skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key for me is that a REPL reads, then evaluates (generally involving printing), then starts over (looping). Bash for example fits this criteria. I'm as much of a fan of lisp as anyone, but it doesn't need to be literally printing the result of `eval` to be a REPL in my eyes.
'..in the next breath, though, he predicts the future for all of his competitors—Alphabet, General Motors, Tesla, Apple, Daimler, et al.—if the bet pays off: “They’re f---ed.”

This reminds me so much of dot com boom bravado and then hubris. If these guys had built lots of different types of cars from the ground up - race cars, customs, hot rods etc powered by different engine types - I would have more time for their reinvention confidence. I like what they are doing but this seems like pride before the fall
Being in other countries like China and France really makes me appreciate how world class the customer service is in America. Here in the US, you can tell a waiter that your not happy with a dish and they'll immediately replace it with whatever you want. You can make substitutions, you can alter the way it's cooked (within reason), etc, and they still greet you with a smile and deliver excellent service. There are many parts of the world, where you just can't do that.
Ronnie?
You can actually take most EC2 instances and specify the number of cores it has for this type of licensing issue: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance...
There is an aspect that if you help someone who is hurt, you are acknowledging responsibility for the trouble that caused it even if you had nothing to do with it (e.g. guilty of murder if you happen to find the body). Chinese police can be very lazy like that, but I think the first incidence of this happened in Taiwan in the 90s.
Electric batteries with fluorinated electrolytes for longer-range driving
Utah Legalizes Lemonade Stands
"The introduction of the printing press permitted the publication of pamphlets and books that overturned world governments and dethroned kings... but most people used it to trade porn and recipe books."

As Timothy Snyder notes when discussing the internet, the introduction of the printing press divided Western Christianity thereby causing a century and a half of religious wars in which a third of the population was killed. And later it gave us the Enlightenment and educated society.
Mason: Build, design, and deploy functional front-end solutions with no coding
> you can't say "linux

Can I say "pretty much all of Linux userspace"? Or Java VM? Or Gnome?
They're safe compared to Tylenol too.

It's a huge step to go from "they're not completely safe" to "...and therefore a doctor needs to be constantly checking up on you". Lost of things have potentially serious side effects, including most OTC medicine. And?

I mean, peanuts are pretty dangerous too; they kill people every year, and the side effects are potentially extremely severe. Does that mean a doctor needs to be involved in the process of me buying peanuts?

> It seems reasonable to have periodic checks for those, if you're taking them.

Reasonable is a low bar. Your suggestion does seem reasonable, inasmuch as I can see a reason why you'd want to do it. I can see reasons why you wouldn't too. We need more than that.
Many guns are manufactured and sold without safeties. Personal responsibility transcends industry.
Standard founder bravado. This is basically part of their pitch.

"If we are right, then we're going to dominate the market that all the big boys are investing billions to control."

(Not being disparaging at all - their value proposition actually looks interesting.)
Jason Kotke reminds us who's amplified: https://twitter.com/kottke/status/1019357328343117824
Your question is if something will happen to him? Well, it apparently already did. That was it. He got forced out of his job, probably lost his social standing and is now leaving the country. After spending nine(?) years in China he is, in the eyes of the Chinese, trash talking China and glorifying the US to get back with his countrymen. It is all pretty much in line with how Chinese nationalist rhetoric says that "arrogant foreigners" behave. So it isn't really something that challenges China's narrative.
I think you could name multiple competitive players in lots of areas that aren't your core business. You can't name any others in ad services because Google is a monopolist.
Show HN: Declarative forms in Mobx/React with lots of dynamic/imperative hooks
It's fairly common. No need to call it multi cloud, companies have had multiple datacenters in multiple countries for a long time.

The only challenge is that you need global geographic load balancers and that means F5 and at least a million dollar.

Also, you will find out later that some dependencies were only running in a single location and services failed with the datacenter.
If you have access to access to victim credit card accounts you could probably datamine the least likely to notice accounts. CC used at a bar 5 nights a week? Charge on.
I was advised in a situation like this to ask the receptionist to connect you with the doctor's nurse. Nurse is more available than doctor, and is more competent than the receptionist. YMMV.
But that’s relatively recent; they were a successful brand before being acquired.
Some Lisps indeed do away with the "minimalist" aspect when it comes to functionality, although I was mainly referring to syntax.
I agree. Salary is paid for work, returns are paid for success (or speculation). But while it is a component, work != success.
Here’s a start. And it’s intersting reading. https://optimisingnutrition.com/tag/insulinogenic-foods/
I think that's certainly the case, China is a country of vast differences between people. To the extent China has seen arguably the fastest dash of economic development in history, imagine what the corresponding, linked cultural & educational development has looked like.

In the span of several decades, half a billion people shifted from an almost zero traditional education environment in rural, very poor third-world style villages - to rapidly developing, modern, economically considerable, urban, very high density environments with intense competition and far higher education attainment.

Then imagine how wild that must be as all of these different forces and cultures collide and meld in real time, and it's essentially a population group the size of the EU trying to make an epic adaptation leap in 20-30 years. I expect it produces at times a large gap between people in regards to their personal evolution.
What game did you do this for?

> It's actually fun for them to compete with each other at who can cheat the hardest and no one else gets hurt.

This part reminds me of 'Open' Battle.net for Diablo 2. Everyone used hacked items in pvp and just tried to have better fake items than their opponents.
Here's my project's approach to Anti-Cheat.

1, 2, 3) Everything on the server. Server's version always wins. Server is the authoritative source. Granted, I have a mathematical advantage in the game's particular movement mechanics which makes this easy to get away with. The other game mechanics are also designed with facilitating this in mind. Corollary: The client is almost nothing and trusted with nothing. It's pretty much a dumb terminal for displaying moving things, syncing their motion with the server.

4) Scripting -- if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! We're going to publish an API to allow for user scripting. We plan on releasing the client as Open Source, allowing people to modify and extend the client.

5) Cryptographically hard RNG and procedural generation. If you want to know what's in Star System 7, Galaxy Grid 123987236-87324958, you're going to have to go there yourself. We don't even know ourselves!

Regarding #4 -- This is going to be a design philosophy. Anything we can't enforce, we will allow and co-opt into the game!
I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the clarification
Wasnt mixergy doing this long before Indie Hackers?
I understand more about what you're looking for. I still won't answer your questions, but I understand you now. Unfortunately, I don't know of any resources, but this seems like something that someone would have written about in some business school. Have you tried Google Scholar? You might even find some good case material about hiring software engineers.

Alternately, maybe you could learn more from Triplebyte's blog? I've read a couple of really amazing articles about selecting successful engineers on their site and I bet that I've missed many other high quality articles.

As far as your wording goes, jolmg gave you some excellent advice, particularly along the 'please don't post' line. Personally, I can assure you that it isn't a matter of disliking you. Honestly, if I didn't like you, I wouldn't have posted here at all. I like you and want to help you, just not under the terms that you outlined.

As for the part about the correlation between the role of IQ and satisfaction as a software engineer, I might be hearing you wrong. I think that you're saying that repetitively debating the same subject annoys you. Am I right, or are you saying that you find the particular topic of IQ annoying?
Any plans to extend this to other cloud providers like Azure and GCS?
If you assume the program is being passed through a JIT (a thing that is already common for interpreted code, and which also tries to guarantee that it doesn't change the resulting program's semantics), then one can think of jets as simply explicit hints built into a JIT regarding how to optimize particular known idioms well known in the corpus of programs the JIT was designed to work with.

This is exactly how GPU drivers get gradually more optimized for existing games: the driver's shader compiler actually has an ever-growing library of shader-source-code patterns, with hardware-vendor-optimized replacement sections.
Well, because it already happened. I understand that some topics get not too healthy conversations.

There are plenty of articles I furiously disagree with. I never flag them for that reason (in fact, it never occurred to me that I should flag things for that reason). For example, for one which was IMHO a pseudo-intellectual fest (and even harmful for people not knowing much about AI):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17537907

Just curious, which links did you like?
Is it, though? Sirlin's scrub is a strawperson player that will not adapt to any changes in the game, instead asking that the game itself is changed to suit them. Running cheats is the ultimate scrub move - you change your play experience asymmetrically to benefit yourself rather than practicing at the game as offered to get better.

There are a ton of interactions in games that are degenerate if performed at TAS level. These aren't areas looking for disruption; they're just impossible to perform with human inputs and they confer game advantages that are not surmountable by non-assisted players.

The speed running community segregates TAS content from played content specifically because of this. You will not beat the robot that can perform a 60 input 1 frame trick that gives you a .5 second time save.
Seems like they're putting the cart before the horse no? Don't you need functioning level 5 self-driving technology before you start optimizing for something like rider experience? This seems to violate the classic startup maxim to 'focus on just one thing and get it right'
That a different thing, name brand vs generic.

This is OTC vs. Prescription.

Although I bet your insurance company doesn't actually pay $200 if they cover it - they probably get rebates that cover the difference, and then make you pay a higher co-pay.
Literally every single section that talks about the citizens that isn't about politics. It's a giant hit job against the Chinese people by someone who is clearly resentful of them. The only thing he says that's nice about them is a platitude.
What's the best way to say this..

It's a masochistic method of programming where you insert a randomly generated layer of abstraction between the hardware and the programmer, and tell the programmer to make sure to add enough hints to his code to make sure that it runs quickly.

The benefits are unclear.
I believe it's much more about tribalism. There's a lack of civic bond between strangers because the idea of nationhood sits above individuals. That's why you see people completely ignoring the existence of others, while being overprotective of their own kins.
Thanks! This is very useful feedback and definitely a lot of good points. I'll be sure to return those borders back to 2005! It definitely wasn't the intended design. I'll need to do some more testing on Windows. :)
> I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that some plans will cover OTC medication if a doctor "prescribes" them for you.

Yes, that is correct. But the idea here is to have a person decide to take it without having a Dr prescribe it, so insurance will not cover it.
Has anyone found a video of this keynote?
I find it doubtful that Atorvastatin was not available for health/risk reasons. I can buy it cash in 5 minutes, no questions asked.

What tends to happen in some EU countries is that the retail drugs are heavily subsidized by the government, and then all kinds of kludges are put in place to prevent people buying bulk quantities and reselling them in some other EU country where the price is much higher - the export itself being 100% legal on the single market.
> More generally, otherwise-identical extended composite objects differ because the average of their components' worldtubes are essentially non-overlapping and diverge (or converge, depends on which way you want to think about timelike directions in this context) at different points in spacetime.

This is a great way to express the historical aspect in physics-speak. That is, the object isn't just a spacelike thing at some particular time. It's a spacetime thing. I can't quite imagine how one could duplicate that.
I agree that these are all tradeoffs. My view is that languages like Rust and C++ exist for a reason, and demanding games are among the domains that they're most appropriate in. :)

Note that Unity is an existence proof that most games can get by just fine with high-level logic in GC.
I sorta miss the way cheat codes and exploits were seen back in the long ago days when I started gaming. They were fun little easter eggs and things to mess around with if you got stuck and couldn't progress past a certain point. Or just weird things to have fun with. Of course, pretty much everything was single-player, so it didn't impact anybody else if you wanted to turn on no-clip mode to get around some pain-in-the-ass jumping puzzle in Half-Life, or spawn a nuke-launching spaceman in Age of Empires. And the hours and hours spent button-mashing trying to get new and unusual finishing moves in Mortal Kombat...
the ingenuity and curse of capitalism is boiling all of human value down to a number. when someone uses the phrase "business decision", that's shorthand for "let's use monetary value in place of the messiness of the human condition".

this generally isn't a malicious act--meant to make the task more manageable--but it does set up the board to be advantageous to the capital holder (in this case VCs, and to a somewhat lesser extent, founders). the capital holders aren't bad people per se, just that the emergent property of the system is tilted toward capital and away from labor. this is the version of capitalism as we have it now.

you've implicitly accepted that game when you took a salary and an equity stake. capital holders are exceedingly motivated and practiced at squeezing value out of a transaction--that is why they got into the game in the first place. within this game, you'll need to either find leverage points (like a unique skill or asset) to get what you think you deserve, accept what you've got and appreciate your relative comfort, or find another opportunity (which is a potential leverage point in itself).

(part of) the medium-term solution is to bend the regulatory environment toward fairness. things like making the capital gains tax rate the same as ordinary income, and holding corporations and executives responsible for their actions, just like regular persons.

in the long-term, is there another system of figuring out who deerves what and how much? how do we allocate resources fairly so that no one feels shafted? it's the ultimate (dynamic systems) optimization problem. capitalism is attractive because it's decentralized, but is there a system better at solving this optimization problem without losing this attractive property?
The follow up would be that the will of the people has been coopted by corporations and the 1%. They use their wealth to control the funding of politicians and bend them to their will. "Corporations are people", brings an imbalance of power.
"No one said anything about dehumanization."

I did.

"It shouldn't be your prerogative to see comments like that deleted because you disagree with them."

It absolutely should be everyone's prerogative here to see comments that disagree with reality deleted.

"It's absolutely relevant to point out the opportunities normal people have for becoming shareholders."

It is. The comment you're talking about did no such thing, and proceeded to blame poor people for not doing so based on a viewpoint that is completely divorced from reality.

"Arguing that most workers are so strapped for cash that they literally cannot set aside a few bucks to invest -- and not only that -- that arguments even hinting at such a thing should not even be said out loud, is mind boggling."

Arguments that have no basis in reality are not being done in good faith. Arguments like the one you're currently trying to defend exist solely to blame the poor for being poor, and to make the person feel smugly superior that they're not poor, even though the difference between them and the people they're complaining about is usually just dumb luck.
That way someone on the spectrum parses those questions ... reminds me much of my interaction with my daughter and some other people I know. It is so characteristic ...
Although I wouldn't go so far as to insist on switching brands (especially since, as another commenter pointed out, there has been so much consolidation, there remain only 3), I agree that replacing with at least a different model, or, failing that, a different batch, is a best practice for an already-built homogenous array.

Some of this can also be achieved ahead of time if one has multiple arrays with hot spares, by shuffling hot spares around, assuming there's some model diversity between the arrays but not within them.

I doubt I'll ever again have the luxury of being able to perform this kind of engineering, however. Even a minor increase in cost or cognitive/procedure complexity or a decrease in convenience just serves to encourage a "let's move everything to the cloud" reaction, so I keep my mouth shut.
I do a lot of lit review.

Having hard pagination and consisstent layout is, for me, a cognitive gain, esspeciially for longer documents, say, 20+ pages. (I frequently read 500+ page docs.)

Other formats such as ePub are frequntly compact in space utiisaation, but again, the free-flowing text lacks the mnemonic framing of even a basic print book, let alone the expertise of a masterpiece of layout & typography such as Tufte.

Not that HTML isn't well-suited to other cases, or that PDFs can't be awful. But there's a place.
If macros are "GOTO", a jet is a "COMEFROM". A programmer knows they're calling a macro, and expects that code to change. A jet, meanwhile, affects code that was written without knowledge of the jet.
We definitely plan to explore other cloud providers down the road, but we're trying to gauge viability in the market for AWS right now. For GCP, I encourage you to check out what they already offer for billing analytics. They do a great job at offering some of the stuff we do for all customers already.
Are we to take umbrage at every Easter-eggy homage?
> The difference is there isn't a massive industry that will try to persuade consumers to do something as dumb as choosing to represent themselves pro se. There's no way for others to profit off that kind of stupidity.

Wouldn't you like to attend my seminar on the importance of representing yourself? Also, check out my book. And follow me on Twitter.
She explicitly talks about normalization of sex work as a sane, and desirable (no pun intended!) solution.
MacBook Pro 15 (2018) – Beware the Core i9
American wait staff have to rely on tips rather than a living wage, which forces them to take unending amounts of crap, or else they can't pay the rent. American consumers can and do verbally (and sometimes physically) abuse wait staff, and if the staff don't sit there and take it with a smile, they get fired. I don't find this an endearing trait.
There are some very abstract common threads in how the mind conceptualizes the world. See Gestalt Psychology:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology

There's also this; a fascinating study that investigated the ways people intuitively try to articulate algorithms when they haven't been biased by experience with existing programming paradigms:
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=373422
Your sketch is correct, but what you're describing is not derandomization. It is "accuracy amplification" by repeating the test. Each round of the test uses more random bits, right? So you're converting more random bits into arbitrary confidence.

The objective of derandomization is to completely remove the need to flip random bits from the algorithm. If you had a deterministic PRG, you could completely remove the error from a BPP algorithm. Here is a sketch of why, where I'm eliding the quantitative details:

A PRG takes as input a short string of truly random bits (a "seed") and produces as output a long string of "pseudorandom bits". By the definition of a PRG, an efficient algorithm cannot tell the different between the PRG's output and a long string that was really sampled uniformly at random.

So, the obvious way to use this to derandomize a BPP machine M is to toss a small number of random bits, run them through the PRG, and use the output of the PRG as the random bits that M would use. We've used the PRG to shrink the amount of randomness required, but not completely eliminate it.

To fully eliminate the randomness, brute-force over every possible seed, run M on an input x with each PRG output serving as the random coins, and take the majority vote. This is a fully deterministic process. It is efficient if the ratio between the seed length of the PRG and output length of the PRG is such that 2^(seed length) is still polynomial.

The strategy is always correct because, if there is an input y where this brute-force-and-vote strategy fails to produce the correct answer, we can use that input to produce an efficient algorithm that distinguishes between PRG outputs and truly random strings. Why? Because on random bit-strings, M(y,r) usually produces the "right answer" on y, by definition of BPP. On PRG outputs, we just assumed that the majority of answers are wrong, because our vote got the answer wrong! So M(y,random) and M(y,PRG) will tend to disagree.

This is a contradiction -- we assumed no efficient procedure could distinguish between PRG outputs and truly random strings.

The above is a hasty sketch, that I hope gets a few of the ideas across. See Pseudorandom Generators: A Primer (http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/PDF/prg10.pdf) theorem 2.16.

Anyway, if we had good enough lower bounds against procedures with advice (see other comments) we could produce such PRGs.
I have no clue. I can imagine that some collector might pay a premium for the workstation, shut down at the moment that the image was last saved. Or the dated disk image.
Because they did use more than the web. Usenet, e-mail, FTP, etc.