skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> elaborate tendencies of 19th century writers.

reminded - on some estate sale here in US i randomly picked up and opened a small end-of-19th century book of some American writer that i never heard (that just means that it is definitely not a Tier-1 writer as i'm not an American). The first large paragraph consisted of just 2, yet pretty large, multipart sentences with several great ideas and observations masterfully woven together. I was awestruck. In Russia we call it "Tolstoy" (War and Peace) style and that beat even the Tolstoy. I immediately closed the book, quietly put it back. It was a very uncomfortable reminder of what we lost. The times has changed.
Past related thread:

You Can Learn Glass Blowing (1938) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15834149 - Dec 2017 (25 comments)
> It’s obvious MS and any other company that compensates similarly is included when stating “FAANG”

Doesn't MS pay substantially less though? My peers at MS make way less than my peers at Google, Facebook, and the others in FAANG. The only one that kinda sorta underpays is Amazon, but if you consider the stock appreciation they sometimes did better.

https://www.levels.fyi/
That same book claims that the agricultural revolution was responsible for human specialization. We were able to feed larger families/tribes and develop non-food related skills. Without agriculture, those extra people would've died aka "thin out" as you mentioned.
No, I don't think the Palestinians are engaging in genocide against the Israelis. Yes, I think Israel should be disbanded. As for what to do with people who don't want to stay? I'd be more than happy to welcome them to the US.
It looks like those cylinders are representing the launch towers, a few meters taller than the stacked Starship sitting on the launch mount.
Huh. This is actually quite insightful to me. I wonder if this applies more broadly? What from your own life makes you say that?
I don't have any but I get the feeling that a lot of people here are just salty that they were thinking of buying and didn't. Just venting that regret..
Where is this rage coming from? It doesn't take an expert to see the damage bitcoin is causing for the planet, the exernalities are pretty clearly outlined (although conspicuously ignored by crypto-evangelicals). His quote in the article is true.

I also don't understand the attacks on his academic credentials. He had been working in his field since he was 13, he's published in CS, and he was taking graduate level classes at Harvard as an undergrad before he dropped out to found Microsoft. So yes, he has spent decades studying a field. The man is unarguably a credentialed engineer, and anyone in this field should know that you don't need a B.S. in CS or a PhD in C.S. for that.
The parallel is in the perpetuation of destructive societal practices in the name of tradition, and in people being in favor of those destructive practices until it affects them: then it's suddenly not fair.

You can find that situation in so many places in modern culture that there's no point listing any, it's like looking for air.
> Home prices are not captured in CPI, only rents.

This is literally correct, but misses the essential feature of the housing issue in CPI: A large component of the housing contribution is "owner's equivalent rent" (OER).

Last I checked (now years ago), there is a survey where BLS essentially polls homeowners with the question "How much would your house rent for?" That number is then used for the OER component of CPI.

As the housing bubble was popping, BLS felt it necessary to explain the divergence between rents and OER [1]. The statistic was an absolute mess then, and I haven't seen any reason why it got cleaned up since, although I have not followed it closely in recent years.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/osmr/research-papers/2007/pdf/ec070090.p...
you get kicked off for not having an email address from a target company

this is not automatically moderated
If it's a place where you'd be wearing a conference/work badge, it's probably not the place to flirt.

If you bump into someone at the hotel bar later, that's probably fine. Take "no" for an answer, don't be grabby, etc. all still apply.
> Really curious what school is this?

My local university. If you want the specific school, my handle is associated with my real-world identity. It won't be hard to figure out.

> Pricing the value of in-house counsel is an interesting problem in itself (because they typically don't bill by the hour).

Absolutely!

> One could use an insurance policy pricing model (the worst that could happen is a very costly loss in a lawsuit) to determine what's the counsel protecting the company from.

Also true. The lack of cost analysis in my classes worries me very much.
I took a Citrix training class on thin clients back in I think 1999. I spent the entire class wondering if I'd be able to use it to play Starcraft. I never got to try it.
A huge reason we started Bristle was to answer this exact question!
New new one [1] says "This app is not available for your device" so it seems it can be anything from "we're not affected" to "we're affected much more than US". :-/

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
There is nothing more satisfying than refactoring code to something nice and condensed, but still very readable. A lot of my personal favorite experiences come from working with trees, since recursive code can be so lean and beautiful. I write a 5ish line function to generate a graphviz file to render by AST once and I still look back on that as beautiful code.
Other species have mostly arranged not to kill one another in these competitions. E.g. vipers & komodo dragons don't bite while wrestling. Walruses get pretty ripped-up, but usually don't die.

Ganging up to kill seems to be mostly a primate thing.
Which is exactly what the first part of the law does.
Let’s stop training children this way, shall we?

Talk about setting kids up for failure: train them to never actually ask for what they want. And then they can look forward to a lifetime of bad relationships and never earning as much as the people who do ask for what they want.
City of Pittsburgh chooses Google Cloud
I love fairmail. Can't remember what the problem was with k9. But fair mail can't do everything. And it's slick and modern. Privacy first. Removes tracking images. And also identifiers in images you send out. It's really really good

P.s also f-droid here (ps you can donate with crypto if you want)
Sounds like a training issue - Excel has a much better tool available now. Click the “Share” button in upper-right corner and now you’re all working on same doc and have concurrent editing capability.
I understand that the rabbit looks like that way to some people. It is a way to grab attention in the internet world where being ignored is the default... But confidence in the functionality and innovation of this app is still.
Re. buying/selling with BTC, one other problem is stability of value. Without stability, usability as a currency becomes hard. How does one even list items' cost in BTC when the value of BTC is constantly fluctuating?
I know this is a digression, but can you expand on the checkpoints a bit? Are there actually random roadblocks within 100 miles of the border where you get stopped and need to provide proof of residency or citizenship?

Just curious as a Canadian.
People hating on Bitcoin's proof of work don't understand layer 2 solutions are on the way. Ultimately Bitcoin will be used as a final settlement layer and not for recording your pizza transactions while faster, lighter blockchains work with it.
Intel's 8-Core and 6-Core Tiger Lake-H Specifications Listed
ETH is backed by the distributed computer you can pay ETH to execute software on.
> I'm pretty sure Bill Gates has a way way bigger net positive impact on the environment than you, or almost any of us here.

I've always found that argument presumptuous.

How do you know that someone in this comment section isn't researching a revolutionary way to generate clean electricity? How do you know that the next Elon Musk isn't lurking around here? Maybe that person will have a bigger impact than Bill Gates? Maybe that person is financing their studies thanks to Bitcoin gains? How can you possibly know all of that and just say: Only person X has a pass to be wasteful because no one else here has a net positive impact on the environment.
>> Plus, there is obviously an argument to be made that he has had a negative overall influence on the world

That is not only not obvious, but - even with his philanthropy efforts alone, the opposite would be obvious.
1. Russians do not have common ancestry in Proto-Slavic, because ancestors of Rus people in majority did not even speak Slavic languages, but Baltic, and Finnic languages - Rus themselves initially spoke Scandinavian. Poland and NW area of Ukraine is place where Proto-Slavioc originated. Do your math.

Бере-менна can not even be explained by Slavic language, or Proto... Baltic, but it can be explained by Swedish language, where bear-men was clear purpose of Rus women.

2. All the survived early written texts of Rus are in Old Church Slavonic - very similar to Russian(and possibly others that were known as Ruthenian, but I have no knowledge of Ukrainian, Belorussian or Rusyn to judge that).

3. You and me are not going to decide the classification of languages, that are based purely on geographic distribution or in case of Rus languages(or as they are known to others - East Slavic) - common history being part of one nation and not based on similar ancestry.
0 results for ATL area, though FAANG has active open listings in the area.
A collection of threads on Machine Learning for audio
There is such a thing as chronic starvation, and the smaller bones reflect that, not mineral deficiency.

The linked article addresses famine more specifically.
For me it's SQL and then simply visualizing.
I'm generally inclined to give people a break on missing 2020 deadlines.
The big innovation in architectures is in the SIMD world.

AVX512 (x86 512-bit), SVE (ARM 512-bit), NVidia PTX / SASS (32x32-bit), AMD RDNA (32x32-bit), AMD CDNA (64x32-bit).

64-bit cores (aka: classic CPUs) are looking like a solved problem, and are becoming a commodity. SIMD compute however, remains an open question. NVidia probably leads today, but there seems to be plenty of room for smaller players.

Heck, one major company (AMD) is pushing 32x32-bit on one market (6xxx series) and 64x32-bit in another market (MI100 / Supercomputers).
I have few green teas left. Preference shifted to black teas and dark, roasted oolong teas.

Still have Hubei Cui Lu and one green from Anji region. Another yellow tea. Neither has bitterness.

I did have bitter green teas as well. Not much going on for them. Even if carefully prepared. Eventually drank them.
No, I would argue hedge funds and banks are treating BTC like any other investment; They believe it will make money.

Banks and hedge funds don't inherently care about currencies. They care about the currency that governs their lives but beyond that everything is an investment. Banks don't provide mortgages because homes provide a stable economy or a stable currency. They do so because they will make money back on what they lend through interest. The fact that you store your dollars there is just one way for them to collect tons of assets for lending (among other things). This doesn't means banks care much about the volatility or exchange rate of the currency itself.

Hedge funds would only care about currencies insofar that it's an investment vehicle and investing in currencies can be a good investment. Bonds or other currency investments can increase over time without the volatility of BTC. A hedge fund is literally just an investment group, so it's pretty obvious they don't NEED to care about BTC stability or any stability at all.

Now, the question could be why would banks and hedge funds be willing to invest into such a volatile currency when they are usually risk adverse (banks more than hedge funds). And that would be a good question, except BTC has kept going up and now crypto as a whole is just another ETF market. So there are plenty of safe ways to hedge your bets on BTC or crypto generically without actually believing in the underlying philosophical justifications.

EDIT: Also, I don't think that it's impossible to have a crypto currency that is viable and stable. I think Ethereum has a fairly logical approach to their core issues that could solve the issues down the road. We'll see. I do think it'll be hard for BTC to become a viable currency because of how pumped up it is, and people treat it like an infinite money machine. Until the systemic issues of the BTC ethos are solved, I don't see a promising future for BTC as a widespread currency. But, it might have value in setting up the infra that the future crypto that IS viable will use.
Or, conversely: beat 'em and eat 'em!
I agree with everything you wrote except that last sentence, and that is exactly what I refer to as "dismissing the profession". Understanding their biases and agenda is by no means trivial, or even easy, but it's most likely a lot easier than spending all the time they spent on studying the subject matter.
Bitcoin is "bad for the planet". 0 percent interest rates are worse. It's the lesser of evils.
That's an entirely different topic, but https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... has past explanations about it.
That's probably true. I would have had to work to parse the first sentence in that article. The other thing going on is that, for many situations, the use of punctuation within long sentences to help the reader has sort of fallen out of fashion relative to breaking long sentences up. It's probably also more acceptable to use sentence fragments in certain types of prose.
actually more horsepower isn't necessarily helpful - I was reading earlier today about a point cloud architecture application that preallocates larger jobs by guessing the capabilities of the multiprocessor available. This isn't a low end application but a banner product for Leica Geosystems. the reviewer could only get it to slice the job into 8 sections despite many more cores available.

in filmmaking, personal equipment rental companies like sendgrid have raised the level of everything now I can buy my own Red and lenses and learn my tools intimately and pay for them (when I'm not paid to bring them on set) by rental customers who are liberated by the freedom from having to deposit the replacement value with traditional rental houses which risk is now insured. nvidia should sell a licence to use the 3090 professionally and rent it out like you can with the cards formerly known as Quadro now RTX A* beginning RTX A6000 (48GB VRAM at under $3K list is incredible if you can get one 96GB at 1TB/s+ linked..) if they really want to take the visual graphics industry for good. (equally AMD can grab this business forever just as easily with a turn on a penny worth of engineering)

Architecture and geographical systems are strongly and culturally averse to parallel programming. the complexity involved has only recently been significantly helped by multiple cores - the workstation on my desk in 2005 was dual dual core 3.9GHz xeon. 32GB RAMBUS RAM. early solid state swap. (and four FC drops from a SAN shared array with enough RAM cache to hold geometry models)

and laptops can be made to run single threaded codes very quickly single core, satisfying the (self imposed limits of) potential for most "graphics heavy" programs. But it isn't at all a good situation.

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+ many proprietary GPU instruction sets
> I don't think that being a loving person requires you to be polyamorous.

Certainly not, but I'm pretty sure that, in order to be successfully polyamorous, one would need to be extremely loving and accepting.
> Reminds me of 2009 Dubai rivers of shit fiasco.

Link, please.
I've had the opposite experience, with Workshop mods usually working fine as long as the game itself is working fine. It's usually just the mod creation tools that are really sketchy under Proton (current head-against-the-wall experience is with Kenshi, where the Forgotten Construction Set will spontaneously freeze after a couple minutes under Proton).
Unexpected finding about “await using var”
In the United States, maybe, but this is not true everywhere. In Japan, for instance, houses are treated more as depreciating assets like cars.

You can buy a brand new 4 Bedroom house in a nice part of Tokyo for ~$300,000, but don't expect to make money on the deal.
> Excel is horrible to program in.

VBA, and the built-in DE for it, isn't great, but you can program Excel other ways (Office Add-In, xlwings, etc.)
Try to get into a role that needs to gather user requirements or doing some system design or coordinate your team member(scrum master) maybe? No job is 100% engaging all the time though and I think if your current work env. is stable, figuring out some new interests are a way too.
Exactly correct. You can recognize its not useless even if you don't like the thing.
> What do you do with my data?

> Your privacy is a top priority for us. Our test will pick up some of your DNA - it’s impossible to completely avoid - but we only look at the microbes from your saliva and we take steps in our workflow to throw out human data during analysis.

Can you do better than this? What exactly do you do with the data? What do you store? How do you store it? What do you throw away? When do you throw it away?
A bit of a shame that this is not available in audio format, it's quite a long read.

I never used Stripe the financial system but I like that Stripe has a book division, the books they have published so far are right up my alley so keep up the good work.
That's a good example actually. Instagram/FB don't let third parties have access to your posts more than you allow publicly, and don't let you use automated tools to scrape them. If you wanted to glean anything from those posts you need to buy the anonymized data from Facebook.

The only way to balance the desire of users to make some data public and prevent anyone from grabbing all of it forever is to ban people from using automated tools.
Low level systems "stuff" - Linux kernel, drivers, storage, networking, even some FPGA work. Even some telecom these days.
Spoiler alert: IT IS!
One problem: You fire up your blockchain software and it reaches out over the internet to find other servers and ask them if they have a copy of the blockchain.

But how does in know which copy is the real one and not one cooked up by someone like me showing I own half the coins?

With proof of work you can choose the one with the most work in it and that's hard to fake as the real bitcoin blockchain has billions of dollars worth of computer work in.

With proof of stake it's hard. If there is no real cost, fakers can make thousands or millions of fake chains and how do you know which is the 'real' one?

There are potential solutions but it's tricky. Like if you have www.stake-coin.com point to the real one, what if someone manages to take over the domain?
Certainly, I imagine it's a product decision weighing security and convenience.
Perhaps this is why a lot of comment threads quickly become arguments about the first thing that springs to commenters' minds when they read the headline rather than what the article actually says.
> Closeness to the water is a requirement so that if a rocket fails it doesn't land on people.

Not if you're Russia/China.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/chinese-rocket-crushes-house...
Depends on your language, but you could use the type system instead; e.g. the function is chosen by the compiler based on the type of the value.

In more dynamic languages, you could probably use introspection.

Lastly, this does not alleviate the association issue, but I prefer the alternative of declaring the associations in an array/map somewhere, and using map[enum_value]() instead of the switch.
I will myself be a validator as well. Anyone can be one (even if you don't have 32 ethers, you can join a pool). You are either purposefully or ignorantly telling lies.
We'll be continually updating your early access report with new discoveries we uncover along the way, but we may not be able to provide treatment recommendations from the early access test once we flip to clinical. Things like lifestyle, diet, hygiene can be provided. Regardless, I'd recommend retaking the test when we launch the clinical product since your oral microbiome may have changed since the time you took the early access test, so the recommendations between now and then might be different!
Same, was looking for atlanta :/
Thank You, Google, We Needed Another Messaging App
I don't know which message you're referring to but if you link to it, we can tell you what happened.

I don't think hners are elite? and yes, many people use both HN and Reddit - why shouldn't they?
If the spaceport grows enough maybe they would fund a bridge or ferry!
There is significant amounts of classified information already available publicly in documentaries etc. This is readily acknowledged by people at the labs who Ive chatted with, though I didnt push to probe specifics. Much of the secret sauce at the time (knowing the cross sections for various processes, reflecting neutrons etc) that enabled the design of working weapons is all well understood and publicly known now and unclassified. Other than the artisanship needed to make the high explosives do what you want, the only meaningful barier is enrichment.
Every time you say "the people of Apenzell" you really mean roughly ~50% of the voting age population. Would you make this same argument if only one person was allowed to vote in Apenzell? What about when that one person starts rounding up the people in Apenzell he doesn't like and imprisoning them?
In 2016 when objective journalism died in major news institutions. Since then it is a cesspool of opinion pieces and advertising masquerading as content.
SF County can't print money, only the federal government can.
As far as I know California receives the least amount of federal tax benefits. They pay more then they recieve
Still would be interesting to know whether it's more likely for a Google project to survive than it is for a startup.
The number of commentators who have read the article decreases exponentially as a function of length.

A good case in point is the biggest ideas in Statistics paper that's hovered around the front page for a while.
Any suggestions how to learn using WinRT for UIs (with Rust)?
"Development of the MIPS processor architecture has now stopped"

Is anyone still developing SPARC?
There's a bit of a reporting bias when it comes to BTC's (or even crypto itself) environmental impact. We're only able to say "it uses as much electricity as X country" because there's a well-defined ledger of every BTC transaction.

The question is how much non-crypto "conventional" currencies cost the planet.

That being said, BTC probably isn't the "best" cryptocurrency. I'm not sure about the details because I don't know much about this space now, but other commenters have pointed out that it's more efficient for ledgers to record proof of stake rather than proof of work.
Not sure why you are downvoted. Utilities are natural monopolies. It makes sense for one entity to provide the network. The risk is that the monopoly gets fat and lazy, but there are many examples of failures from both approaches.

And I also believe Germans would not produce or tolerate the California or Texas debacles.
Correct, but, it is finite and it cannot be inflated away from you.
What is my benefit to give my email and thumbs up/down & details about job post to you?

That is, why should I generate information for you for free?
Not sure about checkpoints, but gmaps shows it is 4 hour drive to San Antonio.
How about all the people work for Visa etc and their commutes and all the other things that come with it. If you think about it Bitcoin is completely autonomous