skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada’s National Post delivered on this front, but generally speaking the media have been significantly more absurd than when they were all afraid to publish the Mohammed cartoons.

https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/books/here-are-the-wr...
Level 3(eyes off)can perform emergency actions and doesn’t require drivers to pay attention. It will handle all immediate response situations. Tesla is level 2(hands off) because it will run into things like stationary fire trucks.
This paper just repeatedly says these are racist words. There is nothing historically they write about that indicates this is true.
I think these types of articles are the harbinger of greatness for a technology to have impact in society. This shows that 43 companies found it valuable to invest in understanding blockchain technology. It means that millions of people are imagining a decentralized world, and how that would upend institutional. By detracting the present over-hype, the dangers of the gold rush to the miners but not marketers, they acknowledge that we’re living in the birth of a new California. Give it some time. Sure blockchain has poor performance characteristics relative to other databases. They all do. Not all databases have the rather remarkable characteristics that globally-shared ledgers can have.

When technology is nascent there is a void of history with it, there are no bounds for expectations. It’s inevitable that most early technology is coupled with broken expectations, as they are formed without substance.

Most blockchain should be understood as a social technology that is predicated on internet technology. It’s also built for the assumption that brokers aren’t trustworthy and extract too much value. Whether that turns out to be true or not will take a generation or two to sort out.
The Knative Project holds "Hacky Hours" every week on Fridays, 1-3pm Pacific Time[0]. It's a great opportunity for people to drop-in and ask questions, and for folks to show off what they've been working on.

[0] https://knative.dev/community/calendar/ , though check the @KnativeProject twitter account tomorrow because the video links are getting switched from Zoom to Google Meet to make it easier for more folks to join.
It might also just inflate the cost of everything to the point where increases in rent, groceries, etc. eat up whatever money we distribute like that.

I mean, inflating away debts is certainly one way to reduce the associated pain, but inflation can also wipe out wages, so it’s a bit of a balance. We haven’t seen a permanent UBI scheme in a large enough way to know what might happen.
Looking at the network inspector, "lite" version search results load in about 900ms - 1.4sec for non-cached queries. That is fast only compared to the rest of the "big web" maybe, but not _that_ fast in absolute terms (and for context, Google full search results load in usually that much). The bottleneck for DuckDuckGo is probably the Bing API (usually 600-700ms response) for which there is no way around.

If you want to see a fast web search engine try https://rightdao.com

I am not affiliated with them in any way. But their search results come back at 70ms (with network latency included) and that is darn impressive!
Why limit to open-source projects? What about ANY businesses.
> It isn't as easy as you are implying.

I'm not saying it's easy, I'm saying it's happening.
Those aren’t mutually exclusive ideas.
Do you mean this piece in The Atlantic?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/03/class-d...

It's a much better review than Scott Alexander's, although that's an unfairly low bar given he doesn't appear to have caught on the book is supposed to be funny, a "cocktail-party-ready argument" as Sandra Tsing Loh puts it.
I’m happy to flag posts, but HN (back in 2008 when I joined) was always about the “hacker spirit” as well.

Generally, major invasion of freedoms were permitted and discussions were thorough and thoughtful. you can look at the average length of post back then, then compare to this thread, to get a gist of what I mean.

There also wasn’t downvoting analysis of data, there were retorts. Downvoting was typically reserved for poor manners.

All my time here I’ve analyzed points of view from a data perspective and shared my data / results. Only the past year it’s been flagged to oblivion (often not even downvoted). I personally disagree and don’t think this post deserves a flag just because you don’t want to read it. Others do, it’s relevant to all our lives and the “hacker” ethos. On the same token, I do think general politics should be limited and probably off topic here (book burnings are a bit of an extreme breach of freedom).

Personally @dang if you’re listening, we should probably remove flag abusers. This is getting ridiculous
Fun Fact: When http first came out and was hidden in Academia, there were no headers. Then the need for metadata was realized and second-system syndrome took over to create a bunch of crazy headers. My favorite odd-ball header is "Charge-To:"

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/HTRQ_Headers.html

This is not a custom X- header but an official header. Also Email: and some other odd headers were standardized at that time.
Now, imagine going back in time to 1996 and trying to explain to people in the supercomputer lab that 25 years later there would be legions of people using portable supercomputers because you need this to build javascript applications for websites
AAVE?
In September of last year I was experiencing a combination of symptoms that I did not link to COVID, but looking back on it I'm starting to question it.

First, I had debilitating brain fog. It felt link I was thinking through pea soup. I went to my doctor twice due to this symptom, but my blood work (CBC, not a COVID test) looked normal and he suggested this was due to "stress" or "changes in sleep", although I was not experiencing either of those.

Around this same time, I would experiencing "near-syncope" upon standing. It got to the point where I everything was fading to black and I would have to take a knee to maintain consciousness. Again I talked to my doctor he shrugged his shoulders. He said my blood pressure was normal but he referred me to a cardiologist.

I passed a stress EKG so they said there was nothing structurally wrong with my heart.

Fast forward a few months and the symptoms have abated, although they still persist in a diminished form.

This makes me really wonder if this was COVID due to autonomic nerve dysfunction.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/...
Because it was Bradbury, I remembered the 'rain' in that title:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(sh...

Audio for your nostalgia available here (Ep. 11):

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Dimension_X_Singles/Dimensi...
We need different things at different times. Left foot right foot moves you forward at a sustainable pace. Night and day, and on and on. Things have different value at different times, it's too narrow to only regard energy as a source of development. We need rest too. You're not "losing" when you sleep.
They also don’t have the legal means to bar black people from service - because we changed the laws to prevent them from acting evily. “At least they can’t kill you” isn’t a good argument.
If I consider US-times, being based in Japan, I can probably use my Saturday morning to answer support queries for free
I have no nostalgia for the internet of old, the internet for me growing up with facebook, reddit, and newgrounds, i just dont want my privacy violated
I like your observation. I do not completely agree, though.

A tech-unsavvy user often dislikes "targeted advertising", as much as I could observe. For one, for the weird cross-media targeting effects, when a person sees the same ads, or ads about the same thing, like a fridge, following the user on many unrelated sites. It's most annoying when this keeps happening after the user has bought a fridge, and is unlikely to buy another just yet.

A less recognized but more annoying effect of ads is that they consume as much CPU and network latency as possible without making some sites outright unusable. The user says: see, I have this new and powerful computer, and this new and fast network thingie — why is the internet so slow? This is when installing even a simple ad-blocking extension shows the difference very vividly.

BTW I think that truly targeted ads can be useful — such laser-precision ads in Facebook showed me a few niche communities that interested me, e.g. dedicated to chiptune music creation. But most ads I see when I browse without ad-blocking are pretty lame, maybe 2% are well-targeted (and then I click on them). I keep a separate browser profile without ad-blocking to see what the internet is like for a vanilla user. OTOH the amount of tracking normally present on innocuous sites is surprisingly large, and slows things down rather unpleasantly, even if the ads are served instantly.

So yes, the internet full of ads is the norm for last 20+ years, and no, "normal users" do notice the impact of it.
I don't know if I'd like that. I grabbed some of Maximilian Schwarzmüller's courses off Udemy a couple years ago and, by far, my favorite thing was being able to blast through the simple concepts that I already understood and to slow down on the new stuff.

I think a recommended pace that's easy to achieve would make a nice goal, but I would balk at the idea of it being enforced if I were paying money for it.
I know someone who recovered his sense of smell after 11 months. He said it (the covid-induced loss) was useful for changing diapers.

Luckily a long haul isn't always a forever haul, we can hope.
In my opinion it's seen (at least where I've worked) as better for the following reasons:

1. Better visibility of progress and blocking issues - this is a big plus to senior mgmt and if you're technical it will help you alot that they understand you're making progress rather than being a blackbox that they hope delivers something in 6 months time

2. More adaptable to change - every project changes, the lnger it runs the less suitable it is at the end. Agile/Scrum theoretically allows you to change course better (not that you couldn't do it under waterfall..)

You do make a good point that it can be a dream for micro managers if you're unlucky enough to work for one, there are many potential faults but it depends on who's in the team frankly. The standups can become mundane and useless if people can't be honest about blockers or where they need help as well.
Would you tolerate a probabilistic answer to that?
It won't silently drive them into a wall, but at 65mph it might only give them just enough time to look up and panic as they hit the wall, internal alarms blaring for their attention. Lane keeping combined with construction combined with curves in the road won't be a good mix for for distracted drivers in these cars.
How ironic will it be if the Seuss holding corporation discovers the Streisand effect this way. I am sure that the late Seuss would find it droll.
You think it's untrue that a lot of people want freedom of religion? I don't follow.
The only thing that truly bothers me is the lying and hypocrisy. I don't care what ebay does and doesn't allow. I do care about the ongoing lie that their removals have anything at all to do with offensive or discriminatory material. The Seuss books are being disallowed because eBay decided allowing them would cost more profit than it generated. End of story. They don't give a damn about racism and offensive depictions. If they did they'd ban the Bible, Quran, along with probably 75% of literature written before 1980. The Seuss books are now a public liability so they're gone. Whatever becomes a public liability next will find a ready justification for its own banishment.
General knowledge, but I checked your link in your previous comment, and that article put 55M of the 60M on disease in the (early, pre-british) timeframe they're discussing.

Sources of death, wider timeframe:

* Disease
* Columbus on one tiny island
* Spaniards in general who are not Columbus (who was italian but sponsored by Spain)
* British/Americans

Disease sounds like #1 from what I can tell. Spaniards might edge out Americans, or maybe we're worse, I don't know. We left fewer survivors but they were in a larger area. Columbus for a few years on one island is clearly last place.
Yeah, found this which explained it for me :)

https://lgtm.com/rules/2154840805/
Definitely Natural Family planning. He is sperm #22
There is an incentive for churches to remove government safety nets so that desperate people have to turn to churches for charity.

This gives churches the chance to try to convert people they otherwise wouldn’t. I think this is bad because it is manipulative and discourages some people from getting help.

We need government safety nets so that they can be applied fairly to all people, and so that everyone is comfortable claiming them if they qualify.
But BERT isn't a generative model? Unless you mean it's trained similar to a generative model by predicting the missing tokens?

Also an interesting paper about hybrid energy based models:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.03263.pdf

It's possible to have a model be both a classifier + generative, and the performance is comparable (although lower) to the SOTA of single-purpose models.
I'll play devil's advocate as an engineer.

"HTML" version shows no images, just text and favicons. The total size of visible text content shown on the page is about 4KB (just did a count of characters on the page for "steve jobs" query). DDG shows those 4KB using 248KB of data.

1. That is not _that_ small. It's only small compared to the rest of the web, but not in absolute numbers, or in comparison to useful content shown.

2. The content to data ratio comes at 1:62. Or for one character shown on screen you are transferring 62 bytes of stuff. For context, Wikipedia page for Steve Jobs, which also includes multiple images, is 1.08MB and content is 128KB for a content to data ratio of about 1:9. So DuckDuckGo could in theory do ~7x better than this.

Sorry, as an engineer, not impressed at all!
If only I could give you gold
Precisely. The best tool is the one people are bought into.
It's super weird to only sell 100 of these in a single market. If it does what they say it does, they should be able to make a killing as the first mover. Just more reason to be skeptical.
Haven't there are already been self-driving car accidents that killed people? And also - is the US behind in the self-driving race?
Do we know what compute stack they are using for this? What types of processors and software?
Red Hat holds a series of OpenShift office hour type segments as part of their OpenShift streaming calendar. The specific segments range from weekly to triweekly (every three weeks).

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=redhatstreami...

https://twitch.tv/redhatopenshift
Most of the cargo doesn't come from Norway. We try to ship as much as possible from vendors directly to the ship, and not via Northern Norway where the entities involved are located.

Denmark then becomes ideal as we are close with the Danes politically and it's already a shipping hub.

We could have used Cape Town, but it would be harder to have control. Very little cargo fits on these planes and the flights are extremely expensive. We operate a satellite ground station there used for critical missions.
How does it determine torque application if you're on a straight away? Or does it detect hands-on-wheel? (Preferably both)
Even sleep costs energy. You need to build a shelter and be alive in order to sleep. Both the shelter and being alive costs energy.

It doesn't matter if you need things at different times. When you the trace the source of everything you that "need" you will find that at the root of it all is a limited resource.
It is awkward, no question.

But I’m not the one trying to redefine reality.
Ah, I see what you mean. People generally wouldn't say "run office hours" to refer to the first sense. That might be "work office hours" or "standard office hours" or "keep office hours" perhaps.
Identity politics type news stories shot up right at the end of the Great Recession, around the occupy wall Street time, when people were the most infuriated that moneyed interests bailed themselves out at the taxpayers expense. Really makes you think...
Mail carriers often have right-hand drive in NA.
I'm not sure I trust the tech of a company that's asking me to watch a DVD in 2021.
If we took every dollar from all the billionaires in the US we could give everyone around 10k.

If we did the same for the entire top 1% we could give everyone around 100k.

We could do this exactly once, and it would destroy enough wealth (most of this money is in assets, whose value would be destroyed in the process) that the real value you'd get out of that number would be A LOT less.

The rich are not the source of the working man's problems no matter how many times it gets repeated. People are payed based on supply and demand. Supply and demand is a byproduct of private property. If you like owning things, you're stuck with capitalism and supply and demand.
Every team at work (AWS) has office hours, this is a great idea.
i remember seeing a ww2 cartoon caricaturising japanese americans as a 5th column. You can argue that that was the spirit of the times and he isn't to blame, but it does feel wrong to me. (granted Japan were fearsome opponents)

seeing that cartoon, i realised that the good Doctor wasn't quite the lovely man that comes through in his books.
This riff was much less about Datasette and more about other projects (let's say the latest CNCF incubation stage project). Not that I'm important but I distinguish small-ish (or even projects that have grown larger) trying to publicize to attract more talent, but that smells different than large professional-looking efforts for open-core software or shareware which I often also see. Someone putting a "hey we're 1000 strong, come join us and contribute" at FOSSDEM is different than a company with some light VC funding talking about Github stars and "engagement" at Kubecon.

Datasette is a great project and in the traditional F/OSS sense is delivering an intense amount of value off the backs of passionate volunteers (for better or for worse) -- Thanks for making it and persisting in making it better.

Office hours working great for Datasette is fantastic (thanks for sharing) and you arguably an objective benefit to the world with the amount you've already created and released. I don't think it's right for every single open source project but more power to you. This riff definitely wasn't meant to poo-poo your approach.
I could not get tested in March. I tested positive for antibodies in August. I live right outside NYC, which based on April antibody testing, likely had 250,000 to 500,0000 cases/day for about a 3 week period from late Feb into March. This was when the media was still debating about whether or not the virus was a big deal and Trump was saying just a few people were sick.
Amazon Knocks Off Peak Design's Everyday Sling and Even Gives It the Same Name
> master

The wild thing about the term "master" and the people that want to censor it is how English-language centric it is. It really only has the sensitive connotations it has in English. In Italian for example, maestro is teacher.

My fear is that what today is "we should move away from that term" will in a few short years become "we can't hire them because they typed 'git checkout master' in their live coding interview" and at that point it discriminates against those for whom English is their second language.

This happened to a friend of mine with the word "lynch". In English it is a highly racializes term but in his native tongue, Portuguese, the connotation largely revolves around mob violence committed against rapists and adulterers (just go search for the verb "linchar" and you'll find youtube videos of mob violence against people suspected of rape and adultery).

Well he used that term in a discussion on github back when discussing the changes to a popular open source project's code of conduct about 7-8 years ago and a bunch of cancel culture folks jumped on him and it culminated in them trying to get him fired from his current job. He was lucky that it was long enough ago that his boss brushed it off, but in today's environment he's certain he would have lost his job over using a term in his native tongue that is fully divorced from how people feel about the word in English.
Yes, but that's not the old version. The latest versions are failing in new and interesting ways. /s
A lot of people have cottoned on to how important hard evidence is for forming informed opinions. Unfortunately, many of them have yet to learn that you can judge a conclusion on its own merit without a bibliography of every idea that led to it.

It's really off-putting.
“Hey fuckers” might be a safer term now days. Granted, at bigger firms this will get you in trouble.
It's the same argument thou - when you refer to a person/group of people you imply a lot about them with the word you use, men/children/kids/elders/americans/whites/ect - guys is no different to a lot of people as its so easily taken as gendered, and if said people don't want to be referred to by guys why not use a different one?

and fwiw the first definition for guys/guy in most dictionaries is "a man".
Do you know how many lawyers are in Congress or donate to politicians? Trial lawyers as a group are big donors to the Democratic Party. There is no way, Congress is going to do anything to make it harder for lawyers to sue people.
With visual deep learning quantity is absolutely crucial.

Quality of course matters too, but the more information you have in different environments, the better.
Manager here. It really is.
In the US they have the concept of filing jointly. If you have one partner earning a lot more than the other then you can get tax bracket advantages of both when you pool your incomes together.
It's not about confidence in the code. It's about confidence in having hardware that supports TSX, and will also support TSX next year. As far as I can tell, you still need to ensure that you have correct and reasonably efficient fallback code for platforms that don't or no longer have TSX, unless you're working on a project that can get away with very narrow system requirements.

Put simply, TSX is not mainstream, and isn't on track to be mainstream anytime soon.
I don't consider internet company cancellation authoritarian because they're just following the will of the market. It's a symptom, not the cause. If it were solely up to Ebay execs, they would rather people not be overly sensitive because they can make more money that way.

The same is true for content platforms like Reddit or Facebook. They were pro-free speech until they started to get bad publicity from it.
Perhaps it’s no coincidence both examples involve the navigation system? Makes it easier to flash an alert and return the driver’s attention to the road.
My sense from the review is that this book might miss another dimension of class in America having to do with the different settler populations. He's written another book review on Albion's Seed, which illuminates this aspect: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-se...

In short, class means something different in parts of the country. With inevitable mixing as people move to different states and especially cities, I've witnessed quite complex dynamics.
"In addition, in 2010, the EPA increased label requirements and limited some inert ingredients in spot-on treatments, which are applied to a specific area of a pet. This happened after incident data showed the treatments were causing hundreds of pet deaths, as well as issues such as irritation, rashes and hair loss, gastrointestinal problems and seizures."
Just FYI, there is some real weird stuff going on in the brains of quite a few people who died of COVID. COVID is far from a fully understood disease. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210217/autopsies_may_expla...
Wife? I guess you'll all have to start using "the ball and chain".