skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn’t practice too much, maybe you can get better at control, my own actions I could control including things like walking through wall or flying off from balcony, but not so much environment around me, a bit but not much. For waking up (very common when you realise you are in a dream) for me spinning around always worked very well. For me visual and sensual details were absolutely impressive, it’s at the level you can easily believe there exists another world, but it’s always nonsense threaded from your own memory with logic errors everywhere, however when inside the feel of truthness of reality is absolutely overwhelming.
It was fine if you were a kid (small hands)...
M1 Macs all have SSDs.
Go play any popular game with voice chat and say you're Black.
When a graphics card manufacturer is allowed to artificially gimp the hardware you bought, is that really any better? they modify firmware and drivers in order to restrict you from performing certain workloads.
By its owner, which is as it should be.
Terrible title as this is actually about SSDs.
I wonder if it's swapping a ton, especially on machines with 8G RAM?

8G is pathetic for 2021 anyway. Would never go under 16G for a serious machine.
And yet the Fairness Doctrine was the rule for 38 years, and the US Supreme Court agreed it was within the purview of the FCC to do so.

It's not about free speech, it's about what's broadcast over public airwaves.
I don't care about "enforcing contracts" as an abstract concept. If a contract is unjust, there is no reason it should be enforced. A contract that forces someone to pay $X a month or face homelessness during a huge economic crisis is not a just contract.
Very eloquently put! Thank you!
I would be a fan of it if I could get Jetbrains-level code intelligence, but so far I can only get VSCode level intelligence, and to me that more than erases the benefits of faster execution.
You’re assuming they own the property outright with no mortgage, which is pretty unlikely. If they have a loan already the bank might not want to loan them more money against the property in the current market. And if they sell it, to who? It’ll be at a massive discount right now and they might not be able to cover the amount they owe to the bank.
Accelerating Deep Learning with Apache Spark and Nvidia GPUs on AWS
Why do you think they've been given that blank check? Doesn't have anything to do with hundreds of years of oppression?
> In other words, there is no viable consumer market for open computing.

But, as you note, there is a huge benefit for open server and embedded computing, and there may be trickle-up and trickle-down effects to desktop computing.

Moreover, programmable hardware is becoming more price and performance competitive, and open source support software is becoming more functional and usable, so we may be in an interesting era where at least some hardware becomes more "open" and it's viable to run a full stack of open source software, starting with your own custom RISC-V CPU on an FPGA.
Libvmcu – Virtual Microcontroller Library
> you said "I agree that we don't actually have a free press". It's clear from this conversation that you understand that in the status quo, we actually do have a free press

No, the status quo is to assert that we have a free press, as a tenet of our national beliefs. But looking at the actual governance of the US, much of the power structure resides outside of the de jure government. And that de facto government owns or supports most of the press.

> My goal is to get you to be up front about the ramifications of your own proposal

I've proposed nothing. I'm disputing assertions that backstop the status quo, chiefly that corporations should be viewed as plain groups of regular individuals coming together by voluntary association.

Regarding speech, a straightforward proposal one could create from this is that corporations' speech would be regulated as a condition of their government-approved incorporation (and groups of individuals would be free to avoid this by not incorporating). But I'm not proposing this, because I think the motivation behind this problem-narrative is mostly power coalescing, and an inevitable reaction to the fracturing of institutional authority.

Rather I'm making the general argument to point out that the interests of individuals are distinct from this battle of corporate versus government power - both "sides" are steamrollers to individually held rights. My own favored proposal is to move to Free p2p comms and leave both arms of the incumbent structure in the dust.
Any assertion of what 'most' Chinese citizens want is unprovable given the lack of any representation on any level of society.

Plenty of China watchers are happy to claim that Chinese people all support their government - and yet the government is curiously unwilling to test this assertion in democratic polls. Tells you something about how strongly held these beliefs are (hint: not very).
I love this post. I can't tell you how many times I've started trying to use d3 and gave up after a couple hours because "all I wanted was a bar graph" (at least 3). Learning it is still on my bucket list because it is truly an amazing library.
Agree 100% that it is a trendy buzzword with an instilled connotation.

But, it is also a real thing. It’s all too common to see people say online “the statistics say you’re wrong, so it must’ve not happened”.

One’s life isn’t a collection of statistics, but of anecdotes.

With that being said, I enjoy using this phrase as a buzzword with my wife when she tries to tell me I’m wrong about an opinion I hold based off my lived experience. She finds it infuriating ;).
`git add -p` will take you through all the changes in your files, and let you add them selectively. I find this makes for much cleaner commits.
That's quite odd!
> I see people being mocked on the basis of being "mediocre white men" far more often on Twitter than I see them mocked on the basis of being "mediocre women of color"

I've been called an "entitled white dude" even on Hacker News (for not wanting my face to be used by Airbnb "anti-racist" algorithms.) The funny thing is, I'm not even white. I just like privacy.

It opened my eyes to tone policing.
A friend of mine got on a programming forum once and pretended to be female. The result was far cringier than I would have predicted.
Coca Cola Confirms Training Employees ‘Try to Be Less White’
Poorly worded - this problem applies to SSDs.
150 TB of data in 2 months is hopefully not correct. Something is wrong.
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> Some of these arguments for censorship made in this article sound eerily similar to how we justify censorship in the West.

The gist of any centralized top-down censorship is that some ideas are just too dangerous to allow them in public discourse. It can be dressed up in slightly different terms - "social harmony" or "threat to democracy" etc - but it's fundamentally about the same thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhG7SnDyUYQ
There's no "always free" AWS tier though, correct? You're still going to end up paying for the app after 12 months, or am I missing something?
> Developer machines will probably soon be viewed as specialized devices that most normal users will not even know how to use.

And such machines will have to be registered with the government, just you wait.
Please don't add nationalistic flamewar on top of all the other flamewar. The idea here is to step out of the circles of hell, not deeper in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Such high swap usage sounds like a bug.

But at the same time. 8GB of ram isn't a lot.

Especially when multi tasking.

I know there was a lot of talk about Apple's directly soldered RAM being super efficient.

But if you've got 30 tabs open, playing music and using Photoshop. No amount of optimisation is going to prevent swap usage.

Still though. Terrabytes of usage must be a bug.
Well if he had aimed to speak it might have gone better^^
> A rich person is subsidized by society.

What?
How do you get well meaning folks to see where it is all heading?
I still am waiting for a source on this, unless the implication is that those meat-space trades are all illegal / ML and therefore not tracked....
How can you struggle to use a mouse?
What point would you define as the beginning of that period that we're supposedly exiting?
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What's the point of a pseudonym if ByteDance can trivially identify who this was?
So I’ve def seen someone come back from uber L5->L6 but it’s probably rare (but then L6 itself is relatively rare) and under a year. And I’ve been told by VP that it does happen (I was doubtful too) but needs director? approval. Heard of may cases below L6 though
Hi Dang,
I hope you're well and always appreciate the context you bring to articles like this. Is there a way to turn this into a feature where similar submissions are linked?
The NYT graphics team kills it every time.
The market has shown us most users don’t want a “general purpose computer”? People explicitly want appliances that do something well, and a company that backs them. Users want what computers enable: to keep in touch with others and do work and play most efficiently.

I remember the 80s and 90s and trying to help friends with weird MS Dos or Windows bugs or Windows driver errors. The general, unopinionated nature of these platforms made it harder for most people to do what they wanted.

I’m not saying for some of us it’s not fun to have general purpose computers. But as a consumer model I’m not sure you could argue it’s ultimately successful. The computer and all its complexities is a “cost center” to the real outcomes most care about.
Bearer tokens via post parameters seems a lot easier / less problematic than cookies.
I was thinking more from an ethical, policy point of view than from the strategic point of view for the landlord.
Theoretically the conversion back to btc can’t be connected to the original btc->xmr conversion

(Edit: btc to xml would be a novel transaction. Curse you autocorrect)
I honestly think that prominent politicians wouldn't have any willingness to adopt this insane level of misinformation if there wasn't such a general societal acceptance of it.

The people in congress that believe in jewish space lasers didn't get elected because everyone around them thought they were crazy conspiracy theorists.
Couldn’t agree more about scheduled social time.
Our standups are usually kept short (15 min or less total) which is usually more than enough and if there’s anything that needs more time then the ones who needs to be involved schedule their own meeting outside of that.
We do however have an open Teams chat where people jump in and drop out all through the day just to hang out or throw out simple questions. Even had some nice chats and laughs with coworkers while doing the evening chores.
Apparently the issue affects the 16 GB models as well. In that case, the SSD wear likely would not be related to the limited RAM in the 8 GB model.
>New Apple systems are locked down from the silicon up, and you only get to do what Apple lets you do.

This is not true. iOS is certainly locked down but you can still build from source on MacOS, and many folks do; far more use tools like Homebrew to skip the build part and still get access to arbitrary tools. And while the Mac App Store exists, there is no requirement that all software be distributed that way.
Interesting.

The statutory salaries presented do not include bonuses, vacation pay, sick-leave pay, or other additional work-related payments.

US time off is significantly worse than the OECD average, so that seems like an odd thing to ignore.

Also, It is important to note that this is number of hours spent teaching, and does not include additional teaching duties such as prep time, extracurriculars, or additional student aid time. yet they still make time comparisons The other end of the scale however is more interesting, showing that teachers in Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and the United States spend more time teaching than any other country.

It’s an oddly biased way of looking at things not in terms of total compensation, hourly wage, or even lifetime earnings but a hybrid chosen to presumably make some specific point. I wonder how else you could slice this up and how much it would change. Aka median vs average salaries etc.

PS: Plenty of ways to play with the number percentage of a medan salaries in each country is arguably the most relevant as it shows what kind of talent you attract and how important it is in each country.
https://pythoncapi.readthedocs.io/roadmap.html

The hope is to create a new C API which doesn't expose CPython interpreter details, is easily exposed by interpreters other than CPython, and then port C-based APIs to it. Sadly it seems they aren't making much progress in 2020/2021. And I don't think it will eliminate Cython/Numpy overhead entirely, so Cython adding Numpy-specific features will still improve performance.

Also Pypy now has a compatibility shim for CPython extension modules. But last time I checked, it was slower than CPython for running one of my Numpy-based programs (corrscope), due to interfacing overhead.
I appreciate there's an uphill battle here to gain HN user trust. It is Oracle after all. OCI is a very different from what you've seen from Oracle in the past. It was created by ex-AWS, Azure, and GCP engineers, based on our collective experiences within those platforms. From some regards you might say we are to Oracle, what Azure was to Microsoft earlier on. A wildly different way of doing things.

Using standard / paid instances should be no more difficult or hard than using free-tier ones, other than the obvious need to have converted to a non-free account and, I believe, sorted out payment methods. They launch and run the same way, just when you have a paid account you can launch on larger instances. We've got enough things we want to do with the cloud, without having to resort to building lots of separate experiences and code paths for free tier accounts.

Disclaimer: opinion is entirely my own, may not reflect the opinions of my employers, etc.
It would be nice to compare it with photos non-radioactive lens, to discard the effect of cosmic rays and other natural radioactive sources.
It's OK on Firefox for Android if you log in.
Maybe I should have said a "unique use case" and also one that out-competes other similar systems.
Buying stuff with the coin may be an use case but this coin is in no way better than the thousands others for doing just that. Its very much end of the line for acceptance and thus this use case is not really valid.
Does anyone else feel that standardized tests are the most egalitarian and meritocratic metric in the admissions process? Removing them and claiming that it makes things fairer doesn't seem true to me.

The other three metrics (essay, grades, letters of recommendation) can be gamed/cheated. I'm sure standardized testing cheating happens, but it's so much more difficult, even for someone with connections.

Your grades are positively affected if your family can afford tutors for you, or if your parents are educated enough to tutor you themselves. You can have inflated grades that aren't reflective of your actual competency or knowledge. The inverse of this is also true. Bad grades don't provide any obvious information or signal on their own. Poorer students may be assigned to schools that don't have AP classes, so they don't even have the possibility of grade inflation.

You can have people help you write your admissions essay. Hell, you can have other people write it for you altogether. All of the wealth factors that influence GPA also influence your essay, if you actually write it completely by yourself.

Letters of recommendation seem to be the most exclusionary and biased of all. I actually think it's ridiculous that they're still allowed. There is no way to verify that they are true. They're grounded in connections and elitism. How is the average applicant even supposed to compete with letters from a politician, alumni, famous businessperson, or some other type of celebrity? A wealthy student's family can also pay for these in multiple ways, if, for some reason, the connections didn't already exist.

Meanwhile, the argument for tests being biased is that wealthier kids are able to prepare for them more than kids with less resources. But all of the other metrics tie to wealth as well, and every argument against standardized tests also applies to GPA. I'd even say GPA is influenced by wealth more than tests.

You can pirate expensive prep materials. You can PROBABLY find a volunteer tutor if you live in or near a college. But even taking the argument that wealthier children are at an advantage at full value, that advantage is still less than what is provided by the other 3 metrics.

I'm taking this a bit personally since I had an incredibly bad GPA in junior high and high school. I hated doing homework, and I hated sitting in lectures. I failed multiple classes because homework and attendance counted for so much of the total grade, that even 100%ing every quiz and test would still give me less than 60% in the class. The only thing that proved that I wasn't mentally retarded was my performance in course tests and standardized tests.

College went ok. I'm now doing better career-wise and financially than anyone I went to school with, including all of the IB kids who went to top-tier schools (with one exception, there's ONE other person on my level, because they went into finance and they're now an iBanker). I would have been completely screwed without standardized tests as a metric.
I believe in a world in which housing is a public good and a human right, so that no one would have to rent from anyone else in order to have access to housing. In this world, housing would cease to be a profitable investment vehicle, and thus landlordism would no longer exist.

Could I "enter in a contract" to lease "land that I own" in a national park? No, because national parks are a public good that everyone shares in their ownership and right to access. Housing should be the same way.
Trains not having traction and signal power in Europe is incredibly rare. The railway is essentially its own grid due to the size, so can route power around many local problems. It's obviously one of the last things to be disconnected if there's brownouts.

https://www.raildeliverygroup.com/about-us/publications/acop... §6.1.4 says the UK rail network "never" lost power supply up to 2017, but...

Two years ago, a 45 minute cut to railway power in South East England led to a £10 million fine to the power companies: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/03/three-energ...

The PDF also points out that a diesel backup is generally useless, since the line is blocked by the stuck electric trains.
Great article overall but I wanted to add in a recommendation for _Her_ -- I've read it many times and still don't know what happens, but there's something about the act of reading it that transports me to a different, more youthful place every time, and not just in the way that reading other books from my youth does. Highly recommend, and very sad to hear this news.
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=community%20identity%20by:dang...
Similarly, I remember seeing some pretty awful comments on HN threads regarding female programmers.

Comment after comment shitting on their achievements, presumably from mediocre men who feel threatened by a successful woman in the field.

Not just here either. It's an industry-wide problem.
Two wrongs don’t make a right and all that...
When people point to statistics in response to "lived experiences" they're not denying that it ever happened. They're refuting the claim (implicit or explicit) that this experience is representative of some broader whole. The plural of anecdote is not "data".

For instance if someone says they experienced X event, but statistics say that X only happens to 1% of people it's entirely fair to bring up the fact that empirical evidence suggests it's a rare occurrence.
I wonder how much of AI growth in China is driven by this use case - the need to censor at scale.
Not sure if this reference really applies. If you're not good enough to do the job, you're not good enough to do the job. We do seem to be overproducing college grads, but I've heard nothing like that for CS grads.
In my experience this specific one is well maintained, via community contribution.
Frugal is not plausible but a straw buyer for a PRC member (and who is going to voluntarily talk to a newspaper) is? I'd argue buying in the Bronx or Brooklyn in the 80s, putting in sweat equity where possible and reaping the benefits much later is much more plausible.
Thanks for the description! I would love to read a longer post on the topic with an MVP implementation / demo.
I've more or less said twice I'm leaving this discussion. I'm only replying here because I think your comment here is a good faith, but misguided, attempt to engage.

My initial comment was just to make the point "Maybe you can't use Asians and their experiences as a rebuttal for some American study because maybe it's an apples to oranges comparison."

I could have said that without mentioning GMO. It's not necessarily hugely pertinent to the point.

But everyone is latching on to that detail and this has gotten enormously whackadoodle.

I stand by my original point. I even stand by everything else I've said here.

But other people reacting like I'm some strident anti GMO nutter for mildly observing that "GMO plants may be fundamentally different from non GMO plants" is not something I have any desire to engage with further.
Have you talked to any women about their experiences online? I have friends who are not at all famous, who consistently get men messaging them out of the blue on social media. Commenting on their public photos. Some even make extra accounts after being blocked.

If you’re a dude, it’s easy to assume that the issue only affects people who are “internet celebrities”. But that’s not the case.
In some ways, you're right, but Americans feel most strongly about the freedom of speech when it comes to specifically political speech, and I think the biggest difference is that I, as an American, can choose to say "I think our President of the United States is a fascist and a criminal and he should be arrested for his crimes" and I am in no way worried that the government will track me down and punish me in any manner, nor will they pressure Hacker News to strike my post. Meanwhile, the Chinese government will literally disappear a billionaire celebrity for saying something mildly critical of the government. That's a prospect that's pretty much anathema to an American way of thinking about freedom.

That's not to say that America doesn't have LOTS of problems with censorship. We do. Oodles. Some of it's secret and some if it's blatant and in the open. But China is orders of magnitude worse for political speech.
Reprogramming Our Genetics
Sure, I was writing about Tesla’s case, as it’s a US company.
I've always thought of ear plugs as the quintessentially American solution to the problem. Here we have people tragedying all over the commons, and the solution is for individuals to all individually purchase a mitigation for themselves, instead of attempting to prevent the problem in the first place. Same for water pollution. Problem: the water supply is polluted. Americanized solution: Everyone needs to buy filters for their tap or boil their water. Real solution: Regulation to prevent the pollution in the first place.