skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1st place: Printed. Because nothing beats the printed page.

Close 2nd place: e-ink. But unfortunantely there doesn't seem to be in the market an e-ink device of a decent size and price.

Far down 3rd place: tablets, phones or any light emmitting display device, because if I must stare at a screen for hours I'd watch TV.

A special recognition to ebooks for having the unique advantage of allowing easy search of word definitions, highlighting, bookmarking, and for the access they provide to the super large library of free books out there.
Was looking for exactly the same.
The competition isn't "nuclear vs renewables", California is not going to not build renewables (it got 40% of it's utility-scale energy from them in 2018!). It's what you do about the rest: over half of CA's energy comes from natural gas. If you can keep nuclear alive longer, you can use the renewable growth to draw down fossil-fuel energy. If you don't, you need to replace the nuclear energy before you can start decomissioning any gas plants.
We're just relying on guesswork here but to think that the internet only created a 25% increase in porn exposure for teens seems really off, especially considering how hard porn was for minors to obtain pre-internet.

Also, it's worth considering that the "porn" they would have had easiest access to was Playboy magazine content--not the catalog of Pornhub.
I had a paid internship that was essentially this and enjoyed it greatly. I wasn't paid particularly well but my workload was a project that I probably took about ten times as long to do as I would today. During the run of the internship I was brought into discussions on design and worked under someone who managed to put up with a flood of questions that I sent at them.

I was hired at the end of my internship and switched over to regular work and grew as an independent employee to handle more serious workloads. My internship was an investment that the company paid into me (and other folks) and by the time I left the company I feel like I more than paid that back.

It's essentially just a probationary period at the start of employment but with much less expectation to retain the employee and less commitment from the potential employee to stay on.
Here's the thing. Nobody wants to admit that solving climate change will involve reducing the standard of living of a lot of people. Some things will be more expensive, and people will consume less. If you think about it, without massive technological innovation, how could it be any other way?
> The promotional aspects could be worth much more than whatever money they'd earn.

So now you can put this on your resume:

I did this job for Netflix. And by the way, they didn't pay me a dime.
For accounts you want to put spend limits on always use a pre-paid card or card with spend limits https://privacy.com/.
Two uncontrolled entries since 1967 doesn't sound like normalized behaviour.
The difference is because you have to make an active decision to put the child on the motorcycle. No parent is deciding to put their child under the any treadmill. And no other treadmills suffer from this issue. Also, there is no reason that this treadmill can't be safe and remain aesthetically pleasing, you produced a false dichotomy.
I realize that RMS is a divisive figure. I realize he treated some people in a way that they wouldn't want to be treated. But it would be a shame to exile him from all work for this. He's paid for his crimes. Let's move on.
They said they stopped due to spam, but there might be more to it because they also had quite a lot of layoffs that period. I don't know.

I can imagine spam being a problem with such a service with a well recognized brand name.
People are sending the devs death threats. No matter how bad it is, that's not acceptable.

I've been playing the game for 5+ years, and the player base has been noticeable toxic to the devs for most of the time. Probably the worst of any games I've played in that time.
This will be an unpopular opinion, but I am feeling chatty today.

As long as safety + working conditions are not cruel and unusual, and someone is willing to work for $0, why are you trying to stop (or hide) that fact?

Someone willing to work for less (or for free) is offering a bargain to incentivize giving him/her the business or the benefit of experience instead of more $. You restricting them from doing that doesn't magically solve their problem of not having a job, you realize?

We have tons of people who are locked out of well paying jobs because they can't get on the job experience or even get in the door at the wages being required (and experience demanded by those wages). Young people, people with less education. Minorities. Did you know that? It actually causes some people's heads to explode, that the good intentions of a policy actually might hurt the people it's designed (in a very coarse way) to benefit.

This is the classic conundrum of the minimum wage. You may not realize it but you are implicitly choosing some people to benefit over others.

It's great for people who can get the job. It does nothing for those who cannot get employed, who for many industries are more numerous. It's in fact a very discriminatory regulation in outcome (although of course not in intent -- no one intends that obviously!). But intentions, as they say, are heavily overrated. Look to outcomes.

Maybe the person doing unpaid work is someone who has been overlooked by "the establishment" and is trying to break into the industry. Maybe it's a 2nd job to support the family and doesn't have to be a full wage earning job. You want to foreclose people from those possibilities and say that only full professional (say, union members) should be able to get that job?

You are not going to escape the fundamental fact that there are people who are out there wanting to work, but who cannot command the pay rate dictated. And that we have an excess of labor in many pockets in this country (really, we do!). You just hide the problem by saying that it's unjust to pay so low a wage and not allow people to do it. The people and their lives are not going away just because you mandate not to see them.
They export cheap wind-generated power to Norway when the wind is blowing, and import it back for a higher price when it isn't.

Norway has a lot of hydro which they used the revenues from North Sea oil to install. (Their geography and population density also helps.)
Yes! Thanks! :)
No, there really aren’t good solutions - as you note adapters are often far from ideal.

Thankfully I didn’t buy that much glass because Sony has been the clear leader in full frame mirrorless cameras for some time now. If I ever did decide to go back into prosumer photography in a big way I probably would just write off the Canon lenses I have - I only have a handful but it would be probably about $5K now that I think about it. Eeek!
This is a friend of mine and I'm always skeptical of his ideas being overly technical, but sometimes we all tend to forget that programming can be a form of art and expression too, even in benign things.
As the article mentions, this is not Netflix. It's a third-party production company that is producing content for Netflix. It's extremely likely and almost guaranteed that Netflix has no idea they've been asking photographers to work for free.
It depends on the level of the intern (and your ability to select productive ones), some are more junior than others (not sure how it works in the US exactly)

Yes, most of the time they have negative productivity, but as an intern I had some demanding projects where our work was part of the final (revenue earning) product.

But that's how it goes. Pay people for their time.
It's called onboarding.

For six months I worked as an intern, getting paid less than my rent. If didn't have parents that could've supported me, I would've been unemployed.

I don't work for free. You presumably don't.

Pay your interns and pay them a livable salary.
This doesn't do that, but okay, there are other criticisms to be had of this article
CWD is in 25 states now. Some of them have cattle.

https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cwd/occurrence.html
Ask HN: Are There Digital Typewriters?
Basically I want a printer which prints live as a I type with minimal latency.

Is there a product like that. If there is no printer maybe there is a typewriter which hooks upto computer via usb and i can type on my computer using the keyboard I'm accustomed to.
Andrew Ng Criticizes the Culture of Overfitting in Machine Learning
As an aside, the author of that page has made one of the most worthless UI decisions that rates a kick in the junk.

Hitting Page Down (in Safari) advances the frame of an advertisement in the right-hand column, rather than advancing the page itself.

If you are a designer who does this sort of thing, I hate you and hope you fall into a pool of piranhas.
The problem isn't your phone, the problem is your mind. You're looking for dopamine on your phone. If not your phone you will look for elsewhere (foods, movies etc.)

All those things that engages your senses, tires one down. I'm glad you're at least aware of being tired and want to work on it. The rest of the world are constantly engaging everyday.

Try to sit down calmly outside your balcony for a moment. Observe the surroundings carefully. Try doing this everyday for 15 mins. Just observing silently the nature, the people, etc. Let's finish this and I'll suggest the next steps later.
> If nuclear is no better for the environment and more expensive, why should it keep running?

40% of power in CA is generated with natural gas. If you can close the nuclear power plant and replace it with the equivalent amount of solar and wind, you should just keep the nuclear plant open and build that amount of solar and wind anyways.
The schematics for the older versions of the SuperMemo algorithm (SM-2 and SM-5) have been published but they're quite old and any good reimplementation is actually a fork that fixes glaring deficiencies in the old algorithms.

The newest versions (SM-19) are proprietary and rely on a bunch of training data (they use some kind of ML) gathered from SuperMemo users (there is a way to get access to SuperMemo algorithm but you have to negotiate a license from memory). There is some rough outline of the algorithms on the SuperMemo wiki, but you couldn't reimplement it any more than you could reimplement Google Search given the Wikipedia description of PageRank.
thank you! somebody gets it!
As seen on Netflix's Love is Blind plus the press interviews is a great deal.

The question is how much would you pay for this opportunity? This buys you an instant reputation.
Sounds to me like he founded the company of the same name.
Clever switchout of the word "free market" here for "fair market". This is certainly for better or worse free market.

I have never heard of the concept of a "fair market" beyond what any given person considers fair on a case by case basis.
You can get the book

"Lisp on Small Pieces" from 1994

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521562473/acmorg-20

It is not 70's, but 26 years should be enough to get hold of such knowledge.

Or "Modern Compiler Implementation" from 1998, a little more young.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/

Or rather "The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages", from 1986, now getting closer to 70's.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-imp...

I can still have a look into my SIGPLAN paper collection to dust off some ML papers.
>"History is written by the victors" is one of the truest cliches.

It really, really isn't. Like, at all. No Historian would agree with you.
Political interns, no clue. However if you're working for the government and not a campaign, then you're almost certainly getting paid in the US.
I think they're talking about the whole blog's Explore page.
> Stick with your Precor treadmills people. Proven, cheaper and every bit as good.

Interestingly, Peloton bought Precor, so ultimately you're still buying from the same company

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/peloton-completes-p...
So, Carl Carlson, Dr. Hibbert and Bleeding Gums Murphy are pretty clearly Black, Apu is pretty clearly Indian, Bumble Bee man is pretty clearly Mexican, but all the yellow characters are... "a null race?"

Despite all clearly having signifiers of white people, and several of them clearly ethnically Italian or German, and most of the rest being Waspy?

Does this not simply speak of what you perceive as the "null race" or, perhaps, default race?

And when the Simpson's producers said a few years ago that they were going to stop voicing non-white characters with non-white actors, who did they find to voice all the "null-race" characters?
Intellectual property will be one of the key issues in the USA-China battle
> Workers who stayed home then received termination notices.

2 people received notices. 10,000 people work at the plant.

This might be the single most shockingly and blatantly manipulative article I've read in a long time. Let me list the number of ways that The Post tried to obfuscate the truth.

1. They publish an article in June 2020 titled "Tesla gave workers permission to stay home rather than risk getting covid-19. Then it sent termination notices." The title is entirely disconnected from the body of the article - in the body they specify they are talking about 2 out of 10,000 people, but the title doesn't reflect that even in the slightest.

2. In March 2020, they publish another negative article about Tesla, in which they once again use a more outrageous and misleading language, citing their previous article but not linking to it so that nobody can actually catch the fact that we're talking about 2 out of 10,000 people.

Let me remind you that The Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, who is a sworn enemy of Elon Musk. And then the media complains that there's so much push back on their reporting?
I'm wrapping my head around what's the purpose of this.
Here's a neat story about how an Apple M1 Macbook enjoyed 3x the performance compared to an Apple Intel Macbook using a (hassle to compile) Apache Arrow test instantiation.

https://uwekorn.com/2021/01/11/apache-arrow-on-the-apple-m1....
Thanks, but I already know that. I was wondering about hard numbers, and how it really pans out on modern systems.

To my knowledge, the demoscene folks never use Forth or anything like it, they just optimise their assembly and sometimes use compression.
this is genius. I love it.
Everyone is free to want things.
I guess that depends on the industry the intern is being used. In photography, an intern typically does a lot of the manual labor like loading/unloading gear from the truck, setting up ligts,stands,tripods,etc. As the intern continues to do this work, they should be able to start learning when/where/why certain gear is being used and where to put initial settings. There is no "week to do something I could do in an afternoon" situation. It all has to be done right then and there. This allows the photographer to spend more time working with the subject/talent/producers/client/etc. After being an intern for long enough, that intern should be able to go off and be a decent assistant if not photographer on their own right.
If it's a business with a clear social mission (fighting poverty; helping the environment, etc.) I'm super-sympathetic to the challenges of being an altruistic founder in a money-obsessed world.

But Iterable's mission (quoting from its career page) is: "We empower growth marketers." Its products help your organization get more juice out of emails, texts, etc.

That's a busine$$ -- and it's very much an area where money can be made. I'm struggling to see how this could be an altruism play, too.
Despite attempts to depreciate Python 2, there's still a lot of code that hasn't been updated to use all of the new language features since Python 3.1, so it's anybody's guess, really. Depends on how much legacy code you interact with.
Epic vs. Apple: Courts Not Prepared for the Game Industry's Obsessive Secrecy
I'm thinking mobile apps are a thing of the past. But writing a book is a hell of a job. I did it once, it was hard, as hell and the everybody pirated it.
Raw performance is only one aspect. Splitting up the processes means that a security exploit in one component has basically no way of endangering the other. In a shared hosting environment, you can also run separate fpm processes for each tenant, allowing for custom configuration and even different versions altogether for each.
MacFlim: Full-motion video on B&W Macs
I have seen this argument about energy density before, I still don't understand it. Why is the density of energy generation so important?
This causes a lot of problems with gatekeeping in certain fields because a lot of people can't afford to go without income for months. Why do you support autocratic corporations as opposed to the publicly accountable government? Do you also support allowing companies to use child labor if companies find it to be profitable?
Ann Winblad: the woman who built Silicon Valley (2018)
> although initial reports indicated that the track had been intentionally saved by the user, later analysis showed that it was kept only in the system files, and certainly was not meant to be found.
> Bugsnag have published metrics on what median app stability scores look like:

> 99.46% for apps built by 1-10 engineers

> 99.60% for apps built by 11-50 engineers

> 99.89% for apps built by 51-100 engineers

> 99.79% for apps built by 100+ engineers

I find it amusing that reliability goes up when the team hits 11 engineers, then again when it hits 51 engineers, but then dips when it hits 100 engineers. Need to finally read my copy of the Mythical Man Month.
What is the point? My gas bill goes up, only partially paid for by this check that I'm getting. A few who don't buy gas see some extra cash, but most people don't see any option to not drive so they lose.
If McDonald's can afford to hire low-skill people for minimum wage across the US, so can companies for under-skilled interns. Not paying someone for work isn't cool unless it's a volunteer position. Businesses shouldn't be getting volunteer labor. Non-profits and, maybe, governments are the only ones that should be getting volunteer interns.
Not sure how that distinction makes a difference. So it’s an article that makes an incomplete and thus poor argument and not a paper that makes an incomplete and thus poor argument. Those are still equally bad.
Apple Begins Transition to Randomized Serial Numbers with Purple iPhone 12
>> They've been illegal up here in Canada for a while and it hasn't really caused any economic disasters

This really isn't true. First the word "internship" is not codified in any law. Second employment law is typically provincial unless it's a federally regulated industry so the rules are different everywhere. Finally, most jurisidctions allow them if they're the "hands-on" part of an educational program, which IME qualifies 90%+ of the interships I've seen.
Sometimes yes, because in the end everyone here is trying to justify some kind of purpose, but in reality they forget that it's all music and dance and it doesn't have to arrive at a certain point. Upvoted.
Before we got ADSL we had ISDN when our local carrier introduced unlimited weekend calling only billing for the first minute as long as you never dropped the call.

I used channel bonding so I could get 128K using a Linux server as the dialer/proxy as the Windows drivers for the ISDN card was just too darn flaky.

Good times.
Solar and wind are nuclear power. We keep the reactor 93 million miles away, in a huge gravitational containment system, and even so tens of thousands of people die from cancer caused by the radiation every year in the United States alone, despite two layers of shielding and multiple kinds of voluntary prevention protocols.
First of all, did you look at a map? 300 miles from NYC gets you to upstate New York, or western Pennsylvania, or rural West Virginia. Second, NYISO, which covers New York State, already imports lots of power from Quebec, Ontario, New England, and PJM (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, and more).

We do need more transmission (another thing the White House is working on: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...), but power import/export over long distances is already commonplace.

Edit: And if you really want to look to the future, you could read the proposal for a North American Supergrid: http://northamericansupergrid.org/
Good? Internships shouldn't be limited to those rich enough to work for free.
One of the terrible parts of these kind of "modular" laptops is all about the size of the different modules.

If you built a laptop even 10 years ago with modular parts, the ratios would be all out of whack compared to modern laptops. The battery would be half the size it should be, and the storage and ram sections would probably 2x too large.

The only laptop that came close to true modules was novena[0], as the ratio between parts could be changed. However, it was a beast.

If anyone has more info on what it means to be able to "change the motherboard" and if it includes different sizes/shapes, it's much more interesting.

[0]: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena
Orbit looks like a way to publish content with accompanying spaced repetition. Spaced repetition is a technique to efficiently improve long-term recall.

The most accessible primer on spaced repetition I've seen is Nicky Case's interactive exploration at https://ncase.me/remember/
When does it make sense to open-source?
Are congressmen allowed to buy a home with campaign money?
And this is why you decouple your systems as good as possible. The humans in your company need to be able to just prolong premium times manually. When the customer pays in diamonds. Or you want to say thank you to someone and add half a year for free. Ir you decide to accept payments in bitcoin tomorrow.

Never build the payment system tight coupled to the rest. Humans need to be able to overrule anything, anytime.

This should be a rule of thumb for everything.
Data science does a lot of SQL-like and linear-algebra-like transformations over a lot of data, and needs it to be reasonably performant. This means you want to do things like minimize overhead of indexing into data, and use things like SIMD instructions/GPU or parallelize work. To do this, you generally want your data in column-major format - organized as objects of arrays, rather than arrays of objects. Dataframe libraries like Pandas (which uses optimized linear algebra libraries like BLAS/LAPACK under the hood, via numpy) and the Spark Dataframe API are for working with columnar data and getting performance via SIMD or parallelization, respectively.

Generally people start off by doing these computations in a series of batch jobs (an "ETL pipeline", orchestrated with something like Airflow), to transform data into whatever shape they ultimately want it in; streaming technologies like Spark Streaming and Kafka can help with incrementally adding new rows to your data, rather than recomputing the whole thing every batch-job run.

Whenever you want to involve multiple systems or multiple libraries in your dataframe transformations, there's potentially a lot of computational overhead in serializing the dataframes or just converting them between memory representations. Arrow is a standardized format, spearheaded by the person who wrote Pandas, that attempts to match the in-memory representation, so that whether you're passing the data between libraries in-memory or writing a file for some other system to read, no unnecessary transformations need to happen to work on the data.