skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to steelman the opposing argument while keeping the presumption of a biological sex-binary (i.e. we'll ignore complications like chromosomal abnormalities).

This gets complicated when you start to differentiate between hormones and genes, as might happen when you involve trans people. My understanding (and a cursory search seems to back this up) is that pre-puberty, height isn't different based on chromosomes. Its only post puberty that this difference occurs (and of course there's points in time where in aggregate, girls are taller than boys, as they hit puberty earlier).

So your claim is that there are chromosomal height differences. But assuming that there are enough trans people in the population, and specifically trans people who had hormone therapy through their pubescence, self-identified gender might be a better predictor, because you'll have someone with XX chromosomes who identifies as a man and had a male puberty in terms of hormone levels.

This get's very subtle, because then "men are taller than women" remains true, while "measurable biological differences" may be false, or at least...less true. Yet you presented these, offhandedly, as equivalent statements. I don't think rejecting that premise (or at least, not taking it as a given) is fundamentally anti-science.
Its not false its math. Get a spreadsheet out. He could have bought more shares without being taxed up front and the end result would be the same.
Astronauts complete China’s first-ever tandem spacewalk
Generally, no, that's not what that law in the US is acknowledging. It doesn't make any special consideration for any definition of "spyware" or any other similar concept, it talks about all kinds of data collection, including ones that would be otherwise voluntary and beneficial for an adult. There might be some other US law that talks about that, but COPPA doesn't.
Chinese-owned firm acquires UK’s largest semiconductor manufacturer
Stolen Picasso and Mondrian paintings found stashed in a ravine in Greece
Do you have any data behind that?
Yeah I can understand - its a different mindset when you didn't intentionally take the break and it was forced on you. I have been laid-off and gone through the resulting emotions. I think I handle it much better now. Plus I have some runway to take a break.
>I really, really hope this isn't a Sikh-specific rehash of the "party hat" phenomenon in the USA.

Guessing not. At least in Alberta, Sikhs have explicit exemptions from requiring helmets while operating a motorcycle[1]. I think BC and Manitoba do as well but I haven't checked their specific regulations.

[1]https://www.alberta.ca/helmet-exemption-sikh.aspx
I’m only here because I don’t understand why you would say 8 million terabytes instead of 8 exabytes.
https://drewdevault.com/2020/05/05/We-are-complicit-in-our-e...
> We didn’t set a price on lead emissions, we banned leaded gas and lead paint.

Because there was an alternative. There is no current good enough alternative to burning fuel. We want to motivate people to come up with some, and you do that with money.

Imagine if you could actually ban all fuel burning starting tomorrow - think about the results: Country wide blackouts (so no electric cars), no fuel, so no gas cars either.

All food deliveries stop, water pumps stop, and people die.

So, how sure are you that you want to ban CO2?
Complacency about these things is how our freedoms get eroded. At some point these organizations need to be called out for such behavior to send a message to the rest of the corporate world looking to sink their claws into OSS acquisitions.
People Now Spend More Time on TikTok Than YouTube, Facebook, Netflix
They are probably paying wholesale prices for that quantity. In many industries that’s half the retail price.
You can cuss as well, as they are designed to flag inappropriate language.
Taste is such a funny thing. I generally like ambient and electronica, Monolake, Tim Hecker, etc. I hated every second of the playlist you posted! :). Anyway, thanks for putting it out there.

When I program I listen to a lot of bird song/rain noise. Helps me focus.
My first reaction was maybe it's supposed to be satirical of what the commenter thinks "liberals" are like?
Just a couple of silly ideas, I’m no expert:

1. Collect the telemetry to a local file. The file must not be encrypted, be human-readable and contain only anonymized data. I should also be able to confirm all this by just reading the file.

2. Bug the user every time rr finishes or something like that. Ask them to send the telemetry by running a curl command that you will print out right there.

3. Have a sensible log collection policy on the telemetry servers and explain that too.
Project contributor here :) We want to continuously try with different micro optimizations or even architecture changes that can help us achieve the best performance that we want. Some optimizations result in trace offs in public interfaces or features that are not compatible with the common interface or even the opentracing standard. Therefore, we chose to build our own library. We think users will find it useful when full-features can be sacrificed for better performance. However some optimizations mentioned in this article can be made available in the `tracing` library easily, for example, the timing optimization has been extracted to `minstant` and can be just adopted. We are glad to help if the community is interested!
Google and Amazon recoup their investment in processes, tools, and cultivating the institutional knowledge to run massive data center infrastructure by marketing cloud services. Maybe Apple calculated that they would need to do the same to “level up” their data center infra but decided that doesn’t align with their business strategy.
People use "terabytes" a lot (on the order of the size of a desktop hard drive), they don't use petabytes or exabytes.
FWIW, it is similar to some freeware program offer.

And calling the subject «open source» is similar blasphemy as publishing project without source to sourceforge.
Ultimately because of cost and scalability. Photonic components are analog devices not digital so they do not have a “quantum” size that scales with process node. The size is the same in any node generally. It is possible to make the devices smaller by making them plasmonic but at the expense of loss. Since these are analog signal chains the signal to noise ratio at the end of the lossy device cascade becomes a significant limiting factor.

For scalability, the larger the die size the more it costs. The yield also becomes a problem as the die area increases due to random defects. I’d don’t understand the visible light comment since silicon absorbs below 900nm (visible and NIR).
Ask HN: How to implement abuse protection without storing IP addresses?
I am working on a website/app where I would prefer not storing user IP addresses for privacy purposes. Is there a way to achieve abuse protection without IP addresses?
I agree, although I am one of the younger generation that believes what the older generation is saying on this one.
Flip side. You have no idea if google is actually making a profit on this workload. It might literally be cheaper for apple to use GCP for storage here than doing it themselves.
Why are external drives so much cheaper anyway?

Edit: I googled it an apparently it’s an economy of scale thing. People are more likely to buy external hard drives, much more mass market thing, Costco and Walmart sell externals, therefore downward pressure on prices compared to internal drives.
So interesting, similarly I wish we had some of John Fante’s notes.
That's what "an open secret" means: something that may be thought to be secret but really isn't.
This is an aside but I recently studied for the MCAT and I think my commitment to drilling Anki flash cards every single day was a big factor in my success. I did full length practice tests and practice problems too like they tell you to do but the amount of focused knowledge I was able to cram into my head by rote drilling w/ Anki really put me over the top. I'd never used Anki before and the way it forces you to look at what you're bad at over and over again until you get it right is very helpful.

I could image making an Anki deck of colors and using that to drill color values as this author suggests could be really useful.
What is this useless comment? It’s easy to look up the numbers.

There are proportionally the same stabbing sin Uk and USA.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/stabbing-...
Dude silicon absorbs below 900nm. We are talking about IR here.
This tool might be useful to Wikidata contributors. Getting data out of Wikipedia and into Wikidata takes a lot of effort.
A data mart is a logical organization of data to help humans understand the schema. What I am describing is a physical optimization, extremely similar to what an OLAP cube would do, but implemented on top of a SQL data warehouse. It’s an orthogonal concept to a data mart.
The problem there is that heat is noise, and the balmy 300 Kelvin environment next to my workstation is a very noisy place indeed. So far, qubits seem to demonstrate the ability to actually be in a superposition of states only when we get them extremely cold so as to remove as much noise as possible from the system. This doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon, at least in the realm of superconducting qubits!

It's not actually a problem at this point, because cryogenics technology is really advanced, to some extent commoditized - if you want a fridge, you can buy one, though at D-Wave we've pushed the state of the art on these systems far past what you'd get off the shelf, to the extent where we've had production systems spend years cold with only routine maintenance.

For the foreseeable future, it makes way more sense to interact with a quantum computer remotely, the same way you interact with your Hadoop cluster or your GPU farm; you don't want to work right next to it, it's noisy, and unfortunately unlike a Cray it doesn't provide built-in seating. I should know, there are a large number of these machines a stone's throw from my desk...
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If we are going to go full-renewable we will need storage that works over night, storage for cloudy days and for days without wind. A low wind situation can last a week for example.

So we do need long-term storage and we will have to finance it so that when we need it, we can count on it
I wonder if there's going to be a fire sale on the Lenovo laptops on this ship: By the time they make it to stores, they'll be replaced by the following generation of machines.
I have one that I think helps - of course I made it up, so I'm biased.

Take a passage from a book you think is written well. For each sentence, ask yourself what, in your own terminology, the sentence is doing - what's the function of the sentence. For example, "a person reacts bodily" or "a decision is made involving time".

Then write your own passage for an entirely different story, wherein each sentence accomplishes the same function as what you encoded from the other passage.

For example, I did this to begin a children's story, taking my template from the first page of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink.

THE READER by Bernhard Schlink

When I was fifteen, I got hepatitis. It started in the fall and lasted until spring. As the old year darkened and turned colder, I got weaker and weaker. Things didn't start to improve until the new year...

LULLABYE by P Aaron Mitchell

When the moon first appeared my little Zienna hid from it. The moon waited to see her for about 18 minutes, which is a long time for the moon. The moon felt for her with its beams but she just hummed to herself in the molasses jar. When the moon looked the other way she climbed out...

Maybe the relationship isn't obvious to anyone else, and that's okay. It's still good practice - you force yourself to tell your own story in a cadence that matches (at least to you) that of a strong writer.
As far as I know, you can manage your own data with Apple devices if you want to.

By that I mean, storage in iCloud is optional. You can back up Macs locally pretty easily with Time Machine and you can back up iPhones to Macs locally as well (which then gets backed up via Time Machine). You can encrypt Time Machine and iPhone backups too if you want.

Is it as easy as using iCloud for backups, photo syncing, etc.? No, but that’s because iCloud is not just dumb storage, it’s a hosted software application (several, really).
They were raided by 4chan so could be some screwed up stuff
This is so obviously not about productivity.
Four years ago my sensei invited another sensei for a seminar and the other sensei said nearly exactly the same thing, but I never heard my sensei say it. Is your sensei Fujishima?[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/themitak/status/838896881866588161?s=20
Yeah the stress was at a different level when I was coming to the end of unemployment benefits (which were extended due to one of those economic disasters), but that didn't seem relevant to your question :)
TL;DR;

China is actually showing a bit of creativity and pride in its cultural heritage, by drawing on its folklore, when naming aspects of its space programme. Contrast with Europe's excruciating aping of the US practice of contriving godawful acronyms when naming everything.

Because it's not like Europe has any culture or folklore to draw upon, in these circumstances, is it?
It's the same argument as for profit prison systems.

While you are doing a social good by keeping violent offenders behind bars you also have a profit motive to ensure you have a stready stream of working entering the system to keep up with contracts and order quantity. Leading to many prisons being nothing more than forced labour camps.

In the same way, drama channels start out doing a social good. But they have a profit motive to find 'problematic' people, were the bar is lowered to ensure you have enough content.

You are basically punishing trying, raising the risks of failing to the level of social outcast.

Most of the obvious scams are obviously scams. So at what point do drama channels provide any more value than entertainment, when anyone can clearly see you are not going to make a million dollars drop shipping toasters.

Now their is the grey area, where its uncertain if a product is a scam. Talking about it is fine, but that's not how drama channels work. They make black and white claims, more often black because sensational content sells.

Let's not confuse things, these channels are for entertainment not social good.

I my girlfriend watches drama channels and I watched curiously as each and every successful female pop culture channel was targeted and brought down for being 'problematic'. I thought it was funny at first because they participated in the system that brought them down. Then I realised these channels were a form of social policing were after you remove the threat, the treashold for normal behaviour is lowered until you became the target of the mob.

I later figured out its envy that drives these channels, its entertaining to people to watch others fall from grace.
GitHub started offering free private repos to everyone in 2019 https://github.blog/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/
how is what you are doing helping? who could it possibly help?

the comment you responded to was written in english- in this language, the word 'english' can be colloquially understood as meaning 'in terms you understand', as in phrases like 'could you explain that in english?', which is not even the point.

claiming that it is 'absolutely the right thing' to crusade against an entirely abstract 'harm' reeks of one who is "convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others; narrow-mindedly moralistic" -- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-righteous
Well then... spill. Tell us what tidbits you heard please :)
"Mammalogist Maria Rutzmoser of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology suggests a more complex explanation: that small mammals—the ones needing protective coloration the most—typically live on the ground, scurrying in leaf litter. "Dead leaves aren't green," she points out. "They're brown.""

Get funding to create a GAN to see what color is actual the best for hunted mammals.

Sell to military.
>The next step is efficient visualization of trace data.

Ooh, I'd be really interested to see what could be done in that vein! Do you have any ideas about how we could lay out trace information?
What I think the other user is getting at is that Chisel isn't a "synthesizable subset" of Scala. You can use any Scala you want as Chisel is just a library. The model isn't a subset of Scala that can be turned into a netlist with the right compiler, but of a library for metaprogramming netlist graphs.
You don’t “owe” feedback but you should stay off Twitter/reviews/etc. if you haven’t at least tried to contact the developer first when there is a problem.

As I see it, your options are:

- Decide the software is not for you, for some reason, and silently uninstall it, or...

- Try to make the software better, working with the maintainer somehow (tell them what is wrong, contribute a fix or a bug report, etc.). People would be surprised how sometimes a fix is really simple but the use case may be really obscure, and it is literally just a matter of finding out that the problem exists.

My problem is that people seem to employ a “3rd option” of just deciding all by themselves that software must be poorly implemented and trash, and worthy of public scorn, because they can. If developers go long enough without any real feedback, while enduring negative “press”, you’d better believe they will at least consider something like a telemetry tracker to tell them what the heck is going on. At least that way, they can find these problems and actually fix them, to preserve their reputation.
You cannot yet get a guarantee of 1 logical gate-model qubit, no, but Amazon Braket will let you submit problems to D-Wave machines right now, with >5000 annealing qubits available.

D-Wave is seeing really promising results with optimization problems and materials simulation. The real barrier to entry right now is not access to the machines, or the middleware needed to use them - it's the ability to actually harness Binary Quadratic Model or Discrete Quadratic Model problems to apply to something that delivers real ROI.

There is a lot of training material available, but there's still a difficult road between systems that mathematicians and computational physicists can work with, and systems that are turn-key enough for a business analyst with a stats background to integrate into a reporting or planning workflow. Of course, anything in software that is a 'difficult road' is also potentially a goldmine for anyone that pulls it off.
See also Edward Bunker, an ex-con who wrote gripping prison and crime novels after spending 18 years in and out of prison and other institutions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bunker
> PS: the overwhelming majority of FOSS projects are far closer in size and scope to sqlite than they are to the Linux kernel (for which git was created).

It's amusing if not ironic how many comments are something to the effect of "...but how messy and clumsy would the Fossil approach be when working with the Linux kernel that has 1000s of contributors pushing 1000s of commits..." when the sum total of projects approximating the size of the Linux kernel can be counted on one hand, and the authors of such comments are almost certainly not working on such projects.

Not to mention the author of Fossil has clearly stated that Git is great for Linux kernel development, and Fossil was not developed for such a project.
I think there's a massive gulf between an employer's behavior and an employer's transparency; lack of transparency is not in itself a reason to condemn a person for working at a place. There's no actual evidence that Muse Group is actually installing this telemetry in bad faith, nor any actual evidence that they wouldn't be willing to modify the details so it's acceptable. They seem to be absolutely horrible communicators, but ones with a product that does good in the world (and yes, I think that their efforts to thread the needle between the litigious whims of the music industry and the effort to democratize access to sheet music and the tooling around it are societally necessary). So I think it's appropriate to be critical of how they handled the situation but still support the idea that the people working there can be doing so in good faith.
I’d love to have a robust and frictionless way for my working area (staged and un-staged) to be in sync with remote somehow on a press of some key combination.

A remote backup/copy of edited files without involving an external backup tool. Stash is just local. Next best thing is a WIP commit but that I usually do at day end.
Are there any high density devices in production that can support planet-scale data storage?
Surprised to see his blog here, I am a huge fan. He is very excellent, and also his munsel color videos are very good.
This is exactly why China is putting so much focus on their Belt and Road Initiative: to reduce their vulnerability to a US blockade.
Good find. Looks like state of the art in liquid air energy storage was 96% on storage side and 77% on recovery.

("Thermodynamic analysis of a hybrid energy storage system based
on compressed air and liquid air" by
Bharath Kantharaj, Seamus Garvey, Andrew Pimm)

https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/OutputFile/75803...
You are so right. The earth is flat. Shaving is bad. God cares about who you have sex with.

I like the work that Sikh community does. I've come across many good Sikh people. But their beliefs regarding hair is harmful in this case.
I think that makes sense. I am not in favor of a free-for-all on the implementation but I can definitely see the benefits of (say) having a bunch of anonymous crash logs telling you the things that users won’t, and such a thing should at least go through a reasonable 3rd party.
I think China strategy will be to slowly copy TSMC, starting from funding the universities around Shanghai, luring Taiwan nationals with higher salaries, and also try to copy the supply chain, however long that process will take.

Only after they have their own microprocessor industry, can they risk publicly invading Taiwan, and dealing with the retaliatory crippling of TSMC by supplying the rest of the supply chain.

It is a long and risky strategy. Who knows...

We will know in about 15-20 years.
What’s the point of this posting this pedantry? Please don’t.