actually work on what I was originally going to. This is common among almost anything I’ve tried to make recently. I also hate reading. I don’t know why, but I can’t read more than a few paragraphs without my brain kinda swapping over to me just seeing disconnected words and quickly losing interest. I end up wasting my free time on unproductive things instead because I feel so disinterested being so abstracted away from my actual goals.
So at a big tech company, you're saying that a technical manager has never spoken to an interviewing team? That these kinds of questions materialized from thin air without any sort of technical oversight.

In the small company case you're saying if there was only one employee, looking to hire you as the second employee. There is no correlation between the one person you work with and the asinine questions you were asked in the interview?

Again I think the point was you are correct that it must be taken with a grain of salt, but to say there is "no correlation" is false. There is no way to prove the impossibility of a situation.
Non-American asking unironically.. I thought these guys were about free markets?
This type of browser looks good to use along with tiled window managers like i3 and xmonad.
IMO they're really there to provide the cheapest possible option for there "starting from as low as $X" marketing spiels. Of course they don't want to sell them if they can - they don't make anybody much money.

Yet they do exist (and from most major manufacturers), and if you're not after the bells and whistles, they make for a reasonable investment.
From the JPL feed: "My computer was having trouble with Webex, I'll restart Webex and try the visualization again."

Hope Percy isn't running Webex.
An interesting proposal was discussed by some people on Twitter recently. They discussed it around using Bitcoin mining to create a larger demand for electricity when prices are cheap. Then when an event happens such as in Texas recently, electricity prices would go up, causing mining rigs to turn off since it's no longer economical. There would then be more available electricity for heating homes & businesses.

One would assume vertical farming could be discussed in the same situation. Plants, like mining rigs could go offline for a few days without a major impact I assume, when prices sky rocket due to a major event such as a heat wave or blizzard. Keeping the vertical farm building at a reasonable temperature would be another factor here.
Can you show me some examples? I subscribe to both the NYT and the WSJ to act as a check and balance on each other. But the actual news is pretty much exactly identical. The reporting choices on big stories are about the same, with the NYT throwing in some more human interest stories while the WSJ gets into business nuts and bolts. (Following the whole Gamestop thing was much easier on the WSJ, for example.)

Both newspaper's opinion sections are complete garbage. I tend to agree with the NYT's opinion columnists more than the WSJ's, but I wouldn't say the pieces are well-reasoned, that they try to explain both sides of the issue, etc. It's basically long-form Twitter, which I would pay extra to opt out of.
Ford has discontinued US sales of the Focus and Fiesta.
I think you make a good point here that a lot of people miss: we have things like cheap groceries because as a society we prey on vulnerable people. When do we accept that the reason we get to have avacados and limes year round everywhere in the country is because we are all collectively taking advantage of people? And we have to accept that if we want to take advantage of people less, our day to day will be more expensive.
Can you give some examples of those projects? I would have thought a government in house software team would be doing things like replacing paper forms with web forms and replacing old COBOL applications with Java, along with being an approval board for government contracts.
unsure why you think that is relevant, bub. Interested in their religion, political views, and sexual preferences as well?
OT: but I’m seeing a weird layout issue on the new docs on mobile (iOS) where the main content is dropping below the bottom of the sidebar position.

https://imgur.com/a/U4AbEOZ
Vertical Farming saves space at the expense of electricity. I think the argument against them has to be along the lines of this trade-off >>possibly<< being a net negative for the environment.

No one cares if the net result is using more space if this means farms closer to the city and larger solar farms far away.
Maybe going on a tangent here, but it's really the idea of a federal minimum wage that doesn't make sense to me. Cost of living can literally be an order of magnitude apart between 2 given states.
Say a plant needs 1/10th of actual full sun during the day, could you theoretically remove the electricity step entirely but "just" (putting "just" in quotes because I'm sure it wouldn't be easy) having some sort of fancy mirror setup on a 10 storey building to send 1/10th of the sunlight hitting the roof to each floor?
If you collect the rain coming down, someone downstream ends up with no water.

Water is not free.
Who cares? If you need one, then you'll learn it
They essentially bought the debt at face value whereas its market value is 42% so they lost 58% of $500m or $290m.
“Most budget lines” (which I’m skeptical is accurate) is different from “broadly available”, but I suppose lacking any precise definitions of either phrase it’s not a useful argument.
Republicans are just anti-public.
To me, this is US politics in a nutshell. Everybody knows Americans have mostly poor quality internet, with little freedoms (ie blocked ports, changing IP addresses) and most people understand that there is currently 0 competition. People try to fix it and the government jumps in (which is just a front for companies usually nowadays) and they have the audacity to come with something called "connect act". Both Ayn Rand and Karl Marx would turn around in their graves if they learned about the government and companies being this close and so anti-people.

Just look at other countries, why do other countries have better AND cheaper AND more free network access? Nobody (in the right place at least) seems to ask themselves that in the world's greatest nation.
Surprise, surprise, the military has been around a few years/centuries. Some of that experience has stuck...

I remember an ex-colleague saying that as an RAF person, he knew he could go on to a totally new airfield and ask for "XYZ Role" officer - and there would be an answer and direction to appropriate person.

Military knows to design also for "deceased personnel" (redundancies etc)...
There's a good chance that this was just a lawyer at Uber filing takedowns for any app with the name Uber in it related to ridesharing, regardless of what the app does.
Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication with Lucid Dreamers in Breakthrough
Tenev's "Black Swan" comment is even more ludicrous given that we are currently in the midst of the COVID pandemic which made the Black Swan phrase trendy and known.

Other recent black swans:

- Texas freezing over
- Beirut explosion

It seems as though these "black swan" events are happening more and more rapidly.
Assuming it has to be powered by solar panels is a bad assumption.
Most agricultural water costs are from growing crops in areas where there is not enough rainfall: California's Imperial Valley is a desert (3 inches of rain per year) and produces $1 billion of food and cotton each year. Then all the waste runs into the Salton Sea -- another unpaid-for externality.
>It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Agreed.

>From your profile;

>You say 'I can't do XYZ because I have kids and a mortgage?' - well maybe you should have thought about the long term ramifications of your actions.

Lol, me child free here.
It's quite interesting that the majority of us have accepted political donations and getting your way with giving money to politicians as a "Standard" way of life.

What is it going to take for us to get rid of this absolutely broken system?
The author seems to forget that fine-tuning exists all-together, which is how real-world NLP applications are actually made.
In reply to the following paragraph, in a real world setting, this would be done through model fine-tuning on high quality data.
"First, there must be greater transparency. The sources of GPT-3’s references must at least
be referenceable and perhaps tweaked to follow a proper hierarchy of authorities. Although it is
challenging to audit a 175 billion parameter algorithm, it would be beneficial to understand the
most influential semantic parameters used to generate the output text. This would ideally enable
users to choose word choice (perhaps as a level of sophistication), appropriate voice, and tone"
You would assume incorrectly.

Most people just plain do not care about cars aside from using them to get around. For all practical purposes, a plug-in hybrid/range-extended EV eats a BEV for breakfast. If we are talking about something making sense rather than being cool, then hybrids are the only thing that makes any sense for most people.

And if someone does care about cars, why would they choose a 4000-pound sedan? They can go fast in a straight line, sure, but the handling is atrocious. I guess people buy Mustangs and Chargers, so I guess the reason is bad taste.
I got a NYT subscription in 2019. Last year in September my credit card expired, and my bank sent me a new one. This one had the same card number but a different expiry date. NYT just wouldn't accept it. I don't know how credit cards are renewed in the US but this was the new card I got and it worked everywhere except NYT. They just kept saying that it was an expired card so they could not accept it.

I tried contacting customer support, no use. They just said they'd manually enter the card details from their side which showed the same result. After a month my subscription was automatically cancelled. Well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Farming depleting water tables has been an issue. It's not that it won't come down anyways, but that it won't go wherever it was going next anyways.
nuclear, geothermal, loads of other power sources yeah.

I think vertical farming is fairly ridiculous in practice, but this article is fighting against a very obvious strawman.
Personally I will always applaud little experiments that question the status quo and that may be fun for those involved.

What's the worst thing that could happen?
> The bill has an exception that would allow existing government networks to continue in cities and towns without substantial broadband competition.

How is this even logically coherent? If there is one private provider then municipal provides competition and is good, but as soon as there are two providers, municipal somehow becomes becomes competition-limiting overregulation? Give me a break.
Yes, I still see them while walking around here in Victoria, BC. I have some seeds from a friend as well. They circulate and people grow them out of curiosity as well I guess. You’ve maybe seen them without realizing it.
What will die out sooner C++ or C++ programmers?
Some Nordic countries, which usually come up at some point when discussing employment dynamics, do not have a minimum wage and yet no one earns only $1/h.
I stand corrected meant to say sat fat
Comparison with phones and tablets makes sense because consumers use them for the same purpose as e-readers, reading e-books. They are an alternative even though LCD/OLED is inferior to EInk for reading in terms of eye strain, etc. People still prefer multi-function devices and EInk has so far been unable to produce displays that are competitive for multi-function devices.

I don’t think there’s a conspiracy at EInk or among its shareholders to intentionally make less money or sell less products. Their annual report, which describes a strategy and goal of improving the technology and expanding sales, suggests the opposite. [0]

[0] https://www.ir-cloud.com/taiwan/8069/irwebsite/financials.ph...
Oracle? I didn't realize that from the article. The entire situation makes A LOT more sense now.

I once was deposed in a lawsuit regarding Oracle, and part of it was basically a UI issue. We had a paid customized interface that allowed users to upload basically a blob text or document (word, etc). When we went to UAT, we didn't see it in the UI in the app itself (peoplesoft):

Us: "Okay, we can upload stuff, where do we find it?"

Oracle: "Oh, that wasn't part of the project"

Us: "Yes it was, see spec #<insert #>."

Oracle: "... Well, it's in the database. A DBA can access it, so we met the spec."

Us: "That is not a rational interpretation of '... and users will access it within the application...' "

Oracle: "We're happy to build that customization for another <insert massive $$$ sum>"

This was only one of a few material issue that led to the lawsuit. We probably wouldn't have sued over it alone, which should give you a hint at just how bad some of the other problems were.

As an aside, the $/hour billed for customizations was $600, but the work was also outsourced to India. I asked a PM from Oracle how this was justified, and they gave a vague answer about multiple layers of management needed to oversee the developers. I pointed out that this price tag would allow for 3 managers per developer, with each person in the chain making ~$200k/year, and still allow Oracle $200/hour profit. I got a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ response. That I have to blame on the organization & not Oracle though. I had the detailed ~500+ page RFP response & implementation plan, which specified 1,000 hours of custom work. But I didn't have the actual contract to see what additional work would cost. The organization either didn't negotiate that in advance (so their fault) or they knew in advance & agreed to it (also their fault)
Just to add here I wouldn't recommend TinyRenderer for beginners without first doing a normal graphics course.

I recently completed it and found the explanations really lacking for a lot of stuff. I had to do a lot of Googling outside of the course material to understand why we were doing things certain ways, and this is from someone who has already taken a few graphics classes in the past.

It's good as a guide on implementing a renderer from scratch though if you already know what's going on.

I would say for beginners: Linear Algebra --> graphics course --> tiny renderer if interested
AWS lambda is a hosted functions as a service and is about triggering code from events. Dapr is more like a library that runs next to your code as a sidecar providing you capabilities including being able to be triggered by events, but has other APIs such as state, secrets, pub/sub that are common when building apps when running on platforms like Kubernetes
The premise of this story is that ISRG is going to secure funding to essentially bribe people (my words, and I think it's a very good project) to not keep critical software in C anymore.

My guess is what will happen in the cases where Rust is unworkable is that there will be less-secure forks for the obscure platforms.
You mean you still have the pyres there?
Trademark and copyright are not the same. This is a trademark issue.

Also, not every name containing a trademark is a trademark violation; for instance, while "UberCheats" violates the trademark on "Uber", a name like "Watcher for Uber" would not be. The general "XYZ for Trademark" as a descriptive phrase tends to sidestep trademark issues. But on the other hand, renaming it "RideshareCheats" would sidestep the legal issue entirely and also open the door to generalizing it to cover other such services.
The relevant passages are far too long to quote here.

I suggest reading chapter 2 (starting at "Abolition of the family!") for the first, and chapter 2.3 and 2.4 for the second.
Python 3.x: RCE in Python applications that accept floats as untrusted input
(And wheat) - do the same calculation with rice or potatoes and I’m sure he’d have different results.
The bull case is Tesla goes 0.8% of global car sales to 20% or some such. Which is not impossible.
There are still people making new works of interactive fiction, including in the parser-based style of Adventure or Zork. You can find a lot of the more recent games on IFDB[0] and general info about IF and the community on IFWiki[1]. Most modern parser games are built for VMs with interpreters available for many operating systems and types of devices, with Lectrote[2] being a common recommendation for desktop platforms.

[0]: https://ifdb.tads.org

[1]: http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

[2]: https://github.com/erkyrath/lectrote
Yes, but Elsevier and Springer open access publishing is prohibitively expensive. That's what needs to change via legislation.
Wow that's cool! TIL Savannahian, Atlantan
Texas vs. the Future
My understanding was part of the reason we get bland veggies in the supermarket is that selection has been for being able to stay good for a longer period and not be damaged during shipping. If vertical farms have less time between harvesting and actual eating, maybe we can pick tastier varietals?
There is also something to be said for the information asymmetry between employer and employee. From the outside, it is hard to know what the odds of winning really look like. Founders are always painting a rosy picture of how close we are to breaking out or getting that next huge round of funding. The reality may be totally different. Things may actually be rather bleak and they are hoping to just limp along, paying low salaries and giving out worthless stock in hopes that just maybe they will hit the startup lottery.

At least with gambling, the house has to post the odds.
Is there something more important than not being under house arrest whilst people die?
https://twitter.com/Diskonnekt_/status/1354805885348974605
"you were actively looking, but were unable to find a job during that whole time - for them it's social proof that you suck"

Gee... I would hope I don't suck. Most places I apply to ghost me when they find out I'm deaf! They don't want to "deal with accommodations".
That’s not necessarily true.

Plenty of doctors are idiots whom you wouldn’t want to hire. Nobody just looks at your papers and hands out a white coat.

Most of the interview hazing stuff happens because many applicants can’t handle a fizz-buzz question. Engineers/programmers being who they are like to optimize for whatever nonsense they care about. That devolves into this hunger games nonsense.

You’ll see the culture change as tech becomes more diverse. Many of these quizzes end up becoming ways to objectify bias.
Stop picking up fights, that wasn't the point of the comment at all.