skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you actually have substantive criticisms (that don't devolve to "I can clairvoyantly intuit your intent and thus know you to be an unreliable narrator even though I'm not going to be concrete/specific anywhere"), I'm happy to hear them! I've written extensively on this topic. My archive is full of specific examples you can adjudicate (many of which were brought to journalists by people who were not me). Earn yourself some correction bucks if you spot any overstatements! But your argument here was abstract, meanspirited, and not a meaningful attempt to take any specifics in my argument seriously. Hence why I screencapped it and intend to use it in my collection of journalists doing exactly that (i.e., reflexively dismissing concerns without any demonstrated curiosity or engagement with the meat of any of my proffered examples).

EDIT: Fixed two typos. (Also note what edit marks are what people use to avoid changing what they wrote after the fact!)
Thank you for your work.
I used PDL early 2000 when working in bioinformatics area.

I did not know at the time any of the specialized languages, so intially approaching the project -- I was very concerned on how to deal with matrices, but as I got to understand the PDL better -- i was getting better and better at it.

If I may suggest someting (this is based on the old experience though) --

a) some 'built-in' way to seamlessly distribute work across processes and machines.

b) some seamless excel and libreoffice calc integration.

Meaning that I should be able to 'release' my programs as Excel/Libre Office files.

Where I code in PDL but leverage Spreadsheet as a 'UI' + calc runtime.

So that when I run my 'make' I get out a Excel/Libre office file that I can version and distribute into user or subsequent compute environments.

Where the PDL code is translated into the runtime understood by the spreadsheet engine.

I know this is a lot to ask, and may be not in the direction you are going, but wanted to mention still.
Which is why I support smoke brakes in the office
mfw

:3
Ask HN: What does it mean to be rich?
The ProPublica story has me thinking. We all assume that we have a working understanding of what “richness” is, but do we?

I’m curious what it means to be rich, to you. Are you rich? Is wealth necessarily relative to another person?
San Francisco may be first major US city to hit herd immunity, experts say
> wouldn't the user be allowed to override these risks

It would seem like a useful compromise to have harmful features/functionality disabled by default for each new script - controlled at the individual script level.

If the user wants to invoke/allow the feature, they should be able to explicitly and manually enable it. Like the android app permissions: Allow access to x? [none, this time or always?]
By the same standards, you would have to include the commonly dismissed military sports festival hypothesis: geographical and temporal vicinity, some symptoms of cold — you find as much in this as in the lab leak theory. There is no sense in picking a favorite hypothesis, besides maybe politics. As long as there is no evidence to the contrary, we'll have to treat it as a case of force majeure. Even, if it may offend our (quite illusionary) sense of total control over nature.
The best part is that I made up that I’m a journalist just to screw with you but you’re ready to publish it in your book as more evidence of journalists out to get you. I’m a product manager at a FAANG, dude, and I screw around on this forum for fun. Nice fact checking just believing what people say. It’s almost like in a little over half an hour I showed you by force that you have no idea what journalism actually is.

(Also, showdead folks, flagging this in under a minute just means he won’t know the truth because he doesn’t know where the showdead button is. A TRUE MORAL DILEMMA! Do you vouch me or do you let him publish a falsehood?! DECISIONS DECISIONS! It’s up to you, HN!)
"Visual signals of individual identity in the wasp Polistes fuscatus" (Tibbetts, 2002) establishes recognition of individual nestmates by facial markings.

Now it's your turn. You've made a lot of assertions here, and substantiated none of them. Would you like to do so, or are you instead comfortable being regarded as no more closely abreast of the current state of the field than Fabre was when he published on spider wasps, a century and a half ago?
This is how I first learned programming at 25, then leetcoding five years later.
Yes, and maybe they should be regulated too. They enjoy dominant positions in the market and blatantly rip off successful products down to the color and bottle shape.
There are these things called Grice's Maxims of Conversation, and this one is called the "Maxim of Quantity." The extra unneeded information is strange because it would normally be assumed. Tom Scott's example[0] is "vegan tomato." Felt like sharing because it's kinda neat to see it described by someone in the wild.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJEaMtNN_dM
Note this happens all the time to people who vest stock, and then before the next trading window the stock tanks in value. The employee owes income tax on the stock they vested, at the time the stock was granted, then have capital losses for the drop in share price. Losing 90% of the value of say $1,000 of stock, you could still owe something like $300 in taxes on what is now worth $100. This is the normal world for employees.

I’m not totally sure why we would want billionaires to shoulder less downside risk than their wage earning employees?
I haven't used TF32 personally, but I think the sales pitch is not too far off. Most of the time I use mixed-precision training which should be similar to FP16/TF32 in terms of performance. It does tremendously speed up training.
If you can make a proof-of-concept, that'd be a good thing to share on HN.
I'd expect a discernible trail in the social vicinity of said personal. A geographical vicinity to their route of commute (alone) is rather an argument to the contrary.

Disclaimer: I studied social research and related statistics.
My little app to monitor and assess the growth and health of trees I just planted in my backyard is a hobby app. It's just for fun. I did it for me.

If you want to use it for your hobby, go ahead.

When the extension office down the road wanted to use it for their cactus farm, that was fine by me. I added some stuff specific to cactii that they wanted. They added some more stuff. No big deal. It works for them, I guess.

When the U.S. Forest Service expressed interest, I was surprised, but, hey, whatever. They added some features, but needed some small architectural changes for those changes to fit in. They were reasonable and easy, so it was ok. I have no idea where they use it or what they use it for, really. But if it works for them, great.

This latest contact out of Brazil, though, is different. They want me to fly down there for two months and completely re-work the app to monitor the entire Amazon forest. Thousands of species and tens of thousands of monitoring stations in a giant mesh network across much of a continent.

Should I ask them for a donation?

OSS can be a hobby. It can be a passion consuming a lot of time and energy. And it can be a job. If it is a job, you get paid.
This only has 7 comments, but the article is relevant:

Bitcoin couple face death penalty for 'seastead' in international waters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19691294
If you feel like the only thing preventing you from understanding the security risks of executing a piece of Javascript in Chrome is the parts of the source that are used only in Chrome and not in Chromium, you have a very high opinion of your ability to reason about that many lines of non-memory-safe code that I think is not backed up by the evidence.
The regret comes in two stages for me. What I previously mentioned, and the second stage, which is when my kid started developing an interest, and I am unable to join in as my rudimentary skills are surpassed within a few months.
For my part, I generally search through O'Reilly Online (formerly Safari books. No association other that being a long time customer) for phrases around the subject until I find something that looks approximately right. I then read a bit of what I find in order to refine my jargon, and then search for the refined terms either on O'Reilly again, or on DuckDuckGo. It has always felt to me that just getting the correct terms down is 80% of the effort in researching existing tech.

I'll also ask for recommendations from friends or other people I'm the industry.

I think this is a fantastic question. Looking forward to see how others answer. I think my method could do with some improvement.
The Endless Frontier Act (EFA) is one of the most important legislative proposals you’ve never heard of — or at least it was.

First introduced last year by Senators Chuck Schumer and Todd Young, the bill would have established a new Technology Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) with a DARPA-like program structure equipped with flexible hiring and grant-making authorities. With a $100 billion budget over five years, the Directorate would have been empowered to use grants, contracts, prizes, and cooperative agreements with industry, academia and research institutes to push the frontiers of U.S. innovation in ten broad areas, ranging from cutting-edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing, to more mature but no less important sectors like robotics, manufacturing, biotechnology, advanced energy technology and material sciences.

That was then, this is now. While the mission of the Technology Directorate remains nominally intact, the scale of the EFA’s ambitions were suddenly curtailed late last week. Following a flurry of Senate Commerce Committee amendments, the $100 billion originally envisioned for the Directorate dropped to just $29 billion over five years, with $54.9 billion reassigned to the NSF-proper. Of that $29 billion, only 15% or $4.35 billion is reserved for the Directorate’s core R&D mission, with the rest earmarked for scholarships, test beds, academic tech transfer, and investments in regional “innovation centers.”

https://www.niskanencenter.org/how-congress-ruined-the-endle...
As a thought, how do you feel about walking through your city/workplace with CCTV cameras watching you?
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Hardly.

From the first article (which is mostly asking “what is climate“ and “should we expect climate not to change?”) we get its only really solid prediction:

“it can be anticipated that many readers would find this paper useless, if not harmful.” Lol.

The second paper was discredited and withdrawn though that hasn’t stopped deniers citing it endlessly.
> I think this emphasis on precise definitions is actually not that helpful.

To the contrary I believe that it is very helpful. One cannot apply logic or any other highly formalized method when he lacks definitions. It is hard to find a good definition, but at the same time it is the most important step in creating a theory.

> I think that the guy the Socrates is examining is actually doing a better job of having someone learn what courage is by giving examples than Socrates is by trying to state a precise definition for it.

Yes, it is a very helpful technique. When scientist needs a definition for a term, she starts with observing different cases. (Or rather she'd start with reading what other wrote on topic, but let's ignore this in the name of clarity). But she'd do it not like Laches by proposing examples, and not like Socrates by proposing counter-examples, but like they both: seeking for examples and then seeking for counter-examples.

> Although not precisely like an ML neural net, our brains are enough like one that that this is likely to be similar as well.

Our brains also very different from an ML neural net. Because we could dig a problem, construct a formal description of it, and then devise something like E=mc^2. We can generalize experience, while ML can only interpolate.
Google's biggest source of revenue is from web ads. They deliberately choose to not have extensions on the mobile version as it would mean that users could install ad block extensions, causing them to miss out on potential earnings from mobile ads.
For a second I thought this is a domain.
This is a big plus compared to Python. I dread installing Python for some project that needs it. Is it wheel, pip, pip3? pip3.7, apt install pip, poetry? Maybe pyenv? Good god what goes in my .bashrc? What in my PATH?
> Pretty much anyone with any understanding of economics would tell you that it's a terrible currency (and frankly, a questionable investment)

- citation needed

A store of value is a valid use case of a currency and Bitcoin has proven to be an amazing store of value compared with all fiat currencies that have been debased by their respective governments.

Bitcoin may also someday prove to be a viable unit of account in the future as it stabilizes and matures in price discovery, but fiat currencies by design will never be good stores of value.

Any Austrian school economist who understands the benefits of the Gold standard would tell you that the hard fixed supply of Bitcoin makes it a better currency for the people than any fiat currency.
You don't have to publish an extension to side-load it.
Isn't the problem though that any time you introduce a threshold the threshold gets gamed?

A tax on people making $400k a year causes a giant spike in people making $399k a year.

I think no matter what you do, bad unintended consequences will occur.
That's not what a red herring is.

They're calling out the logical inconsistency of the claims being made, and in turn questioning the genuineness of the speaker's motive.
Brother did not invent ink tanks. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertank_printers, Epson first introduced supertank printers to the US market, but continuous ink systems with (I assume) external tanks are at least 15 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Continuous_ink_sy.... As far as I can tell, your linked article doesn't even claim that Brother invented ink tanks, merely that Brother sells them and they are good.
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Now watch as they give that $250B away to government contractors who then spend the money to offer more useless services to sell to the government. They'd be better off investing $250B into education and changing the curriculum to focus on open source initiatives. At least China is good at sharing ideas, even if they supposedly steal them from other companies. The issue with tech innovation in the US isn't that it needs more money, it is because it is a system designed around copyrights and proprietary BS that tends to attract the least innovation. Take Microsoft for example, they are now basically forced to adapt to Linux because their billions of dollars couldn't compete against an open source solution.
...by taking out loans and not paying them back? I'm not sure why any bank would sign up for that.
Yes, but when you're filthy rich and sit on a mountain of unrealized gains you get to be selective about how much you pull out. You can invest 100 million in startups knowing that most of it will go to 0, allowing you to later offset anything that you cash out with losses.
Can anyone point to any Ohio legal precedents where something not regulated by PUCO has been considered a common carrier?

Per the original "An entity can be a common carrier and/or public utility under Ohio common law,even if it is expressly excluded from regulation by PUCO"

I'd be curious what precedent makes Google a common carrier in Ohio law. From a US federal standpoint individual websites appear to me more akin to radio broadcast stations, which according to Ronald Coase had a failed attempt to be declared common carriers.

I am not a lawyer, so I'd be happy to be corrected on that.
Same in Norway, but the result isn't very accurate.

For one, the wealthy don't tend to have any serious income - it's mostly capital gains for one of their holding companies or similar.

Second, those numbers can be seriously "massaged" by having debt - your income will show much lower if you have any significant debt (no mater how low the interest rate is).

For normal / regular people, the public figure gives you a very rough estimate.

Again - the rich and wealthy will almost always show up with income 0, tax 0, assets 0. You don't even need to be filthy rich to get it structured like that.

edit: What it did create, though, was a cottage industry of tax snoopers. Over here, you can see who's been checking you out - and nosy people not wanting to do that, will pay a couple of bucks for some service where others will check out your information.
You want to install a third-party keylogger? Sure, we'll let you ship your own password to a dark web clearinghouse...
If you're the founder of a transformative company maybe funding a couple generations of your family's fun projects is a good deal.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/10051...
I think the main problem is we think that power laws are not natural and that nature distributes everything on a normal distribution.

That is true for the height of humans. Most other things with humans, not so much.
I suspect a lot a corps sub to a similar model:

Make it not-obvious when something is billed, and make sure never to tip the customer off (e.g. by sending a monthly invoice). More than one company made it very easy to activate non-obvious reoccurring payments, and then communicate nothing wrt to the fact.

On that note: Fuck you NowTV.

also non too happy with Paperspace.
I thought a beneficial owner needs to have a certain % share or voting rights? Maybe I'm wrong about that.

What I mean is, anyone with enough skin in the game to have ultimate control. Also, I wouldn't assign sentences based on % ownership/compensation, but rather on control-based blame.
If I steal an item I deprive a person of that item. But the manner in which it is stolen can also cause damage, e.g. breaking and entering. People in positions of trust are able to steal with minimal damage caused by the method of theft itself.

> a weakening of trust amongst everyone in society

That's a very vague accusation, and can apply to nearly anything immoral. MP should return any money due, have it's credit score damaged, and punished for wilful fraud - but I wouldn't compare it to violent theft, or B&E.
Python 3.9.4 | packaged by conda-forge | (default, May 10 2021, 22:10:52)
[Clang 11.1.0 ] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tensorflow

Init Plugin

Init Graph Optimizer

Init Kernel

>>> tensorflow.config.list_physical_devices

<function list_physical_devices at 0x128011f70>

>>> tensorflow.config.list_physical_devices()

[PhysicalDevice(name='/physical_device:CPU:0', device_type='CPU'), PhysicalDevice(name='/physical_device:GPU:0', device_type='GPU')]
Outside of certain protected class situations, Freedom of Association allows anyone to terminate service irregardless of legality of political statements made on their own privately-owned platform.

And no, political stance is not a protected class.
I really liked Grafana, and I was using it for my personal servers monitoring, using collectd and InfluxDB, but recent updates changed everything, collectd became second class citizen with InfluxDB, and I was unable to replicate my queries with the new Grafana and InfluxDB.

I do not know if it is Grafana or InfluxDB faults (I guess IDB changed their API and Grafana followed), but I got lost.

I went back to plain RRDTool with a few static HTML pages with my graphs on it.

I don't know how you could this turning point where a tool become too complicated for "personal-pro" use, but I've seen this quite a lot (docker, chef.io, grafana).

I still think grafana is a great product, but it has sailed in the "enterprise" territory.
This is also very true for marksmanship.
I bought Sublime Text last year after using it off and on since 2009 or so and I don't think I'll switch again for a long time. I figured I'd gotten $80 of use out of it over the years, anyway. The difference in performance between ST and Atom/VSCode is unreal (but expected).

It doesn't have nearly as big a community behind it, so adjusting your tooling can take time, but I'm doing mostly Rust these days and it does a fine job for me. That all might be a dealbreaker for some, though. I do know Elm support was way better in Atom, but I'm not writing that very much these days.
The dude is smart and a billionaire. Most scientists dismiss other scientists for their cranky nonconformism all the time. Scientists are the most "not invented here"
(NIH) type of folks ever unless they can get a grant to study it. So he publishes his own books and has theories.. he also has an army of smart PhDs working for him.

There's no reason to discount his work scientifically. Yes he can subvert normal publication venues AND he can work on what he wants but so what. Doesn't make that any less interesting.
For covid, about < 1000ppm is a preferred ventilation rate (if humans are only co2 producer)
Was that a gentle hint regarding vcard?

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6350
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping
Another incident to consider is the previous "biological Chernobyl" from 1979, which involved a (drum roll) lab leak of Anthrax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak). Incidentally, all investigation was blocked in that incident, and the government denied culpability until Boris Yeltsin came into power and admitted that it was caused by military development (of biological weapons). The lack of accountability and transparency with the international community in that incident is part of why Russia was able to get away with continued work on anthrax-based biological weapons even after this incident. It's also why we need to bring greater scrutiny to what happened here with SARS-CoV-2, instead of pushing it under the rug - these leaks are more damaging than nuclear weapons and need the same kinds of controls.
Taking 4 hours out of my day is pretty massive. Between sleep, work, kid and basic household chores I wouldn't have 4 hours a day ever.
Some of, as in, cherry-picked tails. It has some unreasonably selectively-lenient places too, Just ask Seattle.

You also have to either take liberties with either "developed", or with "draconian", given some of the Asian and middle-eastern developed nations.
Ugh like recipes. With the damn recipe 10 pages down. I don’t care about your grandma’s life story. I just want to know how much flour to eggs ratio for pasta dough.

Incredibly annoying.
100% agree. ProPubluca author seems to not know difference between income and wealth.
So government owned means of production?
Could a humanized mouse contaminate its environment with sufficient viral load? (The burden of proof is on the hypothesis.)

Edit: I'm rather critical of gain-of-function experiments myself, but such concerns shouldn't provide any reason for any further assumptions. The discussion of a particular, empirical case is entirely different from any concerns based in principles.
Is this why I retain so much of my high school and early college education? I deep rested so hard my face hit the desk once per lecture or so, but I can still tell you about what the professor was teaching.
It's not possible to be a moral billionaire. As @anoncake phrased it on HN previously -- since wealth has diminishing marginal utility, wealth transfer programs are inherently positive-sum -- and thus, accumulation of wealth so far beyond human need is negative-sum. It's bad for the world, and everyone in it. No system of ethics or morality that permits billionaires (obviously, in the context of current poverty thresholds) is valid.
Is this so different than what many email clients do now where they don’t load images in the email unless the user requests them? I already use some obscure email clients (gmail and outlook) that do this. Do they threaten the newsletter boom, too?