skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an apple buyer. Siri is terrible. Google assistant is pretty impressive. I would switch BUT - google's integration / support for things like work calendars is so terrible, and their response to consumer / user input so bad (ie, ignored despite #1 request for years and years) that I'm like most Apple users.

Apple (and Amazon) get many things right, and actually seem to pay a tiny bit of attention to user needs. So it's really not worth playing with the google stuff because you end up in these weird nonsensical hells - everything is amazing, and then they just drop the ball in a key corner.

For example, my google work calendar is EASY to integrate with Alexa along with my personal calendar. Fantastic, what's my schedule today works great. Google - falls flat on its' face for this, despite being a paying customer of their Gsuite. Their approach is just full of excuses here, and ignores that this desired interaction works well on their COMPETITORS devices but not theirs.

Just one (of many) examples. They have some sort of eventually consistent backend more often for stuff so you also get weird states that you can't delete things, changes take longer to "flow through" etc.
> But that problem only occurs 3 weeks out of an entire year.

Which is, of course, when you're statistically the most likely to be traveling.

And the fact that a ticket is valid the whole day doesn't help much when your flight is delayed overnight or by a day.

Some people tend to travel precisely when others are not, and might not run into this problem, seems like that might be your case. Other people travel precisely when others are too, and will run into it all the time. As far as China, every hard sleeper I ever took was sold out in advance, zero holidays.

As far as I can tell, you're entirely confirming what I'm saying.
Ah - damn. Was one of the few apps I never regretted spending money for on my phone. Must've been fun to work on while it lasted though! Do you have any interesting anecdotes from developing such an influential app that you can talk about?
It’s not an empirical statement but if you wanted to treat it as such you could look at the churn, how long people stay in the new location, broken out by earnings delta and education level. The extent to which people chase money or lack ambition is increasingly correlated with geography, to the detriment of humanity IMO. The other side of the coin is persistent poverty and social problems for the less ambitious/greedy.
All the evidence we have public is that Minsky was innocent. He wasn’t even accused of doing anything bad.

The victim stated Epstein asked her to proposition Minsky, but she did not say he accepted.

Stallman’s defense was a hypothetical that probably would have been very similar to a courtroom defense of Minsky, that said since Minsky is both dead and not actually accused of the crime, no such courtroom scene would ever take place.
Nvidia Enters the Arms Race with Homegrown “Grace” CPUs
He's mistreated many FSF staff members, many LibrePlanet attendees, many GNU project contributors, etc. The fact that the public discourse is focused on the Epstein-related comments does RMS and the FSF a huge favor by pointing the spotlight away from the real issue which has been happening for decades.
Indeed we all have met them, they are usually to be found in Steering Councils while pretending to be noble and good.
I was shocked reading your comment - how could you know about an incident that I thought only 2-3 people witnessed, an event where I was present but few other people were?

Then I googled it, and it turns out that you are likely referring to a larger, different event where I was not present.

It seems like he did this a lot, then? He definitely harassed a young woman at an event I organized, and did a 1-1 version of this emacs virgin thing directly 'at' her. It was weird, creepy and I did my best to deal with the situation and help the audience member feel more welcome at the event after the harassment. She was visibly upset and very uncomfortable in the moments after he said it. It happened before a talk he was scheduled to give, as the audience was arriving and sitting down.

Had no idea that this wasn't the only time it happened. Didn't know there were other instances.
Things I never liked - spending hours debugging WINE issues or browsing the wine compatibility website trying to get things to work to play a video game, which I'm already using to get away from doing tedious work.
Hopefully the targeted entity could prove that they had the number in their possession for longer than your encrypted data existed, but this is an interesting question.

It seems like it's logically or legally equivalent to setting your password to someone else's date of birth and then claiming that they have hacked you because they know your password.
I appreciate the perspective.

> Having said that, most of my music is on MP3s, but the idea that referring to them via some block chain crap will give them "value" is just silly.

I think the point here is that verifying ownership of digital goods is hard, because they are so easily reproduced identically. Blockchain technology and NFTs are one way to solve this problem because it allows you to have a verifiable chain of ownership which cannot be modified or faked. (ie. if a music release was as simple as the artist distributing an MP3 to 10 people, it would be impossible to tell who actually owned the "original" MP3).

Is it unreasonable to think that in 50 years, someone might look back at the limited digital release they got of their favourite album as fondly as you look back on your Live Dead record, and then pass that digital ownership down to their next of kin? It's a concept that's been explored time and time again physically but seems weirdly uncharted for anything digital.
It’s not particularly interesting and almost certainly not viable as a useful method of compression. It’s essentially just using pi as a pseudo-random number generator and encoding the desired message as an index into the output sequence of the PRNG. If it sounds slightly more interesting than that, it’s probably only because pi has a lot of mystique around it in popular culture.
Ordnance literally means artillery; shells and bullets :)
I mean, I'm not browsing in full-screen mode. Just used that to easily hide private stuff like the bookmarks bar and other tabs.

Full-width browsing: It's generally surprisingly good. The vast majority of sites have learned to use margins and to center content.

And sure, when actually doing work you want to tile your windows just the right way.
> I would call that BS. Nobody is "flawlessly omniscient" about anything, not even in mathematics, yet we design and build systems that work.

And such systems typically use synthetic keys to completely dodge the kind of problems I outlined.

The problems with natural keys are that you, the programmer, don't know as much as you think you know. You muddle the problem domain with the solution domain and when something comes along in the problem domain you didn't think of, it's now much harder to fix.

> On the other hand, yes, it is a very good requirement to have someone on the team during database modeling who understands the domain model thoroughly. No UUID columns will save you from that.

They save you from having to work out how to store a record when you chose SSN as primary key and discover that, uh, no you can't do that. The same goes for purchase order numbers, waybill numbers, student IDs, payroll IDs, bank account numbers, license plates ... anything whatsoever that is visible in the problem domain will or will have exceptions you didn't know about, didn't foresee and for which legislation or policy allows no exception for not using a UUID column.
> for MacOS as a guest OS (as otherwise the user interface is really slow)

Is this something specific to proxmox or non-mac hosted virtualization? I ask because I regularly run MacOS without GPU passthrough without any UI slowdowns at all. In fact, at one point I ran macOS in a VM as the primary UI on my MacBook for several years..
The most surprising thing may be that people are surprised.
Sounds like graphQL
On Science Preprints: academic publishing takes a quantum leap into the present
Doesn't seem much different than Auger
FBI arrest man over alleged Amazon centre bomb plot
No, it's what ideology does to people. It makes us value abstract ideas over real persons. It's all based on ideas of purity and that impure people are somehow deserving of cancellation. If you side with "impure" persons, or even if you don't condemn them strongly enough, you're becoming impure yourself, that is their logic.

And for all this interest in purity they don't actually care about the people, their work, their aspirations, only that they obey the ideology.
Nvidia debuts Grace, its first data center CPU for advanced AI workloads
That sounds like a dream job.
It depends on the country. In some countries, governments have chosen to relax restrictions or avoid tightening them further, precisely because the general public was so blatantly flaunting them – refusing to wear masks, not social distancing, etc. If this involves enough of the general public, than a pro-restriction government risks losing the next election. Obviously COVID doesn’t go away then, but it could be that both government and society simply accept higher mortality.
I have to admit, the idea of a run-of-the-mill security-hole-ridden IoT device being exposed to the bare internet over a wireless connection that's out of my control gives me the heebie-jeebies... and that's ignoring the possibilities for malicious use (e.g. using a low powered wireless connection for uncontrollable surveillance/data collection).
NVIDIA announces GRACE CPU
You're still acting like you think your personal concept of rationality is some objective truth.
I think you can still get it if you look into your past purchses on google play, and I think last year I even managed to somehow download language packs for the multi-language support, indicating that the servers that host those are still up in some form?

EDIT: Yep- Just checked and downloaded the app & the german language pack successfully, will be fun swiping again. Neither swiftkey or gboard could replicate how good swype used to do it.
Any thoughts on where to find these?
what do you like about it? (disclaimer, i work at temporal, but just genuinely interested in how you'd describe it in your words, good or bad lets hear it)
Cap and PACELC theorems in plain English
> you can easily workaround it by always keeping powershell process pool ready in the background (1 or 2 suspended instances until you use them).

This is a pretty absurd take when the discussion is about alternative shells for writing scripts. Shell scripts are everywhere. A fairly heavily used UNIX box might easily execute hundreds of shell scripts every minute. A startup time of several seconds makes it completely unusable.
This cuts both ways. In music particularly, inexperienced acts may not have much choice in producer, and production can radically change things. Sometimes what you hear later is the artists own voice, for good or for ill. Possible example, strings arrangements on Tom Waits early albums.
Who remembers Intel Light Peak from 2009? They switched from silicon photonics to copper and it became Thunderbolt in 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)#Introd...
Which model did you go with?
Mr Graham writes "You would think, after having been on the side of labor in its fight with capital for almost two centuries, that the far left would be happy that labor has finally prevailed. "

Unfortunately Mr. Graham has an outdated view about the "far left". I recommend anyone interested in what a modern "far left" looks like learn about Richard Wolff and the Democracy at Work movement. A startup in a garage where everyone is an owner building great stuff is pretty much it.

He did a Google Talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynbgMKclWWc
Python interview questions. Part II. Middle
I didn't know about .memory, .trace() and .assert(), all of which are very helpful. Up till now, I've had to add a try-throw-catch to get a stack trace and be able to follow synchronous execution flow leading up to a given function call, but console.trace will do that for me, so yay.
Cheap LoRa chips are finally hitting the market for long enough that ecosystems can grow around them. As an example, for Radio Control vehicles (planes, drones, cars) there have been 3 different systems released over the past year or so, and now an open source system called ExpressLRS which is gaining traction.
The Mismatched Economy
Rust-like Result type for Python
is that stuff like Presto?
It wasn't until Columbus came along that they finally bothered to move us from the "flat" default starter server to the spherical one.
You're right.

They've been abusing their position and power for years now and the Edge situation with Windows 10 is getting much worse after the Chromium update. They force you to use the said browser with some features, like when you use the search function it automatically opens Edge browser, even if you have another browser set as default. What's next? Removing the option to set defaults for browsers?

It's one of the reasons I'm willing to buy a MacBook next...
Wouldn't you say the "right to be forgotten" includes deleting the weights and biases that have been accumulated for a person?
I don't think that the top 100 richest people is a good dataset. You can be extremely rich without making it anywhere near that list.

While a lot of those top 100 people made it to that list by starting companies, I'm curious how many of them did so by leveraging family or inherited wealth.
Artists want to be paid proportional to impact; how many people are interacting with the work. I'd love to move to a world where media is funded in advance (regardless of effort) and then released for free, but I don't think that pricing music based on effort, as though it were a factory good is desirable.
I wonder if it really is easier than ever for the bottom 95% of US citizens (or bottom 95% of the developed western countries) to become rich by starting a business these days.
I don't understand why you're getting downvotes.
Thank you for acknowledging that there are a lot of our mental lives that is not primarily under the control of our reason. I think it opens the discussion to the spectrum of individual psychological variability. A much needed discussion as apparently some people can't fathom how other persons could differ from how they themselves function.
> Is there anything competent he has done post-2000 or so?

While you may not care about it, GPLv3.
RMS does not call for that and it isn't necessary. He acknowledges his own tone-deafness. Plus, people understand editorials like those are interpretations of words. If you want the facts you look at the original source material and decide for yourself.
This bit is pure genius:

He has sincere regrets, especially at how anger toward him personally has negatively impacted the reputation and mission of FSF.
Mostly I'll grant the GNU Project and the GPL and associated philosophical underpinning. Whether you favor copyleft or not, it has almost certainly been useful to have that basis for FOSS--given that the permissive licenses were mostly about pragmatism. Having said that, one of my lawyer friends has pondered whether the FSF's focus on licensing as the primary software freedom tool hasn't led to some of the licensing debates going on today.
The GraphBLAS[1] is an amazing API and mathematical framework for building parallel graph algorithms using sparse matrix multiplication in the language of Linear Algebra.

There are Python and and MATLAB bindings, in fact MATLAB 2021a now uses SuiteSparse:GraphBLAS for sparse matrix multiplication (A*B) built-in.

[1] https://graphblas.github.io/
I think Bitcoin is genuinely exciting. I know it's not exactly "under-the-radar", but a lot of the discussion on HN is unfortunately only related to the price. It's a bit of a shame, but I can understand it's hard to see through the noise sometimes.

The fact that there isn't more discussion around the cryptography, networking, etc. suggests to me that many are still unfamiliar with the power of the underlying technology.
Based on my personal experience, since 2008 more and more companies are about showing somebody that you are "doing something" with their money. It could be the VCs, it could be the EU grants, it could be the stockholders, but that's the business model you get with the abundance of capital and low interest rates.
Rewriting a Pastebin clone in Next.js in 6 hours
It's a stage 2 proposal, which technically can be used today via babel[0] (though personally, I don't recommend using stuff below stage 4)

[0] https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-plugin-proposal-throw-expre...
Tracking down the original server that Yahoo was hosted on before it was Yahoo
I don't think these are really under the radar. We have Hue. We also have other apps that act as data hubs, but are slightly more constrained.
> he is literally the only human completely implacable

Not only is this assuredly false, but it's also the last thing we need in a position of leadership or even as a consultant.

Understanding nuances is paramount for these positions.
> Subsequently, how can the passive investor possibly match market returns without w being 0, or the passive investor knowing exactly how the active investors will allocate their holdings? That information lies in the future - one only needs to go though the exercise of simulating market returns on a discrete time basis to realize that the passive investor cannot possibly allocate to achieve exactly market returns.

Because all he has to do is do absolutely nothing and he achieves that. The passive investor doesn't make choices, he buys a portfolio that has all the components of the index in the proportions at that point. Then the active traders trade among themselves and the prices move. And now the passive investor still holds all the components in the index at the proportions at t=2 because he hasn't traded, only the assets have changed value. You can observe this in practice. Index funds track their index incredibly well.
Neither of those things will happen.

We would be better off if we could remove those dishonest people from our communities here and elsewhere.

Dishonest reporting, and amplifying of dishonest posts on social media is not something you will ever get an apology for, because those efforts were never meant to survive scrutiny. They were meant to create "pressure" to cause reputational damage.

You cannot convince or engage bad-faith actors. All you can do is identify and eliminate them from your social media circles and sites as best you can.

This is one of the reasons I believe social media sites should enact age-based voting. Such that older accounts that have withstood the reputational scrutiny, have greater influence.
I've generally gone with Philips 40-43 inch displays. I'm on my third one because of office moves etc. They keep changing the models, but they only have one in this size at a time.

Edit: The one I'm currently using is still on sale: BDM4350UC.
To solve the wide-screen, narrow text problem, I once threw together a demo with a hacked up Chromium/WebKit to create a flowing, multi column view mode that created a long virtual scroll surface and scrolled it like newspaper columns: https://vimeo.com/59463521.

It wasn't super intuitive, but wish a modern browser had this.
The average duration that a person holds a mortgage and the duration of that mortgage may be wildly different - and I think they are in this case.
Of course not. The type of foods you eat affects how many calories you eat so the diets won't be equicaloric.
It's hard to take this article seriously. People get rich now from companies because multiples have been artificially pushed higher by low interest rates.

If that weren't the case, the top 100 would still likely be dominated by heirs.

All that's changed is the Fed is manipulating the market more now than before, and that's benefiting growth stocks and fund managers of growth stocks... among other things.
I mean it will be both, but I guess you're correct that the reverse effect will be larger.
> giant middle finger as well to the company.

How dare the people who supported, developed, and promoted a young performer get a return on their investment.
The lesson for me is that this particular problem is exceptionally well suited for imperative code, and makes functional code look terrible in comparison.

This is the case for 80% of real world code in IME.
Really hope not, Ubuntu is like a beacon in the Linux world, no matter if you like it or not. Microsoft purchasing Ubuntu would mean the end of Linux desktop...
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Curiously, our insights indicate not many people even managed to discover/click on the pages that display our unique KOIs etc. Pasted below for easy access - but please do expand the accordions to see the product in action!

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Seems like it, for the simple reason that the infrastructure and process for an average person becoming rich is in place now in a way it wasn't in the 80s. For example there are startup incubators, VCs and general startup culture.
Bandwidth isn't the reason photonics matter (IMO). The reason they matter is because they eliminate cross talk. That can mean more densely packed transistors and less data lines.
plenty open-source options are available. Checkout https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo
Rite of passage for every web developer. The moment when you realize this is the moment when the universe makes sense again... after long hours of total confusion.
Optimal line length is ~75 characters which actually makes this layout "modern" again!
I've used Presto within Hue. I'm not sure if Presto is, but I know Hue is.
The policies and paywalls of Elsevier and many other commercial scientific journals do impede the progress of science. One way to improve things over current practice would be for authors to only cite works published in open access journals.
I wish he had listed his classifications. I'm looking at the list now and all I see are tech monopolies, hired C-level names, inheritance, and financiers. A bit different picture than the pro-scrappy-startup narrative Paul has been pushing for over a decade.
Seriously this. Depending on your baby’s sleeping habits and how they line up with yours, you may be in a fog for the next 2+ years. And babies will take up any free time you’re willing to give them. Now is a good time to coast if you can.
I didn't demand anything. I contributed my story to a decision that I along with the rest of the community will make democratically.
I think it would be fairer to say that RMS needs to introspect, because the way his brain works, all those little things which seem to be automatic for other people require constant conscious effort.

I sometimes feel the same way; that in order to not cause disruption in social situations, I need to engage my conscious brain at 100% and monitor my actions (and other people's) because if I don't, I might communicate something in a way that another person will misinterpret and which then leads to trouble. If I act abrasive or negative, it is not by choice.
Wouldn’t that just be “the left” with “the far left” reserved for MAP (minor attracted persons gag), ANTIFA, weather underground, etc type organizations that have their hopes invested in the left but see no support from the actual party.