skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do I look like God?

Go ahead pray a bit and maybe He'll answer you those questions!!!

I surely don't know the answer, the same way scientists don't know how life was created in the first place. What everyone have is wild guesses and faith in those guesses. ;)

As to the material: First we should try to find out where to look for...
Learning to Play Yahtzee with Advantage Actor-Critic (A2C)
> just assemble from knockdown kits

Assemble, yes, but a lot of the components also come from India. Xiaomi, for example, source 65% of their components from India itself. Of course, the really important parts like the processor, screen, camera, etc probably come from elsewhere because AFAIK they are not made in India yet.

> circumvent India's tarrifs

Adding those tariffs was intentional and part of the "Make in India" initiative. IIRC customs duty on a phone was 1% a few years back but it is now 21%.

> I see more of them going for a more complete assembly in a few years time.

Yes, very likely. Even with automobiles, initially only assembly was done in India, but over time an entire ecosystem of industries making many of the required components spawned here.
The union is probably the reason. Pretty hard to have a strong united culture when everybody is at home reading the NYT about how Google is evil.

It's easier to think of Google as good when you face your coworkers, but when they are behind avatars and just text, it's easier to fall for the propaganda of the NYT et.al
You are making up a straw man.

The economic blockade by the US has the goal of destroying the political and economic order of Cuba. And just to be clear, this blockade is not just blocking Cuba from trading with the US but is effectively blocking Cuba from a good portion of the world market except for a few small allies. And even those trades with allies can become vastly more costly because of the blockade.

There are not many countries that would survive such a blockade not to mention thrive in it.

Are there internal problems in Cuba? Sure there are. Does it make my quoted sentence incorrect that said:

>Of course because of the economic blockade against Cuba they are forced to be creative on how to use the available resources.

No, it does not. It does not state that there might not be also other problems in Cuba.

There is lots of internal problems one can talk about and if someone has honest questions, please ask.

Just don't use these internal problems to minimize the injustice of the blockade against Cuba. (Not to imply whether this is what my former poster intended to do or not).
I've been asked to step in and take this over for our neighborhood, so I'm learning about this process.

Doing so has really showcased one thing that I truly like about Japan: people tend to take care of their communities.

This starts from a young age: even in grade school, kids are responsible for cleaning their schools, and for serving lunch to other kids.

Back when Mom was alive, I asked her about why we didn't do this in the US -- she was a school-board member -- and it boiled down to: "The parents will sue us for a gigantic list of reasons, the union representing the janitors will sue us because having students clean violates our work contract with the janitors, it probably violates child-labor laws, and the media will eat us alive for all of the above reasons."

In the case of my neighborhood, we have a communal trash area, and there's a rotating roster for which household gets to handle cleaning that trash area for any given week.

I am heavily incentivized to ensure this area stays clean, as it is immediately in front of my house. :)

Even when I was living in a high-rise, where trash was handled by the building, we had a "floor coordinator" -- also a resident -- that handled a number of things, including emergency drills. The coordination of which was assigned to me after I slept through the first one, thus ensuring that I would not make that mistake again.
Great. Just great. This is days after I learned about the new Germany-wide deal with Microsoft for licensing their software and services, so it perfectly fuels my fears. Before, it was mostly just a volume license for Windows and Office, but now it's the full arsenal, M365, Teams, and, announced very proudly by our University, we'll be moving our Active Directory to the hybrid cloud. Every Student and Staff will automatically have their personal data deployed to the Azure cloud. Isn't that great? Finally Germany is working on tech incompet^Windependence!
What could go wrong?

I mean, they assured they'd form a working group with other Universities about remaining concerns regarding privacy issues in Windows 10 and planning to confront Microsoft about them. I guess Microsoft is shivering with fears and busy removing all telemetry right now.

Other great changes form this new deal are that Universities now have to pay a full Windows license for every employee, no matter how many hours they work; before you'd pay by how many full-time jobs all the employees would make up for. That means most Universities pay twice as much now. And did you know the new deal explicitly forbids remote access to any Windows machine under this license? You have to pay extra for that. What a strange coincidence regarding the current epidemic. Universities' legal departments are clueless whether this only applies to RDP, or alternative 3rd party tools as well (or rather whether this would hold up in court).

This is the first time the deal is made nation-wide, you'd think this puts our Universities in a better position, but we got fucked in every way possible.

I realize this is only marginally related with the original post, but 1) sorry, I just had to vent somewhere, this seemed just like the final straw, and 2) am I the weird one for seeing a problem in this trend? Universities were once driving innovation in technology, students were fiddling with emerging and expensive tech, but today we already have some Universities that don't even have their own datacenter anymore, everything is hosted elsewhere and maintained by contractors. Students access SaaS via a Browser. Walled gardens everywhere. This doesn't help.
You think that executives are forcing developers to come into the office so that they can play politics with their subordinates?
How exactly could this be done reliably? With shorts you have to commit to a timeframe for not only finding evidence to reject the claim but also for the news to break and convince other investors.

Meanwhile you can be targetted by financial actors that play your positions on the stock market, at times even disregarding the atual company behind it. Further you have to mind monetary policy. If faith in the stock suffers compared to other stock but the overall market just goes up and up, your shorts have a problem again.

Personally, I have no informed opinion on EmDrive, but I have been very pesimistic about companies in the past and I am about some right now. Still, I do not think that shorts are anything appropirate for me. I'd much rather buy competitior's stock than burn myself with shorts or waste hundreds of hours getting into the financial market that I could also use to create value in my actual job/profession
ala, he'd rather put is mouth where our eyeballs are.
No. Just use normal math books. If you are french i can recommend some.
Exactly, I feel the title should be more "Redefining what Google Maps® can be with new information". And as you noted, this app is not really a map.

Regardless of the semantic shift that there is probably no way to stop now, I'm hoping real maps will still be around, they are the best tool to give you spacial awareness at different scales.
Locals fought an oil spill with their own hair in Mauritius
What's the logic here? Why would the executive who made this decision get a promotion for this?
> SSNs are fine as IDs

No, they actually are NOT fine for ID or authentication. They contain no security features and if an attacker knows their victim's birth location can often determine the first set of digits of an SSN.

SSN are not fine as IDs.
Note that in contemporary usage, the term 'mass' without qualifier is normally understood as a reference to invariant mass (aka rest mass). Photons have energy, but no mass. They can be used for propulsion due to having nonzero momentum.
No, neither do I and neither do most people. The music is what matters. If you want to look at the album art, nothing is preventing you from simply finding the picture and staring at it.

What a stupid, meaningless thing to rant about and what a stupid meaningless thing to upvote on HN.
systemd is god now and he’s not benevolent. More lord cthulhu.
USB floppy disk drives are only any good at reading and writing 1.44mb disks. If you need a 720k disk for something like an Amiga/Atari ST they don't work IME (some people have claimed otherwise but I've never had any luck).

I keep an old Core Quad machine with a real floppy disk controller on it just for this reason. Windows XP / XP 64 and Linux are the only things that write to these drives properly (IIRC Windows versions after Vista don't control the floppy controller directly). I do have better options now for transferring files to these old machines.
Snitching on Phones That Snitch on You
Category Theory: Orders
Colon cancer will be blood tests and recurring colonoscopies. Standard offering fro everyone above, I think, 50 or 55 in germany. Earlier, if there is family history. In that case, you can start as early as 10 years before the age the close relaive was diagnosed. Which means my children will have their first tests aged 16. Pretty cool, because polyps are easy to remove, ideally before they become cancerous.
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You're going to have to walk me through this logic, because to me it reads as:

1. Alphabet Workers Union exists.

2. ???

3. Google is forced to return all its workers to in person work during a global pandemic.
Elect1 – The Electron Apps Unifier
Driving with low carbon emission can only mean driving with a speed that is (much) smaller then the allowed maximum speed outside of cities. E.g. 80km/h (or even 70) instead of the allowed 100km/h in Germany. This way I can reduce my fuel consumption by at least 30%.

With Google Maps driving and reaching the ETA is very stressful (and burns a lot of gas) as you often have to "max out" the speed limits. I guess the AI that is used is based on the average person that drives like this and/or does not care about the speed limits (which is the case here in Germany). And so I doubt that anything ecologically can come out of an AI that is based on the current state. To change something you would have to assist people how to reduce fuel consumption.

This would have many advantages: it would reduce stress and accidents (people would be less willing to overtake a 'slower' car) and the time of arrival would be only 2-4 minutes later on a 1 hour trip.
An irrational market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent
I love Sublime and how fast it is. I currently write all my code and my book[0] in it. I wish their focus is in plugins for some main languages to be more on par with Code. I don't really need anything else.

[0] https://deploymentfromscratch.com/
Surprisingly interesting read, I had never heard of this.
After 8 years - only the German ships where able to make it out under their own steam!
Yeah I think geostationary satellites are the only option for vans for the next 1 - 2 years at least.
Why a disabled feature that should just do nothing even if its pam module is loaded, infinitely loops on D-BUS access in its pam module?

Anyway, I reported it and it presumably got fixed. I wouldn't know, because systemd dev handling this didn't say a thing to me at all. Just closed the report after some seemingly not very related commits to what I saw in gdb.

I just dropped the pam module from config anyway, and I'm not willing to lose access to my cluster again just to try.

Not sure how distro fucked up in this case, when it's homed pam module going into infinite loop once in a while unpredictably blocking all processes that use pam naively, unless you mean that they fucked up by using systemd or pam at all.

Edit: lol, I read through systemd release notes and there's no mention of new huge systemd-homed pam module at all. But good I looked, they're moving pam config for systemd to /usr/lib/pam.d and systemd-home pam module is again enabled there. So I'll have to check again all my systems if it's really disabled after upgrade.
The Turing Quest – Using Artificial Intelligence to Make Work Better
I agree. I've been remoting working for most of the last decade and it's great from a work-life balance perspective, but I wouldn't recommend fully remote to any company.

In my experience part remote works much better, if not better than fully remote / fully office based. It's nice have a few days a week for in person meetings then some quiet time to get stuck into work at home.
April fools ?
A cert based DRM/copyright register?
IP over Avian Carriers for the win!
The best one so far: https://microconf.com/

patio11 hangs out there.
State of AI at the Dawn of 2021
If you are a prospective student, are you going to risk your future by using your college application to make a point about privacy?
There's a much, much better case for apartment buildings, but those increasingly can't be built in places people want to live, so I guess the US is going to have to figure out how to make the cheapest possible low-density detached housing. Trailers and RVs and other manner of tiny-house shantytowns fit that bill.

Shame there can't be population density growth in cities.
I've been to Japan and it's a wonderful place with many benefits. Very low crime, polite people, etc. The language is the only real problem.

The US, though, is vastly more heterogeneous. There are aspects that are far worse and aspects that are far better. And you can choose. There are infamous high-crime neighborhoods with gang problems; you don't have to live in them. Meanwhile want a job making very good money and with flexible hours and a boss that treats you like an equal? non-existent in Japan.
For everyone that’s expressing a view like “what a waste of time”, consider this. This hypothesis was by a respected scientist. The experiments have been done by lots of labs. There has been a reasonable position the skeptics have taken throughout. It still has taken a very long time of a bunch of smart people on how to build an experiment to rule these kinds of things out. That means theories have tighter bounds. Technology has been improved in the area which can have knock on beneficial educational and technological effects, etc. Being able to quickly and efficiently rule out hypotheses is a hallmark of the area that science shines in. Being able to say “no, definitely not” with very good certainty is a useful thing to this disciplines toolbelt. From that perspective it’s a pure win and worth any distraction on the scale of all human investment globally.
There is the Harvard CS50 class.

There are also millions of pages on things like python vs javascript, react vs angular . Developers have lots of opinions so you shouldn't find it too hard to find out why languages have different features.
How would that work, in the analogy?

Short the individual researchers? Research projects? Short private funding?

Scams like EmDrive (but there are countless others – "save the planet with X") may be amusing, as long as it's on someone else's dime. Live and let live.

But the minute they manage to convince enough people, whether by virtue or shady marketing, it becomes a political problem. And then it's your problem too, through taxation and "too big to fail", no matter your position. Shorting on the stock market gets you only so far, and only for entities that actually exist on the stock market.
People like to see payments going away. It gives them a sense of progress.

Unless you specify some fairly extreme numbers, the difference between the two strategies is pretty small. And, either strategy is better than staying in debt.
Yeah and the handovers are awkward. I haven't personally tried to conduct a conversation, but imagine that would be worse because the interchanges are more frequent, less predictable, and an important cue. But at 600ms, the cue is too late, so it won't work. I know that as theory, and wonder what the actual experience is like. Can people adjust, or is it unusable?

Would it be asking too much to expect an employee to keep in touch with work via videoconferencing regularly through geostationary satellite? Or is it bearable?
I personally don’t understand the claimed need for such high bandwidth for video calling and general business use.

My work laptop has forced software updates, so at the start of lockdown, to protect my home internet connection I hard capped it to 4Mbps in both directions at the switch. I’ve been having ~back-to-back Meet video calls all day for an entire year without exceeding this or having any problems.

I think the quality of the connection (consistency, upstream contention, jitter, packet loss) is probably far more important for most practical business applications (ie excluding HD Netflix, game downloads etc).
Game designers have been using an empirical categorization of players behavior for ages: Hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades

- Diamonds: achievers who collect all possible awards and treasures

- Spades: explorers who travel the game world and try everything in it

- Heart: people who engage in socialization

- Clubs: people who engage in competition

Note that these are more behaviors than phenotypes but most players have preferences among them.
What about those who don't?
Call my friends, have some beers in the sunshine, go home and put on some music. Relax and ponder.
I don't understand. I work remotely and regularly debug issues and brainstorm solutions with my teammates. Their physical proximity is not relevant. Clearly I am missing something.
Build ad-hoc mesh network using existing devices. Replace bgp with something automated.

Yggdrasil was a good idea. I think another one similar was Ouraborus.
Set up a corporation, employ yourself, and send invoices from the corporation to the people who wish you to perform services for them.

I've been doing this for over a dozen years. My customers don't need to have a single piece of my PII.

To be honest, the thought of sending even a single piece of my PII to a customer or vendor gives me the heebie-jeebies, given what we know about data breaches. I don't even let my personal services people handle my data in Google Apps until and unless I've shipped them a chromebook and walked them through setting up hardware 2FA and enabling Advanced Protection.

I'm waiting for a national bank chain or AmEx to get popped; thanks to the legally mandated total lack of financial privacy in the United States there's no way to insulate oneself from those vendors.
Because mathematics isn't the primary factor in getting out of debt, motivation is.

Achieving small goals keeps you focused and working on getting out of debt.

It's a lot easier to keep working if every couple of months you "hit a checkpoint" than if you're years with seemingly no progress
Takeaway from roughly skimming the article: the single pixel detector is a plasmonic nanoantenna, which seems to be tunable. This is placed behind a set of optical diffraction gratings that have been optimized to the task using machine learning and essentially transform the spatially encoded information in the input into a spectral encoding. Both the gratings to encode the information and the decoder have been designed using machine learning. There is no dynamic illumination and the imaged object is static in front of the optics. All of this was done in the THz range.
Lots!

Indiehackers has a very active forum.

There are also telegram communities like wip.chat (paid) or makerlog (free)
hybrid model, let your workers decide how they work as long they deliver.
I assumed this was an April fools. A friend asked if news was too bonkers for April fools to still be held. Guess he was right. Checked the date on the article multiple times.
> If they do then why don't they share it?

Sometimes its easier not to share. In a perfect world we'd be more transparent. If its an popular decision, discussion potentially fans the flames of disagreement and ill will. E.g. People take some small point of the rationale and blow it out of proportion for why this is bad etc, why it isn't relevant to them without seeing a bigger picture etc. I think we've all seen this. Sometimes its simpler and more efficient to say less.
Down since WFH? Or down since the pandemic? Both have an impact on mental health and thus productivity metrics, and it’s important to differentiate, because the pandemic won’t be around forever, but it started around the same time as mass WFH.
Everyone would start marrying and having families again.
It's more than just "appears", it's a confirmed april fools joke. If you click on the pre-order button, this text shows up:
> April Fools’! We’ll never restrict your ability to learn, grow, and share with this community. Copy/paste and prosper!
Wow, that page is spectacularly broken on Chrome mobile: it disables zoom so that I can't see the whole graph, and if I view it using 'Desktop version' the page becomes unresponsive due to either too much Javascript, or due to CSS hacking.
> I would love to understand programming languages on a more abstract level.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) - https://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/sicp.pdf

To find out more about the decisions on language features just read material from the language creators and core contributors.
Hardly. Extroverts just have an easier time getting heard.
I don't like his negativity towards Coinhive or similar miners.

> So, instead of serving ads you put a JavaScript based cryptominer on your victi... sorry - visitors - browsers then whilst they're sitting there reading your content, you're harvesting Monero coin on their machine.

I don't see how this is worse/more evil than ads though? At least the worst that a miner will do is consume some resources, where as conventional ads will consume resources + compromise the privacy of the victim.
>Cryptocurrency is a greater fools game of shuffling numbers around with cryptography under the delusion that this alchemy of entropy can generate progress and wealth — while in fact it does neither.

I think this misunderstands how bitcoin holders become wealthy. It works a bit like Van Gogh paintings - some guy produced something kind of cool but not worth much money at the start and then the reputation of the paintings increased and the price got bid up and now you'd say someone owning a $100m Van Gogh is wealthy. Similar with bitcoin - not worth much at the start, kinda cool, now worth a lot, you'd say someone with $100m in bitcoin was wealthy. Against that it needs 'greater fool' type buyers to buy your painting or coins but Van Goghs have held up well and I doubt in a century people will have forgotten cryptocurrencies or will see nothing special about having the original one.
An aspect of the low turnout in these referendums is Peurto Ricans choosing to boycott them. In this case, they don't necessarily mean that there is a lack of engagement.
CS50 is great but it isn't about programming languages.
There's a strong argument to be made that one risks their future in general by taking on the substantial debt usually involved in attending a US university. There are worse things one can do with regards to their future than keeping their private data private.
True, but where do you see demand dropping off? I would actually assume demand will go up even more, since the economy was slowed down due to the pandemic.
Interesting analogy, but the pessimistic view does not bring any progress. The optimistic view may often be wrong, but when it is actually right, it makes our civilization progress.

Not so long ago, the experts knew and said it was impossible to land and reuse a rocket.
i liked screen until tmux came along. now i had a nice and readable config file and a BSD quality man page.