skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some issue with the bbc.com vs bbc.co.uk split I assume. The UK version is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57176858
My take is

1) Most companies don't want to do training - like General Motors etc did in the 40s/50s

2) Most companies don't want to pay doctor/lawyer style salaries

3) As most software is closed source as an industry we over produce and throw away a lot.

4) Ageism is rampant - doctors or mechanical engineers can find jobs after 45

5) Can use this to lobby for easier visas for immigrants to lower salaries
Why would the default mode of operation for a 128-core datacenter chip be to have 120 idle cores?

Obviously the default mode of operation is to run all cores, or very nearly all cores, at full tilt all of the time. This chip is designed to be garbage at few-threaded workloads.
Same - it's bonkers how they're always skipped. Rather keep shortcut finger gymnastics to a minimum.
Important note X-Gene already used own cores long time ago, so it's non-news.

They also had two from-scratch developed microarchitectures.
"Operators are free to decide the interior of the trains, and any additional products on top of the minimum fee."

So by the sounds of it, you have tp hunt fpr tickets on different websites and exchequer looses out, but in exchange I get a different of seat, and packet of crisps?

I am really not getting 'free market innovation' vibes here
I don't see anything impressive in this paper. They basically say what they want to do, no results.

They are not even original with the idea for this type of paper.

In September last year Aran Komatsuzaki posted: "Current Limitations of Language Models: What You Need is Retrieval" https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06857

I have also a prediction market from August last year with this question:

Will a language model with at least 100B parameters trained to do external information retrieval exist before 2023?

Seems like people gave it 61% in March this year. I was at 75%.

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/4876/will-a-language-mod...
I have this implemented on my current keyboard but via a thumb key.
Can you link to an explanation of why that is?
Seems to me that a bellows combined with a pressure sensor would be a pretty good fit for the project. You could use the pressure sensor output fairly directly for synthesis, though you might want to filter it a smidge to make it respond smoothly.
Something like 160 pounds at peak time from Nottingham to London. Service is good but it's just inconceivable that private individuals would be paying that, all the travelers are on expenses or are self employed contractors/consultants. When I started working and up till about 2005 the same journey was about 40 pounds - a massive increase!
Usually in different-pay-same-outcome systems (eg. taxes), people above median pay want to be out of the system (because they tend to pay more and get lesscomparatively ), and people below the median want to stay in the system (because they get more and pay less comparatively). I'm talking about "normal" people, not a few at the top, who game the system in their favour.

I have no idea why you had to mix race into this, but there are many working-class white americans fscked by american retirement policies. Also many well-off black people. I see a lot of american and canadian race-related stuff in the media (mostly social, eg. reddit), and the current movements remind me of the former racist movements, but with races reversed... so still racist. [0-3].

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vermont-to-give-m...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...
[2] https://scholar.harvard.edu/bgsa/black-commencement
[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/usda-issued-billions-sub...
I'm glad they used the open standard instead of a new proprietary locked-in solution.
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Thanks. Looks like form is glitching, reload seems to help. Or email me directly to skip the line as courtesy for reporting
The government already had to care about that. They were losing votes to promises of nationalisation under Corbyn in 2017.

This looks like an attempt to present a kind of Potemkin nationalisation to mollify the anger of people with £1k+ season tickets and cement their hold on voters drawn away from Starmer in the last election (who meekly dumped rail nationalisation as a policy).
I do not know of any EU country with the retirement age over 70. Was it recently moved to those ages or did you mean 65 and 69?
Very cool, although with goodreads being a bit of a disaster I am not sure I would pitch it that way :)

Maybe, HN but for newsletters :)
> leveraging these theories to further reduce management work, rather than actually managing people

somehow I think this is what a CEO should be doing, and then letting managers do the people management.

CEO should be strategy, not keeping Karen in accounting dept. happy.

Too many companies just continue doing whatever they have been doing for a long time, without any ability at reconsidering if this still fits the market.
In fact we have foreign governments operating train service in UK and turning a profit:

Https://independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/trains-uk-railways-renationalise-countries-operators-companies-a9058961.html
Well try it, that's the good stuff with bsd's, keep your base-system clean and just compile the ports with gcc. Your system will still always boot.

something like that (but gcc instead of clang) in your make.conf:

CC=clang11

CXX=clang++11

CPP=clang-cpp11
The whole freenode kerfluffle
Getting past Joel Spolsky: how to rewrite that codebase
I doubt there is a set amount assigned. It would be weird and hard to calculate. User A watched 3 videos so their views are worth 1 dollar, user B watched 300 videos so their view is worth a cent. It’s far more likely that a premium user view is worth 1 cent and a normal user is worth .5 of a cent. So the amount going to creators would depend on how much you viewed (and how long)
No, the reason is SW development process - developers which introduce big changes between library versions ( why do i need fontconfig 4.3.2_pl6 for example). When the library is a moving target any package which depend on it and also the security of the system become a moving target. Unfortunately Firefox does the same ( they discontinued ESR because it is boring fixing bugs).
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And how else would a search engine work ? I am not Shure what your proposed solution would look like.
Great newsworthy breakthrough. Well done.
I am lucky enough to live in a European country where I don't need to work after a certain age, because our social safety net ensures just that. I plan on retiring before that, but from our point of view, it seems absurd that the US can't / won't offer the same to their seniors.
I don't see specific details either if that's what you mean, other than the suggestion in the statement I quoted above.

Perhaps i'm being naive, govt is not exactly my forte, though it feels reasonable to suggest accountability is implicit to consolidation here... currently they seem to get contracted to essentially go and manage themselves and their lines; whereas multiple operators under one government management structure of some kind at least has potential for accountability without relying on the operators goodwill (which seems to be as absent as the free market forces).
That's a prediction and a half. It would only become the most valuable company if the stock market goes crazy about it, as it stands, one does not become that with just a mobile app / social network.
Pensions would be funded by everyone including me, "but I can gamble better than you"
I'm thankful for Hey and the underlying work that is seeping back into Rails – specifically Action Mailbox. It has enabled me to create a product* that goes someway to helping with email burnout.

In a nutshell: Programmable email addresses that you can make on the fly (or in advance). Each with an intrinsic timer/buffer that sends a single email containing all the messages received in that period.

I.e. get one notification per day/week/month for a certain email or topic instead of a constant distracting stream of noise.

* https://www.paced.email
Yes, you can configure it in a way that every Youtube link opens in the Youtube container.
From the article

>In fact, Ampere explains that what the move towards a full custom microarchitecture core design was actually always the plan for the company since its inception, and their custom CPU design had been in the works for the past 3+ years.

So my guess is that they always had the license but never put out the announcement until they actually have their custom core.

Although in modern days PR speak a "custom" core could also be a custom ARM X-1 [1] type of custom. We will have to wait for more details.

[1] https://www.arm.com/products/cortex-x
Are... are you seriously asking me for a citation that racism has historically been a large and important driving force in American politics?
I still don't understand what's the difference between the old franchising system and the new concessions. Can you ELI5?
We have a bad experience with this PoS principle in France. It ended in a revolution.

The assumption that people with the most stakes will act in the interest of the community has been proven flawed in many occasions. They will act in their own interest first whatever it wight be. The weak logical link is that their own interest always coincide with the interest of the community.

If someone could explain me how this assumption will always be true, I would be very happy.
I see the same in our company. Every few years we have a leadership shuffle, which then cascades as the new leaders replace all the layers underneath them in the months afterwards. Once things become stable, a new leader is hired and the whole things starts again.

All the new management hires will then want to put their own stamp on things which means doing things differently than before. So we've been going back and forth between different paradigms. Sometimes within months! We seem to be going back between role-based teams ("we have too many silo's, we need to join all technologies of a role in a team!!") to technology-based teams ("we have too little focus, we need to focus on all responsibilities for one technology per team!!"). Literally several times we've made this switch over the last years, back and forth.

It just feels like each new hire just has to change it just to be seen to be doing something by their bosses. No newly hired manager every wants to leave things the same even though they are working just fine.

The thing is that we are very versatile. We can deal with the drawbacks of each model. We collaborate even though we're not in the same team. We can't work properly with all this ongoing reorganisation though. It's like the chair is being pulled out from under us for no reason.
> Those with good incomes subsidize those with low incomes,

This keeps the average values the same (that's why I used the average example)

> and everyone subsidizes those with no income.

This seems to be an ongoing problem, where we on one side need workers, and on the other side pay unemployment benefits to people who don't want to work. This is then translated to pensions, where people who work only eg. 10 years (instead of 40) get a small pension, but still more than the share they paid into the fund.
That makes perfect sense. Thanks a lot for the feedback.
DHH tweeted this today: https://world.hey.com/dhh/after-the-storm-9370f871

Sounds like they've hired new staff so hopefully there wont be too much disruption in the maintenance of these packages.
It looks almost perfect: a trackball placed under one of the thumbs would make it possible to not have to use any mouse. Maybe add some foot pedals too.
> It's the same as std::string product; product = "not worked";

Not a C++ person, so please forgive my ignorance, but what is the difference between the above and sth. like:

std::string product = "not worked";

or

std::string product("not worked");

(Are these even legal C++ statements and, if not, why not? ;-))
You're talking about a different issue (or indeed a non-issue). It's not that high income Slovenians get a lot less out of Slovenian state pensions than they pay in. It's that _everybody_, including low income Slovenians gets a lot less out of it than they contributed. In fact, if Slovenia is anything like Romania, the percentages often work out a lot better for high income contributors.
Depends what your use case is. HPC for example wants predictable performance with every pipeline filled as much as possible - there won't be idle cores. The average performance is more important than bursts there. That's one of the reasons hyperthreading is universally disabled in HPC clusters.
I think plenty of people would say it is the intention that matters far more than the outcome.
> they don't provide any medical data, they just state that the person is fine performing that activity

It's the same with the "validated" boolean information. It does not provide more medical data, it just validates the absence of risk of you participating.

Not having HIV is obviously not required to go scuba diving because it is completely unrelated. But for shooting in certain kinds of movies for instance, you do need to test negative to HIV. And the list of actors in the movie is not considered "medical data".
Robotic 'Third Thumb' use can alter brain representation of the hand
Can second this. I was having quite bad wrist pain, and wanted to try a split keyboard but didn't want to 'break the bank' in-case it didn't' work.

I bought the optional VIP kit to add some tenting ability and I'm really happy with it for the price.
My solution to this problem...

I put my trackball to the left despite being right handed.
Didn't take too long to adjust.
I hear that all the time "oh it's using cvs and not git??...that's bad!", i then instantly know that this is a person who is not able to learn other tools.

BTW: Those rust, git enthusiast are those who never work on the project in the end, the are evangelists not makers.
We don't have separate pensions. You pay into the state (~25% of gross income, part is taken from your gross, part is paid by the employer, to get a 'gross-gross' value), and that's your pension.

We have separate saving schemes for pension, where your income tax is deferred until you take the money out (due to progressive tax brackets, your tax percentage will be lower when you're retired, than it is now), but usually employers have nothing to do with that, and with interest lower than inflation, it's just not worth it.
Giving people more money is not going to increase investments, as the experience here in the United States shows. People just increase their quality of life and live from paycheck to [bigger] paycheck.

Even in the field of software engineering where, one assumes, the employees are of above average intelligence, many are completely oblivious to what is happening in their 401Ks or even if they have one.
The basic rule of thumb advocated is to assume a 3-4% safe withdrawal rate in retirement.

So for example, if you want a $30,000/yr (inflation adjusted) income in retirement you need to save yourself a $1M (inflation adjusted) pot. Over a 30 year career with a 5% (real, above inflation) investment return that takes $1,200/month.

Lots of people think saving a couple of hundred bucks per month will leave them super comfortable. The math tells the scary reality.
The Founding Story of GrandPad
And for me this is one of the reasons - probably the biggest - that I don't want to buy an ipad. Because it doesn't allow to run the full blown firefox

I've spent hours debating moving to ipad instead of android tablet and it ends to 1. lightning instead of usb-c (can't afford the ipad pro) but ok I can live with it and 2. firefox which is just a blocker
Silicon Valley happened because of proximity to Stanford University and Moffett Field and the copious amounts of government / military funding and contracts that came through them (DARPA, etc).

This is a very basic fact of the history of SV that many in the VC scene are reluctant to acknowledge.
ISA is like API. I don't think you can copyright that, so it would make sense if they did it this way.
Is the Turing test still relevant? (2008) [pdf]
yes, it isn't because of the linix. this is just the mozilla open sores; they will always add a memory vulnerability.
And then that new platform goes the way of Parler (dropped by hosting providers) or Voat (infested by witches) or just spammed/DDOSed to death if they try not to rely on the advanced anti-spam infrastucture that's necesaaru on the modern web.
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Why are these secret? To evade the tax? Seems dodgy as hell.
Imaginable: Yes, Relevant: No
"third parties contribute prebuilt binaries, so there is no central party to trust."

For me Google _is_ a third party. And taken into account its behavior it receives 0 (null) trust from me. What i really don't understand is this blind trust in everything google does.
A Deep Dive into Bitcoin and the Blockchain
Bitcoin and other virtual currencies such as Ethereum and even Dogecoin have been in the headlines recently so Monitor thought we would put out a guide to answer some common questions about the technology. This is not an endorsement of any digital currency but more of an FAQ about these exciting developments.

So what is bitcoin anyway?
In a nutshell Bitcoin is the original and most popular cryptocurrency; a digital medium of exchange that lets you buy goods and services. It is much easier to spend pounds and pence but some retailers to accept bitcoin.
> You can live on that but only barely.

It depends, in Poland the lowest pension is less than 400 usd per month (which is less than 30sqm apartment in cheapest part of Warsaw). It's not enough to survive on unless you own your own accommodation or/and have support from the family.
>Doesn't everyone do this?

Ask how many developers visualise their design in their mind before they type a single line of code.
This is Venmo complying with the law, if you read the article. It’s not their own initiative - they’re just complying with US export restrictions that make funding certain overseas organizations illegal.
I am planing my retirement as if Social Security is not going to be there. Of course, it will be there - in some form - but not nearly at a level where I just won't have to think about money, which is my goal.
> This makes intuitive sense too — an early Great Filter simply has to stop life from occurring,

I'm not so sure why this supposed to make intuitive sense. Life is a gradient, so any metabolic process that happens on a energy gradient can be considered 'alife'. I really don't see how an early Great Filter would work - are you going to stop energy gradients from happening? I've read -- will try to dig up the source -- that -- at least simple life -- is pretty much a given since -- even though it creates pockets of lower entropy -- allows for the most paths to thermodynamic equilibrium.

In my opinion a late filter makes more sense. That is; any species that evolves in the confinements of competition for resources and natural selection is -- due to the requirements that competition for resources creates -- necessarily unable to properly transition to a steady-state mode with no competition for resources and no (or limited) natural selection.

The reason for that is that the transition phase from competition for resources to the steady-state phase is simply too short. I'm convinced that this is what we are currently seeing with Humanity on a global scale; even though there's no need for competition for resources, we're still biologically and socially 'programmed' to compete with each other for resources, mates and habitats.

(Biologically, all humans are more closely related to each other than -- for example -- any two chimpanzee tribes. We are not very diverse, genetically.)

That inability to quickly change a species 'modus operandi' to a steady-state model together with the immense power multiplication of technology and cooperation that make it possible for civilization to literally dominate their ecosphere, I don't see how any species is ever going to survive that threshold.

The result of that inability to switch to a steady-state model and the powers achieved - tools and cooperation are the ultimate exploits! -- is simply extinction by habitat destruction.

I think that the current observations quite neatly match this.
Many companies disable IMAP for data security
How JavaScript works: introduction to Deno
Glad you're interested, and yep, there's a reason the big text on the homepage says "Satellite communications, done differently". If you have questions or want to follow along check out our Matrix room at #femtostar:matrix.org (https://matrix.to/#/!COEHOXujBzfAHAVzPG:matrix.org?via=matri...).
> no infantile HUGE buttons

Did you completely miss IE9?
That's what Law and Order means. What you really want is the Rule of Law, but that's something the upper echelons don't like much.
Graph databases are used in many many places. Examining bank transactions, finding the shortest path through state machines, molecular reaction modelling, transactional arbitrage/trading, circuit modelling, fact modelling in AI, threat modelling in cyber security, network routing and large scale analysis, virus and sickness modelling, there’s so many more

These systems usually have specialised on-disk data structures and algorithms (e.g. path finding) that are multiple orders of magnitude faster than the equivalent data stored “Flat” in a column database, this difference in time and space efficiency isn’t “some glorified academic project” - but the concrete difference between practical and impractical
It is very strange, because I indeed remember it raised(there were news and criticism/opinion pieces everywhere) in 2015 to 75. However, now I checked wikipedia, it shows 65(+- few months).

May be my memory is holding onto a proposal that didn't pass or something. I apologize for the misinformation.
> there would be a lot more new cars on the road

The current pensionists wouldn't be spending their pension then, so there would be roughly the same "new cars on the road".

The real problem seems to be that poor people's real job in this economy is to be spending their money, and the actual work is just a meaningless trap.

"Smart" and "stupid" poor people generalization is also a disheartening protofascist sentiment.
> The way it works here in Sweden seems pretty decent to me so far: you get a public pension that you and your employer have paid into the system (of course, it pays the current pensioners) and another part of my pension is put into a pension investment account, that I can operate/manage however I want.
> So you get both, a minimum pension sustained by the system paid by current working people and an investment account that I can manage and grow as a portfolio to use during my retirement.

I think the word 'minimum' is going to have totally different implications for those of us working and saving now, compared to the previous generation, that are living on pretty generous pension plans that were wholly publicly-funded, and which our current payments are maintaining.

Also the privatized pension plans in Sweden have been prey both to fraud and high fees. So even though they may give the illusion of future prosperity to those who are trying to save now, that's in no way a guarantee.
Jewish employees urge Google to support Palestinians, cancel contracts
Low latency is more important than all the other bits. I worked at Bell Communication Research in the nineties and they had an experimental video conferencing system that used analog circuit switched video and it worked really well, mainly because the latency was only a little more than the speed of light.
A group of Jewish employees at Google wants the company to speak out in support of Palestinians and consider terminating any contracts the technology giant may have with the Israeli military or other “institutions that support Israeli violations of Palestinian rights.”