skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting point.

I like the maxim that you shouldn't eradicate or ban books, no matter the reason. Just contextualize them to soften the shocking or vile parts.

But I can't reconcile it with my support of removing Giuliani from YouTube (not a total non sequitur...it's from a discussion in another submission).

I guess if Giuliani were to write the content of his videos in book format I'd have no problem with it.
"Far more" value than "any" plant. I fail to see how this meat-fetishist point of view is anything but completely wrong. Yes it's hard to tank such things, absolutely.

But to be 100% sure that this one food is beating every single other food is just stupid.
Please share how a business user with spreadsheet-level tech skills is able to build a line of business application on *nix? Because that's what PowerApps makes possible.
It's difficult for the Bitcoin community to find consensus on changes to the consensus rules. We couldn't change a constant from 1MB to 2MB. I think changing PoW entirely is extremely unlikely to happen. It's much easier for the people who believe in PoS to sell their Bitcoin and buy Ethereum instead.
The later in development a problem is caught, the more expensive it is. The farther it gets along the pipeline of concept -> prototype -> testing -> commit -> production, the longer it's going to take to notice, repro, identify the responsible code, and fix.

It's true that you don't just have one shot to get it right, but you can't afford to be littering the codebase with accidentally quadratic algorithms.

I fairly regularly encounter code that performed all right when it was written, then something went from X0 cases to X000 cases and now this bit of N^2 code is taking minutes when it should take milliseconds.
The idea that when purchasing power increases people spend absolutely nothing is the basis if this rationalization for inflation, and it isn’t supported by logic or experience.

They actually spend more and more productively, because instead of barely getting by they are able to accumulate capital and start businesses.
Erik Bernhardsson who was one of original author on Annoy has a pretty developed test suite https://github.com/erikbern/ann-benchmarks.
No need to go that far, just try replacing cheese. There's surprisingly few Italian food items left.
Usually just a few seconds (depending on project size), if that. You can also disable some checks (e.g. type checks) to trim it down even further.
Clauses in the contract?
Even a small company has a huge amount of things going on at the same time. Any one thing in isolation is simple, but put together they amount to a huge amount of work where you can't put the time needed into become an expert on everything.

That applies to anyone any employee, including the CTO, especially so. They're just people.

Publishing an entire article to shame them is just disgusting. Like, why? The reporter if anyone deserves being shamed for apparently making a career of flinging shit at people.
Nocoiners said that at every single price and adoption milestone...
Twitter Spaces 101
One concern with the MS option is that it's not their only product so they could drop or degrade it in the future without impacting their bottom line. The other RPA vendors are tied to their RPA products. The fact that it's going to be free makes it feel like they didn't get enough sales and so it's not worth pumping anymore.
The tangent is related and I appreciate your reflection.

It is valuable that you recognize what might be an inconsistency, even if you don't act or change your views because of it. Maybe you'll find a distinction and keep those views.

How do you feel about Gina Carano?
Yeah. And if you mean to ask how is it ethical to put those clauses in the contract... if the executive does something so damaging to the business to get fired, the others need to recoup their losses by reclaiming shares and pension.
I've been loving Foam as it lives inside VSCode, where I spend most of my days anyway. Obsidian was nice too, but I ended up moving back to Foam. The only feature I wish Foam had is to apply force directed layouts to only selected nodes at a time.
You can make money in a Ponzi scheme, too. Just saying.
This is an example why white collar workers need to figure out a way to unionize. Going to keep getting worse.
What Are the Reasons Contributing to React’s Popularity?
Some problems you can fix in one place and be done with it. Harder problems you gotta work them every place you can make a difference. If livestock accounts for 14% of greenhouse gas, that seems like a viable angle of attack.
Desktop environments on Linux basically just draw into a full-screen X window, don't they? (And then the programs you run are children of that root window.) I wonder how hard it would be to hack up XQuartz to support that...
Contract for Sale of Soul
Curious, whether rover survives to the return sample mission.
Landlords in a free market will usually act to maximise longer term profit not rent. Increasing rent in the short term by too much (even if the resultant rent is below market) only to see a tenant leaving soon afterwards can be a net loss due to void periods and the costs of finding a new tenant etc. Eventually the gap to market rent may grow to the point where the risk is worth it and then an increase makes sense.

In the presence of a cap this strategy becomes riskier so it forces landlords to think about a shorter term horizon.

There's also a signalling effect of the cap which may mean tenant reactions to an increase at the cap are different.
What was the purpose of this article? It was just a list of game consoles and some of their technical features. Was there something groundbreaking the feature provided? A new or better paradigm? Something even more basic?
> You seem to be of the opinion that people shouldn't have the right to a stable home if the owner of that home wants more money. I... guess that's ok? Not really big on compassion or empathy, but... it's an opinion, I suppose.

I mean, that's painting with a pretty broad brush. Nobody said anything about legalizing doing anything you want with land. You're never going to have a perfectly stable arrangement when renting someone else's property: I don't own a car or exercise equipment; if Uber or my local gym raise rates, I'll be bummed, but I don't begrudge them for doing it (even if it means I have to move to a less convenient gym.) I have empathy for those Uber drivers and workers at the gym.

I can absolutely empathize with those living through increases in rent, I just happen to believe that the solution to that problem is not to implement policies that make those renters beholden to their current landlords forever (even if their circumstances change and a new home would be more convenient). And just as I have empathy for those renters who want to stay in their homes, I have empathy for those renters who got a new job across town but can't afford to move, because they've lived in the same home for fifteen years and can't afford market rate at a new place.

As far as landlords go, I see no reason why they shouldn't be able to raise the cost of rent to keep up with cost-of-living just like anyone else. My current landlord own a house or two on my block, and they make their living off of the profits they earn by renting and maintaining these houses. Just like I want to get a bump in pay every year, it seems eminently reasonable (and not greedy of them) to grant that to them as well. I have empathy for the landlords who provide me with my home, and provide repairs and maintenance.

If the problem that we're talking about is that people can't afford their homes because the rate that others is willing to pay is higher than they can afford, the solution is not to form isolated bubbles that ignore what's going on in the rest of the market and create indentured renters. Just one of many better solutions would be subsidized rent assistance: give the renters the difference they need to make rent, straight up in cash. If costs in the city have gone up by 10%, that's just evidence of the fact that there's a ton of demand fighting for not enough supply. Artificially restricting supply even further is an unsustainable solution for the city as a whole, and far better solutions already exist for keeping people in their homes.

I guess my big point is that if you boil down a complex issue like this to good people vs. bad people, you're not being honest to the actual issues at hand. To assume that landlords increase rent solely out of greed, or to assume that being okay with rent increases implies a lack of compassion, or to assume that support for policies that lock-in rent are the only empathetic stance to hold don't seem to leave a lot of room for discussion or understanding.
Who knows what was going on. In an ideal world we have the time needed to do things well. In reality, you've got twenty developers asking for something, users requesting features, various government agencies asking for documents, the lawyers inform you about some case and... oh your wife is calling on the other line because... etc etc etc.
My point is the building isn't really competitive with other high end residences - it just gets away with charging high pricing because everything in SF high priced. Just because a bunch of high income earners live there doesn't mean it's competitive with other offerings, just like I wouldn't consider a Ford Fusion a luxury car just because Steve Ballmer drives one.

Rather than contrasting it to living standards 30 years ago, it makes more sense to contrast it with living standards today in real estate markets that aren't insane. A comparable apartment to 38 Dolores, with similar amenities is Chicago's Jeff Jack apartments[1] which has much of the similar amenities at a fraction of the price (~$1,000/mo for 1bd) - still likely targeting yuppies but in a different tier than Chicago's high end offerings. However something like a building in Chicago's Gold Coast (which has pricing of around ~3,500/mo for bd) includes features that are in 181 Fremont - pool, lounges, concierge, dry cleaning and even larger floor plans than you would typically find [2].

Alternatively you could say that a lot of apartments in SF get away with charging luxury prices for what really should be standard fan-fare apartment because demand is so high. The GP mentioned more succinctly, a lot of units in SF are cheaply constructed building that are actually rented at luxury rates.

[1] https://jeffjackapartments.com/building/
[2] https://www.twowestdelaware.com/amenities-and-features/
What you described could work in principle, but in practice, "mini" training on a single sample is not likely to produce good results, unless the sample is very large. Also, this finetuning would most likely be quite resource intensive. I recall older speech recognition systems where they would ask you to read a specific text sample to adapt the model to your voice, so yes, this can work.

If you can fit a large generative model (e.g. an rnn or a transformer) in the codec, you might be able to offer something like "prompt engineering" [1], where the weights of the model don't change, but the hidden state vectors are adjusted using the current input. So, using your analogy, weights would be DNA, and the hidden state vectors would be the "mental state". By talking to this person you adjust their mental state to hopefully steer the conversation in the right direction.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#prompts-as-programming
The CEO would be in the union? Sounds like he just needed better lawyers to write his agreements.
That was a good little read and mirrors my sentiments about media consumption exactly. People who have a specialized knowledge about a subject will often find themselves reading false information about serious topics from media about their subject of knowledge. Lowering the credibility of that media in their eyes and preparing themselves to be more skeptical of information output from that media. Then flip to another subject they are totally uninformed on and believe word for word everything that is said to them no matter how utterly ridiculous.
Some of these have been pain points on QEMU (such as Android emulation) for a really long time. The coreaudio fixes and sparse block storage alone are fantastic.
Why Japan Inc can’t and won’t quit China
> Vibrations are present even at 0 K because of the uncertainty principle

Are you sure that's true? I can't remember the exact details but recall that being a common misinterpretation of the uncertainty principle
Clinton used a literal cigar on Lewinsky
Feels like natural progression as underlying technology (internet speeds and HDD space) improves. So more network traffic can now get synced across more nodes faster.
The myth about beef and methane has been debunked many times. If you want a detailed accord please read the Sacred Cow or watch the doc.
How is that any different from a normal job contract?
So people living in countries without a stable currency due to hyperinflation don't count as a real use case? It's sometimes the only way they can secure their capital. I think that we need to think outside of our elitist western bubble more often. Not all people live in a stable democracy with (semi-)stable currencies.
Exactly. People can depend on the value they've acquired to remain valuable, which means they can take on greater risk in the future.
Yeah I guess the execs are a little different, but my point is that the same thing would happen to any white collar employee (lose all their shares, etc).
How many kWh does one transaction consume?

Is that higher or lower than 8 years ago?
Netflix X-Ray – Need feedback/suggestions
I love Amazon's X-Ray feature so I built a chrome extension on similar lines for Netflix, Netflix X-Ray. You can see the cast of the movie/series in just one click. You can also see their other works, trailers, synopsis, ratings, streaming info, and images by clicking on the cast's pictures. I'm still developing it, so would love any feedback or suggestions.
"He took big, and early, stakes in both Amazon and Tesla — in 2012 and 2016, respectively."

Amazon was founded in 1994 and had its IPO in 1997 during the first dot com boom. Did they do any research for this article at all?
I guess how you see this depends on who you think “the bad guys” are.
I don't understand you. Why do you dismiss survivorship bias and then do your math without that in mind?

If I read you correctly, you calculated "how likely is it that someone gets these results?". But accounting for survivorship bias, shouldn't it be "how likely is it that someone gets these results?" ?

Maybe I'm reading something wrong here, if so I would be obliged if you could elaborate.
I don't think it is American specific at all.

Not that I am saying that it was the case, but hypothetically:
If you are grossly negligent or even fraudulent in your behaviour, do you think you are entitled to shares?

Supposedly, C-level positions are highly-rewarded because they are high-risk. Ignoring the political background, if any company had the same development, I would find it only natural that it has repercussions on the CEO, and I wouldn't consider losing all shares completely out of order.

How high would you say the renumeration of Stephen Elop of Nokia fame is appropriate? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#Bonus_controversy)

But quite possibly, I am there in a minority position.
Your fears are not applicable in my experience. Model-driven PowerApps are schema and workflow driven, using one set of tools. The plumbing is all standardised. Authentication, authorisation and license management integrates directly into the M365 infrastructure that large organisations already have. As for browser lock-in, this makes no sense - Microsoft Edge has moved to Chromium. In my experience, the trend is for internal IT to use these tools directly, but it wouldn't matter even if a consultant did the work - the solutions are built on a standardised stack fully owned by the business. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant percentage of LOB applications are built on this platform in the next decade.
We also need to be restoring all the tree cover that we’ve been removing. Trees do more than just storing carbon. They provide us with oxygen, hold top soil together, provide natural habitat for various wild life, cool an area enough to attract rain clouds, and much more.

Though, replacing the cover isn’t enough and more needs to be done - such as reducing greenhouse gas emission and removal of greenhouse gasses ( by using Carbon Capture Systems, for example).
You should totally open-source that, put it on NPM, and write an article or so about it.
After reading this article, it now seems like BTC is not equipped to to handle general relativity. If we ever become an interstellar species that seriously uses cryptocurrency, I'm not convinced that BTC will be sufficient. The only reason it works on earth is because the "ticks" of its clock are slower than the speed of light, but faster than we need transactions to be settled. If I use BTC to buy a product from a company on Mars, will ~10min be long enough? What kinds of new attacks would bent space give rise to?

These are all things I hadn't considered before reading this article, and I found them enjoyable to think about. If you didn't get anything out of it, that's fine, but don't rain on others' parade.
What are your (or others') impressions of the usefulness of CR's ratings from a durability / longevity standpoint?

It's easy to create a product that will score well in a 1-day, or even 1-month trial.

It's harder to make (or assess) one over a multi-year lifespan. I've long felt CR falls flat on this mark, though it's a difficult one to make.

I'm not sure who else even plays in the space. J.D. Power comes to mind.
The point remains that eliminating the backlog of high fee paying transactions would jeopardize mining stability and security in the long term.
Prosecute this as fraud.
What do the volatility and return of the market have to do with anything?

Are you calculating the probability that he did achieve these returns by luck timing the market? That's obviously not what he did.

Picking and holding a stock that did extremely well by over the period is not a one in a quintillion event.
Why is it surprising to you that Facebook could hire someone inept?
But for them there are better alternatives to BTC, one being BCH for example
given that most users have some kind of hosted wallet service these days, can't the wallet provider do massive "coin join" transactions to dramatically decrease transaction delays?
You could interpret the comment as:

Students, our future developers and power users, should not be locked up in their perspective, but be set free to choose the best for their future endeavors.
It's not very clear, but you can click into each console and there are more in depth device breakdowns, render pipelines and software libraries in each article
Huh? Just because there was once a function whose argument types didn't help you understand it doesn't imply that types aren't an aid to readability in general!
> the costs would be much closer to the materials cost

Which is? Not cheap. And it's not like you can buy in any corner store.

And no, while an "economy of scale" would make it cheaper, it doesn't mean it would be cheap.
There's a saying that "possession is 9/10ths of the law", which means that, in property disputes, courts tend to uphold the status quo. Taking something away from someone by a ruling is seen as much harder to justify than letting someone retain possession, which is presumed to have some measure of justification.
Wrong; there is a large backlog of transactions paying over 50 sat per byte [1], which is over $10 in fees for most transactions.

[1] https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,24h
How did the changes in iOS 14 affect ads on Facebook and Instagram?
You wouldn't even have to hack it up. There's an option in XQuartz to make it run full-screen, at which point you can run a standard X11 DE.

The main issue with XQuartz nowadays is that it doesn't support Retina displays in windowed mode. Everything runs pixel-doubled by default.
Looks like this thread is all about sharing our own related local browser-based PDF tools. Here’s mine: https://pdftotext.github.io
So, after diving a bit deeper into this field I still do not understand why the underlying tech is important for bidirectional linking?

I understand that a graph database like neo4j can be amazing once you need more than just binary relationships (any kind of relationship in any level can be expressed) and once you start to query the database. Latter is so powerful and crucial from a data scientist perspective.

But why are these graph db features important for notes? And what are the drawbacks if you just do this with normal text or md files with links and a normal file system? Assuming that the actual link setting UI is convenient and takes care of most there shouldn't ne any disadvantage when writing and querying them. If things get slow you could still use an index but yeah.

One advantage with normal files is that you will still be able to read them in 50 years without any special app created 50 years ago.
As a person who likes to research and optimize things, I have optimized meat out of my life. At first I ate "pareto-plant-based" meaning 80% plant-based, 20% meat, usually at social gatherings. Then I realised I eat meat only to please others and to "fit in", so I gave up on that and accepted being an outcast. I'm really thankful for remote work so I don't have to pretend anymore. I never called myself "vegan" even though I eat like one because people think I'm judging them or something. They hated me just for existing.
isn't this also how people loose stock competitions?
On a computer game you can spot the 240fps because of the intermediate frames when you have visual elements moving very quickly across the screen. It's not because of 'faster eyes' I don't think. Like when you move your mouse very quickly you'll see twice as many mouse cursors en route.
There are clever words and/or phrases which do (or did) translate quite differently in British vs. American English. Starting with "clever" and "quite".

Key generally being that on a scale of 1--10, Brits tend to hover in the 5.00000003 to 5.000000031 range. Any deviation from that is an extreme reaction.
It’s a lab virus.
The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free
Nah, it's all the same. People who need to drain mince don't know how to cook properly.

Burgers are supposed to be made with lean meat but with extra fat added in to make it nice again. That's the whole point of a burger. You take tough, lean meat that is otherwise undesirable, and grind it up and mix it with fat. Essentially creating the perfectly marbled steak. Grinding premium cuts is idiotic.
I haven't seen any announcement for _all_ the journals but I got a number of emails that _MIT Sloan Management Review_ site is unlocked March 2-4:
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/big-picture-little-pictu...

Maybe all the MIT publications do the same?
The first graph is a little hard to read being various shades of grey. The OECD has a color version that is also interactive (select a country, for example): https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm
That has nothing to do with its technical capabilities, rather a free beer UNIX clone, that is all.
What kind of economic policies could push an European conservative country to this Nordic approach, in order to lower the share of NEETs?

Interesting article btw
No no.. My grandfather from Irkutsk oblast had plutonium heart, and he live to long ripe age of 45! Almost unheard of in Soviet union.
That would be the way to get the JS ecosystem out of the mud. But it would be great if there was a way to ensure nil and type safety on the level of Kotlin, Swift, Rust etcetera and build from there. TS is more like Java in that aspect.
Plenty of us link to binary libraries.