skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that's official Catholic doctrine[1] but in any event compared to many other religions, and many strains of Christianity (think early Gnostic sects) it's all splitting hairs. People quibble endlessly over how and why good works and labor are important--do they reflect salvation or further salvation?--but I don't think those theological distinctions have substantively effected our political culture. Such minor distinctions are exaggerated by denominations precisely because of their larger shared characteristics that require them to work hard at differentiating themselves. Most of these nuances lose their importance when, e.g., comparing Christianity to Islam, Buddhism, or Hinduism.

[1] AFAIU official Roman Catholic doctrine, as well as most Protestant faiths, is that salvation only comes from the grace of God; and that the only sure-fire way of receiving that grace is wholehearted belief in Jesus Christ as the son of God who died for the remission of sin. But that just begs the question of what "belief" means, thus the centuries of dispute subsequent to the domination of Trinitarianism.
Premium mediocrity is software engineering’s demographic
one possibility for cross platform gpu is webgpu. the people working on it seem to be planning to have a c or c++ level standalone library. behind the scenes it will be directx/metal/vulkan

Apple/Google/Microsoft/Mozilla and others are all participating

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-gpu/
Are you eating too much protein?
https://github.com/gfx-rs/portability may be relevant out side of Rust, since it's a linkable C library.
Is building your own PC really a recent trend?

A lot of early pcs were kits people built, and I remember pc gaming in the '90s and '00s was also heavily focused on custom built machines.
So, regardless of any of this, no-one is saying you should avoid getting formal education; for all sorts of reasons, Education benefits the person getting it. Or at least the fact that you don't learn anything isn't a reason for an individual to avoid it, from an economic perspective.

But Bryan Caplan is trying to get to the difficult policy question of "should we be trying to send everyone to college?"

So I listened to the podcast and most of the empirical evidence for this view boils down to this:

If you compare earnings, the first N years of high school/college are far less valuable to people than the actual event of graduating. This makes a pretty strong argument that in terms of employment, the value of education is signaling, rather than actual learning.

But my biggest complaint here is that even if you accept that most of the employment value of education is signaling (which I do), that does not preclude actually learning something from formal education and the signaling effect may be masking the society-wide return to education.

He's also pretty dismissive of the correlation between math/science scores & GDP, which I think support the model of signaling masking real societal return.

They also very briefly touch on the fact that not all majors are the same, and they even suggest that CS is a difficult major more similar to other Engineering courses than Economics, which is probably arguable ;) But I mention this since our experience in CS may not be a good basis on which to base any thinking on the policy, since most STEM graduates outside of engineering disciplines do not actually work in their field of study.
Coinbase launches in Japan
"A Stocks app as an OS-level feature feels pretty darn close."

A Stocks app is trivial. There's been a Stocks Dashboard widget type thing for years and years.

Merging the OSes would mean revamping the macOS UI to be usable with touch screens, removing or drastically changing file access, etc.
browsers are moving to webgpu

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-gpu/
But you were never going to put Heathkit or Zenith or any of these other companies out of business with your side markets. You could never compete even if you wanted to.

The cool thing about software is that one person, with one computer could totally disrupt a giant software company with a better widget because the manufacturing and distribution costs of software can be effectively zero.
Citation needed. When did he hold the views you are attributing to him?
Very interesting to see this. I've been running a similar infrastructure rendering sometimes up to 500k pages a day, although often without images. I'm also running on Digital Ocean, but using nightmare.js (https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare), which runs on top of Electron, which in turns runs on top of Chromium.

The CPU and RAM patterns I see are different, with fixed CPU usage at near max and memory oscillating between 65% and 80%. I believe this is due to the different usage pattern, I basically always have at least 20/30 jobs running concurrently on each machine, and they're usually fairly long (up to 10 minutes or so).

Contrary to what you mention, I've never had an issue with pages crashing and bringing the whole browser down. Maybe it has happened, but it's definitely negligible compared to the benefits I get by running say 5 pages in parallel. For some tasks I've also had some luck overriding the cross-content policy and using dirty ol' iframes to render multiple webpages in the same session.

I've considered migrating to puppeteer, so it's encouraging to see large scale project sharing their experience with it.
Nope. Born in the South.
I never really lumped Microsoft in the "abuse your personal data" space.

Abuse their market position, yes, abuse TOS to screw companies out of money, yes, but abuse privacy, unsure that's fair.
Why Professors Distrust Beauty
I know two people that worked at Amazon as software engineers. They worked in very different groups, one very business integration focused, the other one worked in the core Amazon site. Both are extremely professional, intelligent, and capable and I would be happy to work with either again. I think you have a better chance at Amazon of developing strong professional skills that are better suited to a larger number of employers, than you would at Google or FB (but I could be wrong.) Keep in mind technical groups within a large organization can be very different from each other so you should use every opportunity to meet/network across groups.
The “enthusiast” segment of the market is small. Even then you don’t have nearly the choice in vendors you used to, so people mix and match parts from the same 5 or 6 vendors who’ve been there forever.

Cryptocurrency mining has kept the enthusiast hardware market afloat, I have a feeling...
I'm not talking about data URIs. You can write binary data in the same file as the json. Most parsers don't care what comes after the last curly brace.
I realize I'm kind of missing your point, but in my hometown of Austin, TX lots of billboards are advertising billboards, a charity (probably for a tax writeoff), or else have had the same ad for so long (often something like a concert that has already happened) that it's clear the billboard company is not getting paid anymore. I think billboards are stuck in the same downward ad revenue spiral as a lot of other traditional media.
https://www.prerender.cloud/ - server-side rendering API for single-page apps
GitHub Founders Will Own More Microsoft Stock Than Its CEO
It's easy. Go start a glasses frame and lens company and sell them for less. There's nothing at all stopping you.
Subjective != arbitrary.
More likely, they will make the new, NEW Windows API essentially Electron. Instantly Electron apps run better on Windows because each app doesn't have its own browser runtime taking ip disk/RAM.
Because I believe that humans should be responsible for their own behaviors. Meaning, if you choose to engage in XYZ behavior out of your own free will, why does a third party need to be involved?

If you upload all your private life to a website don’t be surprised of the results. If you don’t agree with the site, then don’t participate. Same applies to any activity that a consenting adult can be part of.

So why would a small American side project of PG that became popular should have to dedicate more O hours in adding features to comply with some over bearing EU legislation?
What are your qualifications in the field of theoretical physics?
I think it's interesting that there's a few things you could start thinking about when you see the title.

I might be alone but it's feeling a little bubbly to me in a few different areas. ML is certainly one of them.
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There is an incredible naivete there if you think that the market for talent (ie labour) is being rigged without it being in the owners interests by design, first and foremost. I'm a little flabbergasted that you both don't see it for what it plainly is. Restraint of trade and regulatory capture. (Argue it's good and necessary and patriotic and the owners have done a perfect job that just happens to make them vast amounts of money as an unintended side-effect if you must but it is what it is!)

A better way of levelling the playing field would be league appropriation of all revenue above $x on a sliding scale for redistribution to poorer teams, yet have the players able to play where they want with no restraint on the market for their salaries.

What you'd get there is owners making dramatically less profit and players making vastly higher salaries. So why not that model? It's un-american! There are other models you can use if you want equality between teams. If you think it has anything to do with factors other than the owners want the money in their pocket and have the power to get it where the players presently don't I can't really help you resolve that. I do note that it is difficult to think of things in a fresh way when you've grown up with them constantly being in the background with an oft-repeated justification. Hard for all of us. I didn't grow up with american accented sports so I guess that's easier for me?

The owners would all scream, shriek and wale if anything like the restraints on the players was placed on literally any of their business interests. Imagine if for the good of all of america's industry the market for senior executives was subject to the same restraint of trade to level the playing field between mining, steel, tech, banking, retail, building materials, etc etc. So that all of America's industry can be strong and compete. No exec getting paid a million a year could complain, surely. Sportsmen can't because they're rich, right?
The article is not stupid at all. The author never claimed that "there may not be enough demand for the model 3." You're putting those words in her mouth. What she said is that people are rapidly asking for refunds, that Tesla's manufacturing is in trouble, and that this is a serious cause of concern for investors. All of those things are indisputable facts that anyone interested in electric cars would want to hear.

And you can't claim that Tesla being unable to meet demand means demand is high. Supply is appallingly low, so even a low demand could result in the backlog of orders we see. The fact that demand exceeds supply doesn't imply that the demand is high enough to keep the company afloat.
> but you need a paid Apple Developer Program account.

Where was "paid" bit listed? You don't have to pay the yearly fee to have a developer account. I let my paid subscription expire a few years ago, and I can still login and do various things.
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Oh, I get the meaning. The writing is gibberish though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differen...
Multiverse theories like string landscape, eternal inflation, or many-worlds generally have this property: Almost anything that possibly could happen will happen in some universe. But, it is said, that some universes are more frequent than others. From local observations we infer the global laws of physics, which tell us the relative distribution of different types of universes. But, surely there will be some "deceptive" universes, in which (purely by chance) observers are always mislead as to what the actual laws of physics are. Experimental error always goes in the same direction, such that the true laws of physics are never known, and those observers rationally believe in false laws of physics instead. Now, an observer in such a universe will rationally infer a given probability distribution of universes based on their local observations, but the distribution they infer will be completely wrong. My question is: how do we know we are not in such a universe? To say such universes must be exceedingly rare (even though existent) is sort of circular, because our conclusion they are rare is based on our idea of the global probability distribution, but in order to validly make the inference from local observation to global distribution we have to assume we are not in such a universe. But, if we can't know we are not in such a universe, then we can't know that some universes are "more likely" than others, which is a central claim of these theories, and what distinguishes them from David Lewis' modal realism. This is why I think all such "multiverse" theories should be rejected.
In what sense do Maxwell’s or Einstein’s field equations imply causality?
I hadn't considered this at all. Thank you for expanding my knowledge.
Aaron, thanks for answering these questions.

What is the YC Series A program's advice to founders around giving round allocation to prior investors? Is there an official stance on who should be let in?

I've found with popular YC seed rounds that the founders turn to their YC partners to ask who should get in. Extending this to A's is a bit scary from a concentration of power standpoint.
Thanks for the great hack dude. Makes reading much smoother
The GitHub purchase demonstrates once again that rms is right.
Have you considered working in COBOL?
It's down, here's a cache.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hunch.n...
> I don't want a hatchback. I hate hatchbacks.

I dunno, I like my eGolf -- mostly because it looks like a normal Golf, which looks like a normal car. Shame VW doesn't want to make them anymore.
iOS 12 USB Restricted Mode to kill iPhone unlocking tools
Well, shame on you. All the armchair experts at hacker news say that the implementation is really bad and you should feel really bad for using it. So please stop using it and make them happy.
Quick glasses are very common in developed countries. In the U.S. at least you can find a Visionworks or a Lenscrafters (or similar) pretty much anywhere and their hook is "glasses in about an hour". They usually have an optometrist in the store so you can get prescriptions there.

Some newer companies (Stanton Optical) are even starting to offer the complete service inside of 15 minutes so you can get the glasses while you wait and frames run as low as $20.
One of my favorite features from GitLab is, without having to install any other tool, I can get a link from the response to create my MR. Such a simple feature, yet so convenient.
Hopefully you have an iOS one out soon!
Sounds like this might be the incentive Unity needs to fix their Metal implementation.
> but it does falsify the standard model and so far to my knowledge most of string competition.

Not really. The Standard Model makes no prediction about gravity; it makes no claim to. Gravity is so weak that it can be ignored almost everywhere where the other forces come into play: the contribution of gravity compared to electrostatic attraction on the atomic order is smaller than 0.01ZWD is to world GDP... for all of human history. The places where you have to worry about gravity and the other forces at the same time are places where we have precisely no ability to make observations that could distinguish between theories.
Done in true GitHub style with the source code of this post at https://github.com/natfriedman/hello rendered with GitHub pages. :-)
It doesn't matter for the Volt. Since it has a range extender, there's no real need for fast charging. Just charging it every night from a 120V outlet will eliminate most gas usage for most people. If you run out of charge, it's an annoyance rather than a disaster.

I can't speak to the Bolt since I've never seen one.
I guess we don't agree on what "tons" means. I don't remember searching through millions of projects on source forge.
OSS was built on the GPL. Clutching at straws, that is.
You may want to note bendmorris's correction elsewhere in the thread, that age discrimination is only for people age 40 and up. It's still awful for the company to be asking "You look young!", because that might imply they see being young as desirable, but you might not be able to push back very hard if the recruiter doesn't panic.
Here’s my feature to reduce interruptions: turn off all notifications and app badges. It let me use my phone the way I wanted to
why doesn't this surprise me lol
There will be the standard range battery model released later this year with a $35,000 price tag. In the U.S. after the $7,500 federal tax credit, the final price should be well below $30,000.

Tesla is focusing on producing the higher priced versions first in order to have the cash flow to produce the standard model.

If Tesla wanted to start with producing the standard model first, they probably would have needed a very large cash infusion with unfavorable terms. There are definitely conflicting opinions on this but they have chosen a slightly more conservative route in order to not put the business at risk. The end result is we have to wait a bit longer for the standard model, and as such some people may feel obliged to cancel their order, or even be upsold to a more expensive model 3 or even an S/X.
> and the team will continue all of their work

Until they aren't. I really don't see MS putting work into two code editors that are in direct competition with each other. I'm sure they'll let the dust settle for a while, but Atom will vanish from Microsoft's product list. No doubt.
Could well be part of it.

Obviously, we're increasingly aware of the risks (usually without any appreciation of the odds). Previously, you heard through close circles. Now, by the time you're a parent, you've heard of hundreds of ways your child might die through news, movies, etc.

I'm a parent of three, and I actively work to minimise risk amongst my kids where I think it's appropriate, but I'm always conscious of when I'm doing it and try to balance it.
A creature can not live with this realization not supressed.
You cant take credit.
You cant have a loved one go on a journey alone.
If you where fully aware of you mortality, you would cower in a bonker like a nomad crab in its shell.
Maybe one would storm outside from time to act in fits of panic.

And yes, those edgy adults, claiming to be aware of death/mortality and accpeting, usually have created lightning rods in theire conciousness for these fears.

Like believe systems, that reroute this fear into believe of immortality, or in the atheist case a feeling of superiority for living your life to the max, while all those others do not. Those fully aware are in asylums
The last known unidentified marking on the Saturn V S-IC
People who have known Microsoft and struggle with their tech and unfair practices in the 90s are skeptic because we have seen this movie already.

How many "new Microsoft" have we seen already?

"Will they follow through on these commitments? Will they continue to listen to the community?"

No and no. Microsoft is not in the business of making good software, it is a PR firm, an awesome marketing department with tons of experience in shady practices, and the bare minimum dev team to make Windows somewhat competitive.

Microsoft is a big company with a big NIH syndrome. Github is antinomic with their culture.
This is the most obvious explanation I have read on HN... After I read it!
Some experiences with this in my personal capacity:

You want someone who has a working style which is compatible with your working style. There are a surprising number of accountants who cannot reliably receive a folder that has been Dropboxed to them. Some of them are good accountants... for other people. If you are e.g. an email person, you do not want a phone person accountant. You want an accountant where neither of you are annoyed with the other's expectations with regards to timeliness of replies to emails.

You want someone who is capable of understanding the fundamental nature of your business. They don't have to be able to _operate_ the business, but they need to _deeply_ grok the mechanics of the business, because accounting is a facts-intensive profession and they need to understand your facts to apply GAAP and IRS procedure (etc) to them. You can be a great small business accountant without knowing what the difference between SaaS, Github Enterprise, and Microsoft Word is; you cannot be a great accountant for a software company without being able to understand the differences in those three products.

You want someone who is generally good at accounting. Like any other profession, there is a competence curve. Don't hire the people at the left end of the competence curve. You want someone who is good at being a professional, partly because that will make interfacing with them easier and partially because a portion of the services of an accountant is to suit up occasionally and say "I am an accountant." to third parties. You want someone who can cause the appropriate reaction there. (Most commonly tax agencies, but there are a variety of potential counterparties, for example e.g. mortgage lenders, prospective landlords, immigration agencies if that is relevant to you, business counterparties, etc.)

Some of y'all might have interesting situations, and very interesting situations often counsel having a specialist. A particular interesting situation which I have in my life is that I'm an American who lives in Japan; that fact substantially complicates accounting for my businesses or personal life, both with regards to tax preparation and with regards to just giving good financial advice, and I get far better results working with people who specialize in international clients than I get with (presumably) skilled accountants who are willing to work with international clients but don't wake up and breathe the US Japan Social Security Totalization Agreement.

More relevantly to HNers, I think that you probably have special circumstances if: you do a material amount of investing in things that your average dentist does not, you own a material amount of equity, the character of your life is intrinsically international, etc. (Running a business is its own flavor of complication.)