skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally there's nothing I could add that would fix this, it has to be scrapped. Financial equality is not about making everyone poorer (more realistically it just makes a small group poorer), and also labour becoming less valuable is a consequence that can simply be fixed by distributing wealth to those who lost their jobs, not by trying to force labour to become more valuable.
The pebble time has a display like an old Game Boy Color
3 hours is just long-ish? I'd classify that as a very long wait.
Australia opens travel bubble with New Zealand
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This was the main inspiration! I noticed they don’t update too frequently, and I was mostly interested in engineering specific positions + startups which they have less of overall
Hi, Andium here. Definitely understand the skepticism about our work with the oil and gas industry and its impact on climate change. The high level is that the world doesn't know whether society has reached peak oil. Even if it has, oil consumption will continue to be a major contributor to planet warming gases (CO2 and CO2 equivalents) for decades to come. While regulation plays catch up and alternative energy usage continues to ramp up over the coming decades (something we support fully), we're working to reduce the carbon footprint of the oil and gas industry today. Our flare monitoring product in particular (https://andium.com/products/andium-flare-tracking) addresses the venting of methane at upstream wells, an issue that is gaining increasing regulatory traction in the US.

- https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/biden-admins-me...

- https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2021/03/26/environmental-advoc...
Not in Julia.
Many of the jobs on the 80,000 hours board actually seem quite evil:

"Research Scientist, AI. Facebook"

"Data Scientist, Technology and Resource Investment Decision-making. US Government, Central Intelligence Agency"

"Deep Learning Researcher, Computer Vision Algorithms. Baidu"
Really? How many people are hospitalized each year due to the common cold?
In person conversations are to preserve plausible deniability, presuming they are not being recorded. I am only going to say things I want a transcript of over electronic mediums. CEOs do the same thing, and it is partly why being located in certain dense cities is so valuable.
Perfect in at least 3 separate places for my current project, a multiplayer audio sequencing/synthesis environment. Thank you
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Yeah, good point. Can't trust those damn yankees.

It's probably something where the government wanted to stop this deal for a number of reasons, and "national security" was the easiest justification where they already had a legal apparatus in place for doing so.
Good call, thanks for the feedback
> Just because it doesn't happen as often in other wealthier western countries doesn't mean it only happens in the US.

Ok, but you're looking at the rank #1 member of a power law distribution.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/

> Moreover, statistically it's still very rare despite the increase in sensationalized media coverage.

Police killings are just the tip of the spear. The US also locks up an enormous swath of its population... comparable to El Salvador, Turkmenistan, Rawanda... even 2x the rate of the country we're told is so dangerously authoritarian: Iran.
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> I suspect after that it will be tucked under the rover

There's no mechanism to reattach ingenuity to the rover.
Setup Java development environment on Windows 10 using WSL2
Here is the notebook code in Deepnote if anyone wants to play with it: https://deepnote.com/project/JupyterNotes-zXwE7yVJSLeJx4aNp3...
> I haven't tried numba but I've heard good things about it! Nice linked tutorial. If I understand correctly, you pass in jitted functions (using numba, and jax) into iminuit which does the optimisation?

Yes, you can just pass the function and it runs the optimization, in severe cases, you can start by doing a grid `.scan` or `.simplex` (Nelder-Mead simplex method), then `migrad` to minimize, and `.hesse` for 1 sigma bound.

You can also provide a gradient function that, well computes the gradient instead of computing it numerically.

> I imagine you can also do this in numba

Yes! It compiles to native code.

> Another big speedup in Jax is due to vmap/pmap, which allow to vectorise/parallelise computation.

It's possible to compile some vmapped functions with numba too, if the link is any indication, you may see even greater speedup than just jax.grad

However, I do concur that jax's vmap is absolutely fantastic and I found it very useful on many occasions.
About two years ago (before I switched from Python to Julia), I was in the same boat as you. What I concluded was:

1) Calling into an actual static language like C or Rust is the best option. You get maximal performance and all the benefits of the static language. The downside is that you need to learn another language, and manage both languages in your project, including setup and compilation of the static language etc.

2) Cython is easiest for small-scale projects, since it integrates very well with Python, and you can learn it incrementally. But I found it annoying to work with - it felt like half a language that fell between Python and a proper static language. I ended up using Cython in the end, but I wasn't happy with it.

3) Numba looks interesting and promising. At least 2 years ago, it was too brittle and had too many situations where it didn't work or didn't give noticable speedups. I'm sure they improved it since then. I would definitely take a look.

You can always just learn Julia of course and have this entire problem of "my high-level language is too slow" completely disappear ;)
If the US and UK have the most open policies, it certainly doesn't show up in the statistics. Both have fewer foreign-born residents than is average for their region (North America and Western Europe respectively)[1].

And I don't think it's bigotry to point out that a central notion of Brexit and Trumpist nationalism is the belief that their respective countries have accepted far more immigrants than other countries. I'm more familiar with Brexitism - where xenophobic images and messages concerning immigrants were used liberally during the campaign.[2]

Of course, it's possible that the US and UK have the most open immigration policies but then, to explain why they have proportionally fewer immigrants than their neighbours, this would require that they are less welcoming or desirable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-...
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Plenty of studies linked, but never a study to show that masks have any impact. Does a single RCT exist that shows masks in gen. pop. reduce transmission? I know the Danish study showed they didn't for covid. There's also a meta analysis published by CDC in may 2020 that showed across 14 RCTs none found masks effective at reducing flu transmission.

So until we can show masks work under some condition I find it reasonable that no mandate should exist at all.
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No, there is always xmpp. Matrix is just an app, and we need a federated protocol. I think that Matrix will never have an alternative server implementation made by a competing party, which makes it's main selling point void.
Last time I tried to do this same thing, I didn't know about these, and ended up spending a couple days on wget and httrack. Do all these alternatives work from the command line, or are they their own little proprietary ecosystem?
> Coincidentally there are no commonly used scales or modes with two consecutive semitones.

It's common in Bebop to add a passing tone to otherwise heptatonic scales. Consecutive semitones are also a common feature in blues.
How is it political? What politics are even involved? This very much is a personal issue with Stallman. His objectionable behavior isn’t tied to political beliefs, it’s tied to an individual’s moral and social failings.
UK government intervenes in Nvidia takeover of chip designer ARM
Have you seen the foreign policies of Japan vs. the US? Japan is entirely more reliable than the US where the foreign policies can change at a whim every four years.
You think espionnage, I think a key IP asset.

ARM is a piece of infrastructure now, and dangerous in the hands of NVidia for other reasons than spying. Mostly economical. And yes, that's also national security.
Christopher Tarnovsky has given a few DEF CON and BlackHat talks (eg [1]) where he describes reverse-engineering Trusted Platform Module(TPM) and smartcard chips. It's a good demo on the capabilities of the sort of thing where companies are limited only by the time they can afford to take.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_9p7E4jIE
Linux Distros for Noobs to Pros
Do you have a suggestion? I feel like the last time I looked into laser cutting, it was either SEOd hits that were crazy expensive or shops that looked dodgy. Nothing in-between.
I'm sorry, but we are constantly told what a wonderful effect immigration has on economic growth. Sergey Brin, Elon Musk, and so many more billionaires are immigrants, and there's no lack of articles telling us so [1,2]. If we apply the same logic, China's smaller economy would need even more immigration than that of the US.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/10/05/a...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/immigrant-billionaires-unite...
allowlist and blocklist are clearer regardless
> Compared to the US, which despite its bureaucratic pitfalls and inefficiencies grants over 1 million green cards annually:

Which mostly go to people in the very, very, very long backlog.
Japan had magic mushroom vending machines until they were banned in 2002. The Japanese were concerned about what image they display to the world ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2002, which led to this ban.

Many different explanations are possible, but I do wonder whether there is any connection to their increased rates of depression after 2000. Antidepressants were not accepted in Japan for long time.

To verify it would be good to see some statistics on their usage prior to that. Checking out Super Marios game mechanics, it seems they were in the nations discourse at least ;)
Musician here—strictly speaking, music itself isn't necessary. Armed with that knowledge, you should produce any combinations of sounds that please you.
Glide (YC W19) is hiring coders to let non-coders build software
I'm somewhat surprised by HNs support of this.

I can see a future where Nvidia buys ARM, becomes more hostile to licensees, and the door is left open for something like RISC-V to gain more market relevance.
I don't know near enough about Nvidia or ARM as organizations to justify why I don't like this purchase. I just see two big names being consolidated yet again and I don't like it. Even when the buyer isn't directly competing with the organization they're acquiring, they could be.
One Laptop Per Child laptop also developed transflective displays for the laptop, which could switch between backlit color mode and sunlight-readable monochrome mode.

In practice, mono mode was just barely readable in bright sunlight, and the colour mode was a grainy mess for anything with fine detail due to the lack of true RGB pixels[1]. I knew someone who had one of those --- it was more of a cute toy than anything actually useful, and that was at the time when tiny "netbooks" were still common.

[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Display
This is the first time I heard of the Nashville number system - what's the difference to Roman Numeral Analysis? Is it essentially the same concept, but with Arabic numerals instead?
Socialism has nothing to do with RMS’ disgusting behavior. The tide is turning in that people won’t accept this from the old guard anymore. It has nothing to do with political philosophy.
How Tech Loses Out over at Companies, Countries and Continents
UK intervenes in Nvidia's takeover of ARM on security grounds
What are the bands and allowances though? I moved from the UK to Finland - I was in the 40% bracket, but now I'm 'only' in the mid twenties (plus about 8% insurances / pension) - but in the UK the first 11K is 0 rated, whereas Finland gives you nothing.
I am trying to get mine started and I'm just going with WordPress, huge existing ecosystem, and works out of the box with minimal setup on my part.
Scales and Chords are broadly speaking just a way of neatly-ish categorizing sounds and moods. This is true of both most classical music and jazz, for example, but Jazz in particular has a very practical relationship with scales.

One of the personality tests of an improviser is how you think about the music - do you think vertically (in the chord), horizontally (in the mode), for example.
Internal Platforms. Isn't Kubernetes Enough?
I like i3/sway on small screens, but on my large 4k screen all the windows are too big, too much white space. For me, the tiling paradigm does not work with big monitors. Linux on the whole doesn't work well with 4K. I don't know what the solution is, I just want 150% UI scaling like windows.
It seems to me to get the attack going the attackers needed to accomplish 2 things (at least):

1. Get the source-code of SolarWinds.Orion.Core.BusinessLayer.dll so they could know how to modify it

2. Get their modified source OR modified compiled DLL somehow into the build-pipeline at SolarWinds.

If SolarWinds could have prevented either of these two things from happening this attack would not have worked. Am I correct?
> What's the point of being able to design CPUs if we can't make them? We certainly don't have defence independence at all.

If you needed them for defence I'm sure you could set up a fab on older process nodes fairly fast. A tank consumes and generates so much power for moving that it doesn't matter if the CPUs in it will last only 2 hours in a cell phone...
> And a lot of places that were equipped with them in the 1980s still had them in the late 1990s

Many UK rail stations had them into the early to mid 00s. If I'm not misremembering, the boards at London Kings Cross were not moved to different tech until at least 2005. Manchester Piccadilly had them replaced around 2001 (at the time I was passing through there a fair bit, travelling between York & North Wales).
Seriously. The Google Search console is hardcoded to display graphs with the time axis like 4/3/21 4/8/21 4/13/21 and I always need to stare at them a while to tell what sort of timeframe I am looking at. The same issue is present on so many Google products. Groups is especially bad because I find an old message with a date like 3/12/8 and have absolutely no idea when it is from.
Because an enormous swath of its population is dangerous, unfortunately. The only way in recent history the US managed to lower its violent crime rate was by locking up more people via the 1994 crime bill, which is now panned as "racist". America has an underincarceration problem, and is seeing double to triple digit increases in murder over the past year following bail reform and prosecutorial discretion putting more future recidivists into the streets instead of jail.
As a kid I dismissed the piano because nobody explained to me why the keyboard was so stupid looking, laid out so irregularly. WbWbWWbWbWW. Wot?
Only some self-education (much later) revealed that 12 tones per octave deliver some excellent harmonies, not 11 or 13 or 20 or 36 or whatever. Twelve. But the harmonies come only on odd steps. So we have 5 semitones to a perfect fourth (4:3 harmony), then two semitones to a perfect fifth (3:2 harmony), then 5 semitones to the octave.
And then - just to keep it confusing - we have to split both of those groups of five semitones, so... we arbitrarily split them as 2-2-1 (i.e. WbWbWW keys). Thus the white/black keyboard pattern, starting at C, of WbWbWWbWbWW.
If only someone had explained all this in grade school.
AFAICT at this point it's basically just Facebook projects (since they use it internally) and some older libraries that pre-date TypeScript popularity. I'm not sure there is much reason to choose Flow over TypeScript for a new project in 2021.
If you have an iPhone or iPad, have you played around with Siri shortcuts at all? You can essentially create voice-operated scripts that can perform chains of actions on your phone. It's limited, but not as limited as you'd think.
Tech Ingredients is another good one with nice, long videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/TechIngredients
The Nothings Suite
In essence, the argument is that when half of the population die, leaving their possessions, then inequality reduces. It's not surprising.

But to prove that there is a strong correlation we need to show that peacetime leads to greater inequality. And I don't think it's true.
You say, "Real, digital bank notes" but really, they are just numbers that you can write down if you want. That number is worthless unless you do the digital transfer (ie telling bank/service to do something). Realistically, it is no different. I can do all of this stuff with a bank, and person to person transfers are easy where I'm at. You are still interacting with a company or government to move your money around - and doing the same if you are receiving money. It doesn't really matter that it isn't your bank, even if you hate your bank. You have to do this even if you pay cash for a piece of used furniture: Most employers do not pay in cash.

The only real benefit to this system is that it would probably be run by a government agency and as such, would theoretically make it available to everyone. This would reduce the cost of being unbanked in the US and probably improve lives. Honestly, though, you could just make basic banking available for everyone so they can get paid, pay bills online, and shop easily - it'd likely prove to be more cost effective.
I was recently in France and was told by a local this was actually an issue with the covid outbreak. There is a department that decides on the gender of new words and they determined covid (or some variant on that) to be feminine.
Not sure how you look at charts like this and not see that is is a rather unique issue to one country

https://static.prisonpolicy.org/images/policekillings_rates....
These kind of buildings are unfortunately a trend currently.
So amazing! Congrulations!
Another really useful thing to have is a programmable load[1]. It's sort of the inverse of a power supply... it's a power sink that you can control. It's really handy to dial up a constant current setting and plug in a power supply that is under test, and observe how it behaves. They're good for testing batteries, solar panels, and most power supply related things.

One example that I'm familiar with (it's what I use on my bench at home) is the Rigol DL3021A[2]. There are a lot of choices out there though, spanning a wide range of price / capability / power handling points.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_load

[2]: https://www.rigolna.com/products/dc-power-loads/dl3000/
Does anyone know about something like this for Vue and Svelte? :)
Does that line have any source pre-Contact? I love that scene, just curious if that script was original and I can't find any earlier references.
There are almost certainly multiple factors involved. One thing to keep in mind is that the seasonal nature of coronavirus near the equator is very different from farther north with a double hump at the start and end of summer being the usual. It is possible that whatever people are doing and whatever mutations have occurred that some natural factor that we do not understand is contributing.
Thanks, not one I'd encountered.
Not when you use language like, "I've kissed four guys in the past year."

If I had to try to nail down when it is and isn't inclusive, I would say that when it is used in the second-person, where a speaker is directly addressing a group, it is the most likely to be gender-neutral: "Do you guys like this idea? Can I get you guys anything?"

When it is used in a first- or third-person perspective, it's less likely to be used in a gender-neutral way. "I know some guys who work there" tends to be used only if you're talking about men. If you're talking about women only or a mixed group, it's more common to say, "I know some women who work there" or "I know some people who work there."
There were no “wrongful accusations”. RMS did all of the stuff people are upset about. It’s not fabricated.
Also, I don't know why you would want your electronics exposed to direct sunlight... Heat is not good for electronics.

Also UV. It'll destroy plastics rather quickly.
They do, in the form of taxes on gasoline. (Whether the government uses that tax revenue to address those issues is another question)
You have the causality backwards though. It isn't saying most objects emit quantized overtones. But if you hear quantized overtones, there's a very good chance they are from the same source.

It's not just strings, either. Drum heads have varying degrees of quantized modes.
Can I create a pointer to a pointer?
> I’d personally prefer to see them concerned about irrational costs of higher education in US.

Quite rational. For Chinese to have a kid a chance on settling in the US, their prices are a joke.

For the while the investment immigration to US was working, the price was in many million dollars. $100,000 to move to US in a few years, + a degree for your kid is a much better deal.
Let flow die already.
It's also ambiguous. Why is 127.1 equal to 127.0.0.1 but not 127.1.0.0? Why would 127.1.1 be equal to 127.1.0.1 but not 127.0.1.1 or 127.1.1.0? Neither of those addresses can be discarded because they're base addresses, since the subnet 127/8 only has one base address: 127.0.0.0

At least IPv6 made this practice non-ambiguous by requiring a double colon (::) and mandating that at most one :: can exist in a valid address.
For people as confused as I was about the above link - after spending 5 minutes trying to figure out why visiting it gives me a 404 page, I eventually got out my phone and tried pushing that link to Android activity system, and then I discovered: it's meant to be wa.me/[an actual phone number goes here] - like wa.me/12345678912345.

Not great indeed.
As far as I know, no. I suspect that it wasn't just them.
Especially since hung is not about hangings. The past tense of that is hanged.
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Also the MS Excel simulator Easter egg.
the difference in your list is minimal: the UK and US are within 2% of the first large/medium sized country on the list (Germany)
It’s not slander if it’s true, and you can be disgusted with RMS without bringing politics into it. He’s bad for the free software movement. It’s as simple as that.
Nice to know that numba has these features; I'll have to check it out at some point!
does the kernel now support floating point operations ?
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Познакомился с www.runnaroo.com чуть больше 2х месяцев. Работаю за компом периодически но чутко.
Поисковая машина Runnaroo приглянулась и понравилась.

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И приятного апетита (I'm going to get tacos.)
That doesn't really make any sense.
How exemplary that he filled in the full template questionnaire for language changes, including questions such as "Would you consider yourself a novice, intermediate, or experienced Go programmer?" (he replied "I have some experience").
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> If there's a blackout, the display is still visible

And dangerously out of date in airports and train stations.

When they break down they had to be covered to prevent misleading passengers.
It'll be interesting to see how they can justify Nvidia's ownership of ARM a security threat, whilst ARM being owned by a Japanese investment bank being _just fine_. What's the difference?