skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're forgetting that they're still crimes

I don't think "we" (the people?) are forgetting they are still crimes. They are, and are supposed to be still prosecuted as the minor crimes they are.

The problem is that police and DAs have taken the position that if they can't go for bigger charges (which is what DAs like to put on their resume) then they won't pay any attention at all. That's the root cause of these lesser crimes being completely ignored.
It's a shame someone who writes so well talks such nonsense.
Tye scammers don't have to be that good, as this is Darwin in action: Scammers with bad strategies are more easy to catch and less likely to make money. Evolution predicts that, if being a worse speller makes you a better scammer, after a while the average scammer spells worse. Having a good brain is actually a disadvantage here
Due to incompetent IT staff, I know for a fact that the school I used to go to has 64-bit i5 processors, but the OS installed on them is Windows 10 32-bit, lol
Could this address lower file sizes for lossless video and audio?
It's funny that the right-to-repair is supposedly gaining momentum while at the same time consumers have had no problem buying new devices that are less and less open to be repaired, despite having the choice of phones with replaceable batteries for example
Ask HN: Is taking a US based job not a good idea nowadays as an European?
Hi. I'm from Europe and recently got a remote job offer for a US based startup. The offer is good and I was ready to sign it.

But looking at the exchange rates it seems I would be losing like 3% every month. That's really quite a lot and I have second thoughts. It doesn't seem like the wisest idea to go for it, even though I believe in the company and the team is great.

No idea what to do. I'm making the same money at the moment, but don't really enjoy the work, the team, there's no vacation nor equity. I'd love to take the new one but this is something I did not consider properly.

Is there someone in the similar situation - being paid in US dollars? How do you adjust for that?

Would it be too ridiculous to ask to be paid in euros? Sounds like I'd want to have my cake and eat it too.

Thanks for any advice or insights.

p.s. not sure if Ask HN is meant to be used for questions like this, apologies if not.
Help, the pandemic has made me an introvert
This is not a solution at all. Post says this only works with lid closed, but most MPB16's will achieve reduction from 20W to 8-9W just by closing the lid, with no settings changes needed.

That being said, 8-9W with closed lid is still high. Consumption for second monitor when it's idle shouldn't be more than 1W.

After seeing the title I got my hopes up, that it will work within 1-2W range for idle regardless of lid being closed. That would be a solution, 8-9W definitely is not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27231485
In their example, the manager is already employed there. You don't have to trust them. You can look at the decisions they've made and see whether they made them fairly. If not, then go ahead and fire them.

But "I feel they might be unfair", when all the evidence shows that they have in fact been fair, is not a valid reason to fire someone.
>>Making the TCB bigger makes PoS less secure overall.

That is a debatable point. The TCB amounts to a single hash, that the global Ethereum userbase has had at least three months to converge on, with extremely obvious ways of establishing its correctness. If that can't be securely established, it's unlikely a consensus on the correct software distribution channels can be established either, meaning new users would still be completely fucked.

And there are other factors that establish the security of the network besides how much subjectivity plays a role in consensus, like the economic incentives dissuading an attack, and the difficulty of acquiring the economic assets needed to attack the chain.
I don’t want my children to think it’s normal that girls on twitch are only there to make porn. does that make me prude?
Flutter for Windows UWP now on alpha
The single biggest impediment to "fixing this" is that you haven't identified what "this" is or in what manner it is broken.

There will always be cases of fraud if someone deeps deeply enough into large institutions. That doesn't actually indicate that there is a problem.

Launching in to change complex systems like the research community based on a couple of anecdotes and just-so stories is a great way not actually achieving anything meaningful. There needs to be a very thorough, emotionally and technically correct enumeration of what the actual problem(s) are.
But you have the same basic problem as now - you’d need some sort of science police to control it, which goes against the scientific process. Essentially it’s a problem of establishing trust in an untrusted system. Putting it
that way actually makes it sound like a blockchain problem. Maybe there could be some incentive system to replicate work based on smart contracts, but I don’t know how you could ensure the replicating parties to be independent.
Yeah, it's something I've been keeping an eye on. My father in law doesn't see how electric cars can work, one of his main objections is he tows a caravan. Admittedly UK caravans are pretty light, 1400kg is about the middle of the range. There are now a couple of pure electrics with enough towing capacity (Tesla X, Audi E-tron, Volvo something or other).

Unfortunately, there isn't much getting away from the fact that towing a big box behind a car halves the economy, and while those cars are starting to have very useable ranges, even if you need to occasionally travel longer distance, halving those ranges leaves you a bit short.
Uh.. not so great, this algorithm is already very slow :)
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In a company, some people may social with others after work, become close friends, those social groups are clusters, especially in big companies. Politics should be shared inside those social clusters. Treat it as social, not work.

I don't know why people are upset for not being able to flood others with their politics. If you want a conversation, you would want to make sure the receiving end is suitable for a discussion of some sort, probably better when you have 30 minutes to spare, sit together with tea or something.

One thing I don't like politics is that it is all about opinions, generally not about solutions. As an engineer I like solutions, I like tradeoffs, optimizations.
That's also where I first encountered the expression. IIRC it used a clever pun of using the pipe shell operator | to install Sinatra (put that in your pipe) and a simple hello world code sample (and smoke it).
“We automatically generate a website from sellers' Instagram pages and provide unique checkout links for selling over Instagram live.“

Hi guys, is it possible to see this feature in screenshots, how does it look like for the user?
Dani did a TED talk about it https://youtu.be/UD_LwZD2Kls
No, but for example I was working really hard under Google while Eric Schmidt was the CEO. Then in my last year working there I stopped caring about working hard enough to get a promotion, and just treated it as a workplace where I get money to invest. After a fatFIRE I never looked back.
Yeah I wish people would say uniform-time instead.
When I was in school pre-university, this type of "crap we can't get the what we wanted to happen so let's just fiddle around with it until it seems about right" was very common. I was convinced this was how children learned, so that as adults they wouldn't have to do things that way.

When I got into university and started alternating studying and work, I realised just how incredibly clueless even adults are. The "let's just try something and hope nothing bad happens" attitude permeates everything.

It's really a miracle the civilisation works as well as it does.

The upshot is that if something seems stupid, it probably is and can be improved.
"You’ve read all your free member-only stories. Become a member to get unlimited access and support the voices you want to hear more from."

Can we ban medium posts on HN already? imagine if we login-walled every piece on HN. we should not encourage this behavior and we have the clout to send Medium a message.
Show HN: StyleGAN2 implementation in PyTorch with side-by-side notes/diagrams
But a slot is 0.5mm overhead over just soldering a bare part!
A couple of anecdotes is a very disingenuous way to frame the replication crisis. Heavily cited fraudulent research impacts public policy, medicine, and technology development. This means it's everyone's business.
no exchange.
there is owl but I did not find it satisfying
Markets ponder Elon Musk role in crypto turbulence
> When learning a new technology I don't care about the headaches people had 20 years ago

I do. This really puts things into context for me. If I don't get that when learning something, I will look for the answers later. So I'm very happy when it's right there to begin with.
without the lid closed, no monitor works. I use 1080p monitors that do not work.
China just became the second country to drive a rover on the surface of Mars
>This highlights to consumers which products are designed to be usable for longer through repair and upgrade and which aren’t...

Except a rating like that doesn't actually indicate expected average device lifetime at all. It's common knowledge Apple devices are low on repairability, yet they have average device working lifetimes and post-sale vendor support periods much longer than the very best you'll find among their competitors.

You can also see this from the way they retain their second hand value for years longer than competing devices with much higher repairability scores. People buying these devices second hand know perfectly well they have practical longer working lifetimes than their competition, and they're willing to pay for that.
>that comes from a line of people that had to make do with scraps.

That line is long. It only takes one generation feeding their children a diet of pre-made meals and snacks to break it.
would you say the same about violence? let’s allow people to be violent as is natural. sex is tied to violence and competition. look how it is with animals; males fight to death for a chance to mate. that’s how it will be more or less
So this guy was Alexander Rhatushnyak?
While not written specifically for PHP, the Clean Code book from 2008 started to put the focus on Software Craftsmanship.

Too bad 10 years had to pass before Uncle Bob came along :)

http://cleancoder.com/

Clean Code, the book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3735293-clean-code
> Even when I'm writing an intensive program, I'm using multiple cores, so a single threaded benefit is useless to me.

maybe poorly worded but i would like to point out that a single-thred performance gain is never useless, not even with a highly a parallel workload.

i would think that due to multi-stage cpu caches and ipc overhead, something within one core/thread will be way more efficient.
p2p wouldn't solve the main issues, which are excessive download times and poor user experiences for upgrades.
the problem is that NO monitor works. it's not a bug just with 1440p, once you connect an external monitor it jumps without closing the lid. I use two 1080p monitors, but a single one does not work, aswell, closing the lid fixes the problem
Depends on the manager and on the team. I've been promoted while WFH so my employer is clearly happy with my work. But I have no interest in going back to the office and if they insist then I'll look for a new job.
Hey author here :) I actually deliberately kept the tiled lighting section hopefully devoid of any consideration for deferred vs forward since as you say we can (and do) do tiled light culling with both algorithms. Quad overshading and the use of "helper lanes" is worth mentioning in the article maybe as a footnote. It certainly is another way in which the GPU's silicon can be underutilized, but I'd hesitate to say it is the "main reason" for deferred so much as "one of the reasons". I definitely struggled to walk the balance between summarizing the concerns at a coarse level, vs providing all the gory details. So to your point, definitely wasn't comprehensive, there's RTR4 for that :). "... for young bloods" is in the title after all
*despair
It _really_ depends on your industry. And time period. Studies from 20 years ago (which is when a lot of the studies people commonly cite for this were done) only tell us so much about conditions now.

Again, varies widely by industry.
The thing is that it's necessary, and (x86, not sure about arm) asm tells you via the d register if not the overflow flag. So why doesn't the C standard arguably provide a misuse-resistant way of doing so? Instead every project having to reinvent it and get it wrong if they do the "obvious" (but wrong) thing.
By waiting until scientists address this? Note that the 'replication crisis' is something that originated inside science itself, so, despite there being problems science has not lost its self-correcting abilities. The scientists themselves can do something by insisting on reliable and correct methods and pointing it out wherever such methods are not in use. It is also not like there are no gains in doing this. Brian Nosek became rather famous.
if 3% is a concern, just get a local job.
Working for a company in a different country has many challenges. 3% currency exchange is nothing. This may go up or down way more, you may also face additional taxes or filing requirements.
"Tenet", please, not "tenant".
I appreciate that BSD has a very powerful network stack, but for this kind of cheaper devices Linux often delivers much faster routing. The APU4 with OpenWRT 935 Mbit/s with NAT and firewall[1]. The EdgeRouter Lite runs at 230 Mbit/s without and 657 Mbit/s with software acceleration[2]. What makes people still decide to use BSD for this category? Stability? Features? Security?

[1] https://openwrt.org/toh/pcengines/apu

[2] https://an.undulating.space/post/180927-er_alternate_firmwar...
I trained myself out of using backspace for back precisely because of the number of times I'd end up in an input box and it would stop working. I use something like cmd-[ now, I think. I guess my point about space for pagedown is that it just seems unnecessary - I wonder how many keyboards don't have a PgDn key. Overloading printable characters, when non-printable alternatives exist, seems like a mistake.
> Apologies if this is a noob question, but could you improve it with training?

Considering all other things like GPU, code quality etc. equal, the speed here mainly depends on the size of the network. Larger networks result in better performance (logarithmic), but also slower speeds (linear). There are some tricks like pruning to create significantly smaller networks with similar-ish performance, but good models are often large.

Unrelated to your question, what nobody mentions is that the decompression side also needs to complete network. With 57M and 187M parameters, those files are going to be quite large, > 100MB for sure. That completely annihilates the performance wins for 1 time transfers.
I have two 1440p monitors with MBP 16". Using hidpi fixed the high wattage issue when I connect one monitor.
But when I connect two 1440p monitors, I still see GPU wattage at around 20W. Any idea what could fix this?

Note: Mac lid is closed during all of the testing and usage I am doing.
New Coronavirus Detected in Patients at Malaysian Hospital; Source May Be Dogs
>with an air of complete seriousness that seems so lacking today.

Jaded cynicism, crass commercialism, and the dissapearance of a cultured class that is above mass market culture, they way high/upper middle class, academics, doctors, etc., one were.

Believe it or not, for example, once there was a class of people, more so in Europe, that not only went to the Opera, but also actually liked it, followed it, could get the references, and knew its history and the history of classical/romantic/etc music, the way their today's equivalent will know the pop stars of the day.

Given the above, it's easy that soem of them would take e.g. the twelve-tone music of Schoenberg or Stravinsky's innovations seriously, even if only to be offended by them - and some of, course, to be inspired.

Today's equivalent would at best read something like the New Yorker and the hacks featured in NYT best-selling books of the day, but will seldom have the wide culture that once was quite widespread across parts of the middle and upper middle classes.

People also seem more desperate to sell out quick for a quick buck - even artists today just want to play the game, go ahead with the galleries and agents, and give out much more easily than an early 20th century artist. This diminishes the period between "serious work" and "selling out", often to zero (whereas for Picasso it took decades, and for Van Gogh, it never happened).
The excerpt quoted here sounds reasonable and pleasant, which is why I was surprised when I clicked through and found what appears to be the social rulebook of hell.
> You can do whatever you want with your phone already.

But, with the court decision, it will become much easier to install other app stores on the phone, if Apple's actions are ruled illegal anti-competitive.

Thats the point. The illegal anti-competitive behavior, that makes it more difficult for people to install other software, could be blocked by the courts.

At which people, people will be able to install other app stores, while also having iOS on their phone.

That sounds like a much better solution to all of this. Everyone gets what they want, and can now more easily install things on the phone that they own.
Masking the background and making text black would solve this. I have used OpenCV for that before.
In general, Wittgenstein wasn't exactly a mathematician...
In the second one, you can use in_app_webview to do this.
Metals found in the atmospheres of comets surprise scientists
It's harder for the type of management who sit in their glass aquariums and mostly make sure there are butts in seats. It makes that type of management redundant.
Can you add saas pass and acmelogin under security and identity management
It seems too slow for real time decompression
Well you’d assume that because it’s reactive you don’t have redundant updates in the first place
Is "the kind of person you hire" likely to share your politics?
Because we are talking about workplaces where there is diversity of thought (if thats your kink)
There are sensible solutions to this. You don’t need to hold a gun to the head of the manufacturer. However we should encourage repair ability. This could be through labeling, taxing or subsidies.

Just leaving everything to the market isn’t tenable. Markets have all sorts of flaws. It is one of the reasons why we have so many environmental problems. In this case it is appropriate for governments to devise regulations to remedy obvious problems.
The psychological cost of corruption in developing countries
CPU Bugs (2018)
That just goes to show how little experience you have with WebGL.

Native is guaranteed to work minus driver bugs, but it works nonetheless.

WebGL is dependent on the whims of the browser version and the set of blacklisted platforms, GPGPUs and drivers.

Then no matter how good the graphics card is, it will never go beyond OpenGL ES 3.0 capabilities minus a set of "dangerous" features.

It is no wonder that indie development moved away from Web based games into mobile platforms, after Web community managed to kill Flash.
Yes in my business that I won't specify ios (last 2 revisions) + web users account for over 92% of revenue, with a whole scattering of android versions and related hardware back to 4.4 making up the rest.

A native strategy for ios is absolutely worth the investment of resources and time and flutter will never cut it or be worth the risk of even a small % of users suffering some new bug.

Android gets whatever is quick and easy just to to keep the business ticking on that side so flutter is perfect.

Users do not and should not have to care or be exposed to your cost saving strategy.
Reading: John Lippert on the Idiocy of the Chicago School in Late 2008
The Web is pretty powerful these days with WebGL and similar technologies, but it's still orders of magnitude slower than a similar app written in a native language with native bindings to OpenGL or Vulkan. Sure, this ain't DOOM, but tight low latency loops are common in any type of game, and JS+WebGL is not the best technology for it except for tech demos or very basic games.
Scientists with a proven track record should have life-long funding of their laboratory without any questions asked. So they can act as they want without fear of social repercussions. Of course some money will be wasted and the question of determining whether a track record is proven is still open, but I think that's the only way for things to work (except when the scientist himself have enough money to fund his own work).
Why the Bitcoin Crash Was a Big Win for Cryptocurrencies
Deliberately open ended :)
What is "cooked water"?
> We became rich overnight a few years ago when my wife got a job

How would you fare if she lost that job though?

It's your business, so a rhetorical question really, but a "few years" at a high income rarely produces any lasting fortune.
>As much as some people like to pretend it doesn't exist, accidental complexity is a thing

Yes, and it's often the best feature of the software, as far as the sale teams is concerned, because it allows them to sell concultancy fees or because it satisfies the customer by matching 100% it's crappy requirements (which they don't really need).
Not even that, there is no control over what the browser blacklists, no debuggers for WebGL (just SpectorJS kind of), and no matter what, it is just OpenGL ES 3.0.
Recycling it’s much worse for the environment than simply reusing or repairing an existing product.

Markets are not perfect, so why does regulations need to be perfect? They just need to be better than the alternative.
Hmm does this support non-English languages?
lmao, what a amazingly shitty hot take...

Your "average" Linux distro isn't "buggy" as you claim.

You sound like someone who either hasn't used Linux, or extrapolates their experiences from one specific distro, to all distros.

I say this as someone who uses Linux daily. Specifically, Arch Linux, with testing repos enabled. The only bugs I run into are from using Git master versions of software that I'm interesting in testing.
Couldn’t they also have solved the glibc requirement by bundling it as well, just like the SDL library?
Exactly, which is why you would want products which last long or are easy to repair. This reduces the need to manufacture lots of devices. Obviously this goes against the desires of companies which want to maximum sales.
Growing up I always thought poor people are poor because they are lazy. But I realised later that I was soo wrong. Life is an unpredictable mess. Sometimes even when you try your hardest due to some things that are not in your hands you can end up on the other side.

I want to quote Morgan Housel here

"Some people are born into families that encourage education; others are against it. Some are born into flourishing economies encouraging of entrepreneurship; others are born into war and destitution. I want you to be successful, and I want you to earn it. But realize that not all success is due to hard work, and not all poverty is due to laziness. Keep this in mind when judging people, including yourself"
Didn't the blockade work both ways?

I'm not blaming everything on socialism though. Russia was not very developed before the revolution, and it suffered terrible losses in WWII.