skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that we need regulation. We need to force the majority not to freeload on the efforts of others. That's what regulation will achieve. But that being said, regulation will work because it will get more people to do the things you say will not work. If everyone voluntarily used less resources -- ate less meat, bought less virgin plastic, drove smaller cars less often for shorter distances, etc. -- that would produce the effect of regulation.

There are things we can do as individuals, but we need all the other individuals in the high-consumption parts of the world also to do these things.

One drop of rain doesn't carve a river but water does carve rivers.
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Curiously, I noticed you changed your username. Here's an updated link to your profile showing the same May 15, 2020 date, and comment/post history.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=navyeet

If you're interested in engaging with the substance of my comments feel free.
I suspect the reason Apple didn't make 10.4-10.6 freely available -- at least Intel, anyway -- is because they pay for the Rosetta license seats (QuickTransit wasn't free).
An alpha particle is a particle produced during alpha decay. It's always just a helium-4 which is made of two protons and two neutrons but with no electrons. This is why we have to mine for helium because it is produced in the ground by alpha decay.

It's different from normal helium because it doesn't have any electrons and it has an empty orbital which means it really really would like to have some electrons and also it's going crazy fast when it is created so that's why it's dangerous. But then once it takes those electrons from somewhere it becomes normal helium. You just don't want that happening in your body.

It seems like the other commenters in this thread are alluding to the electron thing maybe? Not exactly sure what point they're making.
And as I stated, things change as life goes on. I'm not telling you these things to piss on your parade. I'm giving you perspective that you clearly don't have yet.
Here in Australia I am certain that the last couple of years of summers have been drastically cooler than previous. From memory alone, I remember having weeks of 30c+ weather with multiple days above 40c.

However, after looking at our Bureau's temperature history it says otherwise:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/history/temperature/
Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE doing that but my work time and employer priorities doesn't allow it yet (and might never). And I am starting to get really sick of extending my work time to my free time as well.
He has a set of patents on certain types of highlighting frequency domain patterns in MRIs. In a lot of ways recurrent neural networks can be frequency domain feature extractors as the backwards data flows create sort of delay line memories tapped at interesting periods. The MRI manufacturers after refusing to license his patents, heavily invested in ML models that focus on using recurrent networks for frequency domain feature extraction. Patents aren't like copyright where independent reinvention is a way out; he has a monopoly on the concepts regardless of how someone came about them, even by growing them a bit organically like how ML works.
Writing the summary is a higher bar than just deciding that you could.
They phoned the statement in?? And nobody thought that would just serve to confirm it’s a mess while giving the reader a chuckle?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27694941
'kay. He was a terrible person. Fine.

If he was indeed harassed to suicide would this hold in court though?

Taking justice into your own hands is dodgy business. A guy has died. Will there or will there not be consequences? Was his sick fuckery worth it to ruin the lives of whoever contacted him? Because this may very well result in that
It's freaking hilarious to see exactly the same arguments played out as in the equally long and heated thread on exactly the same subject only a few weeks ago. Complete with the same lazy bastards who couldn't be bothered to read TFA before expounding on it, the same poor schmucks earnestly regurgitating it for them, and the same ultra-libertard arseholes praising this corrupt shitstain of a corporation. Sigh... Geroffmylawn.
I think the assertion that homeless shelters never helped with homelessness merits a citation.
I’ve had my IP cameras installed for 8 years already, they still work fine
Sadly they also have been affected by the chip shortage.
So car insurance is collective punishment? You own a gun, you increase collective risk. Conservatives hate paying for negative externalities but love positive externalities it seems.
Not really. Pure heavy water along with pure uranium and pure CANDU reactors are imported components. The quality of cooling water and feed water doesn't matter much.

Remember, nuclear power plant is merely a very large heat engine. The main problem is terrorism there.
> Would you fire an intern who intentionally and repeatedly pushed broken code to production

Probably not faster than I’d fire whoever let an intern repeatedly push broken code to production, without taking responsibility for fixing the deployment process problem they were responsible for, were I at the level where my responsibility wasn't merely to fix the deployment process problem but to address the problem that allowed the deployment process to persist, and presuming that there wasn't a systemic reason rather than simple nonfeasance behind permitting that problem to go unfixed.

Especially as establishing the “intentional” part of the hypothetical would probably take longer than establishing a serious and inexcusable failure even in the absence of any intent in the person responsible for allowing the push to be possible in the first place.

That's, I think, the upthread posters point. If you have an intern posting broken code to production repeatedly (intentionally or not), you have another problem that is a deeper and broader impact problem, whether individual or systemic or both, than the intern.
5 year olds can shoot guns. I've shot guns since I was 8 and got my hunter's safety permit at 14. At any rate, this law is an unconstitutional absurdity designed to be agitating and inconvenient while accomplishing nothing except stroking someone's ego.
Trees have been measuring far longer. Other indicators of climate go back a very long way and we have a pretty good idea of major shifts in the past. It’s not like we just create data from nowhere…
This is a deeply unpopular opinion, but I find myself aligning with this more every day. I think code reviews are a fundamentally broken process. Design reviews, before any (non-prototype) code even gets written, are vastly more important than code reviews in my opinion.
The fax machine is down too, I guess.
Bloody Bolo! Never could figure out how to kill a pillbox without getting smashed. Wasted too much time on Escape Velocity: Override myself...
I think it's going to be what you remember. Intellivision competed against VCS (it's technically a 1970s system, after all), and in general the Inty games were stronger (programs didn't spend most of their existence trying to just draw the screen). It wasn't state of the art even by the time the NES (let alone the SNES) came out, so the comparison isn't all that fair. It's amazing the INTV System III sold at all, since it was just a repackaged Master Component.

For me, the disc pad on the Inty -- which the article author seems to have forgotten about -- wasn't the worst part of the controller, though you could really wreck them and I had to find good membranes to fix my Sylvania Inty. It was those damn side buttons.
I don't think Steam wants any more from me than any other payment processor. And for that matter, if you don't want to give them CC/address, you can use Steam gift cards, right?

I confess I'm not sure; I've trusted Valve with a very specific part of my life (buying games) for nearly 20 years now, and they've held up their end of the bargain the entire time. My trust in them has paid off (so far!)
If you are going static with a SSG I think you should embrace HTML5 semantic elements. Write your web site like it's 1999! Only there are much more elements to choose from now with HTML5! Ohh and we have CSS! Don't complicate things! The only real problem is how you get the marketing team to write HTML and use a version control system (git, mercurial, et.al). Or do you give up and give them a WYSIWYG content editor? The thing with semantic HTML is that it's much nicer then a pile of of divs with classes sprinkled over it.
Can't we just collect rain falling to sea, or grab clouds?
That's exactly what I understood it to mean when I read it.
> Yeah, well, I regularly read on HN about how retail consumers are locked out of investing in stocks, that only rich people can.

Vanguard and Schwab already did that decades ago. They just didn't gamify their products or benefit from meme culture.

> I've been a retail consumer stock investor my entire adult life, and would be pretty unhappy if regulations locked me out of that.

"Retail consumers should not be [trading individual stocks]" is not a claim that individuals should be barred from putting their life savings into belly button lint futures if that's what want to do. It's simply stating that by and large, individuals should be encouraged towards sensible defaults and not simply whatever the latest meme investment is. Veering from those defaults for non-trivial sums of money should involve increasing levels of warning and resistance proportionate to the estimated change in risk.

And that goes in both directions. Just as retail consumers should be given additional levels of resistance for investing in individual stocks, investing in recently-memed stocks, buying put options, and buying on margin, they should also meet resistance when putting their entire balance into cash positions as happens to far too many investors that don't realize the error.
This is the naturalistic fallacy.
I'm always reminded of the Karl Pilkington video whenever this is bought up. It doesn't seem very nice.
IBM has a major Slack outage at least once a week for most of this year. I don't know really whether it's a Slack problem, or an IBM problem, or if trying to split off Kyndryl at the same time is just too much, but it's always having rolling outages.
Fair enough point, it'll be interesting to see this pan out.

It seems to me, though, that there are two distinct categories here.

On the one hand is what the criteria are under which one can exercise their rights. This is where your age criteria for guns, or "fire-in-a-crowded-theater" exceptions, or not being able to practice cannibalism just because it's your religion, come into play.

On the other hand, though, is penalties that exist solely because you're exercising your rights. To say that a given piece of speech (or the right of an individual to buy a gun) isn't permissible is one thing, which is what I think you're referring to above. To say that a given piece of speech (or the right to buy a gun) is permissible, but that the government will penalize you for saying it anyway seems like an absolute breach of your rights.
For $150 turbotax filed my fed and state taxes:

1. W2s + bank interest for two people

2. Taxable capital gains of various kinds, including stock, options, and 1256 contracts

3. Self employment business (consulting) with multiple clients and deductions for various business expenses.

All of this took less than 2 hours and most of the data was digitally imported from various portals.

I'm guessing it would cost me at least an order of magnitude more and take similar time to do it through an accounting firm.

So i'm kind of split, on the one hand intuit is an evil company and i hope our tax system is changed/irs no longer uses them/etc. On the other hand I really don't want to spend extra 1k+ on taxes OR spend tens of hours it would take me to assemble the 50+ page return on my own.
BTW, for anyone who hasn't heard it, the This American Life episode linked to is absolutely worth listening to (or just read the transcript).

They should link to the update to that story:

Transcript:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/496/transcript

Audio:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/496/when-patents-attack-par...

One key takeaway: If you yield to a patent troll and agree to give them some percentage of your earnings, and later that patent gets invalidated - you still have to keep paying.
Elixir on Heroku is just as viable (we're still running on a single heroku Dyno and postgres instance on Elixir).

Not having much info, my guess is many languages would worked out for that startup.
If you think that this is insane, try scientific research and public funding grants. Is a totally new world of insanity.
That's a press release for an unpublished paper disguised as an article.
The same punishment that you get if someone steals your car and runs someone over with it: nothing.
If they were running your systems for you, how many days would it take for you to say something in a public fashion (a tweet, for example)? Give them a week, maybe?
I'd imagine the problem is more about obtaining documentation, ROMs, OS files etc. Emulators of questionable legality have always been around, for platforms more commercially interesting than this. But it's rarely lead to legal action.
OK - so I vaguely skipped through the patent looking for claims - mostly it's a description of some guys possibly novel media processor architecture, remember the description is not the patent, the claims are. I could only find a short claims section at the end (1.5 pages out of 56).

This doesn't read like most patents which tend to be lower on the details, and longer on the claims, I suspect that this was either written directly by the engineer, or written to effectively publish the details of the design to avoid others patenting their stuff out from under them (or both). Probably the original company went under and the patent was onsold to the troll.

The actual claims have nothing to do with SRAM vs. DRAM (or even malloc) - my (lay) reading of these claims are that you have to have:

- memory containing instructions and data
- more than one processor containing a multiplier, an ALU, a logic unit, a bit processing unit
- all the media processors running in parallel

this does describe pretty much any modern multicore chip, or graphics chip, and perhaps more closely Sony's Cells for example.

As a sometimes computer architect having a bunch of CPUs execute code and data out of shared memory is 'obvious' (and was at the time, I was building media processors before 1997, and frankly was 30 years before). As far as prior art - I'd consider any multi-cpu mainframe starting in the 1960's onwards to be valid prior art here

If I were Sparkfun I'd pull in Arm, Intel, AMD, nVidia, Sony, IBM .... and nuke this thing from orbit
You should pay a fee and have internet insurance anytime someone commits a cybercrime. Shit it's not even about left/right but rather the government is completely incompetent and cannot protect its citizens so they decide to tax them via "required" insurance if you exercise your right to own a gun? lol.
I don't think this is what people mean by a rewrite here. I expect any code that makes it to review to undergo some kind of refactoring. Sometimes it's going to be refactored as part of the review. And if throwing away your first draft works for you to create better software, that's fine! I still consider this as some kind of refactoring.

Throwing away a whole repository that was tested and running in production or on some dev environment, is something different in my point of view. And I think that's what people mean by "rewrite".
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It was approved in 2001. They weren't as tight on this kind of nonsense back then.
Generously interpreted, I think they are questioning why we're criticizing Intuit for doing it when we don't necessarily criticize other companies for it.
Wasn't suggesting to use the BEAM.

OP said he did not know any other "BEAM like environments", but AWS and GCP are "BEAM-like" systems in that they allow you to use distributed hardware computers to achieve scale and fault tolerance.
The NWS has a map with experimental wet bulb data here: https://digital.mdl.nws.noaa.gov/
> (difficult for the target groups)

Why? My father is an immigrant, speaks with broken English and has no higher education ... and did his taxes for years with forms.

Which target group are you referring to?
I think the comment you are replying to was objecting to the number of layers, rather than the level, of abstraction. More concretely, I'd guess they would not object to a tool that replaces k8s and offers a higher level api, but they do object to building said tool on top of k8s.

For myself, I think it depends on how leaky the abstractions are. The leakier, the fewer layers the house of cards can stand. That is, it's more about where you slice it than how many times.
Works well for a warrior (where 7 breaths is a long time) - but not so much most business leaders/managers. After witnessing it so many times, I'm guessing the standard playbook they teach at business schools is "Don't bother taking time to understand a situation - just make a decision unnecessarily quickly and over-confidently, and then stick to your guns no matter what".

So much wasted effort results... but, hey, at least I got paid for it. And now I make sure I don't work anywhere where they run this playbook anymore!
>Not tipping doesn't accomplish anything and the server who has no control over the system and is already underpaid gets screwed over.

What a curious statement, American Stockholm Syndrome in full effect.

I'm in Australia and tipping is only really done in the case of exceptional service. The price on the menu is the price you pay. Nobody feels animosity towards someone who pays the price on the menu, and nobody feels guilt for "only" paying the price that was specified.

Also nobody would expect sub-par service or to be disparaged if they don't pay more, as sibling commenters have mentioned.

Much simpler for everyone - why should customers have to do convoluted maths to work out how much to subsidize a business that can't afford to pay their workers? That is pretty much the definition of an unviable business.
You are the kind of PM that I will gladly give estimates to.

The others, not really.
Wouldn’t most people just restate the ticket? Or do you mean, they write about the actually implementation. Eg, “this fixes the race condition by removing the timeout and waiting until the initialization task finishes (line #55) before instantiating the chart widget”
The vast majority of our freshwater comes from sources that cost us effectively zero in energy: the water cycle moves water towards higher elevations and it flows down towards our populations. Worst case scenario, water in ancient underground reservoirs is pumped to the surface.

If we had to desalinate all that water and actively distribute it instead, it'd be a significant fraction of our current global power consumption. The power sources need to be concentrated near the desalination plants and at least half the world lives 100km+ away from a coastline. At 3 kWh per m^3 of water[1] and ~3.5 m^3 per person per day [2], that's an extra ~3800 kWh per year, which would increase per capita energy consumption by 25-30% [3] in the United States just for desalination.

We have enough challenges replacing existing power infrastructure with solar and wind. Placing the burden of desalination on top of that is unrealistic, especially since the NIMBY fight over solar installations of that size would probably be just as fierce as for a nuclear reactor.

[1] https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/energies/energies-12-00463...

[2] https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/scie...

[3] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC?locat...
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How is it a Constitutional challenge? The Second Amendment says the right to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged, and this law doesn't appear to abridge that right.
Bill Cosby, Brock Turner, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jeffrey Epstein... If you have the right pedigree, you get a rape pass. All 4 relied on inebriation.
As I've mentioned elsewhere here I suspect that most of this patent was originally written at least in part to establish prior-art and as a result to avoid future patent claims - it's some guy describing his quite valid new architecture - don't tear him down for that.

What is an issue is: 1) the actual claim (last 2 pages) which tries to essentially claim any multi-cpu shared memory computer from the 1960s onwards, and 2) the patent troll trying to claim this is valid
So, like DSPs have had forever?
No, I'm just countering your assumption, because that seemed to be your objection.

In actual fact, of course, you wouldn't need anywhere near that many: This is all done by software nowadays, not bespectacled men with green eyeshades, quill pens, and big ledgers. Sure, being so much bigger, you might have more weird edge cases and exceptions... But although your population is twenty times bigger than the Netherlands', your number of kinds of edge cases and exceptions will be far lower than that. And you only need exception code for each kind of edge case. So your larger population will actually allow you to use fewer resources, proportionally, to build an equivalent system; not more.
Some states limit the ability for children to buy guns. This has not been deemed unconstitutional.
I think ICQ used to work like this too, and I remember how impressed by it I was.
>But merely pleasant interactions

I didn't say they are "merely pleasant". I said they are enjoyable, desirable, and helpful.
You can (and I do) use the fact that it is a 3D space to store further information (such as ordering and relationship between items).

In CS terms, a memory palace is usually used as a linked list while a peg system would be a hash-table but you can turn the memory palace into an array with both O(1) random access and fast in-order iteration.
I think we should carry this logic to its natural conclusion and require politicians to pay back and be held liable for any laws or policies they pass that inadvertently ends up causing any harm to anyone.
It doesn't effectively replace or integrate into the much more serviceable linux client where I read all my work email AND all my other email
Are you in Agtech too? :)
You do realize not everyone in our industry agrees on everything right? Tbh you seem pretty junior. PG isn’t some universally loved figure. A lot of people (successful) don’t like YC at all and think they pump out lame ideas. I’ll coach you a bit here and challenge you to go find a senior person in our industry that doesn’t agree with pg. There’s a lot of them out there and you’d definitely expand your horizons.

As to my background, I’d prefer to stay anonymous so I can freely speak my mind. You don’t have to believe me, but it would probably be helpful if you admitted that there are many philosophies on leadership and it’s worth exploring more than one.
I am not sure this is correct, people ate raw fish and meat before any of the processing happened. So I would guess that sashimi was known way earlier than fermented fish.
Huh? Communist China was (and still is) aiming to have LESS children. Before 2015 they didn't allow more than 1 (one!) child per family. Currently they are allowing 2 (two) children which is below sustainability threshold of 2.4
Don't assume things about me, and don't condescend onto me like you're some wise master. I'm not some young fresh college grad. I've been around the block plenty, worked at plenty of companies, lived in multiple cities and countries, and seen my fair share of come-and-ago friends. Nothing about what I said changes.

I'm sorry that apparently you haven't been able to (or just haven't bothered to) build the relationships I have been able to, but work is unequivocally an indispensable part of how I (and many others) enjoy life and meet people. I absolutely wouldn't give up the friendships that I made at my workplaces for anything.