skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nix.

There isn't an ensmallen package yet, but I wouldn't imagine it will take long and I guess it'll be a 20-30 line package.
Obviously not the graviational waves, but I was also thinking abouth the warp bubbles used in FTL travelling (and its abuse) distorting space time forever
>their global sales rely on first manufacturing in China?

for the past years but China's wages is increasing and Chinese crack down on tech company like Alibaba, Tencent, DiDi...etc. would it extend to foreign company? Not to mention the rise of Chinese domestic tech company like Xiaomi.

it look like Apple is not making their money back in China with this deal.

"To placate Beijing, though, some capital may have served more like donations to state enterprises and local governments. The company generated $249 billion of sales in Greater China over the last five years, less than the pledged amount."

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/apples-ugly-china-deal...
You see it everywhere: in climate change, our societal response to COVID, in claims of inequity that basically equate any statistical variation with -isms and -phobias. I personally believe that education inflation is at play: nominally, rates of people who have university degrees are up, but the real value of education has been replaced by inferior methods and poor-quality thinking. In particular, a false confidence in their understanding of statistical data.

So you have a lot of people walking around with the confidence of having earned a degree and completed an education, when they actually just have brain worms. And they're impervious to criticism to the point of arrogance, because they're College Educated.

I think the solution (or at least, something you personally could help do to change things) will be found in hiring practices. For open positions in fields not requiring specific specialized skills like the law, STEM, etc: stop requiring college degrees, and start using IQ tests or similar filters for those roles.
Humans have a minimum 150ms response time, which in many corner causes is too high
No, American executives sold middle class souls to mass manufacturing in China, directly leading to Trumpism.
Just a guess, but Apple devices hit Apple services fairly regularly, each requiring a DNS lookup.

1.1.1.1 is Cloudflare's public DNS service.
Ah, that makes sense. I take it that its name is a play on "DoubleClick"?
> America needs to onshore manufacturing of critical chemicals and components. Steel. Electronics.

I'm all for countries having local manufacturing capabilities. Not just the US. I was also pretty vocal about Argentina having them when I lived there and I'd love the US to have more accessible local manufacturing now that I'm here.

Thing is, as much as I can want that as an engineer with a somewhat cozy desk job it's true that on-plant jobs require skill and determination that I don't have so I feel a bit of like a hypocrite for suggesting that. Are there people in the US that want factory jobs? Because when looking for talent in California for stuff like manufacturing engineering, supplier development... or when trying to find small shops that will prototype I kinda feel that no one wants to do that. Salaries are kinda okish for those positions, but to actually rebuild the talent and the collective energy and willpower to work those jobs is going to take a while.

Honestly can't blame the Bay Area for not wanting to work in plant considering public transport sucks and everything closes early. You need someone at the house or with flexible schedule to be able to take a job on plant.
You are right. The source for my statement above is this link: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/jwsts-limiting-fac...

At the end of the link is the clarification:

Drs. Heng and Winn respond:

As pointed out to us by Drs. Jason Kalirai and Jason Tumlinson at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), as well as Mr. Sykes, our article misstated the reason for the finite lifetime of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. The mission duration of 5.5 to 10 years is not limited by the supply of liquid helium, as we stated. Rather, it is limited by the supply of hydrazine fuel needed to maintain the spacecraft’s orbit.

Thanks for the correction, will edit my parent reply.
Can You Say Crime-Prediction Software Is Bad Without Considering Accuracy?
Oh, I'd say that in many places there definitely is a stigma around either the term "mental health" or the concept in general. I've focused on emotions for the last 10 years or so with work and I've heard innumerable times people talk about "mental health" and "getting rid of the stigma." I personally believe it has more to do with the phrase and the history of the phrase—i.e., coming from mental health institutions and how it has been used for extreme cases—than with the concept itself. I also think the phrase can evoke defensiveness in a lot of people. If someone says to me there's something wrong with my mental health, I may think they're saying there's something wrong with my brain and lash out. If someone says there's something wrong with my emotional health, I may go, "Yeah, I've been stressed, worried, frustrated, etc."

> Mental health and emotional health seem like very different things.

How would you say they differ?
> ... seeking to merge with other democratic nations (Australia, Korea, Japan, Taiwan).

That presumes that other countries want to be part of America. I suspect strongly you'll find that's not the case. Merger then has a more "1812" feeling to it.

The only folks tripping over their shoelaces to be US states are Puerto Rico and DC.

> America needs to onshore manufacturing of critical chemicals and components. Steel. Electronics.

While these are strategically sensible decisions, that won't bring back Apple any time soon. Everyone manufactures in China because there's a critical mass of manufacturing in China. All your components are made there, by everyone, and the best-in-class assembly folks are all there. Supply chain and logistics are all there.

China's investments in ports, roads, railways are paying dividends. Including their one belt one road initiative offering overland rail links to the UK.

It's not sufficient to just say "let's make stuff at home" - it requires real, long-term, strategic thinking, huge investments and optimizing for the group. These are not America's strengths right now.
Those camps didn't build themselves.
If you're at the point where you're going over your bosses head to point out that he's stealing credit it doesn't really matter if you can prove you are right.
Way to shoehorn in the gifted students culture war Bs. Also, you juxtaposed it with “equitabl,” which is ceding the point to those that say those types of programs are inequitable. We don’t need endless growth, we’ll capitalism needs it, but we don’t.
I have seen some public transportation work up close in the USA -- "me first" and competition between different teams ate up quite a bit of the (expensive) time.. lots of very competent, skilled people and also quite cynical and profit-seeking management. The actions of management were sometimes directly contradictory to recommendations by hard-working staff. Worse, management that tried to get things done quickly were pushed out by others who were better at looking good (or something else I dont know about).

The old expression "we have the worst system in the world, except for all the others" .. comes to mind

edit- I would like to point to NORESCO in particular as a sponge-like entity with a long history of failed, expensive projects and a long pipeline of new funding, based on what I saw with my own eyes.
Yes, that article is a classic, in the Venn diagram intersection of "hard science explained well" and "creative ways to get historical data" and "both local and federal government failure to plan or address known issues" and "we were warned" and "absolute nightmare fuel".

If/when the Cascadia superquake kicks off, everyone will be passing that link around, so you may as well read it now.
> I want America to be #1. Free speech, being critical of government, and even having the ability to run for president are rights that every person should have

In principle I agree with you, but in practicality something maybe isn't working as expected? If those things mattered so much, why would the Chinese middle class have grown so much while the American middle class shrank? (assuming this is true, which I'm not sure)

At the end of the day, there's still a hierarchy of needs. If one country cannot offer its citizen those needs, reaching for higher level ones doesn't matter. Most people would rather be able to afford food, clothes, a home, electronic, entertainment, etc, than they would the ability to be critical.

On some other dimension, the best argument free democracies had used to be that the people of those countries were richer and had better lives, while totalitarian regimes, religious regimes, communist regimes delivered a worse outcome to its people. And while this is still mostly true, it seems that it's no longer as obvious which one delivers better value to its people.
Everything about the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell story sets off alarm bells. Given the number of high-profile people involved, and the curious outcome that befell Jeffrey Epstein, I think conspiracy thinking may be a reasonable option to consider. It certainly does strike me as curious that the trial has been shortened to a week and the press mentions it barely at all. In this case, not being suspicious is frankly being naive.
They turned having an immune system into a paid service. Evil genius is still genius I suppose.
The FDA has already been working to reduce antibiotic use in agriculture.

https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/safety-health/antimicr...
iPhones are not a middle class item anymore, or, I've seen plenty of "low income" people with iPhones.

Apple dominates the US market, and will continue to do so. So why bother to invest more in a market you already own? The US domestic market hasn't shrunk for iPhones. I think this is reading way too much into this. China is a new growing market largely untapped by Apple, and one that is significantly larger just due to population sizes. It's as simple as that.
I am a webdev and I use mostly linux servers / docker for my job but still my work pc is windows 10 machine. WSL2 was incredibly slow for my dev job. It consumed a lot of RAM and CPU. I got permission problems inside wsl all the time - I edited files in some editor (eg phpstorm or visual code) and then the permissions were broken inside wsl2 for that file.. or the CPU started suddenly to go insane.

My experience was a pain in the ass. I dumped wsl2 or some virtualization and use this instead:

I have a small linux cloud instance with full ssh access. (I pay 4 USD / month).
I use a free tool called mutagen to sync all my files on my windows machine to that linux machine. Sync is almost instant, it feels like working on local server.

Other plus, I can show to my coworkers and customers what I do on my server. Especially now when I work from home.

WSL2 is nice for smaller things, but I would not use it for full web dev server. I would if I could but it doesn't work nice for me. And somehow, it doesn't feel right... I know linux is fast but in wsl2 it is way slower.
Not just 2022, after being stuck with an 14nm node and old uArch from Intel. The Super Cycle will go on till 2025+ once you factor in all the upgrade from previous hardware and new capacity. PCI-E 6.0 was 0.9 in Oct and should have been 1.0 by now. I guess a small delay. We are looking at PCI-E 7.0 by 2023/2024.

Intel is working their ass off to get back on track to their somewhat original roadmap. Lots of competition from AMD and more importantly ARM. We finally have node improvement after stuck with Intel 14nm on servers for 4+ years. TSMC 3nm in 2023 and 2nm by 2025. ( Expect a year later on Server ). DDR5 and DDR6 as well. 1 PB of SSD in 1U with Ruler form factor. And 800Gbps Network possible.

The biggest problem with all of these is that they are not getting cheaper per unit. DRAM / GB hasn't dropped at all in the past decade. The price floor is pretty much the same at $2/GB and much higher for high capacity and ECC memory. ( Price excluding inflation so you could argue it is cheaper ) NAND wont get much cheaper even with higher stacking. So all in all, you may be putting double the Storage, DRAM or Networking in a Server put they will cost double as well. Only thing that is getting slightly cheaper is CPU Cost per Core.

Edit: And that is why this decade may be all about Software optimisation. There are many inefficiency lying around in our software stacks. While we have peaks everywhere in our Hardware roadmap. I would be surprised if we could even get 1TB Memory and 128 Core Server at half of today's price by 2030.
Love it! Thanks for sharing, you're doing the science god's work, kid. You'll go far, I'm sure of it.
> Groups Never Admit Failure

I've been a member of groups that admitted failure. One time a group of us swam through a barnacle-encrusted passageway & cut ourselves. Everyone was bleeding. "That was a mistake," we agreed.

A volunteer group I'm in accept a $150k bequest, and after much soul-searching we decided to return all but $10k. Everyone agreed that we shouldn't have accepted the money in the first place because it caused too much strife in our organization.
Probably apple telemetry. At least some of the phoning home is done using apple.com as a domain so it can add up very quickly. If anything I'm surprised the top domains aren't just telemetry endpoints, but I guess telemetry is a good use case for bare IPs so it doesn't show up as much on DNS analytics.
> closer we get to artificial intelligence, the more we raise the bar for what qualifies as AI (as we should).

This is true, and in some regard, how it has always been.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

Already, outside of obvious marketing, a lot of uses of the current wave of AI/deep learning have stopped becoming magical.
Digital Transformation: 5 Trends for Product Roadmaps
> MPEG 2 has been patent free since 2018 in US and 2020 worldwide.

The patents were still active, and the technology was still useful, when the Pi Foundation started selling the license keys in 2012. Nowadays... yeah, they're irrelevant.
Spending? What's that? Crypto is mostly about the speculative asset bubble and scams. :)
Very interesting project. Sometimes wonder why there aren't more project like this, that remove the need for configuring a server
There is really no good reason to retire Alexa
To start an AI company you generally don't need much. A few thousands in GPUs and you are good to go. If AI researchers feel they are underpaid there is literally nothing stopping them from starting a company themselves.
I'm sure you're right regarding sampling bias, but the vaccinated people I know have not turned off their phone contact tracing alerts, and get tested if they receive a tracing notice.
One year studies did too. Yet, here we are.
The scholarly pursuit of Shrek
Ah! I didn't realise there is a video.
I pay for Stratechery. It’s absolutely worth it. Top tier analysis.
AFAIK, s390 also has 8-bit bytes. The "31 bits" is the pointer size; IIRC, it's actually 32 bits, but with one bit reserved for compatibility with its even older predecessors.
> Are there people in the US that want factory jobs?

The only way to make manufacturing at home competitive with overseas is full-scale automation. It won't create jobs to bring it back onshore - nor should it for exactly the reasons you specify. Instead, it would be a strategic investment.
If you wish, you can download some of the top 1m records from their s3

curl http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip --output ~/Downloads/alexa.zip

Today it contains the top 630779 records.
I wouldn't call it low-hanging fruit considering just how dependent large-scale animal agriculture is dependent on antibiotics
Oh in my experience it very much does.

Companies are loathe to fire someone without a paper trail. Bring them a paper trail and you can unseat an unpopular manager that their bosses have lacked the evidence to fire.

... sometimes. Sometimes the tree is rotten to the trunk. There's no hard-and-fast universal rule here.
> How different is this from the 1980's in the U.S.

Historians generally agree that Martina Navratilova was rightfully and lawfully detained for insulting the Republican party.

And that it was important for Toyota to comply with US lawful interception requirements for any communication in automobiles.
I don't think people are claiming that bacteria care how you're using the antibiotics. It's just that using less antibiotics is better if possible, and it makes more sense to cut out the least important usages first. I mean, if it's between throwing 100 doses of antibiotics into a river or depriving 100 sick people of their dose of antibiotics, it seems pretty clear which choice to make.
What about calculating the environmental impact of the programming language you use?

Some of the most popular languages are the least performative (we all know which ones). But they make life easier for developers, or as programmers love to say 'more productive'.

It's good to see new(ish) languages take performance seriously: Rust, Go, Nim, Crystal, Julia. I don't think it's controversial to say a typed, compiled language gives you good performance for free (and the reduced computing resources that implies).

When PHP 7 was released, Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, said the performance improvements meant fewer servers, smaller memory use and reduced CPU activity - all of which equalled less power or electricity consumed. (And remember this is an interpreted language.) You can watch a segment from his presentation below where he talks about this, including the calculations he made of potential CO2 savings:

Rasmus Lerdorf – "PHP in 2018" (extract from the 15 min mark): https://youtu.be/umxGUWYmiSw?t=15m16s

When you consider the millions of servers in use, that additional language efficiency adds up to a substantial saving in electricity use. And yet among developers, a common response to performance issues is to say: hardware is cheap, just add another energy-guzzling server or use a more powerful computer.

The topic of ranking programming languages by energy efficiency has been discussed before on Hacker News. Here is the paper previously discussed which has been updated in 2021:

Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages: https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages
I agree with you on the personal projects stuff and have also had that language struck from contracts (I've published a couple of short books on Amazon and had one contract that pretty clearly said my employer would be entitled to profits from those books... pass).

But in terms of building it on personal time, I'm iffy on that. Obviously in tech the time tends to blend together... I've worked on weekends but also spent half a day doing personal stuff when I'm WFH and I have very little on my plate. It seems to me like the more relevant fact is that he clearly built this for his job - to me, that makes it feel like this is a situation where the employer claiming ownership isn't abusive at all. If he never would've built this if not for being employed at that job, and he used it primarily in that job, isn't it fair to say he made it as part of the job?
anyone remember alexadex, a website stockmarket (using fake money) that took alexa's site rankings as the website's price? so many hours spent...
> Restricted saving

No one has two phones, or one phone and a camera.

Of course, that’s not remotely true, so what have they accomplished? If someone receives messages that they want or need to save, e.g. for legal reasons, this feature isn’t going to stop them.
> "why would the Chinese middle class have grown so much while the American middle class shrank?"

Going through an industrial revolution has impressive growth effects that can cover up a lot of bad stuff.

We'll see what happens when that growth starts to slow - I don't think it'll be good.
Our wake word is "amazon", lest we forget a major corporation is listening in to our conversations about who left the fridge open and whether we need to wear a raincoat today.
> wriggling around on the floor on a big dose of LSD for 12 hours is casual clean fun?

Yes.
Since there's no actual WG support in EdgeRouters and the experiences I've had with the community-maintained version, I'd personally not go that route. You can probably get better bang for your buck by configuring a couple of Raspberry Pis.

Granted, it's been a hot minute since I've last tried WG on EdgeRouters.
It's not a wild conspiracy theory that there's an unlabelled "High Assurance Platform" bit on Intel platforms to disable the Management Engine. The same sources that identify the bit as "HAP" control claim it was requested by three letter agencies. I set it, and it does disable/debilitate the ME, so that much is true. That the option exists at least suggests that the ME is an attack surface worth worrying about for someone, i.e. state level actors, even if it's not known to be exploitable.

I assume you meant to be a help by assuring people their computers aren't backdoored, but I don't think you have the certainty to claim ME is sound and secure. It just reminds me of how well-meaning people insisted the USG wasn't interested in capturing everyone's communications, back before it was accepted fact, pre-Snowden.
https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1462845583178313734 They were and they have an incredibly shady history.
Wow this is something where Amazon wants to kill a service for no apparent reason. Maybe to use the domain for their Alexa AI instead? Otherwise to restrict information on the internet.
>If I put photoshopped mockups of a product on a page and then note in the description that they're not actually photos of the product, is that deceitful?

There are legitimate reasons to do this. My old employer used to produce non-misleading mockups in Photoshop to advertise their products, partly because they looked more appealing but also because some things (cables, screens) don't look right when you photograph them.
I suspect that if we did an ROI calculation on government funding to remove lead from buildings, we’d find a very good return vs. other spending in the infrastructure bills. This could serve as a solid backlog of Keynesian stimulus to inject money & jobs into the economy in recessions.

I recall in 2008 the recovery act included funds for broadband build-out, which took years to actually get through planning, and so did not serve the stated goal of getting people back to work; seems like you could do many of these smaller lead removal projects on a much shorter timeframe (especially during a recession when construction resources would tend to be underutilized as investment dries up).
France has invested a lot in their Muslims, and only has neighborhood violence to show for it. It’s the most costly people to invest in.
> Alexa is my go-to place to get a first impression on how much traffic a website gets.

Alexa hasn't been a reliable source of traffic data for many years. It's gotten worse as mobile devices, private browsers, VPNs, and tight-fisted companies (like Facebook) have become more widespread.

If you own a high-traffic site and check Alexa, it's not even close. One of my sites wasn't in the order of magnitude.
"like us". It seems like the developer field has its share of Brogrammers and other non-traditionally nerdy types. Speaking as a super-nerdy science geek, it's probably not all bad that the field has widened - along with the bro's you get more women, non-compsci, and people-of-color entering the field, if some of the gate-keeping is relaxed.

There are MD/PhD doctors out there at the cutting edge, but most docs are more like PC repair techs - swap things out until the problem goes away, have a basic understanding of the underlying tech. You don't have to be a chip designer to swap a motherboard, or follow the electrons to prescribe some meds :-)
> But, infuriatingly, that paper does not seem to be open-access.

Try sci-hub.