skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your main point about empower people.

It seems that people are coming to you to help estimate how long an idea takes to implement. If that's the case, I agree with everything you've said.

But if they're proposing an idea, say a new sign up form to increase conversions, phone number validation is an irrelevant detail to worry about at this point (unless that was a significant problem with the old sign up form).
I found this odd:

> spent some time hunting the Domain Controller

The DC address(es) are trivial to find.
Oops.. the system encountered a problem (#102) – Google ignores major gmail bug
I wouldn't count the US among countries that can produce anything. Of course things can change, but right now the US doesn't produce most things that are consumed internally, and it has been like that for more than a decade.
I like how when Richard Feynman's IQ test score doesn't conform to some narrative, HN is in contortions with excuses why the test doesn't matter, but when we come around to the topic of white IQ supremacy, suddenly HN is armed to the teeth with factoids about how g-loaded and circumstantially neutral the mainstream IQ tests are.
Would be awesome to see an example of this with a full vdom implementation... the docs just say:

Render to a virtual DOM... pass it on to your favourite virtual DOM system

Curious what'd it be like to wire this up with virtual-dom or maybe even React itself.

Also curious how this compares to https://github.com/DenisKolodin/yew (which I'm not familiar with).
I’m not saying they shouldn’t try, just commenting on how I see their attempt being structured to exploit a weakness in US companies, which the US govt. should probably try to patch via law.
It’s just focusing on the moment, not something to really master the art and craft of cleaning dishes. Dishes is just an example activity that many might find venal, but is an opportunity to practice mindfulness
Trump is deeply unpopular with about 60% of the US population.

People don't forget about Cambridge Analytica. FB doubled down when they defended one of their higher-ups who went to support Kavanaugh in his time of need. Then they aligned with a GOP ooo research group, etc.

Facebook's problems are the result of its own-goals.

It doesn't hurt that FB's app has sucked more and gotten less generally useful/addictive as people abandon it.
I think you should learn the foundations of JS before you use a JS library, but I see no value in teaching people JQuery before you teach them react.
As best I can tell, Waymo's upcoming service is Level 4 with a remote backup driver for times when the software can't cope.
As of now: Nothing.

However digging that tunnel was probably a good idea, as it gives them some operational experience, and also allows them to start work on their underground transportation concept already.
Yes, actually. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18483706
Go to MapCrunch, click "Go", copy location into Google Maps, look for "restaurants", pick a restaurant, look for menu, select an entree that looks good, and put it together.

I got Perth, Australia, found a restaurant, found the menu, and found this entree: "Chicken Breast filled with Camembert Cheese & Spinach. Served with Mediterranean Vegetables, Pear potatoes, Broccolini & Sun-Dried Tomato Coulis".
There are also women who are two meters tall, but that doesn't mean that women are naturally just as tall as men.
vim and tmux!
I've recently been doing a fair amount of traveling to tech-heavy cities from my base in the Rust Belt.

I see all the money and development going on in places like this, and it amazes me how growing and non-dysfunctional these economies are.

How do we get Google to move, say, 10% of those high-paying jobs to places whose economy really needs them?

Clearly money alone isn't a motivator, I just did a quick check and 3 times that amount of highway adjacent, commercial zoned acreage is available in my zip code for 1% of this price.
I told you so… now, what’s next for American ICOs?
> It feels like colleges are turning into breeding grounds for social justice warriors more than they're turning out folks who are prepared to enter the workforce.

They’re not mutually exclusive. You can be a skilled worker, who also advocates for social justice... I don’t even see how one would obstruct the other.

I’m also wondering how this means that “the quality of education seems to be on the decline.”
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18481544 for a somewhat more sober article.
What if I blog using your non-premium features (essentially as a wiki, since it's open to public), and then someone can come and lock this wiki buy paying $9 a year and putting a password.

I think this is a great idea, essentially by making this product, you made two, one can create a blog or a public wiki. Except the problem is now anyone can turn the public wiki into their private blog by paying $9. I wish I could register the name, but still had to pay $9 to restrict edit/write features to myself.
I like Fred a lot, and I know it's not his fault, but the sycophantic comments on his posts make me sick.
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He may or may not be antisemitic, but how many Apache helicopter attacks on civilians and children has he performed?
Everything's fake in Sacramento.
This is super exciting and awesome. I worked with the html! macro from yew, https://github.com/DenisKolodin/yew, and it had some quirks. Assuming yew hasn’t improved that macro since I used it (5 months back), this looks significantly better in almost every way. It would be very cool to see this become the main library for html generation in Rust (and WASM?). I’ve been following the posts about this library’s development, fun to see it discussed here.

But I have to ask, will the choice of the MPL as the license have any effect on its potential adoption? Yew is Apache/MIT, matching Rust and much of the ecosystem, for context.
there is infinite complexity in both, i think this is part of the allure of music for me. i keep realizing the “true” nature of something only to later discover an even deeper truth. repeat forever
Doesn't the same amount of carbon stays locked the same in a tree in the ground? I don't understand why building with wood helps in this case. There's plenty of space to grow more trees...
Does C really teach you how to be careful with memory in JAVA?

I think teaching big O is and focusing on efficiency is much better than teaching someone C. Especially in the modern world where garbage collection isn’t bad and memory is abundant.

I mean, we use a lot of Python and a lot of JS, both are fairly inefficient. On the tech side, but it’s very productive on the human end, and Human Resources are a lot more expensive than memory.

If you spent 1 week writing something that was half as efficient as if you’d spent two weeks on it, that extra week of pay, will still be paying for for the additional hardware after you die of old age.

Not the best CS lesson of course, but having hired people who learned C before X, they really don’t seem to have learned the memory lesson anyway.
What I find interesting with this description is how anyone can be worried about losing “friends” when just changing the contact medium would result in losing them. There’s email, SMS, Signal, and yes: actual phones. Letters even.

A friendship is not endangered by a switch of context, while casual acquaintances may be lost. Friends are people who are mainly interested in you, not ones who choose theirs ranking by convenience of communication method. Any social media has a broadcast mentality to it, like it would be too cumbersome to stay in touch otherwise. This is not a new occurrence. It has always been easier to “stay in touch” with the people immediately surrounding you. However, following that definition, the people who are your best friends would be the people you spend the most time with, which are probably you co-workers.

Just imagine anyone taking the time to actually formulate a piece of personal writing, process thoughts before writing them down and in the end having to weigh what information to share or to write that letter at all, to have finite resources to write and to have to choose who is important and who is not. Instead of just flooding everyone with the same, probably curated and edited, information.

Then again, I’m probably not the intended target group of Facebook and similar networks. People also smoke, drink, take drugs, have unprotected sex with strangers, risk their lives in stupid endeavors and generally do highly illogical things on a constant basis.
Snippet: How to Delete a Variable in Python
Talking about cooking, western people really know what it is?
Deep down, I think I've always known it. There's no way the whole theater will come down just because you mention the play.
And failure to do that can result in unhealthy, unweathly, and still dead.

Generally the things that help you grow old also help your quality of life.
> Facebook did hire a PR firm that spread Soros-based conspiracy theories against its critics.

Nope, they didn’t!

From facebooks newsroom
Statement:

“The New York Times is wrong to suggest that we ever asked Definers to pay for or write articles on Facebook’s behalf – or to spread misinformation. Our relationship with Definers was well known by the media – not least because they have on several occasions sent out invitations to hundreds of journalists about important press calls on our behalf. Definers did encourage members of the press to look into the funding of “Freedom from Facebook,” an anti-Facebook organization. The intention was to demonstrate that it was not simply a spontaneous grassroots campaign, as it claimed, but supported by a well-known critic of our company. To suggest that this was an anti-Semitic attack is reprehensible and untrue.”

And if you don’t believe Facebook then why don’t just take it from Definers (the PR firm Facebook worked with) themselves: https://definersdc.com/our-work-with-facebook/
The author works for the NYT. Evidence: this article by the author, published by the Times.

Or are you saying they are secretly working for the WashPo?
I get your question is how, the answer is that its not gonna happen

Bezos’ fake contest accurately reflects the coastal mentality. There is a culture that supports this industry which has history that wont be replicated by a random town that wants to call itself Silicon Apalachia/whatever geographic feature is nearby
DDR3 doesn't scramble the data bits, and I don't think DDR4 does either.

Here's an open source controller - you can see yourself: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litedram
Sigh, notability in the Wikipedia sense [0] does not mean the same thing as "notable", as in "note-worthy". Rather, it has to do with whether the topic has had significant coverage in reliable sources. The OP article is well-referenced and is in no danger of being deleted. I guess misconceptions like this is one reason not to overload terms that might have other assumed meanings.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
> How do we get Google to move, say, 10% of those high-paying jobs to places whose economy really needs them?

You'd need to incentivize a critical mass of high-paid workers to be willing to move there. As you note, money won't do it -- you'd need to offer some sort of unique opportunity. Finding such a thing is a very hard problem..
Those pinky levers are just amazing!
Does your ZIP code have the kind of employees that Google needs to succeed?
Is it important to get feedback from paying users for a paid app?
We make a camera app for iPhone, NoctaCam, that's paid. I haven't gotten enough feedback from users, so I've been encouraged to make the app free temporarily to get more feedback.

Is it critical to get feedback from the right users -- paying users for a paid app? I've resisted making it free, because I thought that whether someone has paid is in itself an important piece of feedback, perhaps the most important. Feedback from paid users might be different from feedback from free users, and might take me in the wrong direction.

But I heard the counter-argument that first you want to validate that the app is useful, by getting people to use it, because people won't use a free app that does nothing they care about. Once you know the app is useful, then you get to the next step of whether they're willing to pay for it.

How should I look at this?
So cool, thank you for sharing. The modular design of the AGC is really nice.
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They said with other geezers, so maybe like a seniors league in some other sports.
> It feels like colleges are turning into breeding grounds for social justice warriors

Is this really the case? All colleges probably have a vocal minority of activists, and some colleges have more than others. But I'd guess the vast majority of students are still there to learn and have fun?

> It feels like the onus should be on the colleges to make costs more reasonable, rather than getting another handout from a rich benefactor (which will not last long).

Agreed, this won't do anything to solve the underlying problem. Lately, it seems like throwing money at a problem is all we prepared to do (see also the Proposition 10 homeless tax).
> and don't mind that there's not enough housing built to match.

Of course they mind. Google even works with developers to build housing: https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/12/googles-massive-housi...

Also FWIW, housing prices (rents) have generally stagnated for the past 3 years in the Bay Area; it's less of a problem now (in terms of getting worse) than it was half a decade ago.
lol discriminate.... its also a great way to boost your balance sheet! Nobody is thinking about anything else. When the notional on paper value of your real estate holdings are higher, your access to low interest credit is greater, your access to deductions is greater, your access to anonymous wealth preservation is greater: a more fungible dollar is worth more than others because the covenants are more numerous

At this point it is a self fulfilling prophecy
Because I've gotten tired of my cheap hair clippers and decided to see what other options there are out there. The pro end of the scale is pretty interesting - giant, heavy clippers built like tanks and designed for constant use in a busy barbershop. They're also not designed anything like the home clippers - ugly colours, heavy angular bodies with prominent screws. It's a whole different world.

For the product designers out there, take this as an interesting opportunity to compare products aimed at B2C versus B2B markets.
Fine tuning isn't really that important. That's easily demonstrated by the fact that "tests" #2 and #3 already happened in Japan.
Easier to read is not something I'd particularly accuse Go of. If you want that, stick with python. Lack of generics can end up really hurting Go for cleanliness.

Something I ran in to the other day when I was trying to produce a reverse sorted list of strings:

sort.Sort(sort.Reverse(sort.StringSlice(dir_contents)))
Does his/her ZIP code have the kind of employers those employees need to succeed?

It's a chicken and egg problem. Personally, I put the onus on the companies, as they have much more power than any individual employee does. It is certainly possible for a company of that size to open a small office, and gradually grow it, whereas an employee is restricted to what jobs are available in that area.

And we need more diversification geographically; too much is centered on the Bay Area, and the Bay Area's housing crisis is proof of it.
The US already has a policy to use kinetic means to retaliate against state sponsored terrorism. Whether that terrorism is carried out through "cyber" or other means is irrelevant. And the US did trigger Article 5 after the 9/11 attacks.
I used yew’s html! macro for a small experiment about 5 months ago. It’s awesome. The difference between that and this, is mainly this is more typesafe. This will check the types and expected attributes of tags, whereas yew pretty much treats all tags the same way.
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The hardware raytracing support is a huge step in the right direction for real time graphics. The shaky jenga tower of hacks on top of the rasterization pipeline that is in the current generation of rendering engines is barely sustainable. Fast raytracing provides an alternative that is much closer to the actual physical model of light transport in the real world and does not require as many nasty approximations and cheats as rasterization for the same quality.

Mind you that you are seeing the early generation of hardware based real time raytracing now and it already can beat the quality of rasterization.

There is still a ton of room for improvements. One or two hardware generations from now we may finally see realtime generated images for which the term photorealistic is not just a silly marketing hype. They could truly fool you.
> serious organization such as FIDE

It's wort noting that up until recently, FIDE had a president who was full-on batshit crazy. He repeatedly claimed in public that he had been abducted by aliens. He (and by implication FIDE under his rule) was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury for financial involvement in the war in Syria. Corruption was an open secret. It's a bit of a stretch to call FIDE under Ilyumzhinov a "serious organization".
Absolutely not! What an appalling and ridiculous thing to say. Even just to say it of writers. Let alone "all creative endeavors" (Maybe you didn't mean to cast such a wide net there. Maybe you just meant to include...the people who market themselves on the internet.)

That word 'essentially' is vague to the point of unfalsifiability - whatever I could say against that, you could say, "Yeah, but essentially.." - the word sounds objective but means 'whatever I think is the most important/central/defining feature'.

The artists/musicians/writers/etc who are good at getting work for themselves has always been very different from those who are good at the art. And the people at the top of whatever charts (pop music etc) would be the first to admit they're not the greatest.
If you find there’s a price tag in any service that you want to use, pay for it! Also, share what you’re doing to other people and encourage them to do the same.

Of course if you’re the only one that pays, that wouldn’t be meaningful. But if it becomes the culture, then it would be another story.
> fibers can context switch billions of times per second on a modern processor.

On a 3GHz (3 billion hertz) processor, you expect to be able to context switch billions of times per second?

I would probably accept millions without question, even though that might be pushing it for a GIL-ed runtime like Ruby has. But, unless your definition of "context switch" counts every blocked fiber that's passed over for a context switch as being implicitly context switched to and away from in the act of ignoring it, I find this hard to believe.

It takes more than one clock cycle to determine the next task that we're going to resume execution for and then actually resume it.
They're complex in the sense that they do not follow the rules of the surrounding system. They can produce mismatching parentheses, breaking the pretty basic notion that expressions can be "inlined" into other expressions.

Not knowing whether `f()` is a syntax error or not removes a huge part of the foundation that people use to read code they do not know 100%
Making matters worse, the legacy media blame the tech industry for their own decline and fight back the only way they can, with hit pieces. The NYT did the same to Amazon a few years ago. Facebook, which is a more direct competitor, is an even bigger target.
The community cohesion aspect is very well described in this article of Nicholas Taleb "How to be Rational about Rationality", especially with regards to the Jewish communities:

... Jews have close to five hundred different dietary interdicts. They may seem irrational
to an observer who sees purpose in things and defines rationality in terms of what he can
explain. ...

But it remains that whatever the purpose, the Kashrut survived approximately three millennia not
because of its “rationality” but because the populations that followed it survived. It
most certainly brought cohesion: people who eat together hang together. Simply it aided
those that survived because it is a convex heuristic. Such group cohesion might be also
responsible for trust in commercial transactions with remote members of the community.

https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-be-rational-about-rational...
I think this article doesn't really explain what the setters are focusing on here, and it's actually quite interesting. When setting for a bouldering competition, the problems you create must satisfy very precise constraints: namely, create good separation between competitors, but still be entertaining for spectators. Separation is the hard part. In finals you have a handful of competitors doing a handful of problems, and the perfect separation you're going for is something like this:

1st place: 4 tops
2st place: 3 tops
3rd place: 2 tops
...

Of course this rarely ever happens, but it's approximately what you're aiming for. It's hard. You have to know the exact level of the competitors that are participating, and fine-tune the difficulty of the problems so that they will be nicely separated, preferably without depending on height/reach or overly specific strengths. Even world-class setters sometimes fail at this, for example creating a world cup where almost every finalist gets 1 top, leaving only the number of attempts (or zones) to separate them. There's still technically separation, but it's catastrophically frustrating for spectators and competitors, and the results will be less likely to reflect each competitor's actual climbing skill. With all that, you also want the problems to have creative and interesting moves that get the crowd going wild (but that's really the fun part of setting). Source: I'm a routesetter, both regular gym climbs and competitions.
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Let's look at some of the facts of the case at the center of the report. This is HN after all.

1. The Chinese company paid close to $300 million to UMC, a Taiwanese fab, for DRAM technology. The deal is reportedly structured highly favorable to UMC with larger future milestone payments upon delivery.

2. The transfer was approved by the Taiwan government. Taiwan is highly sensitive about technology transfer to China. It is at the 32nm node, a relatively dated technology node.

3. UMC is the 3rd largest fab in the world capable of 14nm logic fabs. Logic fabs used to be much more technologically sophisticated than DRAM fabs. Indeed before the great DRAM price war Taiwan had quite a few small DRAM fabs surviving on second hand equipment from logic fabs and logic fabs often tested their fab startup by making DRAMs (with their density DRAMs are a great way to flush out bugs in the manufacturing process). However DRAMs are very price sensitive commodities -- being capable of making DRAMs and capable of making profits from making DRAMs are two entirely different things.

4. Micron bought Rexchip of Taiwan, which was one of those standalone DRAM manufacturers that didn't survive. All the employees accused of theft are Taiwanese and former employees of Rexchip.

5. The Chinese company, Jinhua, had earlier out-muscled Micron in Chinese court, using patents transferred from UMC to ban some Micron products for sale in China.

6. LA Times started with: "It was the great microchip heist — a stunning Chinese-backed effort that pilfered as much as $8.75 billion in patented American technology." But it later said: "Prosecutors estimate the information was worth between $400 million and $8.75 billion."